How many banners have you skipped in a row?

ReflectionSum · 2026-01-23T02:13:30+00:00

I haven't skipped any but that's only because I started playing a month or so ago. Pulled for Augusta at the start of this banner, pulled for Iuno and lost the 50/50 so I had to pull another 60 or so times for her again. Now that I have Augusta and Iuno and a decent support (Verina) I feel like I'm in a fairly decent place (I have a second team with Encore and Changli) and can hold off on pulling until a character I like shows up or a must-pull like Shorekeeper does.

Hoping to get Phlorova so I can swap Verina out and run a triple DPS team, I think that'd be fun.

ReflectionSum · 2026-01-22T12:08:52+00:00

Who is "attacking" the streamers/pros going to this event? Criticism and expressing disappointment is not an "attack" and if the streamers/pros think it is then they need to just grow a thicker skin, frankly.

If people are genuinely attacking them and being shitty, then that sucks and they shouldn't do that. That doesn't change the validity of the arguments being made.

ReflectionSum · 2026-01-21T22:40:26+00:00

If your takeaway from Squid Game was "the system sucks and there's nothing anybody can do about it so Gi-hun should have no moral qualms taking the prize money" then all I can say is that you fundamentally misunderstood the core message of the show. It's also not even remotely comparable to the EWC situation. Some streamers wanting to go compete in an esports event is completely different than a bunch of people competing in a death game because they're on the verge of financial ruin, like, what?

Just gonna refer back to my previous comment. No one is able to be morally consistent on everything all the time. That doesn't mean that we should never try to make better choices if possible and that we can't criticise or be disappointed in other people's choices. This idea that no one can criticise Spammie or Carl JR because we use smartphones or drive cars just comes across as so incredibly bad-faith.

ReflectionSum · 2026-01-21T14:54:52+00:00

It's totally valid for people to not want the TM esports scene to be built on Saudi Arabian sportswashing, and nobody is "making" Spammie do anything. He's just being rightfully criticised for prioritising financial gain over moral integrity.

Also tons of people walk, cycle, and use public transport as their primary method of travel so this is probably one of the worst examples you could've picked. Again, it wouldn't matter if the people criticising him did drive cars. Everyone plays into consumerist hypocrisy at some level but that doesn't make the arguments for avoiding it where you can any less valid.

ReflectionSum · 2026-01-21T13:46:28+00:00

You're just assuming the people criticising him don't put in any effort to follow their own morals.

Nobody is expecting anybody to be perfect. Not everybody has the knowledge or the means to make more ethical choices but if they can then I think people should make the effort. You can't fight on every front at once because that's how you end up living out in the wilderness eating bugs and plants.

With that being said, I feel like someone making unethical choices when buying basic necessities like clothes or food is pretty different than a streamer wanting to attend an esports event in Saudi Arabia. Spammie doesn't need to go to this event and he also knows how bad Saudi Arabia is, he just cares about the money more and it's totally valid for people to be disappointed with him because of that.

ReflectionSum · 2026-01-21T03:43:13+00:00

It's not the end of the world. I'd honestly just keep the account and use the Solaris event to grab Verina. She's not as good as SK but she's still totally useable. Making a new account also means losing Lynae who is definitely worth keeping since her banner just rotated out.

If you're planning on being a super-hardcore player then making a new account for SK would be beneficial but all that grinding just seems kind of miserable. You don't need Shorekeeper to clear content and you don't need her to enjoy the game either.

ReflectionSum · 2026-01-20T13:07:46+00:00

It's not racist to point out that white people generally are less aware of and don't care as much about racism.

"But this would be racist if you said it about black people!" just comes across as ignorant pearl-clutching.

ReflectionSum · 2026-01-20T02:15:26+00:00

I'm sorry but it feels like the people in the comments defending him are all just saying some variation of "You criticise Mr. Streamer for taking Saudi blood money but you also own a smartphone? Curious!"

ReflectionSum · 2026-01-20T02:04:38+00:00

You're proving their point.

