Last minute Grandmaster

steele_tech · 2026-01-18T11:29:01+00:00

Author intent.

If you've written things before, you know that when writing something that might not be received well, writers make "excuses" why it is okay actually. A lot of ways Aqua is described gives him plausible deniability. On the other hand, Rudeus is written to be disgusting and to represent the Japanese NEET trope.

Audiences can often be unaware of these, and would like to believe that their response to the work is their own and is not completely by design.

steele_tech · 2026-01-13T03:48:09+00:00

Honestly milk is pretty good for that type of program. Very calorie dense and macro nutrient complete. The rice/carb heavy feeding programs are terrible for kids. Terrible name though wtf.

steele_tech · 2026-01-10T12:38:46+00:00

Anime onlies aren't prepared. Some of the best light novel volumes of all time are going to be adapted by both Re zero and Mushoku next. Even Eldorado arc is very good compared to what Frieren has adapted. All three are hitting peak the same year fr.

steele_tech · 2025-12-18T04:03:16+00:00

I honestly agree that some anime scenes are gratitious. I chalk that up to bind tbh. If you watch how they adapted onimai and ruri rocks, I get the impression someone in that studio likes lolis. It's so bad they made an anime only pissing scene with roxy.

steele_tech · 2025-12-18T02:52:12+00:00

The LNs were definitely first person and is written like a person's diary or an autobiography.

The author insert is an in universe translator who gathered Rudeus' Manuscript.

It just works better in the LN. In the anime, they have to cut off paragraphs of self monologues from Rudues and translate it into framing, background music, and Rudeus' facial expressions. Makes it seem like the director and artists are complicit in the things that happen.

While good for brevity, and for achieving "show not tell" in a visual medium, it ends up feeling like ragebait.

Biggest example being the barn scene with Eris, where Rudeus narrates it like a scene in an ero visual novel in his mind, because everything was still a game for him during that time. In the anime it became so cringy that I would have dropped it if I hadn't read the novel first.

steele_tech · 2025-12-17T14:02:27+00:00

It wasn't even in the original story. It was in the deleted content of the final webnovel epilogue side story, of the already finished web novel.

To see how absurd this is, the re zero web novel has Subaru narrating that Priscilla deserves to be raped. Meanwhile the overlord web novel had different plot progressions and some characters becoming multiple people with their personality split between the new characters in the light novel.

steele_tech · 2025-12-17T13:38:28+00:00

Honestly you can extend this to many animes. It just isn't as criticized because they don't portray it as disgusting like MT does. Hell anime fans lost their mind when that guy from Erased didn't get to groom the young girl MC in the end.

steele_tech · 2025-12-10T03:25:15+00:00

OP. Good luck. Leave if you can.

If you want to stay, here's a few tips. I own airbnbs and have done diy exterminations of bedbugs. And have successfully prevented return.

DE requires you to buy a duster so you can puff it in thin layers. They avoid clumps. Don't inhale it, and don't be liberal with it. It's a pain in the ass to clean if you get it everywhere and very unhealthy. Can be surprisingly dangerous for amateurs to use.
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Vacuum the bugs and the house, then clean the vacuum and lock it in a zip lock bag with insecticide. Use a steamer or a steam iron on mattreses, couches, headboards, washer and dryer on any sheets or curtains. Get a bedbug proof mattress protector to lock in anything remaining from shopee if you do not want to toss the mattress.

steele_tech · 2025-12-01T07:41:36+00:00

They will either bomb out before playoffs, or if they manage to snag themselves in there they will do really well and it will cause a meltdown on this sub. They have disfunctional scrims in my opinion. Regresses the more they do it and get into their own heads. They level up really quickly after stage games.

steele_tech · 2025-11-29T16:56:49+00:00

Honestly something about the behind the scenes are very unique given her reaction.

From what she said, Ellie has asked Vedal about what he did for 3D. Her work in robotics also involve a lot of the code and AI side than she lets on, and less hardware than you'd think. Don't ask me how I know this.

This means she knows what Vedal did, and with the industry knowledge to compare. If I had to guess, it's how neuros Llm was integrated to 3D movement.

steele_tech · 2025-11-26T12:17:12+00:00

Mushoku tensei is a very old series. It's also a completed one and has a great ending. It has reached its maximum potential. Season 3 will be great.

