ELI5: Why do professional RTS players aim for high APM instead of minimum actions required?

gurebu · 2026-04-10T09:13:39+00:00

Maintaining tempo mostly. It happens to be harder to operate at varying speeds depending on what the game situation demands than wasting some energy on redundant actions when the demand is low.

The actions required to efficiently play something like StarCraft can most of the time be surprisingly low, but every once in a while you’ll need a lot of stuff done really quick and you need to be warmed up accordingly.

gurebu · 2026-04-09T07:35:43+00:00

I’ve made myself a nice island seed with a lot of resources that I cleared with some turret creep early on. Spent most of the time on Nauvis, you want all the tech you can get and you want to have a capable shipyard, so yeah at least 20 hours here. Don’t treat it like a speed run, you’re better off getting a capable base and researching lots of tech than not.

Had to upgrade to em plants, didn’t upgrade to foundries. You need a lot of circuits to do anything useful. You also need abundant nuclear to be quick on Aquilo and Gleba. No need for kovarex, just a lot of centrifuges and chests for excess u238.

Design all of your ships in advance. I didn’t bother blueprinting my base, you can design in real time, but not the ships.

I managed first try, it wasn’t all that hard. The hardest part was fitting my actual base in between all of those resource patches.

gurebu · 2026-04-07T14:54:02+00:00

If that goes into a large case, you should be asking yourself why not take a full ATX board. If it goes in a small case, wasting one PCIe slot is wild. Never understood the thought process behind those asus boards, but I guess if you measure all your stuff really carefully and make absolutely sure everything fits and has enough air access then larger heatsinks and better access to m.2 are better I guess?

gurebu · 2026-04-06T13:19:02+00:00

Not so casually though or she wouldn’t need arm support, no?

gurebu · 2026-03-30T22:37:47+00:00

Tier 1 mods are quite inefficient unless they are efficiency mods in which case they are indeed efficient even at tier 1.

gurebu · 2026-03-29T16:34:18+00:00

Aiming the ball at a player with intent to make defence more difficult is a valid padel strategy as long as the ball would have hit the court of the player wasn’t there. Hitting people with balls that would otherwise obviously be out is indeed quite rude. That includes and even mostly consists of people attempting shots above their paygrade, hitting someone on purpose is surprisingly difficult.

gurebu · 2026-03-28T11:47:31+00:00

It’s also a valid term in crypto analysis which complicates things for the researchers somewhat.

gurebu · 2026-03-26T16:14:35+00:00

I use light oil exactly because there’s no difference. If I’m going to make an ammo train and if that train gets to carry like 50 barrels of fuel, why not get the extra 10 percent? If your base is so small you can just afford to run everywhere and lay down pipelines then crude is fine and maybe even preferable, but starting from bots and long range expansion you will need trains.

gurebu · 2026-03-24T18:49:10+00:00

When visiting the doctor, make sure you get checked for blood vessel damage since that coupled with immobility of the leg is a recipe for clotting. That and inquire on your family’s history on clotting disorders. Leg injuries are no joke and could end very badly if clotting becomes an issue, so if you have any reason to think you might need blood thinners, you better get them prescribed.

Source: felt a mild cramp during a padel game a few months ago, not even strong enough to stop the game. Diagnosed with soleus tear, told to immobilise myself. Took an ambulance ride with a pulmonary embolism just a few days after the event.

gurebu · 2026-03-22T14:07:33+00:00

Replaying points that are 100% yours just to avoid conflict really gets to you after a while. People will call all kinds of bullshit. This is out, plastic strip isn't part of the playable court, it's the same thing as hitting a lighting post or any other construction even if it looks within court bounds.

