I dislike HenBabyH

Iirc in Korea you don't have to officially enlist for your military service until you're 27 (you have to enlist before you're 28). so assuming they haven't completed their service yet, they still have a couple more years

cloudberry being a constant positive presence makes this website bearable

yeah just don't start failing courses. do enough that keeps your grades and GPA respectable but you don't have to be perfect anymore. big congrats and welcome to the MechE world!

It's going to sound weird but I argue it's due to the difference in the pressure you feel.

I played a few collegiate games but my team was nothing serious. Our highest-ranked player was immo1 at the time (imm2 now i think) and we were facing teams that had multiple radiants, so we obviously weren't expected to play well and just tried to have fun. My diamond ass would sometimes go crazy against these immortals though, which I know wouldn't happen in ranked. We'd obviously never win, but I'd have my moments. I have a clip somewhere in a Discord server with me 1v4 clutching post-plant against one of the top-ranked teams (we lost the map 13-2)

In customs with friends (10mans) I usually instalock a character I really want to play and try to play them in a silly way. I never touch Yoru in ranked but I always play Yoru in customs because I want to cheese and annoy my friends.

if you play ranked (soloq, stacking, whatever), there's something you can lose -- your RR. in customs or tournament play, assuming it's not a SERIOUS serious tournament with big money on the line and you having an actual shot of winning, you don't have anything to lose, really. so, you don't feel that same amount of pressure IMO.

sen city invitational...

seriously?

Harbor's in a tough spot because if you buff him he'll just become a staple in double wall meta which everyone collectively thought was boring and annoying. But none of his abilities function that well as solo smokes. I thought Abyss would be an okay solo smokes map for him but I ended up just playing Astra again (biased because Astra's been my main since 2022).

I fully see (maybe even expect) a potential rework to remove his waterfall ability and replace it with some different thing. Maybe something like a stim beacon/damage amp. A flash wouldn't make sense and neither would a molly, and the stim beacon effect is only seen in two characters (brim and reyna empress giving the faster firing and reload). We also already have enough "space-creating" offensive walls (pheonix, neon, iso)

Harbor just needs something that makes him even appetizing to play as solo smokes and when all of your abilities are smoke abilities you feel kinda useless. That's why I think the waterfall is the most expendable. The orb is a good concept and the wall is fine even if it's just so Viper isn't the only one.

-xeppaa

complete the cycle

one by one they are all replaced by runi and vanity

C9 dropped moose, and you know what that means

time to call him back from retirement

+vanity incoming

an actual outrageous take! i don't agree with it one bit, but you understood the assignment

NRG is definitely a Top 10 Americas team this year

i just like LATAM/BR ascension teams and want them to succeed

not an outrageous take because this is true for any new esport.

if Marvel Rivals ever goes that way and tries to become an esport I bet you half of the rosters will be ex-Overwatch pros

there are three guarantees in life: death, taxes, and NRG vs BLG in the lower bracket

he's in a coma after NRG lost to Rapid Lofi -- he'll be back 2025

This is a take that I have for both Valorant and Overwatch:

Some agents/heroes should just be bad/niche forever for the health of the game -- not every character has to be meta, and in fact having certain characters be meta is actively unhealthy for the game

A good Valorant example is recent Neon. Like yeah she was bad prior to that, but those that knew how she worked could still cause some real damage with her (even as like a surprise trick pick). But gigabuffed Neon recently just felt really stupid and unfun and I'm glad she got nerfed recently. The more agents that are added to Valorant, the more this issue will pop up. Similarly, Chamber is in a weaker spot right now but I much prefer that over the cancer that was his prime.

A good Overwatch example is Roadhog. When Roadhog is meta literally no one outside of the Roadhog player is having ANY fun. Not to mention that whenever there's a Roadhog meta there's usually an Orisa meta close behind it and that's equally as unfun

the prophecy must be fulfilled

I play a lot of OW2. Rivals is a lot of fun. As a OW player it's a breath of fresh air. It's been easy for me to pick up but that might be my existing familiarity with TPS (Fortnite, Deadlock) and crazy fast shooters (OW/OW2, TF2).

There's been a handful of optimization problems. I run a pretty high end machine and sometimes the game crashes on startup. No real clue why. For the friends with lower-end computers they have a lot more issues, but I imagine it'll get better with time.

