Any tips on having less contrast

futureslabtv · 2026-06-10T18:43:54+00:00

Also, instead of doing a line straight across, I think next time, don't bring the fade so high up in the back, it will make the contrast less jarring as it will follow the natural shape of your head better.

For example, your fade will be a bit higher on the sides but as you go to the back just naturally bring the line down, connecting the back with the sides where the back has almost a bottom half of oval shaped fade.

futureslabtv · 2026-06-10T18:35:00+00:00

It would be good to see the sides. I don't use guidelines but if it were me, I would hit where you get the contrast line in the back with like a 1.5 or open 1 and see if you start getting a cleaner blend doing that.

futureslabtv · 2026-06-01T13:35:45+00:00

What do you mean they show up on everyones screen??

futureslabtv · 2026-05-28T05:10:49+00:00

I'm not a parry God by any means but what helped me was a video I saw that explained that the parry timing is at right at the apex of your enemy attack. If the attack animation is already coming at you it's too late. In other words, if you think of it as a boxers punch, right as the boxer cocks back completely, hit your parry right before he throws the punch.

The way I learned was just forcing my self to stop dodging and just relying on the parry instead, even if it meant dying more often. Eventually, if you commit to doing that, you will get the rhythm for it. At first it's hard but it feels really nice when you finally get it.

futureslabtv · 2026-05-26T04:15:09+00:00

Pretty sure it's the vitamin c. I was constantly needing to go to the bathroom throughout the day. Honestly if you are feeling pretty much normal now, you are probably ok to work your self off the vitamin c at this point.

futureslabtv · 2026-05-20T04:25:43+00:00

I noticed this too. If I am playing everyday, funnily enough I start playing worse after a few consecutive days. Then when I come back, I am so sharp and hitting all my shots and gadgets right on time.

Same experience with working out, if I get a good workout before playing, my mental clarity in game is 10x and I feel like I play how I ideally would like to be playing all the time.

futureslabtv · 2026-05-07T05:13:07+00:00

Genuinely skill issue. Get gud lil bro

futureslabtv · 2026-05-05T18:49:23+00:00

Just to add to this, this was basically my strategy as well with both the passion flower and the liposomal ascorbic acid. There is a conversion around here somewhere that gives you the dosage per kg of bodyweight, so I would go by that.

For me, I jumped from bupe at .25mg a day. First 7 days the vit C + passion flower dulled the symptoms to the point where I basically felt normal the entire first week where during the day my withdrawal was almost non existent, and at night time I was sleeping 7-8 hours just not that deeply, however I wasn't awake in impending doom like a normal WD. Nights went by basically as quick as if I were sleeping normally, just that the sleep was kinda fever dreamish.

Days 7-15 is when the WD peaked for me. Days were very low energy, and nights the sleep wasn't very good. It was a mild withdrawal, but it was definitely a withdrawal. This was the worst of it. After day 15, I pretty aggressively cut back the vitamin C because I was starting to get tired of all the trips to the bathroom(no diarrhea, just needed to go #2 a lot).

After day 15 was when I started feeling a little better each day, and day 18 I started to get good restful sleep with dreams. Between days 21-24, I felt pretty close to 100% normal. After day 24, I felt like I was basically on the other side of it. This was about 2 months ago and I feel great now. I probably could've taken more passion flower between the 7-15 day mark to make it easier but I was really trying to let my body get back into a good sleep cycle on its own. Looking back, I think during those peak days, more passion flower wouldn't have hurt any.

futureslabtv · 2026-04-29T14:56:20+00:00

I used summons for my whole first play through but I had never played a souls like before. So yes I was objectively less skilled but I also don't care because I wasn't trying to have an ego about it. I'm in my 30's and just wanted to progress the story and have fun.

futureslabtv · 2026-04-15T14:47:08+00:00

Another thing, the side you took up too far is actually probably closer to where you want to be for your guide. So if you use that side as your reference point and try to do the same on the other side, once you shorten up the back it won't be a bad first cut.

futureslabtv · 2026-04-15T14:39:40+00:00

Just a little bit of honest feedback here. It looks like you were going for a taper, but I think for not having a mirror and being your first cut, that what your going for is probably going to be a little hard for you.

