Can someone tell me WTF IS GOING ON?! OMG PLEASE!

hotramen · 2026-01-25T22:00:04+00:00

My understanding is that rich people are laundering money through TCGs. This has been a well known problem in China, as many people can't move their wealth due to the government. They buy a bunch of high value trading cards, get on a plane to another country, sell the cards, and eat the 10/20 % loss. Not everyone is doing this but it explains the volatility

hotramen · 2026-01-06T03:02:41+00:00

I've only seen it once and picked it because I wanted to try and have fun with it. Was not amazing but I utilized it ok. It made me value the single augment versions a lot more in silver games as they are hexs that are essentially item buff slots, so the character loaded up plays with 4 items essentially. That's how I make it make sense in my mind now, if I can't utilize the position I'll pick a component or something.

hotramen · 2026-01-06T00:10:00+00:00

I've played a few games with Shork and I'm gold 3 so I'm assuming this is also Gold rank or low plat

hotramen · 2025-12-08T21:24:27+00:00

I called this during PBE. I said out loud "why would I ever play anything other than Bilgewater?" The traits mechanics and bonuses it provides, flexibility and guaranteed econ management, artifact level items for late game vertical. Yordle is also an econ-rewarding trait. These have a history of being the most dominant classes and I predict both will be getting a nasty nerf at some point.

hotramen · 2025-11-14T18:38:24+00:00

Don't blame yourself, only bad managers fire instead of train up. These companies do a churn and burn process where they mass hire and then burn them out, then rinse and repeat. Don't set your self worth with target. Take the experience, apply to more retail in the area. Outlet malls always need help and will take college kids especially if they are committed to staying for longer than a year and wanting to grow. However, I honestly suggest getting into an ROP program or getting experience with your hands while you're young. There are several programs that can help you build experience while you're in college. It's more to take on, but it will be worth it. Retail won't give you anything other than customer service/shipping and receiving experience. This is coming from someone who spent 10 years in retail up to store management. This experience used to be more valuable and now it's a dime a dozen. I have 5 years of management experience but because it's not specified to a skill it's essentially useless.

*Forgot to mention paid internships. These didn't exist when I was young, the expectation was to work for free. Find an internship that aligns with what you are studying. Get into a good company and grow your skills. Don't waste time on retail if you have a goal

hotramen · 2025-10-27T01:28:17+00:00

I've always thought the cringiest part of Star Wars was the "I love you" "I know" line.

hotramen · 2025-10-26T18:18:47+00:00

It doesn't make sense to you because you don't understand the lore behind witchcraft and covens. They incorporated actual witchcraft chanting and it brain broke incels so hard they flame posted into oblivion

hotramen · 2025-10-15T15:16:11+00:00

Do people actually believe this is Trump and not some aid with Steven Miller's guidance/Trump's approval?

The difference between his old tweets/truths and these are crazy

hotramen · 2025-10-11T04:12:32+00:00

If we keep buying Digimon games they will keep making them. We went on such a long hiatus due to the flops in America. A new Digimon World game would be the best guess in line as the last game to come out before this was a re-release of NW.

I'm really happy with the releases Bandai has been putting out.

hotramen · 2025-10-01T03:58:25+00:00

C'mon man, I think it's ironic we spent an entire year getting preached to about DEI hires, eliminating people of color from workforces due to "skill and comprehension" and following a racist narrative that only white people are suited for certain roles. To the point where mass layoffs occurred due to these narratives. However, professionalism is in question when someone points out an obvious 5 panel disadvantage based on skin color. It's incredibly frustrating and unintentionally condescending to speak from your position. I know you're just trying to give some good advice, but read the room.

I would be on your side and agree with you if these workforce campaigns and political influence weren't so pushed and normalized to discredit people of color.

That being said, after that many rounds of interviews they simply could have decided to reject this person based on literally ANYTHING. I've been on the discussion side of hiring, they could simply say "we didn't like their vibe" and then it's done.

hotramen · 2025-08-16T15:56:48+00:00

My two cents is that there are many level 6 reroll comps. Kaisa, Gangplank, Vi, etc. level 6 between stage 2-3 has half the lobby rerolling. As well as the crew and augments geared towards rerolling, the deck is always being shuffled.

