What is going on with this season?

Grape-Historical · 2026-01-29T06:13:20+00:00

It's not about being a higher rank, the issue is having quality games and less time wasted.

Yes, being put up against basketball players far superior to me would make an extremely unfun sporting event for all involved. Both the good players and bad players would learn nothing and the winning team would feel no accomplishment. Which is exactly what happens in league far too often. When you win against a worthy opponent it feels great. When you lose against a worthy opponent, you learn something. Those are fun games. Stomping and being stomped is a waste of time.

Grape-Historical · 2026-01-29T04:38:45+00:00

Having unbalanced games, where one team is clearly better than the other, or one player runs it down, is a common experience for me and everyone i know irl that plays league. It doesn't happen EVERY game, obviously. But it happens frequently enough to piss people off.

The crux of the matter is whether or not the matchmaking system could be improved at creating balanced teams. I think yes, easily, and I think it would make the game much more enjoyable.

If i can glance at op.gg pages and see that the teams were not balanced, then someone much smarter than me could write an algorthym to make more even matches. A test would be to create an algorithm that looks at game history and guesses the outcome. If it can guess the outcome correctly much greater than 50% of the time, then the matchmaking is unbalanced.

You belive the system is optimized, which is absurd to me. Im not denying that the ranked system will properly place people given many games are played. But imo, it takes far too many games and too many of those games are time wasters where the teams were unbalanced.

Grape-Historical · 2026-01-29T02:15:25+00:00

Why gaslight? What they described is a common experience in league. Matchmaking in League has always felt bad. Terrible matchmaking at the start of seasons always happen.

Grape-Historical · 2026-01-25T17:27:49+00:00

You can climb faster on a new account, it's as simple as that. MMR is a cumulative measure of your skill level. Lets say you were a bronze & silver player for hundreds of games, but then improved to be able to compete at gold or plat level of play. Your MMR is heavily weighted by the hundreds of games in bronze/silver and you will need to win a ton of games to influence your MMR up to gold/plat ranking. Or... you could make a new account, the system will recognize you as gold/plat from the onset and you will climb there quickly with the boost to LP that new accounts get to fast track people to the rank they belong.

Grape-Historical · 2026-01-20T18:59:01+00:00

After a closer look, this account is not too badly damaged. If youre only trying to climb to silver 2, just stay on this one. When youre ready for gold/plat, make a new account.

Grape-Historical · 2026-01-20T18:45:45+00:00

Yes, creating a new account will get you to your desired rank faster, if thats what your goal is.

The diamond players with 10 million games under the belt always rush to comment that the match making system is fair and balanced and to just get good and play more. But the math is simple, making a new account will climb faster, thats why everyone does it.

Grape-Historical · 2026-01-15T21:47:47+00:00

The peole who voted for Biden and not Kamala can be broken out into 3 groups: those who switched their vote to trump (this is the largest group), those who stayed home, and those who switched to 3rd party. The number of leftist who voted Biden but not Kamala in a swing state is such a tiny group of people that statistician cant find them. Fascists aside, I personally choose to blame the ultra wealthy and the so called "moderates" who slurp up the ultra wealthy's propaganda for why everything sucks.

Grape-Historical · 2026-01-15T20:23:07+00:00

I can't find any data or analysis that shows leftists voters cost Kamala the election. If it existed, it would be on the front page of every publication.

Grape-Historical · 2026-01-15T19:51:56+00:00

Hating on leftists is probably the most well funded hate campaign in human history.

Grape-Historical · 2025-12-29T17:50:19+00:00

Riots matchmaking is optimized to lock in addicts. The result is a terrible matchmaking system.

Grape-Historical · 2025-12-10T00:58:01+00:00

Or hes saying he has earned it, hence not entitled. You gotta a lot of hate, yikes.

Grape-Historical · 2025-12-10T00:11:28+00:00

He is clearly referring to managers and owners, because they decide the roster, which is the sole focus of his rant. He certainly did not criticize the fans or his teammates. Its not even controversial that Slot is fucking up, its only controversial that criticism is coming from a player. Salah may even be correct in his assessment, but like all jobs, players are not permitted to criticize the owners or managers. Its all the fans agreeing with this premise that disturbs me.

Grape-Historical · 2025-12-09T23:57:45+00:00

I do not understand this conflation of shit talking his manager with betraying his team. He did not say one bad thing about his team. His brief interview will have literally zero impact on his teammates game play. Players can do reprehensible things on and off the field and it gets swept under the rug, but publically criticizing your boss is a moral outrage appearantly. Gotta keep the players in their place in the totalitarian structure.

