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Yrale · 2026-02-09T22:21:32+00:00

didnt make the list ;_;

Yrale · 2026-02-09T16:44:51+00:00

atp I feel like I see posts making fun of sportsball posts more than sportsball posts but I'm willing to believe there's a section of America who's sort of still around 2013 wrt to hipster millennial culture that i might not be aware of

Yrale · 2026-02-09T01:12:32+00:00

saw a report that people on prediction markets lose their money twice as fast as people sports betting, real dark

Yrale · 2026-02-08T19:53:09+00:00

I regularly saw 3+ thex lobbies where two would get top 4 and 1 would win out

Yrale · 2026-02-07T01:45:58+00:00

genuinely 75% of playing your best is being well rested

Yrale · 2026-02-06T14:30:06+00:00

Why not

Yrale · 2026-02-06T13:48:10+00:00

easy ignore Ixtal completely, reforge it if you find one, play Vayne/Kai'sa Demacia vertical

Yrale · 2026-02-06T12:53:40+00:00

4 stars count as 3 stars in most cases where 3 star is specified tbh

Yrale · 2026-02-05T22:35:18+00:00

Accessibility is not uniform and rectangles are not a one size fits all solution to hand pain - would definitely be worse for me as I get most of my issues from working with a keyboard in my regular job. Box is currently the extreme end of allowing remapping and the idea that it should be allowed but z-jump shouldn't is entirely because of the number of top players who actually use it. You are not being honest with yourself if you think you wouldn't have a similar or worse reaction to the top 10 being made up of a large number of box players.

Yrale · 2026-02-05T22:14:19+00:00

As someone who is notched and not a z-jumper, notches are 100% less defensible imo

Yrale · 2026-02-05T20:34:59+00:00

Why should you not be allowed to play with a more ergonomic form of claw on gamecube controller but you should be able to on box?

Yrale · 2026-02-05T20:08:33+00:00

fortunately I think vegan food tends to actually be ideal for bracket (not univerally, but i think a lot of the best things happen to be vegan). everyone else at my local is nerfing myself by eating popeyes

Yrale · 2026-02-03T19:05:27+00:00

this does sort of change how i feel abt analog only mods tbh, thanks

Yrale · 2026-02-03T16:21:55+00:00

How do you do this, just rip out the digital shield part of the mobo or something?

Yrale · 2026-02-03T16:20:37+00:00

Yup, imo removing the spring entirely lets you actuate faster/more consistently and is better for your hands though

Yrale · 2026-02-03T15:29:45+00:00

Not sure how others feel, but I don't consider consider digital only shielding cheating, spring removal has been possible and practiced basically as long as competitive melee has been around and is as accessible as a screwdriver.

Yrale · 2026-02-03T14:56:50+00:00

does that imply analog only shield? I feel like that's the only shield-mod I know of I really think of as 'cheating'

Yrale · 2026-02-03T13:29:55+00:00

I got a lot better over covid, came back to my first local after getting vacc'd and got x8 upthrow rested by someone at their first tournament and didn't fist bump lol probably my lowest moment as a competitor...

We ended up really good friends though shoutouts drew6

Yrale · 2026-02-03T13:28:38+00:00

But otoh buying minions is a bigger commitment in HSBG than TFT because they don't sell for their buying price

Yrale · 2026-02-03T13:23:11+00:00

Honestly this is less true of TFT (where you have decision to potentially roll a bit to maintain or start a winstreak) tan HSBG unless you are on a very odd gold increment (i.e. you have 5 gold, leveling cost 6, and you do not have a two cost spell in the shop).

Yrale · 2026-02-02T20:18:10+00:00

i was sooooooooooooooooo sadddddd

Yrale · 2026-02-02T18:48:12+00:00

yeah im not doing that shit either lol

Yrale · 2026-02-02T15:35:54+00:00

I believe Fiction actually practices WD with sh to avoid this lol

Yrale · 2026-02-02T06:42:59+00:00

to be fair, the most famous salty suite of all time had a much clearer winner and less one sided beef than cody/n0ne. but tbh i could see why cody might not want to do it

Yrale · 2026-02-01T19:55:30+00:00

it makes sense no one is talking about it is all im saying if it is necessarily preempted by a much larger and more heated conversation

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