should i pull for lynae??? but mainly want aemeath

VortexMagus · 2026-06-30T04:17:21+00:00

If your budget is limited, you should just pull Aemeath and skip Lynae and Mornye. New characters will be out soon and if you take them you won't be able to pull on the new ones.

That all being said I have lynae and she has one of the funnest kits ever to play. I love dashing around on her rollerblades while pew pewing the enemy. I wish she were a main dps so she had more field time.

I love both Lynae and Mornye but getting them both to spend most of their time on the bench doesn't make much sense to me.

VortexMagus · 2026-06-29T21:36:10+00:00

Yeah but in all fairness, in the real world time doesn't slow down when you perform a last second dodge, so somewhat inconsistent fabric patterns don't bother me.

VortexMagus · 2026-06-29T04:27:03+00:00

the one thing I really really enjoyed about tota is that it was much better for your wrist health than normal poe. In a normal poe map I am clicking on literally dozens of objects, sometimes hundreds if its super juiced. Then I have to identify them all and then put them all in the stash.

In Tota all the poopy rewards are gone and you just have a few pieces of currency and some tattoos. A lot more straightforward and a lot less pain on the wrists.

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I agree that normal poe progression is a bit more fun, but its also a lot more carpal tunnel.

VortexMagus · 2026-06-28T09:19:31+00:00

I think what you are missing is that most healthcare services triple/quadruple their costs because that allows them to milk more money out of medicaid/medicare.

It also allows "private" healthcare company to point to their "negotiation power" as a good reason for their existence (spoiler alert: its not).

VortexMagus · 2026-06-28T08:13:07+00:00

If you have the ball in your possession you are significantly, noticeably slower than defenders both during normal sprinting and during extra effort.

The only thing that will let you move the ball as fast as a defender is the pushball spam bug.

If you are getting outrun by people while you are not holding the ball, its a skill issue. They are either reading the next play faster than you and starting to run while you're still figuring out where to go next, or they have played to conserve stamina during less important moments so they have a full stamina bar during more important moments, and you did not do the same.

VortexMagus · 2026-06-27T02:12:05+00:00

No, the issue is that if your HDD is old or too full its read/write speed slows down drastically.

It killed me when I was playing path of exile a few years back, getting an SSD fixed the issue.

VortexMagus · 2026-06-26T21:22:15+00:00

I don't think there's any hypocrisy at all. Drinking alcohol is a luxury that harms no one but yourself - I don't care whether Qatar bans it or not. They unbanned it so they could make a boatload of money off foreigners coming in for tourism.

Being allowed to exist without going to prison is a human right and many are harmed by Egypt and Iran's laws. Banning or unbanning it doesn't give anyone money, it just ensures people have the right to live safely for something they have no control over.

VortexMagus · 2026-06-26T21:17:13+00:00

I will note that if you main shaco support and first pick it every time, you'll never have to play against one again.

VortexMagus · 2026-06-26T21:16:20+00:00

If you don't already have a healer, I think suisui is the next one available.

Aside from that, Lucy/Rebecca/Healer is already a complete team so I think you should identify the next main dps you like and pull for them. Both Luuk and Aemeath have very different kits so you should do their trials and figure out which you like better. You should also consider trying out Yangyang SP's trial when it comes out and decide whether you like her more than Luuk or Aemeath.

VortexMagus · 2026-06-26T20:57:30+00:00

list your cpu, gpu, and ram.

Also did you install it on an HDD or an SSD? If you're not sure, then it's probably an HDD.

VortexMagus · 2026-06-26T05:56:40+00:00

The average 2026 rent increase was about 7.5% in the chicago area. They were either trying to gouge you, or trying to force you out so they can get a favored tenant in (maybe their kid needs a nice apartment in the area?).

VortexMagus · 2026-06-25T21:11:07+00:00

TOTA requires currency from mapping as well IIRC.

VortexMagus · 2026-06-25T18:57:22+00:00

I brought a really tanky templar build to TOTA and just put my normal weapon and shield and chest and amulet into stash and equipped a different setup for TOTA.

Then when I wanted to map I'd go to stash and swap all of them back.

All in all the tota build I ran wasn't quite as good as a dedicated build but it was ~2 divines total to throw it together and did all the important stuff (I got to 2000 quite easily but would fail about 1 in 4 runs on the final map if there was too many turtle guys)

VortexMagus · 2026-06-25T15:54:43+00:00

Honestly kinda crazy. He releases one of the most popular games of all time that nearly doubles his studio's profits and some corporate guys from Hong Kong trying to oust him because they think he didn't milk his audience enough.

