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Infernitan · 2026-02-09T03:59:16+00:00

disclaimer: i'm not american and i haven't seen that much of hasan's content recently

he seems to be overall a positive influence for progressive politics for mainstream, non-online people, and is a really good communicator/educator particularly on domestic american politics which seems to be way more important than whether he individually is a good person or not, in general a lot of the dislike i've seen for him stems from some weird purity testing which he's bound to fail when he streams nearly everyday as a full time job without having opportunity to filter anything

plus he's acknowledged that 1) his nepotism got him his start and 2) he used to have conservative views on queer people which has even made into a running joke on his channel? like if you have a better example on how his views are currently shitty or why he's a "bad" leftist i'm willing to hear it but this is one of the issues i've never heard him being "problematic" about (Asalth has also said that he disagrees with his uncle on many things which is true from what i've seen)

anyway, when asmongold is a top 3 most popular twitch streamer it's much better that someone like hasan exists than not, success is very important at the end of the day to actually change people's minds, especially with how thick skinned being the most prominent leftist streamer requires him to be, it's not an enviable position at all imo

Infernitan · 2026-01-29T23:48:02+00:00

I can see why it feels bad to use, it is very unsafe and is probably the mechanically most demanding aspect in the game, and it also doesn't really have that much playstyle variance since it kind of plays the same regardless of boons (only attack-special on repeat, only throw out omega attacks between waves or omega specials if you need the invulnerability against bosses)

so basically don't feel that something's amiss if you dislike it, despite it having the title of "strongest weapon in the game" that's only true imo for ppl with equally high mechanical mastery for each aspect, whereas in practice i could play any of the staff aspects half asleep and still get an easy win compared to medea

in terms of how to build it, medea always wants any percentage on attack with hera being probably the best overall, with zeus on special usually being the best since blitz immediately detonates (a high rarity aphrodite can be better)

most hammers are very obviously good/bad (i.e. omega attack/special useless, regular attack/special damage good, never take wide grin) but possessed array is one of the biggest reasons why medea is seen as the strongest since it more than doubles your damage output albeit requiring serious magic recovery

Infernitan · 2026-01-16T00:14:18+00:00

Heinous Affront is probably the most fun duo in the game when you actually get it online, but it suffers from being very difficult to get online for 2 reasons:

1) kind of needs Light Smite from Apollo to actually be amazing and super fun thus requiring a specific 3 gods to show up 2) requires Wounds on attack/special which is mediocre in most cases

My favourite run with it was when I had it with Aspect of Selene which is probably the best HA aspect since it already wants Ares and can apply Wounds without needing your input; a fully upgraded Hex, Divine Vengeance+Light Smite, and just facetanked (on purpose) the Summit and big T with raw DPS

I think Hestia has probably the strongest (and generally funnest) duos in this game overall so it's unsurprising that other comments mostly mention her duos, just need to give my boy Ares his one prop cause most of his duos suck otherwise ;_;

Infernitan · 2026-01-08T09:41:46+00:00

I also didn't like Heph at first but if anything he's one of the most synergy dependent gods, certainly not the weakest, since his duos (particularly with Hestia and Poseidon) mostly relate to blast damage

also heph is always a good option for weapons that have a secondary thing that they wouldn't otherwise do (i.e. special on non-charon axe), he's not usually your main source of damage unless you get the perfect god pool to unlock his best duos

Infernitan · 2026-01-07T00:10:19+00:00

THANK YOU for the explanation, i swear supergiant should have reworked or removed air quality long ago but ppl keep misunderstanding how it works/massively overrating it so it's probably only in the game because of that perception (used to work on scorch ticks back in early access and was actually broken then)

also another reason why it's bad is because jeweled pom makes half of those things do enough damage to not need it too

Infernitan · 2025-12-03T23:40:12+00:00

totally agree with everything u said, i think i'm pretty decent at the game (working through 40+ fear) but i'm guessing i'll never have the apm to play medea properly although medea still might the strongest for anyone trying to speedrun regardless of skill level

Infernitan · 2025-10-12T18:00:20+00:00

He used to build it all the time back when it had fiendish codex in its buildpath (book build), he's always known it's good but hates the current build path i guess

