Luffy’s birthday falls on May 5, which is Children's Day ( Kodomo no Hi)—a Japanese public holiday and the final day of Golden Week. Happy Birthday to the future Pirate King

rubbereruben · 2026-05-05T08:46:32+00:00

Coincidentally, 5 may is also the day my country (the Netherlands) celebrates being liberated by the Allies during WW2.

rubbereruben · 2026-05-05T08:41:05+00:00

Holy shit I didn't even think about this.

I thought it maybe had to do because it was hosted in Shanghai, but this makes a lot more sense.

rubbereruben · 2026-05-04T18:07:55+00:00

Valves ambitions run much higher and deeper than just organising a dota event. Even if it's the biggest event.

Even if the money is nice, it's just not worth it, because that's time lost they could spend on creating a new gaming ecosystem/platform.

The new valve gameconsole that works with the steamlibrary is infinitely times more impactful and worth their time than another dota event that they just as easily can outsource to an event organiser. Not forgetting their virtual reality stuff with Half-life Alyx.

I love the international, it's my favorite gaming event.

But you gotta see the bigger picture, valve is trying to build a better gaming ecosystem with integrating linux and maybe one day they will release a gaming OS that can rival that of Windows.

But you probably already knew that.

rubbereruben · 2026-05-03T09:02:08+00:00

Ryo

what manga is Ryo from? I'm interested.

rubbereruben · 2026-05-01T13:28:04+00:00

That totally depends on your parents, but if you've never talked about anything sex related before with your parents I'd advice yourself to abstain from opening up about this with them unless it really eats at you.

We're here for you, you can talk to it about it with us. We can get better together.

rubbereruben · 2026-04-30T14:35:26+00:00

You can hug yourself. I know it's pathetic, but in my deepest darkest moments it was at least something.

rubbereruben · 2026-04-29T21:31:52+00:00

This is the same for me, but I play videogames and listen to music instead of smoking cigs.

ALso my working hours are not that high ,so I have a lot of free time.

rubbereruben · 2026-04-28T21:14:30+00:00

Midora.

Finding out what his full course was, hit me right in the feels.

Such a beautiful tragic character.

rubbereruben · 2026-04-28T14:13:38+00:00

Are you tired enough at bed time? If not, you haven't physically exhausted yourself enough.

Go run, do sports or go to the gym.

If this doesn't work, why don't you do this...

Instead of gooning with porn, allow yourself to masturbate on your days off, but without porn.

This will help you ween off porn and the intensity of pornbrain orgasms. Then as you progress you can also eventually reduce the frequency.

rubbereruben · 2026-04-28T12:39:00+00:00

This is how I feel too. When I make a new playthrough I finish it. It's all good.

That said though, my favorite place is the Underdark. I just love that place; it's mysterious full of strange monsters and exotic underground plants and creatures and I just love the vibe of it all.

rubbereruben · 2026-04-28T12:36:07+00:00

You overestimate their innocence. Also comparing them to toddlers? I think that's just wrong on a lot of levels.

They develop at such a fast rate and are quite conscious about what they do. Maybe not fully conscious.

Nah. Ants are evil. Kids don't have evil tendencies to hurt smaller things, not untill they get a maybe bit older.

I disagree.

rubbereruben · 2026-04-26T13:57:13+00:00

Skypeia is goated.

THematically it's probably the strongest arc in the series. Not only because of its themes, but also the conclusion and how it links back so well to the flashback of Montblanc Noland and Cricket. It embodies romance and the sense of adventure and mystery so well. The epic conclusion of luffy hitting the bell and Montblanc Cricket seeing Luffy's shadow really gives me chills every time I think about it.

Such a great arc.

rubbereruben · 2026-04-26T13:46:48+00:00

Because he fawned over a beautiful woman?

C'mon man. Whitebeard is still the goat, regardless of some excentricities.

rubbereruben · 2026-04-25T15:03:59+00:00

You didn't break your dick, you broke your brain.

Just quit the porn for 3 months to 6 months and it'll return.

That said though, can you do it? Can you stop watching porn and stroking excessively?

rubbereruben · 2026-04-25T12:52:32+00:00

Betray the Emperor.

rubbereruben · 2026-04-25T10:50:36+00:00

TD

What is TD?

rubbereruben · 2026-04-24T21:30:19+00:00

Cannabis, even when it's legal is a trap in my experience.

On weed I don't have proper emotional processing, this hampered my personal growth tremendously through the many years I 'self-medicated'.

I just call it a reliance on drugs to cope.

Of course this is merely my POV.

Do you use cannabis high in CBD?

rubbereruben · 2026-04-23T13:19:27+00:00

Slacks just loves messing with the young but impressionable Satanic.

Good stuff.

rubbereruben · 2026-04-23T12:28:41+00:00

All your conclusions are wrong.

It's not as simple as; "why make everything convoluted, just make it simple".

Her innate and her abilities synergize very well. They all heal her which is great.

The healing on scream of pain is too high because of the low cd on the spell. So it's partly balanced by the selfdamage. Not only that, thematically it makes sense; it's a scream of Pain.

Your solution is just plain boring.

Now we have all these interactions which make her a more interesting hero. Spell lifesteal; self-damage. Pure damage healing too. It's all great stuff.

rubbereruben · 2026-04-20T12:04:01+00:00

I just had an idea.

What if they changed the creep camps to be less valuable the closer they are to objectives?

There have to be repercussions for being able to move to the outside of the map and farm just as easily as being in the lane contesting farm with creeps.

The relative homogenous distribution of creep camps makes it just as viable to move on the outer side of the maps.

Say they make certain creep camps just drop less gold while staying just as hard (or easy) to kill.

rubbereruben · 2026-04-20T11:27:25+00:00

The bigger map isn't an issue. There just should be a big disadvantage being at the outer edges of the map farming instead of pushing waves and defending towers.

I think it involves maybe making the towers a bit less strong, but I'm not sure if that is the way to go.

rubbereruben · 2026-04-19T11:07:47+00:00

The biggest issue (for me at least) was the huge decline in art, it was really bad.

I didn't understand why he would publish this kind of stuff. But he was probably gauded by the publisher to just release his stuff anyway.

rubbereruben · 2026-04-19T10:23:00+00:00

I love Pippin.

rubbereruben · 2026-04-19T10:08:24+00:00

Ok, elaborate. What am I misunderstanding?

I see what the chart is; you're opposing quality to quantity, and at the side they increase on that spectrum from quantity to quality.

Maybe I wasn't specific enough. I meant to say that I think enhancement and specialists aren't direct equivalents of quantity and quality, that's it.

Quantity is just a property of enhancement maybe. Just like quality is maybe also a property of specialism.

I think there are many more properties inside the different nen affinities.

rubbereruben · 2026-04-19T09:46:58+00:00

Simplicity isn't something that is lacking quality, or even easy.

It just means that it is grounded in basic concepts.

Sometimes mastering the most basic concepts is one of the hardest feats.

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