m4
Flag: United States
Registered: February 20, 2024
Last post: July 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Posts: 1881
1 •• 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38

Where am I in this thread?

posted about a year ago

Did I?

posted about a year ago

Why are you bullying Zenithpwr? That's a thoughtful response.

posted about a year ago

And I've been nice :)

posted about a year ago

100Thieves new analyst

posted about a year ago

this guy destroyed a quake legends team. return vouch.

posted about a year ago

I'm available on day9.

posted about a year ago

Did you miss the table of contents? A lot of people missed that page.

posted about a year ago

strong

posted about a year ago

Low key I heard that m4 is to blame for the new format.

posted about a year ago

Times are tough dude...

posted about a year ago

I pay in dollhairs. Is that okay?

posted about a year ago

Good night!

posted about a year ago

Upset this isn't one of my threads.

posted about a year ago

o7 reporting for duty.

posted about a year ago

Holy internet investigators. Applaud

posted about a year ago

It was two 100 page documents :)

posted about a year ago

Convincing me the answer is less work is not an argument I'm willing to entertain. Valorant is a e-dating scene these days. It's not serious anymore. We all feel it. Some of us just prefer drama over competition.

posted about a year ago

Just reinforced the idea that esports isn't merit based. Thanks for the help!

posted about a year ago

;)

posted about a year ago

nah, he's not wrong.

posted about a year ago

:)

posted about a year ago

Shoon, I would like you to go back to those comments and re-read them. They are punching down. I have done a lot of reading in my life and can tell the difference. And for some of the people on that list, they use really bad arguments to try to beat you into submission. I just find that sort of engagement boring.

The fact is that my work stood in stark contrast to theirs. There are a limited number of spots and this is a competitive space. I have been through this before. I know how it works.

posted about a year ago

And pass on this level of entertainment? I'm just sad my 15 minutes are up.

posted about a year ago

I know, I usually kill them and when I can't and they have perfect tracking and can see me through the wall pre-aiming... Sorry I gave you visual proof lol.

posted about a year ago

I had some really good teachers who taught me that information shared among many is better than gatekept by a few. Ideas can be sparked from things people read. Everyone looks at what I created as if I would pack it up and leave and never talk to another player ever again. These are foundations and building blocks for discussions. Why is everyone scared of a 100 pages?

The size should not scare you. It has a table of contents. If you want to skip the section on basic information about the map, I gave you a guide and I put it at the beginning to do that :)

posted about a year ago

I wrote two 115 page guides. One was for Icebox, One was for FNC Haven. Everyone is upset that the introduction covers the maps. They are right that it is chatgpt produced. I asked chatgpt to describe the map. I mean I have a couple hundred hours on each of the maps, I wanted to see what chatgpt would produce. I'm sure a lot of people don't realize that chatgpt is trained on reddit. So I basically asked for reddits take on the things that make the map unique, a description around the theme and release date. It's funny because chatgpt is an accumulation of the critics opinions. They really got me there.

I then turn my attention to the players. I used rib.gg to produce the pictures the community so loves. I don't believe in watching film and producing reports because I think it is very easy for the opponents to change. The game is too fluid to be so concrete. However, I did the activity and catalogued it here : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1U02rpKLO580ozSZ04tqUrgYrfYfHlsE2?usp=drive_link

I basically analyzed the kill, death and movements of each player. Trying to capture where they enjoy to play and I assume that people enjoy to play where they are productive. And that information is shown in the heatmap. Once again, September 2024, Chatgpt didn't have the ability to analyze pictures. It is simply my words edited by chatgpt. I come from a professional background where communication is important. Chatgpt has phd level english writing skills. To not use it is irresponsible, especially a topic that is complex and I'm delivering information via text. I wouldn't want to lose anyone in my horrible writing (which is probably happening right now)

I then move on to general overviews of how they function as a team. I review the specifics around their agents because I think it is a good indication on how they will perform. You can accurately track tracker.gg data and amount of time played/performance to how they perform match day. I think some organizations know this because some players have made their data private.

Lastly, and probably the biggest critique I'm getting is that I don't have a big section around the opponents strategies. That's because I'm more of a behavioralist and believe that people follow successful patterns, especially when under pressure. So that section is light. I don't really take the comments seriously because I was them once. I believed you could perfectly understand your opponent and that they were static. I then got punished really hard in a match for that assumption. There are no books written about Valorant. No one has gone to school for Valorant. People are just repeating patterns that have been successful for them.

I also created a bunch of other material I released in the thread. I basically did this because I was given a platform to do so. I'm not a big believer in the current system that is being followed by majority of coaches. I've been around a long time. I've been through many iterations of esports. I know that the majority of Overwatch coaches were VOD recorders. I know the narrative about this contribution changed some how to them becoming experts. You can't tell me the past doesn't exist when I lived it.

