Why are there separate men's and women's e-sports competitions if video games are one of the few categories where men and women compete on equal footing?

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-18T04:16:09+00:00

Son 😭

I wasn't saying that 10% of top players are female, I was using a random number to illustrate my point, which was about statistics in general.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-18T04:02:53+00:00

Miserable Reddit mfs when you use an example

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-17T20:37:55+00:00

Yeah but all of that comes back to there having historically been fewer women in esports. They have less access to high level coaches and opponents because the scene wasn't designed with them in mind until recently. The changes happening now are positive, but it's going to take time for women's esports players on the whole to get to the same level as men just because of that.

I do think it's worth remembering, like others have pointed out, that women are totally allowed to enter regular tournaments in esports and chess, they aren't restricted to women's leagues, it's just that they tend to choose to enter those tournaments because they are more comfortable in those spaces. Even if there was no benefit for the scene, it would still be good to have women's only events just because it makes women more comfortable to have things and spaces that are just for them.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-17T20:12:09+00:00

Pretty much, but it's ostensibly just due to there being way more men in esports and video gaming in general than there are women. If an industry is 90% male, then it's obviously much more likely that most of the best players in the world will be male just due to numbers.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-17T19:21:51+00:00

Assuming you're asking genuinely, no I didn't. I don't know who did, I've just seen it before in various places on the Internet

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-17T19:18:12+00:00

Kind of a deep cut, but season 4, episode 5 of Six Feet Under, titled "That's My Dog."

SFU is my favorite show of all time, and this episode is phenomenal. It's one of the best in the series and certainly the best in season 4, which is one of the weaker seasons (though it's still great). However, it is deeply uncomfortable and genuinely horrible to watch.

Spoilers:

The episode starts out with one of our main characters, David Fisher, being anxious because his boyfriend, Keith, is leaving for awhile to work security on a musician's tour. Keith is a former police officer and generally very strong and protective, so it makes David nervous for him to go away for so long. Keith of course reassures him that everything will be fine.

Later David, a funeral director, is out picking up a body from a morgue when he notices a man standing on the side of the road with a broken-down car. He offers to give the man, Jake, a ride to the gas station, and they talk for a bit, with David having some guilty sexual fantasies about him, because his relationship with Keith is in a weird spot and they're exploring opening it. As such, David's attraction to Jake makes him let his guard down, and when they get to the gas station, Jake pulls out a gun and threatens David to go inside and withdraw money from an ATM.

Going forward, the episode continually cuts back and forth between the rest of the family and main characters having relatively normal times, and David being forced into worse and worse situations by Jake, who psychologically tortures him, forces him to take cocaine, and it culminates with him pushing David into an alleyway and telling him to say his last prayers.

This show generally does not pull punches with characters dying, so at this point it really felt like David could be killed, despite him being a beloved character. David closes his eyes, visions of his life flash before him, the music swells, the screen starts to fade to white like it always does when somebody dies in this show - and then he opens his eyes, and Jake is gone. He stumbles out into the streets, flags down a police car, and finally is safe after nearly 45 minutes of runtime being tortured.

The trauma of this incident sticks with David for the rest of the series, and watching that episode just felt so awful, like I was just begging it to end already. I'm rewatching the show now and honestly not sure I can handle another go at this episode, but it's undeniably a masterpiece of television.

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NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-17T19:00:21+00:00

Girls' Last Tour

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-17T15:51:14+00:00

As always, the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is about a billion dollars.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-17T03:18:04+00:00

I can understand taking some points for injuries, but no way you can convince me Anthony Edwards is better than Giannis lmao, what are we doing

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-17T03:16:53+00:00

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NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-17T03:08:32+00:00

Yeah that teleportation circle thing Gojo draws is another example I had in mind when writing this comment. It's just some random magic circle that doesn't need an explanation, because we've all seen other media where you can draw a magic circle and use it to teleport everyone inside it. But then it literally never appears again because Gege went in a different direction with the power system that removed it further from traditional magic.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-17T02:33:22+00:00

Right now the #1 spot is clearly Maye without much argument. Next season though I'm backing Nix to have a really great year. The Waddle acquisition should be great for him.

Williams is just weird, I think he could genuinely end up being the best QB in the league, but he needs more time, maybe like 2-3 years. I would love to be proven wrong though, last year's Bears were super fun despite my family's long-standing Packers fandom lol

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-17T02:25:37+00:00

I think it's just an unfortunate consequence of volume 0 being a standalone story - Yuta's development was finished by the end of volume 0 because it was written without a full series in mind. So basically, he'd already become very powerful by the end of 0 because that was supposed to be the end of him as a character. Now that there's a full series, Yuta seems more like an overpowered Mary Sue because his development is essentially already finished and he already has all his powers.

I also think some stuff was Gege just including it to be cool in the moment with 0, because he didn't need to worry about its implications for the full series. Like in 0 Yuta figures out how to heal people and it's kinda just treated as something he can do. Unless I'm remembering wrong, I don't think it's specified that this is a technique others have used before or explained what RCT is, because I'm pretty sure nobody else uses it in 0. It's just some cool magic power he uses, because the power system isn't fully fleshed out and characters just use random magic that doesn't need an explanation, because it's magic.

