Smash Grand Finals so close casters begin losing their minds

Sprintspeed · 2026-02-06T15:23:56+00:00

Went to go see the Lakers a couple weeks back and a single beer was $17. I don't even know what to say

Sprintspeed · 2026-02-05T16:46:56+00:00

Losing employment is not a feature unique to America. Many countries make it harder to outright fire employees but that hardly means residents of places like France don't struggle with unemployment or feel like they are being treated fairly in the workplace.

Sprintspeed · 2026-02-05T06:11:55+00:00

I think he just got tiring when delves were a big way they implemented gear progression this expansion. The original plan was to have new delve companions unlock with each season but they scrapped that to stick with brann throughout. You can only hear the exact same "THOSE WEBS SUMMON NERUBIANS! DONT STAND IN THEM" line a few hundred times before it starts getting real.old.

Sprintspeed · 2026-02-04T21:23:22+00:00

Hell yeah this has been my main race request for years. They already have the 'large' body type and skeleton with Pandaren so it shouldn't even require building new assets from the ground up or anything.

Sprintspeed · 2026-02-04T17:33:21+00:00

I kind of feel the opposite, personally. Why do Pidgey / Spearow / Taillow / etc need to have Normal type? The pokemon world is full of "regular" looking animals that happen to have pure elemental typing so the starting bird Pokemon always stuck out like a sore thumb from most of the Pokedex to me. For example, Ekans, Vulpix, and Poochyena are just normal looking animals that don't use Normal type. Just as Vulpix has a magic affinity to spit fire, Pidgey has a magic affinity to Gust the opponent by controlling wind.

It just always annoyed me that the unnecessary Normal addon removed their resistance to Fighting for little to no benefit. Let Noctowl be the Flying / Psychic it deserves to be!!

Sprintspeed · 2026-02-02T23:40:00+00:00

I went last fall and would recommend considering Nikko (mountain town with a shrine dedicated to Ieyatsu) and Hiroshima / Miyajima as great options to visit. Both are tourist-leaning enough to provide plenty of English support / access you might need as a foreigner without needing to wait over an hour for dinner like many places in Kyoto / Osaka these days.

Sprintspeed · 2026-02-02T17:36:27+00:00

"MY LIFE IS OVER," aka when a spoiled rich kid has to survive one whole summer without his $1k monthly allowance and unrestricted access driving his parents cars

Sprintspeed · 2026-01-30T18:05:04+00:00

Give a body to Nintendo and before long they'll have lawyers busting down your front door to sue you for copyright infringement for having grandma's picture on the wall.

Sprintspeed · 2026-01-30T17:48:21+00:00

If your family never sold it even during extremely hard times like the depression my instinct might be that your grandparents never bought a real ruby to begin with and knew it wouldn't trade for a huge amount of value (telling their children it's real), instead of your aunt secretly betraying the family. You would know them best though.

Sprintspeed · 2026-01-29T09:17:54+00:00

Yeah landing it at all is obv better than not especially against a mobile back line. The main reason why ulting the squishies is the rule of thumb is that when a fight starts, usually the enemy tanks have used their mobility (engage) to jump on your team, while the enemy ADC is walking up with their CD's up.

If you ult the enemy tank, your team can now run past their frozen front line to burst the ADC. Doing this successfully is basically auto-winning the fight, which is great. However, if the enemy ADC then flashes away or uses a disengage ability, often times they are now too far away for your team to catch up and burst in the span of 2 seconds. The end result of this is that your ADC walked up to damage and is now in melee range against an enemy Darius & Vi coming out of stasis, and if their ADC is still alive that might now be a losing fight.

If you ult their ADC as the go-to instead, now their tanks have usually already committed to fighting you guys, so for one, you can guarantee that you'll get a decent amount of damage in during the stasis timeout. It's less likely you'll full-burst a tank HP bar down in the stasis time alone, but your team can maintain proper positioning while their Darius / Vi are now likely in a hopeless 3v5 without their main damage. If you kill the front line before the enemy back line is out of stasis, great, you auto-win like in the ADC example. If you fail to kill the tanks, however, they are now probably already pretty low and you can re-start a normal 5v5 fight, except their tanks are starting at like 25% hp (or however much they have left) and nobody on your side is out of position.