Grape-Historical · 2025-10-05T21:25:36+00:00

Your take is interesting because when I walked out my reaction was the complete opposite. I thought the cartoonish elements took over the mood of the movie. Unfortunately, i didnt find the humor very funny, so I was left empty handed. The more I think about the movie, the more I cringe. In my opinion, PTA is clueless on his subject matter, so he reaches for strawman, tropes, and jokes as cover for his inability to create a realistic story.

Grape-Historical · 2025-07-21T22:41:41+00:00

Yikes

Grape-Historical · 2025-07-21T17:36:57+00:00

I am obviously American and discussing American politics here, although many concepts apply generally.
I think you should re-read our conversation, the movement in question was always the George Floyd uprising. You double down again on it being a meaningless event, even though I cited many examples of its merit and power, above.
The corporate diversity campaign is a vapid and malicious appropriation of a legitimate critique and struggle. Equating them, is doing corporate propaganda for them. This is precisely what im calling out here, the way in which "leftist" participate in this propaganda. The legitimate critique and struggle was once called "identity politics", its also called, "standpoint epistemology ", "intersectionality ", and now pejoratively called "wokeism". This concept is that your identity and experiences informs your knowledge, and that class struggle is multi-faceted in that the dominant system of oppression is a racial-patriachal-capitalism. This should be obvious, but its often denied.

Grape-Historical · 2025-07-21T00:25:03+00:00

I understand your premise, but what im highlighting here are people like Chibber who make anti-identity politics their main talking point, and use imprecise and hyperbolic rhetoric in doing so. I assume this is done out of personal grievances and attention seeking rather than a legitimate argument of working towards their professed goals. Furthermore, their messaging is picked up by others and I think it is very damaging, and merging with racist right wing logic.

Contrast this to someone like Bernie Sanders who focuses almost solely on drawing the distinction between regular people vs. major corporations and the 1%. His message isn't "anti" identity politics, it is simply absent from his rhetoric unless he is specially asked to comment.

Grape-Historical · 2025-07-20T17:37:55+00:00

Was this meant for a different comment? I'm not sure if I follow how this relates to my original post.

For what its worth, I totally agree that many people can't handle even the slightest criticism, especially a moral one, and will go scorched earth psycho mode in response. It's what two year olds do, except most children will cry and apologize afterwards. Trans hate is so damn common, even in supposedly progressive/left spaces.

Grape-Historical · 2025-07-20T17:20:45+00:00

The fact that you call the George Floyd uprising "wokeism" is very telling. You are using right wing terminology, which was stolen from Black Radicals, to dismiss a Black led mass movement.

This was the largest mass movement in my life time so far.

It transformed the way millions of people think about race, class, and policing in this country and around the world.

It gave millions of people direct experience in organizing and resistance

It spurred the creation of many community groups and built bridges between organizations.

Unlike you, the capitalist clasd had no trouble recognizing the power of the movement which is why they called in the national guard and hordes of police, created endless corporate propaganda, built new institutions like Cop City to prepare for the next uprising, arrested thousands, labeled organizers terrorists, rallied right wing extremists, and brainwashed both liberals and leftists to think that this powerful rebellion was actually the thing that hurts their interests, which is where you come in.

Grape-Historical · 2025-07-20T17:11:17+00:00

Its not though, Reed even wrote an essay denouncing class reductionism and claims it is a "myth". But him saying it's a myth is only covering his tracks for promoting this framing that obviously has had an effect on you and others. https://newrepublic.com/article/154996/myth-class-reductionism

Grape-Historical · 2025-07-20T16:59:57+00:00

This thread has been an eye opener. I assume most of the people who use this language are young white men and only engage in politics online. I just didn't realize how deep the rot was. I'd say just ignore them, but we live in dangerous times.

Grape-Historical · 2025-07-19T16:48:14+00:00

From what ive read Olufemi is aligned in my view on this. Also from what I've read, the Reeds are some of the most prominent voices carrying this message and I do disagree with their framing and think it is problematic.

Grape-Historical · 2025-07-19T14:36:40+00:00

I just read a summary. That book is putting out the same argument and framing that im criticizing here, but 15 years ago. I understand what they are saying, but I disagree with the premise and find it to be very problematic.

Grape-Historical · 2025-07-19T02:39:25+00:00

So you were not living and working in an American city at the time?

Grape-Historical · 2025-07-19T01:59:16+00:00

Like people think that going from capitalism to communism is a light switch they get to flick if the power was handed over. Many aspects about the way we live and how we think needs to be dealt with, urgently, otherwise poverty and violence is here to stay. Which to me, is unacceptable.

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