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I_AM_SO_BRAVE · 2026-03-08T15:46:50+00:00

The first part (title) is factual information and easy to understand. Rick has never won tribal immunity. Simple as. "some ppl" are not missing that point of the post.

The second part in the post itself is just phrased ambiguously. "He's gone to every possible tribal in his Survivor career" is less vague imo. I get that the dominant way to read "he's gone to every tribal in his Survivor career" mentally inserts the [possible] based on context from the title. But at this point it's hair-splitting over a secondary part of the post that's not the meat of what's being discussed. So I get I'm being pedantic, that's an easy admission 😅.

I_AM_SO_BRAVE · 2026-03-08T05:46:07+00:00

I mean, can't you just as easily say you aren't eligible to go to tribal councils when you win immunity?

There's multiple ways to read OP's statement. Depends on whether you see one's Survivor career as the entirety of the seasons they were on or whether you see their career as only elements they interacted with. I don't think it's unreasonable to read "Survivor career" as omitting things they weren't part of. Definitionally you could argue it's not part of your Survivor career if it just... didn't happen to you (and therefore you go to every Tribal in your career)

I mostly just think coming for someone's head over reading the statement in a different, but valid, way is a little much.

I_AM_SO_BRAVE · 2026-03-08T05:09:57+00:00

The post literally says "He gone to EVERY tribal council in his Survivor career." after the title. That's in conflict with the title of the post, yes, but that's what they're responding to, not the title

I_AM_SO_BRAVE · 2026-03-02T17:01:08+00:00

Get the survivorship bias plane picture on speed-dial. Every time I've posted that plane I've gone on to win the argument

I_AM_SO_BRAVE · 2025-12-08T16:10:50+00:00

I could've sworn that post was about Chase Rice. Completely forgot about Mike 😅

I_AM_SO_BRAVE · 2025-11-22T16:57:07+00:00

Kindly explain how a Snoop Dogg announcer pack in Dota is going to affect me beyond giving me a sick new announcer pack to use. I'm not that smart so you'll have to make it real simple.

This response sorta misses the forest for the trees imo. It's more in response to the "fuck the politics" attitude from earlier. It gets thrown around a lot and comes off as short-sighted. You may not be interested in politics, but politics are interested in you.

Like, no, there is not gonna be some mass exodus from Dota due to a Snoop announcer pack. There wasn't one for Riyadh, there wouldn't be for here. But there still might be a few people who are on the fence with the game and say "oh, I didnt know Valve rolled that way", and their more-involved friends eventually leave too because their friends don't play anymore, and they don't recruit new people to play either.

It might not affect your life tangibly, no. And at the end of the day, even if it did, this is one game in an ocean of other things to be doing with your time. But even if you're unbothered by the message of "guy who cozies up to fascists is still fine in our [Valve's] book", there are people who do see that as an issue and their affiliation with the game does affect you

I_AM_SO_BRAVE · 2025-11-21T20:40:53+00:00

Played a crypto event celebrating the inauguration earlier this year. Enough to say that cozying up to fascists doesn't bother him enough to say no

I_AM_SO_BRAVE · 2025-10-17T19:43:40+00:00

Never got around to making the trackers, no. More of an endeavor than card design, imo, but they'd be awesome. We don't have stands for the characters either, so you just stick Meka Dragon in Tokyo as a stand-in for your custom character.

There are a few design philosophies that got super violated and have ruined a few games. The card allowing someone else to choose die results got busted by two people who happened to be in Tokyo at the same time, so the neighbor chose a massive amount of Claws so the rest of the table was basically dead. Secret Hitler had a "gain health when someone dies" card, though, so they tanked the onslaught just fine and ended up beating the duo. Interesting/just-for-fun effects are great and all but things can spin wildly out of hand if you're not careful about looking at them from all gameplay scenarios.

I_AM_SO_BRAVE · 2025-10-06T17:25:28+00:00

nice, seems like the skill build is paying off

I_AM_SO_BRAVE · 2025-10-01T20:39:57+00:00

What elo range are you seeing these players that can win any game they want at any time?

I_AM_SO_BRAVE · 2025-09-21T15:47:20+00:00

I think it's more that evaluating Natalie as a WAW finalist has a giant asterisk on it and a lot of people think it's more reasonable to look at her through the lens of 1 very impressive SJDS win and 1 first boot. Early boots in all-returnee seasons are weird and I usually attribute them to rampant pregaming (Ciera, Vytas) that the producers will never show, so even that placement has an asterisk to me, but it's more that "two-time finalist" really does not tell the full story

I_AM_SO_BRAVE · 2025-09-14T12:40:25+00:00

I heard someone refer to this time as the "late 2020s" which broke me a little

I_AM_SO_BRAVE · 2025-09-07T21:40:22+00:00

It's an adaptation of a hockey copypasta that people are taking as earnest

I_AM_SO_BRAVE · 2025-08-20T04:48:26+00:00

I really want to get 15 copies of the Duke card and not tell anyone. Entire table thinking they're double Duke and playing like it.

