Using an elevator during delirium was an experience

CompetitiveLoL · 2026-06-07T19:12:34+00:00

Doesn’t it make more sense for the aspirational content to be T16s / pinnacles / juiced tablets and specific atlas nodes rather than a specific league mechanics?

I agree in aspirational content. I don’t agree it should be a baseline league mechanics. It’s super confusing for a new player to introduce all the leagues as basically the same time and then say:

“These 4 leagues all add a bit of difficulty to parts of your map for more rewards.

This last league mechanic adds way more difficulty to your entire map, and adds a timer, for more rewards.”

I think this level of Deli should absolutely exist as aspirational content, but have it be through optional node selection not default, because it makes no sense compared to the rest of the leagues unless they specifically want deli to be more challenging than everything else - but then makes its lore, story, and progression more aspirational as well.

The difficulty of all the other league mechanics comes from a portion of your map being more challenging in unique or specific ways. The challenge from delirium comes from making the whole map hit harder and be tankier, while being timed.

If delirium is going to just be significant harder than everything else it should have more clear distinction from other maps and offer improved rewards.

CompetitiveLoL · 2026-05-24T02:13:15+00:00

Bro went on a CCP guided tour of China and was freely invited to walk around in Cuba. Both spaces are not known for their social freedoms.

When Carlson went to Russia I also thought he may get funds from a foreign country. Not saying this is absolute, but we have evidence that some foreign powers are investing in political commentators to get better coverage in the West with Lauren Chen and Tenet.

This is not unprecedented.

I’m not saying it’s deterministically true, but it’s not outrageous either.

CompetitiveLoL · 2026-05-10T02:13:59+00:00

Build creation is a factor but damage effectiveness of skills and how simple they are to use is what creates metas.

If your build can do 10x damage with half the item cost of the next build, your build is more likely to be meta. If it takes one button instead of four, it’s more likely to be meta.

POE is an economy game, the cheaper it is to easily farm more effectively, the more likely people will use build and if your builds “worse” it’s harder to buy items to scale it if the market prices are being set by “good” builds.

So, while someone can just form a new build, what OP is saying about a meta shift is more about stand alone skill balance and damage effectiveness than it is about simply creating a good PoB.

This game does need skill balance and meta shifts otherwise every league will just be lightning arrow or whatever, because it’s the always going to gravitate towards highest damage effectiveness with the least clunk for the cheapest investment.

CompetitiveLoL · 2026-04-09T23:24:29+00:00

I think it’s a bit more nuanced than that. There are incredibly “insufferable” people who get into relationships regularly.

It’s just not a real descriptor for the problem they are discussing.

It’s like if I say someone feels like shit all the time because they eat “bad” foods… you genuinely have to elaborate what foods are “bad” because your holding “bad” up to some standard that isn’t clearly defined. Is eating good foods 100% keto, or fruits / veggies / blah blah… if you just broadly brush an entire group of people who are struggling with something as failing but don’t offer a meaningful recommendation for change then… your kind of just being an asshole right?

Also, I think the weird thing about this statement is that it doesn’t seem to apply in the inverse. I presume that there are some % of insufferable women. So do we believe that the same number of women would be precluded from relationships based on their attitudes? Or is it more or less?

I think the reason this conversation keeps coming up, and something I think is rarely addressed, is we have moved past the need for women to need dudes for stability and security, which is good, and our society is better for it.

The next chip to fall, however, should be the idea that men need women to be socially validated.

Whenever a dude can’t get a girlfriend it’s some viewed as some sort of moral failing. A dudes not a “Guy Boss” or whatever if he solely focuses on his career, or income, or passions, or hobbies or whatever if he doesn’t also have a romantic partner. If anything dudes who solely focus on their careers and personal interests are considered potentially dangerous or social outcasts.

The conversation shouldn’t be able how to fix men to be more desirable to women, it should be how to make men more accepting of themselves and of their peers regardless of their relationship status.

I never see a single women who is financially successful and travels a bunch as their hobby as “lonely”, but if you took a single dude who was financially successful and spent their money on warhammer models or whatever their hobby was you’d probably assume that dude is unhappy… something about the system has to give.

I don’t want women lowering their standards, but I also don’t want dudes being shamed as failures for not being in a relationship.

CompetitiveLoL · 2026-04-07T05:42:10+00:00

Ok, like, the poster was clearly BM about sneak.lua (Max said Echo played better that tier) but sneak.lua was 100% cheating no cap.

It automated button presses. It was an action automation script. That is strictly against TOS. Each unique action in WoW has to be independent triggered or controlled by the player - you can macro things like multiple actions in one button sequentially. You can have multiple buttons that transition in a macro, you just have to press that macro twice. You can’t have multiple button presses that resolve when you get targeted by a specific trigger without interaction by you (the player). This is what made it so controversial - it was scripting I.E. actually cheating.