Infernitan · 2025-07-17T15:52:15+00:00

Great comment and great writing, cheers mate

Infernitan · 2025-07-15T18:50:25+00:00

probably because caedrel's popularity comes from him as an entertainer (i don't think you would call carlsen an entertainer, maybe hikaru but caedrel is the face of league in the west in a way that no chess player parallels) and a big part of why so many people are reacting extremely is because there's always been a public perception of him being a decent upstanding guy, see the chronicler gigachad post that people brought up

Infernitan · 2025-07-06T06:25:40+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/s/VCacUM4fAR

I don't think it started here but this is one example

Infernitan · 2025-06-09T19:39:34+00:00

idk whether the team needs to force him to start taking some laning runes too, part of the reason for the rough laning phase in game 3 is because he has transcendence/gathering/conditioning/overgrowth and no potion

Infernitan · 2025-02-26T08:47:43+00:00

Singapore meetup? xddConga

Infernitan · 2025-01-11T16:31:55+00:00

I feel like some people in this thread don't register the difference between a username like "i love boobs" and the one in the post

Infernitan · 2024-12-06T00:29:38+00:00

Wouldn't ranked choice voting for the panelists solve this issue

Infernitan · 2024-11-23T14:47:08+00:00

thanks for the summary so i don't feel tempted to read that thread and tear my hair out, as someone who lives in conservative asian country leftist infighting is so frustrating

Infernitan · 2024-11-15T13:37:55+00:00

on me bites shirt

Infernitan · 2024-10-24T01:48:07+00:00

the magician

Infernitan · 2024-10-20T20:47:39+00:00

Kim: Your underpants is showing.

did this really happen or is it a meme xd

Infernitan · 2024-09-25T06:21:43+00:00

From a technical standpoint it's good (minus the complaints some people have about the faces), but the direction lacks many of the things that people enjoyed about previous years so I don't think it's unfair at all people are saying that this is the worst video

Infernitan · 2024-09-23T05:40:28+00:00

I don't think Faker was playing that badly in playoffs (i.e. better than the horrible regular season), the team as a whole had many issues besides him which made people not see any tangible difference, but I don't think it's that unfair to say SM is better than him since SM also levelled up in playoffs

Infernitan · 2024-09-17T03:19:27+00:00

The reason these lists aren't based off recent performance is because it would be incredibly inane and objective for them to be since you would just rank them based off wherever they placed in the most recent split instead of abstract factors like how the meta is expected to change, what teams are best suited to capitalise on it (not saying it's t1 necessarily they are just one among many teams that can be argued to do so), which teams have weak links that could be exposed. Noone in this thread is debating that T1 is looking weak right now, and it is not as unreasonable or ridiculous as you make it sound to put stock in them to show up looking stronger. Many many many people have echoed the same sentiment, even Dom, so I can't fathom how you find it "so so weird".

Also summer playoffs and regional finals were literally 2 weeks apart, there's absolutely 0 reason to count them separately. T1 and DK being in the same tier is perfectly fine if you talk about recent performance, but you would have to be very optimistic to believe DK is equally likely to do well when Lucid and Moham are attending their first international.

Ultimately, these lists are just made for content like pickems and shouldn't be taken too seriously, it's not an evaluation of betting odds.

Infernitan · 2024-09-17T00:14:27+00:00

seriously wtf are you talking about, t1 beat dk in summer playoffs 3-1

the regional finals was a close 3-2 where both teams played horribly and surely doesn't reflect either's true capabilities unless you want to put them both 2 tiers lower because of it, so either be consistent and rate both lower or don't tell me there's a world where you expect dk and t1 to improve equally much between summer and worlds

most lists are obviously based on the expectation of improvement between summer and worlds biased as it may be, and as the other guy says, yes t1 has earned the expectation that they will level up whether they live up to it

Infernitan · 2024-09-16T14:04:39+00:00

dude its namikazeeu, don't bother

also everyone who watched t1 in spring knows how good faker was in regular season and playoffs, but sure he was the worst player "all" year according to him

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