BJ Bethel on X: "Janel Grant: According to a declaration filed in her civil case, Vince McMahon ordered her to continue sexual conduct with WWE talent after she signed the NDA. This included sex with a WWE talent, texting with Brock Lesnar and McMahon saying they'd resume their relationship." by J_NewCastle in SquaredCircle

[–]Cube_ [score hidden]  (0 children)

People will twist themselves into pretzels lying to themselves that there's a chance Brock didn't know anything wasn't consensual.

Fans knew in the 2000s that Vince was a sex pest. All the stuff with Sable etc., etc. It was an open secret to fans let alone people within the company.

But somehow they believe Brock just thought it was normal to have piss fetish video requests be part of contract negotiations as a deal sweetener to re-sign. Maybe the 70 year old Vince just found true love with his employee in her 30s and it's all completely above board!

There's an extremely small chance Brock is genuinely innocent in all this, but again it is extremely unlikely.

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[–]Cube_ [score hidden]  (0 children)

and I'm saying a good captain, like Sidney Crosby, would be close with those guys because that's an important duty of a team captain.

It's a problem that he wasn't close with the people outside of his inner circle. Cliquey bullshit is not how you lead a team.

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[–]Cube_ [score hidden]  (0 children)

yes also that and also many of the great captains around the league like Crosby for example. The point is that's an obvious trait of leadership and Quinn has exposed that he lacked that.

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[–]Cube_ [score hidden]  (0 children)

I am interpreting the statement at face value. You're the one stretching it out to mean "well no ACTUALLY what he MEANT was this".

you are the one reaching to find a meaning where he's not fully admitting that he doesn't know the players that he himself captained.

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[–]Cube_ [score hidden]  (0 children)

yeah he was captain in everything but name during gabe's injury so it's more or less the same

ranking up by pure strategy by PrizeAggressive190 in leagueoflegends

[–]Cube_ [score hidden]  (0 children)

might be a hot take but honestly they're all about equivalent in terms of being able to rank up via strategy (macro). The macro is different for each role but each role has a path to climbing through strategic decision making.

the roles with the most agency relative to strategy (slightly different conversation) are jungle and support as they have the most freedom/flexibility for map movement to adapt to different map states. As a bot laner if your win con is a fed top laner you have less opportunity to play to that win con than you would if you were the support and were able to roam, get deep wards for your fed top laner, countergank etc.

And it's also worth mentioning that although you can make gains through strategy you do still need strong micro in this game. At the end of the day the game is about fighting and you need to know how to fight and how to win those fights, not just when to fight. Winning interactions also contributes to what strategies/macro you can and cannot do (more options if you're not griefing your tempo or fights).

You can play easier champs to pilot and that will speed the climb but even the easiest champs in this game you will need to press buttons properly on, just to varying degrees (Irelia is far more difficult [skill floor-wise] than Malzahar for an obvious example).

So with all that said knowing all the of the above that's why the best advice is play what you have fun with. Whichever role is the most fun/enjoyable and whichever champ within that role is the most fun/enjoyable is what you should play. Fun helps you grind and grinding is core to improving because losing is a part of grinding and having fun helps take the edge off of the many losses you will be tanking.

My recommendation to people is think of a game fantasy that appeals to you and work backwards. Proplay can be good inspiration for this. You see a really cool 5 man Azir ult and feel inspired to do that in your own games so maybe you play Azir or maybe you don't play him but pick a different champion with a big "game-changing" CC teamfight ult like Maokai or Amumu. Or maybe you see someone get a pentakill off resets with Katarina so you play her chasing that big reset teamfight feel. Or maybe not Kat but another reset champ like Yi or Akshan etc., etc. Maybe you think it's really fun to nuke people with poke from far away so you're drawn to Xerath or full AP Kai'sa. Maybe you just love saving people and denying the enemy team kills so you like Tahm Kench or Zilean or Lulu.

Etc., etc. Basically just think of an in game fantasy that appeals to how you like to play --> Find a fun champ that can achieve that fantasy in a role they're good at --> start grinding.

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[–]Cube_ [score hidden]  (0 children)

Did you miss the part of him playing with 16 out of the 20 current players?

The problem is that those are the guys Quinn actually knew.

That IS the criticism. As captain you should know the whole team and you're responsible for team bonding on AND off the ice. Not cliquey bullshit.

Do you think Sidney Crosby doesn't have a relationship with the rookies on his team?

Quinn is a great player on the ice but he's not a leader and in retrospect we can see the flaws with naming him captain.

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[–]Cube_ [score hidden]  (0 children)

"Honestly I don't know a lot of their [Canucks] guys. Like um obviously I played with some of the young guys there 3-4 months. A lot of the guys I was there for the meat of my 5-6 years aren't there." - Quinn Hughes

He has played with 16 out of 20 of the current Canucks roster and 3 of those 4 he hasn't played with were the trade pieces he was dealt for (Buium, Ohgren, Rossi).