In terms of balance, it's fun because no one knows what the meta is yet. Everyone's just trying out heroes for funsies. The moment a meta develops is when all the balance problems will start rearing their ugly heads. I personally think Hawkeye and Mantis will be among the first ones to be labeled as "broken." That'll be the time I decide whether the game is actually enjoyable because that's when the dev team will actually do balance stuff (if they do).

My one major complaint is the amount of clutter on the screen. I have friends tell me they don't play OW2 because the sensory overload from all the colors and noises is a lot for them, but I feel like it's even more so in Rivals. There's never been a moment where a character isn't speaking so that's just constaint noise going off. There's also the destructible environments creating even more clutter sometimes. Idk, it might just be that I became desensitized to the OW2 clutter, but I doubt it's just that.

Recon lineups, as many as you're willing to learn. Aayan's comment is a good start but there's a caveat -- people adapt lol.

I've learned that a lot of people that try to learn lineups for attack side just end up using the same one or two every single time so it gets predictable. And often (at least when I solo q) the Sova player just kinda short-circuits because their precious lineup was solved and proceeds to do nothing the rest of the round. So, I personally didn't bother to learn many recon lineups. I like to wing it often, and that randomness usually catches someone off guard because they expect the recon to land in the same spot every time.

For defense, there's a lot of power to anti-rush darts. Like right when they're executing a site, just hucking a recon at the back wall as they push out usually gets me or a teammate a free kill through a smoke because they either have to run back to main or turn around and try to break it, and again having some randomness and chaos to it makes it easier

There's a big lack of context that is just making any discussion a whole lot harder.

You're allowed to full-buy any gun you want. It's not in the "rules" of Valorant that you HAVE to buy phantom/vandal/op/odin every buy round. What actually matters is your skill with said gun. I'm sure you've seen those "sheriff-to-immortal" videos. Do you only use the judge but still perform well relative to your team and still contribute a lot? Great! Do you only use the judge but you bait your team and are useless 80% of the time? Not great!

That's why I think context is important. Like yeah, she has more kills than her ally Neon, but how did she get those kills? Were those from actual team fights or were most of those kills exit frags or the result of baiting her team? Has she been picking up rifles to drop for her team or is she keeping the bulldog from round to round? Like sure that montage at the end is great and all but how did the rest of the game go?

Either way, based on the little context provided, I think that argument was more the result of general team tilt, because their whole team wasn't performing that well even with the comeback. I don't think she did anything particularly wrong. If anything, I agree with her that I'd be more tilted at the Iso for ulting with a ghost than the Clove for buying bulldog all the time LMAO

Well yeah, if you don't use Twitter much then obviously there isn't much incentive for you to switch. I'm the same with Snapchat -- it's why I never got into stuff like BeReal. I never liked the Snapchat streak system and BeReal is literally just that but on its own.

I will note that a lot of my friends that switched from Twitter to BlueSky have said that BlueSky feels a lot like OG Twitter, so BlueSky has that going for it. That's another reason why BlueSky actually has a shot at succeeding -- meanwhile Threads just saw that Twittter was weak for a second and released a half-baked clone with no distinctive qualities.

Threads was rushed, unpolished, and permanently tied to the Meta IP in a bad way. I knew from the moment it was released and I downloaded it that it was going to flop INSTANTLY. Just the fact that your Threads account is permanently tied to your IG account is enough to turn 80% of users off. Not to mention that Instagram constantly advertising Threads is annoying enough to probably turn the remaining 20% off too.

IMO Bluesky has a MUCH better shot at succeeding right now than Threads ever did.

I feel like Reels has been pretty successful though. At least a million times more successful compared to Threads. Threads sucks balls.

Considering I've used Twitter for over 10 years I can safely say it's at its worst state right now and getting even worse. But Bluesky needs more time to settle, since it's a coinflip on whether any social media platform sticks.

