They got outaimed by Enerii

Its not even the map.

Even RNT shat on Rapid Lofi with SkRossi Dos9 and Sultan just outaiming these guys.

Each and every player on NRG can just smurf on them and yet they are loosing.

Also its not as if they did not prac these maps a single time.

playing against plat?

Still 80 days is like 1/4th of the total time of the year.

I personally got 345 hours.

I used a gaming laptop during my engineering days (i7 8th gen, 1060 6GB, 16GB RAM, 1TB HDD + 256GB SSD) and now I use M2 Macbook pro as an AI/Software engineer.

Here are the facts -
M2 Pro or higher models of M2 Air are much superior devices and set the bar really high for laptop devices, they generally easily last 20+ hours in terms of battery, extremely portable and good build quality, if you throw it at someone, the guy might crack their skull but your laptop would be just fine, have impressive performance even on battery, however their GPU is pretty much non-existent when it comes to performance. The display and speakers are nice too and if by chance you have an iPhone/Airpods, the experience is even better.

These gaming laptops have really good CPU and GPU performance however it really tanks as soon as they are not plugged into power. You would be lucky to get more than 2 hours of battery life from them after a year, they are bulky and my gaming laptop's charger was heavier than a macbook air. The GPU is good to have and back in the day (2019), 6GB of VRAM used to be a lot. The display is usually very bad (exceptions are Acer Predator back in the day) and the speakers are also horrible.

You can barely do any shit on 6GB VRAM nowadays. Even common models from hugging face use 8GB + VRAM atleast.

However one thing that these gaming laptops offers is customisability and experimentation.
You could install linux, windows or just whatever you want on them. Really important for engineering as most of the software supports either windows or linux. MacOS will be a real pain in the ass once you realize you are stuck in the few software that MacOS allows you to use. Also Macs have much smaller disk space compared to these gaming laptops which is another pain.

So if you are a student I recommend that you always experiment, install 5 different IDEs and try them all out. Install compilers for 10 different languages and try them all out. Install 2-3 linux distros and experiment with them. Break shit, fix shit. Only way to learn and become a good engineer. There will be a lot of times your linux installation will break (graphics drivers gone, wifi not working, audio not working). Learning how to fix these issues is crucial to problem solving later down your engineering path.

MacBooks however do not let you do anything like this. You have limited disk space which is just enough to install that 1 good IDE you already know how to use and love and 1 tech stack. You can expect your macbook to just work when you open the lid. As such you loose out a lot as you never learned to troubleshoot stuff.

Macbooks are meant for people who know their shit and have made up their minds on what tools they wanna use vs Gaming laptops which allow people to experiment with whatever they want to do.

Get a gaming laptop if you are a student, get a macbook when you are a professional and stay away from Macbook air base models unless you are just someone who does light work on google sheets and watches movies.

Coming to AI and ML, honestly both M1/M2 air and a 3050 is absolutely garbage. The base model Macbook air with 8GB of RAM will start shitting it's pants even with IDEs like Android Studio or the other Jetbrains stuff and 4GB of VRAM in 2024 is honestly not even a matter of discussion as even back in 2019 a 1060 with 6GB VRAM was considered decent.

Neither of these laptops are good for AI/ML. Your best bet is Google Colab but even that is not a great experience as our sessions will be shut down after a few hours and GPU hours per week is limited. So honestly at your budget you just can't get a decent device to run AI/ML locally unless you invest in a PC and grad a good deal on a second hand GPU from the 3000 series. Your best option is to try and juggle between kaggle notebooks and google colab free tier if your budget cannot be increased.

I get one of these like every 8-10 games in diamond 💀

TOBEVERYHONEST a silent voice and I want to eat your pancreas stories could be written by ChatGPT today.

I just never saw the point, you know the writer is building up for a moment where you are gonna cry and that's it.

The acting, music, animation quality is what makes these movies good so still recommend to watch them.

If you want to build up to something that makes you cry, do it like Violet Evergarden ep 11. Looked like an avg until the last part comes in. Which makes it a masterpiece.

Do not aim for IISER for jobs. Try them if you are interested in pure sciences (Like Astrophysics or molecular biology).

Most of them either go for an MSc in IITs/IISc in India or MS abroad.

Opportunities wise it is good, I would say it has a better research environment than IITs.

However expect to do atleast an MS and an PhD before you have any sort of decent earning potential. This could easily mean around 8-10 years of studies.

No it doesn't python code should be written the pythonic way which for such problems, match case just doesn't look good. Also, it is really redundant and only increases the headaches of people looking at the code.

@the receipts guy

Yeah I mean it was a good spray transfer but you see people in plat hitting that all the time.

Its still better than all other esports combined. No other esport has a comparable GC scene.

But I think they have done a lot of things correctly as well. The game changers league for example is genuinely an event that people watch and enjoy.

I will not comment about the level of play but probs Valorant game changes has to be the most watched non-male exclusive event watched among any esports by a margin.

I cannot name 3 female players from CSGO, LoL or any other esport. But Valorant Game Changers is watched by millions.

Wait till bro hears about acceptance rates in India💀

Anyways, my point is try your best brotha. Does applying to multiple majors cost separately? If its not a major cost then applying to both might be the smart thing to do. Who knows, you might get CS in a good uni?

Fair but atleast try to apply for CS as well and take it as a priority. I understand if you don't get CS then Stats+DS is still close and you can still do great with it.

But if you have an option, try to pick up CS.

Not really. In India its idiotic to take statistics as a major if you are getting CS in a same level college.

In the US it is a viable option (truly) however only when you have clarity about what CS and statistics is.

