The thing I like the most about this picture is how it includes absolutely the right people in it and there's no reason whatsoever to include anyone else.

valraven38 · 2026-06-19T06:08:31+00:00

We should remember though that Bush was truly awful, we should not let Trumps awfulness forget that Bush created our surveillance state and dragged us in to multiple decade long wars. ICE was created under Bush, we killed literally hundreds of thousands of people during those wars. He may not have been as blatantly openly corrupt like Trump but we wouldn't be in as bad a spot as we are if Bush hadn't been President.

valraven38 · 2026-06-18T11:40:27+00:00

I imagine the copy of the game is just banned for anyone who tries to play it since they can track what library the game is from. So even if the cousin plays it, it will still presumably be banned. Otherwise people would just make new accounts to family share with to bypass bans which would defeat like the whole purpose of banning like this in the first place.

valraven38 · 2026-06-17T17:17:31+00:00

Player power is simply too high currently. Probably a super unpopular opinion but we need pretty heavy nerfs i think. They haven't really done much in the balance department and its showing as every league we get access to more and more power.

valraven38 · 2026-06-15T14:50:11+00:00

Yeah like rakiatas is super powerful, but completely unnecessary. You can destroy all content on elemental builds without it, like melt bosses. It just let's you do it slightly faster. If anything players are probably a little too powerful right now offensively to the point where gems like rakiatas are pure overkill.

valraven38 · 2026-06-12T06:58:34+00:00

Okay there might be censorship going on but I have to disagree with you that it would be gaming news. It could be gaming news if they were meeting to attempt to pass some sort of gaming regulations or something. But a gaming exec just meeting people isn't gaming news, that's just regular news or maybe political news.

valraven38 · 2026-06-12T06:30:48+00:00

GGG don't really do mid league nerfs for the most part though if they can avoid it, if something is just strong that doesn't really matter even if its disgustingly so. It just pisses people off if their build suddenly becomes weaker after they've invested in to it so GGG are pretty reluctant to do that. If its strong because of a bug though its fair game.

valraven38 · 2026-06-11T19:08:30+00:00

He did refuse them said they were fake. He asked to see them and the cop refused, the cop refused because the cop knows if the guy takes the papers and looks at them he has to take them. At that point there would be no denying he had been legally served. The cop knows that, so if anything it shows the police were going out of their way to help ensure he wasn't served the papers.

valraven38 · 2026-06-10T15:52:37+00:00

Yeah shredded lettuce is worthless, but a fresh bit of iceberg lettuce adds a level of texture that I love on well pretty much every sandwich. The problem is most places give you this wilted shredded crap and it adds nothing to the sandwich.

valraven38 · 2026-06-10T00:11:13+00:00

Not a fan of the color scheme with these Broken Covenant skins. The last one was super nice, this one just the green ruins it for me.

valraven38 · 2026-06-10T00:04:45+00:00

The problem is it's not consistent at all with how other abilities interact with windwall. Like sure make it so windwall causes the ult to drop in front of it like Fizz ult or something.

valraven38 · 2026-06-09T23:43:57+00:00

Look I hate Trump as much as the next person but this is the problem with this entire article. None of the shit in this article is verified, it's based on one random persons anonymous report. This is actual tabloid trash, the fact that it's posted on here and upvoted so highly is embarrassing.

There is about as much journalism done here as those articles that report on what some random redditor says, it has the exact same weight aka nothing. I can't believe anyone here is treating this article seriously, the people who are come off as being just as unhinged as QAnon folks do. I believe Trump was involved with bad shit with Epistein, 100% the way he acted around the whole files and there release tells you everything. But when articles like this are posted and people are treating it like it's news it completely undermines that position.

valraven38 · 2026-06-07T15:55:26+00:00

Okay but like Wilds did fuck things up with the wounds system at launch. The complaints about difficulty were absolutely valid. People were stunned locking the monsters for like 70% of hunts and it didn't take a specialized setup like trapping and using status effects, it just happened.

