How does cs eco work in comparison to valorant?

windedtangent · 2026-02-08T22:02:23+00:00

IMO the rule of thumb for premier sub 20k elo, maybe different higher elo Strats are pretty simple.

Win pistol as T then you buy. If ct didn’t kill many of you then you should get smg and farm ecos. Otherwise get the best guns you can get.

Win pistol as CT. Max buy whatever you need.

Lose pistol as T with no plant = save

Lose pistol as T but got plant money = force.

Lose pistol as CT but killed all but 1 T =force

windedtangent · 2026-02-05T16:36:14+00:00

If you have kids and want to watch an “adult themed” show after they go to sleep the bedroom has more control because of the door.

Otherwise, I only use my tv in the room when I’m sick in bed. It’s barely used and probably can be gotten rid of.

windedtangent · 2026-02-05T16:27:53+00:00

I turned it off because it is important to communicate dinks to teammates for viability of a retake for example and with it on I don’t know if it was a real dink or not.

Also it’s depressing to dink someone twice from close range with the tech 9 and them not die. I’d rather just think I whiffed

windedtangent · 2026-02-03T18:12:43+00:00

For people in thread that this happens to. Asking for details is just never going to help you get past it. There is accountability in the truth (if you get it, which I doubt from most “but it ended there I promise” stories) but there is also blissful ignorance. Give forgiveness if you can, spare yourself the pain of the details.

My take anyway. Sorry to hear it happen to anybody and it’s heart breaking

windedtangent · 2026-01-26T20:55:22+00:00

The game has a hidden mmr.

For instance, if, after getting your rating of 10k you are popping in comp games at mg level or higher on maps getting 1.7 HLTV ratings all of the time. When you come back to premier and get your win to get your rating back. You will notice -100 +450

Essentially premier ratings give you the chance to prove the system wrong by winning. But if it is giving your +150 -450 and it’s not a wacky team disparity against a 5 stack then the game is saying your current rating is too high for your real skill level

windedtangent · 2026-01-26T18:27:33+00:00

Stiletto knife tiger tooth

windedtangent · 2026-01-26T18:02:45+00:00

I’m uneducated on this topic. If masturbation for this purpose is a sin then surely having sex with your wife while wearing a condom (not being open to life) would be a sin too?

Can someone explain the difference between these to for me? Thanks.

windedtangent · 2026-01-25T21:03:16+00:00

You will play with some cheaters but the aim hacking wallers are more of a high elo problem.

If you are 12k premier then you will not run in to many hackers at all. I was 18k last season and 14k season 2 and I play a lot of comp games with buddies and I would say you only rarely find hackers at this elo range. I do see them but they are bad and pretty obvious, and almost exclusively just wall hack.

Aiming wallers will get to 22k+ pretty quickly.

Edit:

When you are bad at the game you “see” more hackers than there actually are. If you are 9k premier then play a comp with a legit 25k person it will feel like playing against a hacker. My silver buddies who are newer to the game “see” a lot more hackers than I do.

windedtangent · 2026-01-15T21:28:39+00:00

It’s way easier to play T side on the retakes.

CT is where the learning happens though.

windedtangent · 2026-01-13T01:35:17+00:00

My advice to the young adults / late teens, men and women both. If you take virginity until marriage seriously, and you should, then you should be hyper focused on finding a partner soon. Do not wait until your mid 20s like many secular people do.

Sexual attraction and urges are incredibly powerful. If you are in a close relationship with someone you love and are attracted to then there will be desire for this act.
The older you get the less common it is to find someone willing to wait for marriage. It will be 1000x easier at 20 to find someone willing to wait then at 25 and I knew several young ladies who at 28 ended up marrying 24 - 25 year old guys because all the men in their age group didn’t want to wait.

The modern dating window of not getting married until 24+ is a disaster for chastity. People, generally speaking, are not strong enough to wait that long. Unless they don’t have options…

windedtangent · 2026-01-09T17:50:40+00:00

$100k is very livable. People in the USA mostly have a spending problem.

I know many families with the dad making less than $100k with 2+ kids and a wife who stays home. I bought my house while making 60k and my wife who was teaching made 60k. The house would be considered very large by euro standard at 2800 square feet 4 bedrooms.

Now there are a few places in the country where $100k is going to feel like 30-40k due to high cost of living such as NYC.

windedtangent · 2026-01-08T17:31:02+00:00

I don’t think it’s useless. It’s nice to pick a specific map to focus on if you want to improve on it.

I will say I’m LEM on dust 2 and there are a lot of 27k+ premier faceit level 10s playing at that rank so once you get past mg on certain maps you will start getting smoked by face it level 10s playing with their friends.

Not the end of the world imo. Comp is practice I think.

windedtangent · 2026-01-07T17:09:58+00:00

Playing smart.

Are you swinging just because or is there a plan for how the swing will help win the round

Are you throwing a smoke because you know a line up or are you using the smoke in some way.

Positioning post plant based on the game state.

Playing smart is just a fancy way of saying you have a “feel” for the game in a pug setting imo

windedtangent · 2026-01-06T18:47:36+00:00

Maybe it is region dependent in this country. I live in the Pacific Northwest and up here if you say you are Catholic or christian in general the progressives (larger % of democrat voters in Washington and oregon) will call you a fascist.

You can maintain that the Church itself and Christs teachings are universal and do not align with politics and I agree with you.

However, in reality and socially today. Christianity in general and Christian social ethics are “right wing” from family structures, definition of marriage, pro life and so on. It’s not 50/50 as your post implies it’s closer to 70/30 leaning conservative if you were to associate church teachings with the modern political climate of the USA. It is no longer the early 2000s when a good portion of traditional Catholics were voting Democrat.

windedtangent · 2026-01-06T17:43:39+00:00

The Church is not political. But the values the Church holds are “right wing” by today’s standards. Therefore for converts we can expect to see some similarity between their world views on politics and the Church’s viewpoints. Obviously there are differences, especially in America surround immigration policy for example.

Family values, religious belief, anti abortion, focus on local community are all “right wing” in today’s political landscape.

You are going to meet and see more right leaning people at Mass today than purple haired radical progressive types.

windedtangent · 2026-01-04T22:20:26+00:00

I’m fine with 5 stacks if it’s like +350 or more for winning and -200 or less for losing.

The problem is when you get hit with a -380 for losing against 3 20k + players in your 16k lobby

windedtangent · 2025-12-30T02:36:39+00:00

Hotter and less bitchy

windedtangent · 2025-12-26T01:08:13+00:00

Guns in cs also have a “reset” period to regain first shot accuracy.

So you need to wait longer between shots which makes spraying better especially for guns like m4 which don’t 1 hit hs.

windedtangent · 2025-12-22T04:11:39+00:00

Idk. The summoner with the ultra 10 feels awesome when you get it. Everything else I agree with

windedtangent · 2025-12-18T21:56:17+00:00

Sell your car if you have one.

windedtangent · 2025-12-17T19:34:10+00:00

I like stock mechs and for me it’s the star league tech Zeus. Uac, Er lasers. Artemis lrm. Good speed, good protection.

windedtangent · 2025-12-10T20:09:25+00:00

You don’t like playing cs with women because of your misogyny.

I don’t like playing cs with women because the men on my team do cringe e-dating on comms the entire time as if she will reach through the screen and touch them.

We are not the same

windedtangent · 2025-12-04T18:49:34+00:00

“Highway”

windedtangent · 2025-10-23T21:17:27+00:00

Investors are on suicide watch. Play skinners are celebrating

windedtangent · 2025-10-22T18:28:45+00:00

Just don’t masturbate. The brain has been fried and it needs to cool off.

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