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Up there with valyn. easily the most consistent player on 100t and probably top 3 controllers in the americas.

Currently on a dying 24g2 from 2021 (it has a flickering bar problem). I already have a 1440p 27" monitor but i prefer the 1080p 24" form factor for fps games like valorant and counter strike. unfortunately the monitor reviewing/enthusiast space basically doesnt care abt 1080p anymore because of price cuts to 1440p and oled options. Equivalently the amount of 1080p monitors available for retail is dropping BUT they are dirt cheap now compared to before. Im not bothered to buy a zowie dyac monitor because I think the price is unreasonable unless you are an extremely high ranked or semi-pro player.

was wondering if anyone had any experience the aoc 25g4k (1080p 24.5 inch 420hz (OC from 400)) or the 25g4s (same as k but 310hz (OC from 300)). The only review I could find was from totallydubbedhd - according to this review, both monitors had pretty good image quality and exceedingly high contrast ratio, however response time and overshoot at their advertised refresh rates are pretty underwhelming but quite good at 240hz. I'm not sure if the panel EU/UK unit in his review is the exact same one found in the asia/australia model.

Given the plethora of compelling/competitive mice in just about every price tier from so many different brands nowadays, I still hear on twitter or discord that razer and finalmouse are the champs in terms of stuff like "firmware" or "implementation". although finalmouse is almost notorious for bad qc and pr, they are still supposedly better than the rest for firmware/implementation. This is not an ad for those brands, I do not own any mice from them

I lowk have no idea what those terms really mean in practice apart from perhaps more stable polling rates and consistency from the sensors.

I ask out of genuine curiosity. Appreciate any insight on why these brands are considered better.

Was looking into a beast x max or a bigger huan. The beast x series is a couple years old at this point and is still on the nordic 52 series unlike the latest competition (mcu isnt a big factor but yeah). I saw some vague pictures on twitter that basically looked like a beast x without any cutouts and something with a nordic 54h20. seems more appealing than a beast x max atm.

Back during the end of 2024, platoon dropped a video statistically breaking down who the best players were in the 2024 vct season. He had a category called "deadliest players" and the top consisted of leo, less, tuyz, johnqt, cryo, bang and narrate. Deadliness eas basically a weighted score on how likely someone is to win a duel.

I dont regularly watch full matches I cant really comment on it, but I was wondering who you guys think the deadliest players in each region are in the current season. Thinking dgzin in na, marteen in eu and jinggg in apac. Platoon obviously had a lot of raw statistical math going on in his video, im not necessarily after that moreso who you think is deadliest based on what you see.

Im a second year domestic unsw student. I never really went to any open days before enrolling apart from a year 12 excursion so yeah. I kinda just rushed my uac application and put unsw as my first choice because all my highschool friends were going to unsw and by word of mouth unsw was supposedly the better uni for undergrad engineering and health.

So yeah i came to unsw because usyd was sort of demonised. Making this post out of curiosity since I never gave usyd a second thought and noticed a couple people from my linkedin transferring to usyd from unsw (I didnt ask them why though).

My experience at unsw is.. just alright.

Starting with the main positive - I think im being delivered a pretty solid education and the faculty administration are caring if you put yourself out there. Unpopular opinion but trimesters are okay and the breaks are long enough.

Unsw was promoted to have a more vibrant society life but ngl thats only for people who are lucky enough to be in a subcommittee. Im currently not and havent been in any subcommitees (though ive tried out for many) but i still try and go to whatever events I can in the societies i follow.

People here say that its quite hard to make friends and actually hold onto them if youre not in a subcommittee and that reflects my experience quite well - im still close with my highschool friends and ive made more "friends" with new people than post people i know. but every "friend" ive made from uni either in class, at an event, on a random errand or at a camp was someone i talked to for like a term and sorta fizzled out afterwards. Maybe thats an effort issue on my part but yeah.

Another gripe is the on campus life - in my opinion unsw's campus basically looks like a really big private school and only the medicine/bioscience buildings are nice. in my opinion everything else including the library lowkey looks brutalist. I dont rememeber usyd being as bad, also the campus food was way better. uns is also located in a random off-city suburb so everything around it is basically some 50 year old houses. Speaking of campus, theres a pretty common culture of skipping all your lectures to do them online, coming to campus as minimally as possible to only attend tutorials, labs or workshops. So yeah the campus life of unsw is pretty dead for me.

tl;dr I think im getting a really good education at unsw, but student life is very mid if youre not in subcommittees and the campus is buns.

idk im just being too negative, was just wondering how it is over at usyd?

My sleep schedule is quite solid and I eat well. I've basically eliminated short form content in my life for 2+ months. I occasionally watch long form stuff and scroll reddit still but that takes up much less time than before. For recreation I play go for walks / exercise, video games, or read something at a scheduled time during the day.

My daily phone screentime is still 2-3 hours but thats a lot less than most people my age. My friends and the people around me are quite proud of me for it and they all say im "locked in" or "moving onto better things". I wish that was true but honestly cutting out these supposed distractions hasn't made my life any better in terms of what I now do outside of those.

