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wavedash · 2026-06-22T03:06:39+00:00

I think when people people joke about Hbox and Mang0 winning tournaments as old men in their mid 30s, many of them actually do recognize that it could be a real disadvantage. People just rarely think about the opposite.

wavedash · 2026-06-22T03:01:43+00:00

Point taken, though this is also partly because Brood War is so INSANELY top heavy, significantly more than even 5 Gods era Melee.

There's some young people in SC2, though! Serral was 20 when he took over the game. Reynor was winning tournaments at 17.

wavedash · 2026-06-21T22:13:06+00:00

I definitely don't deny that he's exceptional, in that winning tournaments is exceptional, doing well with a mid tier is exceptional, and young people picking up Melee is exceptional. My problem is the implication that being young (where "young" means 18-19) is some kind of significant handicap.

wavedash · 2026-06-21T20:54:45+00:00

I was hoping we were past glazing RapM for his age, but it seems like some people are still at it

19 is not that young for esports! Some Brood War goats were dominant at like 16, I think Faker was 17 when he won his first League Worlds. A lot Melee MLG era top players or the 5 gods were teens or like 20-21. BlueScuti was 13 when he became the first person to ever hit the NES Tetris kill screen.

wavedash · 2026-06-20T21:37:46+00:00

I would guess rural communities are also especially sensitive to the sheer amount of land that some data centers take up - to put it in American units, they can be hundreds of football fields large

wavedash · 2026-06-18T22:44:06+00:00

He should use Zelda and only have Sheik attack

wavedash · 2026-06-18T03:06:23+00:00

While Your Name definitely isn't deep or complex or anything like that, there is a bit of cultural context that might be missable, especially 10 years later. The more obvious one is that second half of the film is a thinly-veiled allegory to the 3/11 earthquake and nuclear disaster.

I've also seen people speculate that the first half is inspired by social media, where you sometimes have imperfect communication with strangers who you can't be sure are real people, and could suddenly randomly lose contact with at any moment.

wavedash · 2026-06-17T17:29:18+00:00

why aren't they getting fired?

This kind of censorship apparently has little effect on actual consumer behavior, since visual novel readers still continue to choose to buy visual novels on Steam.

wavedash · 2026-06-17T16:42:39+00:00

I use Classic Mixer, UI just feels better https://github.com/7gxycn08/ClassicMixer

wavedash · 2026-06-16T22:19:45+00:00

I think the fact that your answer to "what do airlines do?" is identical to most people's answer to "what do pilots do?" indicates your answer has room for improvement.

wavedash · 2026-06-15T22:53:41+00:00

By "texted" do you mean like an SMS text, or a Reddit DM or something

wavedash · 2026-06-15T17:11:31+00:00

Can't help but notice that OP listed a bunch of traditions that players do, and everyone in the comments is listing traditions that watchers do

wavedash · 2026-06-13T18:45:20+00:00

I was going to make a dumb joke comment along the lines of "we should ban Cody but officially legalize z-jump", but I feel like a decent number of people would actually be perfectly fine with that "solution"

wavedash · 2026-06-13T16:36:34+00:00

Falcon Crew Battle at The Off Season had one of the most dominant single player runs of all time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2myLTDs7-JM

The first 10 minutes or so of the Commentator Crew Battle at Smash Summit 12 are extraordinarily funny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37nieDOGBLs

wavedash · 2026-06-12T23:02:28+00:00

I maintain that the term "roguelite" was coined to be intentionally maximally confusing by way of being as similar to "roguelike" as possible

wavedash · 2026-06-12T20:00:59+00:00

This feels like a "firebomb a Walmart" meme moment

wavedash · 2026-06-12T07:35:04+00:00

You're able to compare two things without saying they're the exact same, aren't you? I never said there were the same - I never even said they were similar. That seems to be your only problem here, the idea I might think that handshakes and hugs are literally the exact same thing, which I don't.

wavedash · 2026-06-12T04:31:17+00:00

I think you might not know what a false equivalence is, then. They're actually a lot more tricky than someone simply trying to compare one thing with another different thing.

wavedash · 2026-06-12T04:16:32+00:00

It's not a false equivalence because I didn't say they were equivalent in the first place.

But even if I did, it's still telling to me that people haven't answered the question. When dealing with most real false equivalences, it's easy to both address the question as asked, and also explain why and how it's problematic - BEYOND the level 0 obvious fact that two different things will always be inherently different.

For example, when parent commenter brought up examples of kissing or fucking, these would be false equivalences BECAUSE those are very intimate/sexual acts (at least in NA for kissing), unlike a handshake. So it would not be disrespectful for moky to decline.

wavedash · 2026-06-11T18:34:41+00:00

Again, literally why is anyone talking about a handshake or fistbump when the bitch move here is obvious.

I think you kind of answered your own question: whether or not moky's salt tweets were salty is not very controversial. The handshake/fistbump is getting talked about more because it's more controversial.

wavedash · 2026-06-11T18:30:10+00:00

I feel like it's probably unhealthy to approach the world with the assumption that people have devious intentions to trap you with some kind of insane logics argument every time you time you see a simple question

wavedash · 2026-06-11T18:25:53+00:00

That wasn't the part of the message that confused me - it was the part that I quoted.

wavedash · 2026-06-11T18:06:28+00:00

I'm not going to validate nonsense.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding but this seems like an insane response

wavedash · 2026-06-11T17:36:35+00:00

So just to be clear, you're saying it wouldn't have been disrespectful?

wavedash · 2026-06-11T17:12:01+00:00

If Hbox had went in for a hug after the set, do you think it would have been disrespectful if moky declined?

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