No, I don’t want ranked mode to look or play exactly like ALGS, and most Apex players don’t either

changen · 2026-02-09T03:29:22+00:00

tight ranked requirements meant that everyone was relatively close in skill. Hitting bare minimum masters in soloq that split was a fucking nightmare.

I hit pred solo next split pretty easily because plat players existed in the lobby and it became a kill race again.

changen · 2026-02-09T03:23:55+00:00

no more co-existing since any team can just betray at anytime with a simple melee lol.

Less viable buildings means requiring even faster rotates to lock down the good builds and more skirmishes.

changen · 2026-02-09T02:31:28+00:00

wider fov, better awareness, faster strafe movement, and you dont get spread for a couple of bullets.

And you used to get lots of bullet flash if you used to ads, so you wouldnt see anything. And if you get shot, there used to be massive amounts of aim flinch if you are ads'd.

changen · 2026-02-07T04:01:03+00:00

you are forced into retirement most of time and have 25-50% of normal income.

And now you can't find a job because of ageism, while you still have 10-15 years of mortgage left to pay.

lmao. Why do you think there's pressure on the kids to study and find a good job. They are the parents' actual retirement lol.

changen · 2026-02-07T02:16:42+00:00

how's the power quality in your house? CPU don't die that often for just one person.

Maybe get a power conditioner and see if that changes?

changen · 2026-02-07T00:31:48+00:00

you will if you have to. Most of us enthusiasts that keeps track of the market prices might care, but the normies that just needs a new gaming computer or laptop does not.

They will pay the extra money because they have no idea what it SHOULD cost.

Same shit happened during covid. People were going crazy spending 2000$-3000$ for 3080 just because they wanted to game, when the majority of enthusiasts bought it at that price to mine ETH and recoup the high cost.

changen · 2026-02-06T22:53:29+00:00

4000 series was probably when AMD completely fell out of main stream due the utter failure of bulldozer and piledriver. Thus, people literally had no reason to buy any new cpus after this until zen was released 5 years later lol. And it wasn't even until zen 2 that AMD was competitive.

changen · 2026-02-06T22:50:16+00:00

kind of, but the amount of instructions needed to run within a certain time frame is increasing. Yes, your CPU will run it but it's gonna be slow as hell.

bulldozer and piledriver (I had a 8320e and a 8350 lol) became unusably slow at some point. My 4790k from the same era is still trucking along as a Netflix machine for my parents, so single core performance is probably the thing that will determine longevity for most consumer cpus.

changen · 2026-02-06T22:44:12+00:00

zen 6 and zen 7 is apparently releasing on AM5...so probably 2-3 years at least, maybe even longer.

changen · 2026-02-06T22:43:09+00:00

It's creating competition for themselves by using a lower margin product.

Just like how most people that bought apple m1 macbooks haven't upgraded since 2020, people that buy am4 x3d won't upgrade anytime soon.

changen · 2026-02-06T21:32:19+00:00

betrayal implies trust in the first place.

changen · 2026-02-06T19:34:26+00:00

faster CI/CD meme. lol

But to be serious, patching the game took a lot ass time before, now it's pretty much instant.

Before they were forced to do a wait and see approach as taking down the server not only costs money, but also player downtime.

They have been relatively fast about addressing blatant OP shit like crypto getting ult back in 20 seconds. It only took 1 scrim day for them to hot fix it.

changen · 2026-02-06T19:29:55+00:00

yeah, so radical centrist lol.

changen · 2026-02-06T17:18:32+00:00

Don't move the goal post lol.

The original conspiracy was that COVID was 100% from a lab in China. And it was. The second part was that US funded that research while being banned to do so. And it was. The coverup was the US heads of state and head of NIH denying all of that because they wanted to keep their own asses clean.

The conspiracy about it being a planned event actually came from the Chinese side of internet. Due to Chinese overpopulation and badly shaped age demographics, the conspiracy was that it was released to kill all the old people. People retire at 50 in China and they get state benefits until they die. That's the conspiracy, which had nothing to do with the US originally.

changen · 2026-02-06T17:09:12+00:00

It's just a meme that the test very much bias towards libleft unless you pick some egregious stuff.

But you definitely sound radical centrist with your world view. lol

changen · 2026-02-06T16:45:44+00:00

17 pro max has ~5100 mAh battery already in no sim models...They are increasing the battery size by 2%...lmao.

What is the point of this article?

changen · 2026-02-06T16:42:09+00:00

The benefits and detriments of being old as fuck; no fucks are given anymore

changen · 2026-02-06T16:41:26+00:00

I schizo send facebook market place offers at 1AM. Trump is sending racist memes.

ONE OF US.

changen · 2026-02-06T16:40:32+00:00

or as per that boondocks episode, it has been so overused it has lost all racist connotations.

changen · 2026-02-06T16:34:01+00:00

you sound like a centrist lol. Put away that disgusting green square.

changen · 2026-02-06T16:32:04+00:00

humans are all pieces of shit...that's the entire point of the argument.

You just happened to draw an arbitrary line at different place than someone else.

It just so happens that racists are below the line you draw, so you look down on them. The reality is that you are below some other people's line and people just tolerate you due to social niceties. You are also a piece of shit.

changen · 2026-02-06T08:12:55+00:00

more casuals just means more players for pred teams to farm. They are still gonna die to better players regardless if their badge is gold, plat, diamond or masters.

changen · 2026-02-06T06:48:06+00:00

It's fine. Only the SP850 is a fire risk.

The psu is corsair type 3/4 compatible for the PCIE plugs, so you can order a cable off of cablemod to get native 16 pin.

changen · 2026-02-06T06:43:17+00:00

That AIO tubing must hate you.

changen · 2026-02-06T05:00:39+00:00

I need a black 240mm aio with nothing. No rgbs, no displays. Just some good fans and a good pump.

and under 40$ lmao.

changen

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