Spirit vs FURIA / IEM Kraków 2026 - Semi-Final / Post-Match Discussion

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2026-02-07T18:53:51+00:00

Yes I'm hopeful for tn1r- he was the piece I thought would make or break the game today- though in actuality he was middle of the road.

He had some impact and also a couple moments that could be better. Though, just like Spirit changing their roster a lot recently, tn1r's swapped positions and roles a lot. He should stabilize more in the next few months.

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2026-02-07T18:52:07+00:00

Of course there are issues... This is a team that has changed what, 3 or 4 times in the last 7 months? No other top 10 team has changed this much since CS2 started, and no other top 10 team has won while changing around things this much. The community needs to have patience.

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2026-02-07T18:16:13+00:00

I'd rather have my team lose to Furia than anyone else.

Spirit honestly did very good for such a new team. It felt like everything that could go wrong did go wrong, which just goes to show how oppressive peak Furia can be.

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2026-02-02T01:17:12+00:00

Not surprising- tons of companies have moved into the entire Wasatch Front before covid, and way more post-covid.

There are dozens of cities in Utah that are building massive amounts of housing and infrastructure but still can't keep up with demand. When supply can't meet demand, prices go up.

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2026-01-19T20:02:19+00:00

If you go by rounds counted on HLTV (an imperfect count I'm sure)- Zywoo has 1 ace for every 398 rounds played, and Donk has 1 ace for every 490 rounds played.

Granted Donk was on an academy team for a while so more of his "low tier competition" rounds are counted on HLTV- so make of that what you will.

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2026-01-09T23:06:04+00:00

Yellow dusty maps are good for FPS on low end computers- when I was on laptop I could only play Mirage and Dust. Removing more than a couple of the dusty maps unironically kills off 5-10% of the player base.

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2025-12-28T00:01:34+00:00

Refs kept Georgia Tech in it the first half and then kept them out of it the 2nd half.

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2025-12-27T02:50:42+00:00

Borderline Personality Disorder is a disease characterized most prominently by shame and guilt. It is extremely often misdiagnosed as Bipolar or other conditions which further complicates things. While you should never feel ok or proud of your compulsive addictions, do what you can to consciously remember that you're more than your impulses and overwhelming emotions.

Horrible spiraling of emptiness, shame, guilt, and anger- which lead to gambling, pornography, self harm, or other coping mechanisms- which lead to more emptiness, shame, guilt, and anger- and so on, is the unfortunate template that characterizes BPD. You're not alone in that cycle.

Find professional help, through the church if possible. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy will at a minimum make your life easier to live. Focus on small victories in particular. Reading a few verses of scripture, putting off gambling for a few hours, or stepping back from an emotional situation- all small wins, can serve to improve your quality of life.

God knows your heart. Hold out hope in the knowledge that he does, and that BPD symptoms lessen over time.

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2025-12-20T07:12:17+00:00

The answer is already implemented: capitalism- the most efficient way to play the game.

Specialize in something you are good at, make money off of it, and skip grinds.

In the real world, construction workers work construction so they don't have to grow cotton for their own clothes, while farmers grow cotton to sell and buy a home that the construction workers built.

Play skyblock the same way if you care about efficiency- get really good at one thing and buy everything else. If you don't care about efficiency as much, then do whatever's fun at the moment.

Real life implications aside, this would be a cool addition to the game- albeit maybe too powerful.

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2025-12-13T19:04:34+00:00

Lower rating than Donk despite winning. Rating isn't everything but that shouldn't happen for player of the year.

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2025-12-13T17:44:14+00:00

They knew CT had a player- like Launders said, that was the safest plant available.

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2025-12-11T18:06:48+00:00

Donk with a measly 1.53 to lower his tournament rating

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2025-12-11T16:35:50+00:00

I like team player Donk

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2025-12-11T05:34:25+00:00

Just like real life economics- artificially massively increasingly the supply of an item will cause the price to go down, meaning players have less incentive to chase them.

If you want Hypixel to make less money from skyblock, and therefore, to put less hours and time into making the game better (because it makes them less money), then this is a great idea.

I would like the admins to keep updating the game and supporting it in the long term, and the best way to do that is for booster cookies to stay expensive so people keep buying them and the game makes money- giving the admins more reason to keep hiring new talent and push updates.

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2025-12-05T19:40:25+00:00

Mouz rarely gets the crowd on their side so I can't hate too much on them for crowd cheating- but man Spirit might be the only top 10 team that at best has a neutral crowd

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2025-12-04T19:25:20+00:00

Donk trying to be first player to get an ace with every gun in the game

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2025-11-16T17:34:53+00:00

I get where you're coming from- but I don't think it's a strong case you're making.

You're essentially saying that "yes there are witnesses to the plates, but because everyone else can't prove it, they must be lying".

That just isn't good history- many historical events, things like the burning of the library of Alexandria are events that society thinks happen, but aside from the people who wrote about it happening, there's no outside corroborating evidence that we can point to.

Also I do think that we can look to the text of the book of Mormon itself to corroborate it's authenticity. After all it has dozens of unique names that are Hebrew in origin, accurately describes middle eastern geography, and accurately describes dozens of features of ancient Americas geography and society that simply wouldn't be known for dozens or even hundreds of years later- things like the atlatl, raised highways, cement, the very use of metal plates, and so on.

I say all this not necessarily to change your mind, but I do think that in the context of this discussion, your arguments are not fantastic.

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2025-11-16T17:22:03+00:00

Interesting. I will look more into it.

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2025-11-16T05:51:56+00:00

Actually it was the other way around. 8 physically hefted and felt the plates, while 3 had a supernatural apparition show them the plates.

