plastic chair better 🗿

almost all studio headphones come with EQ software or you can just install one for free if its really troubling you

jake and runi got it

studio headphones are always the go to. Gaming headphones are really bad.

Give back the kohinoor lil bro

he was joking

Fluke unfortunately

Pacific is hot ass rn dawg

lol by your own standards, Leo is still better LMFAO

Please delete this cringy shit

dapr hit it and went for the rotate for some reason. Unfortunately he didn't expect them to speed up

KEKW

bro is in the fucking zone right now holy shit

bro you might as well put your pickem on your pillow and hump it at night. Holy shit.

TL are in the shitter right now lil bro

Top 10 NA?
Ongod i feel like they could compete with C9 and 100T easily

title

literal peak TV show. Lowkey rate it the best season of TV i have ever watched.

Breaking bad comes close 2nd followed by Ozark

Bayzed. Psycho Pass is still so fucking underrated it is insane.

Eminence is such a mid show I cant lie.

An anime with an MC who is OP and has no comedy genre is bland.

nah i only watch watch parties because the main stream chat makes me want to replace the belt of a treadmill with 40 grit sandpaper and drag my balls across it at 20 speed.

You are swine you vulgar little maggot. Don't you know that you are pathetic? You worthless bag of filth. As we say in California, I'll bet you couldn't pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. A zit on the butt of society. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you.

You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you. You are a bloody nardless newbie twit protohominid chromosomally aberrant caricature of a coprophagic cloacal parasitic pond scum and I wish you would go away.

You're a putrescence mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon.

You are a bleating fool, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done.

I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. Because off your face the rabbit population actually decreased. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell?

If you aren't an idiot, you made a world-class effort at simulating one.

You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs.

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Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us "normal" people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are "challenged" persons in this world who find these things more difficult. I wish you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you.

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E-sports isn't an institution and what you described is a reservation which is a product of equity. Only 5% of all esports players are female and that figure further reduces when it comes to FPS games. Equity in esports isn't taking away any jobs or opportunities for their male counterparts.

If you are going to make an example at least base it on some sort of economic common sense. No company irrespective of how "woke" they are going to implement reservations based on a 1:4 ratio.

I mean even without equity please give me one company that reserves more seats than the number of candidates that are capable of the job. I would love to join that company XD.

Bro really compared a person with a successful career, financially and socially with a highschool basement dweller dropout.

Rare Canadian L

EDIT: 8/8 bait. Congrats u got me.

why do we not need equity?

you cannot objectively determine that.

And also don't forget about the countless cases of sexual harassment and misconduct that have occured in chess training institutions.

Just recently GM Alejandro Ramirez had been alleged of sexual misconduct with a minor.

Literally, the same reasons why game changers exist.

To bring the average skill level of women up so they can compete with men eventually.

It's not sexism its called equity and is the most basic ethical concept that even 5th graders can grasp.

**Yes, women were discouraged from playing chess for literal centuries my guy.
And I have formally debated this topic multiple times.

Im straight up going to copy-paste my debate article LMFAO.**

*The issue of underrepresentation of women in upper ranks is a multifaceted one that has several contributing factors. One such factor is the historical and persistent gender biases that have prevailed in the chess community. For a long time, chess was a male-dominated sport, and women had fewer opportunities to compete at the highest level. This may have contributed to the creation of a culture that discouraged women from pursuing chess as a career or even from being given the same opportunities as their male counterparts.

Another factor that could be responsible is the societal and cultural norms that tend to discourage girls and women from engaging in chess. This could include stereotypes about women's logical and strategic abilities, as well as the societal pressure to focus on other traditional interests.

Furthermore, there may be structural hurdles that make it challenging for women to attain the highest levels of chess. For instance, women may face barriers to accessing resources such as top-quality training and coaching, or they may encounter discrimination and harassment within the chess community.*

We literally have all the data that hints otherwise. Not a single biological woman has ever made it far in any game that requires fast reflexes.

No we don't. Social and cultural norms are built into decades of history, you cannot remove that effect in a matter of a few years.

If we want an actual accurate conclusion we would have to have to take present analytics as a control and have literally 2 children artificially raised in a society where men and women were equal since the conception of human society on all fronts.

Obviously, that is impossible.
What we do have now is more and more women catching up and dominating in fields comprised of men in the past 50 years.
Why? Social and cultural norms have become more progressive and encouraging for women. Stigmas based on gender are being minimalised. See how there is a positive correlation?

EDIT: i retract dominating in fields. Men are still dominant in most fields but you are seeing a considerable increase in breakthroughs and career achievements by women

You would be right if we are talking in the context of physical sports. In the context of esports and even careers, it doesnt make that big of a difference.

