riseuppikmin [he/him]

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Cake day: May 19th, 2022

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  • This race is the most “who fucking knows” since I’ve followed US elections.

    Some things of I think are of note

    • AZ and NV having abortion ballot measures should heavily lean dem (someone else here already mentioned this)
    • NC’s governor ticket will probably drag Republicans down. Mark Robinson was exposed as a serial gooner (pornshop debt) who is a black Nazi that wants slavery to return (this is not a joke). He strikes me as a worse Herschel Walker/Dr Oz type candidate and I think dems pickup NC because of it. The broader Republican party is trying to run away from him because he’s seen as that toxic
    • GA will have the most brazenly corrupt election this side of the century, and that’s saying a lot since their incumbent governor probably stole his own first election already. Their election board will send Trump electors no matter what (unless there is somehow a massive electoral college win for Kamala which I don’t see happening)
    • MI goes for Trump on the Stein 3rd party vote and liberals transition from their current state (going mask off) to gleeful celebration of, like, domestic socdem repression
    • PA I genuinely have no clue. No confidence whatsoever in a call either way
    • Every other state I think is locked in (including WI for dems- this is possibly what I’ll be most gut feeling wrong about)

    Republicans take the Senate

    I think a 269-269 tie is an incredibly possible situation and I think it would fall under funniest timeline theory (for those reading this results in a Trump presidency due to tiebreaker rules favoring him).





  • My preferred 3D viewing method is in VR because you get full side-by-side 3d (1920x1080 resolution video per eye) and AFAIK this isn’t supported on most screens/projectors. You have to build/acquire f-sbs videos yourself (I’ve made most of my own and while the actual process is easy there is learning involved), but it’s greatly bolstered my affinity towards 3D content.

    Avatar 2 is, unsurprisingly, the most technically impressive fsbs content I’ve watched, but I’ve enjoyed most of the 3D movies I’ve watched this way.













  • Learning the basics of rocket jumping will be incredibly helpful and enable you to move around the map/get into favorable positions much faster.

    Soldier, like demoman, also has a lot of area denial capability that lots of players don’t take advantage of. If you’re aware of an enemy team around a corner, try to get splash damage on that position to make the enemy team softer when they eventually push for your teammates. You have plenty of ammo- use it!

    Combining this with rocket jumping, learn what sections of the map you can get advantageous angles on blenemies by rocket jumping. Lots of buildings in TF2 don’t have invisible walls above them, so rocket jumps can get you angles up above the buildings to take distant shots at engineer nests.

    On engineer nests, don’t just pelt the sentry in a 1:1 scenario with the engineer healing if he has a dispenser behind it. Try to get splash damage on the dispenser and the engineer before the sentry (this changes if you have team support). The direct hit is an amazing weapon at taking out sentries so make a loadout with it.

    Personal thing, but I find the original much easier to use than the stock launcher when it comes to placing shots, so give it a chance if you haven’t and see which ones feels better to you.

    If you have specific questions feel free to ask and I’m glad to weigh in.