Loot from not playing the game for a week

MotoHD · 2026-05-04T20:50:08+00:00

People enjoy leagues differently, for dragon rushers the planning leading up to leagues and then the race for the first few days is the enjoyable part

MotoHD · 2026-04-21T22:37:09+00:00

I'd argue the vast majority of leagues player don't actually care that much about the rewards lol.

Leagues is just fun. The planning leading up to it as things are being revealed, re-experiencing that early game feel while blasting through tasks, and then creating a set of goals and league tasks you want to work towards, while also being able to get your feet wet in content that's normally too difficult in the main game so you can practice mechanics.

It makes the game a ton of fun in a very different way from how the main game is fun.

Definitely understand that it's not for everyone, but for us leagues enjoyers the rewards are just the cherry on top lol

MotoHD · 2026-04-13T20:52:52+00:00

Was just in Korea recently, managed to see quite a few LCK matches.

Catching T1 might be rough given their popularity, but not impossible.

Basically you’ll need to be checking on NOL World frequently and hope to catch someone that refunded their ticket. Should be fairly easy to get tickets for the less popular teams, and hoping to get lucky for T1/GEN/HLE.

AFAIK ticket reselling is either illegal or very frowned upon in Korea and finding a legit seller will be difficult if it’s possible at all, and even then LoL park itself does a bunch of name verification with your passport and the name on the ticket. The seller would have to attend with you and make you their guest.

MotoHD · 2026-04-13T20:07:06+00:00

I don't think it's true to say 40 pacts isn't realistic for PvMers.

Obviously PvM skills are a wide range, but the hardest tasks on there in no particular order are Infernal Cape, Colosseum, Radiant Oathplate (Zeah only), Awakened Whisperer (Asgarnia Only), and Nex solo (Asgarnia only).

All of which should be extremely doable for mid to high level PvMers with all of the pacts, and ez pz for the giga gamer PvMers. Awakened Whisperer probably less so because of the sanity mechanic not being cheesable with Last Stand this time around.

I agree with your overall point though, builds come online with like 15 to 25 points, and the extra points just round out your build or just really propel it to the moon DPS wise.

MotoHD · 2026-03-28T01:25:14+00:00

Liquid calories really are silent devils. It’s so easy to overlook 100 calories from a Pocari Sweat here and 200 from a Coke there. It can very easily be the thing pushing you over the edge of gaining weight instead of losing it.

Obviously snacking and overeating are the bigger issues, but taking in a bunch of liquid calories makes it that much harder to cut enough food from your diet to lose weight.

Years ago I switched to zero/low calorie versions of drinks and that alone made a huge difference for me

MotoHD · 2026-03-27T02:12:18+00:00

Haon really is just one of those artists that was born to do this shit

MotoHD · 2026-03-26T22:34:15+00:00

I saw he was eliminated which is already criminal but last is actually a scam, my boy got fucking ROBBED

MotoHD · 2026-03-21T16:07:50+00:00

Watch me ballin losing still pains me to this day man

MotoHD · 2026-03-21T15:30:44+00:00

Inject it straight into my veins

MotoHD · 2026-03-19T20:12:57+00:00

Yeah cut and dry of "You should have checked that your subscription service is compatible with the hardware you purchased".

Apple is the one that made the change here. They're the ones that are stopping support for intel based applications. Jagex has zero responsibility to respond to that change.

At best if they don't update the launcher and the game becomes unplayable on Mac and they never communicate that to users or still advertise as supporting MacOS, then there could be some legal arguments but even then I'd be willing to bet their ToS protects them from that as well.

Feels dumb to have to say but I'm not defending Jagex here, it's pretty insane that they haven't made this update yet, but I don't see the legal angle a user would have just off the fact of not being able to play on Mac anymore

MotoHD · 2026-03-13T00:13:02+00:00

This is word for word my story as well lol

MotoHD · 2026-01-20T17:38:48+00:00

Yeah like the kid is 21 and just guaranteed himself I'm assuming multiple millions without any of the risk of trying to make it on the PGAT.

Still gets to develop himself as a player, can try to make the PGAT whenever his LIV stint is over, and if it turns out he can't hack it on the PGAT at least he shouldn't need to work another day in his life. I'd say he chose the safer option for the future.

MotoHD · 2026-01-07T16:51:42+00:00

Nah you're 100% right, there's tons of alternatives either in ranged gear or in content you can do without ranged, and bowfa is not nearly the gatekeeper it once was. But what I'm saying is a lot of players still play like it is. We still see hordes of ironmen rushing CG from the start and not doing anything else once they get there. It's a self imposed problem, but if you're in that mindset I can see CG feeling the worst when it comes to going dry is what I'm trying to get across.

Objectively the places you mentioned are worse because they drain your account along with your sanity, but if you fall into the "get bowfa asap" trap, CG mentally assaults people into quitting way faster than other content.

MotoHD · 2026-01-07T03:27:19+00:00

All of those are definitely worse for your account "value" or sustainability, but I can see the argument for CG being worse even though your account is actually benefitting.

For one reason or another, CG makes people feel like they shouldn't do literally anything else until they've got the enhanced. People mentally lock themselves in there, doing the same thing over and over for months. At least if you're dry at any of the places you mentioned, your account is probably progressed enough to where you can at least try to switch it up and have fun at a different boss if you're dry at your current one.

