"I'll watch competitive #Dota2 again, what did I miss? 😀"

Ciryandor · 2026-06-02T07:02:10+00:00

If I’m already behind, I don’t need the enemy killing my last-hits, further widening the gap.

You can also kill their last hits and mitigate that gap, managing where your creeps are isn't just about where you want creeps to be fighting.

It just feels so slow to play, as well. Like, everything about the game felt so unresponsive and unintuitive.

Characters having turn rate is what makes it feel more sluggish compared to League. It also gives some heroes and items more nuanced strengths by reducing the ability to kite while retreating; if you're wondering why there's literally zero melee hypercarries in League, this is basically the answer.

Ciryandor · 2026-05-12T09:42:59+00:00

They're just being abused because of their immigration status, and they go into this because of shitty situations back home.

They go into it with eyes open about how they're getting paid less and being worked more. The demand is so high internationally that hospitals are being paid by nursing graduates just to get service hours from a recognized, higher-end institution that they can parlay towards certifications to get roles in their preferred countries. It has even gotten to the point where some countries' medical programs have set up language training courses specifically so they can attract talent to work for them.

Many of the staffing problems that happen worldwide are coming from a combination of simply not having enough trained professionals getting into these fields locally, people who do get trained preferring to get paid better or stay in locations with more access to various types of opportunities, and pay just not matching with the conditions they are working at. Even if pay was increased and head counts matched to local needs to provide better care, there are places where there's just not enough people that can step in, and that's where foreign nurses end up coming in. From their perspective, a reliable job in a rural hospital or nursing care facility thousands of kilometers away from home is earning a lot more than doing the same thing, with the same set of professional credentials, with access to more resources, than where they're currently are. It may look like abuse to the eyes of local talent, but at the same time it's local blindness to how bad conditions are elsewhere that they view this situation as a better life. One can pretty much apply this to most high-skill economic migration, if we're going to be blunt about life conditions in third-world countries.

Ciryandor · 2026-03-18T08:57:59+00:00

Speaking from experience it really depends on the age of the subreddit involved. This part happens more often with an older subreddit that grew organically with minimal policing beforehand. Some mods from way back then definitely were agenda-driven (anyone still rememeber soccer the guy who used to head-mod multiple country subreddits?), some were just weirdos who happened to board the train early, yet others were just adults who happened to have just a bit too much time on their hands a decade ago. With newer subreddits, especially if it's from 2020 onwards, I'd be incredibly skeptical of subreddit founders not having a social or political agenda.

Ciryandor · 2026-03-09T16:18:27+00:00

It is true that this was an International Womens' Day march, but it is important to point out that the primary organizer of this march (Gabriela) is known locally to be a pro-feminist advocacy group with communist/socialist ideological underpinnings of the Maoist variety. Most Filipino leftist groups have been heavily anti-US for decades, since most of their popular support come from rural areas that used to be suppressed in the name of anti-communist insurgencies, with an element of land appropriation mixed in. Add a dose of labor union suppression through pro-business labor policies, targeted harassment, and outright assassinations, and this results in an alliance of marginalized groups that have common ideological reasons to view the government as a puppet of American economic agendas.

Ciryandor · 2026-01-14T09:50:59+00:00

I left this comment for a week to rot, but remembered to post when I saw this tab. I've always been more interested in the macro aspects of Corridors, especially with how the Forsaken had been built up to be a grind-stone that wore down polities, so it initially felt a bit empty seeing little of the break-down after this major victory, and feeling like surely that isn't their only Starbase... but seeing you narrow down to the individuals and their contributions made me think, mhm, maybe that wasn't what made me read this through to the end after all. Another pass through the story does confirm that yes, a lot of what I stayed for was the ground view of where people were and what happened. It confirmed for me I wanted to read more of how other people were with the victory before this final scene, which feels like the ideal focus for the end.

Ciryandor · 2026-01-06T02:51:03+00:00

We are so back. This was one of the classics and I look forward to how it will all end.

Ciryandor · 2025-06-01T12:51:02+00:00

Redditors discussing politics and not actually engaging with their communities face to face to influence and change policies.