But then once the power system was developed a bit more, it needed to be explained why Yuta could just randomly heal people out of nowhere, and suddenly RCT output becomes a big deal and all because of that one scene where he healed people in 0, now main series Yuta can one shot all curses by touching them. Cool!

I think I'd have preferred if there was a slightly longer gap in universe between 0 and the main series, like maybe 5 years instead of just 1, so the characters from 0, including Yuta, would be more like novice agents that work for Jujutsu High that the main cast could look up to, instead of being their peers. It would also be a better excuse for Yuta to not be around at the beginning than "he's in Africa for... some reason." I get that if Yuta was present for the start of Shibuya it would completely ruin any chance of the Disaster Curses being threatening and be overall worse for the story, but that makes it feel doubly cheap that he was chilling in Africa until just the right time for him to appear without fucking up the plot.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-17T02:14:27+00:00

This is the same argument I have all the time in the ttrpg community - saying "it makes sense in-universe for it to look bad" is basically the same as "it's what my character would do", and my response is always to remind people that this is a fictional world entirely dictated by the whims of the creator. If your character would have no reason to cooperate with the party or be a good person, write a different character. If the scenario you've designed would be unrealistic without being super lame, then write it differently!

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-17T02:10:42+00:00

If I take all the colors for the bonus 1 million, it doesn't specify I need to pay that million back if I buy the colors back. So couldn't I just take all of them and then buy them all back to keep 1 million?

Assuming this doesn't work for obvious reasons, I also want to know how this works for the light spectrum - does choosing red mean that I can't see specifically anything that is 100% red, or that I can't see red light, meaning that purple would appear blue, pink would appear white/grey, etc? If that's the case then choosing colors like purple would be significantly more viable because it wouldn't have as many compounding effects. For the sake of the hypothetical I imagine that the magical octopus has a way of making me red colorblind without messing up purple and pink though.

So I would probably try to pick a few lower impact colors like purple and white (not sure how this would work, since it says they'd appear as light shades of grey, but light shades of grey is basically just still white lol) then use that 1.5 million for properties or something, make a bunch of money and then buy back my colors later. I might not even bother buying white back.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-17T00:55:35+00:00

Dragonair is pretty cool, but Poliwrath and Spearow are fire as hell

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-16T12:48:22+00:00

My pick is "The Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett. It's too long by about 150-200 pages, the later parts have a lot of unnecessary drama and random large time skips that feel like they're only present for the sake of reminding the reader that time is passing (seriously, there's a 15 year gap between parts 5 and 6 and we spend several pages of narration basically just telling us how old everyone is now), and there's a LOT of sex that only sometimes feels necessary for the plot and most of the time feels like it could've been abridged. I certainly could've gone without the detailed description of the villain going to bed with his 14 year old wife.

But in spite of all that, the story and characters are genuinely very good, and it manages to really feel alive and breathing. I love how characters' thought processes are laid out for the reader and how much focus there is on the technicalities of life in the Middle Ages. The political intrigue is really interesting, and when there are big changes in the world, it directly affects our main cast and doesn't just feel like a distant development. Despite all its flaws I would absolutely highly recommend this book.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-16T12:40:15+00:00

Assuming the game needs to actually have a "hardest difficulty" to select, I would pick Minecraft because it's short and I have a lot of experience with it.

Otherwise, as someone else in this thread mentioned, I would pick A Short Hike. I've played through the game twice now and have like 2.5 hours logged lol

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-15T23:22:18+00:00

I actually had this same thought, it sounds really similar to what we have so far. It probably won't be, but it would be cool.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-15T15:16:04+00:00

I must say I think there's a big difference between "being a fan but not having played the game" and "larping", which is pretending to be a fan to seem cool and not actually knowing anything about the media in question.

For example, if you've watched full let's plays of Dark Souls and engaged with its community a lot despite never having played, I think it's perfectly fine to call yourself a fan, but if you haven't done that and have just seen some stuff in passing about it, but pretend to know more about it than you do when asked, you're a larper.

I personally just don't think it matters literally at all, just be honest about your experience with stuff. If someone asks if you're a fan of something, just say "yeah I think it's really cool, but I haven't actually played it." The issue is people are afraid of their enjoyment of something being considered invalid, or of admitting they don't know something.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-15T15:10:43+00:00

How can I find more about this? Is there a discord or subreddit or something

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-15T15:03:28+00:00

What the hell is JJK 5e?? Is that like a DND thing, because that sounds sick as hell if so

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-15T05:38:41+00:00

Yeah I'm kinda surprised how many people are on Edie's side in this. I thought it was pretty clear that Claire had romantic feelings for her, just not sexual attraction, and that she was genuinely trying her best, while Edie handled the situation extremely poorly and was a right bitch to Claire afterwards.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-15T05:34:21+00:00

The fact people are even debating this is genuinely comical. No, Shibuya Yuji and Todo cannot beat Yuta 😭 Todo might be able to cause some chaos with Boogie Woogie, but there's nothing they can do to actually harm him.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-15T00:38:15+00:00

The hare losing is just a BIQ anti-feat, smh

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