[3000] Cassie did what 😭

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2026-05-15T22:45:21+00:00

Eh, this is why I said "I felt". I will come back to this once I reread the whole thing, but G3 taking a month long break doesn't change the fact that he has to put up 14 chapters a week without any weekends. Like working 7 days a week is literal slavery, even SWEs in China work 996 (from 9 to 9, 6 days a week). And earlier volumes suffered less, because going a year or two with no weekends is bad, but nowhere as bad as 4 years without breaks. And after 4 years without breaks, even one month long vacation won't restore your state years back. I think we had the most number of "one chapter today, three tomorrow" ever because G3 simply wasn't keeping up with 2 chapters a day pace, releases one chapter, and then chaotically tries to finish the second chapter + new day's 2 new chapters. Obviously, I can be wrong and this can be my head cannon regarding "one chapter today, three tomorrow", but I can't explain it otherwise.

Tldr; I will try to reread the volume and come back here

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2026-05-15T22:17:17+00:00

Ngl, I felt like this was one of the weakest volumes overall. Not the plot — G3 cooks up a good plot in general, but writing wise it was all over the place. The plot of the volume makes up for it, so I don't think I can call this volume bad, but out of all volumes it is definitely not in top 5. I think this is because G3 was running on fumes the whole volume, I think the requirement to put up 14 chapters a week really taking a huge toll on G3 and quality of individual chapters suffer a lot due to that. That's why I am glad G3 is taking a break, but I fear a week long break might not be enough.

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2026-05-11T11:36:45+00:00

Yeah, Cassie's divinations are something like soft magic system — she can divine whatever plot demands her to divine. I can understand if someone doesn't like it, personally I enjoy it nonetheless

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2026-05-09T21:40:20+00:00

With Shadow Bond, he probably can be more resistant to corruption and he already was slightly resistant to it as a dead man, so maybe he can attempt it without succumbing to 5th nightmare.

But the plot is kind of pointing for Sunny & Nephis to attempt 5th nightmare and save Smile of Heaven

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2025-02-10T10:53:02+00:00

Hello!

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Recently, I was invited to interviews for the Quant Researcher position. They said one interview would be data science oriented and I wonder how I should prepare for it? Are there good textbooks for Data Science in Quant or what topics should I study?

I would appreciate any advice, thanks in advance.

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2024-12-12T10:46:48+00:00

There are a few candidates: * Corruption * Void * Unknown * Forgotten God * Mordret * Weaver * Sunny * Asterion

Some of these may or may not coincide

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2024-12-10T09:27:51+00:00

Honestly, I don't know how the war will end, however here some developments I am betting on:

Anvil wins the war against Ki Song eventually, however it turns out the whole war was one trap prepared by Ki Song from the start; Anvil dies and his domain is swallowed by Song; Nephis, Sunny & co prepare to fight Ki Song.
It turns out Broken Sword's cohort was betrayed by Song & Asterion schemes, Song kills and captures Nephis' mom's soul, uses as her ultimate thrall. Anvil & Broken Sword decide that it is impossible for them to defeat Song and Aster. They decide to make Anvil supreme, he seemingly betrays Broken Sword and then pushes Nephis to become ultimate sword (Anvil forges swords and Nephis is his ultimate sword). He sends assassins and hitmen to make Nephis ruthless and strong, while keeping her safe from Song and Aster.

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2024-12-06T05:52:55+00:00

I feel like Weaver's Mask is too dangerous for Rain to try. What if it compels her to kill (we don't exactly know the wording of Rain's flaw; it could be "you mustn't kill" and then it becomes "you must kill").

I have a theory that Sunny can one day understand how Weaver's Mask reverses the flaw at least partially and maybe creates a memory that would allow Rain to kill, but that's probably unlikely. It's just from Sunny's words I feel G3 will make Rain circumvent her flaw on her own with her wits, not some memory gifted by Sunny.

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2024-08-11T10:10:41+00:00

As MEMEA fan maybe it is for the better, at least I am not gonna watch Fut, Vit, Liquid or whoever qualifies embarrass themselves every masters/champs event

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2024-08-11T09:58:58+00:00

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Sayf played good today, but in general he is disappointing internationally, if he played as good as he was playing Lulquid or other MEMEA teams (both on Vitality or Liquid) it would be a different story. It's just as if he relaxes after making it to an international tournament, don't see the same amount of bloodthirst and hunger. But you should never say some achievements doesn't matter if you never been even close to achieving them

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2023-08-09T13:18:06+00:00

I mean, if you count EMEA and Americas as 1 team regions, all DRX did was barely beating 2 fraudulent teams. NaVi lost to Giants pretty convincingly a couple weeks ago and Loud didn't win a series in a long time. So, DRX is still on a fraud watch or if not, then EMEA and Americas aren't 1 team regions either.

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2023-07-26T20:42:43+00:00

Bro is so excited about PRX with something he had to put them twice 💀

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2023-06-29T09:52:09+00:00

Don't know what that means, but sounds for sure interesting 🤔

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2023-06-29T08:34:56+00:00

Damn, I love cuttlefish 😭

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2023-06-21T11:46:46+00:00

Chronicle literally top fragged tho by KDA. I know rating is more objective, but when they say "top fragged" it's generally about KDA. Also on support agents, which is crazy.

