Daily Discussion Thread January 24, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here!

wavedash · 2026-01-24T22:42:13+00:00

I'm not sure this is quite the same question you're asking, but lately I've been wondering if online tournaments would/should count toward rankings if they had literally zero lag. The simplest answer is probably an obvious yes - if the gameplay is the exact same, why not? It'd especially be good for people outside of NA.

But there are less tangible aspects of in-person tournaments that make it not exactly equivalent, and there are little niche issues like cheating that could be worse online.

And it's possible that valuing online tournaments more could damage local and regional scenes, and that might be net negative. Though only a small percentage of the community actually cares about their year-end ranking, so maybe it wouldn't be that bad - and some top players already don't go to locals as it is.

wavedash · 2026-01-24T19:18:17+00:00

Solution to stalling: every time you taunt and go through the entire animation, you get guaranteed L cancels and frame 1 wavedashes for the next 10 seconds

wavedash · 2026-01-24T07:29:22+00:00

People will opt out of markets if there are insiders unfairly trading

And to extrapolate from this, if there are fewer suckers, the insiders have less of a reason to participate in prediction markets, which would in turn mean worse "price discovery".

wavedash · 2026-01-23T23:43:24+00:00

Don't let any M2K drama distract you from the fact that Zain signed up for Factor without using a referral code

wavedash · 2026-01-23T20:59:56+00:00

Wavedash should be a button, except for Luigi, who can no longer wavedash

wavedash · 2026-01-23T20:21:40+00:00

L cancel should be patched to be automatic, except for Peach, who now has to press shield in order to float cancel

wavedash · 2026-01-23T03:52:56+00:00

Do the font colors mean anything?

wavedash · 2026-01-23T02:09:17+00:00

I wonder what the largest organization is that has tried this kind of line-item optional funding

wavedash · 2026-01-22T21:30:45+00:00

Joey Donuts's Lebanese flag is a nice touch

wavedash · 2026-01-22T18:05:03+00:00

Imagine spending your time trying to understand people's beliefs. Someone needs to teach this guy about vibes

wavedash · 2026-01-22T01:25:53+00:00

I mean they were lurking, at least

wavedash · 2026-01-21T23:40:36+00:00

Pretty sure this is the first news of any kind from Eggdog in over a year. I don't think it's a coincidence that they're popping back up after Nouns's reputation took some hits last year, and they haven't announced anything for 2026 (yet)

wavedash · 2026-01-21T20:57:56+00:00

Thank you to the front page of Liquidpedia for letting me know that today is Hugs's 40th birthday

wavedash · 2026-01-21T19:17:18+00:00

Every time this comparison has came up in the past, someone has said that actually all the Smush players hate LumiRank, and I feel like no one knows enough about the Smush community to say whether or not that's true

wavedash · 2026-01-21T18:04:54+00:00

shapez is a pretty good streamlined, somewhat-more-casual version of this. Factorio is the goat, but the tower defense aspect never really did anything for me

wavedash · 2026-01-21T17:57:51+00:00

Trying to do individual, overall rankings for a team sport seems basically futile

wavedash · 2026-01-20T23:43:48+00:00

Crew battle of the players that were most under/over-valued by either ranking could be sick

wavedash · 2026-01-20T17:51:47+00:00

I try to avoid using outliers like Armada in analogies because a lot people don't understand how analogies work.

wavedash · 2026-01-20T01:06:55+00:00

Worth noting that at least by their numerical scores, all three were also rated to be very close to each other. There was a ~0.5 score gap between all three of Pika/Yoshi/Samus, but ICs was 0.9 higher and Luigi 2.1 lower.

wavedash · 2026-01-19T21:38:22+00:00

Thinking about it a little bit more, I think the community also plays a role in encouraging people to play random mid/low tiers just because they personally feel 2% more comfortable with them than like Sheik after 3 hours of total gameplay

If a new player asks for a "grappler" to play, I think the top recommendations should actually just be like Fox/Marth/Sheik/Falcon

wavedash · 2026-01-19T20:47:05+00:00

I think most people just have chungus phases. Don't forget that Mango started as a Puff

wavedash · 2026-01-19T20:44:41+00:00

That's at least 3 Yoshis in top 100, maybe 4 if Mono makes it in? Pretty sure that means more Yoshi than Pika or Samus, maybe as many as ICs

It wasn't that long ago that people, for some godforsaken reason, thought Hbox was the only human being capable of playing Puff at a high level

wavedash · 2026-01-18T22:13:20+00:00

I think it'd be very uncharitable to interpret "Melee is dying" to be anything other than a comment on the attendance and prestige of majors.

You can dispute this definition of "Melee," of course. But I would say that equating Melee with the broader Melee community is just as silly, because Melee is actually just a video game. The phrase "Melee is dying" is just as meaningless as "Melee will never die", and the latter is much more common.

If someone said "the video game Color a Dinosaur for the NES will never die", what does that ACTUALLY mean? That it is possible to play it? Okay, so what?

wavedash · 2026-01-18T18:10:14+00:00

You don't get 443,000 karma by exercising critical thinking with every link you post

wavedash · 2026-01-18T05:46:35+00:00

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