u/EtherBunny41

This is one of the presets I'm proudest of, concept-wise. The idea is it's some kind of haunted or magical hieroglyphic tablet or monolith or whatever that becomes activated at night. Orange team is the dormant form with the Exo finish on the secondary color to give the impression of sand covering the car. Blue team is the activated version, the main body turning blue to indicate night time and the exo swapping out for... Anodized? I think? Can't remember and my game is closed at the moment. Either way, the eerie green glow really sells the effect, I think.

What're your thoughts? Got any two part presets like this that have some kind of story to them? Feel free to share. :D

A much simpler post today, just showing off a neat thing I found with a black painted style Ombre for the tygris. Ombre decals tend to have areas where the primary and secondary colors bleed into each other in a gradual gradient. This is also true of their respective paint finishes, which can be used to do some neat things (layer any bumpy paint finish with Anodized to make the textures really pop, for example). In this case I'm using Exo on the secondary and Glossy Metallic Flake on the primary, which results in the particle cloud effect behind the side windows. I've got the mind of a magpie so I find it really pretty. What about you? Have any fun paint finish combos like this one?

For richer or poorer, in siiiickness and in wealth; my presets for the princes, the paupers, and the jobbers.

First is my "Ca$h Money" loadout, for when I'm in the mood for peak irony. I enjoy affecting a stuck up posh British accent when playing with it, and laughing in French. Sequin Paint Finish for that "Price Is Right" feel, gold and green color scheme to really get across that whoever's driving it's got that dolla dolla (I don't). :V

Second is "Fare Game", for the folks whose wheels are for function over fashion. The perfectly average Nissan Silvia is good enough for the folks getting you or your food from point A to point B. I felt particularly clever using the Waypoint trail for this one. :P

Both last and very certainly least is "The Loaner". For those of us who wish we could live rent free in a house like the Barenaked Ladies' song "If I Had A Million Dollars" lives in our minds. Poor Kenny McCormick is stuck atop this rusted and busted Volkswagen Golf with pictures of shiny rims taped to the wheels. Hitting the turbo might as well be hitting the smoke cloud button with how bad this thing's engine reacts to it.

Personally I find them all equally chuckle-worthy, and I love driving all of them for various reasons (though if you see anyone driving something like the Ca$h Money you have every right to make fun of them, I give you my explicit permission). Anyone else got loadouts like these?

Weird how this behaviour isn't unique to Rocket League, hunh? Okay not really, it's pretty obvious it happens in any sport or game where you have team members to assist and contend with.

Funny thing about competitive sports in general is that really competitive people (who lack proper discipline and awareness) always wanna be the one to Do The Thing, and when they don't get to Do The Thing they get upset. They then go complain about how everyone else gets to Do The Thing and how they all suck at Doing The Thing, and how they could win more if their teammates just let THEM Do The Thing!

Now, they don't ALWAYS complain about it, but if they did (and especially if they all had video evidence) they'd probably start seeing themselves in other people's videos complaining about not getting to Do The Thing. Of course, it would be from games where they DID get to Do The Thing, but they forgot about those games because those games are normal. Why bother remembering a normal game, right? No, you remember the ones where you didn't get to Do The Thing, and the ones where you Did The Thing SO GOOD IT WAS CRAZY! But never the normal games.

Unfortunately you can't force people to learn things. You can't just rush up to them and shout at them to LEARN THE DANG LESSON! It'd be really satisfying if that worked, but it very rarely does. You kinda have to let them figure it out on their own, 'y'know? Let them make the mistakes. Let them break things and see how the broken thing doesn't work anymore. Then let them try to put the pieces together. Maybe they'll figure it out, maybe they won't. Maybe this isn't "Their Time". Leave it be, and move on.

So hey, next time you see an opportunity to Do The Thing, maybe just... sit back and DON'T Do The Thing, even though you really want to. Pay attention to what happens. Did someone else Do The Thing? Did nobody get to Do The Thing? Did somehow letting The Thing not get Do'd... turn out okay? Who knows? Nobody does, until you let it happen. Then KEEP letting other people Do The Thing. Maybe sit back in goal and only try stopping the other team from getting to Do The Thing? Sit and observe, watch how other people Do The Thing. Think about what they're messing up when they try to Do The Thing, and make mental notes to remember that for next time you get to Do The Thing. Don't tell THEM about it, they're not gonna listen anyway. :V

Because like I said, you can't FORCE people to learn things, but you CAN let them do things and figure things out for themselves. You can sorta leave the lesson lying around out in the open and let others do as they want with it.

No guarantees anything'll come of it, but you can always hope that maybe, just maybe, someone'll see it.

And maybe, just maybe, it'll click this time.

And maybe, just maybe, they'll start to see the value in letting other people

Do The Thing.