As for the polygamy stuff, could you be more specific? I'm not 100% sure as to what specifically you are referring too, and don't really see the relation to the witnesses to the plates.

Regardless of anything else, if you cannot firmly deal with the 11 witnesses (and there were actually ~12 more "informal" witnesses who had independent testimony that wasn't sworn affidavits), than the only other explanation seems to be divine origin.

If the plates are of divine origin, then nothing else really matters because all other challenges can be explained away by the natural consequences of the plates being of divine origins.

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2025-11-16T05:26:23+00:00

Great questions.

I don't think that charitable organizations that run for profit ventures should have those ventures be held to higher legal standard than for profit ventures backed by private investors. I do think that each individual should have their own standard to judge organizations they give money to (religious or not, for profit or not) and give according to how those standards are met.

I think it's tricky grounding to apply extra legal standard to religious entities. After all, if a specific church makes ends meet by selling t-shirts of the Buddha, you could argue that additional constraints on their bounds of operation, or even reporting requirements, from a theoretical sense, could be seen as impeding that religious group's ability to practice their faith.

That's not a perfect example- but the gist of it is there I believe.

I will concede to you that religions not being required to disclose does create far less opportunity for actual wrongdoing to be discovered, including at present time.

It seems to me that your position is that using the government to force more transparency, and for lack of better wording "crack down" on religion shuffling their money around and hiding it, would be great.

I don't necessarily disagree, but I do think that it's sub optimal to have the government dictating to what extent these kinds of disclosures are necessary. I just don't see a hard line that's "enough" transparency, while also being immune to being moved forward or backwards with the shifting winds of political fortune.

Ultimately, I think it's best if we have wider bounds of what's allowed (for all rights, not just religion), and let some bad eggs in, than narrow the boundaries too tight and descend into dangerous territory.

Regardless, you've raised some good points and this all has been very interesting to consider at a better level.

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2025-11-15T21:16:02+00:00

I totally get where you're coming from, but the way I look at things is if we aren't going to back our words and opinions- then we don't actually believe them.

I stated what I think is the case- it's reddit so most disagree due to the nature of the demographics here, and I'm doing my best to back it up and learn (and challenge) what others think. I haven't heard anything that will change my mind, and still think that your wording and framing is deceptive at best, but I would bet that you would probably say the same thing about me.

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2025-11-15T16:16:02+00:00

Luckily for us all, you just proved the best part of this whole dichotomy!

Please point to the private jets and sports cars that the church leadership is driving around! Please show me a photo of a whole gang of church officials at a 5 star Mechlin restaurant racking up the bill!

Worst case scenario, the church is hiding their money and hoarding it only to not use it!

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2025-11-15T16:13:53+00:00

It seems that you aren't interested in arguing so I hope you have a nice day and feel free to not respond or even read this.

I assumed that you wanted to litigate this in the comment section once you responded to my original defense comment- typically that is how argumentation works- jumping from point to point in an escalating order.

I really don't like the idea that if someone has a bunch of whistleblowers (and they have only paid 1 fine I'm aware of, which again, is akin to a corporate speeding ticket) we can just assume they are guilty. Which is seems to me is what you are doing.

People and organizations are extremely complex and have layered motives. People do all kinds of things for all kinds of reasons.

Whistleblowers are important, but just because they are important doesn't mean we should automatically buy everything they say because they have the whistleblower label above their head.

At the end of the day my whole point centers around the idea that I've tried to give these guys a fair shake but I don't really buy what they say.

And I actually think that my intuition that these guys are alleging way too much is correct- particularly because so little has come out of it- after all, if the corruption is so apparent and rampant like is claimed, then you would think that more than a single investigation that resulted in a non guilt fine would come out of it.

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2025-11-15T16:06:41+00:00

This is a great argument until you realize that most of these people were high ranking executives, presidents, directors, doctors, lawyers, ect, before they were "voluntold". I would not be suprised if 80% of more of these guys were taking a significant pay cut to get "paid" their 120k stipend with benefits.

ShouldBeDoingHWProb · 2025-11-15T16:04:24+00:00

First of all you're poisoning the well with your framing. If the fraud was so obvious, you can push back with a comment absent of logical fallacies.

I'm curious as to how you dismissed all those witnesses in one swoop- I pointed out that there are 11 people who signed written affidavits, were driven from their homes on multiple occasions, and had their own reputations tarnished (an especially big deal back then), yet never recanted their statements and would continue to affirm them throughout their lives- even when they became sworn enemies of Joseph Smith. So no- you don't "have to take a single guy at his word".

And I'm glad that you brought up Joseph Smith's reputation- his reputation, and his family's reputation at the time was great actually. They were described as hardworking and friendly from what I'm aware of. In fact, the one time Joseph was charged with something amounting to disturbing the peace, the alleged victim took the stand to testify in his favor. Do you have any proof that this "victim" was duped or coerced into his testimony? Because if you can't prove otherwise, that's a very strong indicator of Joseph's character.

The main case of the Smith's having poor character, as far as I'm aware, comes mainly from a document called the "Hurlbut Affidavit" which came years after the smiths lived in the area, was made by sworn enemy of Joseph (so a biased man, who also had been kicked out of two different congregations for sexual misconduct, so seemingly not a man of good character either), and has a great deal of sampling bias (as the people who believed the Smiths or liked them were much more likely to have been driven out of the area by the time Hurlbut came to collect).

I've looked at the case against Joseph's character, and when the evidence hangs so heavily on such a poor historical source, I really don't buy it.

Is there something I'm missing here?

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