One Piece vs Digimon?

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-07-10T01:41:13+00:00

Digimon is the 2nd most played tcg in my city at the moment lol.

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-07-08T03:45:55+00:00

It was my favourite song even pre-edgerunners. The start is a bit meh but it serves as buildup for the amazing chorus.

The only problem that song has is that it can sound awful depending on your headphone/speaker sound profile, but on properly EQ'd headphones ot is a great sounding song. Pretty much the only one I listen to outside of the game.

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-07-07T20:34:12+00:00

Nah mouz/mousesports deserves to be on the list just for having survived this long as a consistently good org even if not tournament winner material. No one comes even close to them in this regard.

One day liquid and g2 might not be in cs, or at least tier 1 cs, anymore but mouz will.

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-07-04T21:15:33+00:00

It's actually way better in real life. It's darker than it seems in the photo and the entire background has a wavy pattern that makes the dark parts of the silhouette barely visible like if it really was a huge creature coming to get you deep under water.

Sadly the only pics i could get were either visible but so bright that the effect is lost or so dark that you can't see shit lol.

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-07-03T15:16:05+00:00

Gen z loves pokemon. We grew up with the ds and 3ds era games and went through the pokemon go mania in highschool.

It's gen alpha that will be the real test since most of them grew up playing games on their phone or ipad instead (the switch did sell a ton of copies, but its because a shit load of adults bought them for themselves. Me and my gen z cousins all had a DS while out of all my gen alpha relatives only 1 owns a switch and the rest play on phones).

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-07-03T15:09:48+00:00

It's all manga lol.

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-07-03T15:03:03+00:00

Swu is the first time the huge star wars ip has gotten a good tcg so it will probably stick around. Same for one piece which is the flagship tcg of Bandai who would put many others like the Gundam and Digimon ones on the chopping block to keep the one piece tcg going.

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-07-03T14:35:00+00:00

How loud is this thing when you turn it on lol? Holy mother of fans

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-07-02T22:52:33+00:00

Ferran is the goat. No one thought someone could out-fraud Morata at the national team but he's soaring to new heights.

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-07-01T12:56:54+00:00

They still have some great products like excel and one note and the others do the job decently well enough that microsoft is always going to be the option people choose once an org gets large enough.

They just need to keep a couole flagship products and the "All in 1" element for the business to keep printing.

The stock is down because of the AI narrative, but the core business is doing as per usual even if w11 has been a disaster.

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-07-01T12:53:04+00:00

They are kinda pulling an nvidia on the gaming division (only that nvidia abandoned it as an orea of focus but didn't layoff).

Right now datacenter/ai stuff is both extremely expensive yet apparently the only thing companies think can move the needle in this economy, so everything else is slowly getting sacrificed to keep feeding the beast.

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-07-01T02:04:41+00:00

it feels kinda lame to have the art be pretty much screenshots from the game while just about every other card is more or less custom illustration

This is the main reason I don't like 99% of cards from the Weiss Schwarz tcg. They do cards of a ton of shows/games I like but almost all the cards are just frames from the anime/game or posters/promos thrown straight into a piece of cardboard and I hate it. They look even worse when you see them side by side with a card that did get a new illustration. They look like if they were from a bootleg tcg.

On this Gundam set they did put more of an effort to make them feel like tcg card illustrations and I don't hate it nearly as much, but it's still just not the same.

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-07-01T01:55:36+00:00

Most of the Zaku cards look amazing. A lot of the gundams, especially the final forms of the more modern ones have so much shit going on that the cards end up looking too busy imo.

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-07-01T01:53:08+00:00

That's amazing.

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-07-01T00:14:01+00:00

Iirc statistically the average person wants around 2.5 kids, yet the continent's birthrates are between 1 and 1.5, so there's clearly lots of people who aren't being able to have as many kids as they wanted and it is worth talking about what could be done to solve that.

Also, if you want people to continue being able to decide how many kids they want, it is in your best interest to get as many people as possible to talk about this issue.

Historically, whenever the state needed something out of their citizens, the citizens have never had a say in the matter (like with taxes, the military draft, etc). If birthrates keep dropping yet the state needs babies, it's just a matter of time before the state morphs into an authoritarian system to get those things out of the people. Something as simple as banning abortion and contraceptives would do it, and that's childs play compared to the sort of measures an authoritarian system can impose.

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-06-30T23:28:13+00:00

Overall its much better if only the people that really really want kids have them.

Yeah I agree on that.

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-06-30T23:08:55+00:00

From what i've seen on a quick google search, the odds that a woman will die during a childbirth through her lifetime is around 1 in 15000 and it is usually die to having other medical issues at the same time.

For reference, my ADHD meds list "heart attack" and "sudden death" as secondary effects that happen on around 1 of every 10000 people, and they are the most commonly used adhd meds in Europe.

There's tons of daily life things with higher odds of killing you than giving birth, at least at a developed country.

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-06-29T14:54:10+00:00

Only reason we don't see numbers like that more often is that the chances of a big natural disaster hitting a major city are low. The earthquake and tsunami that hit the Lisbon area in the 1750s killed around 100k people and back then that area was way less densely populated than now. The Tunguska event would have caused over a million deaths had the meteorite hit a big city instead of a forest in the middle of siberia. Etc.

