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| Registered: | April 24, 2021 |
| Last post: | July 16, 2026 at 1:02 PM |
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and before winter sales I bought Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, The Witcher 3, Black Mesa and Manor Lords. And overtime I've bought Resident Evil 2 Remake, 3 Remake, 4 Remake and Village to prepare for the next one and experience the franchise, but I have only finished 2 Remake and most of 3 Remake. I also have Death Stranding, Heavy Rain(started), Beyond Two Souls and Detroit Become Human(I've played when it came out and its good) on my Steam Library with 0 to only couple hours of playtime.
tldr: for past couple of months I've bought shit ton of games because for some reason I've gotten more into single player after years of multiplayer and there's been good sales on steam and on 3rd party stores. Like all these games ended up costing like 150€ or something.
Ofc he had potential. He was like Kaajak when he played in tier 2. But his time in VCT 2024 wasn't very good and expectation for him were low heading into 2025.
I think they will be good. People underrate both MiniBoo and Kamo like crazy. nAts is good individual and decent IGL. purp0 potential is high as long as he reaches it. And I don't know anything about Wayne but apparently he is good. Also their coaching staff is pretty damn good considering what they did with the last roster. Some forget that their 2024 roster had weak expectations.
He didn't tho. He was good in tier 2 but outside of individual games he was very mid in VCT. Their team was struggling but so was he. If he didn't role change he would likely be in tier 2 right now.
Sure. I'm just not agreeing with all the points and understand why AI is being used. What I mean by emotional is that I feel like people don't often think why something is happening but instead just rely on their instant emotions. Like kid crying because their parent didn't spend their last money on toy but food instead. I like to try to understand both sides and that is why its fun to argue about pointless stuff.
I agree its not ideal and in my opinion in ideal world we would combine both. Let humans have their part and let the AI be a tool and do things its good at. I'm just tired of seeing people go on tantrum how some game studios etc. are using AI for some tasks. Like if it can replace or at least aid in certain tasks then it would be dumb to not use it. And even tho I might seem very pro-AI or something I'm not, but I just like to look at things from realistic pov instead of emotional.
No shit. Some people make living out of creating art. But if you are not making money out of it then it really isn't a real profession for you, but hobby instead. Like 99.9% of art is as only very small percentage of the partakers make money out of all art created. And your second point is just your opinion. If Disney now came up with 100% AI slop Marvel movie there would still be people who would enjoy it. Painting made by AI can make someone feel way more emotions than painting made by an emotional human expressing themselves.
If they can be replaced (not saying they can or will) then why would they be needed? Also relying on who made what is bit senseless as its argument you could make for pretty much anything. Artist were big part of creating the industry, but industries evolve and change. And I'm not saying that artists aren't needed as they are right now, but we already see companies using AI for work that otherwise required a human so its pretty clear that they aren't needed for everything and the need of them will get lower overtime.
The thing is that I'm not looking this through my emotional glasses. Sure its good that people get work and get paid and in ideal world everyone should be able to to anything they like and enjoy for living. But that is not how things work in reality. If your job can be replaced it will be replaced. Also I feel like some of you are mixing creation of art and monetization of art. No one is stopping you from creating art. It still works the exact same way. Less people are just going to get paid for it and some of the human made art like we see in movies, games etc will slowly get replaced by AI generated one (likely).
Yes job field that can be at least partly replaced. All emotional side away, why should job field exist or in this case not weaken when its not needed as much anymore? Also automatization in general and even AI has already replaced humans in pretty much every field possible and it not exclusive to art. Art is just one of the obvious ones when its impact and risk of failure is lower compared to let's say medical field where precision is still key or certain manual work where using real human is simply cheaper and easier.
Also all this talk about work and money like is the point of art to get monetized? Art has always been more of an hobby than work as its something that almost every person ever has partaken in but only relatively few have made money with. You can still create, enjoy and support it.
And what is AI for? To save on time and required skill. Literal point of it. Why use cars? Too lazy to walk? Why use heating? Too lazy to chop wood? If you like "actual art" then do and consume it. Creating and enjoying is the main points of arts anyway. But no one is entitled to get hired for work that is not needed.
