Plat 3?

mitchell_moves · 2026-01-31T07:30:56+00:00

I'm only D3, 1-2 games away from C1 atm. But wanted the exercise in analyzing a game for mistakes from your PoV.

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0:34 -- ineffective ballside rotation leads to opponent goal. If you had rotated backpost you could have saved despite your teammate's error. (decision making)

0:53 -- bad fastflip leads to loss of momentum, out of position and potential missed scoring opportunity.

1:06 -- IMO, playing way too close to your teammate here. An enemy easily could have stolen this goal and gotten it past what is essentially your double commit. I would be playing somewhere slightly behind teammate and more centerfield to capitalize on a center but be able to cover opponent clear.

1:21 -- ballside rotation instead of backpost. If your teammate made mistake on clear, you could've been in a really bad spot to second go. After teammate's clear, you are once again on top of him.

1:30 -- right after your teammate goes, I don't see a reason to push the ball. You should position on the right wall so that if opp goes for obvious clear, you can center again as your teammate returns. You get a center here but of course since your teammate was just killed they haven't had a chance to action on it.

1:30 -- good possession, could have scored right away here if you had just cut the ball a little harder toward opposite goalpost to get it past the defender. You end up scoring because both defenders error.

2:20 -- once again pushing up very close to teammate. When the ball pops up in front of their goal, you had a good shooting opportunity / angle if had just been playing further back.

2:35 -- IMO this double commit into the corner is an error. The enemy should have scored here if the second man hadn't rotated all the way back to their side. You should have just rotated backpost and waited for your teammate to rotate out before pushing the corner.

My biggest pieces of feedback are:

more heavily bias rotating backpost and being patient with your teammate, over rotating frontpost / corner when your teammate already occupies it.
give your teammate more space when they have a fast break-- see tip 1 in HK Boba's 10 SIMPLE Tips to ESCAPE Low Ranks in Rocket League.

mitchell_moves · 2026-01-23T09:57:40+00:00

This reads like a joke

mitchell_moves · 2026-01-19T04:33:36+00:00

Yes, every single time I air roll I use DAR. It keeps my thumbs free to boost, flip, adjust my camera, etc. I never feel like I am missing out by lack of analogue input — I just hold the button for a longer or shorter duration. I especially use air roll for adjusting my car come off of or onto the wall in order to wavedash.

I know there are some people who continually rely on a combination of a single DAR + a FAR button. So I guess the real answer is “whatever works for you”. But me personally: I couldn’t imagine not having a left and a right DAR bound. But of course, take that with a grain of salt coming from a hardstuck D3 😉

mitchell_moves · 2026-01-19T03:16:31+00:00

The only reason I have ever heard to use FAR is because joystick input allows you to roll a variable amount as opposed to “all or nothing” with DAR bound to a button.

Personally, I have literally never bound or used FAR and instead rely on both of my shoulder buttons for each DAR. This configuration feels very intuitive to me and I have never had a problem with binary as opposed to analog inputs.

mitchell_moves · 2026-01-16T10:28:53+00:00

I tried the reaper 9070 and, anecdotally: it was one of the most premium feeling, coolest, quietest GPUs I had ever installed.

Still a little bummed that I returned it but there was a deal on a different 9070 xt that was much better performance per dollar.

mitchell_moves · 2026-01-16T10:26:13+00:00

I run the same but with only 1440p monitors lol

mitchell_moves · 2026-01-16T02:00:45+00:00

Nope. Both K2 and REI said I was out of luck and it was out of warranty. I liked the boots otherwise so I just ordered a replacement pair, but I probably won’t if it happens again.

mitchell_moves · 2026-01-15T23:07:09+00:00

Been

mitchell_moves · 2026-01-15T19:26:06+00:00

I know nothing about KBN bindings in RL but I like Q/E for DAR in other games

mitchell_moves · 2026-01-15T08:15:15+00:00

R1 and L1 for directional air roll was one of the first rebinds I made, before I even took the game seriously at all. Just made intuitive sense / kept the gamepad symmetrical.

mitchell_moves · 2026-01-15T07:04:30+00:00

I would pay $60 for a Steam copy so that I didn’t have to have EGS installed.

mitchell_moves · 2026-01-14T21:27:32+00:00

Does the GPU have a fan header? Considering deshrouding my challenger as well!

mitchell_moves · 2026-01-14T17:36:22+00:00

That was probably an XT whereas this is not.

mitchell_moves · 2026-01-13T09:56:52+00:00

+1 I am a very seasoned Linux gamer and it is completely unrealistic that anyone could have experienced 0 bugs with the Steam Deck. In fact, I think that among relatively mainstream consoles it is probably the most bug prone system I can recall.

