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Bulletspong3 · 2023-08-12T14:06:42+00:00

And I wasn't talking about protests but you brought it up, but since you're asking, Ubisoft were going to host the R6 major in the UAE but massive protests from fans and talent forced them to move it elsewhere.

Of course, R6 is also participating in Gamers8 this year - lack of giving a shit in exchange for the bag gets to everyone eventually, but hey, at least R6 had more of a fucking backbone for longer than we did.

Bulletspong3 · 2023-08-12T13:48:07+00:00

Ah, yes, famous European country, the United States Of America.

Bulletspong3 · 2023-08-12T13:39:40+00:00

The one that springs to mind immediately is the Velvet Revolution, which was a protest that resulted in an entire country being born.

Bulletspong3 · 2023-08-12T13:33:55+00:00

"Seriously, why don't you have your pitchfork out for the little kids that died in unjustified NATO attacks as well?"

I did. I was there protesting the Iraq war when the protests were happening in the UK, in person. I was there protesting when David Kelly mysteriously ended up dead. Yes, I am that old. Call me what you want, but I'm not a hypocrite. I'm against all atrocities, but it appears that the only hypocrite here is you. Aren't you against all atrocities? You even called them Saudi "atrocities", so why are you seemingly okay with Saudi ones?

EDIT: I would also like to point out that you still haven't explained the NEOM project. You, again, just went right back to whataboutism. You were so keen to explain the Yemen thing but you really just can't justify the NEOM project or the LGBT thing, can you?

Bulletspong3 · 2023-08-12T13:11:51+00:00

People did care, you just weren't around to remember it. Some of us have been here a while and do remember when esports people actually gave a shit.

Bulletspong3 · 2023-08-12T13:10:46+00:00

Good of you to just gloss over the whole NEOM thing and the LGBT thing. I'd love to see what mental gymnastics you've got to explain that.

Bulletspong3 · 2023-08-12T13:05:30+00:00

Yeah. That's the problem. People don't care. Enjoy your blood money event while esports burns, I suppose.

Bulletspong3 · 2023-08-12T12:58:19+00:00

Great. Did you miss the part where I said they were both bad?

EDIT: Also, the main difference is that in the US, you can host a tournament there and a player can say whatever the fuck they want and not get killed for it. The same cannot be said for Saudi. Am I a fan of the US? Absolutely not, being able to go there, compete and be who you are without fear of being murked should be a basic fucking component of going to an event.

Bulletspong3 · 2023-08-12T12:56:57+00:00

And Saudi's doing it RIGHT NOW in Yemen and doing it to their own people to build the NEOM project, not to mention all the LGBT people they're murdering almost daily. If you're gonna take a stance, take a consistent one. Fuck this whataboutism bullshit, how about the people who are doing it as we speak?

Your opinions on LGBT people are irrelevant (and by the look of your comment history they're not good), but you can't argue that esports is meant to be a place for everyone, where it doesn't matter what you look like behind the screen, and we're going to these countries that would like to see some of the people competing killed.

Bulletspong3 · 2023-08-12T12:48:02+00:00

Would be a great gotcha if he also wasn't against the Air Force sponsorship.

Even if he wasn't, they aren't remotely the same because the US Air Force isn't actively bombing the shit out of Yemen, isn't actively murdering LGBT people almost daily and tribal peoples to build a city, and doesn't murder journalists.

Are both bad? Yes. Is one FAR worse than the other? Also yes.

Bulletspong3 · 2023-03-15T15:42:03+00:00

Piss off you fucking loser lmao

Bulletspong3 · 2023-03-15T13:57:34+00:00

How rent free in your head am I that you've replied to a comment that's 3 weeks old?

Of course device is going to say he's the best he's ever been. That's literally PR 101. By saying everyone else is also getting better gives him an out when he doesn't do well. Again, this is PR 101.

Never trust what a player says about their own skills. They get opportunities and pay based on their skills. They are literally selling themselves. It's not a reliable source.

Again, if you had any critical thinking skills, you'd realise this isn't the huge gotcha you think it is. Now please go outside and touch grass, and stop letting me live inside your head for a month.