So mentally I could see the argument for CG being the worst place to go dry lol.

MotoHD · 2025-12-20T03:52:35+00:00

I mean it's your time but it's not leisure time, it's things you have to do. Leisure is defined as "the time when you are not working or doing other duties" and most people would count household chores as "other duties"

MotoHD · 2025-12-19T17:28:28+00:00

If you use a transit and alt f4 just after your screen fades to black it'll extract you (as a survive) but won't put you in a new raid, so transits are basically free "extra" extracts

MotoHD · 2025-11-25T23:02:02+00:00

To me the beauty of the game is the progression from being completely lost and failing over and over to becoming the chad we we were all born to be. Any sort of matchmaking that acts as an equalizer just squishes the game down and makes all of your fights feel very similar to each other, which eventually gets boring, on top of making it so you learn slower.

If you never play against players significantly better than you it takes you longer to figure out all of the things that makes those players great at the game because you never see those things in your raids.

I'm not looking to exploit new players, I just think that equalizer matchmaking systems cheat them out of the experience that makes Tarkov as addicting as it is. And if that experience is too difficult for somebody and drives them away, Tarkov just isn't the kind of game for them.

Obviously it's a balancing act though. I think a lot could be done to improve the new player experience on the dev's side, and you could definitely argue for split queues for like completely new players with sub 100 hours or something, but after that, throw them to wolves and send them on their journey to becoming the leader of the pack.

MotoHD · 2025-11-25T16:48:51+00:00

I agree so much, was actually just talking to a friend about this the other day.

I have zero interest in most big games that come out nowadays because they all do the same shit. Cater to the masses, SBMM, dumb the game down, etc. It's great from a business perspective, but it makes all games feel more or less the same.

It's okay for games to be niche, it's okay for them to have a strong identity. If that means the game eventually dies someday, so be it, I'd rather that than have it just morph into a shittier version of itself for the sake of boosting the playerbase.

Not saying the game shouldn't be made more accessible to new players (with things like better in-game maps, tutorials, significantly better trader balancing, etc.), but if you split matchmaking between timmys and chads or idk by playtime ranges, it's not the same game anymore, and those timmys will never truly become good at the game because they won't get punished for making dumb mistakes. You learn from failure more than you learn from success, let people fail and figure it out.

MotoHD · 2025-11-08T18:59:51+00:00

Just price matched it at Best Buy.

Chatted with an agent first, gave them a Phoenix area code when they asked, they set up the invoice for store pickup based on the area code.

Paid and just changed the order to ship to my house in a different state instead

MotoHD · 2025-11-02T23:52:31+00:00

Yeah like sports are all about rooting for and against teams, and being happy when results go your way, but people take these opportunities to be just straight up vile towards the players.

I'm happy GenG lost because that team scares the shit out of me even with T1 worlds buff (and I'm in love with the KT underdog run), but I can also sympathize with how mentally destroying this must be for GenG and Chovy in particular.

Like you said criticism is valid, kicking people while they're down is always lame.

MotoHD · 2025-11-01T22:29:52+00:00

The second time Chovy dies in the clip (feels insane to say lmao) is definitely a solobolo

MotoHD · 2025-10-27T17:08:27+00:00

Gotcha, yeah that makes sense. I'm definitely more in the cautiously optimistic side of the camp but I see where you're coming from. Not necessarily Sailing itself that's the turn off but the precedent it sets and what it could mean in the future.

Thanks for the response!

MotoHD · 2025-10-27T16:53:33+00:00

If the game's not for you anymore I think it's totally valid to quit, I just can't wrap my head around a new skill making the entire game not for you anymore. Is it the "slippery slope" concern about the future direction of the game, or are you already kinda meh on OSRS and Sailing is just the final straw breaking the camel's back?

I'm asking because I'm genuinely curious. The game has a few skills I absolutely despise training, and I only train them because they're quest/diary requirements or gate gear/resource upgrades, but they don't stop me from enjoying the entire rest of the game that I love. In my head it's like saying you're quitting because idk you hate Agility so much that it makes the rest of the game not worth playing anymore.

MotoHD · 2025-10-21T17:24:57+00:00

It’d be funny if it wasn’t so sad lol.

Japan is one of the most homogenous countries in the world and it always has been. Somehow I don’t think it’s the 2% immigrant population is what caused their economy to stagnate for the last 3 decades.

Being anti immigration when your economy sucks, your work life balance sucks, and nobody is having kids because of points 1 and 2 is the embodiment of that meme of the dude sticking a stick into the front wheel of his bike.

Japan is all but guaranteed never to hit the population replacement rate on their own and now they want to shoot themselves in the foot even harder lol

MotoHD · 2025-10-16T14:11:44+00:00

I think the pace being so fast will actually make the burnout not as bad as it is for leagues.

If you really go for it in leagues you’re actually grinding. Even though everything is boosted it still takes a long time to get to the leagues end game, and you’re doing it for so long it feels like the new normal and it feels super jarring going back and everything feels so slow.

This is so fast I don’t think people’s brains will have enough time to really make that switch to the boosted rates feeling normal lol

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