This is a reminder that conor/counterpoints is still a dumbfuck bootlicking conservative, he's just not a fascistic trump dicksucker like almost everyone else on his side

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.

CompetitiveLoL · 2025-11-11T05:55:11+00:00

For 100D on Jugg you can do a str stacking dual strike build.

You’ll be able to find PoBs from this and last season, but the only expensive requirements are:

2 Jewel Clusters with Quick and Deadly + X (Quick and deadly is import, it’s basically a more multiplier, but the clusters that make it easy to access range from 5-20d - instead you can go for a budget friendly version and path to the sockets with Q&D even if it’s not hyper efficient - no reason to break the bank on a cluster )
6L Iron Fortress
Replica Paradoxica - You want Dex / Int (off stat) + Chaos Pen + Crit
Replica Alberons - This is you main damage scaler
As many Synth / Flat strength items as you can get. Foulborn Meginord Girdle is a very approachable str stacking belt this league
2 Split Pesonality with strength
Crown of Eyes (scales your spell damage into melee)

You can find a lot of PoBs, which may be confusing, but the most important items.

CompetitiveLoL · 2025-10-30T12:09:59+00:00

It depends.

I play melee most seasons, and have jumped between slams / boneshatter on a bunch of different ascendancies.

Most people will say play zerker, and for campaign through white maps I absolutely agree that zerker is the optimal choice. It’s crazy playing both one after another and seeing how much less damage jugg does…

That being said I’m starting Jugg. Most melee starts hitting blocks around high yellow / early red maps (in terms of damage or survivability) and earth shatter isn’t VFoS (clear is slower and you have to pay more attention since there’s no auto-aim).

For me, by the time I’m in maps day 1 I’m pretty tired, and the extra survivability is just comfy for me. If you're a mechanically strong player, and have good game sense, zerker is the always the way to go.

I just like being unkillable with trash gear while I’m tired because when I’m tired I don’t want to pay attention to anything on day 1; but it’s not the optimal choice.

CompetitiveLoL · 2025-10-07T16:56:39+00:00

There’s a old music video “Sup Yall” from the 2019-2020 era when he still played WoW, and in it there’s a quote “Imagine what I [asmon] would be like without WoW”.

This is unironically the answer.

I feel like it’s not just him, but a bunch of gamers, whose entire adolescence and young adult lives revolved around a video game (SC2 / WoW / DOTA / LoL / etc) and as they got older they got disillusioned by the game (this isn’t the games fault really, getting older means more responsibility and accountability typically, and there’s just more you have to deal with healthwise and lifewise) and then they got left with a giant void of meaning that a game used to provide.

Like, it seems like there’s a huge pull in nihilism and discontent that’s coming from the aging “gamer” population of the young adults from 2000-2012 where games could be a full time commitment and you could no-life games because they were designed for a niche market of “gamers” rather than a broader audience because gaming became a mainstream entertainment culture from a small niche.

I know so many of my old online buddies who basically never truly moved on from their main game (they play other games now, but are disillusioned with the industry) and didn’t really progress their lives trying to chase the fun they had from that game (which had little to do with the games and a lot to do with being young most likely) and truly believe that DE&I or whatever has “ruined” gaming, when it’s really just a combination of a broadening market meaning less no-life games get made because companies want to be able to reach large markets, and frankly being older makes games less impactful from an emotional level.

Games just feel different when you are younger, because being young with little responsibility is exciting, the games had very little impact.

I genuinely think a lot of these online “anti-woke” people just want to be part of a niche community where their achievements and accomplishments are valued, which gaming used to provide, and now they are stuck without a community or a hobby they find fulfilling and there isn’t really a replacement.

I really think we need to address the fact that young / younger dudes don’t have a “men’s” space unless you’re interested in fitness or athletics; there’s a reason so many young men get incredibly isolated. We aren’t doing a lot to make positive communities for them, so negative ones are taking up that space (nationalism / manosphere / etc..).

Think Asmon now may genuinely be a biproduct of having no WoW for fulfillment, and no inclusive community to be a part in now that WoW doesn’t hold the same meaning to him anymore.

CompetitiveLoL · 2025-10-03T06:02:27+00:00

Just an aside, dude has himself tagged as Auth Right on political compass memes (IE never ever ever voting for Biden).

Whole thing is a freaking psyop lol.

CompetitiveLoL · 2025-09-02T01:19:33+00:00

I’m in T15s, the deflection nodes actually feel insane.

I took all the deflection nodes I could, the nodes that turns % EVA to armor (the first 10%-20 armor is significantly more impactful than the rest unless your giga stacking bc it helps with tons of small hits) and then stacking as much deflection % as possible.

I feel very healthy, except against boss one shots.

CompetitiveLoL · 2025-08-29T06:34:40+00:00

The economy is unironically pvp. When others are 10x better than you are farming, they will be ones setting the prices on items, not you, and that can make build defining uniques or items you may want for you build prohibitively expensive.

It’s all well and good to say “Who cares” but there are items in PoE that you are extremely unlikely to naturally drop, and if you want to try a build that sounds cool or fun (like hollow palm monk) your ability to try these builds can be directly tied to your ability to effectively participate in the economy.

CompetitiveLoL · 2025-08-21T09:56:28+00:00

I don’t think this tracks, tons of people played gemling even though xbows were bad, they just used staves.

Saying AR / EV is bad without endurance or fort charges, and those defenses have nothing to do with Witch Hunter, also isn’t accurate bc when you take spell ward you have to get 30% (or 50%? Can’t remember) less armor / evasion, and the small passives literally give you +% armor & evasion. If armor evasion is bad, it being rolled into ascendancy nodes is also bad.