Focusing for 30+ minutes during a study/work session feels like I've exhausted so much capacity. In general I feel so much friction in a lot of things such that they take up more mental energy/headroom than necessary. In general, everything that my brain perceives as "effortful" just feels so intense. I look back over days, weeks or months and notice that I never really accomplish as I ever set out to, even though what I set isn't necessarily ambitious.

Its like a combination of stress, anxiety that i'd like to call 'mental inhibition'. this inhibition doesn't only manifest in my work or studies but also basic day to day stuff and social settings. Dont know if this is on adhd spectrum or if it just my brain being too used to playing it safe.

I also find myself getting hyperfixated easily in rabbit hole niches like skincare, biohacking, audio gear, pc hardware, geeky linux stuff and various software stuff. this isnt often but when I do stumble upon such things I cannot focus on anything else.

I know that the peating space mainly talk about improvements in sleep, energy or metabolic health but i was wondering if anyone here experienced nootropic/cognitive benefits by shifting their diet to be more peaty (lot of fruit, orange juice and milk but minimal to no pufa but controlled saturated fats or MUFA intake).

Was interested since a lot of cognitive coaches on YouTube tend to suggest higher fat diets in relation to "lubricating the brain/nerves". As a peatarian with cognitively demanding work should I introduce more healthy fat?

currently have a 1080p 144hz 24 inch ips monitor that i've been on for 4 years.

I watch stuff, code and play compettitive fps games like valorant and counter strike. Oled seems like the right way to go because my gpu wouldnt support gsync pulsar and the popular zowie monitors have shit colors.

I've been looking into getting a 27 inch 1440p 240-280hz OLED monitor - its a big up from my current monitor in almost every way. However, for compettitive games im used to 24 inches at 1080p, it would be annoying to get used to new crosshairs and a bigger screen meaning everything is more spread apart.

I noticed that asus's rog strix oled offerings support a glorious feature called "aspect control" that lets you simulate your display to internally be a smaller size like 24.5" (which is perfect for my fps gaming use case). Unfortuantely, asus' models are all significantly more expensive than counterparts from other brands like alienware, msi and gigabyte. This feature isnt really talked about so i cant find info on what other brands support something liek it. if i had the money i would buy the xg27aqwmg easily.

before you comment.. setting the monitor to 1080p via windows settings and disabling any scaling options in gpu control panel is not feasible because theoretically it would turn 27" into less than 21" which isnt feasible. 24-24.5" is the sweet spot.

for reference, I own a logitech g203, an endgame xm2 8k and a rawm leviathan v4 (basically a viper v3/v4 pro) and have 20x11 hands. the leviathan v4 is easily my favourite shape of the 3. the g203 is backdated without much advanced ergonomics and the xm2 is both too fat (despite how wide my hands are) and and too flat for micro-adjustments - I almost exclusively play tacfps

I use a relaxed to slightly aggressive claw grip. to be specific, the base of my wrist touches the mousepad; the base of my palm hugs the back hump/flare; my thumb rests on the left wall; my index and middle fingers are on the left and right buttons while my ring finger and pinky sit curved together on the right wall.

I've noticed that in pulsar's crazylight lineup the x2h and the x2n (mini, not medium) are immensely praised for their shape by people like bardoz and fresh reviews who actually have medium-large hands like myself (bardoz also uses the exact same grip style that i described above).

i used to be slightly dismissive of small mice like the op1 because the people who praised them the most were aim training people who usually had very small hands, but the x2h and x2n minis are genuinely very praised. Surprisingly, I've also noticed that people actually prefer the mini to the medium regardless of hand size because of a supposed "locked in feeling".

i feel fairly convinced about it and am willing to buy an x2n or an x2h cl mini. based on fmm and eloshapes the x2n might suit me more but idk, the x2h mini more popular though..

open to any thoughts and personal experience with these mice

hey guys I've tried the tanchjim bunny, tangzu waner 2 red lion and simgot eg280. looking to upgrade for a better experience in both fps games and musical listening.

im sure the arete 2 is great from an imaging and soundstage perspective, however I was wondering how good it is from a musical and tonal perspective. based on the graphs i've seen in comparison to the iems I have, the treble level on it should be just right.

In general theres a shortage of reviews on the arete 2 even though its a ziigaat iem. I'm guessing most reviewers brushed it off because its marketed for gaming.

iems like the astral, tea pro or volume s are in the same tier as the arete 2 on fresh reviews' ranking so I could get those instead though they are more expensive. I know people a lot of people in these audio communities hate rankings / tier lists because of "zomg personal preference", but idm in this case because fresh actually plays the games he talks about and has nuanced understanding of sound cues.

If possible, could anyone share how the arete 2 sounds in their experience to other highly praised iems in this price region? (such as xenns tea pro, top pro, yu9 que, softears volume S, ziigaat horizon, ziigaat odyssey, etc)