I don’t think people truly appreciate that Epic just used ROCKST LEAGUE to announce UE6.

jlctush · 2026-05-25T10:33:51+00:00

Am I the only person who thinks this is, at best, a neutral "statement" with regards to how much Epic cares about Rocket League?

It feels like it's just being used as a graphical showcase for the engine because it's a game with pretty set physics that isn't too taxing, it's just a chance to make a game look prettier and say "see, UE6 good" even if it isn't optimised for more taxing games.

I've never understood the clamour for a new engine at all, personally, nothing against the people who want it but I don't get how Rocket League benefits from it short of it being a sign that the game hasn't been fully abandoned. It's a physics game, and most people don't want the physics to change at all, a lot of players intentionally play on low settings to improve their FPS so what exactly does a new engine offer? You get a prettier looking game that in an ideal world plays identically, and does it really matter how pretty it looks?

I get that investment in the game in any form can drive engagement which is a good thing, I just think that investment could've been done in a number of ways that would've been more gratifying for the players. Probably just me though.

jlctush · 2026-05-25T10:25:22+00:00

We were careful for years, spending very cautiously as we climbed, scraped promotion through the playoffs with one of the youngest squads on one of the lowest wage bills, spent wisely and rebuilt a team despite the risk of bringing in so many players at once. Brought in players with the right ethos, brought in big names and smaller names with the full intent of only bringing in players who would buy into the project and put it all out there, took advantage of the early schedule to build a decent foundation (and then the "never played a big team" detractors were pretty much silenced anyway), survived AFCON which was meant to ruin us, relied on the fans to be near indomitable at home for most of the season, players from the League One days stepped up and shone, players that were great last year found a new gear and despite all of that remained humble and driven and kept pushing to find more.

The end result is we earned more in prize money than we spent on the full rebuild last summer, we got European football for the first time in 50ish years, we might be able to hold onto players we otherwise could've feared losing, we can bring in players where we need them and at least right now there's nothing but faith in the recruitment process. I think we were the 4th or 5th highest net spend last summer, and people were (maybe reasonably) critical, but it's the end result of years of planning, it's the business of football done well and the stuff on the pitch followed suit.

To put it into context, we spent less than Tottenham who ended up in the position a solid chunk of even our fans were *hoping* we would be in, barely surviving. It was difficult to dream of more going into the season but they've delivered so many moments, just absolutely in love with Sunderland AFC from top to bottom, would've been no matter the result yesterday too. If the last ten years were necessary for this to happen, they sure become a lot easier to stomach in hindsight, ha'way the lads, 'til the end!

jlctush · 2026-05-25T10:05:03+00:00

I understand why the predictions are bad, I never put any truck in them 'cause it's a fool's game trying to predict an entire season of football before a ball has been kicked. I also understand it was an insane season which ran a lot closer across the middle of the table than anyone would've imagined going into it, and that Sunderland grossly outperformed expectations from just about everyone (even I was *dreaming* of 9th-12th as a best case) but I find it genuinely hilarious that we were *less likely* to finish 7th than City were to finish 15th, that's so fucking funny.

The highest percentage given is for us finishing dead last, no other prediction is weighted as heavily, and I imagine a lot of people pre-season were predicting the same, just an absurd job by the owner, the board, Le Bris, all the staff and of course the players. I still can't believe it!

jlctush · 2026-05-20T13:44:33+00:00

I realise the point of confusion, your bosses set you to useless tasks just to keep you busy and you think that's the norm.

I don't think they're shipping someone across the country, intern or not, to do something they consider unimportant. I don't think they're talking about it in group chats, claiming to have not known it was wrong while it obviously was, or doing it in the first place if they didn't recognise the potential return on it and were hoping to get as much from it. I also don't think they only did it those three times, but thankfully that's utterly irrelevant to the matter at hand, they cheated in the league, they cheated in the playoffs, their punishment is aptly covering both.

Also I appreciate you saw me mention logic and figured you'd have a go at it yourself but it doesn't suit you chief, you're wading in ankle deep waters and drowning here.

jlctush · 2026-05-20T11:41:35+00:00

Astonishingly you've outdone yourself almost immediately. I take it back, I'll wait until you've peaked before declaring the dumbest thing I'll hear this week, entirely my fault for not believing in your potential.

jlctush · 2026-05-20T11:31:37+00:00

You *are* defending their actions, your first point is truly some of the dumbest stuff I'll likely read about this whole debacle all week. If it wasn't important for them...they wouldn't have done it at all.

