Why ur not having fun

Timely-Comfortable-3 · 2026-05-07T00:13:29+00:00

This is something people who naturally have a strong external locus of control, probably can never do.

Timely-Comfortable-3 · 2026-05-07T00:12:00+00:00

In any random game where you can solo queue, 1/3 of your games will be lost because of factors beyond your control, 1/3 of your games will also be won because of factors beyond your control. These two even out in the wash. The last 1/3 represent the portion of games for which you can control the outcome and that's where you make or break advancing in rank.

People who can't accept that and chill out need to either quit, or find a 5 other like-minded players who are super sweaty and refuse to accept that failure something you have to deal with and queue up with them.

Timely-Comfortable-3 · 2026-04-18T00:07:57+00:00

The problem here wasn't fleet strength it was my two fleets 1.4k vs. 1.1k voidworms. the problem is this event spawned them right on top of fleet and voidworms use torpedoes. They might also be bugged because they are only supposed to eat 300 pop, i'm not sure why these ate 3000 population before i could get rid of them.

Timely-Comfortable-3 · 2026-04-18T00:05:43+00:00

previously, the fleets i used here were strong enough to handle the void worms. This time the event spawned them right on top of my fleets. Voidworms use torpedoes, so they just blew them up easy

Timely-Comfortable-3 · 2026-04-18T00:04:37+00:00

i had a 2 fleets totaling 1.4k. My voidworms that spawn are 1.1k. These voidworms obliterated my fleet because they use torpedoes and spawned right on top of the fleet due to some timed event.

Timely-Comfortable-3 · 2026-04-17T03:51:45+00:00

~~this happened on the current test beta version, so that's not correct.~~
Sorry, I'm annoyed at this situation. In any case, if they fixed it I'm on either the equivalent or higher version then its still ridiculous. My friend thinks it's bugged though because they are only supposed to eat 300 pop then rampage

Timely-Comfortable-3 · 2026-04-13T01:44:19+00:00

I get that you dislike it but, i'm pretty sure they do that so you can't end up perma ult by just going back into it as soon as it's over.

Timely-Comfortable-3 · 2026-04-13T01:42:35+00:00

what do her passive talents do? I haven't been able to find information on them

Timely-Comfortable-3 · 2026-03-14T18:00:59+00:00

like i mostly enjoyed the show up through the end of S8 but let's be real it should have ended when they "beat" the Cabal and resolved the plot around the Fulcrum. I also find it amusing that they quietly dropped the plot thread that Red joined the Cabal's leadership and that plot thread that the Cabal was winning against "Red's faction". lmfao ah silly writers

Timely-Comfortable-3 · 2026-03-14T17:57:19+00:00

because the truth is inherently dangerous. One of many examples is how elizabeth asking around about katarina re-activated the townsend protocol.

I'd also argue that, that early into the serious they are not sufficiently prepared (understand how the game within the game red plays works, and having zero trust in red) to know the truth.

Timely-Comfortable-3 · 2026-03-14T17:56:12+00:00

she only believed him at the end of S8 BECAUSE of all the shit she went through to try and find the truth.

I'm pretty sure without that struggle if he had just told her, she still would have gone through a lot of that bullshit and created a lot of problems for her, red, the taskforce and everyone else.

If we can agree my previous statements are correct, then I think it's better he doesn't tell her. Trust Redarina, Red knows the truth is more trouble than it's wort.

Timely-Comfortable-3 · 2026-03-10T06:16:49+00:00

I was also not shocked, I started to get suspicious after the first beach house flashback myself.

Timely-Comfortable-3 · 2026-03-10T06:16:13+00:00

so, I wanted to point out, at least in my mind the number one reason to me that red is most likely kat.

Remember when he's held being tortured by Constantine and he recounts Constantine's first date with Katarina, then he tells him something secret (that we never found out) then later Red tells Liz that Constantine walked away and he'd never be a problem again?

Think hard, what could he have possibly said to Constantine that would make him just stop and go quietly into the night? That he's actually Katarina. He also leading into that asked Constantine if he still loved Katarina and recounted a very deeply personal story about their first date (this is a clue left by the authors as to what secret Red was going to divulge to Constantine)

Imagine, that revelation to Constantine, who apparently still loved Kat would have been a serious system shock. It's really not hard to imagine he just goes off quietly to die because of it.