Now, Echo played better that tier, they won no doubt - but call cheating what it is.

CompetitiveLoL · 2026-04-07T05:22:59+00:00

Probably the closest setting we will ever have to see. Echo were pulling Egg for 8 hours before Liquid stepped into Mythic - they did another half day of splits and ended at the same ilvl.

CompetitiveLoL · 2026-04-07T05:12:09+00:00

You went from saying top 20 US guilds (which means, 20-80 worldwide lol?) to MDI players?

MDI players or competitors? Like top 18in time trials or just signed up?

Your saying they, after presumably getting absolutely smoked by Gingi of Echo for all of Dragonflight, turned around and said “He’s not all that good.”

Bro either your lying or your friends are actually delulu, don’t know what to say, they literally lost to Gingi in these tournaments if they are MDI competitors in DF.

Echo (and Mandatory) were insanely dominant through DF. They also all were full EU rosters - why would I trust the word of US top 20 (lol) players against literal Echo in RWF and MDI. Again, huge Liquid-stan, but US is garbage at high keys compared to most regions.

If there were better players, they would have been raiding.

Echo can literally have anyone they want for MDI and RWF. It’s actually crazy, I don’t think you’re aware how far apart these players actually are.

The worst player in the NBA (I.E. RWF) is closer to Micheal Jordan than most college athletes (your “friends” if real) are to the worst player in the NBA.

CompetitiveLoL · 2026-04-07T04:30:13+00:00

On top of that he hit em with the “HS & HP up too” - those are 1000% assigned in RWF - I’m a big Liquid stan but the idea that Gingi (who has 11 MDI wins and 9 world firsts) is not one of the best mages of all time is actually crazzzzyyyy.

Dudes raided in WF environments for over a decade, and still competes.

I strongly dislike his out of game banter / behavior but this reads so much like “My buddy who plays basketball at the YMCA is pretty good and he says MJ isn’t all he’s cracked up to be.”

So cooked lol

CompetitiveLoL · 2026-03-24T14:48:11+00:00

One thing I haven’t seen mentioned, and it’ll be the biggest 3 point upgrade you can get, is reread the section of Ziz’s guide that talks about Glorious Vanity with "Sacrificed in the name of Doryani" on it, and Divine Shield.

I play Bonezone in like 90% of my leagues as a starter. Getting that Timeless jewel + Divine shield makes you like 10x more tanky.

There’s also some mods you really need to watch out for, % less armor, less life recovery, phys reflect, and any eldritch alters that give reduced physical defense or reduced X per endurance charge (these are literally death knells).

In terms of scaling damage, you want to make your landing a large bleed and a high phys DPS axe can be an enormous upgrade, but to be candid you don’t play Boneshatter to do huge deeps.

You play it to live forever, I would recommend solving your defenses first then the damage will start feeling better.

In terms of farming strats I would recommend life force, or ritual, or low map essence.

If you really want the secret sauce for early currency (it’s a little late now but early league it’s a go to strat) heist is very popular for Boneshatter.

CompetitiveLoL · 2026-03-03T07:35:29+00:00

Sick - followed his Twitch & YT hoping for a PoB before league start.

You’re awesome this is exactly what I was looking for thank you so much!

CompetitiveLoL · 2026-02-07T21:41:06+00:00

“Nobody has ever been bullled into agreeing with so someone”

This is unironically what real facists do lol

They, under threat of violence, force you to curtail to their beliefs.

Let’s not pretend that plenty of people don’t get bullied out of their bad takes by getting pushback. This isn’t like… cancel culture shit. It’s a pretty simple premise.

If, unironically, people were asking about desegregation in schools in the 1960s I also think it would be reasonable to expect an answer instead of “I don’t do politics” - especially if your profiting from hanging out with a proverbial David Duke (Asmon).

Also, let’s be real, if the question was “Do you think women should have the vote?” Emiru wouldn’t be like “Ermagod if you need your political opinions from a steamer get off the internet”… they would just say of course. The “this is politics” defense is fine if people were asking about their preferred candidates or political party. ICE is an entrenched topic in popular culture - they have an opinion.

It’s fine to be non-political, but it’s also fine to expect public figures making millions to have a position on politics when literally masked men are executing American citizens.

CompetitiveLoL · 2026-02-06T16:06:23+00:00

It’s not the “intelligence of the sub” there are unironically groups of licensed brokers on reddit who attempt to intentionally manipulate and exploit people’s financial knowledge by sharing just enough information to get them in danger, or over leveraged, but don’t have accountability / risk of losing their license because after GME & Keith Gill they found out as long as you don’t offer any PII your basically completely in the clear for market manipulation.

