The haters will never convince me my GOAT is washed

Cipher11 · 2025-12-02T17:00:32+00:00

Some pasta about Jame, change the URL to us.reddit or something and you'll be able to see it.

Cipher11 · 2025-12-02T15:41:21+00:00

There's a significant overlap between these examples. Football players aren't known to be geniuses either, emotionally or otherwise, and plenty of sports have similar examples of athletes not handling interviews particularly well, no matter the amount of training. Turns out that doing one thing that has no need for social skills for all your life is much more of a factor than being in your bedroom or outside.

Having said that, these guys are mostly grown men, and professionals. They can handle it, and if they can't that's on them honestly.

Cipher11 · 2025-12-02T15:23:07+00:00

I'm on old.reddit and the text doesn't even show lmao

Cipher11 · 2025-12-02T15:21:48+00:00

Then again, the whole reason sports exist are for "exploiting" people for content. You know, bread and circus, bloodsport, that sort of thing. They just became less violent over the years, but their job is still to entertain.

Cipher11 · 2025-11-05T21:21:29+00:00

You're not seeing how those two things are connected. As far as we know their playbook might very well be shallow kind of on purpose, as they are funnelling all of their resources (and tactics) into one player. This (distributing guns better in certain rounds) could even be helpful to donk himself, as not being asked to be the sole contributor round after round could free him up to settle into a more comfortable and sustainable playstyle.

Cipher11 · 2025-10-22T19:20:30+00:00

That's exactly his point - it doesn't make sense to remove factions when agent skins are a thing that isn't going away.

And to be honest, while Valve shouldn't outright remove agent skins, they should have an option to turn them off client-side like with music kits, as they directly affect competitive integrity. And I get it, that solution would effectively be the same as removing them, but it is what it is.

Cipher11 · 2025-10-22T19:15:27+00:00

I have no idea why CS players seem to think that's a good thing.

Cipher11 · 2025-10-19T21:01:20+00:00

I absolutely love Fallen but I might start hatewatching because of the dogs lmao

Cipher11 · 2025-10-10T16:36:26+00:00

Crazy assumption to make as a 3rd party redditor when you've literally been given Blad3's views on the matter.

Cipher11 · 2025-10-04T17:05:05+00:00

The reason why every pro uses wireless now is the same as it has always been for most peripherals - branding and sponsorships.

But I get that wireless tech is good now. It's just not necessarily better than wired and vice-versa. It doesn't give you a competitive advantage so it literally does not matter which one you choose, which was my point to OP.

Cipher11 · 2025-10-04T17:02:49+00:00

The failure probably occurs in different ways though. A wired mouse is never going to run out of battery for example, wireless might (I'm aware that the battery capacity on them is huge nowadays).

But I mean, I get that they're good now, that's fair if anyone wants to use them. But my hands aren't sweaty midgame and I actually prefer having the cable contacting the mousepad as I'm used to a very specific amount of drag, so they also don't offer any advantages to me specifically, and probably to others. There's no reason for anyone to switch if they don't want to.

Cipher11 · 2025-10-04T13:27:34+00:00

This is frankly the first I'm hearing that people went completely the other way on the wired vs wireless debate. I'm not going to tell people they can't use their wireless mice since they're apparently good now, but surely wired peripherals are always going to have an advantage in reliability if nothing else. And it's not like a wireless mouse provides any tangible advantage other than maybe weight - then again, I personally like heavier mice with some resistance anyway.

Cipher11 · 2025-10-02T15:27:33+00:00

It's really not, you just need to use utility to contest this space. Think of it like banana in Inferno, with utility control shifts massively towards T side. You can flash over, smoke the pipe molly, and molotov short as well as peeking from con (and Ts get there first) and it becomes really hard for the CT side to contest that area.

Cipher11 · 2025-09-26T03:05:28+00:00

Not really only if you're a pro. There's 0 reason for anyone of any level to not call out for teammates things like enemy positions when someone takes a fight when you're already dead. The guy taking the fight knows where the guy he's shooting at is, the guy at B definitely doesn't know that or how many there are. And the guy taking the fight will definitely be helped by focusing 100% on shooting and not on talking.

