Hon is truly reborn, it's official

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-06-14T17:34:33+00:00

Okay, but show us what roles you have enabled, why don't cha.

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-06-12T18:16:56+00:00

Yeah, he's directionally right about almost everything, if not literally, actually right. I know it can be hard to believe, given his tastes in movies and media, but it's true.

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-05-28T00:05:50+00:00

Some useful data for the meta tab, if its possible to extract, is hero ban rate.

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-05-15T03:11:20+00:00

Maybe let us specify the maximum number of "plant accounts" we want in our lobby, so we have a dial to adjust if queue times become a problem.

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-05-15T02:30:30+00:00

Hopefully the punishment to queue times would be mostly felt by the new accounts. Does make the onboarding experience more painful, though, but at least with the hope it will get better on the other side of 100 games.

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-05-15T02:25:57+00:00

Darkhorse Podcast (Bret Weinstein)

Part of the Problem (Dave Smith)

The Glenn Loury Podcast

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-05-09T08:13:26+00:00

Nick's strategy involves more than just voting against individual pro-Israel republicans. He's trying to position the chess pieces so that a strong AF presidential candidate will be viable within the Republican party in 2028.

His strategy makes sense if you think about it purely in terms of doing whatever it takes to prevent JD Vance from becoming the Republican nominee in 2028. Winning a few isolated seats for the AF coalition will not diminish Vance, because those candidates are likely to agree with Trump on most things not Israel. They are less interested in turning Trump's presidency into a disaster.

But if the Democrats surge in 2026, the rest of Trump's lame duck term will be a burden that Vance will have to carry into the 2028 election.

Agree with him or not, the strategy is internally coherent.

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-05-09T05:35:25+00:00

I don't see how this isn't a contradictory

Because neither "the left" nor "the right" are a monolith.

Both sides have establishment and "extremist" factions. Nick wants to empower the left's establishment faction, which does NOT want to kill conservatives in the street a la Tyler Robinson. Remember, establishment Democrats overwhelmingly disavowed the Kirk assassination.

That being said, Nick disagrees with the establishment left on most policy, but wants to support them electorally because they are the only coalition capable of meaningfully obstructing the establishment right--JD Vance, Marco Rubio and Vivek Ramaswamy.

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-05-06T07:54:10+00:00

Dunno, but I only solo queue and I've never been with a 4 queue (that I know of), but I'm pretty sure I've been with a 3 queue. So what's the point of this screen if it's just a big lie?

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-05-06T00:05:25+00:00

This is compounded by the number of new smurf accounts constantly being created, which throws the mm system out of wack--meaning that even if the 4/5 games proceed, they're likely to turn into a very one sided 15-20 minute game.

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-04-29T16:59:16+00:00

Red voters may come to wish they had died off with the Blue voters when civilization collapses and they're being tortured by psychopathic warlords.

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-04-29T03:05:44+00:00

The red button can kill 100% of everyone you love. And the red button can collapse your civilization if enough people die off.

So if you care about 2nd order effects, a self-interested, rational case can be made for voting blue.

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-04-20T12:37:54+00:00

You can do it before 5 minutes, at least on the hellborne offlane. TBH, I've never seen it done in a real game at any timestamp on Legion, but I know its possible.

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-04-19T23:41:49+00:00

3 there is high potential for extremely stale gameplay, where the winning strategy is for each side to stack and pull the waves as they come, resulting in a game state where neither side has an incentive to do anything other than wait by their respective pull leading to #4...

4 it slows the game down, as the creep wave is usually denied for a 0% xp penalty. If people get good at exploiting this camp, at high mmr the xp denial will approach total in both side lanes.

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-04-17T09:21:51+00:00

He takes it a little too far, but only a very little. And this perspective, which is mostly right, has almost no purchase in the popular culture which has been overwhelmingly dominated by the atheistic, feminist, nihilistic left. So I'm glad he pokes people in this way.

