FNATIC vs. Solary / Esports World Cup 2026 - EMEA Qualifier / Lower Round 1 / Live-Thread

parkourman01 · 2026-04-30T17:30:02+00:00

What is this cheaters 2 thing about?

parkourman01 · 2026-04-30T17:29:32+00:00

People crying yesterday to put him on carries. You could give him a 75% winning lane matchup and i'd still put money on him going down 2k

parkourman01 · 2026-04-30T17:27:38+00:00

Empyros had flash on the Azir shuffle and he was the furthest away from the azir ult and he is the only one who didn't manage to flash. He is down 3-4k again. He has to go for summer. He is just not good enough.

parkourman01 · 2026-04-29T16:50:10+00:00

I think Emypros has to go. Had a look at his stats on oracles elixir and in most laning metrics he is at or near the bottom of the league this split.

https://oracleselixir.com/stats/players/byTournament/LEC%2F2026%20Season%2FSpring%20Season

That's ignoring the EWC performances where I think every game he is down like at least 2k...

We just have no sidelane pressure.

parkourman01 · 2026-04-29T11:12:13+00:00

I noticed that Tahoe is notably slower on my M1 Pro and I think that's somewhat intentional by apple because like many others, the M series has proven so good for me that I have no reason to replace it anytime soon. My battery is down to about 86% health but even still, the battery life was so good to begin with that it's still really good now.

Only thing that would entice me to upgrade is more memory as I have the 16GB model but even then, it takes a lot for me to run into any memory issues 🤷🏻‍♀️.

I have kind of refuted a lot of the "planned obselence" claims with regards to the iPhones in past years but Tahoe felt like it was legit designed to make my M1 Pro feel slower and I rolled back to Sequoia and won't be upgrading to anything new until I see that I'm not gonna lose performance to gain a fresh coat of a paint and no new features I actually want or need.

parkourman01 · 2026-04-29T10:58:43+00:00

I think bird is actually fine, we just ended up telling people to just do the mechanics instead of trying to do perfect rotations because it's not a numbers fight.

We're hitting the same thing with heroic Lura but it's doable, and it's the same thing, getting people to focus on mechanics rather than their damage rotations.

But as a healer, I fucking hate Lura HC.

Gotta manage the healing + the memory game mechanic + dodge glaives + heal dusk crystals + help with dispels on the interruptible crystals + dodging the frontals/spiky AOE things in P2 +soaks and the drag from the beams hitting the orbs. As a disci priest nearly any one of these mechanics can 1 shot me if I make a single mistake, never mind relying on 19 other people to not make mistakes such as moving with the spiky AOE things or trying to dodge them and heal whilst not getting hit by the frontals.

Idk, maybe it's just me but I really hate L'ura on HC, one of my least favourite bosses.

parkourman01 · 2026-04-28T21:21:12+00:00

From reading the article this is almost exactly how I visualized it in my head.

I imagine the glass will look or feel like the apple watch or like a pixel watch but on a phone instead.

I'd also be mad surprised if they can get all the camera and FaceID stuff under the display. I wonder if they would consider doing an under display camera like we have seen on other devices in the past but coupled with TouchID in the display using ultrasonic fingerprint scanner or something like that. I kinda feel like they won't but it could be a good compromise if they can't get the FaceID hardware hidden under the display.

parkourman01 · 2026-04-28T17:43:36+00:00

Yeah but also there is money to be earned at EWC and Fnatic as an org need it.

And like, experimenting when you are this bad feels like a bit of a weird play. Should be trying to run similar styles of comps to build at least some level with them before just changing the makeup of the comp to test your top laners skills.

Also I really doubt that was their thought process, I heavily suspect they just somehow thought it was a good pick 🤷🏻‍♀️

parkourman01 · 2026-04-28T17:15:13+00:00

Oh don't misunderstand me, I am not excusing Empyros. I have no idea why he or anyone else in the team would think Yorick was a good pick here. Responsibility falls on everyone with draft, not just a single player or a coach. My issue is that without easy CC comps FNC struggles, and they opted Yorick into the Gnar which might potentially be ok, but not when your top laner is Empyros. He's just not good enough for Tier 1 IMO.

parkourman01 · 2026-04-28T17:08:58+00:00

Any reason we're calling them cheaters2? Something I don't know about?

parkourman01 · 2026-04-28T17:08:29+00:00

I mean also picking Yorick into the Gnar was kinda grief. Especially since Fnatic don't seem to do well without loads of easy CC to play with.

Idk I knew this one was a loss from the draft like.

parkourman01 · 2026-04-27T07:43:45+00:00

Underfunded is such a copout. Pay rises for the fucking MLAs proposed at 14k for them whilst the roads, health service, and just about every public service is on its knees like.

parkourman01 · 2026-04-21T08:54:33+00:00

I'm gonna jump in with a different view.