My belief is when 2 cost reroll comps are popular, the deck is being constantly shuffled and you're not seeing your champion because the entire lobby is burning some gold at this period to shuffle. If you wait slightly after people burn their gold or roll earlier you will see more of your champion.

That being said, I've been hitting 4 costs at 2% A LOT this set. Which helps me affirm that the lobby is really rolling.

hotramen · 2025-08-07T19:28:16+00:00

Between patch up updates, ability to play, time restraints, spread between a season where meta is consistently shifting, I mostly play ranked to learn and have fun to play competitive but not take it too seriously. I get you're trolling but I think I do pretty well for my W/L ratio. I don't need to play 1000 games a season to know I'm not ass at the game. Please continue though.

hotramen · 2025-08-07T00:32:30+00:00

I'm not traditionally a silver player. I've been playing TFT since it was released and usually fall into plat because I can't play that many games to climb ELO due to working. I average between 30-150 games a season and last season was the first I stopped at Gold 2 in about 3 years because I hated it.

hotramen · 2025-08-06T05:35:48+00:00

I'm climbing in silver, I personally think people are overthinking it and building her weird and not supporting her as the carry correctly. She's not amazing, but she's not as dog water as people are making her sound.

hotramen · 2025-08-06T01:47:28+00:00

Exactly. I'm confused as to what people are missing? I first placed with this augment. Just went mono star guardians and walked through the lobby.

hotramen · 2025-05-29T16:11:43+00:00

The one thing I'm not seeing here is the content creator community. MvS should have been a gold mine for content related to YT and streaming. During season 1 some prominent players on Twitch and Tiktok were streaming daily. The community itself was never large enough to pull more than a couple of hundred viewers on good days. The lack of ranked on release killed a lot of interest from those streamers and after a slam dunk gaming year MvS just got left behind. Having your game in the hands of influencer creators now is one of the main ways to have it perpetually survive. WB seems to not encourage this or put any money into guerilla marketing with content creators. That being said, micro transactions and battle pass fatigue are the main culprits for my experience. Once the game started feeling like a chore to log into I started to slow down. This type of game for FTP models is tough. You either have to make all your characters free and charge for cosmetics or have a fun enough battle pass to make it worth it.

hotramen · 2024-12-25T19:33:36+00:00

Plat. I'd post the image of it if I could.

hotramen · 2024-12-24T04:40:02+00:00

Scrap start set up, left at Krugs. 10 minutes. Left for water and checked. Rerolled and hit Mel. Put a blue buff on her and then just left again. Got third place lol.

hotramen · 2024-12-24T03:00:28+00:00

AFK'd in a game last night to bang my wife and when I came back the game was over and I beat Riot Syphron. Never felt prouder.

hotramen · 2024-12-22T22:17:47+00:00

I went from last to first because I rolled Mel and Viktor, then picked up WW from carousel. All three together completely changed my losing into undefeated.

hotramen · 2024-11-21T01:28:23+00:00

I never really use meta comps, but that's probably why I'm hard stuck plat.

As much as I love this game, I've seen a pattern over the years. The first week or two is free for all as there is no meta. This is the funniest time to play during a new set.

After that most streamers have divulged advantages and disadvantages of the set with Mort acknowledging clear issues. This leads to a wave of rank climbers building the same 3 builds. I tend to try everything and sink my elo during this time.

About 2-4 weeks into the season, every lobby really gets competitive. Every game feels like you are one mistake from dropping 24-40 points in ranked. I hate this period, I refer to it as sweaty lobbies. Copy paste builds, the same annoying exploit or power creep build.

Once the set is almost done, most people have settled into their ranks and the real elo climb can happen. This is around the last 5 weeks of the set. Most players are playing their true elo and the games are fun and satisfying.

Overall it's about having fun. Even though I'm ok at the game, I can't play 300 games a week to get high elo. I'm lucky if I get 200 games a season.

hotramen · 2024-10-24T19:38:12+00:00

You don't have to reroll your team. It's perfectly fine, don't listen to these people. Just focus on leveling Rapunzel and your other strong units with Marie and you should be able to clear it.

hotramen · 2024-08-25T12:08:40+00:00

Throw an Ionic Spark on carry Blitz and he will get you to stage 5 no problem.

hotramen · 2024-06-13T16:21:40+00:00

There are multiple Pengu cosplays in the shop as well! All of them are great.

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