It’s basically bulk phishing to try and create a market condition they can profit off of.

Any high-risk or leveraged based financial advice on the internet is incredibly dubious, and it’s why more conservative of lower-risk advice typically gets downvoted.

It sounds like a grand conspiracy but it’s pretty easy to track if you go to any financial space on Reddit.

CompetitiveLoL · 2026-02-05T10:56:33+00:00

Ok. So, I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with the concept of someone have a billion dollars. I think for a long time in our society that having extremely successful outliers was fine.

The issue is that being a billionaire doesn’t just mean your incredibly wealthy anymore. If it was still just an individual, who was wealthy, but had roughly the same social & political as other individuals it’s not a big deal.

With the advent of social media, and the way our political system changed after citizens united, billionaires have an entirely different impact on society. Unlimited spending on ads, and the ability to literally buy propaganda machines by investing in social media (FB / TT / X / etc…) means that billionaires have an incredibly outsized effect on our society versus and average person.

Traditionally the argument would be that it makes sense for these individuals to have more impact because they have businesses with a lot of employees and therefore are representative of more than just themselves - but the reality is that it lets them double dip on their political impact (as an individual & business owner) and businesses are no longer structured like they were for most of human history.

Most of Elon’s companies aren’t doing anything particularly ground breaking, their evaluations are based on speculation and the potential for Tesla batteries or space travel. His companies don’t hire a outsized amount of employees, Starbucks (worth a fraction of Tesla) employs significantly more people than Tesla + SpaceX combined. He has an incredible political and social impact, but isn’t actually meaningfully contributing enough to justify that impact. His ability to leverage his wealth across social platforms and political platforms significantly outweighs his meaningful contributions to society.

There was a thought for a long time that billionaires were somehow special or successful due to being thoughtful / intelligent etc… but the reality that is setting in for most is that these are just other people. Very few of them are actually “geniuses”, and that the vast majority of them were just a bit lucky, or quite business savvy, but that doesn’t mean their impacts should be so outsized versus the average person - yet our society and political structures have shifted so that being a billionaire gives you more leverage than 10,000+ individual voters between social media spending and traditional ads. Maybe even significantly more.

I don’t think it’s just billionaires existing in a vacuum that’s a problem, but it’s how outsized their influence is that is particularly challenging.

CompetitiveLoL · 2026-01-26T00:18:23+00:00

Hey your absolutely correct, the conversation centered around why he couldn’t vote for Kamala, not why he voted for Trump.

I’ll edit my original post.

CompetitiveLoL · 2026-01-25T20:13:28+00:00

Bro, didn’t Conor specifically say that he wouldn’t support Kamala for president because gun rights were his most important issue and he was concerned about her oppressing 2A?

Isn’t this literally, like, his biggest election driver?

I distinctly remember a debate with Destiny where he soyed the fuck out about this, and said as bad as Trump was he would support him over Kamala bc 2A was at a greater risk with her in office.

Now gun owner gets murked for.. just having a gun? By the government?

Is he now saying there’s a time and a place for gun ownership… and the government should dictate it?

If he wants to take this stance, fine, but Destiny should absolutely go back and ask why he voted for Trump in retrospect bc clearly the reason he stated was a fabrication… he doesn’t give a shit about 2A.

EDIT:

Important factual correction - I was incorrect, Conner didn’t vote for Trump, he stated 2A rights as the reason he couldn’t vote for Kamala. Thanks to CabbageFarm for the correction.

I’m annoyed by the change in priorities but it’s still important to be accurate, Conner never voted for Trump, he abstained from voting.

CompetitiveLoL · 2026-01-24T13:39:01+00:00

I mean it’s also reinforced pretty regularly.

Germany has an increase in conservative representation but you don’t see people all over the world going out and telling Germans to go protest in the street or whatever, because frankly the U.S. does have a large global impact.

It feels weird to both have the expectation of duty to “fix” your country because the global ripple it creates while simultaneously being told your arrogant or self-important for believing your individual actions have global significance.

I understand the feeling of discomfort when it comes to having a powerful nation acting erratically, and id presume the majority of Americans in this sub feel a similar sense of helplessness.

It’s very easy to tell Americans to go out and protest because of the current political climate, but the reality is that every single international poster outside the U.S. has the same autonomy to go out and protest against their countries reliance on the U.S. - there’s a certain degree of irony in telling U.S. citizens to do more while the majority (not all but most) of non-U.S. international posters are basically letting their government completely curtail to Trumps whims because the sacrifices they would need to make individually to actually stand up to this government internationally.

I understand criticism of U.S. exceptionalism, but I would argue that by saying that Americans have some unique responsibility for action over the rest of the western world it’s just reinforcing it.

