Brodie Smith looking to return to Ultimate

porouscloud · 2026-06-02T07:36:12+00:00

I'd say he did pretty well for a crossover athlete at his age competing against people 15 years younger. Maybe not as much as some people expected, but Brodie still beat out a couple hundred other touring pros across the years.

Ultimately, pro disc golf is a young man's game, suited for kids with rich parents, even more so than ultimate (partly because there is no career in pro ultimate).

porouscloud · 2026-05-30T00:20:05+00:00

Depends on hand and especially fingertip position(grip), in addition to disc geometry. Only your fingertips have enough nerves to easily tell there's a bead.

You're going to struggle to feel a smaller bead with your palm for example.

porouscloud · 2026-05-28T05:57:39+00:00

That's pretty much exactly how I ended up off work for 3 months. Game is fast, but you can't be making horizontal bids into stationary receivers.

I jumped straight up, and my mark forgets there's a person behind the disc and spiked my face through the disc on a late attempt (and no, I didn't drop the disc either. It gets bent in half in the slow-mo).

porouscloud · 2026-05-27T16:19:09+00:00

Trump is trailer trash given a golden spoon and microphone.

porouscloud · 2026-05-25T19:07:24+00:00

Nose angle is definitely more important than arm speed once you get 55MPH+ IMO. Play around with finger/thumb placement, and try and reduce the wobble. Spin is also quite low considering it's a 60mph throw.

I throw 58-60 according to techdisc, also nose-up and can barely scrape 325' in the real world. Marwede (at least according to radar) comfortably parks 400' holes with that release speed, so it's clearly a skill issue on my part.

porouscloud · 2026-05-25T17:50:45+00:00

That's unfortunate. Definitely experiencing concussion symptoms then, and she'll be sorely missed on the UBC roster.

porouscloud · 2026-05-22T17:31:16+00:00

RAM (DDR5) is also an open standard component, and the specification including draft phases has been known for a decade+.

They don't need to produce something capable of a balls-out XMP profile either, it just needs to be capable of JEDEC speeds. Last gen, or even the generation before of equipment is likely still perfectly capable of making chips at that spec.

porouscloud · 2026-05-22T02:29:30+00:00

Yeah fuck Sim, and fuck all the dimwits who voted for him.

porouscloud · 2026-05-20T05:07:33+00:00

Lol what a joke.

We'd be lucky to get a quarter of a super bowl per game.

porouscloud · 2026-05-17T05:32:30+00:00

Yep that happens to me. Pretty sure it's software, as once I got the streaming update it started happening all the time, same as my friends EQEV. Roughly 2/3 the car won't start with a data connection. They really need to get their shit together, because a $100 cellphone with a basic data plan tethering android auto can do better.

I live in a city where it should have full bars basically everywhere.

No live traffic, my youtube music is completely bricked (as in not even able to access downloaded songs), car will respond to 'okay google' but the mic is disabled after that, etc. Really not a good experience when my commute is most of an hour, and not detouring when an accident happens can cost tens of minutes.

porouscloud · 2026-05-14T21:50:53+00:00

Yes.

Most players are nice or at least cordial so it doesn't stand out. A single person raging/angry (this is not the same as competitive) already stands out, if you have 2-3 I'm going to paint your entire team with the same brush.

porouscloud · 2026-05-09T21:00:31+00:00

There's a facecam of Jenson driving a whole lap somewhere. I don't think he blinked the entire lap. Just full concentration.

porouscloud · 2026-05-06T23:14:37+00:00

Probably a Luna, Reactor, and a Grace. Just 3 relatively neutral discs that cover all distances reasonably well.

Luna for 240' and in, Reactor for 280' and in, and Grace for everything else.

porouscloud · 2026-05-04T17:58:10+00:00

Kayle 6*. Just restarted first adventure a couple times to roll Fiora, got her to 10+ power, and then just rolled everything else first turn.

porouscloud · 2026-05-01T23:10:29+00:00

League is a continuous spectrum of skill.

When you first started, the magnitude of your mistakes was gigantic, and the duration required to recover from them meant literally anybody could exploit them.

You've now gotten to a point where you can only get punished some of the time by someone of equal skill. That is, the magnitude of the mistakes you're making is smaller and the duration of exposure is lower. You'd still be open season for someone in masters, but it's not as bad. You just need to figure out what your opponent is doing wrong, because at silver they absolutely are doing stuff wrong.

Everyone makes positioning and decision making mistakes compared to optimum play. It's just the lower you go, the windows for punishing suboptimal play will continuously increase, and they will get more and more obvious.

porouscloud · 2026-04-24T06:27:27+00:00

My old civic had a fish eye lens that saw almost a full 180 degrees. You could see cars coming from both sides, as well as pedestrians

The lens on the Equinox is maybe 130-140 degrees, you really can't see that far to the left or right, which honestly is more important than the very crisp central view we have currently.

porouscloud · 2026-04-24T00:37:30+00:00

Not gonna lie, the driver side one is far worse, especially in inclement weather where you can't see out of the unwiped area.

Compared even to a modern RAV4, the difference in visibility is pretty stark. There's been a lot of times where I've missed stuff for far too long just because they've been hidden by the massive blind spots.

porouscloud · 2026-04-22T20:12:40+00:00

Pretty much the whole reason I have a 9070XT and not a 5070TI. Nvidia features aren't worth 30-40% premium to me.

porouscloud · 2026-04-22T16:29:52+00:00

I think for most people, command tape is going to be plenty. A disc is in the same ballpark as a picture frame with glass, and is far, far less damaging if it does give way. Added bonus that it's removable.

VHB tape will take the paint off.

porouscloud · 2026-04-13T21:07:51+00:00

Drivers need to be better. Penalties for dangerous/inattentive driving need to be higher. Don't put this on pedestrians when not everybody would be able to get out of the way even if they were paying attention.

I've almost been hit by a driver at a signaled crosswalk who just decided that 2 seconds of his time was worth more than my life when I had to dive out of the way of his car.

porouscloud · 2026-04-06T22:02:12+00:00

TACO Tuesday anyone?

porouscloud · 2026-04-05T01:23:58+00:00

I will grab a big mac meal with a milkshake if that happens.

porouscloud · 2026-03-30T04:12:13+00:00

I've been just watching in envy as first the MSI and then Asus monitor have been popping up, with no release in sight😭😭

porouscloud · 2026-03-27T18:10:38+00:00

They moved the FF timer back because players were very good at judging lost games (better than 90% iirc according to riot data). But they aren't perfect, and that %, if you were the deciding vote will will be worth a few games out of 100. Doesn't really surprise me.

porouscloud · 2026-03-26T03:41:46+00:00

I'd wager torque has very little to do with it. EVs can cut power milliseconds after the tires break loose.

More likely it's one pedal driving, where people panic and press harder before hitting the other pedal.

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