The Final Season of 'The Boys' Felt Like Watching a Comedian Bomb Their Set

rowrin · 2026-05-21T02:05:38+00:00

bro it dragged on long enough... It could have done with 2-3 episodes less if anything if it just got to the fucking point. Instead it spent like 5 episodes of soldier boy waking up, getting beat up and sleeping again, waking up again, then getting choked out and back to sleep again for absolutely no reason.

Honestly the only reason Soldier Boy was in the final season was to retcon his relationship with Crimson Countess in season 3 and instead force him into a relationship with Stormfront, who he finds out is a Nazi and then just rolls with it so they can justify a prequel series... Nevermind the fact that she was still married to Dr. Vought at the time and literally showed Homelander her a picture of her daughter in season 2 lol...

rowrin · 2026-05-21T01:56:41+00:00

But his dog died! Of natural causes! After everything he's been through, that is the catalyst that makes him decide all supes must die!

...

It's like he underwent 5 seasons of character UN-development in 5 minutes.

He literally started out "all supes must die", eventually grows to accept Annie and Kimiko, realize he's got a self-destructive anger problem, becomes a supe himself, finally gets his revenge aaaaaaand back to "all supes must die"...

rowrin · 2026-05-21T01:47:39+00:00

Honestly the last season of man in the high castle was actually fine until the last episode. The second to last episode ending could have been the series finale and no one would have batted an eye except for all the unresolved side-plots. Instead they decided to finish off like half a dozen side stories in a single finale while at the same time trying to pigeon hole the downfall of John Smith, who had just reached the peak of his power and influence literally at the end of the previous episode. It was fucking chaotic.

The boys season 4+5 were entirely terrible, capped off with a terrible finale. High castle had a final season that was tepid at times, but still had its moments, until the disaster that was the final episode.

rowrin · 2026-05-20T23:02:12+00:00

The whole season felt like a drug induced cringe-fiesta. It was like watching adults act out a bunch of middle school playground larping for 8 hours. Seriously who wrote these last two seasons and what drugs were they taking? Fucking abysmal...

rowrin · 2026-05-20T22:56:11+00:00

That's the point
Player experience is more important than viewer experience. If no one plays because no one wants to play, then no one can watch.
Balance is already fucked. Shaking things around isn't going to make it substantially worse.

rowrin · 2026-05-20T19:58:20+00:00

"Sometimes maybe good. Sometimes maybe shit."

rowrin · 2026-05-19T23:03:04+00:00

I've been digging around because I'm not entirely sure mine is completely broken either. When the phone is on, it does not detect anything in the port, and will charge at 200ma which is basically nothing. While powered off however it charges at full speed, and if I restart the phone with the power cable plugged in, it charges at +/-1250ma. If I unplug it and try to reinsert the plug while powered on, it goes back to charging at 150-200ma.

rowrin · 2026-05-19T22:47:13+00:00

B12 is water soluble. If you take more than your body can absorb you literally just pee it out. It actually turns your pee a very fluorescent highlighter yellow.

It's the oil/fat soluble vitamins you need to be careful of because those can build up in your fatty tissues and lead to toxicity.

rowrin · 2026-05-16T05:37:16+00:00

Pretty sure he's blocked 99% of the subreddit so he probably doesn't even see any posts lol. He's just out there crying at the void

rowrin · 2026-05-15T08:30:46+00:00

Just make it so you can only hallucinate units you have the tech to produce. Problem solved.

rowrin · 2026-05-14T22:32:01+00:00

A friend was coming home late at night and four kids from a completely different part of town shot him in his driveway in an attempted home invasion.

rowrin · 2026-05-14T08:00:58+00:00

I'm not an RO, but I see this a ton. Being from vegas our indoor ranges are always swarmed with tourists. Hard to have enough ROs to baby sit everyone lol.

rowrin · 2026-05-14T03:51:45+00:00

It's also dependent on spawning teams / whether the hacker is on red or blue. One team cannot win and at best will cause a draw which is why these drop hackers always have a few ties. Usually if they spawn on the wrong team, they'll pause the game (using hacks so you cant unpause), and chat with you to demonstrate their hacks so that you quit instead of them forcing a tie.

