Tooker
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Last post: October 21, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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OP was 100% baiting, but I think this argument is slightly different and more convincing than the ones you mentioned.

Look at when players like Zekken or older player from CS like Tarik will say they got into FPS, most will say it was playing something like their older brother/father/uncle introducing them to MW2 or CS 1.6 etc..

Go into any GC player, probably not the NB, and ask when they got into FPS and the vast majority will probably say either Valorant, or a little CSGO.

Men have been playing FPS games for nearly a decade longer than most women, and as a result have built up habits, skills, and develop neural pathways in their brain to a level much higher than the average woman.

If you want a good example outside of gaming, find someone who started learning a foreign language for roughly 7 years, compare that to a 7 year old native speaker of that language. Odds are the 7 year old will have a better grasp on the language even though they've learned it for the same amount of time.

posted 1 week ago

RRQ Leo

posted 1 week ago

If Leo doesn't come back, they're probably cooked. My guess is that if the team doesn't win anything this year, players like Alfajer and Leo will start looking elsewhere, whether it be an import or another EMEA team.

posted 1 week ago

I wanted to mention that the languages are very similar. You wouldn't be able to understand Korean or Japanese just on its own, but they have similar grammar, and a lot of the words in both languages come from Chinese characters, so the sounds will be similar. If you can learn Japanese, Chinese, or Korean, it makes it a lot easier to learn the others.

posted 1 week ago

In terms of util, sugar zero still has some of the best smokes in the game. You don’t see people use smokes the way he does. His astra is one of if not the best in the game.

https://youtu.be/YviyMp6yY_o?si=grBK1sUF8SimA1if

posted 1 week ago

RRQ look terrible right now. Their util is so bad and de-synced with the rest of the team.

posted 2 weeks ago

They look better, but RRQ also looks really bad right now. Need to see which is the more important thing right now.

posted 2 weeks ago

Da fuck is he doing there?

posted 2 weeks ago

Flyquest should replace EG or cloud9, but Moose wasn't that bad.

posted 2 weeks ago

That’s fair. Jelly seems like a nice person from all that I’ve seen. Just feels unfortunate that sometimes bad faith actors will use them as a shield to avoid any criticism.

posted 2 weeks ago

Don’t you think there’s a reasonable interpretation here that she’s stating that NB, who don’t identify as women, shouldn’t be in GC. I get the GC rules say that they’re allowed, but it’s just a rule. Doesn’t make it a moral law that can’t be changed.

posted 2 weeks ago

I feel like the statement could be only about sRN. I can’t speak for Bizerra’s intentions, but I would believe Jelly to be included in Meninas.

While sRN would be Menino. Seeing as they don’t even identify as a woman.

posted 2 weeks ago

It gives me whole KeenC situation vibes. Person joins GC as an NB and is a closet misogynist. Seems hard to believe they're acting in good faith about their gender identity. Especially given the context of #35

He called a woman "whore" on a ranked game (and she was a streamer so it was recorded)
there wasn't anything else but if they are still mad at him he probably didn't change much

posted 2 weeks ago

The rules of GC are not relevant. If you're a woman and want a safe space to be able to compete without having to deal with the misogyny that is prevalent in gaming communities, are we really going to say GC shouldn't be that?

Again, I'm not saying that it's empirically right or anything, but I think it's hard to imagine being a woman and competing in a circuit to experience misogyny by someone who doesn't even identify as a woman. Not saying it's right or wrong, just hard to say it's either as a guy.

posted 2 weeks ago

Fair enough.

I will say, that if it's true, I do think it could change the situation a little. Entering a space that is in essence the "women's circuit," as non-binary, and then being misogynistic. I feel like that would create some pretty justifiable animus where, as a guy, It'd feel really hard to tell the person that they're unjustified feeling that way.

Again, don't know the full story, so talking out of my ass here.

posted 2 weeks ago

I'm out of the loop, but in the BR thread people were saying sRN was misogynistic. You know anything about that?

posted 2 weeks ago

I've been following most of the GC regions, but I haven't looked at the format for the champs.