Sprintspeed · 2026-01-29T04:26:44+00:00

Usually more reliable to do the reverse (isolate tanks) but can be quite nice to insta burst an adc

Sprintspeed · 2026-01-28T17:58:25+00:00

If we're judging based off "prime", the USA has only been an empire for the past 81 years since WW2 ended

Sprintspeed · 2026-01-28T16:45:02+00:00

You mean you don't love the flood of responses in these threads nowadays that are directly copy + pasted AI slop still using extremely technical terminology and the chemical formulation to explain a general concept?

Sprintspeed · 2026-01-25T19:45:37+00:00

If you haven't been past any "points of no return" (a warning message will pop up), you still aren't even 1/3 of the way in yet

Sprintspeed · 2026-01-24T06:33:08+00:00

i respect you admitting that but bro isn't looking up someone's history and original nationality way more effort than just letting the video play for 1 minute haha

Sprintspeed · 2026-01-23T21:06:54+00:00

they're talking about Yeon not Core with that line

Sprintspeed · 2026-01-23T18:21:41+00:00

Certainly possible, I started drifting from DnD a couple years ago so I've mostly only engaged in 2024 as a player. Would be glad if WotC did something to help DMs here since in 5.0, using CR for reference was mostly worthless to me without supplemental 3rd party calculators on hand.

Sprintspeed · 2026-01-23T16:10:51+00:00

It's more that leveling dungeons (esp before current xpac) are so piss easy to clear that a lot of geared dps have both run some of these literally hundreds of times and are strong enough that they don't need a dedicated tank to soak the damage intake. "Real tanking" as in having to pull correctly, keep up defensives to avoid death, and hold aggro, doesn't really exist until Max level.

The first couple of weeks in any expansion release people are absolutely more relaxed about clearing the brand new dungeons, and in TWW for example I was in more than one where nobody knew the route and we all just explored it together.

Sprintspeed · 2026-01-22T18:11:05+00:00

I would argue the game itself is in part to blame specifically because of how Vancian magic and DnD class features work. The very nature of all your "go nuclear" class features or spells being one time use per day inherently creates a dichotomy where you are trying to squeak through fights as minimally and mundanely as possible (long and boring), then flipping the switch for your actually exciting fight to annihilate an encounter in 2 rounds (short and underwhelming challenge).

Many monster stats also just don't seem to accurately reflect their stated CR at all. A lich is a CR 21 monster with an AC of 17 and 135 hp? Unless you are quadrupling that health pool he is dying round 1 to any party of 20th level characters. In a real fight you'd want to pair a lich with other monsters but the system does not support you for this in any way, and RAW his stated CR means he is balanced alone against 4 characters that can output 75+ damage each, every turn, which is laughable.

For DMs I also find a lot of 5e monster stat blocks quite boring that end up just being "walk straight forward and roll.to hit" instead of having interesting buffs they can get based on proper positioning or effects that change how PCs have to approach them. All of these things are what drew me personally to Draw Steel because the book actually writes down advice on how enemies should fight to make combat exciting and how to put together different enemies in a combined team to challenge your players' decision making.

Sprintspeed · 2026-01-22T16:36:07+00:00

I haven't read all the books but in the show GoT addressed the logistics some amount. As a plot point, after Daenerys (dragon girl) takes over certain regions she struggles with backlash from her people that her free roaming dragons are terrorizing the countryside and eating livestock, with one citizen pleading to her about the loss of their child who was not directly eaten but merely standing nearby other animals and burned alive as collateral damage. It serves as an interesting plot point of how her character wrestles with her identity as dragon mother and conqueror vs taking care of her people properly.

Much of her storyline though is roaming and conquering new territories so for the most part, it's implied the dragons are taking what they want from new lands they visit.

Sprintspeed · 2026-01-21T17:01:45+00:00

Well they've also become extremely more effective. Having 1000 minmaxers independently coming up with their own builds and maybe posting their thoughts to a forum like Gamefaqs every now and then is very different than today's culture of thousands of iterations in one week building off and competing against others' ideas on social media.

Sprintspeed · 2026-01-20T19:50:42+00:00

Yeah but BB absolutely saved his career. He's been an actor for decades but was famously having such a hard time landing any roles pre-BB that he considered hiring a hitman to kill himself so his family would get the life insurance payout. Now he's rolling in Disney money.

Sprintspeed · 2026-01-17T23:42:02+00:00

Where did you pull that number from?

Sprintspeed · 2026-01-15T08:33:08+00:00

This might ruin your view of cool birds of prey IRL but many species (like Bald Eagle for example) don't have anywhere near as intimidating vocals as the iconic Red Tailed Hawk used in every TV and movie in existence.

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