I found the "I should get paid for my kindergarten level art" thinking they are living in fairy tale
Waa waa AI bad!!!! Most people crying about AI usage in creative works are low tier wannabe artist who would never make a living out of their shit art. People who cry about AI stealing other people's work while copying someone else's character and style design in their fan art...
And? Just one line of "work" that becomes obsolete. Same how many many job titles have throughout history. What a stupid reasoning "we shouldn't use cars because horse breeders will lose their jobs". Get over it. Go to work that pays you and do art as a hobby like it has always been.
I don't think so and IMO they are overrated if anything. First Mazino and Tex are decent, but nothing crazy. Verno still very inexperienced and has only had one good event as IGL. They shouldn't have even made it to Champs if it wasn't for the points system. Its way too early to say how he is going to do next year. Good individual, but IGLing is questionable still. I think he is in very similar spot as players like Cloud or Jamppi. Aspas is Aspas, but he was also on the team in Toronto and they looked like shit. Zekken is good but bit overrated. He is very good obviously, but especially on internationals he is completely comparable to other players in his role + he has to change role.
damn they were in Valorant for so long feels like and overall org that has some relevancy because of their time in CS. Very unfortunate loss while expected.
Nordics in general
Norway = money potential, some very nice nature
Sweden = biggest out of them, likely best opportunities like we see how many companies, games and actors etc they have produced
Finland = chill and humble, some sort of pride and unity still exists
Denmark = more connected to central Europe
Iceland = nature and peace
overall its hard to beat for average normal living citizen, something like Switzerland and Netherlands are pretty same.
Well its fine and still good compared to many places in world, but its going downhill I feel like. Overall feels like many European countries are catching up while Finland is going down and that is the case in many things not only education. But obviously that might not be due to the system but rather because of other things.
hmm.. feels like Apeks 2.0 and that sucks because if PCF kept their roster they would have been competitive while now they look like bottom feeder. But also I much rather see English speaking roster than another full Turkish so its fine in that regard. If true nice to see al0rante finally in tier 1 as he has been grinding tier 2 forever and has always been good.
Yeah Valorant has pretty weak casting crew especially for its size IMO. Pansy/Hypoc and Bren/Sideshow are good but not S tier.
Not super niche, but I like Low Roar. They have some songs in Death Stranding. Easy Way Out and Bones are likely my favorite from them.
Always happens when there's people unhappy that their game didn't win. But I do personally think that some categories were bit questionable like E33 winning RPG over games like KCD2? You could say same about the Indie category like is E33 really a indie game in that sense when there are legit small indie games that did well this year? But overall deserved for most categories.
No, but if I could learn one instantly it would likely be either Chinese, Russian or German. German in general is just good in central Europe, Russian in Eastern Europe and Chinese for work related (if I ever did that type of work) and future with growing Chinese influence. But mostly I would want to be fluent in English.
Yep and very timeless while still sounding nostalgic somehow. Tbh likely my favorite music group considering how many good songs they have.
This whole "Americas best IGLs and EMEA has no IGLs" is so overrated. Americas has only one top tier IGL in Valyn and that's kind of it. Johnqt is decent but more because he can frag, he isn't S tier. Ethan and Verno have only had one good event as IGL and rest hasn't been too crazy. Rest are pretty irrelevant. While EMEA has pretty much the goat IGL in Boaster, Boo is still somewhat relevant and comparable to Johnqt at minimum, more fresh IGLs like nAts, Cloud and even Jamppi would be pretty comparable to Ethan/Verno for now. And rest are completely comparable to Americas IGLs.
I'm just so happy that they are going English speaking instead of full Turkish. Gives them more flexibility and gives non-Turkish players more opportunities. Not sure how this roster would do, but honestly its nice to see tier 2 IGL given a chance and NINJA is decent and has potential. Also kind of telling that they are actually trying to build something here.
kaajak and its not even close. NRG were only relevant for one event. Unless its Americas only.
