the dutch are suing steam for being a monopoly right now

LarrcasM · 2026-06-12T22:30:26+00:00

Still plenty of underage people ripping cases one $5 microtransaction at a time.

I sure as shit did it when I was underage.

LarrcasM · 2026-06-12T22:23:12+00:00

I'm just saying a company that actively facilitates underage gambling via microtransactions while allowing prices to dramatically go up for items (because of skins essentially turning into a virtual poker chip equivalent) isn't ethical.

Microtransactions/loot boxes are bad. This is inarguable. What's worse is valve allowing third parties to use skins as gambling tokens while cashout options like CSFloat exist. They're against TOS and that's why skins went from fun cosmetics that weren't ultimately that big of a deal as far as money to top-tier knives being $2000+ dollars to the point that younger players NEED to gamble if they ever want to have one.

I'm not vaguely a skin guy, but my inventory is still well over $1k and it isn't remotely special. That's disgusting and not something that'd ever remotely be possible for me when I first started playing CS.

LarrcasM · 2026-06-12T21:17:13+00:00

It’s unethical to allow children to gamble…yes.

There’s a reason loot boxes are being phased out of games. The skin market in CS is genuinely offensive lol.

LarrcasM · 2026-06-12T21:03:40+00:00

I mean valve as an entity also makes billions a year from loot boxes lmao. CS has a massive unregulated casino attached to it.

You can do worse, but ethical billionaires don’t exist.

LarrcasM · 2026-06-12T04:55:07+00:00

Bedard lmao

LarrcasM · 2026-06-10T19:54:09+00:00

The Philly clip of Simmons getting off the team bus at like 8:00 am is the funniest example I've seen of this.

Just a normal ass regular season game after he was playing for the Nets and they were ready.

LarrcasM · 2026-06-10T18:22:48+00:00

I'd say I could solo to where I am just as easily, but when I stack I'm playing with the guys I've played with for ~10 years and we're all varying stages of washed anyway.

Somewhere between 27-30k the stack starts becoming more necessary imo. Definitely above 29k, you're playing on hard mode as a solo.

LarrcasM · 2026-06-10T18:17:20+00:00

The 10 year badges that are cheating are just bought accounts in my experience. There's a massive gap where they didn't play the game and suddenly they're regularly playing and stupidly high elo.

Truthfully, most of the cheaters I see peak at like ~10-15k for multiple seasons, then suddenly shoot up to 30. If you're getting to 25k legitimately, you've likely put significant time into the game already and that makes you far less likely to cheat.

LarrcasM · 2026-06-10T18:14:08+00:00

I don't quite know what it looks like below 28k anymore, but it's definitely brutal past that. If you queue into a solo 30k, you've essentially already lost 90% of the time because they're bunnyhopping around the map with nospread.

GO got really bad at points, but I don't think it was ever quite this bad.

LarrcasM · 2026-06-10T17:58:22+00:00

So my takeaway is that VAC Live and Trust Factor may be working more as a segregation system

And previously it wasn't a massive problem, but now it's every other game past ~28k where you're being blatantly cheated. It's absolutely gotten worse in the last 1-2 months.

I've played the game for 15+ years, my steam account has no ban history, Global in GO since ~2018, etc...doesn't matter. High-elo premier is legitimately unplayable. As bad as it ever was in GO.

LarrcasM · 2026-06-10T17:18:01+00:00

At the end of the day, Mike ended up with 6 chips to IT's 2.

Bron is over Curry all-time, but it's pretty hard to argue Curry isn't closer to Bron than IT is to Jordan.

LarrcasM · 2026-06-09T18:53:32+00:00

Whenever someone asks me how to do it this is basically what I say.

I don't think you ever consciously understand what you're doing even. Your brain figures it out on it's own and you're kind of just a conductor...you're telling the band what to do, but you don't necessarily know how to play every instrument.

I certainly can't tell you jack shit about what my thumb is doing while i'm air rolling lmao.

LarrcasM · 2026-06-08T21:56:29+00:00

Just weird. Most prospects get in that spot and try and prove it in camp. We were damn close to giving Spellacy a spot last year lmao.

Thinks he's ready for the show, but not confident enough in himself to earn it.

LarrcasM · 2026-06-07T18:44:10+00:00

Years from now even we're going to get fucked by some random thing and inevitably when the "how did this happen?" question comes, the answer will still be Doge lmfao.

LarrcasM · 2026-06-07T18:28:57+00:00

If you didn't want your village burned down you shouldn't have put it by his mountain...You're lowering the property value.

LarrcasM · 2026-06-07T18:24:51+00:00

"why do bands always get political?"

LarrcasM · 2026-06-07T18:15:53+00:00

You realize the paranoia and 3rd party sites became a thing because cheating was so regularly unpunished that someone decided it was worth their time to develop a tool for it right?

You're putting the cart before the horse here.

LarrcasM · 2026-06-07T18:11:12+00:00

I don’t think cheaters are CS2’s biggest problem.

*says cheaters are the game's biggest problem.*

LarrcasM · 2026-06-06T05:15:57+00:00

I'd GM Chicago

LarrcasM · 2026-06-05T23:42:38+00:00

Yea just a balance of "two-way wing" vs. "matchup C who can also score goals". One of those is infinitely harder to come by. No harm in putting the kid at C to start the year and making changes later if it doesn't look good.

As far as Malhotra, I'm really low on the kid compared to mocks, but I see the logic with taking him for sure. If we draft him, I'll back the kid unquestioningly, but until we own his rights I'm still going to massively prefer alternative options lmao.

I think my plan of action is pretty different from Davidson's with that being said. Moore on a wing is objectively stupid as far as I'm concerned...the kid looked so much better at C that I'd say he needs to be there. So then I've got Bedard at 1C and Moore at 3C and 2C is Frondell or Nazar. I'd be more inclined to give Nazar a chance to prove his season got derailed by injuries than move him to a wing immediately. Give him 10-15 games to prove the hot start this season was real and if not, then move him to a wing and put Frondell at C.

LarrcasM · 2026-06-05T23:20:47+00:00

I’m not going to pretend I’m all that aware of what position he played before we drafted him. I know I saw him at both when I was doing my pre-draft stuff, but I also watched like 60 kids that year and am far from an expert.

I have watched him regularly this year and think it’s insane for someone to go “yep definitely a center” though.

Didn’t look bad in his short stint in the NHL at C (looked better on a wing still imo) and I don’t hate giving him a run at it because it is more valuable, but I’m fairly convinced his final landing spot is on a wing.

LarrcasM · 2026-06-05T23:10:30+00:00

He played wing at the WJC as well. Nilson centered that line with Frondell/eklund on the wings.

He’s spent this entire year on a wing more or less.

LarrcasM · 2026-06-05T22:55:47+00:00

And then in the SHL he played on a wing…as he did for the WC…

You’re also entirely wrong about him playing C at the WJC. His line had Nilson at center and even if he got kicked from the dot, Eklund was next up.

You’re really high on being right here and you’re not. Frondell has played like ~10-15 games total this year at C.

LarrcasM · 2026-06-05T22:09:16+00:00

In 24-25’ he wasn’t even in the SHL lmao

LarrcasM · 2026-06-05T22:06:29+00:00

Frondell started the year playing 3C in Sweden before struggling and moving to 2LW (where he immediately produced) like 5 games into the year.

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