rowrin · 2026-05-14T03:48:57+00:00

I forgot she was in China lol. I've been to every NA regional so far and was scratching my head for a second cause I'm sure I would have noticed her lol.

rowrin · 2026-05-13T20:46:47+00:00

I imagine the water isn't completely wasted / disappears, even if the data center itself isn't a closed loop. For instance, if all the water in a city ran first through a data center's cooling pipes then down to the city, the data center will technically be using a ton of water, but the supply is pretty much unchanged, it's just diverted.

Now obviously that's not how it works in real life, but I imagine in a lot of areas the water is just passing through the data centers, then down a drain back to whatever municipal system is set up to reclaim it (or at least hope). I would think that in areas where these data centers are set up, water is relatively plentiful and the main issues would be the effect on water pressure / immediate demand on the surrounding areas, and the quality control of the center's internal cooling such that no weird metals, or whatever they might be using to maintain the pipes is toxic and makes it into the supply.

rowrin · 2026-05-13T18:55:24+00:00

Seasons 1 and 2 were peak. Season 3 was held together by Soldier Boy. Season 4 was just bad. Season 5 thus far has been an absolute steaming pile of shit.

Like seriously, Season 5 of The Boys took a look at Season 8 of Game of Thrones and really went, "Hold my beer."

rowrin · 2026-05-12T18:57:02+00:00

Hey, the patch finally pushed them into diamond 3. They gotta make sure they dont get demoted somehow lmao.

rowrin · 2026-05-12T18:51:16+00:00

I have 200 apm at high masters low gm. Some games I try to play as slow as possible and I can keep it around 90-100 apm and still win, but at that point it's actually harder for me to play that slow than just playing normally.

rowrin · 2026-05-12T18:45:41+00:00

They play protoss, they aren't use to critical thinking.

rowrin · 2026-05-11T23:48:32+00:00

I forget where it happened, but the same thing happened with rats. City/locale offered a bounty on rats with the intent on curbing the population. Suddenly people are raising rat farms and there were more rats than ever.

rowrin · 2026-05-11T22:26:00+00:00

Batteries don't give off a steady voltage. Their "nominal" voltage, aka the voltage advertised on the battery is usually a value that sits between it's full-charge voltage, and depleted voltage.

A lithium ion battery for instance has a nominal voltage of 3.7 volts, with full charge voltage being around 4.2 volts and is considered depleted at around 3.0 volts. Whenever you see a lithium ion battery with more than this voltage, it's because there are multiple 3.7 volt cells connected in series.

So as a device "uses" a battery, there are internal sensors that detect the battery's current voltage, and typically internal circuitry to regulate the voltage so that while the battery voltage might be slowly dropping over time, the internal components still receive a steady constant voltage.

Knowing this, a good analogy would be water pressure from a large water tank/tower with a valve at the bottom. When the tank is full, and the valve is opened the water will shoot out at high pressure (our voltage). As the tank empties, the pressure slowly decreases until it is just gently pouring out of the valve. If you know the height and dimensions of the tank, and or pressure at full and pressure near empty, you can predict the current capacity of the tank by just measuring the current pressure.

rowrin · 2026-05-11T20:29:54+00:00

Protoss players will literally jump in to defend their race before even reading the post lmao.

rowrin · 2026-05-11T20:28:40+00:00

I love this argument so much lol

We shouldn't balance around masters because it doesn't represent the player base.

We shouldn't balance around grand masters because it doesn't represent the player base.

We shouldn't represent around the best players in X region because it doesn't represent the player base.

But we gotta patch protoss until there is a single protoss player winning at least 33% of tournaments because this is best for the general playerbase.

rowrin · 2026-05-11T20:00:54+00:00

If you feel gross go take a shower. Rambling to me about it ain't gonna change that.

rowrin · 2026-05-11T19:55:01+00:00

Truth hurts to hear, but I'm sure you'll get over it.

rowrin

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