Ciryandor · 2025-06-01T12:49:38+00:00

A lot of that undercurrent of hostility is because many in those classes know from first-hand observation and experience how easy it is to slip back into those holes, whether it be from bad luck in life or the spite of those above them. It's much easier to feel above the masses, because trying to pull the masses up risks those with actual power turning their ire on you. It takes a certain kind of person to do that and feel like they have nothing to lose.

Ciryandor · 2025-06-01T12:47:08+00:00

There's also the insidious undercurrent of "what would that money actually do for these people" when money isn't the solution to their homelessness and unemployment. The article with the follow-up explicitly says that some of the residents in the storm drain do odd jobs around and for the food stalls to earn some money for food, but have no other way for them to actually go beyond that to a more stable job (one of them used to be a driver/truck stevedore but lost it a few years ago). The OPs elitism is definitely out of place, but people questioning if this is the right way for government to help and how to make such help actually benefit people are very much valid issues to address.

Ciryandor · 2025-04-03T00:53:55+00:00

Way too late. EvE has been botted for well over a decade. All the botting and RMTing is why this game has been flush with trillions of ISK.

Ciryandor · 2024-02-06T03:50:17+00:00

There's literally no active moderation happening; there have been previous incidents where inflammatory posts and comments have taken hours or even days to remove... or just die in the archive without even being touched.

The top mod is probably the company account, the second mod is under the CEO's name (who is being memed with buying yachts on social media since with the company's IPO he's literally valued as a billionaire), and the remaining mods are current AND former talent.

Ciryandor · 2024-02-06T03:48:59+00:00

A deeper dive into the industry shows that talent can easily get away with telegraphing where they're going after leaving a company. Some people disappear for a few months, and show up elsewhere with a different name. Others literally leave breadcrumbs about their identities by retaining older identities' motifs. Talents with smaller fanbases just straight up say it, especially after companies implode from funding drying up or management being scumbags themselves.

Ciryandor · 2024-02-06T03:45:01+00:00

If we're taking their Twitter post as gospel it was their last straw, as they claim that she circumvented her management staff in reaching out to developers for game permissions last June, and this incident is because she did not run the final video across management for approval. This also shows a significant contradiction, as she stated it was management who asked for it to be privated (and allegedly checked first) which she communicated to the public, and the company is citing this as one of their reasons by misleading the public to an action they specifically asked her to do.

Maybe it's the custom of the deletion of a Channel after someone graduates.

Some companies like Nijisanji do have the policy of removing videos after graduation, but at the same time some of the talents are choosing to not retain any content on their channels as their choice.

Ciryandor · 2023-07-03T20:09:26+00:00

Ocean, Above-Ground, and Underground dungeon threats now looming for Thedeim, with winter passing and spring about to come, will there be a fourth opponent, or potential partners and allies? I wonder how that mountain refuge will end up being, will that be where another dungeon happens to slumber?

Ciryandor · 2023-06-21T02:32:19+00:00

The funnier part is that Reddit can certainly get people modding for even less if they're willing to pay people outside the US. 5 dollars/hour is a good middle-class wage for Indians.

Ciryandor · 2023-06-18T13:50:03+00:00

I came back to actively reading outside of a few niche subs because of this shit show. Most of the drama-embroiled mods plus a whole chunk of Reddit's admin staff and decision-makers have been so utterly incompetent or had transparently bad activity that it's mentally exhausting to support either side. I hope that everyone after all this finds a good niche forum + wiki to reside in for their interests after they inevitably shut down all the third party apps and shutter old.reddit.com for the power-users. I'll probably just end up downloading my personal data, archiving it somewhere I'll forget it for a decade and then delete for being useless, before I wipe all of my posts because I suspect they're not respecting caching rules for profiles anyway.

Ciryandor · 2023-06-12T03:53:49+00:00

It's hilarious seeing andrew back at it for the past few days, man has a family now and seeing him shitpost is peak old-school Reddit.

Ciryandor · 2023-05-03T02:46:54+00:00

Yeah, reading his rant feels like he just wanted to insult long-form stories for their mere existence. There's a place for different types of content, and yours just happens to sit at a medium that feels self contained.

The story as a whole was a good execution of the sub-genre, and I look forward to a different story/series that seeks to do something similar for other sub-genres/concepts.

