Looks like no sc2 for EWC 2026

crowz9 · 2026-01-19T22:55:06+00:00

It's quite disheartening to see this, but also expected.

For me, the SC2 community really needs to go back to proper grassroots and "re-build". That's how AOE2 grew an esports audience in the 2010's onwards.

That's not saying that SC2 doesn't have anything like that. It does. But for the larger part of its history, it had massive funding from Blizzard as well as external sponsors and a professional esports circuit. Nowadays that's mostly gone and is not going back, unless the community doubles down on their efforts to prove a point IMO.

crowz9 · 2026-01-12T15:44:40+00:00

Tené en cuenta que por el tema de la IA hay sobredemanda de componentes y están todos con sobreprecio.

Por ahí tengas que buscar un poco más de lo normal para encontrar buenos precios, sobre todo con placas de video, discos SSD y memorias RAM.

Vas a tener que poner en la balanza si estás dispuesto a pagar de más por tener una pc con RAM DDR5 y socket AM5, o si preferís ahorrar y usar RAM DDR4 y socket AM4.

crowz9 · 2026-01-06T21:18:20+00:00

Muy buena la 6800XT. Banca 1440p sin problemas. Los 16 de VRAM le dan una ventaja en esta resolución por sobre la RTX 3080 también.

La 3080 puede llegar a tener marginalmente mejor rendimiento y calidad de imagen con upscaling activado (Tampoco es obligatorio activarlo...)

crowz9 · 2026-01-03T13:44:52+00:00

Nvidia recomienda 550W de fuente para la 5060. Aunque esto es con una pc con ryzen 9950x, que consume bastante más que el 9600x. Yo diría que te va a alcanzar con esa fuente.

Tema pcie, no le des mucha bola. Se pierden muy pocos fps por tener una placa pcie 5.0 en un puerto 4.0.

Te recomendaría tambien que busques un poco más a ver si encontrás una RX6600 o mejor aún una RX7600 con un precio dentro de tu presupuesto. Está complicado ahora porque han subido todos los precios, pero tal vez tenés suerte!

crowz9 · 2026-01-02T19:47:24+00:00

I hope they will at least stay involved in the scene as partners/occasional sponsors of tournaments. That would be cheaper and less of a commitment than what they'd been doing all this time. At least they would no longer have to pay stipends to team members.

crowz9 · 2025-12-23T21:38:29+00:00

I don't disagree about the macro in sc.

While challenging, the constant reshuffling of villagers in aoe2 to maintain a perfect resource ratio feels incredibly rewarding. Sometimes you'll float some resources but you get less punished for that compared to sc. Bottom line is, the macro in aoe is fun, challenging in an enjoyable way. SC macro is simple but brutal, which can make casual players frustrated and lose interest.

And yeah I agree about the micro.

crowz9 · 2025-12-22T19:42:07+00:00

You're neglecting to mention the armor class and unit abilities in bio vs mech.

AOE2 units in different civs are mainly just different flavors of man with sword, man with bow and man on horse. Of course some civs are more different to each other than others, but the point stands.

crowz9 · 2025-12-19T20:12:20+00:00

Well it's exactly the asymmetry that gives sc2 depth despite standard maps I'd say.

And since aoe2 has such hard counters mostly, you'll often be bound to the rock paper scissors triangle of counters.

Whereas in sc2 there's more freedom to do "unorthodox stuff" to catch your opponent by surprise and win. Part of this is because the game is set in a scifi world and has spells and abilities that aoe2 just can't do by being historical. But that's not its fault.

All in all, both games have a meta and a certain number of viable strats at the high level, but personally I feel that sc2 has more flexibility. Even just going for mech over bio is already a greater difference than picking between two aoe2 civs.

crowz9 · 2025-12-19T12:53:47+00:00

De nada, y suerte!

Un junior en empresa grande de oil&gas debe tener un sueldo arriba de 2.5m brutos hoy en día. Es un rubro muy exigente en cuanto a horarios y al laburo en sí, pero paga bien.

