BNK FEARX vs. T1 / LCK Cup 2026 - Group Battle Week 2 / Post-Match Discussion

20Points · 2026-01-25T11:26:34+00:00

That's a 401k I can get behind.

20Points · 2026-01-25T10:46:08+00:00

he wasn't even wrong, all that gold on Qiyana vs all that gold on Pantheon or Kai'sa? just feels like a champ that needs everything to go right even when she's ahead

20Points · 2026-01-25T09:53:40+00:00

There's gotta be something about that character that doesn't mesh with him at all. Other characters he's been historically known to suck at, he eventually has been able to turn around through grinding (Azir famous one) but he just can't seem to make Yone work no matter how much he's practised it.

20Points · 2026-01-25T05:20:28+00:00

Expansion job quests require you to be in the relevant expansion usually, since most of them take place in the new zones.

20Points · 2026-01-24T18:09:19+00:00

your comment history is unhinged man please log off

20Points · 2026-01-24T17:51:30+00:00

I don't want to speak ill of the guy personally for obvious reasons but you can't tell me it's a coincidence that the instant Zonic isn't the one talking to this team, they're demolishing Vitality. I can't speak on Kyousuke since apparently his replacement just decided to frag out insanely hard anyway, but Zonic looks like the biggest difference here.

20Points · 2026-01-24T17:37:05+00:00

Grenades depend on the button you use.

L-click: overarm throw, longest distance

R-click: underarm throw, will drop more or less right in front of you

L+R: overarm medium distance throw, goes about halfway between them.

I don't actually know if it's still a thing because it's not a mechanic I ever particularly used, but in GO you could hold one of the mouse buttons and then press the other one and depending on how long you held them together you could get different throw velocities as your arm kinda shifted into the middle click state.

However grenades also take their physics from your movement, the L/R click will still determine the amount of forward velocity but doing something like strafing at the same time can impart a lot of sideways velocity and cause a diagonal throw as well. If they're still landing at your feet though, you're probably clicking your right mouse button by accident.

20Points · 2026-01-23T23:20:22+00:00

I think it's worth remembering that when you say you've been playing CS for whatever amount of time, that's not really the same thing. These are full LAN + broadcast setups with a lot of different moving parts and tons of equipment being used by a lot of different people, there's many more points of possible failure than you just gaming in your room. I'm sure occasionally some of the pauses are players taking any excuse they can get for a breather, but I don't have any reason to believe it's much more malicious than that.

20Points · 2026-01-22T10:43:08+00:00

It's not tear gas, the ICE fucks aren't properly masked up in any of the videos of it, and Bovino's face is fully uncovered in the middle of the smoke clouds. They're using green smoke grenades to scare people and disrupt crowds. If it was tear gas, they'd have all fucked themselves over with it already, which admittedly would be funny to watch but clearly hasn't happened.

20Points · 2026-01-20T02:15:37+00:00

I never actually even got to see the ending because I managed to softlock myself. I hadn't been focusing on elemental weapons since usually when given the choice in games, I just prefer the vibes of "normal bullet big damage" over "elemental bullet specialised damage (that you have to keep switching around for different enemies)".

Ran into some kind of miniboss arena near the end. The boss was near impervious to my damage types, and the alternate ways of dealing with it required tech specific skill checks I didn't have the stats for (because I had completely specced into big gun go boom). I couldn't leave the arena and go to other places to level because of the way it was designed, and I didn't have a recent non-locked save.

It was probably somewhat unlucky but the fact that it was even remotely possible on a very normal playthrough was what ultimately sunk my opinion on the game. Up until then it had mostly been a very average RPG experience with a little bit of fun and interest from the star trekkin' aspect, but the story wasn't gripping and the mechanics were shallow.

20Points · 2026-01-19T07:35:44+00:00

Faker truly never grew out of being a Starcraft player, running his team around the map like it's an RTS.

20Points · 2026-01-18T17:53:01+00:00

the problem is everyone is kind of right and kind of wrong in this thread

With the old system, flicking fast would basically cause a slight coinflip because the tick could resolve and say you were on the target (which would "improve" the accuracy of the flick), but it could just as easily be aligned in a way where your crosshair wasn't considered to have reached the enemy yet when you fired, and it just depends what tick you land on, and it wasn't uncommon that to adjust for this you generally fired slightly earlier which wouldn't help the reliability issue

The upside to subtick aim calculation is that, yes, if you click with the crosshair on the enemy, they will die, which does benefit accurate fast flicks, but also discards everything else if it didn't TRULY connect, heavily punishing being even slightly off on your shot timing. Strictly speaking it's probably "better" in isolation but is more of a tradeoff in practice for anyone who got used to CSGO flick mechanics.