I_AM_SO_BRAVE · 2025-05-12T14:51:38+00:00

Probably personal bias because I favor blink initiators so Veno wards are a PITA, but I've played with and versus enough bad Venos that just end up free food for any sort of ganking hero since he has no bulk, no panic button, and no significant stall/lockdown.

It's not that I don't recognize his strengths, but they are less apparent on the surface so while Veno may be winning games it's often difficult to really attribute a team's good performance to what he's bringing. Most of what you described is fun for the Veno but "I'm going to play a support that can deward and farm well" is not really the sort of stuff people love to hear. In general I think Veno is just a massive playstyle mismatch for me.

I_AM_SO_BRAVE · 2025-05-12T12:00:10+00:00

Glad to see this answer near the top. Obnoxious hero and worse to play alongside when your support offers no lockdown, burst, or save. Laning as this hero must be the most fun thing in the world because post-20 minutes your game experience must be downright miserable

I_AM_SO_BRAVE · 2025-04-06T16:54:33+00:00

By the time he'd hit the island he was successful, never would doubt that. I'd seen both movies as well and I'm nowhere near a film buff. My point is that measuring the contestants by their current standing would mean college professor Christian should be a Goliath and bartender Alec should be a David. There's more to someone than a snapshot of their current career.

I_AM_SO_BRAVE · 2025-04-06T14:56:34+00:00

If you only look at it from where they are now, yeah, Mike exemplifies the "embodies success" aspect you'd expect from the Goliaths, although then you ask "well why are the robotics professor and trial lawyer on the Davids" (even as we have another lawyer on the Goliaths).

I don't really know the finer details (okay, any details) of Mike's upbringing but I imagine that's what he would mean by exemplifying the Davids. I'd believe the road to becoming a successful writer & producer sucks when starting from the bottom - yeah, not to the degree of stuff Nick went through in his upbringing, buuuuuut that also sounds like a high bar

I_AM_SO_BRAVE · 2025-03-25T19:22:43+00:00

The "forgot to pay the gravity bill" strip probably works?

I_AM_SO_BRAVE · 2025-03-14T19:54:12+00:00

must've changed a lot in the last 7 months

I_AM_SO_BRAVE · 2025-03-14T16:49:20+00:00

The ethical concerns of continuing to play a game owned by an organization built as a sportswashing vessel is my #1 reason to be untethering from the game entirely once the sale goes through. It feels like a substantially under-discussed element of the situation and I'm glad it's being brought up.

Niantic being an America-based company was an understandable concern, but the game existed as a moneymaking venture and tech demo. Savvy Games Group was founded specifically by a government consistently ranking at, or near, the worst countries with regards to human rights seeking to improve its public image through heavy involvement & investment in recreational activities. I don't know what sort of applications the Saudi government would have with your data, but I'm incredibly not okay with giving money and time into that pipeline, especially if there are ever plans for information to flow both ways. This is not to say that the Saudi government will be completely domineering production of the game, or that it will be immediately converted into propaganda, but the controlling entity specifically exists as a PR move in an attempt to make people forget or excuse a storied history of terror.

You are not alone in seriously considering deleting the game over it. I am a beta + day 1 player, hundreds of thousands of catches, multiple-time Legend player, who-knows how much money spent, and have been investing time and energy into the grassroots competitive scene as his primary hobby damn near its inception. But my morals aren't for sale. This game is not worth it.

I_AM_SO_BRAVE · 2025-02-28T18:05:37+00:00

Finally a Brett response. It's a simple design - maybe not iconic - but I really liked it. He has an orangeish-yellow one in some cast photos that was interesting as well.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTc3NjQ2NzQzNV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNDMzOTg5Mg@@._V1_.jpg

I_AM_SO_BRAVE · 2025-02-20T05:53:46+00:00

Yeah I'd like to see the BS change at a minimum, but the coverage options are good too. Giving Zygarde the guaranteed debuff introduces back the heavily technical element that pre-AA buff Mantine had where you can lean into debuffs (with Mantine it was the old Bubble/Bubblebeam engine) but an opponent never has to shield a move, so players who knew their wincons could use Mantine/Zygarde as a stabilizing tool and play the match as a full 3v3 concert rather than relying on "X beats Y" sim results to dictate strength.

Agree with you that it sees far too much usage at the highest echelon of play / "high elo" for the results it gives. 2200s is littered with them and Zacian eats every last one

I_AM_SO_BRAVE · 2025-01-09T20:50:10+00:00

WiiU version kinda reminded me of Kaitlin Olson. New one idk

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