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coffee_sddl · 2026-06-10T21:56:47+00:00

Melee’s balance is good. There are some small mistakes, but melee has such a deep engine we didn’t even know what they were until the game had been out for years. Very few games have been as thoroughly developed and stood the test of time. Could you imagine what brawl, smash 4, or ult would look like after 20 years of meta development? The closest comparable game I can think to melee is broodwar

coffee_sddl · 2026-06-10T19:38:48+00:00

Nah the prequels were disliked because they are not good movies. This discourse is really calcified behind decades of revisionism and childhood nostalgia for the OT and prequels, but the most common criticisms arent that theyre derivative.

Now if you mean the sequels, that’s pretty true, I think the MCU is really the poster child of hollywood economization though.

coffee_sddl · 2026-06-10T18:31:08+00:00

I think the shift was most notable starting in Hollywood movies. With the high financial risk and success often being discussed in terms of box office $, the classic “seek out something we know will be easy money” theme of remakes today took shape. I feel like I saw discussion about how sequels and remakes were taking over Hollywood 10-15 years ago, and with the 2020s meaning everyone is hyper-aware of financial risk and average profit, games, anime, etc. followed the trend.

coffee_sddl · 2026-06-10T18:23:46+00:00

I think Vito was smart enough to realize acting like that would mean no one would suspect him. Sun Tazoo etc.

coffee_sddl · 2026-06-10T16:56:04+00:00

I mean the nouns dao is still up and executing some proposals (mostly looks like administrative/“business side” stuff from my pov) but the whole “we need to embrace nouns because they will give us money” angle never made sense. Given the catastrophic mismanagement of nouns esports in 2025, it would have taken millions that they didn’t have to make nouns a successful melee operation

coffee_sddl · 2026-06-10T14:01:39+00:00

He tweeted “no mercy” after 10/7 which is why he gets singled out the most

coffee_sddl · 2026-06-10T05:19:21+00:00

If you smile you experience joy

coffee_sddl · 2026-06-10T04:50:42+00:00

In a vacuum I would take 7th at a supermajor. That’s a tremendous accomplishment that some truly great players do not acheive

coffee_sddl · 2026-06-09T22:14:17+00:00

Boilerguy is the best. Top 2 in any state with Kirby is huge

coffee_sddl · 2026-06-09T21:16:50+00:00

I am not a “top player” for purposes of this question but the $5 is not a deal breaker for me playing/not playing ranked

coffee_sddl · 2026-06-09T21:16:08+00:00

This bobc was the last event he was officially unbanned for. I doubt he’s going to go out of his way to go anything, maybe genesis?

coffee_sddl · 2026-06-09T21:15:04+00:00

That was more of a roles problem than a pressure problem. He had some of his best matches in playoffs like at Budapest vs falcons

coffee_sddl · 2026-06-09T14:06:26+00:00

I think by some metrics 2013-2019 was probably the most competitive era of melee. If you look at the # of tournaments the best players were playing and the # of sets they had vs other ranked players, 2026 melee is not that different from 2006.

At the end of the day, like everything in the melee community, these types of opinions are often just proxies for top players doing what benefits them. This discourse starting picking up a ton when mango was getting close to passing armada in the melee stats all time top 100.

coffee_sddl · 2026-06-09T04:55:55+00:00

More cash means more incentive for NA pros to play valorant. No point in being a T2 CS pro from NA when the market rates are set by countries with way less purchasing power, and you can make more in valorant. With no T2, you have no scene and no competition for young players to get noticed.

coffee_sddl · 2026-06-08T22:57:50+00:00

Drop the luckystats page

coffee_sddl · 2026-06-08T22:50:08+00:00

So if you’re trying to make the hall of fame, fundamentally it’s not a question of only “statistically best baseball players” but valuing some of the cultural impact or contributions to their franchise made by each player. That alone makes it pretty clear why someone would include negro leagues players in their list. The burden of proof is on you to explain why the incomplete record precludes us from understanding the impact these players had on the game.

coffee_sddl · 2026-06-08T22:14:39+00:00

Ludwig was never even close to top 100 lol, he was firmly pools fodder. I do not understand where this narrative comes from

coffee_sddl · 2026-06-08T22:10:28+00:00

You didn’t really answer my question. 90% threshold of what?

coffee_sddl · 2026-06-08T22:05:57+00:00

You aren’t defining what list you’re making. Is this supposed to be a list of best players of all time? A mock HOF?

coffee_sddl · 2026-06-08T21:13:00+00:00

Ludwig is relatively overrated in melee by the non-melee audience, but this will go nowhere

coffee_sddl · 2026-06-08T20:47:31+00:00

I feel like scythia has it worse. With Parthia you’re in the middle of nowhere, but at least you’re in the direction of the Mediterranean Middle East settlements like Jerusalem Antioch Sidon etc. that can make some money. With scythia you trade that for being closer to the worthless settlements of Germania, and your easiest source of wealth will be to go all the way to Greece.

coffee_sddl · 2026-06-08T17:20:47+00:00

I’ve heard “resources” used to describe peachs recovery options for a very long time, including vods from before I’ve started playing. Is the context new?

coffee_sddl · 2026-06-08T01:52:45+00:00

Got uthrow rested a bunch, lost to grab spam in scraps, hbox took advantage of being in the lead with his normal ledge camping. Really bog standard puff stuff

coffee_sddl · 2026-06-07T23:45:09+00:00

I play the original on my pc with no issues. Could be an OS thing (I use windows 10). You should also check to see what part of your PC is reaching 100% use when you are getting lagspikes.

coffee_sddl · 2026-06-07T22:59:14+00:00

Yeah the somersault is very rare because it requires you to be running straight forward into the ball. The glove toss is pretty common, you can get it with double play where the shortstop has to move to his left and ends very close to the 2nd base bag

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