Depends on country and also massively depends on the instructor guy. At least here you just drive for 45mins around the town. It has mandatory parking and highway parts, and rest depends on where you drive like here the route usually has one-way section and roundabout. Its pretty much the same to normal driving class but they usually want to bust you and might put you in tricky situations. Also some instructors are just ass and will try their best to fail you, while others might let you pass even though they could have failed you. Overall just drive bit under speed limit, keep safe distance to other cars, check your blind spot well and visibly, stay calm and don't ask questions and act confident.
Android. IOS has its benefits like Apple ecosystem is overall good, but you are kind of forced into it and I think that is big negative. Overall ecosystems that are closed are almost always bad for consumer or at least have the possibility to be. I don't do anything crazy with my phone, but I still don't want to be locked into ecosystem and rather have possibility of freedom. Its about principles.
More that Apple products in general are overpriced. And when you use their devices you are pretty much forced into their ecosystem. So if you don't mind overpaying and are fine being stuck in the ecosystem its fine, but by doing that you limit your options. At least I prefer to have freedom over closed system. And its not really about flexing money wise, but many buy iPhones because they are completely clueless and just follow what's popular. Some claims I've heard from iPhone users is crazy and shows that most of them don't know anything about tech in general and just think Apple = Good, Android = Bad.
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Pretty average VCT duelist level. And I don't mean that in bad way. I think in this day he would be in that same tier of duelists who can have carry games, but also lower impact games aka how most duelist are. Lewn comes to mind for example. And this comes from someone who watched Twisten since BIG days and believed in him, I just think that some overrated him bit after what happened.
Liquid finished 1st in EMEA, Sentinels didn't look that good in Stage 2. I mean that Liquid underperformed way more than Sentinels. Also TH literally beat G2 so saying that they were worse is non sense. Literally all G2, MIBR, TH and GX could have won against each other any given day. GX had shit game vs NRG and below their level. Same how Fnatic and NRG would both be 50/50 if they replayed.
Ruxic and Hiro are insanely good, Shao is good when he is on and Sociablee is pretty good as well and flexible. Only question is Filu as I wasn't impressed by him, but tbf NAVI always have bit weaker duelist so maybe its fine. ANGE1 being the HC is big question like what can he do.
BBL underrated. Its core that has been playing with each other for long and have pretty much been the best tier 2 team in EMEA for like 1.5 years. Even when Apeks ascended you could have easily said that PCF was the better team overall. They have no doubt been scrimming VCT teams for long time and have had success considering that they still want to stay together.
Both Americas and EMEA has been very equal international event wise. With mainly G2 carrying Americas and Fnatic EMEA. Even Champions placements were the same for both outside of NRG/Fnatic. But I'm mainly talking about the regional competitiveness. Americas was ran by G2 and SEN for most of the year and even out of those only G2 had any relevancy as SEN were pretty mediocre and beaten by EMEA equivalent. While if you look at EMEA we at least had some competitiveness. It was extremely easy to rate Americas as the 3rd region pre Champs if you followed the regions. And that's my point. Only reason why we even argue about this is because Liquid crumbled to ground for unknown reasons and didn't deliver their regional level performance.
How is that relevant? There is only 3 trophies per year and its everyone's game when we count how teams can peak at right time and win it. Consistency is what matters and that's why we for example saw Fnatic on back to back finals. EMEA as region was very competitive especially towards the end. Even in Champs only difference between Americas and EMEA performance was NRG winning the finals. At least TL just performed way worse to their regional level and imploded while SEN performance was expected.
Americas fans forgetting how bad their region was for most part (outside of Champs playoffs obviously). TH would have stomped Americas outside of G2 and would have done well in Pacific as well.
Still better achievements than majority of the teams in all of VCT. Putting Heretics below A tier would be crazy work. How are Leviatan A tier? MIBR? when on their praised miracle run in Champs they placed 5-6th just like Heretics. Vitality with nothing to show outside of potential on paper? Its proven core, topped their group in Champs, played well regionally especially in groups etc. Everyone knows that they are just inconsistent, but can also play event winning level. There isn't single team on B that would deserve to be rated higher.
Literally made top 6 Champs + qualified for Toronto + EWC victory even if you don't rate it.
literally all the regions look very equal on paper outside of China
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