good looks!!

In the chili-head community, these stomach aches are well known as "cap cramps" (capsaicin cramps) and it happens to just about everyone while building a tolerance to capsaicin. Over time and continued eating of mega hot stuff, these cap cramps get less severe and the amount of capsaicin ingested in order to trigger cap cramps increases as tolerance builds.

Competitive pepper eaters actually make themselves vomit after eating large amounts of super hots in order to avoid the cap cramps, they can last for double-digit hours to if enough is consumed.

These cap cramps send a lot of folks to the hospital if they don't know any better, but they haven't been life threatening for healthy adults. The data just isn't there for that.

A lot of people will also over indulge on dairy thinking they are helping the burn in their mouth, but drink a half gallon of milk in one sitting and it upsets stomachs, too.

I'd be interested in knowing how the study at the University of Mississippi directly correlated the stroke to the hot pepper a full two days after ingesting, that seems like a stretch to me. What is it about the mechanism of capsaicin on receptors that would cause a stroke?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7136587/

This is the study. There was no stroke for this person, but what they call reversible cerebrovascular vasoconstriction syndrome. He presented two days after the pepper, after football practice, for a headache that wouldn't go away.

The study never says the pepper caused the issue, but it is hypothesized.

Further, if you dig into the links in the study of other examples of extreme reactions to hot peppers, you have

A) esophageal rupturing after a bout of violent retching a vomiting after eating a ghost pepper

B) acute myocardial infarction and coronary vasospasm by someone taking cayenne pepper pills for weight loss where the abstract is just postulating capsaicin was the cause, but end of the day dude was taking diet pills

C) some nothing burger abstract about someone having a thunderclap headache after eating a super hot

There isn't even an adequate sample size to be statistically significant with regards to capsaicin being the root cause for any of these issues, not to mention none of these studies are actually confirming their abstract to any reasonable degree.

I'm not saying the chip didn't lead to this young man losing his life, but there is no worthwhile scientific data pointing to that being a legitimate reason. This is an outlier case I'm interested in the outcome and I feel for the young man's family, but my hypothesis is that we'll find out any correlation to the one chip challenge will only be tangentially related.

Nice!

That's actually a pretty intuitive binding set up, i hadn't heard anyone do it quite like that before. If I hadn't already gotten muscle memory with default I'd be apt to try that out.

Knight is my favorite class too, I run with the Longsword the most but have been branching out to include the Messer and Heavy Mace quite a bit as well.

Countering is probably one of the more difficult moves to pull off consistently. I thought I more or less had the hang of them and started recording my gameplay to post some highlight videos online and realized I wasn't hitting half the counters I thought I was lol. Was leading to losing a lot of stamina battles in FFA. Keep in mind you can change your counter attack all the way until your release phase starts and have success with counter feints, so if you're quick enough you can adjust if your opponent fakes you out. But mostly it's timing practice haha.

Also, you really only NEED that counter to generate some stamina if you've been riposting a lot and not being able to get some hits in. If you're in that 1vX scenario, sometimes it's better to take the riposte rather than the counter to guarantee your active parry window if you have the stamina to pay for it. That active parry is key to 1vX fighting.

Countering can also help fake your opponent out and is handy in that regard, but it can help to realize you don't always HAVE to counter.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lZcSJNn6scI&si=gCDG4QyIIjLhX3am

I happened to stumble on this video a couple weeks ago and it's a coaching session from Soter Dave and they go over counters quite a bit, may help with your timing or etc.

As far as score goes, honestly if you aren't running a class with warhorn or banner for the heals, it can be pretty difficult to stay in the top score-wise. You have to be killing consistently and at a pace for the score multipliers to add up, ie double kill/triple kill; kill streaks; dismembers and etc.

My buddy and I still have convos about how much our score can tank the second we don't have a healing utility on and how hard it is to stay above the score curve just killing and PTFO. We're both in the mid 100s, rank-wise.

Glad you're making your comeuppance!

Why'd you put this evil on me today, brother? Things will never be the same...

I did that too when I started! I'd learn a few things on YouTube, then I'd try them in game, then go back into the tutorial to help further reinforce it haha. This was my first medieval slasher so it's a lot of concepts to learn..I don't want to admit how long it took me to fully understand Initiative, that concept just wouldn't click for me haha.

Keep at it and have fun, game doesn't take itself too seriously and just getting out and spamming warcries and not caring too much if you get killed and etc is a blast from day one, all the rest comes over time haha.

May also check out a channel called StripedSweater. He's got some decent videos on the fundamentals and I forgot to mention him in the last response.

Spend some time watching Stridah and Soter Dave tutorial vids on YouTube.

Get to understand Initiative, it can be a bit weird to understand at first, but it is key to understanding the flow of fights.

The concept of Gambling is making an attack when you don't have initiative, and gambling gets you punished when playing against better players most of the time.

Practice swing manipulation. This is the concept of turning your body during release phase of your attack to either speed up or slow down your hit. Speed up your hit by turning the same direction you are swinging, this is called "Accelling" your attack. You can accel overheads by looking down. Slowing down your hit by looking in the opposite direction of your swing and hitting during the end of your attack phase is called "dragging". This is a little more difficult to learn and id probably learn accels first.

Learning to Counter consistently will end up putting you above most of the pub lobbies, it gives you stamina back without having to land an attack.

Feinting is important. Mixing up which direction your attack is coming will help you pass your opponent's block.

Footwork, as well. Try and step around an opponent's block.

Game sense will come in time...the flow of the maps, where spawn waves come from, when to take a fight and when to disengage and etc.

Once you practice all of these concepts (the fundamentals, more or less) you'll be ranking top 10 or above in your Team Objective matches consistently and should very rarely have a negative KDR.

When you're ready to step your game up after that, start playing FFA and Duel servers. That's where the big boys hang out and you'll be humbled until you start to hang, but your skill will jump exponentially once you start playing those modes.

The way I practice is picking one of these things, and then just spend an entire game practicing it. You'll die more often until it clicks, but you start getting around level 60 or so and all the separate parts start to come together and you just start shitting on people more often than not all of a sudden lol.

Good luck, the game is a blast!!

It caught my eye for sure! I found a yellow variety more recently I'll post at some point, this purple one is my favorite find so far.

In name only haha, I only learned it was a thing when I found this one.

I more or less plan on 90 minutes.

Back in the mid 90's, Nike had the Air Modify Force / Air Adjust Force (can't remember which they were at the time) and the shoes came with a changeable strap with the Nike logo and came in a bunch of colors. You could buy just the strap and change one of the accent colors of your shoes, basically.

Poor dude in middle school got busted for putting that strap over off-brand shoes and they dragged him the rest of the year over that shit.

Good shit, good to see him back. My man can't seem to get any momentum going for himself and it sucks. He's got bars but dunno if he ain't linking with the right camp or got poor work ethic or what.

12 years on reddit, haven't been back since end of May.

Absolute legend.