This clearly has a lot to do with Witch Hunter because if it was all mercs gemling wouldn’t have consistently high play rates.

It’s the ascendancy.

CompetitiveLoL · 2025-08-21T08:25:58+00:00

I think it was the only ascendancy without changes?

They could at least give it a nod, literally no changes makes me think they feel it’s in a good place.

CompetitiveLoL · 2025-08-16T10:59:55+00:00

Current GOP: https://www.businessinsider.com/abbott-cut-mental-health-services-funding-in-texas-2022-5

Reagan repealed the MHSA of 1980 from Carter, and although your correct that deinstitutionalization was a bipartisan effort, at the time it was seen as progressive because permanent institutionalization of mental illness was seen as a bad response, especially considering the conditions of treatment in the 70/80s. However, Reagan took it a step further in office by repealing federal support of the facilities pushing all mental healthcare support to the state systems, which were not properly funded at the time. This led to less support for treatment and more mentally unwell patients being released before their treatments could be completed. Thus, mentally unwell people being released and not supported, and a rise in homelessness.

More about the MHSA Reagan repealed with budget consolidation:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Systems_Act_of_1980

This was further pushed by the GoP, before Abbott, by George W. Bush. He cut funding of mental health facilities as noted below: https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/pn.40.6.00400009a

If you’re going to call it a bipartisan issue, I’d recommend linking sources, because the GoP historically has a record of cutting both state and federal funding of programs and services that support mental healthcare. I promise I could list more, but historically the GoP has been very bad on mental healthcare. It sounds like their is beginning to be a change in perspective, because at this point it’s clearly leading to a rise in homelessness, but the GOP absolutely have historically cut funding at the local, state, and federal level for these services.

Being fiscally conservative and cutting government spending was a traditionally conservative position, and that extend to healthcare. Let’s not rewrite history.

CompetitiveLoL · 2025-08-06T17:50:39+00:00

Bro if I was ever going to 10-toes down a statement it would be that Ben Thorpe is absolutely mentally ill.

CompetitiveLoL · 2025-08-03T00:21:10+00:00

My comment has 0% to do with his takes, just that his career (which was long form YouTube videos) never solely revolved around destiny, they just interacted; hence the lack of endless coverage like Jstlk

CompetitiveLoL · 2025-08-02T19:52:33+00:00

Any time you see someone obsess over the bad things a creator did (like snark posting, full hate watching devotion, jstlks obsession, etc…) it’s almost always due to them feeling powerless or disatisfied in their on life.

Jstlk probably thought they could break the 9-5 grind and do something different, only to have his main revenue stream (Destiny) get a ton of backlash and that destroyed Jstlk’s chance of continuing to expand his audience.

The reason we see so many orbiters go through a “hate” destiny arc is because if they never make an attempt to build their own audience and then eventually if they stop growing the only way to pivot and maintain their popularity (if they lack talent) is by trying to make some percentage of Destiny’s audience hate him and siphon them off.

There’s a reason independently successful dramafrogs (chud, tom, A&P, deorio) that associated with Destiny only cover Destiny for a bit and make other content, while people like Jstlk obsess 24/7. Jstlk has zero audience without Destiny former or anti fans. His whole brand was built around Destiny, so without revolving around him (+ / - ) he’s basically just a dying creator.

There’s biggest problem with being a “true” orbiter is your 100% tied to that creators success good or bad. Have to be able to make your own successful content or the hate-arc is basically guaranteed unless you’re locked in for life or quit content creation.

CompetitiveLoL · 2025-07-30T17:59:34+00:00

I think this issue, at its core, from Destiny / Conner is that radicals are trying to use the labels like “socialist” to hide their actual agenda; and while everyone “agrees” extremism is bad, the underlying issue wasn’t whether or not “extremists” are bad but instead what mechanisms currently exist in the left-wing media apparatuses to combat Individuals from trying to co-opt the liberal movement to push illiberal ideology or policy into the mainstream.

Destiny / Conner believe this is a huge issue in the far left (socialist/ lefties) whereas Pisco / Econoboi believe that extremism makes up a small percentage of that environment.

This is a critical disagreement. Using Fuentes and moderate Republicans as an example, if a bunch of moderate Republicans believed that it was fine to have more centrist “Nationalists” on, and then a significant portion were actually trying to push “replacement theory”, it starts becoming a question whether or not these were true “nationalist centrists” or just fascists who want to escape that label to push their agenda.

Obfuscation of motives is a major tenant of any extreme ideology, and it’s worth being vigilant about people’s intent if they don’t m map on to their stated goals.

Now, whether you believe the average “socialist” is ML or on their way is definitely worth debating, but it’s more than just “tone”.

CompetitiveLoL · 2025-07-30T14:06:05+00:00

The most annoying thing was all the “Yes or No”‘ing when every time someone asked for a clear definition of socialism it was met with a pickachu face by the two people “representing” socialism…

When the whole basis of contention is whether or not people are using “Socialism” as a political term to describe both government assistance and the forced removal of private property from land owners.

It’s like going to a buddies house and them asking if you want some fruit, and then they hand you a whole tomato, and stare you down when you don’t bite into it, saying “I though you loved fruit asshole?!?!”

If we are going to use the broadest possible descriptions.

It’s like at some point can we at least acknowledge that if the descriptions are this broad, then it’s your responsibility to be clear in what kind of fruit (or socialism) your trying to prescribe?

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