What was Riot thinking here?

3 slots for EMEA, 2 for NA, and only 1 for BR?

No offense to the EMEA teams, but outside of G2 gozen, the teams have only ever beaten KRU and Fennel, the teams have yet to win against any major GC region. Not to say they should go down to 1 from 2, but I don't see the point in giving an extra slot to EMEA when BR only gets 1. Like, of all the regions I'd think Riot would give a 3rd slot to, it wasn't EMEA.

How is 2 NA, 2 EMEA, 2 BR, 2 Pacific, 1 China, 1 Latam not just objectively better?

Feels bad for TL :(

posted 2 weeks ago

I heard this was for Assault, not the financial stuff.

posted 2 weeks ago

He shared nudes of his girlfriend who was underage at the time. I believe he was as well, but I could be wrong.

https://x.com/aEvilcat/status/1465080531247378440

EDIT: link to “taking accountability post” that he deleted. https://x.com/aevilcat/status/1465083711536472073?s=46

posted 3 weeks ago

That “he’s from EU” line is hilarious.

Just…what? On so many different levels.

posted 3 weeks ago

Go to bed now. By the time the inevitable tech pauses finish you’ll probably miss one map at most.

posted 1 month ago

They’ve looked leagues better than most teams this tournament. Should be a clean match with the two map bans.

posted 1 month ago

Junior*

When ZETA made the switch to Junior from xqq, the team looked a lot better (around 2023 LCQ). Then they go to Carlao and look worse.

posted 1 month ago

Hello Riot, I’d like to make a report. JFT have made a last minute substitution by having yay play under the name Andy.

posted 1 month ago

This might be the biggest neon diff I’ve seen just in terms of the two of them in 1v1s

posted 1 month ago

You're acting like people are frothing at the mouth rabidly upset about this guy. 99.9999% of people just saw him as an annoying kid posting shit for attention.

99.9999% of criticism of anyone can be deflected by saying it doesn't impact your life. Doesn't make it any less valid criticism.

posted 1 month ago

Personally, death threats are never okay, and neither is doxxing.

However, you see this pendulum effect with every controversial figure. People dislike them, call for them to retire, some idiots take the criticism too far, so people feel like they need to counter-swing back. That's why you see so many people asking now, "Why did we dislike rocketbullets?" "#freerocketbullets", etc.

Rocketbullets should've stopped posting the spreadsheets, but it shouldn't have had to be because he was getting death threats.

posted 1 month ago

Copying a popular gimmick of last offseason but had zero ethics and responsibility with vetting his sources.

posted 1 month ago

Did he break the news on those trials, or were those commonly accepted things mentioned by others in the community that he just included in his spreadsheet?

posted 1 month ago

They'll have lots of funds, but it all runs back to a spreadsheet for whoever owns Barca. These companies/teams don't invest in eSports because they're passionate about it, they invest because they see it as a money-making opportunity. If the eSports division is constantly running at a negative, they'll just stop working in this market. Barca as a company as a whole is still making profit (most likely) but the eSports division's balance is likely negative.

posted 1 month ago

I can't given an answer other than the experience I've had being in gaming communities for a couple of decades. I've seen plenty of kids try to make up excuses when they leave a community because they think being seen as a victim will make people miss them. I'm being super cynical here, but you can already see how many threads there have been like "free rocketbullets" when the reality is that the val community spent the last couple of months shitting on him.

But who knows? Maybe I'm just too cynical.

posted 1 month ago

Am I a bad person for being skeptical? I find it hard to believe that he, without posting any other personal info (granted I don't read his tweets except for when they show up in my feed), was able to get actual pictures of his house in DMs. I doubt one would be able to find much other than an email and an IP address, which wouldn't give you a street address. Anything further than that would require some serious effort, which I doubt anyone who disliked his spreadsheets would go through.

posted 1 month ago

They play different agents?

