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This is somewhat upsetting, but at the same time, there's a silver lining: I will no longer have to keep up my premium subscription to that shitty website. Hopefully the next league isn't too aids.

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Also LFT for the event

Alright, it was a good season but everything ends sometimes. I will also play scout next season if the mood strikes me, but be aware that I will be rusty for the first little while.

This is my pork rub. It's one that I'm honestly proud of, as it lends great flavor to pulled pork (and, as I learned recently, ribs,) can be used to make a neat barbecue sauce, and is simple to put together.

This is a pretty big batch, because I usually use it on larger pieces of meat. If you want to scale it up or down, it works perfectly fine, but do the math your goddamn self.

2 cups dark brown sugar - This is your workhorse. It's what holds the whole thing together, it lends that lovely molasses flavor, and it slowly caramelizes and holds onto your meat over a long cook time.

5 Tbsp + 1 Tsp Ancho chili powder - Ancho is simply one of the best powdered chiles you can get. I use it in all sorts of shit, it's great for lending some extra deep, smoked flavors even to things you aren't going to smoke, and it's a great all-around flavor enhancer. Just use it. Also, for reference, I get pretty much all of my spices from either Penzey's, an online retailer, or McCormick, which can be found in grocery stores at least across America. Penzey's is where I get my Ancho.

2 Tbsp + 2 Tsp Smoked Paprika - Another Penzey's spice, this paprika further deepens the smoke notes while also helping to provide a pleasant backing flavor. If you can at all help it, make sure your paprika is relatively fresh, because it loses basically all of its flavor when it stales.

2 Tbsp + 2 Tsp Ground Chipotle - Penzey's again. Chipotle is frequently given more airtime and hype than Ancho, but I would still hold Ancho to be the superior pepper. That does not mean, however, that Chipotle is bad, far from it. Chipotle is still delicious and you would be silly not to include some.

1 Tbsp + 1 Tsp Cumin - McCormick this time. Cumin is such a unique flavor. I'm incredibly glad it exists, and it's an important part of the funkier flavor aspects of this rub, but I don't want it to play center stage here. Make sure it's there, but don't overdo it.

1 Tbsp + 1 Tsp Ground Mustard - Whenever I taste it alone, I want to die, but ground mustard helps bring an extra something to all sorts of dishes where you might not otherwise expect it, and it's no different here. It scares me but I respect it. McCormick by the way.

1 Tbsp Garlic Powder - Whatever variety you have on hand is probably fine, just adjust the amount if you know it's more or less strong. Otherwise, it's garlic. What the fuck do you want me to say about garlic? It's delicious. Why WOULDN'T I include it?

1 Tbsp + 1 Tsp Chinese Five-Spice Powder - Here it is, the "secret ingredient." The thing that will leave people who don't know any better asking what that last flavor is. I built this rub around Ancho and five-spice, and I wouldn't make this rub without it. It's strong, though, and the absolute last thing I want to do is overwhelm the rest of the flavors in this rub with cinnamon, so I went easy. Pretty sure mine's from Penzey's.

That's it. Mix it up and rub it on meat. Oh, and the bbq sauce. It's kind of in development, but the (one) time I made it, I enjoyed it, though it was a little sweeter than I hoped.

For bbq sauce:

3/4ths cup combined soy sauce and apple cider vinegar
Few dashes fish sauce and Worcestershire sauce
Fill the same measuring cup that's holding all of those ingredients up to 2 cups with water
Add some tomato paste, the more the merrier
Put into a pot, add one unpacked cup (I used a liquid measure the time I did it, sue me, it's an approximation,) of the rub, and cook down to your desired consistency, adding any meat drippings from whatever pork product you happen to be cooking at the time if you want. Probably not bacon fat, though, that'd be way too strong and salty. Anyway, it's an experiement, so feel free to tweak the sauce to your liking. Maybe add mirin in there somewhere, I love mirin.

Anyway, pick me up s31.

GGs Longerboys

That was a close match, and I can now say I've ever won a playoffs game.

Maybe a week and a half or so ago, I started getting 150 ping to chicago servers at peak times (~8-11ish PM) for no discernible reason. That would be bad enough on its own considering that I live in PA and normally get 25 ping to chicago, but today, the problem has gotten significantly worse, and now I have Luxembourg ping to basically every server that I would normally have less than 90 ping to. EXCEPT New York servers. Some of them.

Is my ISP just fucking me in the ass, or is there some way that I can solve this problem? Because I really don't want to fucking cut myself in the game and follow it up with cuts in real life because I'm not allowed to play TF2 anymore.

lmao I just checked, I'm listed as the medic for watermelon dog

I don't even know who the actual medic was, I forget

Wouldn’t it have been better to just start making videos under a different name if you wanted to come back? I am not one of the people that deeply cares about this, but even symbolically, it would probably feel better to let the online persona of Sketchek go. Lying is bad, but even then, it feels like starting fresh would feel better even if people eventually found out that your new online persona was the same person as the old one. It would feel more legitimate if your intent was really to not come back to the same thing you had before.

Either way, it’s been three years, and if this apology video isn’t shitgarbage and the new videos are still good, I’ll watch them. I’ve never been the type to hold a grudge if people admit they were being stupid and make what seems like a legitimate effort to change.

Alright the open thread needs saving so I'm going to be roleplaying as an ego player for a little while now, ok?

I actually don't understand how these sub open newbie mix ass cretins can even think they can step to the sheer glory that is my MID OPEN GAMEPLAY

Like what the fuck is even the point of those idiots playing this game if they can't match the skill of someone with thousands of hours and multiple years more experience than them that STILL PLAYS IN THE LOWEST DIVISION

What fucking morons, am I right? God, if only I knew more IM players, I'd be playing on one of the toxic IM teams by now so I wouldn't have to hang out with all of you SHITTERS down here in the open thread. My place in this div doesn't have anything to do with the fact that I don't play DM servers, don't play pugchamp, and don't demo review, we all know it's just about who you know. Except all of those other players, they just SUCK and will NEVER BE LIKE ME.

Alright thanks for coming to my nerd essay

I mean, fuck, do we have a choice? Not like I can just walk up and go "hey fuck this my dudes" and just have the problem go away. I just hope it takes until r2 playoffs for my team to fight mainclassing sandbaggers.

No one deserves to be baited this late into registration. Voosh is a friend of mine, which would already be enough to recommend him for your team, but he's also a solid player. More importantly, though, he's been dedicating time to improving recently, which is readily apparent to me because we're constantly in communication about how to improve our lolhl team. What this says to me is that Voosh would do *extremely* well on any team with a solid mentor that's looking to come together and improve over the season, because he's one of the increasingly rare players that's receptive to feedback when it's not all positive.

Review demos with him, shitpost at him, and have a good time during the season. All this and more can be yours if you give the boy a chance. High open/bubble playoffs recommended, but will likely improve immensely over the course of the season given the right team environment.

Yeah u right

https://play.esea.net/teams/47483

Deadteam5 to win open after somehow picking up john milter, popo, and alfa again?

Buildy game REEEEE

Retro's a good dude who clearly cares about playing this game well. Dedicated, but you'll need to get to know him before you understand the mind behind the man.