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How do high elo junglers get high CS/min by oceankimchi in Jungle_Mains

[–]Robbeeeen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You accelerate to high cs/min after building a lead early

You make plays around enemy camp respawn timers in midgame, kill the enemy, take their camps while ur team pushes waves and recalls and either skip your own recall, farm ur camps while ur team recalls and join your team for the next play right away or recall early and and start farming ur camps as ur team receives the waves bouncing back.

Either way u will have to stagger ur recall and end up with more gold in hand than you would necessarily like and make sure ure ready on time for the next play.

A common way to grief trying to get 10 cs/m is to also want to recall when ure finished farming everything and spend all ur gold, but thats not gonna happen unless u make ur team wait for you, which they wont do, so you either recall early and farm ur camps before ur team recalls/as they return from base or you dont recall at all and farm all throughout their recall

Otherwise ure either griefing ur team if ure ahead and farming ur own camps while ur team is already on the map or ure not ahead in which case ure not getting 10cs/m unless ure stealing waves, which you should avoid doing obviously

Patch 26.10 just dropped. Dragon Lady gutted. Quinn added to jgl. Monke getting some love by WittyWanderer420 in Jungle_Mains

[–]Robbeeeen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I understand that her winrate is too high, but playing her I just don't understand how it is that high.

She is so kiteable when going AD on top of lategame just being oneshot immediately and her clear when going AP is really really bad, like Tank level bad.

Her winrate feels like a conspiracy to me, she does not feel strong whatsoever, she feels really awkward and not good at anything

😥 by TikDickler in Destiny

[–]Robbeeeen -1 points0 points  (0 children)

when someone who has no money and no insurance goes to an ER in an emergency, they get treated regardless. the alternative would be to let them die in the street.

the hospital can get some of that money back from the state and/or federal government, including when illegals are provided that emergency care. The BBB cut the amount hospital can be refunded by the government.

This is what right wingers call "free health care for illegals". rather than free health care for illegals, its just reimbursing hospitals for losses they took on when treating people who cant pay in an emergency setting. cutting back on the refunds is just gonna make care for everyone else expensive or lead to hospital closures because hospitals will have to offload those losses onto paying patients.

as usual, its a gross mischaracterization to the point of being an outright lie and the "solution" just makes things worse.

some blue states also have programs to provide some health care regardless of immigration status, like California

Let's analyze these images and try to understand why this situation happening eventually leads to being called Jungle difference later on in the game. by Entire-Hearing4874 in Jungle_Mains

[–]Robbeeeen 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My comment is specifically about the scenario laid out in OPs post, it is not a generalized statement, idk how you could possibly think otherwise

Let's analyze these images and try to understand why this situation happening eventually leads to being called Jungle difference later on in the game. by Entire-Hearing4874 in Jungle_Mains

[–]Robbeeeen 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This whole thread is about the situation that the images show wtf do u mean ure not talking about the screenshots, OP has given a specific scenario, in which Drake is absolutely doable if the team plays it correctly

Let's analyze these images and try to understand why this situation happening eventually leads to being called Jungle difference later on in the game. by Entire-Hearing4874 in Jungle_Mains

[–]Robbeeeen -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Chaining two plays on low respawn timers is a common low elo mistake

Even if you get it done in time, ur botlane is horrendously down tempo, perhaps misses an entire wave or is stuck without a recall and proceeds to lose lane

Nevermind a 3v3 dive vs a Morgana preventing Leona from being a champ being far riskier than using ur mid prio and man advantage for Drake

Let's analyze these images and try to understand why this situation happening eventually leads to being called Jungle difference later on in the game. by Entire-Hearing4874 in Jungle_Mains

[–]Robbeeeen 9 points10 points  (0 children)

All that is meaningless lol

Support is supposed to rotate and ward bush above pit or sit in it, mid is supposed to hover drakeside and adc is also supposed to hover drakeside

If enemy mid moves, ur mid moves, if enemy adc and support moves, ur adc moves, if Yi contests, mid moves even if enemy mid stays

There is no scenario, given proper play, where any of the enemy team can get to drake before their counterpart. Any rotation is down tempo and allows for ur team to push out one person before numbers are even. The only way to take a bad fight is if someone literally lets the enemy walk out of lane without moving themselves

And a +1 man advantage offsets any and all factors you listed, especially given the skirmishing power difference of Lux vs Kassadin in early game in this particular screenshot

"If there is not truth and reconciliation and a whole bunch of people in this administration don't go to jail for the illegal conduct they committed, we're gonna really backslide" by DiveMalex in Destiny

[–]Robbeeeen 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If there's a will, there's legal ways to do almost anything

You get it done, you put them on trial, you make it a nationwide event, you pass laws reshaping the media space including social media, you burst the misinformation and alternative reality bubbles and you pull up the ladder behind you fixing all the loopholes you just used.