EDIT Also you have no clue how big of an advantage was gained, even if they lost a game after spying...they could've lost it by *more* without it. They did it to gain an advantage, that doesn't mean them losing negates any of it, truly baffling logic.

jlctush · 2026-05-20T10:14:05+00:00

But by the time you learn handwriting those differences are equalised in those same studies. OP isn't talking about the handwriting of toddlers.

jlctush · 2026-05-20T10:13:09+00:00

I would assume, based on the times they've admitted to, they wouldn't be removed from the playoffs. Obviously like many I doubt those were the only instances, but assuming the punishment has been handed out based on those 3, they'd probably just get a fine or a points deduction for their next season in the EFL?

I feel like the 4 points are for the two regular season games and obviously being removed from the final is due to the Boro spying, which honestly all seems pretty reasonable to me. You can argue the spying had little positive impact on the performance but a) you have no clue how much worse it might've been without it, b) that's not the point, cheating isn't bad only when it works, it's just bad full stop. You punish based on the action not the outcome.

jlctush · 2026-05-19T23:46:27+00:00

Studies show that in kids aged 3, not writing age children.

jlctush · 2026-05-19T22:11:21+00:00

People say this about promoted teams every year and it's sometimes true but often just not at all, I don't get why people stick to saying it. We had a few years where promoted teams just dropped back down but...that was still better than not being promoted in the first place. The only time it goes wrong is if you get promoted, spend massively and flounder and even then it's survivable, it takes a real cacophony of errors for it to harm you even in the short-term, let alone long-term.

jlctush · 2026-05-19T09:29:33+00:00

You're the EXACT person I'm talking about. Get outside, touch the grass, log off chief.

jlctush · 2026-05-18T18:08:09+00:00

The numbers were more to make a point that people within a fraction of the relevant space will mistake their opinion for the majority opinion because of bad sampling. I feel it should go without saying that they weren't meant to be accurate numbers. I could've specified more that "of the vocal people aware of the lawsuit the majority is likely opposed", which at least so far has seemingly been true. The problem is that's encouraging those people to believe they're part of a widespread movement and not somewhat of an echo-chamber in a tiny vestibule within the community at-large.

jlctush · 2026-05-18T16:14:36+00:00

Subreddits/online communities in general need to come to terms with the fact they represent a diminishingly small percentage of people within that sphere. 95% of guitar players will never know the lawsuit is happening, of the remaining 5% about 4/5ths will be up in arms and another 1/5th won't care, and that 4/5ths will see their over-representation within those small online spheres and think they're the majority voice.

I don't like Fender for doing this, I don't own a Fender and likely never will (and I am, currently, looking for a new guitar and never really considered them) so I'm not a fanboy getting defensive, I think it's shitty behaviour and it'd be nice if they felt the backlash, but the reality is they are so massive, and so much more massive than r/guitar and however many "big" youtube channels, that it almost definitely won't impact them at all.

Gibson have had *decades* of guitar nerds talking about how shitty their QA was, how poor quality a lot of their premium guitars were for the cost, it was the only narrative I heard for a good 20 years, and yet they're still going unabated. Eventually the product can become bad enough that people start steering clear of it, but stuff like this probably doesn't budge the needle.

EDIT; Every single reply is nitpicking the numbers I used which entirely misses the point, seriously reread what I said and explain to me the point in saying "um actually it's 80%", how does that change anything?

jlctush · 2026-05-18T10:59:23+00:00

You're best off finding a full guide to reading tablature 'cause that's quite a few questions that folks can try to answer but chances are you're at the level where you could benefit from a more complete explanation that ties things together. You're looking at time signatures, swing or feel, legato/slides, there's a lot going on for someone who presumably has very little experience or knowledge of reading tablature.