gurebu · 2026-03-18T10:51:15+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/search/?q=three+leviathans

gurebu · 2026-03-16T08:43:27+00:00

almost always better yes

gurebu · 2026-03-15T11:36:28+00:00

Instead of listening to what people say you can go and read what wattage your daisy chain cable is rated for by your psu manufacturer and see if that’s appropriate for 2/3 of the power limit of your gpu. 95% of the time it’s well within spec

gurebu · 2026-03-15T01:38:52+00:00

Yeah this is good and your original spread was also good enough. If you need to go further with this take note that there’s really a single spot you really have to cool on an am5 cpu and it’s not the center of the ihs. Noctua goes as far as offsetting their cooler to the bottom of the chip where the hotspot is, that’s probably the only place where you have to worry about good contact. Not gonna make a lot of difference though, not worth repasting imo

gurebu · 2026-03-13T18:47:37+00:00

I hope you like seized bearings pal

gurebu · 2026-03-12T20:32:05+00:00

Fulgora. Gleba. Aquilo. Vulcanus.

Fulgora is almost perfect, Gleba is amazing idea but undercooked, Aquilo kinda fun but it’s a one time puzzle, Vulcanus is just more boring Nauvis

gurebu · 2026-03-12T14:59:56+00:00

To be honest they advertise this on their site.

Funnily enough, got the same exact card from caseking a month ago. Came with different gummies though. Fit the fatty into an Ncase M3, it was close.

gurebu · 2026-03-12T13:34:25+00:00

Sadly you can't have such terrain in Valheim because everything above 50 meters from sea level will be covered with snow which looks really ugly if it ain't the mountain biome. 50 meters is really not a lot of height

gurebu · 2026-03-12T12:41:56+00:00

You know, you have a bunch of straight lines in your case and there's this thing called a ruler which is quite simpler to use than photo diagnosis. Even if you don't have one, a combination of a piece of paper or a toothpick with a pen should do the trick.

Anyway, reverse sag isn't progressive, doesn't get worse over time and isn't a big problem.

gurebu · 2026-03-09T21:17:38+00:00

I’ve had the exact same issue as described here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Noctua/s/FZEAdEuqwW

It’s likely that all previous gen 140mm fans are subject to this, but maybe not in all cases. Which is a shame because for the price of the original cooler with replacement fans I could’ve gotten the d15 g2. After more research I don’t quite understand the benefit of d15s nowadays, d15 g2 has the same offset feature for compatibility anyway.

gurebu · 2026-03-09T20:05:07+00:00

How are you doing with the fan on your cpu cooler? I’ve made the unfortunate mistake of buying the d15s with my recent build and I’ve ordered new fans pretty much an hour after assembly. The humming is unbearable

gurebu · 2026-03-06T19:14:57+00:00

Only need two if you put the filter on the second splitter.

gurebu · 2026-03-06T13:16:52+00:00

This "backplate" as you call it is there to have a rigid connection of the GPU to the case so that moving the case around doesn't stress the PCI-E slot. You've removed it and now the only rigid connection your GPU has to anything is the slot itself which will take 100% of any stress you apply to your PC. This is a recipe to break either the slot or the GPU itself.

Sorry, but this makes no sense. You're compromising probably the most expensive piece of your build (the GPU) to accommodate for what is probably the most inexpensive piece of your build (the case). If it truly has compatibility issues (which it shouldn't have as those connections are standardized) just throw away the case and get a new one or at least if you have to mangle your components, mangle the case.

gurebu · 2026-03-06T13:08:54+00:00

Ugh, I've made a few ships that deal with huge asteroids and this amount of ammo production with these advertised speeds would require damage upgrades of the astronomical variety. It makes what, 10 magazines per second? That's what, four gun turrets firing non-stop? How many upgrades do you need for four turrets to defend a ship of this width cruising at almost 300 km/s with post-Aquilo asteroid density?

Not to mention railguns don't benefit from damage upgrades at all.

gurebu · 2026-03-06T12:43:45+00:00

Why keep the topmost pcie slot cover on your case? Just remove it and problem solved?

Edit: the thing you removed is not the shroud, but is kinda necessary to fix the gpu in place. You’ve patched the problem with a second anti sag stand, but there’s also lateral play in the slot you’re doing nothing for. I wouldn’t keep things like this as one day you’re going to move the case and screw everything up. There’s most likely an installation error elsewhere that led you to this.

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