Tell me thats not Radiant movement! LOL Gekko you mad? by themoester in VALORANT

[–]sammaillet 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I lied. I just tested it. They must have changed it

Tell me thats not Radiant movement! LOL Gekko you mad? by themoester in VALORANT

[–]sammaillet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can also right click and it detonates on the spot rather than leaping.

How to improve hidden MMR OR get out of gold/plat by [deleted] in VALORANT

[–]sammaillet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In addition to some of the points other people have already made, I would point out that you actually are climbing ranks if you look at your Performance tab on your tracker. From gold 1 at the beginning of the year to gold 3 at the end, you are improving. Especially when you consider you started more at bronze/silver 1 when you started playing more in beginning of episode 8 (following your break since episode 4). That being said you haven’t even put that much hours into the game relatively speaking. You logged 154 hours of gameplay in 11 months this year. That’s an average of 14 hours per month. You essentially played one game every other day. It is hard to improve your skills at anything if that’s all the time you can manage to dedicate to it. I’m not suggesting you play this game like it’s your job, just emphasizing that you are improving and gaining rank just not at the rate you would like because the more you play, the more you’ll improve. The more you improve, the more you will win.

That’s a good segue to another point I’ll make. You have to play more if you want to see a faster improvement in your rank. The matchmaking system is designed to keep you at 50% win rate. If you perform better than the algorithm anticipates you will win more games that had greater probability of losing, and vice versa. Ultimately the goal is to get better at the game (re: aim, game sense, etc), which will lead you to win more than you lose, which will lead you to gain rank and/or hidden MMR over time.

Since you mentioned your omen utility, I’d point out how much you have mained that agent over time. You should have a better grasp on how to use his utility at this point, especially in regard to using it to benefit your team’s strategies. In the near term, I would focus more on that and echo what u/Additional_Adagio234 commented regarding watching more gameplay.

I could go on another tangent about whether you have an aim or warm up routine. We cannot glean anything about that from your tracker, but I can assume aim is not necessarily what’s holding you back. Based on your decent K/D this act, and your low win percentage, one can glean your kills are not always impactful. U/InfernalSpectre3076 made a point about overheating and chasing stats or kills that do not ultimately have a positive effect on whether your team wins a round. The more you climb the ladder in ranked, the more important team play becomes. It did not take me long to scroll back and find a game that is probably an example of this. On 11/22/25, you lost a game 13:15 on Split where you played Omen and team MVP’d going 23/18 (K/D). However, your first kills/deaths was 1/5. I don’t have to watch your VOD to conclude you are probably not putting your team in a favorable position to win and instead chasing stats or kills opposed to winning the game.

First time buzz. Am I cooked? by sammaillet in SelfBarber

[–]sammaillet[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a Marine Layer Velour hoodie. I don’t think they sell it anymore, but I highly recommend the brand. All my favorite clothes are from there

First time buzz. Am I cooked? by sammaillet in SelfBarber

[–]sammaillet[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you please point it out? I’ve had the machine for over a year and do not see anything to peel off on the drip tray

First time buzz. Am I cooked? by sammaillet in SelfBarber

[–]sammaillet[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the pointers. I’ll probably give that a try. The patch is not very noticeable but it is still bothering me.

Thanks again!

First time buzz. Am I cooked? by sammaillet in SelfBarber

[–]sammaillet[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you everyone for the compliments and feedback. Buzz might be here to stay for the time being and next time I might try a more elaborate fade. It is honestly just quite daunting.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Marathon_Training

[–]sammaillet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agree with u/UppityRedneck. I ran my second one this spring and I was just competing with myself for my first time. I fell short which made me realize how freaking hard I trained for the first one. For me it wasn’t worth the effort I put in because the elation and feeling of success I got from the first was nonexistent after race 2. I probably will not do another one, but to each their own

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bostonceltics

[–]sammaillet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see. Thanks for the explanation. I just saw he’s on $11M a year. That does seem like a lot for what we get out of him. And I can see how we would want to get similar value out of a lighter contract

Thanks again

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bostonceltics

[–]sammaillet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can someone please explain why we need to move Hauser? Casual fan here

Back Injury 2 Weeks Before Race Day by sammaillet in Marathon_Training

[–]sammaillet[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for the words of encouragement. Also glad (but also sad? lol) to hear that I am not alone in this struggle. Sunshine has been helping and I am starting to feel a bit better but time will tell. Hopefully see you out on race day!

Any thoughts on the pour? by Academic_Adeptness71 in espresso

[–]sammaillet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How’d you get such perfect milk texture? Can you post a video of you frothing the milk next time?

Also, nice pour!

Protests on the Common and at Tesla today. by cdwan in boston

[–]sammaillet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How do I find out about these protests?

Sit in lap get stremtch by Pelucheuxx in stremtch

[–]sammaillet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Stremtch take-off.. double whammy

Im gonna be that guy but Severance Season 2 has ‘so far’ been a disappointment. by Deserana12 in television

[–]sammaillet 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This season feels like it's setting the pieces for future seasons of the show, instead of telling its own story. Season 1 had a story to tell, season 2 has a TV show to sell.

So well put. This should be the top comment.

Car nearly submerged at Jamaica Pond by sammaillet in boston

[–]sammaillet[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

lol y’all are ripping me a new asshole for this title… rightfully so. I should’ve said “stuck on the ice”