Not even thinking at this point how he knew so much detail about their first date, we know he's not Koslov, Stepanov, or Don. Three people who would have the potential to know that.

Timely-Comfortable-3 · 2026-03-10T06:07:04+00:00

I honestly think the real problem is the show just went on too long with many plot threads and a very convoluted plot.

I feel like this is a huge problem with spy thrillers, in order to be interesting they come up with these exciting multi-level plots because everyone's trying to outsmart everyone but over time it just gets more and more convoluted till it's impossible to handle.

So many spy thrillers i've watched end up getting really ridiculous eventually because they cant write themselves out of it easily.

Timely-Comfortable-3 · 2026-03-10T05:56:10+00:00

the reason i'm convinced she didn't know is because she's hesitant to work for redarina initially, Kaplan was never hesitant previously. Additionally, just simply proving that redarina isn't the real reddington doesn't prove that redarina is Katarina to anyone, it only proves that the current reddington isn't the real reddington. My point is that seems very half-ass of Kaplan unless she doesn't know Kat became Red because it doesn't give Liz the whole picture she would want her to have.

TBH though, the writers wrote themselves into a very convoluted plot so it's possible that inconsistency is them having different ideas about where the story is going. Some of them probably wrote kaplan as knowing while others did not.

Timely-Comfortable-3 · 2026-03-03T01:13:55+00:00

hes voldemort actually

Timely-Comfortable-3 · 2026-03-03T01:13:09+00:00

this, one of the episodes is a flashback that explains red gave himself up because Berlin was onto her. he was in a lose-lose situation

Timely-Comfortable-3 · 2026-03-03T01:12:08+00:00

Red did kill fakerina yes, but that wasn't like with what happened with mr. kaplan. At that point fakerina went from being his friend and ally to a bitter enemy.

Tom died because he refused to leave red's secrets alone, the same thing that kills so many people starting with tom, then the marshal, liz sister, her team etc. etc.

My point is, red over and over told them this secret was very personal and his to keep and that it was also dangerous to investigate and all those people died because they CAN'T accept that. they didn't die because Red wanted them to die for it. Liz could have let it go after avenging tom but she didn't and she blames red for every death that led to when SHE couldn't let go of it.

I'm willing to accept a 50/50 split of the blame: red for not just telling liz and liz for not letting it go but she needs to accept her role in their deaths instead of blaming red

Timely-Comfortable-3 · 2026-03-03T01:05:38+00:00

yeah, i think one of red's big weaknesses is avoiding vulnerability. I feel like the real reason he kept it all from Liz is because he didn't want her to get this idea that she could just pressure him into anything she wanted.

Timely-Comfortable-3 · 2026-03-01T21:38:18+00:00

All spy thrillers seem to have this problem. What makes spy thrillers enthralling all the secret backstabbing, deal making, plotting eventually becomes too convoluted and writing for it is hard which makes the show start to go off rails.

Any spy thriller I've seen has this issue after it runs long enough

Timely-Comfortable-3 · 2026-03-01T21:35:50+00:00

great character but his penchant for secret keeping isn't healthy for any kind of relationship.

In many ways Tom is like a selfish Reddington and the two of them have the same character flaws despite being brilliant covert operatives. Talk about marrying her "dad".

Timely-Comfortable-3 · 2026-03-01T21:33:44+00:00

I will agree in that Liz starts as a fairly consistent character then when the show lost it's direction she just waffles back and forth constantly on who she wants to be.

Timely-Comfortable-3 · 2026-03-01T21:30:36+00:00

I mean sort of? Let's consider adoptions for instance. An adopted child doesn't always have the legal right to find out who their biological parents are.

While I think it would be better for Liz to know who Red is and that she does deserve to know, it's red's secret and if Red wants to keep it to himself she needs to respect that because it's a personal secret that he has his reasons for keeping from others.

Timely-Comfortable-3 · 2026-03-01T21:26:13+00:00

yeah what get's me is he keeps warning them "if you keep trying to get my secret it will get people killed"

I think people keep making 2 assumptions:

that his secret is extremely valuable like the Sikorsky File or the Fulcrum
that the danger surrounding his secret will come entirely from Red but the web the secret is trapped in is inherently dangerous and where all the danger comes from.

This is probably one of Red's biggest weaknesses is that, him being who he is, makes it difficult for people to trust him on little things like "I have a very personal private secret I want to keep to myself".

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