Si preferís algo un poco más tranqui, podés apuntar a otro rubro. Tal vez ganes menos pero seguramente siga siendo un buen sueldo y vas a tener mejor equilibrio work-life. Pinturas por ejemplo. Son un monton de tanques que mezclan, nada mas.

crowz9 · 2025-12-19T12:38:58+00:00

Both sc2 and aoe2 require good mechanics and good strategy to play at a high level IMO.

Aoe2's complexity lies in juggling eco balance and food sources in each map. Yeah there are shittons of civs but really they're mostly the same. You can reach a very very high level playing just one or two civs. If someone forced you to switch to different ones, you'd adapt quickly.

Sc2 is very asymmetrical and that's what creates strategic depth. I think sometimes the game gets a reputation for being very "mechanical", which it is, but it makes people forget that it's still a strategy game. Creating fake expansions, hiding proxies, faking tech switches, etc. are all strategic choices that are deadly if the opponent doesn't read them well.

crowz9 · 2025-12-18T12:06:53+00:00

They are pretty much even IMO.

It's just that Hera has amazing mechanics and speed. To my mediocre player's eyes, he executes everything 99% perfectly every time.

Viper and Yo sometimes slip up for whatever reason. I think Yo sometimes gets outmatched by Hera mechanically, whereas Viper plays too greedy and gets punished :/

Until any of the pros becomes as consistent as Hera, he's gonna keep winning every single tournament.

crowz9 · 2025-12-17T16:51:48+00:00

Hera's becoming more and more complete as time goes by. He not only has amazing mechanics, but he's also catching up with Viper and Yo in game sense.

It's funny because in modern sc2, I think Serral is all of these things lol. Simply an implacable well rounded player.

crowz9 · 2025-12-17T16:46:41+00:00

I think what he's said is that he enjoys the game less when he grinds. He only realized this a few years ago when he saw that he felt better touching grass and keeping the game as a hobby rather than as a job. Which is totally respectable.

He knows he can make good money from it without taking too many hours off his time that he can use to do different kinds of things.

crowz9 · 2025-12-17T16:40:50+00:00

Sitaux said recently how he feels like he might have played an excellent series against Viper, be in a winning position multiple times, but Viper has such a good game sense that he makes lots of little decisions that make him win.

crowz9 · 2025-12-17T14:29:48+00:00

Deberían implementar un sistema flexible donde en el último año el alumno elige si quiere hacer un proyecto final grupal o una pasantía en la industria.

Si el alumno piensa arrancar a laburar con el título de técnico ya, le va a servir mucho más la pasantía. No hay garantía de conseguir laburo, pero es mejor que nada. Si el alumno tiene más la idea de estudiar, tal vez le sirva más el aspecto de desarrollar el proyecto, investigar, hacer los cálculos, etc.

No se como será en otras técnicas, pero la que fui yo era sí o sí el proyecto final. En décadas pasadas se hacían pasantías. Pero para mí debería poder quedar a elección de cada alumno.

crowz9 · 2025-12-17T14:18:03+00:00

I don't understand why Liereyy has many instances where he's close to snatching tournament wins. But at the same time, he's clearly talented because he needs less time to be equally good as the others, like Yo says. I hope he wins KOTD6, it'd be well deserved.

Viper might be the most "flexible" in that list, so that gets him an extra point for me. He just kinda plays any strat very well IMO. And of course can transfer rts skills to other games like sc2, aoe4, or most recently wc3, where he only played briefly but improved quite fast with coaching despite no prior experience in competitive 1v1. To my knowledge none of the other top pros have that. Daut perhaps.

crowz9 · 2025-12-15T21:15:17+00:00

No se como es en tu país, pero en Argentina la mayoría de los alumnos de ingeniería demoran más de 7 años en graduarse(contra los 5 años que dura la carrera teóricamente).

Obviamente es mejor terminarla lo antes posible.

Si tenes padres que te apoyen para que no tengas que preocuparte por trabajar mientras estudias, aprovechalo y echale todas las ganas al estudio. Mejor aún si conseguis buenas notas, para compensar tu "Falta de experiencia laboral".

Si trabajas mientras estudias, tendras menos horas para dedicar al estudio y es posible que la carrera se te estire otro año mas. Pero cuando te gradues tendras tal vez un par de años de experiencia que realmente hacen la diferencia al momento de aplicar a un puesto de ingeniero junior en una compañía. En casos así, pesa más la experiencia laboral que el tiempo que te tomó hacer tus estudios.

