counter-strike optimist (tentative)

Joined February 2019
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it was a lovely four days of green trust factor doing it's thing. now we're back to getting our shit shoved in by people who spent 125+ wins in light light blue and blue ranks. man, someone save my game
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life hack: just tweet about it, thank you Valve devs
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🧑‍🍳 bi-annual cooking tweet: finally perfected my homemade chashu recipe, this shit is killer. went a step further this time and reduced the braising liquid down by half, then threw in a tiny ladle with the pork broth. genuinely the best ramen i've ever made in my life 👀
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little Lobanjicaa finally grew up and he's cute and pink just like in real life 🥰
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I can't lie, VAC LIVE lately been hitting the cheater population like cocaine hit the streets of the US in the 1980s
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2/2 cheater games today got VAC live'd, one of the cheaters had 3 kills and we didn't even know he was walling lmao
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one thing that has to go imo is the +100 -500 games you get when the enemy 5stack adds one low rating account to the mix so they get +500 games. that shit lowkey sucks. 5stack vs. 5stack only would probably be good for the queue
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Green trust factor and the new VACNET is hitting like crack. If Valve can keep this up, then we're actually back. I'm so excited
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don't remember the last time I happily played CS for 7+ hours, but here we are. all games apart from two were clean and one of those were VAC Live'd without the wallhackers going crazy with scout. I'm actually so happy today :D
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2nd VAC live in 4 games today. Every game is still cheated, but the cheaters are getting away with less and less. Not saying the game is fixed, but it's the first tiny step in the right direction if they can keep it going. Credit where credit is due. Rare renyan hopium post.
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another game VAC Live'd. i'm duoQ with @150kbtw and all 8/8 remaining players have 99.9 aim and 300ms TTD. takes one of them to get their ego bruised and start rage hacking with scout for VAC Live to kick in though, despite all of them blatantly cheating from round 1
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day 2: 6 wins, 1 loss, 2 VAC lives. the one loss should have been VAC live'd but wasn't. think enemy team ended up with 25+ kills through smoke, sometimes tapping away with USPs. okay with it though, the ladder is climbable even in red trust. actually hopeful
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Mikan is having a lazy day thank you for commissioning @renyan !! (˶>⩊<˶)
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I have the reddest Trust Factor score you can possibly have (worse than 150k and tweeday who is red for others) 😭😭
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makes sense since I go out of my way to grief and kick cheaters I guess, but my ass is doomed
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turns out trust factor don't matter cuz the person with the best trust factor who no one gets a message on (ErycTriceps) still ended up on enemy team the game after 😭😭😭
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Born too late to explore the Earth. Born too early to explore the universe. Born just in time to explore the best Counter-Strike iteration there ever was. 🥰💖
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i think the writing is on the wall for CS right now. anti-cheat is a "now or never" thing and if it doesn't happen soon, i think the game is actually done. player counts are dwindling for a reason. fucking sucks to see, but they bottled it completely. happy three year anniversary
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"just go play FACEIT" it's really not about me. i don't think the barrier of entry for casual players should be that high. if you kill the supply of new players when competition is much more effective against cheaters, then churn over time will kill the game
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like i want this game to succeed so badly, but i have no idea where to go from here. today alone we have played with FOUR different FACEIT lv10 bunny hopping rage hackers. FOUR in THREE hours 😭😭
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