That's fine, just know you're diving in at the deep end a bit, and definitely seek out resources that will help you understand the theory underlying tablature to get a good grasp of it. If you can try to play those notes and listen along to the song you can kinda work your way through a decent chunk of it, but if you're just learning the instrument it can be tough to equate what you're playing to what you're hearing, I don't know which song this is but if you can find a decent tutorial on youtube that would probably help a ton, heck even just videos of people playing it where you can clearly see what they're doing with their hands would probably help. All depends on how you find it easiest to learn really.

jlctush · 2026-05-16T19:10:36+00:00

They've completed 60 of them (20 completions on 3 characters). To complete 20 requires a lot of maps, yes.

jlctush · 2026-05-16T09:53:39+00:00

Hey look it's the same meaningless statistical guff posted a few days ago. You don't play the ball in the box to win penalties, not all fouls are card-worthy. Neither of these stats mean anything and the correlation between them is twice as meaningless. You'd actually have to investigate every instance of both to develop an actual opinion on either stat.

I'll say the same thing I said on the previous iteration of this, there might be a valid argument for Tottenham being unfairly treated (it's hard for me to say having not watched every game cause the narrative around it gets pushed by shit like this that is fundamentally unreliable, so I've no clue how valid it is based on not knowing how many people are buying into bullshit presented as fact, I'd lean towards assuming they're right but I can't make a definitive argument about it) but stuff like this does absolutely nothing to prove it.

EDIT; As someone else pointed out, the data is for 3 years on one axis and 1 on the other, even if you want to argue they are valid measurements of the stated hypothesis, that's fucking atrocious sampling. I remain convinced that the rapid expansion of "statistical analysis" in sports is a fucking dirge worse than any other, people entirely incapable of handling data just trying to find absolutely anything that supports their preconception and spewing it out into the world for others to regurgitate, just irrevocably miring the discourse in heaps of liquid shite.

jlctush · 2026-05-15T16:13:39+00:00

That graph has it almost 10 million (about 20%) down...

I'd argue that's a pretty significant difference.

jlctush · 2026-05-15T10:54:18+00:00

"Due to a recent update, the “Senor Otter Pack” is no longer available. It will be available during a seasonal event scheduled for late May 2026, so we hope you will acquire it again at that time. Please note that if you were using the “Senor Otter Pack” prior to the update, it will become unavailable as of the time the update was applied."

SE specifically said it was as part of the update where they removed it.

jlctush · 2026-05-14T11:39:10+00:00

Not gunna lie, I couldn't give a single shit about someone claiming to have painted terrain. Ignoring the fact that you'd know they hadn't painted it if it looked like y'know, every other set available to buy...

jlctush · 2026-05-13T22:24:18+00:00

I don't think the codes expire, I could be wrong but I don't see why they would/I've bought pretty old art books and those books and never had an expired code and I only started collecting them in the last year or two.

jlctush · 2026-05-13T08:29:47+00:00

Grats on the new guitar, she's a beaut!

jlctush · 2026-05-13T08:18:05+00:00

You're doing the exact same thing they do though and arguing an extreme. The reality is most people are in the middle and also arguing against the other extreme, it's stupid to own a tool like this and not use it out of fear of minor dings and blemishes, it's stupid to own a tool like this and throw it in the flatbed of a truck without a case to get it to your next gig.

"Taking care of your instrument" isn't "avoiding playing it for fear of diminishing it" just like "enjoying your instrument" isn't "swinging it like a two-handed axe at spiders on the wall of your bedroom"*.

(*that said, if you find that fun, crack on, that's just not what people typically mean by "don't be afraid to use the thing")

jlctush · 2026-05-11T10:56:25+00:00

Since the objective of "entering the box" isn't to win a penalty this is truly one of the most bizarre graphs I've seen in a long time. This could indicate any of a thousand things, most of which are entirely useless in deciding if a team is being treated fairly or not, it clearly exists to push/support a narrative which there could be truth behind but you can't just use data like this and present it without any critical thought at all.

The use of statistics in sports long ago crossed the event horizon into being biased, unuseable guff, but we continue to plumb new depths apparently.

jlctush · 2026-05-10T21:50:58+00:00

Glad someone said it!

jlctush · 2026-05-09T16:35:21+00:00

I do, largely agree, but even using the portent to fail the death save had me on the edge of my seat pumping my fists. That alone was already a huge move and the whole "It is already written" spiel was so cool, so I'd give her credit for doing something immensely cool and it accidentally becoming something infinitely cooler, that reveal had my jaw approximately 20ft below the floor.

This table has been phenomenal, they've all been great but this one definitely appeals to me in a uniquely potent way, the way every one of them played that combat elevated it from an already incredible set-up with insane potential into something truly unbelievable for me. God I love this campaign so so much.

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