In the end, I'm just hoping to change a couple people's views about how intellectual pursuits should be done. As a player, I would hope that my coaches were doing everything they can to help us win. If that means creating a 500 page document, let's get that done. These players have such a short time as pros because teams are flailing. I'm just offering a potential reason. I don't know why it caught fire. I didn't make anything up. I tried to stay away from people attacking what I created with no context. But yeah, at some point around 100 posts of people offering negative opinions, I had to stand up for what I thought was right. And that put me at the opposite end of established coaches with losing records. I wanted to point that out because it's hidden when you search it. You only see the accomplishments of coaches. When you actually dig deeper, players have way more of an impact than any coach. The facts track with that statement. But it will be attacked because it attacks the illusions that people have built. And it's reinforced by some really bad assumptions.

posted about a year ago

It was actually over the course of 3 days. People didn't believe me at the time that Marvel had a cheating problem.

https://tracker.gg/marvel-rivals/profile/ign/ttvmetaphour/overview

Did you know that Marvel Rivals doesn't have a customer service? No where else to spread the information. Plus a lot of the cheaters came into the stream and tried to defend their clips. I found it entertaining bait.

posted about a year ago

More information is always better. Lot's of pros will post highlights or reactions. I take a more behavioral approach to strategy in the world of on-the-fly calling of igls.

posted about a year ago

OpenAI is upset at your comments.

posted about a year ago

Where have I denied criticism? There are just people I refuse to take advice from. This is a complex topic and people want to pretend they have a grasp on it. They don't. It shows. Don't you see it on VCT? When a team gets blown out, does anyone ever make a negative comment? Nope. Both sides did great. How do you progress without honesty?

I've said if people don't like my work, I understand. I think they are a bit quick to judge, but it's the internet. I can't control what they do. I'm just trying to highlight the hypocrisy that we are being forced to live with. To believe that an organization would let a "great coach" go... come on.

The mob likes their idols. Idols usually get their start being the first to do things. Once again, I can't control what the general public think, I'm just trying to have one person change their mind. One person to believe that a genre called "tactical first person shooter" deserves a bit more respect than a one page analysis.

posted about a year ago

One simply follows the rabbit hole. They are not even to the good stuff yet.

posted about a year ago

o7

posted about a year ago

agreed.

posted about a year ago

Everything at this point.

posted about a year ago

Nope.

posted about a year ago

To see how far it goes, obviously.

posted about a year ago

Change is usually unpopular. If people want a lesser product then I can just burn out in a couple days. At least I tried and I'm okay to be the person to carry this. Just kind of tired of the narrative that is spun around esports these days. No criticism is allowed and everyone is awesome.

posted about a year ago

It's pretty funny how everyone thinks chatgpt had the ability to interpret images in September 2024. Have you tried that even today? More hallucinations than the sum of burning man.

posted about a year ago

This is bait. Top ten coaches:

  1. m4
  2. m4
  3. m4
  4. m4
  5. and m4
  6. m4
  7. m4
  8. m4
  9. m4
  10. mCe
posted about a year ago

Please present a winning coach's opinion and I will follow it.

It's weird you live in a dream where the coaches who spend their time on VLR are people you should hold up as experts. Why would you get angry if I pulled up their win loss history? I can't help that the coaches who commented had systems that were broken but the community still thinks they are great. It really is just if you were here in the beginning, you have a forever pass with the community.

If anything you should want change. Do you really want to see a losing coach get a role again? It's confusing. Where is the logic? The mental gymnastics you have to perform to say these are legitimate coaches, it's wild. You would be better off with a coin making your decisions, at least you could approach 50%.

posted about a year ago

To spawn conversations. To take a holistic approach. Ideas are spawned off of random things. People make connections in weird ways. I throw everything in order to catch the different ways people learn. Some people are visual, some people need to actually work with the idea. I have no idea who these players are and yeah, just an attempt to discuss all aspects of the map.

posted about a year ago

Crap! I forgot I didn't show this video I made. I mentioned it earlier, its the coaching application video.

https://youtu.be/jorn6Y4x20E

posted about a year ago

Hey everyone! Hope everyone is having a lovely day! I created more chatgpt content for you!

Here's a website for ya: https://www.valorant.tips

And then I also created these chatgpt guides:

Maps: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bIldtAlezCaI18qLhfJmMAEKf26TcMWu/view?usp=drive_link

General Agents Guide: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aStnBy0Q2clZpfqo6Gw2jE3TE5RfQjhV/view?usp=drive_link

Aiming: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TXQ9dQLdZoKAK1Hp_TfJlMyLshWdDoli/view?usp=drive_link

Happy to hear your feedback :)

posted about a year ago

Sorry, I can read an insult when I see it. A lot of people jumped in without context. The purpose of this thread has some how turned to me. I'm okay with that. I'm willing to defend my work and die on a hill for it.

I don't believe in the lazy approach that these coaches take. I'm not going to take to heart comments from people who pursue the easy way. I believe their win records reflect these positions. I think that they waste the time of players by making it comfortable and easy for them. The players should be upset because they are all on a clock. Delivering picture books to players and losing is not what I would want to spend my money on if I was an org owner either.

posted about a year ago

45 vlr readers believe picture books are better than research. I'm shocked. (edited for clarity)

posted about a year ago

Did you just answer your own question? I would hope you don't think this would just be handed over with no explanation...

Also the AI generated comment, it's probably stuffed somewhere deep in this thread but that's chatgpt's form of grammar edits. More than happy to produce the original. My bad that I'm not a PhD candidate English level writer.

posted about a year ago

You deserve better.

posted about a year ago

So you think that because people have a hard time learning something, we should lower the bar? Make it easier? I don't follow. I don't know what school was like for you but the cliff notes of Hamlet is not the same as reading Hamlet. The eternal dumbing down of information to please people has left us with a messy situation. I promise you, lowering yourself to the level of "20 year old tiktok brained gamers" is not the way my friend. I also had a full-time job leading a 12 person team. We find time.

And Elevated, I'm responding to you because I know who you are. Your line about having no connections is not congruent with reality.

posted about a year ago
1 •• 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38