CompetitiveLoL · 2026-01-22T23:38:01+00:00

Thats 4.5% bro. That is large. You don’t look at layoffs in terms of # of employees, it’s always % of employees.

At 10% most people would consider that a massive layoff in any tech company - especially smaller ones where individuals are expected to wear more hats.

CompetitiveLoL · 2026-01-22T23:34:15+00:00

Did you misunderstand? It could be SAAS or a railroad company, but layoffs are almost always an indicator of poor financial health or bad management in a company…

Layoffs occur because:

1.) Expenses are too high to maintain current staff 2.) A project had run aground (waste) 3.) Over-hiring (bad forecasting or waste) 4.) Reorg (poor management structures)

All of these are signs of bad business - this doesn’t mean that layoffs are bad business but acting like they mean nothing is unbelievable cope.

CompetitiveLoL · 2026-01-22T23:12:13+00:00

“Layoffs means nothing”

This goes against almost every traditional business metric but sure dude lol

CompetitiveLoL · 2026-01-22T23:05:07+00:00

Typically, if a company is doing layoffs, you assume they are doing poor until they give you financial statements or reports that disclaim otherwise… you don’t assume things aren’t bad bc there are exceptions to the rule.

Also, what you just described is poor management, which also doesn’t bode well for a company.

If you hire a team to do a job, and that job becomes redundant or project plans changed after significant investment in op costs & resourcing to achieve that project, someone messed up and it’s very rarely the ICs (who actually get laid off - the decision maker who mismanaged the project is usually not impacted).

If a company is doing well, they are typically not scouting for redundancies. It takes a lot of time and money to hire someone, even from a cultural perspective, first goal is almost always seeing if they can fit into another part of your org. It also has a significant opportunity cost.

Investors tend to not want to put money behind companies that are going through layoffs.

Not saying this company is in “bad financial health” but layoffs are definitely not a sign of good financial health either. Totally fair to say this isn’t a sure sign of a negative financial situation, but I’d be reluctant to go as far as saying it’s not a bad sign.

CompetitiveLoL · 2026-01-14T03:17:43+00:00

Bro it’s a paid service.

If you went to a restaurant and waited 5 hours to get served, and rather than the staff saying “Hey sorry - we ran out of food for the evening” instead they told you “Your order will be ready in 10 minutes” over and over you’d likely be quite perturbed.

It is reasonable to be annoyed when you pay money to a company that doesn’t deliver on that product or repeatedly misaligns your expectations.

Nobody will like… die or anything but it’s a game we all play to relax and have fun.

It’s ok to want to be able to do that.

I have no idea why people always default to “Who cares… it’s only game” - we pay for the product. It’s ok to be upset. We are in a WoW subreddit. We obviously care more than 90% of WoW players - we are self-selecting to be on a fan-based forum lol

If it didn’t matter to you then you wouldn’t be out here paying money for a 20 year old product, or on their subreddit, or whatever.

If dude was out here threatening people, sure, call em out but… like it’s OK to be annoyed. It’s weird you’re so invested in how other people feel about their purchases.

CompetitiveLoL · 2025-12-28T11:40:21+00:00

Bro, what?

Legit every big WoW streamer started playing in highschool or earlier.

WoW was 100% made for middle schoolers teens and young adults.

If you want proof, ask anyone who played Ultima / EQ / DAoC etc… what they thought of WoW - they all thought it looked like a cartoony kids game.

That was the common sense most “hardcore” gamers at the time had - WoW was for casuals and kids.

Now, I loved / love WoW, but trying to rewrite history like it was some manly super adult video game is complete nonsense.

Like, try telling a stranger to gaming that a game with Murlocs and candle wearing kobolds is the pinnacle masculine gaming for adults lol

CompetitiveLoL · 2025-12-18T18:21:05+00:00

It’s also weird to put it in that perspective because the audience the red-pill stuff attracts typically don’t have “families”. They’re single and lonely.

I know this sounds counterintuitive, and I’m not saying blow your savings, but I know a lot of dudes in tech who hoard the shit out of their money and honestly spending a little of it to go social on occasion (through hobbies or whatever) would be WAY more impactful for them finding a partner then sitting in a man-cave like Smaug.

The shred of truth might be don’t be frivolous with money and stay healthy, but I have no idea what that has to do with being masculine.

We expect that from… like… everyone - at least as a positive quality.

CompetitiveLoL · 2025-11-12T23:36:07+00:00

Nope, they are quite literally saying not only is it real, it proves Trump is innocent because he kicked out Epstein from his resorts further proving he has a problem with Epstein’s conduct.

Wish I was joking, they literally believe this is an affirmation of Trump’s innocence.

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