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counter-strike optimist (tentative)

[ren @renyan]

🚨 2025 DESKMATS ARE OUT FOR SALE 🚨

Just like last year, we commissioned @Peesh_san for an incredible deskmat design, and they are now up for grabs. The quality is insanely good, and is honestly a steal at $39.95.

Check comments below to get yours!

[ren @renyan]

life hack: just tweet about it, thank you Valve devs

[ren @renyan]

it was a lovely four days of green trust factor doing it's thing. now we're back to getting our shit shoved in by people who spent 125+ wins in light light blue and blue ranks. man, someone save my game

[ren @renyan]

@KingTeigenx sylterull 😭😭

[ren @renyan]

🧑‍🍳 bi-annual cooking tweet: finally perfected my homemade chashu recipe, this shit is killer. went a step further this time and reduced the braising liquid down by half, then threw in a tiny ladle with the pork broth. genuinely the best ramen i've ever made in my life 👀

[ren @renyan]

@d3vmaxx i use low sodium soy in the mixture since the broths are usually salty already, and adding even more would make the reduction ruin it. i’ve had a full sodium reduction before and it wasn’t palatable, but it made good chashu

[ren @renyan]

@d3vmaxx then add to sous vide bags with pork belly you’ve prepped and rolled (remove hair and silver skin) then braise at 72C for 24 hours. chill for 24 hours, remove fat from braising liquid and then slice.

to reduce mixture, strain from cold then boil until halved, then chill. 🙏

[ren @renyan]

little Lobanjicaa finally grew up and he's cute and pink just like in real life 🥰

[ren @renyan]

@CooperTV KoTOR 1 & 2 are masterpieces. Played both to death in my childhood

[ren @renyan]

@D0cC_csgo giga clean

[ren @renyan]

@somom123123 @dominostracker @brzycs be fat and walk over 10k steps a day for years

[ren @renyan]

@unemployedcs i hate that guy

[ren @renyan]

@RyanButters_ thank you for getting one 🙏 hope it lives up to the expectation

[ren @renyan]

@Mauisnake averaged 6+ cheaters a game (sadly a real number) for the three weeks leading up to this update. credit where credit is due, it feels great to play right now, but hope we don't have to go through that again 😭

[ren @renyan]

I can't lie, VAC LIVE lately been hitting the cheater population like cocaine hit the streets of the US in the 1980s

[ren @renyan]

one thing that has to go imo is the +100 -500 games you get when the enemy 5stack adds one low rating account to the mix so they get +500 games. that shit lowkey sucks. 5stack vs. 5stack only would probably be good for the queue

[ren @renyan]

2/2 cheater games today got VAC live'd, one of the cheaters had 3 kills and we didn't even know he was walling lmao

[ren @renyan]

@ItzMellonCS i had the same experience, then got put in red which was somehow worse, then the VAC live cancellations started piling up — now that i’m in green trust everything is looking up

[ren @renyan]

Green trust factor and the new VACNET is hitting like crack. If Valve can keep this up, then we're actually back. I'm so excited

[ren @renyan]

@ItzMellonCS i was red trust the day before yesterday and averaged six cheaters a game for weeks if not months.yesterday i had one or two cheated games in 11 games, one of which was VAC live’d. it’s almost like a change happened that warranted a change of opinion 🤔