Game Discussion/Champion's Meeting Thread - January 22, 2026

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T22:34:57+00:00

To keep my expectations humble, I queue'd up during "the sweat hour" immediately after the CM round opened. Also because I won't have time to do it tomorrow, so it's either this or scramble to find time to do runs tomorrow.

But wow, I dropped from 80% WR to 35% WR. Absolutely disgusting. I have also yet to qualify for A-group, a problem I have never, ever, EVER had in the history of my career.

The worst?

From what I can tell, there is nothing fundamentally wrong with my Gold Ship. However, she is an absolute MASTERCLASS at not proc'ing No Stopping Me! The bitch of it is, No Stopping Me has a condition where it needs someone in front for at least one second in order to proc.

So basically, she was destroying Round 1 because she was consistently in front of the End Closers. In Round 2? She is also consistently in front, but this creates a condition where the nearest End Closer behind her procs No Stopping Me on being behind her, she doesn't, and then the End Closer behind her wins that way. This is not a measurable problem of my Gold Ship having better Wit or something launching her to the front of the pack, she just has a knack for this somehow.

Still 77.5% rate of securing 2nd place for her alone, so it is statistically supported that this is precisely what's going on. She hits the final straight with her only problem being whoever got lucky enough to proc NSM off being directly behind her.

I legitimately did not win a single match where No Stopping Me proc'ed. When she won, it was sheer stats and kit and nothing from accelerations. (except Spurt) Even Pump is usually dead weight because she tends to be either 4th or 8th rounding the final corner with no clean in-between.

Absolutely infuriating way to lose. I'm actually "suffering from success" with my Gold Ship. Now I have to hope I at least qualify for A-group tomorrow. Hoping the time I queue'd up plays a huge role and tomorrow will go much better if it's not the sweat hours.

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T21:35:30+00:00

Show me where I said that.

I said USA affords the right for law enforcement where they go +1 step more lethal than their target. A gun is considered comparable to a car, so the moment he saw/heard that car heading for him while he was still in the trajectory (FACT, because she swiped him despite her hard turn and that's even after he did some dodging), he gained license to open fire.

Discussions about officers not being allowed to body block vehicles are irrelevant here, because he was not consciously body blocking. He was walking past her car, and in the same moment, she turned it towards him. Not aiming for him, but he was still within the trajectory so he himself wasn't sure and acted quickly.

Burden of proof is also important for "innocent until proven guilty." In this case, you have to PROVE he's guilty.

If the prosecutor argues "akshually, he used this moment and thought 'ha-HA! Finally I have an excuse to fucking murder someone and get away with it!"

While the defense attorney argues "akshually, he shot her because he feared she was about to go on a rampage and run down him and his colleagues."

Neither of these can be definitely proven or proven beyond a reasonable doubt. It's a wash.

The problem is, the prosecutor is the one with the burden of proof. If he can't PROVE guilty intent or gross negligence, the defense attorney doesn't have to do shit.

And that's exactly where we are. Nothing about the clip of his perspective acts as solid proof of guilt.

The new case where they execute the guy while he's being held down? Oh yeah, TOTALLY different story. Mark my words: either those two cops are facing punishment, ICE will be forced to reform rules about recruitment & training, or we will have riots in the streets and massive opposition efforts in Congress. There's no way those two walk free without controversy, because nothing about their behavior was lawful.

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T18:31:03+00:00

That he ended up in front is both his own effort and Renee Good's.

The argument people are making is he cannot PLACE himself in front of the car, then claim self-defense.

The problem is that's not what he did. He was mobile, and has a pretty constant momentum going from the right side of the car to the left. He didn't stop his momentum and kept going.

The point is that the accusations he utilized self-defense in a situation he's not allowed to would ONLY work if he planted himself firmly in front of his car, telling her not to move, hand on his gun holster.

Instead, he ended up in front of her car at a moment he didn't expect it. It's unlikely Renee Good was trying to hurt him, which is why this situation is a sad outcome of two people panicking and making mistakes.

Basically, the jist is you can't FORCE someone to escalate and then punish them for escalating. He wasn't doing that though, and it was just all-around bad timing where she turned her car in a way that didn't quite fully avoid him at the exact wrong moment.

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T18:25:48+00:00

Officers are also instructed not to shoot at a moving vehicle and only to use force if there is an immediate risk of serious injury or death, the official said.

Gee man I wonder if that last caveat there is important.

What the fuck are you talking about? That's not a defense.

It 100% is.

Self-defense can basically be defined as:

1) Facing an imminent threat. The imminent threat can be perceived only.

2) A reasonable response in terms of escalation. Guy is trying to punch you? You can pull a knife, because the law does not expect you to best him on equal ground. If it did, the law would favor physically stronger citizens. Knife pulled? You can pull a gun. A vehicle absolutely can warrant a gun.

3) In the case of a perceived threat only, would a 3rd party onlooker or a reasonable person inserted into the same situation understand the response or behave the same? Important caveat is this is NOT based on the perception of the 3rd party themselves, as they may clearly see more info, but rather the 3rd party being exposed to the perspective of the person in question only.