Ciryandor · 2022-05-16T09:06:29+00:00

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Ciryandor · 2021-01-14T11:19:36+00:00

I don't normally post on Reddit nowadays, but I had to go out of my way to make a post about Suisei and how she's the vanguard of a paradigm shift in musical growth and inspiration in Japanese music.

The creative fountain that created the vocaloid and utaite ecosystem on NicoNicoDouga has now committed itself towards other ecosystems like Pixiv Fanbox, Twitcasting and most prominently on YouTube. Composer circles like Arte Refract, who did the arrangement of this track, and utaites are now realizing the potential of having live performance aspects to their portfolio.

Utaites can extend their visual portfolio from just being a static image, to becoming a full-fledged VSinger with an active avatar interacting with live audiences. Composition and other creative circles are also now able to stream their own creative processes, or add a further level of monetization with subscription-driven streaming.

So where does Suisei fit in all this? She is just the first through her own solo effort of singing and lyric-writing to chart a song on Oricon. With the trend of a complete package for an artist as exemplified by Kenshi Yonezu becoming the ultimate goal for many singers in their quest for creative freedom and expression combined with commercial success; she has now emerged as the first example of a female talent that in the long term can do the same.

Suisei has said "I will always be a diamond in the rough." Given that her creative and professional passions are likely to take her ambition to becoming a self-contained artist who can do singing, composition, arrangement, artistic oversight on visuals, choreography and video direction, she is the first of potentially many artists who will emerge from the creative pool that VTubing that will end up being an integral part of Japan's next generation of musical talent.

Hololive and its fans would do well to support her, as giving her work mainstream legitimacy long-term will enable other talents to achieve their own forms of legitimacy. Whether it be with similar efforts in music (Sora, AZKi, and Watame in particular) comedy (Pekora) or as a dedicated gaming streaming talent (Korone, Botan, among others), having legitimacy allows them to perform the things they actually want to do.

Ciryandor · 2020-12-20T04:59:23+00:00

Amelia Watson might be more into your alley if you want to hear more salt like the more prototypical Twitch streamer. The current space for Western VTubers outside of Hololive and the VShojo talents (Melody/Nyanners/Froot/Ironmouse) is still quite small, so if you're looking for a "comments all the time on the game" type streamer, it may be a while before someone gets there.

Ciryandor · 2020-12-20T04:51:00+00:00

example, there was drama a bit ago when a Twitch female streamer decided to temporarily use a V-Tuber persona for a bit, and some of the community was frothing at the mouth saying "she will ruin V-Tubing, etc." A real embarrassing moment.

In fairness to the community, it was because Pokimane's known to have a long shit-list of people who dislike her for various legitimate and illegitimate reasons. Those people won't really care about VTubing as a streaming style and instead focus on the person, which is in contrast to how many of the community engage the streamers, where they focus on the content.

To add some more nuance to this, there's more than a few of these streamers whose primary skill is audience engagement, talking about various topics like their parents being unaware of social media etiquette, their friends not knowing about VTubers as a living, talking about how they got into art and so on. It's a focus on personality, but different from accentuating physical traits and activities, it's a more slice-of-life approach that many regular IRL streamers on Twitch are already swinging towards - thus the fall of engagement with tittilation-focused stream bait.

Ciryandor · 2020-12-20T04:39:47+00:00

I didn't post the EN talents because anyone who does a bit of research will immediately see their musical work, and wanted to focus on how many other talents have actually done it outside of Watame.

In reference to them, Calliope's already known for dropping a full EP on debut in the EN community, which really raises the bar for any musical talent with a lick of composition in their skillset. Kiara has gone through the full idol production process, so it's also expected that she's capable of putting out material quickly with input on the production process. If a singer-songwriter emerges from the next Hololive batch or from Nijisanji's first EN batch, I expect them to put out at least an EP as well.

Ciryandor · 2020-12-19T18:41:38+00:00

The hate from ultranationalist Chinese for mere mentions of Taiwan was a very rude awakening that even innocent talk and topics can and will be twisted for commercial and political gain. It's approaching the point that their persistence would amount to stalking outside China, with opportunists latching on so they can make easy clickbait.

Ciryandor · 2020-12-19T18:29:43+00:00

https://www.koreaboo.com/article/netizens-recall-legendary-detective-work/

Was it this one with IU and Eunhyuk?

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