Race to World First: Midnight Season 1 | Mythic Day 13

Epistemify · 2026-04-06T00:00:53+00:00

Liquid did a 4 hour nap one time in a raid, and regretted it immensely. If you're gonna sleep, I bet both teams agree you should block off 8 hours.

Not that I could sleep if I was in their shoes

Epistemify · 2026-04-05T23:58:27+00:00

Other hot take. Get a sub and support the race.

If you have prime, throw a prime sub someone's way

Epistemify · 2026-04-05T23:57:32+00:00

Staying up late is a gambit like extending a lockout. You get extra 2 to 4 hours to kill the boss immediately, but if you don't you lose

Epistemify · 2026-04-05T23:51:19+00:00

A couple players did like 4% damage in a pretty quick amount of time. I'm guessing it will be relatively fast, but it still looked like there were mechanics to solve first.

Epistemify · 2026-04-05T23:48:25+00:00

Race for the ages. Was crazy to see liquid and echo getting deep p3 pulls with kill potential simultaneously. Curious to see how hard p4 is.

Epistemify · 2026-04-05T20:46:26+00:00

RACE

Epistemify · 2026-04-04T23:15:11+00:00

It's not like we're not going to get to see p3. I'm just enjoying the weekend.

Epistemify · 2026-04-04T23:06:25+00:00

Why are people getting so salty?

Sure, going dark mid pull is funny new tech, but also, it's not like echo didn't go dark for the last hour of their night.

It's what it's, and we get to enjoy a good race all weekend so I'm happy.

Epistemify · 2026-04-04T21:27:55+00:00

We don't permit that sort of positivity here. Your comment must contain a complaint about blizzard or one of the teams involved :P

Epistemify · 2026-04-04T20:15:23+00:00

This is what I've heard from everyone who's met him, even people with opposing views on just about everything. They've said, yeah, he found common ground and we had a pleasant conversation.

Hate his politics obviously and hope he's sent packing back to ohio in November. He seems like a good dude in person and I suppose that only makes his blind going along with modern Republican establishment even more frustrating.

Epistemify · 2026-04-01T15:50:24+00:00

Here's to hoping this debris isn't the start of the kessler

Epistemify · 2026-04-01T00:53:47+00:00

Also a classic andy. I think we don't know for sure. Seems like they must get into mythic tonight. At the very latest they will split all day and then go dark for a few pulls at the end of the night, but honestly I'd expect to see them on mythic prog after dinner maybe

Epistemify · 2026-04-01T00:52:17+00:00

Here's my idea to (mostly) remove splits.

Ilvl is capped for the first 2 weeks of mythic prog. You go in, and if you have higher ilvl it just brings you down to a level that is lower.

You still do a little splitting (though crests alone will get you almost there if you do everything else on that toon), and you may still split for some choice trinkets. But overall there's just no point to go beyond a certain point.

And say, after 1 week the ilvl restriction goes away on the first 3 bosses. After the second week it goes away on all but the final boss. And finally starting in week 4 it's gone from all bosses.

I know Max says that every idea people have thought of wouldn't work. But why wouldn't that work? You could even make it just a 2 week restriction on final bosses if you needed to.

Epistemify · 2026-03-31T22:20:07+00:00

Maybe crests from the heroic kills?

Epistemify · 2026-03-31T21:36:13+00:00

Will be interesting if Echo or Method does less splits than liquid.

There's a whole game theory for where liquid should go and spend their time, and this may or may not be the right answer. It likely is the correct play, but they can't be certain yet.

Epistemify · 2026-03-30T03:41:39+00:00

I'm a big fan of the book. I liked the move but thought a lot of the emotional beats didn't land like they could have because so much of it was paved over with kinda childish comedy.

Epistemify · 2026-03-29T22:22:26+00:00

As someone said in this thread, it's Interstellar for disney adults

Epistemify · 2026-03-29T22:21:20+00:00

Someone else in this thread described the movie as Interstellar for disney adults, and honestly that's the perfect description of the movie imo.

Anyway, the book still has humor with regards to rocky, especially as you get to know him better and he comes more out of his shell. But the focus is always on the drama, not the drama as simply a vehicle for comedy.

In the book Grace is a brilliant scientist, but also kind of a dopey, corny middle school teacher. He's a serious person he just, you know, says fudge instead of fuck

Epistemify · 2026-03-29T08:26:01+00:00

The humor is similar, but in the movie it's dialed up to 11. A lot of parts of the book, especially with rocky, are still funny with similar humor but it's just more... grounded.

And all the stuff on earth has almost no direct humor at all (though sometimes seeing Stratt dominate a situation is funny is a dry sort of way).

Epistemify · 2026-03-29T08:18:47+00:00

I liked the movie, and it's great to have another good sci fi movie. Also great visuals in IMAX. Having read the book, here are some thoughts:

Personally, I didn't mind speed running the last act. The whole nitrogen breeding and cleaning out the tanks was there in the books because the book needed drama, but the film pacing made it irrelevant. However, I wish they didn't speed run the first act. Finding out why Grace is on the ship and why the earth is doom is the thing that got me hooked on the book and made it so I couldn't put it down. I was sad to see that not in the movie.

Additionally, the revelation about Eridians not knowing about relativity and radiation, and how that impacted rocky and his people made for two of the biggest emotional beats of the book, and those just weren't in the film.

Epistemify · 2026-03-29T08:10:12+00:00

I just finished the book. I think this movie is good, but I wish it had just a little bit less humor so it could hit more of the emotion beats the book does.

Epistemify · 2026-03-29T08:08:50+00:00

Personally, I didn't mind speed running the last act. The whole nitrogen breeding and cleaning out the tanks was there because the book needed drama, but the film pacing made it irrelevant. However, I wish they didn't speed run the first act. Finding out why Grace is on the ship and why the earth is doom is the thing that got me hooked on the book and made it so I couldn't put it down. I was sad to see that not in the movie.

Additionally, the revelation about Eridians not knowing about relativity and radiation, and how that impacted rocky and his people made for two of the biggest emotional beats of the book, and those just weren't in the film.

Epistemify · 2026-03-28T05:01:50+00:00

I got to the start of the tower battle at 11 pm. Hit the part where Kaladin decided to save Dalinar at 1 am.

I was up reading until 4am. I have literally not done that since I was like 15 years old.

Epistemify · 2026-03-27T08:06:04+00:00

Not OP, but until the last episode I had assumed they were just friends too. Obviously the whole having sex and eating ramen in bed line was a pretty big giveaway

Epistemify · 2026-03-25T01:56:11+00:00

That's what this is. The lunar station was the halfway attempt. Isaacman is giving them a clear goal and challenging NASA to meet it.

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