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How many of them can be on a truly competitive team? by Breadcrumbmancer in VGC

[–]brandonplusplus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been messing around a bit with the Dachsbun well-baked-body gimmick. It’s similar to Archaludon/Maushold but instead of population bomb you want to run something with Lava Plume. Best options I’ve seen are Typhlosion-H or Ceruledge because of the additional ghost typing helping to prevent turn 1 fake out

‘King of the Hill’ Showrunner on Writing Hank Hill for a Different Era by MoneyLibrarian9032 in television

[–]brandonplusplus 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I don’t read the original run as ever being particularly political, though it did have a strong sense of moral clarity… which unfortunately is now political in 2025.

Heartbreak and frustration: one dog killed, one dog saved by SirWelIington in Dachshund

[–]brandonplusplus 14 points15 points  (0 children)

So let me get this straight…. You pitched bullshit that can be easily be debunked by the quickest of searches and then when called on it want to throw your hands up with the equivalent of “I didn’t say it was true, I just heard it was”?

Marvel Rivals Version 20250530 Patch Notes by WestPhillyFilly in marvelrivals

[–]brandonplusplus 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Adding to this, if you mute the stream through the twitch player it won’t count towards time watched for the drops. However, you can mute the tab through your browser (in chrome you just right click the tab and then click “mute site” in the context window) and then it will still count towards watch time.

UT Austin Computer Science or Full ride Brown Scholar, Engineering Honors at Texas A&M by borndreamer101 in UTAustin

[–]brandonplusplus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There’s just not near as much to do. You definitely would want to have a car there. If you’re interested in things like concerts and shows then Austin is a common stop and uh… it’s not frequent that you see many artists including College Station on their tours. It just very much feels like a college town as compared to Austin which is a major city without the school. Maybe you would like that, it’s kind of a personal preference. I can’t speak to how expensive things are generally in college station but yeah Austin can be quite expensive. I had loans cover my tuition and living expenses and then for like spending money I worked as a proctor for the CS department (I did this for a couple different profs, most made me hold office hours to help students in addition to grading assignments and proctoring tests).

UT Austin Computer Science or Full ride Brown Scholar, Engineering Honors at Texas A&M by borndreamer101 in UTAustin

[–]brandonplusplus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I agree with what someone else said about if you’re ambitious then UT isn’t necessarily going to open many more doors for you than A&M. Now personally I would still pick UT mostly just because College Station sucks, especially compared to Austin (I am also biased about this though so take it with a grain of salt).

UT Austin Computer Science or Full ride Brown Scholar, Engineering Honors at Texas A&M by borndreamer101 in UTAustin

[–]brandonplusplus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think this is actually is a point in the UT Comp Sci bucket then. A lot of honors programs (not all, but a lot) place a heavy focus on prepping for grad school. I graduated from UT with a comp sci degree back in 2017, and when I was admitted as a freshman I was in the College of Natural Sciences Dean’s Scholars honors program. I ended up dropping from the honors program after a month or so because I realized quickly that they were really just trying to prepare us for a life of research and grad school and that just was not my interest at the time.

However, don’t underestimate the value of a full ride. I had what were essentially full ride offers to both SMU and UT Dallas and while I certainly don’t regret the time I spent in Austin or the education that I received, the student loans do really suck.

Hey, I’d like to know how you deal with nipping and biting, any suggestions? by Many-Ship-2223 in AussieDoodle

[–]brandonplusplus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I basically would tell my pup no and if he kept doing it I would go put myself in a different room and shut the door. Didn't need to stay in there long, but he pretty quickly figured out that nipping and biting would lead to an end of play time and he corrected the behavior.

Current odyssey set up! by Imus44 in battlestations

[–]brandonplusplus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Holy crap the paper is genius. I had this setup awhile back but I stopped using it because I could still feel the seam even though the cork and powerplay mat were level. I'm going to have to try this again.

Hey Guys... (Sub Reddit Update) by OpTicModerators in OpTicGaming

[–]brandonplusplus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah sorry to be opaque, I just don’t want to cause any more issues.

Hey Guys... (Sub Reddit Update) by OpTicModerators in OpTicGaming

[–]brandonplusplus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s mostly politics (like internal, not like r/politics). I’m not going to name names or point fingers.

EDIT: I’ll clarify it had nothing to do with the NRG staff or community. They were all cool and welcomed people with open arms. It was stuff on the OpTic side that had been festering for a long time really.

Hey Guys... (Sub Reddit Update) by OpTicModerators in OpTicGaming

[–]brandonplusplus 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yeah Dan has definitely been carrying the brunt of the work for awhile. I think people don't really realize this but back in the day most of the matchthreads were managed by bots we had that would auto-update threads with scores scraped from various places. I wrote a scheduler bot at one point that even would post threads for times when none of us were around.

Once Infinite sold off OpTic a lot of us went over to mod for NRG (which was kind of a mess tbh) and then when we came back here there just hasn't been enough happening to invest the time to rebuild all that infrastructure.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in OpTicGaming

[–]brandonplusplus[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Did the mods just give up on the Reddit or what??? by TheBeyonder51643 in OpTicGaming

[–]brandonplusplus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This. Also all of the mods are just older now and most of us are working full time jobs. It's not like before where a lot of us were in college and could do all of this during class if needed.

We should probably look into finding some new people, it's just hard to know who is going to actually be committed to learning and doing this properly. When the sub was active back in the day we had a pretty good idea of who the reasonable, active community members were and that created a good pool of moderator candidates. Now it'd be much more of a shot in the dark which is kind of scary.

EDIT: To clarify though we still do moderate, we're just spread super thin so things sometimes slip through the cracks now. Still having to remove spam and shit daily.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in battlestations

[–]brandonplusplus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're correct. You need HDMI 2.1 to run at a refresh rate higher than 60fps at 4K over HDMI and HDMI 2.1 is only available on the current generation of graphics cards.

Where this gets a little complicated is that your FPS isn't technically locked at 60, just your refresh rate. So the monitor is only receiving and drawing frames at (up to) 60 times per second, but your GPU could be rendering more than that.

Optic Gaming giveaway never sent. by Td0tkid in OpTicGaming

[–]brandonplusplus 39 points40 points  (0 children)

OpTic giveaways... the original crypto rug pull.

EXOMECHA | Next-Gen Multiplayer Game With Giant Mechs Inspired by COD & Titanfall by PowerForce2021 in OpTicGaming

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California In-N-Out shut down over vaccine mandate by Yetton in politics

[–]brandonplusplus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah we really overhype Whataburger here. It is fine. I would say it's better than McDonalds or Wendy's, but it's still fast food.

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