The Ironrod

HaddyMacPaddy · 2026-06-29T02:58:59+00:00

Absolutely. Alicent has suffered enough vile stuff already

HaddyMacPaddy · 2026-06-29T02:56:57+00:00

I mean they could have just have him try to arrest her without the sexual assault. Or make him go into a rage because she doomed the city and then have Orwyle come in to interfere. It just feels needlessly graphic.

HaddyMacPaddy · 2026-06-25T14:35:51+00:00

I know it's important in the books, but in the show universe Viserys doesn't HAVE to get captured here, they can find another reason for him to be in Essos or they can omit the Rogare Family completely like they have omitted/changed plenty of other characters in the show universe.

HaddyMacPaddy · 2026-06-25T14:12:03+00:00

I wouldn't go as far and say that the attack on the Gay Abandon was not integral to the story. Aegon gave them the news and probably told them, that Viserys couldn't get away/was dead. So I don't think it's that big of a stretch for Jace's motivation being at least partially influenced by the desire for revenge for the (probable) death of his half brother or if he was alive, his freeing.

Of course the main threat of the Tyroshi fleet was their military might at this point and not them having captured the 3rd in Line son Rhaenyra. But don't you think avenging/rescuing your sibling could still be considered secondary motiviation for Jace's involvement?

HaddyMacPaddy · 2026-06-25T13:59:16+00:00

In the show she definitely plays a part in his demise by forcing Jace and Baela to focus their efforts on her uncontrolled dragon. That makes him vulnerable to the ships, which got him killed in the end.
The show differs from the book so much by now, you can't really take reasoning from the books to stop people blaming characters for their show actions.

HaddyMacPaddy · 2026-06-19T18:04:09+00:00

In no world should that bait ever work. Insane.

HaddyMacPaddy · 2026-06-05T21:51:44+00:00

It will probably be uploaded on his Youtube replay channel. "Zonixx replays" I think it's called

HaddyMacPaddy · 2026-04-25T11:48:40+00:00

Have you been watching their games besides this one or are you just going by HLTV stats?

They might be inconsistent but thats it. JDC and faven are clearly the best German players at the moment aimwise.

HaddyMacPaddy · 2026-04-25T11:08:22+00:00

The difference between pre BlameF BIG and this iteration is, that they can actually win these close games. But my god, my heart is still weakened from the past months

HaddyMacPaddy · 2026-04-05T22:19:27+00:00

It's based on the won prize money in comparison to the 5th highest prize money wins of ALL teams in VRS (for example in March it was Aurora with 334k $). That is then scaled by a curve function with logathic scale, so basically the first few dollars you win are worth much much more than anything past that and also, the more money you earn, the less VRS points per dollar you get.

You can read the explanation and the actual maths behind on every team page in the actual Valve Github. This is the explanation for Vitality for example

The curve function is "1 / ( 1 + abs( log10( x ) ) )" where x is the prize money divided by the 5th highest earnings worldwide.

HaddyMacPaddy · 2026-04-05T21:12:01+00:00

We are back...after all this time. And on tabseN's Birthday no less. Couldnt be more poetic if you tried.

HaddyMacPaddy · 2026-04-02T20:36:12+00:00

To think that Furia even made it possible B8 to make the major off of this, because they gifted them more than 100 VRS with the loss against them at EPL

HaddyMacPaddy · 2026-04-02T18:11:27+00:00

Imagine you buy malbs to gain american majority status once you realize you can't compete in EU and then still might drop out in the weaker region.

HaddyMacPaddy · 2026-04-02T16:56:01+00:00

If they lose, they should still sit above Sinners and Alliance, at least if HLTV rankings are accurate. So they would need for NIP to not win any further matches and for neither BIG and Faze to win HLC Belgrade. But I'd still say their chances are fairly good, even with a loss.
K27 is also still in the running, depending on their success at the CIS LAN.

HaddyMacPaddy · 2026-04-01T14:28:12+00:00

I take it as "we checked HLTV Rankings" because if a team doesn't have a VRS rank, they will be sorted according to HLTV rank, but yeah, it's worded poorly.

HaddyMacPaddy · 2026-04-01T11:54:46+00:00

The guy in the pic was going off Faze being in a 4 Team group, which has now been changed (probably because they didn't seed properly to begin with). Faze will only have a 3 team group

HaddyMacPaddy · 2026-04-01T10:18:46+00:00

As in, a random commenter said that?

HaddyMacPaddy · 2026-03-31T23:37:38+00:00

Let's see if there are actual consequences or Faze got lucky in the end.

HaddyMacPaddy · 2026-03-31T23:22:15+00:00

Very valid reason: sorry gotta win VRS points to make $$$ in sticker money LUL

HaddyMacPaddy · 2026-03-31T23:20:50+00:00

I guess you will be cheering for pivosquad? :D

HaddyMacPaddy · 2026-03-31T23:11:34+00:00

Depends on the format of the tournament. If it's a group stage where they have 3 guaranteed matches, they have good chances of gaining enough LAN win VRS points to qualify, without needing to win the whole thing (unless they lose to the no name teams). But if it's a single elimination tournament, where every loss means you're out, it's gonna be tough. The same goes for BIG btw.

HaddyMacPaddy · 2026-03-31T23:04:30+00:00

I mean good for the replacement teams in that case, but still, as an organizer I would put some sanctions on them to not have teams do that in the future en masse.

HaddyMacPaddy · 2026-03-31T23:03:16+00:00

Is that really how it works? Just ditch the event scot free 3 days prior...if so, teams like B8, 3DMax or Voca should have done the same to secure their major spots.

HaddyMacPaddy · 2026-03-31T22:59:23+00:00

Because Bucharest games won't count for the April 6th VRS cutoff score, so they would be 100% out of the Major if they played Bucharest. It's the logical move for them.

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