Bluesky does have some hope in that it's taking advantage of Twitter's failures (better than Threads did, anyway) to grow, and obviously the popularity and role of politics is influencing that a lot too. Usually, when one social media platform falls, another takes its place. Discord wouldn't exist if Skype stayed relevant and if Mumble or Teamspeak didn't flop.

edit for spelling because i'm dyslexic

The mashed potato + gravy combo is very difficult to beat

Honorary mention pumpkin pie and apple pie because those are goated too

never forget

I'm willing to throw Sayonara a bone because he is literally brand new and could just be nerves

Boaster has been underperforming like this for over a year now... you can only justify so much

getting defensive in two separate comments is just proving his point btw

what no derke does to a mf

turkiye carrying EMEA valorant as usual, good on them

Sunset is getting the Pearl treatment and IMO that's not a good thing

Pearl was reworked and then removed from the game for over a year or something like that. No one even remembered it had been reworked so everyone remembered that map more negatively than they would've if they were given more time with the reworked map.

Idk what rito's map choice philosophy is. Maps rotated out are sometimes brought back with zero changes, current maps are reworked in the middle of episodes, and reworked maps are immediately axed before people can form an opinion of them. Wasn't the idea behind rotations so they can change/rework the maps while they're out? It's like they actively want everyone to hate the map pool no matter what it is.

Thank FUCK ascent's gone though

the jinx goes hard

i'm probably among one of the most vocal ascent haters. i despise that map to my core.

every other game in diamond+ lobbies are jett/sova/omen/kayo/kj comps. the occasional cyper for kj or kayo, clove for omen. if they're feeling extra freaky, pheonix for kayo. but it's still the same. i actively refused to play omen or clove smokes on this map because it's fucking boring. even the pros use this comp the vast majority of the time.

good riddance. hope this map is gone for a year or at least comes back with real changes.

sunset was fine with the rework i think. a little soon to take it out -- basically giving it the pearl treatment.

the tiktok money evidently speaks volumes

i think he just admitted he's 12 lmao

i know you're trying to sound smart but this website has the collective iq of a peanut

fnatic losing to c9 is like man city (without kdb) losing to bournemouth

were fnatic not at their supposed full potential? yes

will we still laugh at them? yes

now surely the 2023 FNC bandwagon will now realize what the problem with the team is, right? right??? it's not like half of this website's been saying it for months

28000 posts is a lot but honestly 19 posts/day average is low compared to some other people on this site lol. the most degenerate of them probably average 30 or more

with the amount of hate and politics in these threads the past few days it really would seem like there are no mods around

yes

what bothers me most is the amount of dead accounts conveniently reviving just spread hate this championship. these people have definitely never felt the touch of a woman. all they see is someone being successful or getting a gram of attention and they feel the need to log on and spread hate about them because they have nothing else to do. cringe asf. not to mention the cherrypicking and generalization going on is crazy.

in the end, these GC players are earning their bag and playing Valorant at a level higher than 95% of people on this website, myself included. if you can't handle underrepresented people being successful, consider working on yourself instead.

oh my

most full grown adults would not be able to handle that much hate lol

she's either very resilient (good) or she has a great support system. even better if both

you search "world cup" and you get 34 pages of individual threads

at this point it might as well be considered bait

valorant is full of harry kanes

mako is to valorant what harry kane is to football

everyone knows he's extremely talented and deserves the accolades, but has zero trophies to back that up

mods are sleeping again letting this thread last for 3 hours. the OPs intention is obviously there, but no one is surprised that it's fallen apart like this.

there's still time to escape

so which rage baiter is she........ gotta be one of the 100T/SEN glazers right

In your neighborhood... like... a residential street? Where children sometimes play in?

At least in the US, cyclists and motorcyclists have the same rights as a car on most roads (basically any road that isn't a highway, since bicycles are banned on highways). In residential roads it's especially so because you can have kids biking. On my end, I live in a place where a) bikes are banned on sidewalks (was given a warning by a cop once... they somehow actually cared about that), and b) there's a lot of street parking, so biking "on the side" is literally impossible -- not to mention dangerous since I once got hit while biking by someone opening their door without checking their mirror (no injuries thankfully).

Rather than road raging at someone cycling on a street, either a) leave earlier so you're not in such a hurry, or b) just wait the little amount of time it takes to find an opening to safely pass them lol. It's not that deep. Whatever time you lost being stuck behind that cyclist is literally nothing. And don't get me wrong -- I get angry very easily when I'm driving too, but at the end of the day you probably lost like 2 minutes at most.

Unless by "middle of the road," you're referring to that person lane-splitting. Then that's actually just stupid.