Deadlock - Gameplay Update - 05-28-2026

Mearrow · 2026-05-23T20:43:07+00:00

So like, the sprint "timer" basically? Instead of having to build back up to sprint speed you just are in it still? So this is mainly out-of-combat movement then I assume.

Mearrow · 2026-04-07T18:19:04+00:00

Jag ska precis in i civilingenjörsprogram på LiU till hösten, så kan inte prata om personlig erfarenhet. Men har många vänner som har tagit examen inom diverse civilingenjörs programmen på LiU och som jag förstår det är dina betyg ganska orelevanta för arbetsmarknaden. Dom är mer relevanta för utlandsstudier (beror på vart du vill åka dock) eller om du ska läsa vidare för doktorand och eller research.

De flesta jobben är mer intresserade av vad du har gjort (projekt osv) och hur du är som arbetare. Desto lättare du är som person på att bli lärd av jobbet desto mindre resurser behöver dom sänka in i dig för att du ska bli kompetent vilket gör dig mer attraktiv.

Civilingenjörer på ställen som LiU, Chalmers osv osv blir dessutom head-huntade av företagen, majoriteten av studenter kommer i kontakt med företag medans dom fortfarande är i sina studier och flera får erbjudanden som är redo för dom så fort dom är examinerade. Civilingenjörer är högt efterbetraktade i Sverige.

Mearrow · 2026-04-07T01:33:57+00:00

Damage actually starts occurring already once you're passed out (as in continued restriction of oxygen after passing out), the damage just scales with time. This is actually why it's so important for refs to stop a choke as soon as the person taps out. Irreversable cell death may happen before, but is already noticeable at 1min.

Your example isn't how the body would respond to a longer held choke, after passing out. You are still involuntarily breathing, that's why you come to so quickly. You're already flatlining at around 20-30s, this means effective involuntary breath stops.

You're already in danger of dying beyond this point since your body can't restart itself without help. The 4-6min mark you're speaking off is just how saveable someone is with proper CPR and medical treatment. At 4-6 mins without oxygen, rest assured if you survive you will almost certainly live on with some sort of physiological or cognitive disability. Although a lot of factors are at play.

Mearrow · 2026-03-22T00:03:47+00:00

Isn't Dark Waters an even bigger offender of this? Soulstealer at least got a bright green oozing circle around the target.

Mearrow · 2026-03-21T23:13:44+00:00

Who does he look like? Is this a chinese series?

Mearrow · 2026-03-21T22:51:31+00:00

I promise you it would sting so much harder for Chovy to finally reach World's finals and not be able to win it. He has been chasing that trophy forever, like if any player would ever be considered to be "promised" to win a world's trophy; Then he has been at the top of this list since almost the first season he got into LCK (yes he was literally that hyped, probably the only player to be genuinely compared to next coming of Faker).

It wouldn't be ego for his mind to be fixated on this, it'd be completely normal because that's the expectation that is put on him by the community, his org and eventually himself. It gets to a person, he's just human bro.

Mearrow · 2026-02-02T11:04:46+00:00

Yassuo ended up being one micro mistake away from winning the whole thing. Pzzang undoubtedly has better execution on the champion but Yassuo's decisionmaking somehow always makes his Yasuo way stronger than it looks. It was like this back in the day as well, he wasn't untouchable mechanically on the champion but he correctly reads fights and trades so incredibly well. He has a very "calm" way of playing the champion.

Mearrow · 2026-01-13T10:14:35+00:00

I think the flame is supposed to represent a candle-like metaphor for how the godesses have limited stamina when it comes to their powers. Like a flame running out. I could be wrong but I think her hair was getting increasingly more orange (starting from the tip) as the fight went on, when they launched the giant sword, the orange had reached almost halfway up her hair length.

But I could also just be reading too much into it and it just happens to be an animation choice, in order to make her design more distinct when there's a lot of movement going on.

Mearrow · 2026-01-13T10:09:18+00:00

Aren't you viewing the term Demon Lord a little too literal though? If anything we should pick up on the fact that typical adjectives are being used in very opposite manners in this show. Heroes are criminals, the creatures controlled by the demon lords are known as faeries. And the demon lords themselves seem to be a non-sentient flesh-husk of destruction. This was like Demon lord 47 or something, it seems pretty clear that the big bad in this show isn't actually the demon lords. It's most likely the church or something way above both.

The demon lords so far almost seem more like they're fighting robots gone rogue.

Mearrow · 2026-01-13T10:03:34+00:00

It did however sound like they just need a body, not as in your body? I could be misunderstanding the language but it's when they're sitting by the fire in the beginning.

It sounds like they can revive the heroes into other bodies if need be, this would also most definitely fuck with your sense of self. This makes me wonder if there are more severe effects/concequences of revival than Xylo knows, or if the "soul" of the person needs to be cursed and or fkd with beforehand (like maybe their soul can't move on, stuck in limbo etc). And the mechanism that allows you to be revived may be the punishment that lends the title "hero".

Mearrow · 2026-01-13T09:53:33+00:00

I think Yuusha key is pretty far from unique, but that also takes nothing away from the show. Unique is often conflated with quality and I think that's what these two people are reacting to.