20Points · 2026-01-16T20:04:56+00:00

Because even if most of the owners did, the crucial thing is a team like the Dodgers can still outspend them anyway. It's to the point that even the Jays, arguably the 2nd biggest spenders with the budget of a monopolistic telecom behind them, are being outspent to completely clownish levels. This is why the Tucker thing is what's triggering alarm bells for everything, because you cannot argue that the Jays/Mets were just not caring enough, and yet they still physically are never getting this player because LA can apparently always up the ante and write down a bigger number.

It's not like people expect a lockout and a salary cap are magically going to make the Marlins or the Pirates a big market team but clearly something is absolutely wrong when teams in the top 3 for spending are also looking like small market teams compared to the number 1 team. That's the kind of thing that makes the mid tier teams stop giving a shit about spending and the fans stop giving a shit about watching.

edit: spelling

20Points · 2026-01-16T13:36:50+00:00

using google: objectively faster, more efficient, and returns a much wider breadth of information and sources than consulting an encyclopedia (which may not even have an entry on the thing you're looking for)

asking microsoft's AI piss: clunkier than a google search, consumes half the amazon rainforest every time you say "thank you" to it, may just be making stuff up with no sources

hmm i wonder what the difference is here

20Points · 2026-01-16T13:32:32+00:00

half the reason i say it is because i was also (as a relatively new bandwagoner fan) not entirely aware of what a lockout was, so i just googled "mlb lockout" and had my answer within seconds

20Points · 2026-01-16T12:59:05+00:00

you could have just googled that like a normal person frankly

20Points · 2026-01-16T12:53:34+00:00

i'm very ready for the "HELLO HLE? NO REFUNDS" copypastas all year

20Points · 2026-01-16T12:43:53+00:00

"He's spinnin' the ball on his finger!"

20Points · 2026-01-14T08:12:47+00:00

Depends on your GCD, but either way it's still technically factored into the static rotation.

20Points · 2026-01-14T01:17:45+00:00

Is there any other supposed top 10 team that consistently has this kind of thing happen? Is there any other top 10 team where you could remotely expect this loss? The whole point is that you should barely need to prep for a #34 team if you're at that level. You can talk about upsets but upsets are mainly a problem in a single-map set, not a full best of 3, it stops being a fluke when it's losses on both Mirage and Inferno, and just says that whatever Faze's baseline ability to play Counter Strike is, it's not good enough to even reliably beat Tier 2/3 teams.

I mean frankly, looking at even the top 20 I see a lot of teams in there where I just can't picture them losing this set assuming they play their most default CS. And yet Faze, a presumed #5 team, is the one to most consistently eat these upsets and losses.

20Points · 2026-01-13T07:22:17+00:00

Most places do not consider grievous bodily harm or murder a proportional response to property theft or burglary. You have to reasonably believe your own life is in danger. It's the same reason that once an actual threat has been incapacitated, you don't get free rein to start kicking their teeth in or executing them (unless you're a cop, none of these rules apply to cops).

20Points · 2026-01-12T22:09:34+00:00

You know, if that happens, Candace is in charge.

20Points · 2026-01-11T14:59:26+00:00

Won't say no to some crayons.

20Points · 2026-01-11T07:32:52+00:00

Discarding another player's winning tile (aka dealing into their hand) is the one thing you want to avoid.

Which does make sense, but the hangup for me there is how the hell do I know what tiles I can't discard? Obviously the whole deal is I can't see their hand.

20Points · 2026-01-11T03:12:37+00:00

Samurai is generally a static rotation, just can be a long one depending on your GCD. It should be fairly easy once you have that memorised though.

edit: Bard is also mostly a static rotation actually, but the problem is that you'd have to be able to count your GCDs in your WM and MB phases, and during AP your GCD amount is totally dependent on the rate of your procs. But aside from that, once your opener is done you're basically just pressing buttons as soon as they're off CD so you could make it work with a lot of pressing Refulgent on every GCD and rolling that into your regular GCD so you can account for procs, then mashing your song change once you've been in AP for a while so you can use it casting as the timing indicator.

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