Job market is more or less similar in both US and India cause at the end of the day most my batchmates as well got jobs in US companies (their hiring process and preferences is quite similar) and Indian startups just copy the US counterparts. (Even small startups asking DSA for founding engineer roles can be taken as an example).

In fact just to give you an example, the batch 1 year junior to me had CS, AI & DS and Electrical Engineering branches. During Campus placements Google allowed CS and Electrical but not AI & DS. Even for potential AI roles. Funny thing is, this was in an IIT of all colleges. This might sound comical but this is what happens when you take a very specialised major in your bachelors degree. Take narrow subjects in Masters or PhD, not your bachelors.

At the end of the day, it is clueless HRs which decide what the job market is like. HRs haven't caught up to the fact that majors such as Data Science exist. They just understand -

AI = CS
ML = CS
Data = CS
Stats = Maths/CS
Quant = PhD in Maths/CS

Your resume will probs not even pass ATS if it doesn't have Comp Sci. written on it.

Always take the broader subject. CS includes data science and statistics. CS grads become quant researchers, Data Scientists and of course normal software engineers as well.

A stats and DS major degree will be as useful as a Electrical Engineering Degree in case you want to explore other domains in CS.

As an 18 y/o kid, most people don't even know what CS actually is. Take you time, take electives which interest you later on in your degree (3rd or 4th year) when you have more clarity about the subjects. If you like Stats and DS, just take up electives later on about the subject.

This is just 1 lang stream btw. If you include all the languages it is above 1.5M

Eat an entire bottle of Hajmola in 1 day

Dasnerth IGL calls -
"Let's rotate to B and get pegged by them"

LMAO, although it doesn't prove anything but SkRossi was literally on the top of ACS stats in Pacific in the middle of regulation.

Polvi is a decent player but he never diffed Meteor or went up head to head against something even on one map.

Try binary reversing microcontrollers if you studied ASM at any point in life it will be pretty eez for you.

You can get some really cool usecases and even "make up" new vulnerabilities and detect them for microcontrollers.

They typically use unsafe languages like C and generally the security from Hardware end is pretty weak as well.

Good luck trying to find anything new on web dev or general OSes like Linux cause they are already researched upon and its pretty unlikely for a newbie to find something significant.

People who get 99% percentile also get 70% in boards.

90% is like 1.8 lack rank or smthing it shouldn't be surprising to get 70% in boards.

90 percentile in JEE Mains is not a good percentile idiot.

18 is not required. 16 and above can play I think.

I doubt you could call BeYn a rookie, bro has been an invisible sub for DRX for years (which still counts as being a pro).

Bleed isn't winning anything either.

Cousins are included in "one big family"

Bro forgot Autumn, and the best part is, bro wasn't even farming.

Well, you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go
Staring at the bottom of your glass
Hoping one day you'll make a dream last
But dreams come slow, and they go so fast
You see her when you close your eyes
Maybe one day, you'll understand why
Everything you touch surely dies
But you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
Staring at the ceiling in the dark
Same old empty feeling in your heart
'Cause love comes slow, and it goes so fast
Well, you see her when you fall asleep
But never to touch and never to keep
'Cause you loved her too much, and you dived too deep
Well, you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go
Oh, oh, mm, oh
And you let her go
Oh, oh, uh, uh
Well, you let her go
'Cause you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
'Cause you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go

Bro is in the denial phase of suffering from grief.

Show her this post bro

How many teams in VCL SA (RNT, TR, OGT etc.) could comfortably beat DFM?

TR seemed solid against GenG and FUT, so I will atleast count them in.

We and Nepali are Browskis, it's all good

Nvidia Shadowplay is a no-hassle clip recording tool and you don't even need to start recording from before, it just keeps recording around a minute of gameplay in a buffer and you can clip whatever you want for upto an min.

Not sure about AMD gamers though.

You can come to my DMs to have big head conversations.

Good shit, although it's the most oversaturated tech stack in the market RN.

Learn some other niche technologies along with it to make it challenging for yourself and have fun.

throw all tech away and retire to a remote island in a cave.

Patna

I haven't watched a Bollywood movie or song in 7 years and my life couldn't be better. It legit ruined my ability to think in other aspects of life.

Watching bollywood and expecting anything better is where you went wrong lil bro.

Bro predicted the future of a team with 4 new faces, 2 off season games and them playing with a sub. Great work lil bro!

GE had a standin lil bro. Chill out making all these theories after them playing 2 games.

If no Indian players get experience on the tier 1 stage, they will never get better. Riot never gave a chance to India to compete in 2021 and it has handicapped it to this day. In the entire first year of valorant, only 1 team was given a chance to play against other international teams (In which they arguably did pretty good).

Franchising is there to help this fact out. You get to play 10 games of T1 Valorant regardless of how shit you are. This gives experience and eventually, you grow better.

Just look at what happened with APAC and 2022 Japan (Although even RN Zeta is pretty solid). Just give em slots every time and they will get good.

What GE needed to do was keep the original GE roster, kick kappa, get a cracked English-speaking sova on a huge paycheck, and snipe some of the best coaches from around the world. (Remember what Shinobi did during APAC LCQ 2021).

They think they represent all 1.4 B people but there are barely 160 watching lmao.

PRX was shit in CS

Give DeathMaker desi bidi and he will 1v10 PRX and Fnatic put together.

"A year ago"

"Top 6 in champs 3 months ago"

Atleast share tracker lil bro.

Monyet single-handedly was able to carry GE against DRX and was easily a top 10 player in terms of stats despite having the role of a passive controller.

It's not fair to judge him based on his ranked games in which also btw he is a demon.

Naturally, it's hard/impossible to replace the best raze in the world according to many. The best PRX can do is find a replacement and Monyet is up there.