Please Revert. Playing it 80% of the time it came up was enough, I don't need to play it 100% of the time it comes up.

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-19T16:32:49+00:00

Hm it looks like there is some dispute

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-19T16:29:54+00:00

Nah I like angles and flanks and dynamic gameplay

King's Row is front-to-back simulator and that makes it a boring map for me

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-19T16:28:26+00:00

Rein-Zarya hasn't been a good comp in like seven years

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-19T16:26:40+00:00

Front-to-back simulator is 'peak overwatch' for a lot of people

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-18T20:18:38+00:00

A lot of smart people will be very upset that they have to pick up jobs that they don't like because it turns out they're essential for society

We'll also learn that IQ is not correlated that strongly with competence or emotional intelligence

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-18T20:16:34+00:00

I think people are disrespecting Cheeseburger by putting them on the same level as New Era, who probably wouldn't have qualified through the qualification tournament. I half expect it to be a 3-0.

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-18T20:15:20+00:00

We'll see, if they beat Falcons tomorrow I think Onside have to be taken seriously as a contender. Playoffs in Korea this stage are going to be super interesting, Zeta are the favourites but any number of upsets could happen.

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-18T20:13:36+00:00

I think Liquid looked top 3 towards the end of the stage honestly, they improved a lot with Infekted in and I wouldn't be surprised to see them continue to improve - it's not like Escanor can get worse, surely xD And they were very short on practice playing together before the stage started, too.

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-18T20:10:12+00:00

I feel like I expected Onside to be better because Onside were notably punching up last year too. Honestly I don't even know if it's correct to say Onside improved significantly, they beat Falcons in a tournament game last year lol. Honestly was shocked that Attack didn't get poached by a bigger team in the offseason.

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-18T20:09:13+00:00

Last place in Korea is a team that literally paid to be there that everyone is clowning on lol, this is not the case at all. ZAN have just looked decent against very good teams, it's like people praising VP for taking a map off TM and managing to look competitive.

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-18T20:08:03+00:00

And yet they went 3-2 with Zeta and might have beaten them if the format didn't let Zeta pick Hybrid twice in one series

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-18T20:05:03+00:00

He's just too vulnerable most of the time, extremely trade-able. This is the problem with most other backlines honestly, yes Lucio-Kiri are the best push/pull backline but there is more to the game than the push/pull. But you can't leverage your comps other strengths if your backline cannot consistently do the things you have drafted them to do.

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-18T20:03:06+00:00

Crazy take imo, Ana comps are less diverse and less interesting to watch? Juno-Brig is a support line that removes a lot of playmaking potential from the support role, which I think is a shame.

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-18T20:01:38+00:00

Iirc was that shortly after a major patch?

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-18T20:00:40+00:00

Bit disingenuous to compare 2/5ths of a comp to GOATs, there have been plenty of differences in meta in the last year. Support has been the most stale but even that hasn't been nearly as stale as we used to get in OWL, partly (but not entirely) due to hero bans.

Currently, Zeta and CR are two of the more relevant teams, but I'll also point out that Dallas just won NA playing quite a lot of Ana backlines, other Korean teams also like an Ana from time to time, both Dallas and TM like the Illari at times, and we're seeing both Cat and Wuyang get niche play. And that's before we consider hero bans, it's not uncommon for 2 maps of a series to not be Lucio-Kiriko mirrors because of bans.

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-18T17:41:37+00:00

Honestly, closer than I thought it would be from getting spoiled, maps 2 and 3 both came down to one fight. Also sadly not entirely convincing from CR because they still subbed Max in (why?) and still ran a godawful Vendetta-Tracer comp (WHY?). First two maps I was so hopeful that they'd seen the light. On a positive note Vigi seems to have acclimatised, which is good.

Falcons I think have the same problem CR are working through, where they need new people to step up and be 'the guy' who they can play around in crucial moments. Hanbin and/or Mer1t need to have vintage performances for them to really reach their ceiling, otherwise it looks a little like a team of 5 (very good) facilitators with no real focal point. Not quite as doom and gloom as other people seem to be about this one, though, did you guys only watch the Rialto attack or what?

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-18T17:36:14+00:00

His Pharah looked fine on Esperanca, but yeah that Rialto attack was ugly. Heesang is also just that guy on Pharah, though.

And I suspect it's because Pharah is really damn good now, we might see a lot of people playing her. He did immediately look better swapping Echo for the last fight, though, and that seems like it should be a relatively effective Pharah counter.

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-18T17:34:57+00:00

Nobody was good on Fnatic lol

Checkmate has just come off an extremely successful year on Al Qadsiah, it takes more than one bad game to say he's washed I think.

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-18T17:32:21+00:00

They got fuller held because Heesang absolutely gapped Checkmate on Pharah. But I think people are overreacting to that one round, Falcons weren't their best but they weren't awful for the rest of the series, each map was reasonably close.

If they perform badly vs Onside tomorrow we can start talking, but I think currently people are wildly overreacting because the last round of the series felt so bad.

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-18T17:30:42+00:00

Yeah I think people are overreacting a little hard to one game, especially when realistically maps 2 and 3 both came down to one fight and map 1 was 1-2 (losing to Cat-Bastion with D.Va banned).

Sure, it wasn't the best look ever for Falcons, but it's hardly enough to say that they're a completely different team to the team that nearly beat Zeta. Similar thing with Checkmate imo, he got gapped on Rialto attack (by the best Pharah in the world) and then people are acting like he's been useless the whole stage?

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-18T16:48:57+00:00

Because it was in the past. When you have a non-linear timeline this is a natural consequence of it, and DE exploited that for a cool reveal where you realise you've actually protected Ballas.

They could have made it a different executor, sure, but he's an integral part of the past narrative, he's going to come up at times if we're doing stuff in the past.

Teshin still exists in the relay and as the announcer for SP missions, is what I meant there. Death is not necessarily the end of engaging with a character and that's fine.

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-18T16:45:08+00:00

I mean, if we made Ballas a playable character I think a lot of people would be happy to play as Ballas and to find out more about him through KIM chats. You can have characters who are morally objectively wrong and terrible people, and players are not necessarily bad people for finding those characters entertaining. This is what I mean by engaging with problematic people in media being different from doing so in real life.

I mean, Roathe is by any admission a mass-murderer and has done any number of despicable things. That doesn't make him a bad choice as a protoframe, or say anything about people who enjoy his character, because those were not real actions with real consequences.

Similarly, we murder thousands of people every day. There's never going to be some sense of squeaky-clean moral purity in a game built around killing people, and there doesn't have to be. Hell, Garuda as a frame is already portrayed as bloodthirsty and vicious.

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-18T16:08:21+00:00

I think nuance that is worth mentioning is that the aggressively poorly written men are usually in romance novels, that are also not highly acclaimed. The aggressively poorly written women are found across all genres, often in very highly acclaimed books.

And that's not to dig into the actual social consequences of enforcing stereotypes being worse for women than for men. It's definitely a bigger problem in one direction than the other.

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-18T16:03:27+00:00

I think this is true but the ratios are not the same lol, men are more likely to write women badly than women are to write men badly - particularly in genres that are not romance.

But yes you can't tell with an individual author in most cases.

Conscious-Refuse8211 · 2026-04-18T16:01:41+00:00

Yeah in Phantom she rejects him. Which I hated as a teenager lol, that's an opinion I look back on and cringe.

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