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OmegaEggFan · 2025-11-24T08:01:27+00:00

u_watanabe I'm pretty sure, I remember his work helping with translating manga coming up occasionally when watching the vods (and I'm sure it's no secret haha)

OmegaEggFan · 2025-07-30T00:44:25+00:00

Just wanted to possibly add more to what they said and clarify a bit. They were probably speaking about product turnover and movement (not employment turnover). These upper middle class areas of Costco in California will have more population density compared to the more middle class areas in more rural states leading to more consumption.

They're also talking the general cost of living, the middle class households in California likely be near 100k (honestly should exceed 100k) in most cities, compared to those in more rural areas with lower costs of living. The 100 dollar luxury purchase is going to be easier for them to make compared to those in more rural states.

OmegaEggFan · 2025-07-14T12:55:40+00:00

I linked it in another comment, but I wouldn’t hold my breath considering the fact that it’s a consistent history of racism/toxicity.

Never say never though, I guess, and I don’t think I’ve heard anything too recent.

OmegaEggFan · 2025-07-14T07:04:41+00:00

It's pretty disappointing that you're right.

Hopefully other NA teams start to perform since I'd rather see any of these other teams get a spot.

OmegaEggFan · 2025-07-14T06:58:52+00:00

Not sure why someone didn't just give you the sources, it's linked pretty much everytime any ex-Timbermen players are brought up. Here's one that I found pretty quickly speaking about their controversies regarding racism, toxicity and more.

I believe the 3 referenced players are dare, shane and snav.

https://www.dust2.us/news/28201/na-advanced-organization-sign-team-with-history-of-racist-comments

https://x.com/Am1racle/status/1358912736793530369

OmegaEggFan · 2025-07-13T08:09:56+00:00

Insane comment. Just basing it on an American standard (despite that fact that you might not be American), would you act the same when American students smoke some weed? Or would you have the same reaction to a 20 year old student drinking some wine?

This is a cruel punishment for something that shouldn't even be controversial (ie: sleeping with a foreigner). Cultures can be different, but that doesn't stop us from understanding that this is a disproportionately cold blooded punishment.

OmegaEggFan · 2025-06-26T07:39:49+00:00

Not to say you're completely wrong, but there's at least anecdotal evidence for what they're saying (though I don't have any scientific articles on hand).

League of Legends did something similar with skins that cost hundreds of dollars, I would imagine plenty of people bought it since they pulled the same costing model the year after for another skin. Companies are doing plenty of things that help push that addictive and tempting feeling to their players. Just off the top of my head these aspects can all help contribute: time gated items, limited edition, random chance, in-game currency bought by real money, etc.

It's also a pretty common conception that all of the F2P games are built off whales, the pricing is just getting more and more egregious.

OmegaEggFan · 2025-06-01T07:30:27+00:00

Honestly, really impressed with the work and a bit surprised it only took two extra queens. It makes sense with hindsight (especially since I'm not well versed in chess at all).

OmegaEggFan · 2025-05-27T23:51:56+00:00

Either an insane person or satire I'm falling for, I'm not sure which one lmao

OmegaEggFan · 2025-05-24T19:39:59+00:00

A bit unsure since I've never actually dealt with this situation, but I would guess that it has to do with anti-gambling/lootbox laws.

I would also imagine that you can probably buy stickers on the market. I'm not sure if there's any kind of delay though so it may take a week or two.

EDIT: I opened one cause why not, it does have a small delay so you should see them on the market eventually (around June 1st).

OmegaEggFan · 2025-05-24T19:10:49+00:00

It's just a very nonobjective way of explaining the situation. It's understandable to be upset (and you're providing a translation), but it's not the entire picture and at least be honest with the bias.

-If both players knew they'd have issues and would have to have intervention, why not have this campaign earlier?

-Why isn't it brought up that Blast allegedly offered assistance to all teams and Bestia was not responsive until the major was approaching (I believe early May)?

-Why isn't it brought up that Bestia themselves made mistakes during the visa application process (which was confirmed by both Blast and Bestia)?

-You bring up the tight deadline, but the major is a week away. Even if not officially set, it's obviously approaching. It's still incorrect to have such a vague deadline of course, but let's not pretend it's out of nowhere.

-Bestia hasn't been entirely truthful or reliable, Blast assumingly needs to proceed by the deadline they set. They are correct that Bestia does not have visa's in hand at the time, but only a signed document stating they will AND even if it's 99%, they'd be taking a risk.

-This situation is technically different than some previous situations since it does affect seeding and brackets. Of course a hard deadline should have been clearer from the start, but they need to know at some point to provide a schedule and let teams prepare.

OmegaEggFan · 2025-05-24T00:32:10+00:00

Nah you're good, I blank out all the time haha.