Koala plays Jett,Yoru, etc. Asuna plays, Raze, Gekko, etc. Koalanoob would be a replacement for Cryo if anything, not Asuna.

posted 1 month ago

If a free agent team qualifies, they require an org to buy the team before they enter partnership. I believe I read from some val journalist back during the guard situation that Riot can actually refuse to enter a partnership with an org they don't trust, and require another team to buy the roster out for them to enter the partnership. I don't know if it would happen in this situation, probably only if some gambling website tried to make a team.

posted 1 month ago

Talking about the org, not the players (I like the players).

From what I can tell, they're a Kinguin/G2A competitor. I'm honestly conflicted. From what I can see so far, I worry about if they're going to be another C9/Mibr, I.e, spending the bare minimum and just taking up space at the bottom of the league. Just from what I've seen so far it seems reasonable to think they're just using the team as advertising for their company, which is fine I guess? The t-shirts instead of jerseys, logo looks like it was made by AI. I'm also not Brazilian, so I might be lacking a perspective.

But at the end of the day, the players earned their spot. Just worried it might have been better under a different org. Time will tell.

posted 1 month ago

My understanding is if they don't know they'll put an international flag next to you, and then you can ask for it to be something different.

posted 1 month ago

Regardless of which team won, the best pred you could give either of them would be making playoffs as the last seed, and maybe missing champs by one game.

Neither team looks outstanding.

posted 1 month ago

I actually think <18 should be allowed on ascension teams. Given that they'll be 18 within the time the team is in T1.

posted 1 month ago

IMO, teams shouldn't be able to field a team in any region that wouldn't be able to play in the VCT. It takes away spots from upcoming T2 players in these regions.

There's a limit, for example, Sengoku who had something and vici, two players who may have been imports, but only played in VCJ. Compare that to Chinese teams importing EMEA players so that they can try to get the VCT spot just to drop the player(s).

posted 1 month ago

I think in any of the smaller sub-regions they have limitations on imports. I believe The Mongolz were supposed to play in VCJ, but the league has a rule on the amount of non-japanese players.

posted 1 month ago

I lost 5 years off my life when I saw him hold the spike while he was being brim ulted.

He had soo much time, but just decided to die to get it half to leave Sultan in a 1v2.

It is a travesty that this guy is taking a spot on a roster where any new Indian talent would probably be better.

posted 1 month ago

I think he's proven at this point he can't play at a high level. Just need him to either actually learn a different role or just pick up new talent

posted 1 month ago

Yeah, nah. This man can't use a rifle. Bro thought his issue was he only played Jett. Switched to other agents and kept all his bad habits. Man is trying to play Jett on Gekko

posted 1 month ago

Tbh, I don't even think Skillz is the problem. He certainly isn't helping, but having an initiator that can only op and wastes gekko ults is probably more impactful

Hard to call strats when you have a player that would rather dry peak with an awp then use his init util.

posted 1 month ago

Ahh, I see. SPG was going for the go 0-7 down and then remember how to play. An ascension classic

posted 1 month ago

Did we just pick random agents?

Looks like they haven't practiced it at all. Neon especially looks lost, like he thinks if he just slides he'll kill them. People just going for random hero plays.

RVNT look good, still some issues I'm seeing. Notably Skrossi can be a good source of early picks. But looks like they have a solid plan of how they want to play rounds.

posted 1 month ago

I think it's also a way for orgs to essentially "snipe" a spot in a minor region by just using imports to secure a spot which they'll have to drop.

posted 1 month ago

Don't know if this has been stated, but I'm pretty sure regardless of what team wins at this point, they'd have to drop a player (unless someone has Chinese citizenship as well). Feel like this is a pretty good indication that the system needs to be more strict on eligibility for ascension teams.

posted 1 month ago

Can't have both Sadhaak and N4rrate tho.

posted 1 month ago

Mibr getting in instead of Keyd Stars was sad.

posted 1 month ago
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