By your logic, there must have been at least a few female outliers already, after two decades of esports.

And we are starting to see that now in Valorant, I hope you realise that we are seeing women for the first time in 20 years engage with an FPS game now more than ever.

You cannot use previous data to make conclusions - I have already explained that in my previous comments.

Not a valid comparison because volleyball is a physical sport. If you compare physical sports the average man will be better than the average woman. That is irrefutable.

The Mimi argument is invalid because you are talking about 1 single person. Tac FPS is a team game and no matter how good you are, if you don't have a good team environment, you are bound to not beat other teams.

How many female CS players were given the opportunity to actually compete in fully funded teams with a fully funded league?
CS was an incredibly toxic environment for normal players let alone women players and there were barely more than 20 reputable organisations with female rosters. When you have that small of a competitive pool where you are constantly scrimming with others on a sub par level compared to their male counterparts then how would you expect them to improve and beat even t3 or t4 teams?

There was a complete lack of competitive encouragement and environment and that was perfectly reflected in the communities constant misogyny.

Even now in valorant it is rampant - look at the comments under this post- https://www.instagram.com/p/CpgJTWOLLEq/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Not a solid foundation to make an objective conclusion

Competitive differences based on sex are not universal and can be influenced by multiple factors, including cultural norms and individual differences. While there is evidence to suggest that males are, on average, more competitive than females in certain contexts, there is research which shows that females can be just as competitive as males, especially in contexts where competition is encouraged or rewarded.

So it's unlikely that an average male would be more competitive than the average female GIVEN that they are raised under similar sociocultural ethics and norms.

Fortunately, I touch grass and have to maintain an academic and social life :skull:

I'm already well versed on this topic as it was a section for my behavioural economics essay so it wasn't that big of a deal.

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you are not obligated to, but people should do their research before making objective conclusions from subjective and anecdotal reasonings

because the average skill of women is not as high as the average skill level of a man in esports. That was due to multiple issues women have faced on the spectrum of esports over the years. The point of GC is to bring that average level up-
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He is objectively wrong but ok. Look at my comments below.

hes not right

Adding on - I Look at the standard deviation tables and the characteristics of the dependent and independent variables. The difference is pretty small, though in some examples it is large, I wouldn't see how that difference in reaction time would necessarily put a man at a significant advantage.

I agree that men have faster reaction time on average however, the difference isn't that influential in the field of esports. If you were talking about a sport where reaction time is very important say- F1 racing, then you could conclude that there are more men in that field due to that statistic.

Plus, I also don't see how physiological differences are even arguable in the field of esports just due to the diversity of players. Different age groups, different lifestyles etc etc.
My point is you cannot say for sure that men are better than women in FPS because of physical differences.
IMO, it's due to social differences.

1. It is inarguable that women face more targeted toxicity on online platforms.
2. Unfavourable stigmas that games are for men and not women are most prevalent in developing countries
3. Lack of role models and support systems even after they get an opportunity.
4. Lack of funding and no encouragement to invest.

A good way to describe the current status of Female FPS Teams is to the condition of LCS teams in NA and Europe. NA and EU teams often get stomped by their Asian counterparts. Do the Asian pros have something in their genetics that makes them exceptionally better than the others?
Then again you cannot know for sure because researchers still think funding an esport-based study is kind of a waste of time and money. So unless you have a research paper covering all fronts you cannot say for sure it's the difference in physiology that determines skill.

I have gone through multiple research papers and peer reviewed articles. They do show a physiological difference, you cannot dispute that but the difference is so small it's negligible in the grand scheme of things. They also are not accurate as they have do not have accurately represented subjects i.e - have people from an esport backgrounds with similar age groups.

These are some of the papers I've gone through, you can look at the data yourself

[ Reaction Time ]
"Significant difference was found between RT of male and female medical students (P < 0.001)"
Citation: Jain A, Bansal R, Kumar A, Singh KD. A comparative study of visual and auditory reaction times on the basis of gender and physical activity levels of medical first year students. Int J Appl Basic Med Res. 2015 May-Aug;5(2):124-7. doi: 10.4103/2229-516X.157168. PMID: 26097821; PMCID: PMC4456887.

"Males were faster than females cross age groups, RT tasks, and visits."
Citation: Fozard JL, Vercryssen M, Reynolds SL, Hancock PA, Quilter RE. Age differences and changes in reaction time: the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. J Gerontol. 1994 Jul;49(4):P179-89. doi: 10.1093/geronj/49.4.p179. PMID: 8014399.

"Males have shorter motion discrimination thresholds than females"
Citation: Murray, Scott O., et al. Sex Differences in Visual Motion Processing. Current Biology, vol. 28, no. 17, 2018, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.06.014.

