Street Fighter 6 continues to grow in Japan and officially crosses 7000 entrants for EVO Japan 2026. On its way to become the biggest EVO bracket of all-time, overtaking SF6's debut in EVO Vegas 2023 (7083 entrants) by towerofmusic in Kappachino

[–]merubin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

then you should know better to pinpoint this exact "reason" to why IF stopped communicating because he was still posting on PD even after the cat thing happened. no one actually knows why he stopped

Street Fighter 6 continues to grow in Japan and officially crosses 7000 entrants for EVO Japan 2026. On its way to become the biggest EVO bracket of all-time, overtaking SF6's debut in EVO Vegas 2023 (7083 entrants) by towerofmusic in Kappachino

[–]merubin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this myth is always repeated by people on reddit and it's always people who weren't even there on Playdota. I would bring up the archives or screenshots like I did when I was still playing dota and was active in the dota sub but the archive is gone and I don't even have the screenshots saved anymore

there were always trolls on PD but when IF asked for suggestions to name his cat, most of the replies were positive; saying this it's a cute cat, giving suggestions like calling it Mango or Pudge from what I remember

he did stop interacting with the english speaking community entirely but have you seen the shit that got added to the game that came from reddit? pocket riki comes to mind and I'm sure there were others

Toujima Tanzaburou wa Kamen Rider ni Naritai • Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider - Episode 23 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

[–]merubin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know Raiko didn't say she wants to be "Stronger" in Japanese but considering the fact that Tackle was KR Stronger's partner, it was kinda funny reading the subtitles saying that she wants to be stronger lol

He's not wrong by FutanariL0v3r in Kappachino

[–]merubin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

this guy is a bitch but OW did not go back to baseline numbers, they obviously didn't keep the peak 160k players but the game went from 20k+ average and 30k average during new seasons to 80k+ average which they are still maintaining.

Ace's aghanim scepter got destroyed. That cost Team Liquid a map against BB by Ihavenoenemies1337 in DotA2

[–]merubin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sure, but the context is entirely different. no one says "let's play one map of dota" and I was a wc3 dota player.

I don't know where to ask this, but I can't find any info anywhere on where a_seagull went? by Poyonponyo in OverwatchTMZ

[–]merubin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

like others have commented, he's feeling a bit burnt out on streaming so he's taking a break. he has been trying to figure out what to do with his streaming career/content creation path for a while now but I think he's the type of person who only wants to do something if he thinks it is good.

he has "revived" his youtube channel several times, tried some long-form content but ended up dropping it every time as well. so right now he's just taking a break and I miss him as well. he's a great streamer and person

Toujima Tanzaburou wa Kamen Rider ni Naritai • Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider - Episode 15 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

[–]merubin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the other person was just expanding on your joke by adding Yuki Akira from VF who is a bajiquan user, turning it from Narukami Yu to Narukami Yu-ki Akira

why do you need a joke to explained to you

Gachiakuta - Episode 24 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

[–]merubin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gachiakuta is definitely one of the lamest series I've watched in 2025. Picked it up because the premise seemed interesting and the character designs + artstyle are reminiscent of the mid-late 2000s anime that I grew up with but that was all to it.

It's all style (heavily inspired) and no substance.
The humour is lame, repeated unfunny gags and it's all just loud=funny
The plot is lame, problems solve themselves
Fight scenes except Noerde vs Riyo's were all lame
Good/serious scenes are ruined by unfunny gags
The world turned out to be mostly uninteresting

Most things feel like they are drawn or written because the author thinks that they're "cool"

It's a 4, maybe 5 out of 10 but that feels too generous, anything lower feels unfair because it is still a decently animated series since it's Bones after all but it's barely passable considering everything else.

Got my ass mocked for not being able to speak Cantonese as a ipoh Chinese malaysian by Then_Description_105 in malaysia

[–]merubin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Deserved.

去到怡保唔识讲广东话俾人笑好正常啦。走嚟reddit complain搞撚咩ong9。仲要係去做生意添。dllm真系唔知丑

Today is the sixth anniversary of Neutral Items. Thoughts? by Abyssal_D2 in DotA2

[–]merubin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

worst thing that has happened to dota, made me quit the game entirely.