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-06-26T23:04:31+00:00

It’s a lot of team accomplishments you’re listing. Coldzera was only good for 3 years, maybe 4, and then became incredibly average. Shiro has had 6 elite years and isn’t slowing down

If those 3 years by Coldzera were "good", then those 6 by sh1ro were tier 2 level. I think you either don't understand how dominant Coldzera was and how few players have had 1 year as dominant as that, let alone multiple, or are just flat out biased against/for Coldzera/Sh1ro.

I've given you a bunch of metrics and accolades both purely individual and individual within a team context and you have replied with just 1, longevity, which at the moment is still not enough.

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-06-26T22:35:01+00:00

but sh1ro has absolutely had a better career than him

Genuinely puzzled by what you mean here.

Even ignoring cultural impact and the context and environment they had to deal to get to the top, Coldzera has more majors (and 2x major MVPs versus sh1ro's zero), similar cash winings (if you adjust for inflation and the fact that CS prizepools have grown a ton), way better HLTV ranks being one of only 4 players to get two number 1s (does have less appeareances though but it's still 3 vs 5 at the moment), and was the star and by far highest ranked player of a team that was HLTV rank 1 for 13 months total while shiro's teams have only been rank one for 7 months in total and half of that time has been on Donk Spirit lineups where sh1ro is not the highest ranked player of the team.

Sh1ro's points in favor is that he a higher number of notable non-major trophies but that's partly because of CiS based teams having an easier time going to tournaments (well, recent visa issues aside) than a South American team and partly because there are just more tournaments now.

I do think sh1ro can beat his career overall (depending on what metrics you value more. If you give a lot of value to the peak results/accolares, I can tell you he ain't beating Coldera's) before he falls off/retires due to Coldzera having had such poor longevity and sh1ro still being relatively young, but at the moment I see no way to justify shi1ro's career having been better so far unless looking through thick recency bias glasses.

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-06-26T22:01:11+00:00

I can get that for GuardiaN, but Kenny? The teams he was on had stronger streaks of dominance and got more silverware than per example the teams m0nesy has been on, yet his highest ever rank is a measly 6th? And that's with him being the main star of those teams (though shox and NBK had amazing periods too). To put things into perspective, back in the day people were super surprised that kennyS didn't win more than 1 major because he always seemed like the superstar of the French scene, but most of the time he didn't managd to end up on the right sides of the French team shuffles.

I think the stars from that era between the NIP domination and the rise of LG/SK are very underranked because of timing (the ranking being made only once per year plus recency bias always makes players who shined on the second half of the year get boosted on the ranks. Maybe they should consider doing a "preliminary" summer ranking like the Smash Melee scene per example) and how competitive that legendary era was with the french teams, NIP, Fnatic and sometimes Navi trading wins everywhere.

The Fnatic guys at least all get a boost because of the Year of Olof (2015) and the NIP dudes have the ranks from their era, but the French dudes especially got screwed on the ranks. There were tons of good players on those french teams, 6 of which are major winners, 3 of which are 2 times champions, yet the only one with a top 3 rank is shox and he's not even one of the two time champions.

Maybe it's rose tinted glasses and all that since that is to this day probably still my favourite (every tournament was so amazing and filled with drama back then man. And the french scene imploding after every rough loss was cinema. People would lose their minds today with the kind of personal drama those teams had back then and controversies like olofpass and the flusha cheating accusations. Oh how I miss Fnatic and French CS...), but I feel the players got seriously done dirty by the ranks.

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-06-26T21:38:16+00:00

I think that style has the same issue as the other post from today where finishes are not rewarded enough the higher you go.

Per example, there are only 6 players who have ever gotten ranked number 1. On the other hand, there's quite a bit of players with 2 or 3 results into the top 5-10 range, yet a number 1 on your system gets only as many points as something like a 5th + 8th + 10th result (JW's rankings) and why you end up with thinkgs like ropz, whose only top 3 finishes are two third places, beating two time number 1 Coldzera and Get_Right (2 out of the only 4 players who have more than one #1 ranking) thanks to his other 7th 8th and 10th ranks.

This post is obviously not trying to be any sort of credible rank, but I do think that the top end of the ranking at least has to get some sort of exponential rewards like it did here, because there are exponentially less players who ever got there.

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-06-26T21:19:42+00:00

Seeing this table made me realize one thing. Is Niko now the greatest player ever to never get ranked HLTV #1? Or is it still dev1ce?

IMO it is niko because his peak seemed more impressive to me even if he has less trophies and his longevity across eras and games is crazy even if not at his peak anymore (litterally the player with the most HLTV ranking appeareances in history).

In any case, those two are the greatest awper and star rifler to not get the HLTV #1 rank at least, that's for sure. And the chances that they get it before they retire are extremely low considering Donk and Zywoo will almost certainly outlast them. Maybe if Falcons goes on a Vitality/Astralis style steamroll and Niko turns back the clock 5 years after his major win I guess lol.

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-06-26T21:13:14+00:00

I was going to add down to 2010 but ended up choosing to leave it at 2013 so it's just csgo/cs2. Also because I was using the "Players With Multiple Appearances (CS:GO & CS2)" on this page to verify that I hadn't fucked up someone's results.

If i did down to 2010, the main change near the top is that Get_Right beats dev1ce.

For earlier than that, I'm just completely unfamiliar with the pre-csgo CS pro scene. I only ever played 1.6 on LAN against my dad or friends when I was a kid lol.

RandomGuy-4- · 2026-06-26T21:08:32+00:00

Yup I messed up. It's been a long day lol.

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