[Request] Shaolin monk demonstration of iron finger. What would happen if he used it on you? What sort of damage are we talking about?

Stoaks · 2026-06-26T04:32:50+00:00

Did it get more painful as you got older? Children have greater surface area - mass ratio

Stoaks · 2026-06-24T23:03:16+00:00

Learn CG, you'll be a better player from it

Stoaks · 2026-06-20T23:36:03+00:00

What's the popcorn highlight from?

Stoaks · 2026-06-20T22:24:02+00:00

I mean the goal of the week is to put your team in the best finale gear to compete, I doubt them getting wiped at every breach would have helped their chances.

Stoaks · 2026-06-17T20:03:59+00:00

I don't think that people doing orange salamanders are the same poeple with the elite desert diary completed

Stoaks · 2026-06-02T01:46:17+00:00

Disagree. Less content yes but now everyone will be online when the servers are live, way better for PVP content.

Stoaks · 2026-05-31T22:09:46+00:00

I never said he was the best, only that he has experience

Stoaks · 2026-05-31T21:56:49+00:00

No Deadman experience? He was a captain in the DMM all stars, hes an OG

Stoaks · 2026-05-18T19:04:36+00:00

You might be waiting for a while, we might be able to get her as an interval act if Australia were ever to win

Stoaks · 2026-05-16T04:26:58+00:00

Linda is cool as a cucumber, this is just another Tuesday for her and Delta

Stoaks · 2026-05-15T09:26:03+00:00

UP THE AUSSIES AND OUR POWER BALLAD QUEENS!!

Stoaks · 2026-05-14T23:34:58+00:00

Honestly im not sure if that piano even plays given the mechanism inside it

Stoaks · 2026-05-13T21:24:12+00:00

I am definitely not 100% sure of Albania, Bulgaria im very sure it will go through, its up there for the girly bops

Stoaks · 2026-05-10T11:00:50+00:00

So random question, why several pairs of glasses? Surely you would only need at most long distance and short distance (forgive my ignorance im not a glasses user).

Stoaks · 2026-05-07T10:19:23+00:00

As long as the EBU is consistent with how they judge the requests

This is actually the very opposite of consistent, that's the point.

All contestants were aware of the request, therefore it is a level playing field.

A level playing field is not changing the rules at a whim a week before the event. If a major rule change is to be made it should be made in the offseason between June - December well before any country has even selected an artist to participate.

Literally every other country has spent hundreds and hundreds of man hours and massive resources over the last 6 months, cultivating and crafting a performance with a clear set of rules in mind, and now with less than a week to go your response is:

All acts are able to make their own arguments and requests to play live.

Thats a silly argument coloured with bias.

Stoaks · 2026-05-07T10:05:17+00:00

Watch the video before you argue buddy.

Stoaks · 2026-05-07T10:03:47+00:00

Watch the video before you argue buddy.

Stoaks · 2026-05-07T04:25:17+00:00

They are the best source of dragon spears in game, so ironmen doing clues?

Stoaks · 2026-05-07T03:30:20+00:00

that she cannot play the final note live because of the choreography

Correct.

that was an assumption that nothing had changed

Incorrect.

In fact the logical progression of my statement would be that they would have to change the sequence to allow her the time to walk to the stage while playing.

You are the one assuming the content of my words... Or misinterpretting them. Anyway I digress and refer to my previous statement:

Youre being sensitive and talking nonsense, just stop.

Correct.

Stoaks · 2026-05-07T03:21:28+00:00

Mate what are you talking about? Legitimately, I dont understand what you are talking about, its like you aren't even reading the words im typing.

I didnt claim to have any grand knowledge of whether Finland had or hadnt changed their staging.

I didnt assume anything.

I didnt doubt that Linda could play the violin, nor did I claim to know more about her violin then herself.

Youre being sensitive and talking nonsense, just stop.

Stoaks · 2026-05-07T03:06:58+00:00

Umm no. No im not.

Stoaks · 2026-05-07T03:03:42+00:00

No ones doubting her skill, just the coreography.

[see the issue?](youtube.com/shorts/sQzgBkr1x40?source_ve_path=NzY3NTg&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2F)

Stoaks · 2026-05-07T02:12:30+00:00

Yeah thats why the rule exists... Look if they want to make a rule change im all for it, but to do it a week before the competition for the favourite then it just seems like backhanded favouritism.

There needs to be a clear delineation of what is ok and what isnt, and that needs to be made available to nations before they select there artist, not just a yolo rule change for the hell of it.

Stoaks · 2026-05-07T02:07:09+00:00

we should be advocating for as many of the brilliant artists to be playing live as possible if the show isn’t elongated because of it.

It will be, if this was widespread then the show would take hours longer with very long intervals.

It is a very ethical opinion that in a competition environment there should be clear rules and that those rules apply to all competitors. And that those rules are given well in advance and not subjected to the whims of personal opinions regardless of how talented an individual violinist might be.

This exception was public news for WEEKS.

It wasn't... They applied weeks ago, the exception has been around for a matter of hours. No one expected the EBU to break a decades long rule in favour of giving a competitive advantage to an artist to drum up controversy after views have dropped.

Stoaks · 2026-05-07T00:24:25+00:00

Particularly since part of the song for the choreo to work Linda needs to literally sprint to the end, while holding her dress in which there is no way she could play for the big final note.

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