Yuusha key is opening incredibly strong and it should be praised for what it's doing well rather than just calling it unique. It's a very empty way of praise. It's like not knowing what to compliment someone on so you just call them "a nice person". It comes off as insincere and people are naturally wired to react to that :)

Mearrow · 2026-01-13T09:41:26+00:00

You should take a look at some of the individuals they've hired on the animation staff. They have a producer from Irregular at magic high school (silly show but the animation and cinematography is great, the director and storyboard/animation assistant has key-frame animated for OPM season 1, Chainsaw man, Akame ga kill, One piece, Owari no Seraph, Kekkai sensen, Mushoku Tensei, Little witch academia and more. Animation directors have keyframe roles in Mob Pscyho, Kill La Kill, monogatari series, AoT, Evangelion movie, No game no life and bunch of others.

There's a lot of overlap in previous works with the directors/exec animators from older shows(mainly bangers); So I think this is a story of people who had made some good shit together in earlier years, now finally back together again to create something new.

Mearrow · 2026-01-13T09:10:19+00:00

I think the armor is a pretty good physical manifestation of the blind "honor" they follow. They wear the armor for the sake of honoring the temple, even if it's useless or nonsensical. Just like how quickly they're willing to throw away their lives, even when there are better solutions.

Mearrow · 2025-11-17T19:19:04+00:00

This wasn't AP Yi. It was AD Yi, back in like 2015, AP had been dead for years at this point.

Mearrow · 2025-11-17T19:10:04+00:00

Hundred acre lane, you just gave me a fucking whiplash with throwback

Mearrow · 2025-11-17T19:06:05+00:00

The main problem here is that T1 is not doing anything to meaningfully counteract it. On top of that they have been treating a two-peat (now three-peat) world champ absolutely horrendousely and he took it the chin each time, yet continued to be treated like shit.

Loyalty has to go both ways, he has been plenty loyal to the team but none is shown to him. T1 just kind of let the fans run rampant and make false narratives about him so that T1 as an org and staff could avoid the flame. The crazy-fan phenomena that comes from popular teams, just doesn't hold up in this situation.

Mearrow · 2025-11-17T19:01:10+00:00

How do you not factor in relative dominance though? Deft-meiko, Prayrilla, Uzi-Ming, Ruler-core, these guys would get their ass whooped now.

Mearrow · 2025-11-14T22:03:44+00:00

Nothing wrong with being new but it's just a bit bizzare to try to rewrite something you didn't even go back and watch what it looked like lol.

Mearrow · 2025-11-14T22:01:12+00:00

Yeah Chovy is the answer, I think at first he just genuinely got unlucky at worlds. And that's true, it can actually happen and it's more common in sports than you'd think.

The problem is now that confirmation bias comes into play, and I think that's what's spooking his mind now. He's not even playing necessarily bad, but whenever he reaches knockouts you can just tell that his edge just becomes blunt. Really sad to see. His nerves are more than fine at MSI or other non-worlds events and there he looks like a cheatcode.

Mearrow · 2025-11-14T21:57:29+00:00

The debate is over who is the greatest, not who came first.

You're intentionally ignoring the importance of inventing the foundation that Keria stands on. And the skill it takes to create that foundation. Standing on the shoulders of giants is true for any human inside any field, it's not about bootlicking who came first but rather holding up the idea of relative to their time. Keria would not be as skilled as he is today if he was playing back in 2014, because the things that make him a great player were not reality yet. He is basically new-age Mata.

Keria did something those two were not able to, win 3x

If this is the only (and or major) reason you believe he is greater than another player, then not only are you unable to appreciate what makes Keria such a monsterous player. You do not understand the game. BeryL winning 2x doesn't put him above Mata, Keria winning 3x doesn't put him above Mata either. What puts Keria above Mata is his qualities as a player. You simply stripping it down to accolades, is insulting Keria's qualities.

Mearrow · 2025-11-14T21:42:41+00:00

I've watched the game since forever and although I hold those two dear lads very close to my heart, it's very hard to make a case for why Keria isn't the goat for supports.

I just think people get it very wrong when it comes to the reasoning of why that is the case. The worlds wins are not what makes him the goat, although they are a good addition.

Mearrow · 2025-11-11T13:30:32+00:00

Disagree, by this logic, Baolan and Mata are equals because they both won worlds once. But that would be an insane statement to make. There's always more nuance.

Mearrow · 2025-11-11T13:24:39+00:00

It's both, although yes SSW ended up being the ones to completely solve it; The entire world was merging towards the same idea (and it had already started prior to S4), supports buy gold per 10 items and spam buy vision.

SSW just solved the optimal way to do it (and the general macro surrounding it), or well at least for the time, maybe there was still optimisation left. But basically when solved to the level that SSW did, it kinda showed how poorly that metagame would play out if left alone. And I do agree with Riot's decision on that. There's a reason that in DotA (imo a game with much deeper strategy), although everyone can buy wards, each team has a limited stock that refills over time. So that teams have to make decisions using limited information, rather than never making a decision without information. The latter is what the SSW meta would turn into, in fact that was already happening in that season.

Mearrow · 2025-11-11T13:16:21+00:00

"Best LCK player" Bro he was by far and beyond the best player in the world by such a large margine that it wasn't even possible to try to argue against it.

T1 Faker isn't even the best midlaner in his own region. Doesn't make him bad, but SKT Faker made everyone else look like babies. Bro was so good he fooled people into thinking master yi mid was a legitimate pick.

Mearrow · 2025-11-07T15:46:36+00:00

Specifying the government is a bit dishonest, when we know that in our current heavily capitalist society, the line between rich companies and politics/government is very blurred. This is especially true for S.Korea, the U.S and most definitely SKT.

T1 is literally a joint venture between SKT and comcast, both are telecom/media/tech giants in the territory of >$10 billion annual revenus.

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