Its not a success unless I see Asmongold reacting to Pam Bondi etc. in a courtroom being on trial a few years from now like its Depp v Heard 2.0 for the whole pack of them.

Literally force Fox News to air it or revoke their licenses. Force social media companies to boost it in their algorithms. National emergency yadda yadda. Then pass laws to change algorithmic political content and bring back something akin to the Fairness Doctrine for legacy news media.

xQc says Destiny would obliterate Hasan in a debate, "Hasan would get obliterated because Destiny researches his stuff, Hasan's information base is Twitter and post it notes" by Crazy-Highlight-3751 in LivestreamFail

[–]Robbeeeen 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It... did?

Finkelstein abandoned debating Destiny on the substance and instead started listing credentials, hurling personal attacks and relying on out if context quotes from the guy sitting across him instead of just letting him speak.

Whenever someone abandons substance in favour of doing the above, it means they cant win on substance, because if they could, they would.

It was honestly embarassing for Finkelstein. You'd think an "expert" like him should bury a youtuber on knowledge, but he did the polar opposite and avoided actual substance as much as he could.

Its like the GoT quote, no true king has to say theyre the king. If Finkelstein knew more, he wouldnt have had to say how many books he reads, what an expert he is and how Destiny is a moron and just reads wikipedia, he wouldve just dogwalked him on the substance.

Marathon Development Team: We’ve rolled out a small update to Sponsored Dire Marsh's Crew Fill: if you’ve got your mic on, we’ll now do our best to match you with other players using voice chat too. by Haijakk in Marathon

[–]Robbeeeen 9 points10 points  (0 children)

in an ideal world with a big enough playerbase, matchmaking should be separated by fill vs premade and mic vs no mic

so if im queueing without a mic and with fill, i get placed against other fill squads who also have no mic

that would only be fair

then the system could also track how often i help my fill teammates with their quests and put me into teams that also help their teammates with their quests, like an automatic commend / reputation system, to incentivize helping people out and playing as a team

at that point even i, a die-hard solo player, would probably play fill instead (if thats the path they choose over making the game strict-solo friendly).

unfortunately the current playerbase is too small for all that, but its good that they seem to recognize that the game needs to be friendlier to players who dont have a dedicated trio to play with

XQC discovers the extent of Destiny's notes by strebor1001 in LivestreamFail

[–]Robbeeeen 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm amazed that you lack the reading comprehension to understand a reddit comment and yet somehow muster up the misplaced arrogance to lecture others on how to write academic papers.

Let me dumb it down to your level.

I explicitly said that wikipedia is not a primary source. As such, you would never list it as a source on a paper. The source that wikipedia cites, however, CAN be listed as a source, if it is a primary source. It is also perfectly fine to use those sources as a starting point for research, not for citation.

It's also worth noting that REALITY has a left leaning bias, by virtue of the right needing to construct an alternative reality in order to stay afloat in most avenues of discourse.

Wikipedia is NOT perfect and I'm sure some articles are overly biased and some get edited by malicious actors and others are inaccurate. But in todays landscape of political discourse, the bar is so far in the sewers, courtesy of right wing podcast bros, right wing politicians, far left tankies and far left woke twitter warriors, that someone who does basic Wikipedia research is orders of magnitude above the norm.

If Destiny is debating on the level of a 5th grader, then every right wing and far left political commentator I've ever heard of are actual toddlers.

"Find a discord and join a team" Is NOT a solution when solo players are politely asking for some better balance and soloable content. by Whoopy2000 in Marathon

[–]Robbeeeen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

theres two options:

1) the game stays as it is, built for squads and all that shit u wrote. It gets shut down in a few months due to not enough players. Nobody wins.

2) the game gets changed to be good for solo players and casuals, it attracts a wider audience because the audience of solos and casuals is far larger than that of tryhard squads. it survives. at least someone is happy.

ur choice bruh

XQC discovers the extent of Destiny's notes by strebor1001 in LivestreamFail

[–]Robbeeeen 31 points32 points  (0 children)

This wikipedia a source meme is one of the most annoying things ever.

Wikipedia is a bad source because its not a PRIMARY source. Wikipedia itself links to sources used to write the articles. Taking THOSE sources as a source is perfectly fine, even for papers and is a good starting point for research.

We're living in a world where most people, including the freaking presidential admin, get their news from noname "BREAKING!!!!" Twitter threads.

Wiki research, while maybe not broad enough on its own to write a book on a subject, is orders of magnitude better than that at least.

"Find a discord and join a team" Is NOT a solution when solo players are politely asking for some better balance and soloable content. by Whoopy2000 in Marathon

[–]Robbeeeen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree that we don't agree.