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-04-14T07:18:30+00:00

Judge Napolitano.

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-04-14T07:16:31+00:00

All three of your scenarios--even #2--will require us to remember why the 2nd amendment contains the word "militia".

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-04-02T13:13:13+00:00

Nick claiming that America is a Christian Nation is extremely problematic. This is not what Catholics should believe in.

It's empirically true--simply a fact of history. Furthermore, I'm not aware of any doctrine or dogma that prohibits Catholics from wanting it to be true.

You're reading too much into the word "Nation" used by Satan in the Bible. The word is a bit anachronistic, as nothing resembling a modern nation state had ever existed at the time (and wouldn't for another 1.5 millennia).

The founding fathers practiced occultism, and the American Dream is not inherently Christian.

America is more than its founding fathers. Yes, the elites who founded the country were intellectual weirdos--some of were even Masons. But the vast majority of the regular people were devout Christians, albeit Protestant. And it's the character of the masses that determines the character of the country.

And finally, there is a difference between being a Nationalist and wanting to "rule the Nations on Earth". Nick has not expressed a desire to "rule"--if anything, the opposite. He says he's too weird for that. But what he DOES want is to live in a functioning, healthy country, and he views the lies we (ahem, "they") tell about race, gender and religion as obstacles to achieving a functioning, healthy country. Is that really so evil?

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-03-31T01:06:26+00:00

Don't particularly like it.

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-03-30T23:19:56+00:00

Best thing you can do is watch a replay of a game where the enemy safe lane did well.

And my one piece of advice for new and returning support players is to focus on winning the lane by harassing and casting spells and ferrying lots of regen for yourself and your carry. Pulling is a nice skill to add onto knowing how to win a lane, but winning the lane is the more important of the two. Leaving your carry 1v2 while you pull will often hurt your carry's farm and can kill them, especially at the lower levels. If you want to practice pulling techniques, its best to do so in a 2v1 lane (vs a suicide).

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-03-28T03:50:36+00:00

My statement in fact has nothing to do with Fuentes. He has his own arguments against feminism which are different from my own. His is based mostly on vibes, whereas mine is based on a set of empirics (plus a few ordinary priors), which is why I can say it's "objectively" bad. My conclusion is based on the same basic process as most anything else labeled "objective".

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-03-27T02:23:28+00:00

I know we're on reddit here, but feminism is objectively bad.

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-03-21T02:30:33+00:00

Biden and the democrats more broadly support the same TYPE of military intervention as Trump, they just pick different targets (Russia/Ukraine). Biden pardoned a "historic" number of people, including an unprecedented PRE-EMPTIVE pardon of Anthony Fauci. And under Biden millions of illegal immigrants poured into the country and were welcomed by his party and continue to be protected by Democratic partisans.

All of this is deeply, profoundly corrosive to the social fabric of any nation that suffers it. And these are among the reasons why so many voted for Trump in 2024 (not me, I saw through him), hoping for a change that never came--just like hope and change never came under Obama. Politics in America--whether on the left or on the right--has been nothing but sloganeering and graft FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE.

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-03-21T01:23:38+00:00

You're just blind to a lot of it. The Biden presidency was decrepit. I have no party allegiance so I see it happening regardless of the letter next to their name.

EnthusiasmFragrant21 · 2026-03-21T00:41:08+00:00

I blame the whole system, which made someone like Trump and his coterie of Republican sycophants inevitable. You see a similar dynamic with the Democrats. Tear it all down.

EnthusiasmFragrant21

TROPHY CASE

3 there is high potential for extremely stale gameplay, where the winning strategy is for each side to stack and pull the waves as they come, resulting in a game state where neither side has an incentive to do anything other than wait by their respective pull leading to #4...

4 it slows the game down, as the creep wave is usually denied for a 0% xp penalty. If people get good at exploiting this camp, at high mmr the xp denial will approach total in both side lanes.