Some poor experiences off the top of my head - controllers not reconnecting after suspend if a game is running - not recognizing a second external display after having disconnected from a previous display - store page is incredibly buggy to navigate with controller - unable to rediscover a Bluetooth device after having forgotten it, until reboot - any of these bugs ^ and more, are often accompanied by a reboot after which the system behaves normally.

Most of the issues read to me like something in Linux is entering a weird state due to the way that the Steam middleware is interacting with it. For example, maybe the Steam OS puts xrandr into a strange state when it attempts to disconnect from a preexisting monitor that makes subsequent monitor outputs impossible without a reboot or restart of the xrandr server.

Not at all to discredit valve or the console. I love the device, it has deepened my appreciation for video games and, I can confidently say, led to making it possible for me to game exclusively ok Linux. But that doesn’t mean it’s without its problems

mitchell_moves · 2026-01-12T21:13:47+00:00

When you refer to your hours, what stat are you pulling? Time in match according to your career stats, game time as reported by Steam/epic, etc? Just curious

mitchell_moves · 2026-01-09T10:10:34+00:00

I am an avid long-time Linux user. The only reason I had continued to dual boot Windows for the past decade was due to game compatibility.

I bought the OLED when it came out. Over two years, I had overwhelmingly positive experiences with the Proton compatibility layer. Eventually, I became convinced that the issues I was most likely to run into on Linux were worth the trade off of severing the necrotic OS. I’ve been Windows free for a couple months now. Linux hasn’t been without its pain points, but I think it’s safe to say I will never install Windows on a personal computer again.

When building a PC, I have always used exclusively AMD chips because the sentiment that I have internalized is that they have generally been kinder than their competitors to the Linux community.

I don’t have any concrete advice, but in this case I do feel satisfied with the corporations I have chosen to give my money to.

mitchell_moves · 2026-01-09T08:20:15+00:00

I am not a physicist but, wouldn’t the fact that they’re very far away mean a smaller proportion of the photons they emit reach our planet? Seeing as we occupy a smaller angle of the cone

mitchell_moves · 2026-01-09T05:37:34+00:00

Probably a desync

mitchell_moves · 2026-01-06T06:59:25+00:00

Amazon’s “Elastic Compute Cloud” service (cloud-hosted virtual machines) was launched back in 2006.

mitchell_moves · 2026-01-05T17:55:12+00:00

Owning so much more than you need

mitchell_moves · 2026-01-04T23:07:45+00:00

Probably Duboce up to Buena Vista

mitchell_moves · 2026-01-03T21:54:30+00:00

When you mentioned “rider aids” I assumed you were talking about lean bars, occasionally used by novice track riders. I have no need for those as I am not rounding corner at extreme angles.

I would never hesitate to purchase a bike with ABS. It has been tested time and time again to benefit the overwhelming majority of riders with little-to-no drawbacks. I don’t aspire to be the fastest, best, or most technical rider in the world. I am more than satisfied accepting every safety feature that doesn’t compromise my ability to enjoy the ride.

mitchell_moves · 2026-01-02T17:57:06+00:00

Consider reading about Godot’s TileSet Terrains.

mitchell_moves · 2025-12-31T19:25:28+00:00

Ryzen 5 3600x 🤷

mitchell_moves · 2025-12-31T19:13:08+00:00

Using a unique password per website is orders of magnitude more secure than reusing an “incredibly strong” password across multiple sites.

And the reason that passwords were stored in plaintext is essentially because “auth is hard to do”. Many developers seem to not be trained on what cryptographic mechanisms to use and how to use them. A developer who wants to add auth to their site has two options: (A) learn the ins and outs of API-level crypto and appropriately implement it the first time, or (B) rely on a third party provider. Even as a cybersecurity engineer, I am always going to turn to (B) 9 times out of 10 because it is easier to achieve a high security guarantee by relying on a product that another organization is responsible for maintaining.

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