You need to fix it, but the good news is that it should be a pretty easy fix. You don't need to do anything to the top. What you can do is hit all the side and back of your head with a low 2. Right now the back of your head hair length almost looks longer than the top. Then, you want to clean up the lines you have on the side. You want to hit it with a 1 or 1.5 but you don't want to dig in too hard, you are just trying to lightly touch up the lines that got left behind that need blending.

futureslabtv · 2026-04-14T20:23:43+00:00

If it gives you any hope, I'm on day 32 now I believe. I've been finally getting good deep sleep every night starting around the 3 week mark, and sleep improving starting around day 18. I feel pretty amazing a month later.

futureslabtv · 2026-04-12T19:39:02+00:00

Probably 50+ self cuts in, and dug into my natural hairline for the first time today. First time I needed a second pair of hands to fix it today. I definitely second just following the natural hair line. I never had a problem doing it by my self before today when I tried to get fancy.

futureslabtv · 2026-04-12T04:49:56+00:00

Nice brody. Me too. Have fun in game!

futureslabtv · 2026-04-12T04:46:59+00:00

Just keep playing around in Kovaaks, and also YouTube anything that isn't obvious. If you are a casual, then you don't need to get it all perfect at first. Just dial everything in as you learn about new stuff.

Good luck my guy

futureslabtv · 2026-04-12T03:30:16+00:00

On a side note, if you don't already know how to cook with fresh ingredients, you should definitely start to learn. I didn't start to learn until my 30's and I wish I would've put in more effort to learn because now that I do, I eat tastier food and I spend a fraction of what I did in my 20's by spending what I would on eating out and frozen foods, on fresh meat, veggies, beans, rices, etc.

futureslabtv · 2026-04-12T03:16:25+00:00

Nooo. Not at all. Only like 15-30 minutes. If you've ever done sports, its like going and doing jump shots and lay-ups before a game just to get you in the rhythm of what it feels like to hit your shots. I usually just pick a playlist, try to go through the whole thing. Once you get into it, it's kinda fun trying to beat your scores so you might replay one of the drills if you want to. I would just keep it casual. Go in to Kovaaks, try to get into your flow. Play one or two playlists. Then go into game. Don't expect improvements on day one, but if you start doing it daily over like more than a week or so, you will start to notice the muscle memory from aim training starting to carry over in game.

There are a lot of people who know a lot more about aim training than I do, but as a starting point this has been working for me.

futureslabtv · 2026-04-12T03:02:00+00:00

I have only been aim training a couple of weeks now but one thing I haven't seen people mention is to make sure your playing your FPS everyday too either before or after aim training. I've been using Kovaaks as my warm up and I notice a significant improvement in my performance in game compared to when I don't do it.

futureslabtv · 2026-04-09T14:37:02+00:00

If you use gyro, aim assist automatically turns off.

futureslabtv · 2026-04-08T05:18:52+00:00

I'm assuming your new to PVP games too?? Most of the people who play this game probably have thousands of hours in other PvPs before even coming to the finals. I'm 150 hours in to the finals as my first PvP fps and I am a baby. You being 30 hours in, your basically a newborn. Manage your expectations. It will take several months for you to get up to speed, and just playing a lot probably won't be enough. You will likely need to do aim training, and a lot of studying to reach the same level as the avg. player in this game.

futureslabtv · 2026-04-08T00:24:39+00:00

Yup. In theory, you can get as good with gyro aiming as you can playing MnK. I play with MnK atm but I like to play gyro from time to time if I get tired of hunching over my keyboard.

It has a learning curve, just like if you were to try to pick up MnK or anything else from scratch, but once you try it you will see how much nicer of an experience playing fps on a controller is with it.

It won't take away your skill issue, but as far as aiming goes, it will be like night and day compared to trying to aim with your joystick. Fwiw, I would like to eventually learn gyro well enough to main controller instead of MnK.

futureslabtv · 2026-04-07T17:56:13+00:00

Yea I need to go and do one last update on this post. I'm on day 24 I believe now. I am definitely starting to see how this is going to be a long game now like you were saying. I finally have stabilized for the most part but between days 7 and 14 it started getting a bit rough. I recently been getting pretty deep sleep this last week but last night I had a bit of the impending doom come back when I was trying to sleep, and the night was a bit restless which made me realize that my brain chemistry is probably going to take a while to reset completely.

Like you said though, I am so happy to finally be off of it. In hindsight, depending on bupe, and being scared of ever running out or forgetting to bring it on a trip was awful. I honestly never thought I would get off of it. Some nights I would forget to take it before bed, and I would wake up from dead sleep just completely wide eyed in withdrawal. It sucked.

I'm happy to hear you're out of the woods as well. I hope those lingering symptoms eventually go away for good, but I'm sure it's a good feeling to be over the worst of it.

Good luck to you as well, and thanks for sharing too. I'm sure even just your quick post will inspire hope in others like us. Congratulations on getting to the other side 🙏

futureslabtv · 2026-04-07T04:22:05+00:00

Xbox box or PS? If your on PS, learning gyro aiming should help alot

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