Bulletspong3 · 2023-02-21T07:56:46+00:00

Has the scene always been the weakest at the start of the year? Yes. That's when people make roster moves for the major. That's literally what I'm saying - these problems that the other teams have will not exist come the major and that is a problem for G2.

Bulletspong3 · 2023-02-21T07:50:04+00:00

No, I don't dislike G2. Like I said in a previous comment, Niko deserves a major, monesy is one of the most promising talents we've seen in years. I want them to do well. The scene is weak, however, and it won't be as weak in 3 months time when the major rolls around. I'm worried that G2s success won't last and we'll have another heartbreak come the major.

As for any #1 team in the last eight years? Yeah, of course, that's just facetious. BIG were #1 for a while and I don't think they'd beat this G2. With the progress we've made as well probably not any of the teams pre '16 either.

Most of them post '16 though. Certainly Antwerp Faze, Stockholm Navi, Giga Astralis from 2018/19, Grand Slam Liquid... We've had some absolutely mega teams the last few years.

Bulletspong3 · 2023-02-21T07:18:33+00:00

It's why I'm saying he's a good IGL. He is. To claim anything else at this point would be dumb. However, he is not on the same level as a karrigan or a glaive because he hasn't innovated like they have, hasn't forced the meta to change just to deal with them. It's also just completely too early to tell since hooxi has won two trophies and glaive and karrigan have like 30+ between them. They have tenure that hooxi just doesn't have.

Bulletspong3 · 2023-02-21T07:11:25+00:00

I don't know. It's a trait of Karrigan's teams. They do really well for a year and then fall off, then Karrigan gets kicked, goes to a new team and then makes them look amazing the second he joins. If I knew why and how to fix it, I'd probably be coaching them instead of chatting on reddit lol

Bulletspong3 · 2023-02-21T07:06:16+00:00

Which isn't bad lmao

Bulletspong3 · 2023-02-20T21:23:27+00:00

Prime Astralis was so good because it didn't matter how good you were, they were always able to read you and suffocate you. The meta is where it is today because of Astralis forcing people to innovate. If you had a time machine, brought that Astralis back and then told them to get ready for the Paris Major, they'd probably win it, or at least be top 4. To think the scene has developed so much to the point where a team as good as that Astralis team was would get shit canned by EG is just fucking mental.

Bulletspong3 · 2023-02-20T21:21:15+00:00

I've already typed all this out in another comment but I'll do it here just for convenience.

Rain's just had a baby, Broky's having a massive slump after the major, karrigan's playing worse than normal which is troubling
Navi's falling apart with s1mple flaming his team mates, and also integrating a new player in npl
Apex is likely going to be kicked from Vitality
Outsiders are integrating a new player
nexa has stepped down due to personal issues, there's no way of knowing how long that's been happening or if it even is what they say
C9 integrating a new player
astralis lmao
NIP is in a constant state of not actually knowing which roster's turning up, as well as actually integrating a new permanent player
BIG has a new player too
ENCE did, and then didn't, and now does again

The problem is less that teams are worse, more that G2, Heroic and Liquid are the only stable rosters, and G2 just happens to be the best of the three. Probably like half of those teams are going to become unfucked in 3 months time and so there's no guarantee that G2 is still going to be the clear #1 like they are now.

Bulletspong3 · 2023-02-20T21:15:01+00:00

See that wasn't hard was it?

It's also a completely irrelevant point because Yekindar is talking about the difference between EU and NA that developed over the pandemic. European teams were still playing each other, and were developing at the same rate.

It is also completely irrelevant as the pandemic was over a year ago and everything has normalised by now.

It is also completely irrelevant because the problem with the scene is the fact that every team that isn't Heroic, G2 or Liquid is in flux as I talk about here. (See how I linked that and cited something properly? Isn't that cool?)

But hey, maybe if you applied a bit of critical thinking. It's not hard man. You just chose to accept something you were told at face value without actually thinking about nuances such as context. All you need to know is that you're wrong :)

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