people seem to be severely misunderstanding why agents are meta in pro

jett, raze, neon. what do these agents have in common?

at the highest level, movement is the make or break for duelists. the game is structured around timings and executes, and you need a space creator to be successful.

buffing phoenix mollies or reyna flashes is not going to allow them to compete with that niche. maybe as a secondary, but never the jett-raze-neon slot

jing doesn't have an aimlabs sponsor bro escaped before they could get to him

https://twitter.com/cartoonFPS/status/1648144905200455680
https://twitter.com/cartoonFPS/status/1648153845137014784

this dude sabotaged him 😭😭😭

it's good for undoing e-brainrot. crazy how much our attention span has melted away lol

books are like any type of media, you probably just haven't found one that interests you. i've been there too, just gotta take the first step

damn if you're relating to goggins you must've lived a life man

i don't have good experiences with the self help genre

meditations and enchiridion made me realize stoicism is a hack
in term of recents, i couldnt get through atomic habits and ended up regifting it to my friend

2023 is halfway done. what are some books you read
these are some i finished this year that i would recommend

good books i enjoyed

1. nostalgia by mircea cartarescu
2. cherry ingram - naoko abe
3. makioka sisters - junichiro tanizaki
4. elementary particles - michel houllebecq

and for the nerds

1. water and dreams - bachelard
2. anti-oedipus - deleuze

does igling really affect your fragging capabilities that much

yes your focus is literally stretched between 20 different things besides aiming

he wasn't signed to be the goat and carry drx instantly. they picked him up to foster his potential and help him become a star. just needs time, the drx system will help him get there

crashies is incredibly consistent, has carried the optic core several times against the best teams in the world, and is a massive contributor to FNS's calling

other top teams' players (ex. saadhak) have specifically complimented crashies for being so impactful and difficult to play against

🫶

drx :-)

red velvet my only group ever
irene because she’s an abusive girl boss

this guy just formatted the database into a long ass thread for no reason instead of linking it and then asked for money in the middle of it

haven’t touched VNs in many years but my favorites were always the psychological horror ones

stuff like higurashi, 999/zero escape, your turn to die, danganronpa, corpse party (vn-rpg hybrid)

i was there at one point too, but for 99% of people like that it isn’t that they dislike reading but that they haven’t found a genre / type of book that they actually enjoy

if you do give it a try remember to not force yourself to read something if it doesn’t interest you. a good book is legit like a movie and will keep you addicted to it

https://www.novelupdates.com/series/utsuro-no-hako-to-zero-no-maria/

bolano and gaddis' works are modern classics

back with more book recommendations for all reading readers

title / author / difficulty level

1. grotesque -- natsuo kirino (3/5)
2. cloud atlas -- david mitchell (2/5)
3. the recognitions -- william gaddis (5/5)
4. the savage detectives -- roberto bolano (4/5)
5. snow country -- yasunari kawabata (3.5/5)

tuyu -- being as low as dirt, taking what's important from me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FH1dL51oU

i've been to the US, Canada, Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, Korea, Thailand, and India

they all had good and bad parts obviously but my favorite was probably switzerland. zurich was beautiful and it was so easy to get to the mountains for hiking

least favorite was probably india only because i went in the summer and it was so fucking hot in new delhi that i wanted to kill myself. also the place i was staying at got hit by a fucking monsoon. besides that was a decent trip though. food was bomb

i never intended on collecting them but i just never throw them out once i stop using them / they stop working, now it's like a timeline of me gaming

1. intellimouse
2. deathadder
3. zowie fk1
4. zowie ec2a
5. g pro wireless
6. superlight
7. another ec2a
8. zygen np01 (current)

should have upset potential but man to man will struggle hard vs the top franchising teams

i just use this flag because it makes me feel like a supervillain

okay this is fucking funny LOL

https://twitter.com/bo_hoogland/status/1581657898618302466?s=46&t=lYQLarAv5UHZkPybnULBKg

mother
chrono trigger
zero escape

why do you say confirmed when the tweet is literally color coded to say “probable”

besides that good that TS is getting a shot, guy is a beast

bro they won't drop sean. trust me peter won't like that and even if they wanted jimmy it makes no sense for them to sign sean, brenden, and will only to keep one of them in the end. daniel and sean (gares not bezerra) would be morons to ping pong like that

this is an issue where there is no solution that fixes everything so you have to take an L somewhere and come to terms with it

naturally here it's that you just accept that some shitty people will lie their way in if they want to

you acknowledge that because it's more important that there's a space for marginalized communities in valorant than to bottleneck and exclude people for a slightly more reliable filter

if fnc still suck with this roster people are going to be calling for both boaster and mini's heads lol
surely you cannot fuck this up

https://twitter.com/drx_vs/status/1578969697323995136?s=46&t=5c2UsMoePiXHwj_Hz8GrjA

pretty cool, don't follow the scene much but if they chose her as the first member she must be impressive

wow

no reason to expect this team to be better than drx

insane talent but limiting factors are significant. also munchkin is a great player but his igling leaves much to be desired (although CR had language barrier so maybe he has more to show?)

flowstate is eeiu

very promising talent, unfortunately don’t think these international teams are the right choice for him to foster his potential. could be a big player with the right resources, hope ge have them for him

I don’t care about any of these teams but holy fuck that is horrendous for a tournament

i like all the players on this roster but this role overlap is really not very promising

not clear, based on wording could just be recruiting a 6th player

three duelists and a sova player

ssense for nice pieces
direct to brand for everything else

congrats, it feels great to look back at where you started. i did the same thing back in csgo, my first rank was literally silver 1 and i played on that shitty laptop at 800x600 to barely get 90 fps until i hit global

considering the majority of people only know the asian players that have been to lan i’d say it fits

years from now there'll be a documentary on this
"the rivalry that was lost to time"

i respect it because the entire point of their project was giving the reigns to a gm/coach and having them incrementally grow as a team instead of impulsively changing pieces. and they did just that, they improved a shit ton.

at the same time it does seem a little rash to not reach out when this is the only time in the history of valorant where this many incredible players will be free agents.

i can see a world where by the end of 2023, 100t aren't even top 3 in na because of the new rosters being so condensed with talent
but we'll see i guess

i think everyone can tell the move that will take zeta to the next level is meiy > crow
although this has its own set of role issues, because meiy plays the more aggressive flex role as opposed to crow's strictly support initiator. but i'm sure they can figure it out

meiy has been one of the most promising riflers in basically all of asia and zeta would be extremely well rounded with him
sad if crow leaves though, he and laz are whats left of the original absolute csgo team that have played together for almost 5 years now

damn we're already at this part of the timeloop

maid cafes severely overrated succubus bars are the real deal

surely you’re not surprised by geng, their presence is enormous and their pockets are lined with cash

detonation is very questionable but they’ve had a deeper history and always been tied to tac fps so i can see why it tipped in their favor. still sucks for cr though