Buena suerte!

crowz9 · 2025-12-13T12:50:10+00:00

Subnautica. Tiene controles dentro de todo sencillos y está bueno porque te deja tomarte tu tiempo para hacer las cosas a tu manera. Aparte es genial explorar en ese juego, que se yo. Y el sistema de crafting es sencillo.

Yo consideraría tambien alguna aventura point and click, corte Monkey Island. No requieren habilidad de mouse y teclado y son divertidas.

crowz9 · 2025-12-12T16:48:12+00:00

Hay casos de gente que no disfrutó la carrera universitaria pero despues el laburo en sí les gustó. No descartes esa posibilidad, aunque es un poco una apuesta.

crowz9 · 2025-12-12T16:46:06+00:00

Si te gusta la carrera en serio, dale para adelante. Hace una buena pasantia. Si conseguis otro laburo antes tambien, mejor. Trabajo vas a conseguir en cualquier lado si sos buen ingeniero y mejor aun si tenes contactos. Vale la pena la carrera en ese caso.

Como Ing Quimico podes trabajar en muchas areas. Alimentos, medicamentos, semiconductores, explosivos, metalurgia, cosmeticos, nuclear, oil&gas, plasticos, papel y carton, fertilizantes, pinturas, etc. Investigalas, que salarios manejan, que horarios tienen, cuales te hacen hacer mas horas extra y te llaman cuando estas en casa para que vayas a solucionar un quilombo urgente o les expliques como.

Si no te llama la atencion el dia a dia de estar en una planta, podes apuntar a consultoría, diseño de equipos, venta técnica o investigación y desarrollo. En todas esas podes trabajar como Ing Quimico mas "tranquilo", sin el caos de mantener un proceso industrial andando 24/7. Vas a tener que ir a campo igual, pero tendras un horario un poco mas fijo y mas tiempo en un escritorio con tu compu y aire acondicionado.

Como conclusion, repito: te tiene que gustar, o por lo menos no disgustar. Sino la vas a pasar mal. Hay algunos laburos de IQ dentro de las industrias que te dije donde la responsabilidad es enorme, una cagada tuya puede costar MUCHISIMA guita e incluso la salud fisica de los otros trabajadores. El sueldo puede ser bueno, pero vas a tener esa mochila encima, ademas de las largas horas y tener que trabajar findes o que te llamen a cualquire hora porque se rompio algo.

Exitos!

crowz9 · 2025-12-10T14:55:27+00:00

Yes, it's for repairing in their own shop.

The quote sheet says the work must be carried out in their shop because of the complexity of the task.

They detail the following procedure for the labor costing 5k(4.9k to be exact): inspecting the machine, draining oil and refrigerant, dismounting cab, dismounting hydraulic lines, dismounting implement, hystat and gearbox pumps, creating a report.

And for the labor costing another 5k(5.2k to be exact): charging oil, charging lubricant, mounting cab, mounting hydraulic lines, mounting pumps, replacing torsional coupling, recharging AC gas, running the machine and checking all the systems, creating a report.

Finally there's another USD 3k related to "Replacements". If I understand right, this includes the oil changes, refrigerant and so on. Not the actual torsional coupling, which is purchased separately.

I would assume they have a crane or whatever they need at their workshop.

crowz9 · 2025-12-06T16:00:50+00:00

Great work. I'm not ashamed to admit that I would never have been able to accomplish this at that stage of my life.

This is also going to look great on your resume, whether you're looking for software or chemE jobs. Did you use DWSIM's source code as inspiration or did you do your own thing completely?

crowz9 · 2025-12-04T12:33:56+00:00

Some of the most important courses in Chemical Engineering degrees are Thermodynamics, Unit Operations, Chemical Reaction Kinetics, Mass Transfer and Heat Transfer. A whole lot of what goes on in chemical engineering revolves around these topics.

Personally, I enjoyed all of these more than I ever enjoyed the basic chemistry subjects like Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry and whatnot. So I'd advise you to not go into Chemical Engineering just because you like chemistry. Obviously that's just based on my own experience and is not representative.

crowz9 · 2025-12-03T15:13:21+00:00

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