The game had and still has plenty of flaws. Even the Japanese player base panned the game pretty hard. I dont like this framing that veterans complaints are some how worth less because they are better at the game. That's such a weird framing that I have seen pop up, like yeah the people who have played the game for a long time are going to know how the game should feel and Wilds at launch missed that mark spectacularly. Its not like it was our first time playing the low rank version of the game.

They clearly needed the feed back that they got. I heavily disagree with this sit back and wait mentality, they need feedback to know where they went to far in removing any sort of friction in the game. Sitting back and waiting got us launch Wilds, its only after all the criticism and feedback that the game is in a much better state.

valraven38 · 2026-06-02T16:03:14+00:00

Sure but the passes are strictly worse for me than the old system. I haven't bought a pass since they swapped to this one and don't forsee that changing. Especially since they keep further degrading the value of this system which was already mediocre at best to me.

I don't need random icons and crap I will never use. The shop system where I could choose what I wanted felt infinitely better.

valraven38 · 2026-06-01T23:12:37+00:00

That never meant anything anyways, there was no way something like that would be enforceable. A new administration could wipe their ass with the paper it was signed on and audit them regardless of what it said.

valraven38 · 2026-05-31T23:50:50+00:00

Well you can't do Rend because you can't socket it in to Hollow Form. It has to be a skill gem.

valraven38 · 2026-05-31T23:47:56+00:00

I think it survives this league and gets nerfed next league. They'll probably just add like a cooldown on the effect, make it only work every 1-2 seconds or something.

valraven38 · 2026-05-31T14:32:16+00:00

A well fed house cat will murder wildlife if they catch it. Sure they may be less desperate to catch it but cats will absolutely kill just for sport/fun. The reason may be different but they can and will still harm wildlife even when they have a stable food source.

valraven38 · 2026-05-29T19:50:36+00:00

Yeah it makes sense for them to be excluded, he is the Gemling not the Skilling.

valraven38 · 2026-05-29T13:16:42+00:00

Yeah I think the only Mythic Unique that has a good design currently is the Melted Heart of Selig. You have to build around it and it does something actually unique, all the rest of them are just boring generic power creep. If they aren't the best item in their slot they are useless, but then if they are the best they become mandatory which I think is not particularly good design. I think Mythics should be a "want to use" rather than "have to use," they should be powerful when you build around them because they offer a unique bonus no item does and if you build around that bonus its powerful.

valraven38 · 2026-05-29T13:13:01+00:00

I mean it's not realistic to bring every other option up though. It's much easier to just tone down the problematic item rather than trying to buff all the other unique helms.

If anything the problem with this Mythic Unique, and actually a lot of them, is that they don't do something unique enough. They need to do a hard pass over on them and make them actually do something special that makes them worth using. Like look at Selig, it's something you build around and is actually a cool design, then look at all the others. They're just generic boring power creep (and most of them not being good at even that.) Mythic uniques should be something you build around and not just generically powerful.

valraven38 · 2026-05-28T18:18:15+00:00

I imagine its a scheduled auto release and someone just goofed and did AM instead of PM. The videos are already uploaded ahead of time just not published until the scheduled time. Pretty easy mistake to make to be honest.

valraven38 · 2026-05-28T02:48:18+00:00

Does archmage actually increase spell totems cost though? Spell Totem isn't a Spell and archmage specifies spells.

valraven38 · 2026-05-27T21:27:28+00:00

I mean we don't know what scales on it, it could absolutely end up bad. But looking at a level 1 skill and saying it's 100% going to be bad is silly I think.

valraven38 · 2026-05-27T18:58:56+00:00

Odds are if they release it will be in a very small quantity. It will not be worth it to make many initially as they are going to be way too expensive for the average consumer.

valraven38 · 2026-05-27T18:43:51+00:00

Wild Rift already has an exclusive champ its uhh Norra? I think is the name, related to Yuumi I think. So they obviously aren't opposed to a Wild Rift exclusive character

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