[ Hand-eye Coordination ]
"However, highly consistent differences in eye-hand coordination were evidenced by a larger temporal lag between hand motion and target motion in women."
Citation: Mathew, J., Masson, G.S. & Danion, F.R. Sex differences in visuomotor tracking. Sci Rep 10, 11863 (2020). doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-68069-0

"These findings, supported by previous research, highlight that young males are more precisely hand-eye coordinated than young female students statistically significant higher."
Citation: Chraif, Mihaela, and Mihai Aniţei. “Gender Differences in Motor Coordination at Young Students at Psychology.” International Journal of Social Science and Humanity, vol. 3, no. 2, 2013, pp. 147–150, 10.7763/ijssh.2013.v3.215. Accessed 30 Jan. 2021.

[ Spatial Ability ]
"Sex differences had much smaller effect sizes but were evident, with females outperforming males on attention, word and face memory, reasoning speed, and all social cognition tests and males outperforming females in spatial processing and sensorimotor and motor speed."
Citation: Gur, R. C., Richard, J., Calkins, M. E., Chiavacci, R., Hansen, J. A., Bilker, W. B., Loughead, J., Connolly, J. J., Qiu, H., Mentch, F. D., Abou-Sleiman, P. M., Hakonarson, H., & Gur, R. E. (2012). Age group and sex differences in performance on a computerized neurocognitive battery in children age 8−21. Neuropsychology, 26(2), 251–265. doi: 10.1037/a0026712

" Study 1 showed that in behavior performance, males outperformed females in both large-scale and small-scale spatial ability, but the effect size of the gender difference in large-scale spatial ability is significantly greater than that in small-scale spatial ability."
Citation: Yuan, Li, et al. “Gender Differences in Large-Scale and Small-Scale Spatial Ability: A Systematic Review Based on Behavioral and Neuroimaging Research.” Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, vol. 13, 18 June 2019, 10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00128.

[ Competitive Ability/Pressure Tolerance ]
"Overall, these findings suggest that men were significantly more socially motivated in the presence of another competitor, at least in terms of attention in a physical effort task.", "Furthermore, male participants showed faster RTs and greater sustained effort as a result of a competitive environment, suggesting that males may be more affected by competition in physical effort tasks."
Citation: DiMenichi BC, Tricomi E. The power of competition: Effects of social motivation on attention, sustained physical effort, and learning. Front Psychol. 2015 Sep 1;6:1282. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01282. PMID: 26388801; PMCID: PMC4554955.

"The analysis takes advantage of a major education reform in Ontario that exogenously increases competition for university grades. Comparing students prereform and postreform using rich administrative data, I find that male average grades and the proportion of male students graduating "on time" increased relative to females. Further, the evidence indicates that these changes were due to increased relative effort rather than self-selection."
Citation: Morin, Louis-Philippe. “Do Men and Women Respond Differently to Competition? Evidence from a Major Education Reform.” Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 33, no. 2, 2015, pp. 443–91. JSTOR, doi: 10.1086/678519. Accessed 7 Jan. 2023.

[ Learning Style/Knowledge Difference ]
"According to the results, male students preferred to use the kinesthetic learning style more than females, while, female students preferred the aural learning style."
Citation: Sarabi-Asiabar A, Jafari M, Sadeghifar J, Tofighi S, Zaboli R, Peyman H, Salimi M, Shams L. The relationship between learning style preferences and gender, educational major and status in first year medical students: a survey study from iran. Iran Red Crescent Med J. 2014 Dec 27;17(1):e18250. doi: 10.5812/ircmj.18250. PMID: 25763269; PMCID: PMC4341501.

this aint an airport. dont need to announce your departure

People shitting on the anime are just people who hate on things because the internet trends tell them to. Even though the fillers were ass and the animation was sub par, i still waited because i knew the once the timeskip manga canon would be incorporated, shit would get bonkers

CS isnt going to blow up per se but i think this kind of increased their relevancy. Would like to see CS actually have a small growth spurt so it encourages some competition between valorant. Kind of like how Apex and Fortnite did in their initial stages

water hose + high psi attachment = destroy

Let me simplify the average brain-dead Brazilian diehard fan thought process. Say you go outside and you find a Brazilian fan SHOUTING: "show me proof that the sun exists!1!!!1!!!" and you point to the fucking sun as it is shining in a clear sky, the Brazilian fan will simply take acid and pour it onto their eyes, proceed to become blind and then claim "but I cannot see the sun".

Im gonna miss holi because i moved to NZ. The only instance where I would get wet and have powder on my face is at a strip club here.

proceeds to show empty stalls LMFAOOO

GG