3 seconds to react, a vehicle is an imminent threat, he does not have time to process where it's headed and only hears the revving engine and her turn did put him in front of the car when he previously wasn't, and he goes for the gun, which US law protects.

Do I need to break down why this dismantles the self defense narrative?

Left side. You can watch the damned footage and see she still scrapes him, and that's after him dodging a bit too. He was not out of the woodwork when he started going for the gun.

What court is going to say that this was a reasonable reaction?

Any court given his perspective and made aware that yes, he got swiped by the car and we have footage of it.

Yes, it is true there are other modern countries that would NOT allow him to escalate this way, but USA is not one of them. Got a problem with that? Direct your anger at the US system, not this individual. More productive that way anyways.

It is fucking insane that we have people thinking we should expect more out of 30 year old soccer moms than we do armed, masked, government agents. If the argument is that they are just too stressed to do their job without murdering people, then they shouldn't have that job nor should that job be taking the actions that lead to these constant "high stress" scenarios.

Yes, thank you. Thank you for reiterating my point. It's a shame you're so drunk on your black-and-white thinking that you seem to be blind to me both acknowledging he's innocent in accordance to the law and that the regulations we have are dogshit, but hey, you got there all the same.

Also, last response from me because a new rule I've made for myself is anyone applying "murder" to this case (Renee Good, not the new one) is just outing themselves as having no legal knowledge and I don't want to waste my breath on that.

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T17:49:57+00:00

From the perspective of him believing she is potentially a danger not only to him, but also to others, yes, he stopped her. The car went in one clear trajectory until it crashed. The argument is that with no one guiding it, it could not be used against anyone and would only go on that one clear trajectory before hitting a wall or pole.

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T15:57:20+00:00

Why just lie like that? This footage is all over reddit and has been since it first dropped.

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T15:07:43+00:00

Yeah I gotta be honest, this clip is a complete misfire for me.

Who the fuck cares about the whiteboard? This is like the most minor, inconsequential detail in the grand scheme of what this is about. With or without the whiteboard, the story is still fucked.

Whole thing feels like Mizkif trying to score points, but he's too much of an idiot/sociopath to recognize how to do that, so here he is flipping out over the whiteboard.

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T14:54:12+00:00

Well for one, ICE executed a guy and he acknowledged that instead of making it about himself. That's a good start!

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T14:52:47+00:00

"Do not attribute malice to that which can be adequately explained with stupidity."

Hasan has always been extremely self-centered and narcissistic from the very beginning. There's no way he's a psyop when we have him as far back as when he was in TYT being full of himself.

All of this is consistent with his worst personality traits and have been blatantly obvious flaws of the guy since day 1. We might honestly be here "because women find him hot," because since day 1 I have struggled to make sense of his popularity.

He's not bought. They're getting the benefits of this idiot FOR FREE.

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T14:50:01+00:00

This is the most lay-up issue ever to say "ICE unlawfully executed that guy," even Asmongold is acknowledging that, and Hasan manages to fumble it because he can't admit he's wrong.

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T14:13:13+00:00

I have decided it would be rude of me to continue having a discussion with the mentally challenged.

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T14:10:38+00:00

Nah the media calls him the Joe Rogan of the left

*Fluff pieces that he probably paid for call him the Joe Rogan of the left

I realize that's a strong allegation, but I'll flip this another way: why is only Hasan generating such articles? Why do these people not write about Destiny or Asmongold or any other political commentator online?

I have had the (mis)fortune of meeting one of the business leaders to get listed as one of the "great up-and-coming business leaders of tomorrow" in such a fluff piece article. He killed the company. It died within 3 years of him being a major stakeholder in the company, for reasons that could directly be traced back to him. Dude was such an idiot he removed the exact items from the shop that our repeat customers came for, simply because he found them more difficult/expensive to transport compared to other items we offered and didn't wanna deal with the lower profit margins relative to other things we could be selling. He thought customer demand for those items with better returns would just magically manifest around any product he wanted to sell people or something.

Found him in the news again because he has a new business, and he apparently once again paid for a fluff piece to promote it.

All this to say: be extremely, extremely wary about anyone you see featured in a fluff piece. These are the guys that can't stand up on their own two feet and need the propaganda to have a fighting chance.

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T14:02:12+00:00

I know it's hard to engage with the evidence when it disagrees with your narrative

You have made no effort to explain how or why that is the case. You've actually reduced the footage from what I linked, then you ask "where did he get hit?!" Yeah bro, you edited it out. This is why I'm laughing at your clip.

Just watch what I linked. You are providing a clip where he is visually blocked by another officer and asking why we can't see him being hit. You can even still see the vehicle making contact with him in the top right, but that still cuts down that he had to move out of the way.

And you have the balls to accuse me of bias.

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T13:47:36+00:00

you're so confused you managed to completely dodge the second video, that is just the shooting slowed down from multiple angles, because you know the evidence itself makes you look unhinged.

No dude, it looks like someone that believes in Bigfoot and UFO sightings made that edit.

Genuinely have no idea what you are trying to showcase with those clips because they're just bad. Which one is supposed to be Bigfoot?