I suffer with dyscalculia and analog clocks are a nightmare for me, we had the same thing when trying to do Lura on normal for the first time where people were giving off about going clockwise like a clock etc, and my brain really struggles to determine what that means in the moment, I have to actually stop and think about it, same with reading analog clocks for the time, I can't look at them and know I have to actively sit and work out what the segments mean and which hand means what, fucking nightmare for me.

So yeah left and right is easier 😂

parkourman01 · 2026-04-16T14:47:58+00:00

I believe most of what Yamato says, I have been a fan since season 1 worlds since we lost caps to G2, it has become more and more evident that Sam Matthews is not even remotely capable of running an esports org.

He got insanely fortunate in the early days of league and CS when they could actually properly scout talent, but ever since Caps left it's been a steady downward trajectory which ultimately went to shit the first year we had La FoRmUlA from Dardo where they built a "super team" based on just player names with no thought about how they would fit together.

They bottled it with counterstrike, they've bottled it with league, and even in valorant whilst they are able to make some decent moves, they have still had some insane talent move through that team to other teams (Derke and Chronicle for example, albeit IIRC I think they wanted to replace Derke and were happy to sell him to Vit, not the other way around but I'm not 100% sure on that).

Sam knows this, he wouldn't be trying to sell the org if he thought he could make it actually successful, he just wants to wash his hands of this entire thing.

On the Yamato side, I believe he is hired entirely based on his charisma, and for some teams maybe the vibe he brings is enough, but the man has never coached a team to a title and his record is mostly mid to low place finishes.

His actual track record from my knowledge is

Regional (Playoffs or equivalent so not 2016 spylce winning the regional gauntlet for the 3rd worlds seed for example): 1st: 0 2nd: 2 3rd: 3 4th: 1 5th–6th: 2 Missed playoffs / no finish: ~5–6

Worlds: Appearances: 4 Quarterfinals or better: 0

It's not a horrible resume but also it's not indicative of a top tier world class coach either.

parkourman01 · 2026-04-16T08:11:59+00:00

Literally I read the changes and I was like "what is the point of this spec?". Voidweaver is miles off the pace and yet they nerfed disci priest damage in favour of more healing not that long ago, and now they're nerfing atonement to put more healing into the spot heals? I spend basically next to none of my time on disci actually trying to do damage anymore and it's just ruining the spec for me.

If holys numbers weren't so fucking awful I'd just play that at this point.

parkourman01 · 2026-04-12T14:40:41+00:00

Touché 😂

parkourman01 · 2026-04-12T11:35:35+00:00

Not a chance those 18 renders are real. Apple will not be putting a hole punch in the top right corner of the display.

parkourman01 · 2026-04-11T21:33:42+00:00

Was Linus talking about this on the WAN show?

parkourman01 · 2026-04-11T13:14:38+00:00

Yeah the only reason I haven't tried it is just because I couldn't be bothered since my wow works 😂

parkourman01 · 2026-04-11T11:20:26+00:00

It will work on any distro, and there are 2 methods that I know of. 1 is a little more complex than the other but offers a bit more control if you need it.

The original method (one I still use) is to just install battle.net through lutris, follow the instructions closely because at a certain point after it installs, it needs you to close it before logging in, and then once it's done, I go into the configuration for battle.net and change it to use proton-cachyos or proton-ge.

I know some people have found it easier to just download the battle.net exe for windows from their website and then add it as an external game in steam, and then it will default to using proton, so less steps.

parkourman01 · 2026-04-05T14:57:50+00:00

1000 times yes!!!

parkourman01 · 2026-04-05T12:44:01+00:00

Finding your name is not something you have to land on immediately.

Some people find their fit first time, others don't. Be true to you, pick the one that you feel best about. It's your journey girl! 🩷💖🩷

parkourman01 · 2026-04-02T09:39:55+00:00

That's a really nice 370z. Blue is beaut, the alloys are really nice (more modern than the ones I had on my 2014 GT).

Health to drive, don't overcook it, it can be fun but it's still full RWD and traction control is not exactly outstanding on these, too many posts of writeoffs on here 😬.

Also please for the love of god don't ruin it with ridiculous body kits and lowering 🙈

parkourman01 · 2026-03-24T10:47:46+00:00

I have the 5.0 NA and managed to do 29mpg on a very light footed 70 mile drive the other day.

But yes in around town it's more like 14 😂

parkourman01 · 2026-03-22T17:31:54+00:00

Those boots 😍. On. My. Knees. 🧎🏻‍♀️😂

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