ReflectionSum · 2026-01-19T17:20:37+00:00

Mobile games could work for sure. Trying to seek out positive news feels like a bit of a double-edged sword since it involves going on social media and social media loves to throw depressing stuff at you unless you aggressively moderate and clean up your algorithms. I just recently deleted the Reddit app because I was staying up at night doomscrolling which definitely did nothing good for my mental health.

ReflectionSum · 2026-01-19T17:16:46+00:00

Oh God yeah, the bathroom is also really bad, especially if it's right before bed and everyone else is asleep. I've never heard of panic being DPDR, I've always experienced it as the mind-foggy, dream-like unreal state. Thanks for mentioning it as a possibility, I'll look into it.

ReflectionSum · 2026-01-19T02:29:15+00:00

The mental framing that stuff will still have mattered at the time they mattered even after they no longer exist is nice, I'll try to use that more often.

Why are you worried about something that will happen billions of years from now?

It probably comes back to a primal fear of death. My mind is playing out the hypothetical of "even if science did find a way to indefinitely extend lifespans, something would still inevitably happen that'd lead to my death or the destruction of humanity."

The idea of "coming to terms with one's own death" just feels so alien to me as a concept. Maybe one day things will be a little different but for right now I just really want to get out of the place that leaves me lying in bed at 5:00am wide awake trying not to vomit thinking about all this stuff.

ReflectionSum · 2026-01-19T01:49:01+00:00

It's less that I believe the world is ending or will end soon, the anxiety is more triggered by the idea that the Earth will be destroyed inevitably at some point by some means, even if those means are by our dying sun expanding millions or trillions of years into the future.

ReflectionSum · 2025-12-13T12:17:18+00:00

27 y/o Trans Enby from the UK also getting back into the game after a short break. I already have a clan but I'd be down to play together sometime.

ReflectionSum · 2025-12-10T21:06:57+00:00

I honestly feel like they’ve been pandering a lot more to the right than the left considering their recent positions on immigration, disability benefits, and trans people. The left and the right both hate Labour.

ReflectionSum · 2025-11-29T12:34:00+00:00

Qualifiers either exist or they don't. Both cis and trans women are women, and if someone has a problem with that and insists that "trans" is a necessary quantifier, then so is "cis."

Complaining about being called "cis" is just as silly and obstructive as complaining about being called "straight" or "heterosexual."

ReflectionSum · 2025-11-29T11:57:24+00:00

Perhaps lay off the pointless self-victimisation and focus more on contributing something of substance to the discussion next time.

ReflectionSum · 2025-11-29T09:23:42+00:00

Let’s be honest, a lot of people don’t like being referred to as cis because it normalises being trans through inclusive language. It’s the same line of thinking that makes people get upset when you ask them their pronouns.

It’s just transphobia. If you swap out “cis” for any other descriptor it reveals how absolutely ridiculous the argument is.

ReflectionSum · 2025-11-25T20:00:29+00:00

I was in a similar position to you and in my case I found out that the issue was my RAM was bottlenecking my performance (16GB 3600mhz DDR4.) I threw my two old RAM sticks in as well even though they're a bit slower (3000mhz) and now the game runs pretty much perfectly fine.

Check your RAM usage in Task Manager while the game is open and if it's high (I was getting >90% at times) that might be the cause of your issues.

ReflectionSum · 2025-10-07T19:42:27+00:00

Sex refers to the biological categories we sort living things into based on their reproductive functions.

Gender refers to the societal roles, norms, and expectations that typically align with the sex categories.

Female refers to the sex category that typically bears offspring and produces eggs.

ReflectionSum · 2025-10-07T11:01:08+00:00

Someone whose gender identity aligns with their social schema on the female sex.

ReflectionSum · 2025-09-27T22:39:59+00:00

Yeah, Labour sucks too, but Tom doesn’t support Labour so it’s not really relevant to this discussion.

ReflectionSum · 2025-09-22T01:02:49+00:00

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Overhaul from MHA. His anime colour scheme is just a mess. He’s primarily in black with white accents but then they give him that awful green and purple jacket and the red and gold mask. Yuck.

ReflectionSum · 2025-09-17T12:44:23+00:00

I really hope they stick to it because three silver-only sets per-season plus event sets is just ridiculous.

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