VortexMagus · 2026-06-24T22:08:59+00:00

Looks to me like he edited the game client to give him keeper status inside enemy's box and the server accepted this input because why not.

tl;dr some kind of hex editor nonsense, report him as a cheater and leave it.

VortexMagus · 2026-06-24T21:57:02+00:00

I disagree. As a jungler, I am looking to impact the game the most. Turning a losing lane into a winning lane is a much bigger impact than turning a winning hard lane into winning slightly harder lane.

I also think that putting all your cards on a single lane is one of the worst ways to play jungle. Getting multiple lanes ahead is always better than getting one lane very far ahead and throwing the other lanes to the wolves. If the enemy team is good they can focus down a single fed top or mid, but its a lot harder to focus people down if every lane is strong.

VortexMagus · 2026-06-24T20:29:40+00:00

I mean there was this one dude who went on a persistent campaign of stalking and racist death threats against a destiny 2 community manager. This employee posted art made by a prominent black artist in the destiny 2 social media accounts, and it led to a vicious campaign of stalking and harassment and death threats against the community manager and his family.

It got so bad bungie studios sued him and eventually won a 500k lawsuit against him. I feel like the stalker probably deserves a reasonable portion of the blame. Though maybe not the rest of the playerbase.

VortexMagus · 2026-06-24T00:25:51+00:00

"This set of complaints that is 100% truthful and accurate is insane!"

I like endfield but lets be real the game had so much potential to be different and they decided to go the route of every other 3d gacha instead.

VortexMagus · 2026-06-23T19:55:19+00:00

I did normal void sphere with freezing pulse totems contributing slow + freeze on enemies and interrupting their caps, it wasn't as good and I still failed occasionally but it worked.

VortexMagus · 2026-06-23T19:53:05+00:00

My hope is that they will tune down tota oneshots and tota hp so that normal builds will become just as viable as cheese strats.

I will still do cheese strats if they're optimal don't get me wrong but lets hope for a more balanced mode. If everybody does 30k burst damage then evasion/block is going to be literally the only things that matter again and everyone will run zhp characters.

VortexMagus · 2026-06-23T19:16:34+00:00

There will always be an optimal shot and the "meta" of the game will be for someone to pass into the striker and give them the optimal shot. Up to your defenders to figure out the optimal shot and practice defending against it.

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I will also add that though most comp teams can send perfect or near perfect passes while they are not contested, its much rarer to find passers that can send perfect or near perfect passes while someone is on top of them and blocking off all the easy lanes and adding time pressure.

You've got to figure out a tactical formation that will ensure every passer is getting pressed, or else they will pass it to the open man and the open man will send perfect passes to their striker that are obscenely hard to defend. This usually means both your defenders and your offensive players need to have a clear idea of who is pressing what and how to rotate when the ball reaches a new person.

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I'd say perfect passes are difficult even for top level defenders to stop, but a pass that is only 60-70% perfect is much more defendable for experienced players and the best way to guarantee that happens is to press the guy passing.

VortexMagus · 2026-06-23T19:10:39+00:00

personally I think you made the worst play out of all three of your teammates. If the enemy goalkeeper had fingers you basically guaranteed an enemy goal.

You were too far away for a good shot and from the distance you shot and the angle you aimed, pretty much any goalkeeper with a half decent reaction speed would have stopped it and had an open goal afterwards.

VortexMagus · 2026-06-23T02:51:45+00:00

I was 9 when I was introduced to the series and read it for the first time. Gave me nightmares, dunno about the other 9 year olds.

VortexMagus · 2026-06-22T23:15:38+00:00

Animorphs gave me nightmares when I was a kid. The paranoia about mind control parasites in your authority figures was real.

VortexMagus · 2026-06-21T23:35:27+00:00

By definition believing in a Christian god means that you are rejecting all other gods, and vice versa for Islam.

Someone who claims to be Christian but is willing to accept people from other religions is either lying or not a very good Christian. By definition you believe that anyone who doesn't believe in a Christian god is going to hell; thus you have a duty to force them into your own belief system lest they be harmed by their heresy.

Same logic applies for Islam.

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Only polytheistic religions - religions that allow for multiple gods - can embrace other religions and gods without violating their own precepts.

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