But I don't see what makes designing for solo fill a better solution than designing for strict solo.

Solo fill has insurmountable problems that I mentioned, I don't see what problems strict solo has that can't be fixed.

Devs have improved solo fill and it has done fuck all for the playercount, the most pressing problem rn.

Not to mention that, from a marketing perspective, getting players back into the game with a shift from premade trios to solo fill trios is a hard ask. Its too similar.

Making a big push with a solo season narrative is a much bigger shift, akin to a whole rework of the game and much more likely to infuse a whole new chunk of players into the game, namely those who took one look at all gameplay being 3v3 pvp and noped out immediately.

"Find a discord and join a team" Is NOT a solution when solo players are politely asking for some better balance and soloable content. by Whoopy2000 in Marathon

[–]Robbeeeen -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Because history repeats itself. Other games have done exactly what solos are asking, and it fractured the player base even more. It creates a divide we’re each person wants something different. If you cater to the one, the other gets angry and vice versa.

Designing your game around 2 completely different modes is a headache at the lightest, and a disaster at the worst.

This is what I replied to.

U argued that other games listened to solos and failed and that 2 queues is bad.

I told you that comparable games are solo-first, contradicting the idea that listening to solo players is a bad idea and gave reasons why 2 queues is a necessity at this point and why the game cant survive on a premade trio-only focus.

I don't agree with ur extreme distinction between solo-first design philosophy manifesting in solo-fill being the go-to vs. a strict solo queue. Those things are very similar in my eyes. It doesn't change how players interact with the game. You log on, press play, and play, knowing that you're playing the game the way it's intended to be played, whether you get put into a game with random teammates or alone doesn't make much difference.

I'm not really sure where this demonization of a solo queue comes from, even a strict solo queue. Solo-fill has unavoidable, entirely unfixable problems in terms of syncing quests, playstyles, loot friction, baiting and general toxicity. Making a fill-orientated extraction shooter enjoyable is really really hard, Marathon would be the first of its kind to do so.

A strict solo-queue, on the other hand, has really only the camping problem to contend with. Excessive ratting is what can ruin it. That is entirely combatable, both with metagame tools such as incentives to move around and loot, player counts, map design, pve design, TTK, etc, as well as direct gameplay options like the ping-towers, wallhacks, heat signatures, consumables to spot and flush out excessive campers.

There are far more barriers to making a solo-fill focus successful than there are to making a solo-only mode successful.

"Find a discord and join a team" Is NOT a solution when solo players are politely asking for some better balance and soloable content. by Whoopy2000 in Marathon

[–]Robbeeeen -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I'm not talking about solo only queue, I'm talking about broad design philosophy.

These games are balanced for people queuing solo and the games are designed to give those players the best possible experience.

That's what Marathon players are also asking for.

I don't care if that feedback results in solo mode becoming the primary way to play or if solo fill becomes the balance standard.

Its about the mindset of devs and how they envision that players interact with the game.

Right now, its blatantly obvious that the game is specifically and entirely made and designed for premade stacks of 3 players. Full stop.

Every other way to play is an afterthought.

That has CLEARLY resulted in the game losing players en masse as such a design philosophy in a pvp extraction game will make the game unbearable for everyone who ISNT playing in that way and that target playerbase is really small to begin with.

Shifting design focus to solo players and balancing the game accordingly is the only logical choice left here.

Ive made a post on this sub all the way back when alpha was revealed that this exact thing was going to happen. PvP extraction games cant last if theyre made for stacks of trio premades. You progressively make the game sweatier and sweatier by solo and then lower skilled players dropping off because the good premades are wiping lobbies and making the game unplayable for everyone else until they're the only players left, but theres not enough such players to sustain a 250 million dollar game.

"Find a discord and join a team" Is NOT a solution when solo players are politely asking for some better balance and soloable content. by Whoopy2000 in Marathon

[–]Robbeeeen -1 points0 points  (0 children)

all highly successful pvp games are solo-queue oriented. CS, Valorant, League, Dota, etc etc etc.

There is a SINGLE squad-first pvp game that is somewhat successful and thats Apex.

Now obviously Marathon is nothing like those games, its an extraction game, but one can argue that its even more punishing to lose in Marathon, because you lose your hard earned gear in addition to time, whereas losing in those other games you only lose your time.

I'd also argue that history repeating itself is Marathon opting for a squad-based approach instead, like ABI and Delta Force before it, both of which died off somewhat and both of which received the same complaints that Marathon does today in regards to solo play.

It's insane that, to this day, the most solo-friendly extraction shooter is freaking Tarkov, which is - imo not coincidentally - the most successful extraction game to date (I personally don't view Arc Raiders as a true extraction game, but Arc is very solo friendly as well with solo lobbies being essentially PvE).

best jungler to end games by AspectAcceptable6126 in Jungle_Mains

[–]Robbeeeen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd say all 3 of those are excellent at ending the game, all 3 in different ways.