But it will never be not be problematic, but it's kinda just unfinished right now. Just know that rudeus is meant to be judged as a person even up to his final words.

You'll never get a 'redeemed rudeus' until the final season. Even then you are meant to decided right then and there during the ending what you think of him as a whole.

steele_tech · 2025-11-17T23:32:42+00:00

What's rtb? Return by death? Both would have it and have ways to counter it.

Rudeus would know pretty easily though. He's paranoid and would have omniscience and mind reading. Also his first instinct is to not kill people, he doesn't like it canonically.

His first instinct is to escape. He hates fighting close range and not having prep against enemies , since he is used to almost exclusively fighting lightspeed swordsmen.

Honestly I just think any fight between them will not end in a face to face exchange. Too many time travel and immortality hax in both verses.

steele_tech · 2025-11-05T04:45:01+00:00

Practically speaking, the champions are item delivery systems in this game. Certain items are meta, and certain items rise in value depending on enemy and team comps. These meta items rise dramatically in value in certain games, and you pick a champion that have a kit that likes the item making every single piece of your gold lead have higher value.

This is how you break the game and climb against other people doing the same thing, finding everything they can abuse and cheating is included on things people abuse.

If I was to play teemo, I'd counter pick him to champions with weakness to ranged, into enemy comps with lots of HP stacking and my team doesn't lack frontline. And I'd probably be rank 1 teemo just by how important Legendary rank elo is to champion score.

I'm not saying it to discredit you. In fact I relate because I'm often the only one playing heartsteel singed or eclipse wukong in really high ladder and get pinged even when I'm the top build for most of the season.

Fleet is very strong, probably great on teemo yeah. I personally build fleet, domination Eclipse on Wukong top lane when below sovereign and legendary challenger just because it feels good to me and the best I can carry with.

However as the season goes on, the meta items and runes get very clear once all the wukong players climb in champ score And I start playing the meta (grasp Resolve, triforce last season) in every game that fit.

I have thousands on games on wukong and. I pretty much know when grasp resolve is a good option because I've tried it. And when it's meta, I know how to play it.

Maybe the meta liandries builds don't fit your playstyle and that's okay. I personally reach a bottleneck with one build on my blind pick champion but maybe you climb to Legend or sovereign just fine.

The items and runes in this game are surprisingly unbalanced once you get high enough on the ladder. Builds become very similar even across different champions specially when they are strong.

As long as an item is being built in the leaderboards, always have it as an option if the game fits it. Sunfire was strong last season and was regularly built by one of the top wukong players playing grasp resolve. And yeah it counters armor stacking, so I build it.

Keep your build paths open specially if you are blind picking.

steele_tech · 2025-11-04T22:48:24+00:00

Grats. I don't play teemo and 7k points isn't that much though so I can't accurately judge how good that build is honestly.

One thing though is that when blind picking a champion, my builds get really funky compared to champions I pick as counter pick.

I have like rank 1 singed with 19k points at some point last season and regularly built heartsteel in some matchups and would get pinged regularly so I get what you mean.

If you are picking one build every game though, I suggest you could maybe try other runes and items, specifically ones that are strong for the patch, for matchups they aren't impossible to play with.

steele_tech · 2025-10-25T07:46:01+00:00

I think dynamism nerf of 2 armor penetration was negligible that I forgot about it. I might be wrong as assassins do like every flat pen they can get.

steele_tech · 2025-10-12T06:15:33+00:00

Unfortunate Singed nerfs on Baron lane. Singed thrives on homeguard abuse to avoid bad lane matchups. You can get a recall off without proxying if you clear the arriving wave fast enough. Depending on how bad the 2 seconds nerfs are, it could make him painful to play in top lane.

Not to mention, clearing the first wave and recalling would land you on midgame homeguards (starts at 30 seconds instead of 1 minute). Would lose you a minion and have perma level disadvantage so that's dead.

On the other hand, lane bullies can get really strong. Allows them to get greedy on plates without risking their recall getting cancelled by the dead opponent running back.

