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Conspiracies are Justified: The Isolation Objection

Its hard to tell what is good knowledge but we can just look at the JTB account of knowledge, for it to be knowledge it has to have truth, a belief and, some other thing called justification. Now that last one is a bit hard to pin down cause there is so many ways you can explain with for example classical epistemological will talk about foundationalism but as we will see that has its issues. But…

Humans as Cyborgs

Cyborgs are often misunderstood as mere humans with metallic skin or head-up displays in their visions. However, the true essence of cyborgs lies in embedding tools within oneself, thereby augmenting and influencing personal skills. Surprisingly enough, humans have been unknowingly embracing cyborganization for millennia through basic inventions such as clothing, serving as individual shelters…

How AI Can Make Gaming Videos Smoother

Realistic motion blur with the help of AI for video game footage and gaming videos/content.

The Technologies I am Learning in 2022

Saw a recent video by Ben Awad where he outlined what technologies he wants to learn in this new year. So I decided to follow what he does. What I Learned in 2021 2021 was my biggest year for improving my skills and knowledge of many technologies for the many many projects that I undertook. Rust Lang From the start of the year I had an interest in learning rust because of how important memory safe…

Why I CopyLeft Not Copyright

If you notice on the footer of this page, it shows a notice saying that this website is licensed under CC BY-SA which is quite an open license. It is the license that is regarded as a CopyLeft license. As well as my many maintained and created software/library repositories are licensed under GPLv3 and AGPLv3 which are both copyleft licenses. Copyleft is a play on the normal term of copyright but…

Utility of Nothing

What are you doing?'`,`'oh, nothing ”. it wasn’t nothing it’s not something important or interesting for me to tell them, they are looking to gain something. Utility in the context of this post is a philosophical value that looks at how important something is by the value of its effects/use often is the pleasure that is measured or gained by the subject. Of course in the situation they are doing…

Labels and its Adhesive

Labels are a direct extension of someone’s perception, often used to supplement and explain common traits about a person and how they should be perceived as their default. Now while this is looking at only queer labels and my analysis of its application and its fundamental ideas, this can be applied to such a range of things. Labels are not intrinsically bad, and I should preface this point hard…

Qualifications of a Gaming Coach

Gaming coaches especially aim coaches popping up in the immensely toxic/gatekeeping environment to start to help people develop and become a coach but what are the true qualifications/requirements to become one. People will always throw around arbitrary requirements such as needing to be a top performer but something like this should always be a tiny part of what makes a good coach. Recommended…

The Issue with Forcing a Mouse Grip

While you can theorise about certain mouse grips and their range of movement and stability as well as they can affect aim but for a lot of the time, you can’t really just change or force a certain grip because it suits your style on paper. Example: Large mouse, small hand, there is no way to fingertip it forces your fingers to remain straight. Bit of an extreme but it still proves it. So how do…

Has Game Specificity in Aim Training Gone Too Far

The range and applicability of generalized training are definitely not well explained enough because still so many people are getting sucked into the idea that the only applicable training is the training done with a full emulation of the game to train for. Too game-specific. There are more than just patterns in games. Every game, every interaction is different no matter what game. It’s training…

Aggregated Aiming Resources

Everything you need related to the training of aim. From routines to videos and everything in between

Why Higher CPI is Always Better

As more and more people pick up a gaming mouse it’s important to understand what all the settings mean for your mouse and if 400 DPI or 800 DPI is good enough or is there better. But the main reason is to dispute the crazy amount of weird and sometimes incorrect info and to collate and aggregate all of the information that is out there about this important setting and function on a gaming mouse…

Strafe Aim and Dodging

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Gaming and Aiming Explained Series

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The Perfect Mouse and Sensitivity Problem

The methodology pushed by many faces in the gaming comunity that help choose certain in game settings or equipment use a technique that changes then will immediately test for improvement. This seen in things like this or the PSA method for sensitivity and recently saw it to help choose a mouse shape. The way that these are supposed to work is that you run through a bunch of trails of a certain…

Arena FPS: The Final Death of the Genre

The player numbers for Arena FPS’s have been decreasing for years but can new games help revive this 15-year dead genre or is this the final nail in the coffin.

How to Dodge in Every FPS

Learn how to dodge in FPS games — reduce damage with unpredictable movement, proper strafe timing, and advanced techniques for hitscan combat.

Diabotical 3v3 Playbook

MacGuffin My Own Video with basic strats: Play Video Thanks to Blindlight for the basics of this part Basics Macguffin is a chaotic meat grinder and fresh spawns are free health and position. Avoid fragging people into a better respawn e.g:. From their base to yours when you’re on a run. Know when to dmg them but not frag them and when to just run away. Additionally, don’t be afraid to die when it…

How to Find the Best Sensitivity

There’s no perfect FPS mouse sensitivity — learn how to pick one based on your game, aim style, body mechanics, and movement needs.

Guide to Aim Coaching

The primary purpose of this is to show what aim coaches are, which services are available, how it can help, how it doesn’t, and what makes a good coach and what makes a lousy coach. As I have talked and ranted about plenty of times on my Twitter about the amount of misinformation so I have decided to share how people can know how some coaches will help you and how some may be scams and a waste of…

About Me

a 21y/o math and computer science student from Aotearoa New Zealand who sometimes plays some video games

Fijian Daiquiri

Prelude Most people don’t know but apart from studing my job is a bar manager and head bartender at a local bar so I curate and create cocktials for our menu and weekly “cocktail of the week” rotation and a couple of weeks back we got some amazing rum from the Rum Co. of Fiji so wanted to do something different Recipe Ingredients 15ml Fijian Coconut Rum (we used Bati Coconut)…

Sweetheart Cocktail

Prelude Decided this year to make something special for valentines day, and what is more romantic than a pink cocktail at a pub. So decided to use the huge ammounts of rose wine that we have lying around. This is a tweaked version of the Elle Loves cocktail by Simon Gifford focusing on the raspberry notes from our rose on hand. Review : Fruity, sweet and lightly pink in colour Recipe Ingredients…