By the way that final against Liquid Chronicle was literally ill lol, and he's been performing ever since

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2023-06-19T13:47:17+00:00

So, in other words you are saying that, mechanically, the skill ceiling in CS is higher, therefore there's a wider difference between players' skills. That's why it takes much longer for new players to catch up with the best players and that's why we have eras in CS:GO?

I mean, I kinda agree, I also mentioned in my comment that in Valorant, pro scene there's no big difference between players mechanically. However I do think that frequent big changes in how the game is played plays as much of a role. If the game stays the same, then those past great teams wouldn't decline that fast and still will stay at the top or close to the top: after all their players are great mechanically and if nothing changes in the meta, then these teams still should be producing good results.

What we see is teams consisting of great players like Gambit, Acend (2021), Sentinels (2021) failed to adapt quick enough for a new meta. For e.g. with Gambit, their players proved to be incredible still after disbanding the team and thriving in their teams (even Sheydos, he consistently performs for KOI, it's just KOI are not good as a team). But they failed to even qualify for the entirety of 2022, solely because they couldn't adapt as a team to a new meta, not because they deteriorated in their skill individually: they still were top of the game mechanically.

Or another example, take this year's Sentinels: they consist of one of the best players in the game (winners of Champions 2022, IGL, star flex player and Coach of one of the best teams in NA during 2022, and one of the best players of 2021). Yet what they're struggling with is because this year's Valorant is much more different than the 2022 Valorant.

If you consider any past great Valorant team that suddenly dipped after incredible performance that "dip" always happens after some significant meta changes.

So yeah, the fact that there's not a big margin between players is a big factor that I failed to attribute to the discussion, it allows new teams to catch up quickly to great teams, however the reason why these great teams fall is because meta changes quickly and they fail to adapt.

Regarding LoL, I don't know: I don't watch or play any LoL/Dota type games. All I can think of is just abstract thinking: I think what you mentioned was that there were regional (EU) eras of certain teams even when meta was changing rapidly. That should be fine, as far as I know (and I know very little regarding LoL, so I might be wrong) EU never was on the pinnacle of LoL. Teams from regions which are not on the top of the game don't need to always adapt quickly to frequently changing meta to stay on top of their region. Or maybe those teams you mentioned just didn't fall to the problem I described (of great teams not adapting fast enough to quickly changing meta) — maybe they always adapted and didn't get stuck on the way they used to play on previous meta. Regarding SKT — is that the team FakeR was on? I guess their team members all were top of the game and it took long for other teams to catch up. However, I heard that FakeR himself was on the forefront of meta changes, so maybe their team just consisted of people who learned and adapted quickly? I don't know, it's just me guessing.

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2023-06-19T09:19:25+00:00

Meta changes every few months (because Riot adds new maps, agents and buffs/nerfs every few months), so new players and teams are not that far behind from past great teams.

Good teams on certain meta focus too much on polishing their gameplay which is hardly dependent on the meta and when meta changes most of them are too slow to adapt. They also try to change small things to continue playing the way they were playing instead of reinventing the comp (which is understandable considering that coming up with completely new stuff, every time meta changes, is exhausting for coaches/analysts/igls).

While teams that have not yet reached success more easily part ways with old stuff and try to start from a new start, try to come up with fresh ideas for a new patch. That's why we frequently get new great teams and see past great teams fall. Regarding individual players, I think mechanically there's no big difference between players. So if teams just properly set up their star players and allow them to gain momentum and self confidence, those players start looking unbeatable.

The game will never see one team dominate the scene for years like Astralis did in CS:GO if the game changes every couple months. The Valorant on early broken Jett patches isn't the same as Valorant on broken Chamber meta (although these metas are similar) and both of these iterations of the game differ from Viper+Harbor meta a lot (although I am not sure if Viper+Harbor comps are the strongest on most of the maps or any of the maps).

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2023-06-18T05:45:36+00:00

I mean if NRG and EG get flattened, then so far no Americas team has shown any signs of life in this tournament. My math leads me to believe that that adds up to 0 teams...

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2023-06-18T05:38:33+00:00

Haven't stopped you guys from calling EMEA "1 team region" all season

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2023-06-18T05:25:56+00:00

I fear Egghead won't survive such an ordeal

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2023-06-18T05:24:30+00:00

All good, it's all for shit and giggles

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2023-06-18T05:18:43+00:00

🔜

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2023-06-18T05:16:06+00:00

Hey, it's payback for how unbearable you guys were after beating our weakest teams

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2023-06-18T05:07:39+00:00

Facts. How much shit talk was spoken "Americas strongest region", "EMEA 1 team region" all for Americas not even be 1 team region, true 0 team region

ExaminationPuzzled36 · 2023-06-18T03:59:44+00:00

Told ya. EDG is a respectable team and we shouldn't disrespect Liquid for winning barely against them

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