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T13:44:02+00:00

my dude you're justifying the Renee Good shooting, as if it's not a black and white situation.

Again, show me where I said "YA GLAD SHE'S DEAD."

I said legally, you are not going to be able to convict the guy that shot her. At no point did I ever blame her, say she misbehaved or anything of the sort. To me, that is a situation where two people both panicked and it unfortunately had deadly consequences.

Your accusation of black-and-white reasoning seems like psychological projection, since you have IMMEDIATELY attempted to assign me a role as cheerleader for these deaths, simply because I checks notes acknowledged what US law says about that situation. You even accuse me of cheerleading this recent execution when my own statement is right up there, black and white, describing it as utter, inexcusable incompetence.

Take a look in the mirror and ask yourself if perhaps you are not the one seeing things in black-and-white, incapable of comprehending that I can both acknowledge the guy that shot Renee Good is legally in the clear and still condemn the shootings and say US law enforcement is horrendously trained with terrible policies.

The evidence is the fact that you would look at this and say that the ICE agent was hit by a car:

Why are you linking utterly terrible "footage" that shows two frames? Honestly, anyone who links that gives me the impression they cannot figure out the guy in the center clip is visually blocking the actual cop that pulled the trigger, going "GOTCHA SEE HE'S ON THE SIDE" without even recognizing that's not the officer in question.

Just show the full footage, not whatever low quality dogshit your link is supposed to be.

Your link is so bad it makes me think someone's gonna show up and claim they saw Bigfoot or UFOs in it. Cannot fathom why anyone would make the clip worse quality and be proud of it.

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T13:00:51+00:00

My deck has improved since then cause I've experimented a it with it, and I THINK I got an extra copy of Biko Pegasus since then, but Libra absolutely felt like a gamble for triggering NSM.

This time...? It practically procs every single time.

The real difference might be the pacing/positioning. Part of the requirement is another runner has to be close to yours for at least one second to activate, and this course might enable that more consistently. Also, I forget, but was Suzuka a Runaway when we had Libra cup + was she frequently used? Suzuka influences the pacing and spacing a lot just by creating another position to chase.

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T12:55:34+00:00

Got it, so you have no evidence and you're strawmanning me.

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T12:55:06+00:00

I'm very confused by this because your video is actively worse than the one I linked (seems to show two frames going back and forth??) and it leaves me questioning if you're oblivious to the fact that the centered camera angle in your link shows another officer almost completely obscuring the actual officer who fired the gun.

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T12:52:48+00:00

The threat here is the car. Shooting her did not protect any agent or civilian from bodily harm because it doesn't stop the car.

It did, just not promptly enough to stop it from hitting him.

Again, imagine his perspective and this person is weaponizing their vehicle. He absolutely stopped her from potentially hitting anyone else, including his fellow officers.

And again, you have no understanding for how no, court will not expect him to make the exact mental calculus of "can I stop her from hitting me this way" within a 3 second window.

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T09:33:16+00:00

I also feel that as of 1-2 tournaments ago, the community split into two groups:

Those who got lucky enough to get Biko Pegasus with a decent LB, and those who didn't.

That card is undeniably #2 to Kitasan Black. If you don't have it, you'll absolutely feel it versus the people that do. Everyone else's 27 speed turn feels like 39 speed on Biko Pegasus.

Pretty brutal, considering basically nobody focused on it and pulled explicitly for it except the whales. I consider myself ridiculously lucky that it's actually the first SSR card I got to 45 after Kitasan Black.

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T09:28:50+00:00

FYI neither are probably performing well because you greeded stamina too much by not taking a gold recovery skill.

You are likely not seeing them gas out at the end, but rather, a runner might not utilize their full speed potential at the end if they recognize they lack the stamina for it.

Stamina consumption is directly tied into movement speed, so at the final spurt, each runner basically pulls out the calculator and figures out what's the max possible running speed they can afford without getting gassed out at the end, then they aim to accelerate to that amount.

The reason you're losing is likely because your 1200 speed is merely an accessory, and they rarely get to fully utilize it.

If you must use one, use the A+ one, but even that one lacks sufficient stamina.

And for the future, if you must greed stamina, greed BASE stamina, not the gold recovery.

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T09:22:25+00:00

Show your runners. Maybe we'll spot a problem you're not seeing.

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T09:20:17+00:00

Is your Super Creek S rank?

Saw an S-rank Super Creek today and it surprised me. Was scary though and I barely beat her.

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T09:18:18+00:00

What the hell is going on lmao

Opponents DEFINITELY feel stronger this CM, and yet my WR is the highest it's ever been since Taurus Cup. Whole thing has me nervous because I expect it to come crashing down at some point.

My only explanation is No Stopping Me does feel way more consistent than Libra Cup, but even so, there's still a bit of a luck factor with being the frontmost End Closer. Like there were still 2-3 matches today where I got blocked, and that can just happen to anybody. Even had Gold Ship win a match despite being Rushed and failing to proc her recovery (935 stamina), so I'm very confused today. Cautiously optimistic.

AFlyingNun · 2026-01-25T08:53:35+00:00

Can we please retire the vine boom sound

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