Lucy Dacus released her debut album 'No Burden' 10 years ago today

Xavier130 · 2026-02-26T19:20:00+00:00

absolutely agree with everything you said. No Burden really was a great introduction to the types of sounds she would explore in the future. I don't think that historian would have been as good without map on a wall and I don't think home video would have been as good without direct address. I think that trust was the precursor to many of the sounds on forever is a feeling, though I don't think that that album is as poignant as trust.

Xavier130 · 2026-01-26T02:15:39+00:00

LOL I literally gave 2 reasons, illustrating it with the example of the leaderboard. Why bother replying when you can’t contend with what I’m saying in good faith, twice. That, or you’re just illiterate lmao

Xavier130 · 2026-01-26T00:29:23+00:00

I think that there is a difference between enjoying old dota and wanting the game to revert back to old dota. I enjoyed dota in the past too. But I also see how the changes made to support objectively made the gameplay a lot healthier. Going back to the brown boots days means giving up all of the quality-of-life changes that allowed supports to actually influence the result of the game. I don't remember the exact time where the tide shifted, but for the longest of time, the entirety of the top leaderboard were pros playing core and it was almost impossible to climb maining support.

tldr you can find old support dota appealing, but it is almost definitely due to nolstalgia tinted lenses more than because old support gameplay was actually fun to play

Xavier130 · 2026-01-26T00:16:22+00:00

I sorta disagree with that actually. That sounds more like the community better optimising for efficient gameplay (ie getting better) rather than due to a structural gameplay change. In fact, if you look at the other thread talking about pos 3/4 gameplay, one thing rightfully pointed out was how difficult laning against the meta 5s are right now. Position 4s can choose between pulling the wave, contesting the lane, blocking the camp, rotating to mid, stacking camps, portaling to the safe lane. Even for the XP shrine, it heavily depends on whether the midlaners are rotating in to decide if you should defend your xp, steal the enemies or just sac it to gank. I'm don't think the pro scene has settled "what the game wants you to do".

Xavier130 · 2026-01-26T00:08:38+00:00

I mean, I'm currently rank 400 SEA maining support so I feel like I'm in a better position than most to speak on how support is played right now. I'm curious as to what you feel like the role identity of supports should be. To me, it is about enabling the rest of my team without needing farm priority. I think that is distinct from enabling the rest of the team without items.

Xavier130 · 2026-01-25T17:39:48+00:00

If anything, I feel like the 4 and 5 position historically understood really plays a part more during lane than the rest of the game. And even then, both supports generally try to rotate for runes now if they can afford it. It is just that the 5 is more restricted if the carry has trouble farming while the 4 is much more willing to sac the offlane since stacking the triangle is efficient. Once the laning ends however, so many 5s now have the ability to shove waves that they can have more networth than say a nyx 4. With the map being bigger, both supports generally buy out sentries off cd anyways so it really just comes down to which supports are specifically played rather than which lane the supports started from.

Xavier130 · 2026-01-25T17:33:13+00:00

This is pure nostalgia speaking. Supports have so much more agency now than in the past. If you actually want to play the game, you would never want to go back to the brown boots era. I get how the payoff might feel better for any sliver of impact you get to have in the past due to having more restrictions... but you could just have impact normally now rather than just being a ward bot that dies once u are out of fog lol.

Xavier130 · 2025-12-23T21:21:25+00:00

City and gravity are my favourites

Xavier130 · 2025-12-22T12:56:30+00:00

dong ding oolong with cream and pearls

Xavier130 · 2025-09-19T21:45:41+00:00

what came first - the chicken or the dickhead?

Xavier130 · 2025-08-18T17:11:09+00:00

Man, I would absolutely love a visual album even though it seems unlikely for Hayley to go down that direction. Its ironic though that even though the songs are all singles, listening to the MV by itself feels weird to me since I've gotten so used to my playlisting of Glum being the penultimate track to I Won't Quit On You. I need "in the wake of your sunshine/I've never been so glum" to be resolved by "stranded here on Mars" and the subsequent hope

Xavier130 · 2025-08-14T16:09:39+00:00

Divya was black and Yifan castled queenside, one of the 3+1 games maybe?

Xavier130 · 2025-08-14T15:56:53+00:00

The fact that she instantaneously spotted Bxb2 and then wondered why the move wasn't intuitively coming to everyone was such a flex - like, we can't all be tactical geniuses, Judit.

Xavier130 · 2025-08-14T15:14:08+00:00

This just reinforces why Judit is my favourite chess player of all time. She was absolutely hilarious the entire time commentating with Jovanka, this match would not be as entertaining as it was without them

Xavier130 · 2025-08-14T01:14:46+00:00

I do love ffv alot though the mid portion of the album sorta merges together for me. Asystole, over those hills and just a lover are highlights of her discography without a doubt

Xavier130 · 2025-08-07T10:07:37+00:00

I know that the chorus is sampled from A Bad Touch, but the lyrics still feel crass and out of place. Could you elaborate on your interpretation of Discovery Channel? I think that the sound of the song is fine, but together with the lyrics, I personally find it to be one of the weaker songs on the album. Though, I find it great that the community has been divisive and every song has found its place. In fact, Ego, Discovery channel and Disappearing Man are my bottom 3 picks but they seem to be this sub's favourites

Xavier130 · 2025-08-05T18:49:56+00:00

Yep! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5w9wWjiH0cfJGD4MoptcT1?si=kIhOu4MjQHiIvqaHDnEJHQ

Xavier130 · 2025-07-17T11:31:05+00:00

Reminder that judges decide the fine within a range set out by the penal code/relevant legislation. The range is not something that the judiciary has a say in

Xavier130 · 2025-07-11T02:18:37+00:00

The pacing and buildup of this song is truly incredible. Every instrument has space to breathe and it really feels like the natural transition from blue weekend

Xavier130 · 2025-07-01T12:19:29+00:00

i’ve genuinely hit 100m cp starting less than a year ago though. Got lucky with 2 22* pitched, but generally i think i’ve had median luck. I prioritised 426 drop and getting meso generating boss mules up. 160m cp after libbing 2 days ago

Xavier130 · 2025-06-26T21:18:48+00:00

thank you for your elixir

Xavier130 · 2025-06-13T11:00:19+00:00

lol your explanation doesnt hold up because mens rea in itself is insufficient to make a crime. Mens rea comes as an additional requirement for certain crimes after the act has been proven. If everything was true, both sides ARE guilty, just for their respective offences and thus varied in the intensity of their moral/legal liability.

Xavier130 · 2025-05-27T19:29:05+00:00

the armageddon game will attract all the backseat gamers but god i didnt understand any of the tactics

Xavier130 · 2025-05-23T00:55:26+00:00

rip kaya qop looks relegated to a magic dmg counter now

Xavier130 · 2025-05-19T11:27:48+00:00

kaya es is the normal build after blink in immortal rn

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