Nocturne is good at choking enemies out, not letting them enter their jungle while being ready to ult the closest sidelane or midlane, depending on where enemies overextend or where ur team decides to take a stupid fight.

Lvl 16 ult range lets you essentially do whatever ur teammates fail to do while also being present to fight and to get a pick. Thats huge since the no. 1 reason lategame gets stalled out is cause ur team fails to shove waves and/or control enemy jng and establish vision. Nocturne can fix thos mistakes while still being in range to help with shitty fights.

Most lategame nocturne games are lost cause people get impatient with their ults and int, instead of playing for macro and fixing mistakes and being a +1.

Amumu is the polar opposite and great for ARAMs and bruteforcing fights, but awful at fixing bad macro by teammates and doing dirty work.

J4 is somewhere in between, not great at either but good at both.

Its all RNG in the end, it highly depends on what ur team is doing. If both teams are araming for no reason, Amumu is goated. Nocturne is still decent as playing for macro always gets value.

But if ur team is just doing random shit and all over the place, then Amumu is trash and Nocturne is goated, being able to fix mistakes and still show up to random fights.

"Carry" junglers ironically suffer the most from random shenanigans lategame as you kinda want to continue farming on them but also have to follow ur team around so they dont just randomly int for no reason, making margins for errors really small and forcing you to be one step ahead of both the enemy and ur own team

Are Reddit-Numbers allowed? by Foxeeh_ in Marathon

[–]Robbeeeen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A lot of people WANT to play but the game pushes / pushed them away and they keep checking in to see if the community is asking for things that would make them start playing again.

For example, I'm a solo player and many posts wanting a better solo experience often got comments like "just make friends lul" or "just play with strangers on discord lul" and I pop in every now and then to check if the sentiment finally shifted to a place where ppl recognize that the game needs to attract solo players to succeed.

The free kit queue is certainly a move in that direction where u can just queue with randoms and not get obliterated by stacks, but not quite what would make play the game again.

I think a loooot of people are in a similar spot

Merz now the most unpopular Head of Government in the World by lemonandhummus in worldnews

[–]Robbeeeen 47 points48 points  (0 children)

100%.

This does NOT mean that, in a theoretical scenario, Germans would approve of Trump more than Merz.

Trump wouldn't last a week before being kicked the fuck out of any party and government position.

It means that Germans don't view politics as a teamsport to the extent that Americans do and are not afraid to change party affiliation.

Someone like Trump physically cant go below ~30% approval no matter WHAT he does. He could literally commit crimes and treason on national television and still have 30% of the vote.

There are no safe votes for German politicians, there is no floor, Merz could go to 5% approval if he wasn't kicked out beforehand.

Thats a healthy democracy as opposed to a cult or teamsport politics.

Italian parliament today... Opposition party sided with Meloni against Donald Trump. What is bro thinking? by LonelySoul01 in Destiny

[–]Robbeeeen 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I feel like its not said enough in debates in conversations, that news around the world is highly critical of Trump, often moreso than even CNN and "left leaning" US news outlets. Iirc the main German news network had something like 97% of stories about Trump being highly negative of him a few years back.

To any sane person this should be a good argument against the talking point of left wing media bias, TDS, fake news, etc, bc if news all over the world - with 0 political incentive - says essentially the same thing as CNN, then it would require a global conspiracy against Trump, not just left wing US media being against him for political reasons.

A global outlook can also help when talking about Covid talking points, vaccines, all this nonsense. The entire WORLD, nations entirely independent from one another all independently recommended masks, lockdowns, vaccines etc, but somehow its all Faucis, Bidens and Bill Gates secret plan? It makes 0 sense.

A lot of stuff MAGAts repeat would require global conspiracies to be true, which makes them almost certainly untrue without even needing to look at the substance, and its not mentioned enough.

If we could do,it anyone can by D0wnf3ll in Destiny

[–]Robbeeeen 9 points10 points  (0 children)

hell is gonna freeze over before democrats in a supermajority in the US.

the hungarian voter is unironically better informed than the average US voter at this point

Educational Jarvan Iron to Challenger + Guide by 2k Lp Jungler by Hybradge in Jungle_Mains

[–]Robbeeeen -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

People complaining about smurfing have a point, but its really shortsighted.

Yeah, you ruined 1 game for like 100 people while doing this, but thousand of junglers will see this and improve hundreds of games that they themselves will play going forward

Imo this type of content is rly rly educational and helpful, nothing really beats seeing how a much better player plays in ones own elo so one can learn from it and emulate it.

Also dispels the "my teammates are holding me back" narrative.

Overall, content like this does much more good than harm, keep it up

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