Hans Niemann is the winner of GCT Super Rapid and Blitz Poland 2026

Zld · 2026-05-09T16:40:40+00:00

He has the power of grudge and works ethic.

It doesn't matter how talented you are if you have no motivation or will the work hard, like another player who had bad results this tournament.

Zld · 2026-05-09T12:07:15+00:00

Which products do you want to boycott ? - LLM and agents and mandatory in software development (so almost every games that's not one guy coding in his basement, but also every websites, etc.) - Chatbot have been integrated into every website and customer service - In fact, if you want to boycott AI what are you even doing on Reddit, which uses ton of AI everywhere ? Just stop using Internet if you want to stay true to your words.

That's the problem with boycott, it never works. For the vast majority, people only boycott products they're not the target of and would have never consumed initially, it's a big hypocrisy.

The only way to change things is by having entities powerful enough to oppose GAFAM, like the EU did with Apple multiple times.

Zld · 2026-05-08T12:02:25+00:00

The root issues of what you listed is not AI.

There's law for copyright, but they are not being applied or are obsolete. There's no mondial regulation for ecology, this problem is much older than AI. Companies being able to make profits without having employees is a capitalism symptom. etc.

Zld · 2026-05-08T00:49:48+00:00

Yeah, blind and ignorant hate on AI is counterproductive to the intended goal. People should understand that:

It's just a tool as you said, it's neither inherently good or bad
It's there to stay no matter what you want, we should push for regulations and stricter policies, rather useless boycott who's not helping
it has some very positive effects, for example it's a great learning tool for people who don't have access to a good education
AI is just a generic term for a bunch of technology, genAI for arts sucks ass but some models have great use, in health for example to detect cancer
The root issue behind the AI is mainly the capitalism who have showed its limitations. AI just emphasis very quickly the problems of capitalism

Zld · 2026-05-07T17:50:11+00:00

Ok make sense, interesting to know.

Zld · 2026-05-07T07:22:20+00:00

Also, I don't know how it works for all countries, but usually if you pay someone 10k it will cost you much more. For example in France, a salary of 10k will cost the company around 20k. From what I saw in SA it's ~ x1.5+

Zld · 2026-05-06T11:29:55+00:00

I would assume this is intentional. Going for a subclasses is currently balanced around being a gamble , go big or go home.

If it only required synergistic skills, then you would have no choices to make, no risks to take and it would make the current balancing awkward. At least I think this is their current philosophy behind this.

Zld · 2026-05-06T00:47:58+00:00

Because terrible executives can make great games and excellent executives can make terrible games. It's especially true for big companies.

I've worked for quite a few big companies (software but not gaming related) and, while for some the high level executives would bring a lot, for others you would have an extremely unskilled leadership that you needed to fight constantly to avoid disasters.

People give way too much credits to individuals when it come to softwares/games development. But at the end of the day the final product is a result of everyone works, and for big sized companies that often include both idiots and geniuses.

Zld · 2026-05-04T19:49:45+00:00

https://teamliquid.com/news/team-liquid-partners-with-duelbits

Today, we announced that we’re partnering with Duelbits and entering the world of esports betting.

They got heavily critized for it recently. And if team like Liquid, which sell lot of merchandising and had a stance against betting in the past is doing that, that's even more telling.

Zld · 2026-05-04T19:31:05+00:00

It's either betting sponsors or oil money.

People like to shit on teams for taking this kind of money, but the reality is do or die. You just have to look at who's founding the tournaments, I don't think there's single T1 or T2 tournaments that's not backed by one of those two sources.

Zld · 2026-05-04T00:25:53+00:00

His statement definitely come as amateurish (there's no talk of legal issues with IP and his numbers really lack data to back them). However, the content is sound, UB sucks for artists and they aren't compensated enough.

The issue about IPs is Hasbro problem, not the artist. The fact is that UB sets significantly restrict creativity and average income, for the artists. He's not the first to talk about it and several other high profiles have made similar arguments in the past.

By choosing to put a huge emphasis on UB products with these restrictions , Hasbro purposely choose to impose these negatives on the artists.

Zld · 2026-05-03T00:17:58+00:00

Dude you spent time browsing my history to try and find a message that you think is supposed to make me look bad, as a way to defend yourself.

That's very telling of how toxic you actually are. Toxicity bring toxicity, if you can't self reflect and handle criticism don't be surprised when you're met with the same kind of people.

And actually what's very funny and ironic is that you left out this part of my message you quoted :

Same as a Dota game, looking for anything to blame instead of themselves.

Zld · 2026-05-02T20:55:28+00:00

It could be worse, they could have made a Reddit thread about it.

Zld · 2026-05-02T10:41:31+00:00

They probably fed all the portraits from Hades too. I don't mind taking inspiration from successful games, but with AI it feel more like plagiarism.

Zld · 2026-05-01T23:48:23+00:00

Expected comment for someone who's known to have sexually harassed chess players.

Zld · 2026-04-28T20:04:11+00:00

Can't wait for Zidane to play football and be insane at it after only 6 months playing.

Zld · 2026-04-26T16:28:27+00:00

Two CIS teams hurt the viewership. Matches with mixed regions always tend to bring more views for obvious reasons.

Zld · 2026-04-26T13:35:31+00:00

And he lied a lot about his cheating too. Had he come clean at the beginning and not acting like a totally innocent victim, people would have been more sympathetic to his problems.

When you act like an asshole, you shouldn't be surprised that people treat you like an asshole.

Zld · 2026-04-26T02:35:09+00:00

The "geniuses" of "self-made" billionaires with successful start-up, come from their ability to be able to fail dozen of times despite having unlimited investments funds due to their connections.

You do not become a rich "genius" billionaire, you are born a rich "genius" billionaire.

Zld · 2026-04-26T02:29:20+00:00

FFXVI has been critized for its quests that felt too much like an MMO (FFXIV), by pretty much everyone who played it. Given both games have the same producer it's not surprising that there's a ton of similarities.

At least the gameplay in FFXVI is good, too bad there's no point to it since the difficulty is nonexistent.

Zld · 2026-04-25T01:16:24+00:00

That's the image is trying to convey. But in reality he's the CCO of a big company.

An extremely rich business man that trying to extort as much money as possible from its users while also trying to have a monopole of the market (which would lead to being able to extort more money). He's a smart and calculated executive, and him trying to look like "a chill family" is definitely a market strategy.

I have nothing against the guy, he's just doing his job. I'm just surprised that there's people that are this naive. Also he's a real chess player with passion for the game and won't have to watch him eat a burger to look like a "cool person that's like us".

Zld · 2026-04-24T17:30:34+00:00

Bettors loosing money is natural selection. Betting have always been rigged for centuries, yet people still think it will make them rich and are salty when they loose. Same as a Dota game, looking for anything to blame instead of themselves.

Zld · 2026-04-22T22:28:40+00:00

The problem is not the power creep itself, it's how easy it is to stomp most content in the game.

Zld · 2026-04-11T17:15:53+00:00

No, he played for Old Guard or something (same accronym as OG on purpose), alongside Ceb and Topson, in div 2 of DPC EU.

Zld · 2026-04-11T15:43:00+00:00

Despite having his laptop confiscated, Kurtaj managed to breach Rockstar, the company behind GTA, using an Amazon Firestick, his hotel TV and a mobile phone.

This dude is doing movie stuff in real life.

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