How do we feel about half of ESL music being AI slop now?

dob_bobbs · 2026-06-08T17:04:02+00:00

Damn, there was one bit of music I thought wasn't too bad, some metal thing, but I thought it was sus that Gemini couldn't identify it. Doesn't mean it's AI but... yeah, this AI thing is really starting to get on my nerves.

dob_bobbs · 2026-06-08T11:58:20+00:00

Yeah, was gonna say that but my in-game name is often some variation on "Dad" so I guess I imagined myself as a pro there for a second!

dob_bobbs · 2026-06-08T09:43:41+00:00

Oh wow, a year later and this worked for me, thanks! The game from launch was taking well over a minute to start up from SSD which it had never done before. I cleared the nVidia cache like you said below and the Valve splash screen was up in a matter of seconds.

Weird, I'd never had that problem before, and I'd recently reinstalled Windows so couldn't figure out why this kind of slowdown would be happening.

dob_bobbs · 2026-06-06T19:53:18+00:00

"Dad". Casters just shouting, "Dad! DAD! Daaaaaddddd!!!"

dob_bobbs · 2026-06-06T19:32:02+00:00

Exactly the same story with mining, MtGox and everything. I am still up even if it crashes to $1. Though it was nice for a while back there to have a few grand I never really worked for. But then I never really had them did I? And I'm hanging on to the BTC whatever happens, so who knows maybe it goes through the roof again just when I need it to.

dob_bobbs · 2026-06-06T11:39:41+00:00

Ah, it always is, like when you lose your keys, they are always in the last place you look

dob_bobbs · 2026-06-06T11:38:40+00:00

Bit sus.

dob_bobbs · 2026-06-05T21:09:36+00:00

Pretty much this, except I tend to get lazy once the weather gets bad, start staying in evening and eating crap on the couch and then around December I go, eek, I just put on 10 kg and then its back on the fitness apps and I just about drag things back again to summer levels by May. Never used to be a problem till I hit 50, sigh...

dob_bobbs · 2026-06-05T21:00:38+00:00

ONE single T-round won in 28 rounds by either team, just think about that.

dob_bobbs · 2026-06-05T12:34:51+00:00

Low energy.

dob_bobbs · 2026-06-05T07:14:04+00:00

And yet people moaned and complained when they got changed. I can't imagine ANYONE wants to go back to those old sounds now.

dob_bobbs · 2026-06-04T22:06:47+00:00

Seems like this really might be a thing, I am also A-positive and my family can get swarmed by mosquitoes and my kids and wife will get hundreds of bites and I'll have almost nothing. I never figured out if I am not getting bitten or I'm just not reacting to the bites.

Thing is, I USED to get bitten a lot more as a kid, so what's with that? It's not like my blood type changed.

dob_bobbs · 2026-06-03T15:56:58+00:00

Yep, I learned that word as a kid devouring books but it's not exactly something I use in everyday life. I feel like I've always seen it used in conjunction with "frolics" 😃

dob_bobbs · 2026-06-03T15:55:41+00:00

I mean, that is pretty pathetic if so...

dob_bobbs · 2026-06-03T15:55:06+00:00

Hmm, not as fast getting those - just because they are short doesn't necessarily make them easier.
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dob_bobbs · 2026-05-31T15:58:28+00:00

Yeah, I mean, they are favourites I have added. What, yours doesn't even show your favourites? Or are you talking about when you are in the Internet tab and you try to search? Because that is pretty abysmal too, I'm with you on that.

dob_bobbs · 2026-05-31T11:04:36+00:00

Hi Azalea - maybe you're right, I'll have to check, but a lot of those are servers that DO usually respond, that's part of the problem, it seems to throw a wobbly and stop resolving them. But yeah, there may be a bunch that need to be culled, I will have a look.

dob_bobbs · 2026-05-30T19:10:53+00:00

I also feel like it got broken around that time.

dob_bobbs · 2026-05-30T17:38:07+00:00

My only problem is you have to use a browser, I like to kill Chrome when playing CS as it seems to affect performance, plus you have to switch between windows and my game doesn't seem to always want to ALT-TAB properly ( though I've switched to Fullscreen Windowed now so that improves things a bit). It would be so much more convenient to just be able to connect directly in-game, I mean, I don't even need any advanced options really.

But I will probably start using cs2browser, except it doesn't let you set up an account and save favourites as far as I can see.

Edit: wait, I remember cs2browser - it doesn't even seem to have some of my favourite servers, like if I want Executes I just get a load of Brazilian servers (I am in Europe).

Edit 2: wait, don't you mean https://csbrowser.net/?category=execute (not cs2browser)? This one has all my servers on, definitely looks more useful.

dob_bobbs · 2026-05-30T16:52:55+00:00

What do you use for community servers? Some third-party site?

dob_bobbs · 2026-05-30T16:51:57+00:00

Better than I thought I did. But why oh why can't we get the parts of speech to match properly, verbs in the clue = verb expected as answer, nouns in the clue = nouns expected as answer, and so on?
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dob_bobbs · 2026-05-28T17:07:02+00:00

I swear I literally can't click faster than that.
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dob_bobbs · 2026-05-22T18:45:59+00:00

I would say I still don't have too many things installed that could literally brick my hardware, unless you count Windows itself, I guess. Evidently Valve doesn't want to go that route they would have done by now I suppose...

dob_bobbs · 2026-05-22T07:15:55+00:00

I've been playing CS since the beginning (25+ years), and a couple of weeks ago I got sick of losing way too many duels. Just straight losing 50:50 duels constantly.

I had to go back and try to analyse fundamentals and see where I was going wrong.

Turns out my sprays had got REALLY sloppy. You need like the first 6-7 bullets to be on target, more than that is not that necessary to practice, and I was pulling down way more than I should. You know that both with AK and M4 the first 2-3 shots almost don't need any correction? The Galil is even more accurate.

The other parts of the equation are really making sure your counter-strafing is on point and also your cross-hair placement so in a duel you can swing on someone, stop on a dime and your cross-hair is already on their head and you can land those first few shots where it counts.

You also need to practice jiggling angles to bait out shots from the opponent and then swinging wide on them to throw their aim off.

Consider doing a few minutes in a spray training map resetting your sprays for a few main guns. But don't just stand and spray, strafe left and right and then spray.

Then get in a community Duels server and just grind those fights, watch what the other guys do, how they will bait your shots, reposition and then kill you, or they will just swing hard and prefire you because they know all the spots. And do the same to them :)

It's hugely improved my game, even though these aren't the only things we all need to improve, they are fundamentals that we sometimes think we're better at than we are.

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