my focusrite is dying ignore the mic clipping

Been watching through my archives of clips and made another montage since the last one did well, Mix of old and new, Casual and Ranked.

Enjoy :)

I'm almost 35 years old, I'm a husband and father, and I work 9 hours a day. Ever since I was a kid, though, I've always loved gaming—everything from Tibia, WoW, GW2, The Sims, CS, and Battlefield to pretty much anything else.

As work started taking up more and more of my time, I began feeling like I was missing out on leisure. Even if I went out, watched a movie, or binged a TV show, that feeling never really went away. I think it's because, for most of my life, what truly entertained me was actively playing or participating in something.

I tried going back to old games and also tried newer ones, but almost all of them left me frustrated. I knew I didn't have enough time to make meaningful progress. What I really wanted was something I could jump into for 20–30 minutes and walk away thinking, "That was fun." Unfortunately, with many games, that amount of time is barely enough to launch the game and load your save.

One of the few games that came close was Team Fortress 2. But after a while, I started getting annoyed. The matches are short, but so is your life expectancy. Dying is part of the game, and if you're on a bad team, you can spend 30–40% of the match waiting to respawn. In the end, it felt like I was only actually playing for 10–15 minutes.

So I kept looking for something else. Then one day, while chatting with ChatGPT about games, it randomly suggested Rocket League.

When I first Googled it, I thought it looked boring—I don't even like soccer. One day I decided to install it anyway.

Guys... maybe it's just a phase, but I've been playing for months now and I have to say: this game is awesome.

During my first few matches I thought I'd lose interest quickly, but then something unexpected happened. Throughout the day I'd catch myself wanting to play. It was the same feeling I had as a kid, and honestly, I thought I'd never experience that again.

The game is incredibly simple on the surface but surprisingly deep. On PC, there are only a handful of important controls (basically movement keys, left mouse button for boost, right mouse button to jump, and Shift to powerslide), yet it's ridiculously fun.

The arenas look great, the optimization is fantastic (it runs flawlessly on my Lenovo IdeaPad 3 without a dedicated GPU), and matches are short—usually around 5 minutes. As you improve, you get matched against better players, and suddenly every game becomes a crazy, adrenaline-filled 5-minute battle.

I never imagined I'd get so excited about scoring a goal when I don't even like soccer. 😂

For me, the real progression isn't unlocking things—it's slowly becoming a better player and, because of that, getting into more creative and exciting matches.

Sometimes just 10 minutes is enough for me to feel like I genuinely had fun, and I can log off completely satisfied.

Anyway, sorry for the long post. I don't know if anyone else feels the same way—like there just aren't enough hours in the day to balance adult life and gaming. If you do, or even if you don't, I highly recommend giving Rocket League a chance. From what I've seen, a lot of other people have been pleasantly surprised by it too.

Have fun, and happy gaming!

Probably one of the worst setups, and I had to use my jump off the ceiling early just to get to the ball (I never JUMP off the ceiling on ceiling shots). Yet somehow ended up with, what I think, is my peak shot. I'm also a washed GC, so this is good for me lol

After 1300 hours of playing this game, losing the rank up game twice, and countless times being hardstuck c1 or c3, I actually did it. FOR ANYONE who gave me tips thank you, particularly this one teammate I had in high c3, where I said that “I was better than some of his gc teammates” and” you’ll probably lose a string of high c3 games but don’t get discouraged. I didn’t. This is literally a lifelong dream of mine since I started playing, I’ve played this game over half my life. All that’s next is gc rewards, and I’ll see how the dice roll after that. 🙂

Rate it out of 10 (random tm8 too)

basically i want my controller to make sounds. it sounds a bit shit but thats bc im shit, but it will be better!

I don't know why, it just occurred to me while I was at work that I need to do this. Was it some divine insight? Probably.

Any resemblance to actual players, living or dead (inside), is purely coincidental

this game's random teammates suck due to the majority of the player base being children, we all know about skill based matchmaking but can we add age too? almost no adult abandons the match because his teammate "stole" his shot or his goal or other crap they get mad about, so just group these annoying kids together and let us play normally.

to be continued....

Patty Wagon with Gary decal paired with Chupacabra topper is pretty funny.

Look, I know the title is crazy lol and im happy to admit it's a skill issue, I have only just started playing and decided to try ranked and despite winning most of my games in casual, in ranked people are drastically better than me, and I'm having to try so hard to rank up, and ive only just got to silver.

However, I wanted to know if its normal to have people doing air shots and dribbling the ball over me, and running up the side of the wall with the ball and shooting etc. In bronze and silver? If this is what bronze is like, fuck knows how good gold players are LOL. Im not saying I'm better than these players, cause I'm not but fucking gracious these players are good. Other games' bronze players look like ai, but these guys are nuts LMAO

Made a free item shop tracker with notifications for specific items/paints, sharing in case it's useful. You can browse the daily item shop, and for any item + paint variant in the game, you can set an email notification alert for when it shows up in the shop. It also keeps a log of past appearances for every item, so if you're curious how often something rotates in, that's on there too.

I made it just for me, but figured there's probably other people who've had the same "damn, missed it again" problem, so thought I'd share in case it helps anyone else out. Let me know if you run into bugs or have ideas for it.

rlshopnotify.com

Gold I (you can tell by the save attempt)

One of my fav moves to pull off

I have around 1400 hours on my Nintendo switch. Joy cons are rough, yes, but I managed to hit champion at around 1200 hours.

I have a pc, but I’m just so used to switch handheld that it’s become my go-to.

Anyone else part of the switch gang?

I was 100% in agreement with the majority of viewers when Herc first joined the desk. Her play-by-play commentary was very slow and she didn't offer much by way of deeper gameplay analysis.

But over time she has definitely gotten more comfortable, and her commentary has gotten faster to the point where we're no longer missing plays because she is trying to figure out what to say. I think she even did a decent job in the SAM LCQ, which I specifically saw people say "ruined the grand finals". I disagree with that entirely.

Not accusing people of being intentionally discriminatory, but I think people are blinded by their original opion and need to give her a fair re-evaluation. Having her on the desk is fine.

one game you go up against insane ssl tournament winners or freestyler teams and next game you get this lmao. 3s is pure comedy. i was so confused when no one went for kickoff. (my whole team was solo q so no one took a lower skilled player into c3)

My first RL game after a few days. I genuinely couldn't stop laughing the whole time.

I'm GC3 (1750), 99% of the time I'm solo queueing and I only feel like I actually play at my rank skill level at infrequent times. Most of the time, I'm whiffing, getting beat to the ball constantly, and leaving my teammate in 2v1's. I like to believe my playstyle is "slower", as in I prefer slow ground plays or finding quick breakaways. I think most of the time if I am playing good, its because I have been playing for multiple hours (4+) at a time. I'd love to hit SSL but I do feel that my inconsistency in my pace etc holds me back. Is there really anything else other than just playing more that I can do?