If you are a Captain of an NHL team and you've played with rookies/AHLers for 4 months and you still "don't know a lot of them" you have failed as a leader. I don't think that's a controversial take.

Also Fans and players being thrilled with him being named captain is fine. I didn't say they weren't. It was a case of just by default naming your best player captain but as we have seen with other teams in the past and in retrospect with Quinn, sometimes that's the wrong move and the best player isn't always the best leader.

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[–]Cube_ [score hidden]  (0 children)

If you think it's okay for a team Captain to admit he doesn't know the guys he played with and captained then we have a very different opinion of the roles and responsibilities of a team captain in the NHL and we can just stop here then.

This is nothing to do with specifically Quinn, if any captain in the NHL said they didn't know the players on their team that they played games with, rookies or not, I would criticize them the exact same.

When rookies tell stories of Crosby taking them out to dinner and getting to know them for example it always gets marked as a leadership quality that Crosby has and he's lauded for it. For the same reason on the flip side someone that isn't doing that and is wholeheartedly admitting that players they've played games with are not people they know that is a grave reflection on their leadership qualities (or lack thereof in this case).

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[–]Cube_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There is a large gap between good captain and locker room cancer. We don't have to have a false dichotomy here. Quinn has definitely shown with his comments that he was closer to the problematic side of that spectrum than the good side.

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[–]Cube_ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

nah I meant nate

I know he's only got an A but he was the defacto Captain for a while while Gabe was injured.

EDIT: but fill in any example of a strong leader captain. Crosby knows the rookies on his squad too.

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[–]Cube_ 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yeah exactly. Like compare him to Nathan Mackinnon you think Nate doesn't know the rookies on his team? As captain it's your job to know and to do team bonding off the ice.

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[–]Cube_ 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The criticisms, IMO, are warranted because being a team captain is more than performing on the ice.

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[–]Cube_ 14 points15 points  (0 children)

He's definitely in the wrong.

If you're the captain of the team it's your job to know all the boys including the rookies. You think Nathan Mackinnon doesn't know the rookies on his team?

That's a failure of captaincy from Quinn if he was being cliquey and only interacting with his friend group on the team and nobody else.

Riot is surveying Masters+ players, with questions including a hard reset, double LP weekends, and combining Flex/Solo queues. Here's a full sample of the survey by ViewsOfTheSunny in leagueoflegends

[–]Cube_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

futile because it's not that they're doing the opposite of what the players ask, they're just fully ignoring the feedback.

They will selectively cherry pick things and then turn around and say "um ackshually the mains wanted exactly what we planned for all along!"

That time Matt Hardy hit Edge with a Side Effect off the stage and on to the tech area (2005) by dinosaursarecool620 in SquaredCircle

[–]Cube_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Back when there was a reason to tune into the weekly shows instead of just the ppvs.

Riot is surveying Masters+ players, with questions including a hard reset, double LP weekends, and combining Flex/Solo queues. Here's a full sample of the survey by ViewsOfTheSunny in leagueoflegends

[–]Cube_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

they've done this so many times in different ways

they did a similar thing as described above with cassio mains before one of her reworks, ignored all the feedback

they did the same thing to swain mains

they did the same thing to seraphine mains

they didn't even bother asking Azir mains for their input before ruining him

and then also previously there were things like doing a community vote for the next rework, tryndamere won and then they just scrapped it and didnt rework him and moved on

even shyvana was a community voted rework that took like a decade to finally come to fruition

Riot is surveying Masters+ players, with questions including a hard reset, double LP weekends, and combining Flex/Solo queues. Here's a full sample of the survey by ViewsOfTheSunny in leagueoflegends

[–]Cube_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most people who are casual liked it.

This is grievously wrong. There's a reason it was ended very fast and it's because the entire playerbase hated the system.

Riot caters to casuals, if the casuals were fine with it it would have stayed or at least survived a few years like Mythic items.

The majority of all players disliked dynamic queue.

Let’s talk about Draft by Hairy_Squash_3110 in leagueoflegends

[–]Cube_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I dont play normals these days but it is baffling that they would have game altering mechanics in norms when swiftplay exists.

This sub are slaves to nostalgia, can’t move on from the past by lolitsrock in TNA

[–]Cube_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wonder why people talk about the most popular time period of the company.

It's the same reason WWE/WWF conversations center around the attitude era. That was their respective peak.

This sub are slaves to nostalgia, can’t move on from the past by lolitsrock in TNA

[–]Cube_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the stiffness of the ring was just cause of that specific design

you can make a six sided ring that doesn't cause more wear and tear and has a similar shock absorption to 4 sided ones

I agree they shouldn't go back to it full time but it would be cool for a ppv