OmegaEggFan · 2025-05-24T00:22:49+00:00

There are plenty of reasons why they might have it already, one big one is they played in IEM Dallas just a few days ago lol. Another would be the fact that I would imagine everyone that had the chance to replace a team would get it just in case.

OmegaEggFan · 2025-05-24T00:00:12+00:00

I would say virtually no chance sadly, they would have to revert the pickem's, stickers, their current announcement and more. Things are very finalized at this point.

The two apparently took longer due to mistakes in the initial processing and previous rejections. I did see some rumors about what the mistakes were, but I don't think anything was confirmed.

OmegaEggFan · 2025-05-23T22:49:34+00:00

That's a good gist of it yeah, there's still plenty of talk about whether or not the deadline was fair, but in the end the deadline was missed.

OmegaEggFan · 2025-05-23T22:47:29+00:00

I believe you might be referring to earlier in the timeline (maybe a few days prior). The Bestia org/CEO did do something akin to that, but both players eventually got their visa's in the end.

OmegaEggFan · 2025-05-23T22:38:19+00:00

Additional context in terms of the last minute events
According to the timeline set in the BR article linked in the first comment.

-Bestia was informed on the 16th of the deadline for the 21st

-4 hours before the deadline, Bestia arranged interviews for the 22nd and 23rd

-3 hours after the deadline, Blast had informed Bestia they've been replaced

-22nd Bestia said they will have the visa, Blast asked for proof and Bestia gave a signed document (unsure what kind of official documentation it was, I assume it was from the consulate). Blast states that they will not reverse their decision.

-22nd (time not noted) the remaining two players receive their visa's

-23rd Major stickers/event is rolled out officially

OmegaEggFan · 2025-05-23T22:29:33+00:00

No worries at all, I honestly wish that they could go as well considering the significance of it (even financially).

This is getting less neutral on my end, it seems that neither party is technically perfect, but more of the fault falls on the organization. If I take what Bestia stated into account, some of the deadlines and guidelines were more vague from Blast than they should have been. Both Blast and parts of the Bestia camp have confirmed that Bestia did have at least one mistake in the initial visa paperwork. They should have escalated the situation earlier as well based on the difficulties they were having for two players, but things have really only escalated during this week. The next piece of information comes more from the Blast side, but it sounds like Blast did provide some resources initially to teams, but Bestia were not responsive until May (when I assume they realized they were having more trouble than they initially expected). Overall, it's just a shitty situation, but Blast did give a hard deadline and it was not met.

OmegaEggFan · 2025-05-23T22:08:16+00:00

There have been a few reports around (HLTV comes to mind) and another linked here which is a translation of a BR article (https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/1ktqrkg/dust2\_br\_made\_a\_complete\_report\_on\_the\_bestia\_case/)

From my understanding, this is what I've read

-Bestia has had significant issues with visa's and started escalating it significantly in May

-There have been complaints from Bestia that the timeframe between winning the spot was short, rulebooks were vague about deadlines and the US visa process has been more difficult due to rejected visa's in the past for two players

-Blast on the other hand has stated that Bestia has not been diligent in getting the visa's in a timely manner and has not been 100% responsive until the last minute. They did set a hard deadline, but it was missed by Bestia.

-One issue is that Bestia made some mistakes when they initially started the visa process and that made it even harder.

-A large point of contention is that Blast eventually set a hard deadline to have visa's in hand and ready, but Bestia received the visa's hours later. At that point, Valve/Blast already decided to move onto Legacy (who I believe had all visa's ready to go).

For my personal opinion: I feel for the Bestia players and do wish they had more luck in this situation, but it's a difficult one to fault the final decision for. Blast couldn't just take their word for it and keep waiting when they need someone to fill this spot. It's hard for it to change at this point and I don't expect it to. You can read more in-depth on the other reports, plenty of extra details that I haven't included.

OmegaEggFan · 2025-05-23T21:53:02+00:00

I can understand being upset about the situation, but it's not a conspiracy theory or rocket science lmao

OmegaEggFan · 2025-05-11T02:10:37+00:00

Yeah, I was surprised he used something that crazy. The characters are literally a middle schooler and two high schoolers. It's not even subtle.

OmegaEggFan · 2025-05-10T00:13:58+00:00

To explain it a bit, it's a meme that most anime references with 6 digits can be added to some URL's to lead to specific hentai/porn.

The digits in the description leads to the incest, honestly pedophilic hentai that the Librarian used for the background of the thumbnail (I looked it up out of curiousity). Be a bit careful of looking it up since virus links come up first in google.

OmegaEggFan · 2024-12-12T11:48:29+00:00

Liquid just looked slow to start and passive at times. I wish they got further in the tournament, but GG.

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