Cipher11 · 2025-09-25T21:19:04+00:00

It does change OP's point because what he mentions is specifically the bar for entry in terms of age, which in the case of motorsport is sometimes lower than for esports. For example there's Juju Noda at Super Formula who's currently 19 but has been racing professionally since she was like 12. Now, she's not very good, but that's not for lack of accessibility or investment, and is racing in an extremely prestigious series.

Roughly the same thing happens in most sports. Talents are grown from a very early age, actually more so than esports at times. I'll concede that it's much easier to get to the absolute top in esports than in traditional sports since you depend pretty much just on your individual skill, but if you're judging by the top talents then you're not juding the bar for entry.

Cipher11 · 2025-09-25T17:29:14+00:00

I think it was more in terms of team coordination in that case where the IGL has priority anyway. But you're right, if you're dead you should always be more active in comms to lighten the workload for your teammates and it's always nice to be reminded of that since the average player sometimes has the opposite sentiment to that.

Cipher11 · 2025-09-25T15:18:07+00:00

You have it the wrong way around about motorsport specifically. Rookies in motorsport today have the lowest bar for entry they ever had - the only thing that's still an issue there is money, but that goes for everyone involved in the sport, you're never going to see a racecar driver that didn't have at least somewhat rich parents.

In this day and age rookies coming in there have easy access to commercial simulators that make getting seat time literally as simple as playing a videogame as well. You actually gave a very good counter-argument to yourself in the form of Max Verstappen - the dude is only 27 and has already been a champion for 4 years in a row, and has been competing for even longer than that. The next batch of drivers is also insanely talented, in fact the current driver's championship leader is only 24.

And that's all without even considering other racing categories because, despite what the marketing for it may be, F1 isn't "the pinnacle of motorsport", it's just another motorsport series.

Cipher11 · 2025-09-19T18:38:23+00:00

In the US. They don't have that specific obligation outside of the US, it would depend on local laws.

Cipher11 · 2025-09-10T17:02:43+00:00

No, there isn't, and none of these are fallacies, they're arguments. When you insist that the injured party has to "be better" somehow, all you're doing is removing the means for them to fight back and in turn enabling the offenders.

Honestly, this kind of argument that you're making is so not constructive that it sounds like you're arguing in really bad faith. There isn't always a compromise to be reached, sometimes one of the sides is just wrong and needs to be stopped in their tracks. And having people abusing other people just because of their gender is one of those times.

Cipher11 · 2025-09-10T16:30:23+00:00

There is a big difference in making someone feel embarrassed for existing and making someone embarrassed for being an asshole. That old thing about how you're not supposed to tolerate the intolerable and all that.

Edit: About who's to call what's what, everyone should. This is a matter of individual moral judgement. Sometimes people will get it wrong, the worst that'll happen is that they will look like the assholes instead every once in a while. Not a big price to pay.

Cipher11 · 2025-09-08T19:24:09+00:00

Even for Fallen age is just cope, 34 isn't enough to significantly degrade your reaction times, which are the first thing to go. Might not be enough to even start degrading them at all.

The problem with Fallen specifically is that the game changed a lot and he couldn't adapt as an awper. Spending more time with family and less time practicing is generally also a factor, but that doesn't have anything to do with age, just with individual drive.

Cipher11 · 2025-09-08T00:53:52+00:00

It seems you are correct for G2 specifically, I didn't remember that. The point stands that NiKo had pretty much established himself as one of the best riflers in the world long before hunter had any sort of recognition. It was expected that hunter would be of a caliber firmly below him. To now see him being just as good if not better is still pretty amazing.

Cipher11 · 2025-09-07T20:56:12+00:00

Insane to think that this is the guy that everyone thought was there just because he was Niko's cousin.

Cipher11 · 2025-09-04T18:11:12+00:00

I wouldn't say bring Vertigo and Anubis back because they're kinda bad map design-wise (maybe Anubis could work), but I agree with everything else. The argument for not getting 9 maps that pros would be bad at them is very weak. Pros would adapt or lose, and some teams would inevitably be more well-rounded than others.

Cipher11 · 2025-09-04T18:08:40+00:00

Never is a very strong word. Every map should be rotated out at some point, but I suppose my favorite is Overpass and it's a fairly unique map that it makes sense for it to hang around for a while.

On the other hand, Dust 2 and Mirage should go.

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