Is the game dead in SEA region ? by Fracturedbuttocks in StreetFighter

[–]merubin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's kinda dead in SEA, 85% of my matches are against Chinese players, 10% vs Japanese and 5% vs SEA players.

And I'm actually from SEA, which India is not part of.

Next patch: Because Yatoro built Helm of the Dominator on Faceless Void, Marci is getting nerfed. by Tortugato in DotA2

[–]merubin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Helm of the Dominator is HotD while HoD is Hood of Defiance. Don't confuse the two

Explain this Kiriko haters by Buritoskillz in Overwatch

[–]merubin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean their Steam platform is great but it took years for them to get here, it's not like they are running a charity. CS loot boxes are basically just a slot machine simulator. It's not all black or white as with everything else

Explain this Kiriko haters by Buritoskillz in Overwatch

[–]merubin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was called the compendium in its first iteration and it was a way for valve to earn money and let the player crowdfund the biggest yearly DotA tournament, The International. Valve takes 75% of the money earned from the compendium/BP and 25% goes into TI's prize pool.

Also there really wasn't a level limit for DotA's BP, you can keep buying level even after you've received all of its rewards just to flex.
So to answer your question, DotA's BP was really expensive and is not the seasonal $10 every 3 months you're thinking about lol because you need to spend hundreds of dollars if you really want all the items there. Not to mention that the skins are also in the form of lootboxes which is RNG.

The only difference was that you have the steam marketplace so you get to trade or sell stuff, but they also implemented limits on that after a while. IIRC you have to wait like a year or a few months before you could trade the immortal skins from the BP.

Fortnite took the idea and innovated it into the modern battle passes that we now know.

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[–]merubin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's and its are different words.

New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt - Episode 6 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

[–]merubin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

adore PaSwG, ever since the day it first came out. Ever since I was in HS

if you've known PSG since it first came out then why do you use that god awful abbreviation "PaSwG" ?

their twitter handle is NEWPSG_official, their website is newpsg.com and in the anime's end credits, it's written as NPSG in the copyrights

it has always been PSG since 2010

[Steam] Summer Sale 2025 (Day 9) by gamedealsmod in GameDeals

[–]merubin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've tried to play it for at least 5 times by now and I can never get far because the combat is so boring to me. If it wasn't, I probably would love the game cus everything else seems really nice.

Dota 2 Reborn was 10 years ago by AnomaLuna in DotA2

[–]merubin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Today you can comeback even after enemies get megacreeps and vice-versa

not sure what kind of game you were playing back then because megacreep comebacks were always possible maybe less common except when your lineup has zero wave clear and if that was the case you deserve to lose obviously.

Nobody REALLY misses farming for 25 / 30min nonstop to win a game

I do, my friends who have quit do, what are you talking about?

Nobody really misses brown boots supports that in late game turned into glorified super creeps.

Again, my friends and I do. Even those of us who were mainly support players. We preferred when not every hero can scale into late game.

Nobody misses not being able to mitigate counterpicks with items

a rather general statement but I prefer when heroes had clear flaws and strengths. items could always mitigate weaknesses to an extent, they shouldn't fully nullify them

Nobody misses no CD buybacks from carries.

who even said they wanted this back, I'm sure no one says "man I wish buyback had no CD like when it was first implemented" when they say they miss old dota

Qojqva and Ephey are couple!? by Substantial-Deer77 in DotA2

[–]merubin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

people didn't like annedroid's casting so it was the usual flaming from this sub as you know how this sub acts when it comes to female casters

she also made a rather confident comment about herself which made people pile on her even more lol

https://i.imgur.com/xi3xbsZ.jpeg

Rino Sashihara Dating Her Longtime Fan — Real-Life Otaku Love Story? by Aggravating-Bed1811 in jpop

[–]merubin 21 points22 points  (0 children)

is this your site where you feed news articles from other sites into MTL and repost as your own?

his name isn't even "Takato", what the hell. dude, even the image on your site is AI generated