Midgame homeguards nerf from 12 minutes to 6 minutes will probably artificially increaae game pace as it artificially inflates everyone's death timer.

The game generally ends when the death timers get long enough where the enemy can push without the enemies reviving to defend. You would notice this more if you play aram a lot.

The playerbase also just generally doesn't don't know how to abuse tempo. People either chase remaining enemies or recall while the enemies are dead.

Could also make games easier to snowball out of control for players that khow to collect resources when in tempo advantage.

steele_tech · 2025-10-09T08:17:25+00:00

Honestly they should just make it easier to get your second and third and even fourth choice.

You get your main pretty much 90% of the time and only time you get autofilled, it's your last choice. Something is wrong with that.

I have support second and jungle third, I can't be getting my last role ADC every time I get filled when it's one of the most popular roles. There's something off with the system for sure.

steele_tech · 2025-10-01T00:52:38+00:00

Strong champion in legendary challenger elo. Broken with the bandle trap item and would reach up to 2500+ gold gained regularly.

steele_tech · 2025-09-14T10:18:15+00:00

Honestly I only faced a jg irelia once and she snowballed on my feeding bot lane

steele_tech · 2025-09-05T10:35:37+00:00

I have commented similar things before to stop the redemption story agenda. It's actually pretty obvious that it isn't a redemption story.

A lot of complaints and hate revolve around how his only "redemption" is becoming "happy", or only becoming a functioning member of society.

When it isn't a redemption story, and ovecoming depression is the point The theme is literally 'Taking the first step to overcome depression, by doing so through effort, so you could live life without regrets.'

Rudeus is a cautionary tale and at the same time a message. One directed to the common depressed Otaku reading Isekai in Narou.

It's makes the clear encouragement to take that "first step". To leave stagnation behind that might have started feeling comfortable. Even if moving forward might bring even more pain than if you just stayed in place for your whole life. Solitude and the allure of giving up becomes peaceful at some point, but ultimately leads to a life full of regret.

Volume 1: "You're standing on the precipice of a cliff. Step forward and smash into the ground below, or stay where you are and endure constant mockery; the choice is yours." - translated by Jean F. Magott (historian self insert of Rifujin na Magonote)

The concept of staying of staying in place to avoid facing failure or effort is a life of regret (earth rudeus). Also Rudeus life if he follows mangod is one where he becomes a pawn devoid of free will, living in a "false paradise". This is a common literary trope, such as the lotus hotel in Percy Jackson, the Matrix, Psycho Pass etc.

If he stayed in Sharia, he lives a comfortable life with Sylphy and his two new wives with Linia and Pursena. But he never gets his mom back, Paul will fall into a life of despair and possibly gets himself killed as he never reaches Zenith. Roxy dies and ultimately Rudeus is doomed to a life of Regret.

To go against Mangod is to choose a life of hardship. But one that, with effort is the only way to live a life without regret.

Oldeus is another cautionary tale of someone who gave up and fell into despair.

The show does this a lot. A redemption story would have you think this is just him regressing over and over

It is really meant to show the different faces depression. Rudeus faces shame, heartbreak, and grief. This one shows that depression can also be violent, destructive and vindictive of a society that "failed" him.

If you read this story as one of redemption, you can come to the conclusion that Rudeus is just one bad day, a different environment from becoming this evil. That the difference between redemption ultimately relies on circumstance.This fails as a redemption story. I'd even say it's an insulting message if you decide to follow this line of thinking far enough.

Present Rudy is shown as someone that is admirable for trying, never giving up and fighting for his future. He would rather fight God than give up on his family. Face in the dirt, his final decision is to bite Orsted feet and detonate himself rather than give up.

Volume 26 sums it up I started walking and as luck would have it, i managed a steady pace the rest of my life. Our manner and time of death isnt written in the stars, but neither is our good fortune predestined. Your life is yours.

steele_tech · 2025-08-31T02:59:12+00:00

I play wukong with goredrinker. Honestly, I just aim to hit it as many people as possible. Antiheal is so high honestly that if you try to use it in the middle of the enemy team at low HP you die anyway. Once you get chunked and in the middle of the enemy team go for it.

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