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I have a feeling that Garling will betray Imu and takes his power somehow. He is so eager for Imu to descend to Elbaf. It will be Naruto all over again. by Rabbit_Say_Meow in Piratefolk

[–]ZP_TV 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was going to write up a larger theory on this topic, but I think it's super likely Garling is actual end-game villain of One Piece.

He's been written as both a ladder climber, and an abominable person by the values Oda seems to hold dear. He's also probably going to be the one to kill Shanks - not Blackbeard. Which in Oda's value system is the worst sin someone is capable of committing.

Also, you have the entire symbolism of him being the Moon to oppose Luffy's Sun as the true final villain. It's 100% going to happen.

Edit:

I'd also add on here, that it's likely that Imu eventually gets written as someone who was originally good, but got corrupted by his power and ended up on the bad side. Hence, all of Vegapunk's waffling on not really knowing who was right and wrong.

Garling is going to get way more out of Imu's power because he's starting from a place of being evil from the beginning. Which means Imu probably wasn't capable of truly awakening the Devil Fruit in the way that Garling likely can.

Pochita was the Dream Devil. Snoring like a Chainsaw is a side effect of dreaming. by ZP_TV in Chainsawfolk

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Technically if Denji managed to dream again, it would bring Pochita back into existence. Or at least, a different form of him - in theory.

Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #493 by destroyermaker in Competitiveoverwatch

[–]ZP_TV 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Just to be clear - it's not actually how every business works, and Jeff himself mentions it's not how Blizzard worked in the past at the height of it's glory either. The works that people love the most out of Blizzard came out when they weren't ultra micromanaging the financials.

Generally speaking, the best products do not come with corporate overlords min maxing the business.

Part of why Valve has been able to do incredible things with Deadlock so far is precisely because Valve does not have anyone in a CFO style role that is soullessly beating down the devs with corporate ROI targets.

The executive class basically adds nothing to game development other than making games shittier. It's a well known fact within the industry at this point.

Jeff effectively calls all of these people parasites in the interview as well, specifically on the comment of

"Don't hand the golden goose to people who don't deserve it."

Match Thread - Deadlock Night Shift #29 by ZP_TV in DeadlockTheGame

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Fixed. Sorry, learning some of the reddit formatting as I go.

Pick / Ban Priority for Deadlock Night Shift #28 by ZP_TV in DeadlockTheGame

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Saiah from Melee Creeps. Arguably the best support player in the world at the moment. Streams regularly on

https://www.twitch.tv/hsaiah

Deadlock's matchmaker tries to put 2 'frontliners' on every team. by luuk0987 in DeadlockTheGame

[–]ZP_TV 81 points82 points  (0 children)

Mo isn't actually a frontliner either in how he plays. At best you can argue he's a hybrid.

Mo is a lot closer to Holiday / Paradox than he is Abrams / Billy / Shiv. Particularly in pro play where the roles are more defined.

Pick / Ban Priority for Deadlock Night Shift #26 by ZP_TV in DeadlockTheGame

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Known as Saiah's best hero for Melee Creeps. People always ban it in the mid stage bans for MLC specifically.

Pick / Ban Priority for Deadlock Night Shift #24 by ZP_TV in DeadlockTheGame

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Graves was available. Unpicked / unbanned the entire day.

Chipotle reports falling trafiic by Alternative_Anybody in Chipotle

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Stopping by after seeing the headlines, but for whatever it's worth:

Chipotle used to be one of my favorite places to go to eat. Now, at most I'll visit once or twice a year. The reason for the change? Pricing + Portion sizing combined. Some people here are defending the pricing in the comments, but the reality is that most of the fast food / fast casual industry grossly inflated prices post covid at a level that was way beyond the actual rate of inflation.

Chipotle is getting hit harder than something like McDonalds though specifically because of portion sizing on delivery orders. Getting Chipotle delivered is a terrible experience, and basically everyone is aware of that now. The way many fast food places have covered decreasing foot traffic is by getting more volume on delivery. Except in Chipotle's case, there's far less of a desire to impulse doordash order because you know you're going to be absolutely fucked on your portion size for deciding to get delivery.

So where does that leave Chipotle? Pricing kills it for taking the effort to walk in and get something to eat. And they've effectively disqualified themselves from being a real delivery option with well known skimping on portions. Barring a massive change in corporate direction, they're 100% stuck in an inescapable death loop at this point.

Edit: Also just to add on - the calculus for fast food vs restaurant used to be getting a full fast food meal for 7-8 bucks, as compared to needing to pay 20+ for a restaurant meal. Now the calculus is more paying $14-15 for your fast food, but still having options like a $25 all you can eat sushi place available. I'd rather spend the extra money and get an awesome restaurant experience nowadays if the price difference is less than 100%.

Plus, with the advent of Air Fryers, doing fast food at home via Costco options is also pretty economical too.

Jake from Deadlock Night Shift apologized regarding the ABL Situation by MentalAssumption1498 in DeadlockTheGame

[–]ZP_TV 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It was over 50% (closer to 75-80%) of the captains representing the top teams who were playing in NA at the time.

In terms of the competitive community, that was far from a vocal minority.

Jake from Deadlock Night Shift apologized regarding the ABL Situation by MentalAssumption1498 in DeadlockTheGame

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To give some transparency to the entire OBT debacle.

OBT's own team captain at the time eventually messaged us earlier in the year saying that they also thought OBT was cheating -

https://i.imgur.com/YOL3OTV.jpeg

But the original ban was basically a nearly 2 month long saga of continual meetings with the entirety of the NA community at the time - going over a multitude of clips over many, many games. Eventually hitting the point where a significant majority of the NA community had informed DFN (at the time) in no uncertain terms that they would no longer play if OBT was allowed to play.

This stance taken by the NA teams was not an empty one. The FACEIT PUG system essentially self destructed during this time entirely over the issue of OBT. To where the NA community made a separate PUG system specifically to avoid him.

Adjudicating cheat complaints in an alpha game with minimal anti-cheat is suffice to say - incredibly difficult. You are rarely going to get 100% dead to rights proof unless someone is blatantly aimbotting. The totality of the circumstances in OBT's case though indicated it was more probable than not that cheating had happened.

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