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eieio
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States14512 Posts
October 03 2023 23:55 GMT
#211761
- korea is fun, the food rules, i am proud that I didn't get my ass kicked by jetlag
- going to a broodwar match tonight :o
- taking a train to busan tomorrow I'm sure it'll be normal and not movie worthy
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PhoenixVoid
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Canada32746 Posts
October 04 2023 18:58 GMT
#211762
On October 04 2023 08:55 eieio wrote:
- korea is fun, the food rules, i am proud that I didn't get my ass kicked by jetlag
- going to a broodwar match tonight :o
- taking a train to busan tomorrow I'm sure it'll be normal and not movie worthy

I'm pretty sure I just saw you on the ASL VoD lol.
I'm afraid of demented knife-wielding escaped lunatic libertarian zombie mutants
teddyoojo
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Germany22369 Posts
October 04 2023 23:27 GMT
#211763
On October 05 2023 03:58 PhoenixVoid wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 04 2023 08:55 eieio wrote:
- korea is fun, the food rules, i am proud that I didn't get my ass kicked by jetlag
- going to a broodwar match tonight :o
- taking a train to busan tomorrow I'm sure it'll be normal and not movie worthy

I'm pretty sure I just saw you on the ASL VoD lol.

bro u watch everything damn
Esports historian since 2000. Creator of 'The Universe' and 'The best scrambled Eggs 2013'. Host of 'Star Wars Marathon 2015'. Thinker of 'teddyoojo's Thoughts'. Earths and Moons leading CS:GO expert. Lord of the Rings.
eieio
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States14512 Posts
October 05 2023 04:11 GMT
#211764
On October 05 2023 03:58 PhoenixVoid wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 04 2023 08:55 eieio wrote:
- korea is fun, the food rules, i am proud that I didn't get my ass kicked by jetlag
- going to a broodwar match tonight :o
- taking a train to busan tomorrow I'm sure it'll be normal and not movie worthy

I'm pretty sure I just saw you on the ASL VoD lol.

ya i had a little sign saying hi to teamliquid and mentioning where i was from:
+ Show Spoiler [it me] +
[image loading]

really fun! dragged my girlfriend along and i think the hype of korean commentators that she mostly did not understand made it way more fun than less exciting English commentators would have.

A+ experience would definitely go again (sadly I'll be gone for the RO4 tonight and in Taiwan for the finals).
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Erasme
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Bahamas15899 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-10-07 18:43:26
October 07 2023 18:42 GMT
#211765
On October 04 2023 08:55 eieio wrote:
- korea is fun, the food rules, i am proud that I didn't get my ass kicked by jetlag
- going to a broodwar match tonight :o
- taking a train to busan tomorrow I'm sure it'll be normal and not movie worthy

good luck
remember to find that one chad korean soon to be dad and sit next to him
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7lxwFEB6FI “‘Drain the swamp’? Stupid saying, means nothing, but you guys loved it so I kept saying it.”
emperorchampion
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada9496 Posts
October 08 2023 04:59 GMT
#211766
Wheel of time went a bit off the rails this season
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TheEmulator
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
28096 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-10-08 23:14:42
October 08 2023 23:02 GMT
#211767
On October 08 2023 13:59 emperorchampion wrote:
Wheel of time went a bit off the rails this season

This season was better than the first one by quite a bit until EP 8 imo. Unfortunately this finale was almost as bad as the one we got in season one, which is a difficult feat to pull off.

The Moghedien reveal at the end went hard though. The forsaken were portrayed quite well this season for the most part. The showrunner just needs to stop doing Rand and Lan dirty.
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Firebolt145
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Lalalaland34501 Posts
October 09 2023 11:40 GMT
#211768
I've just noticed how pathetic the TI prize pool is. Really takes away from the lustre of the whole thing.
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cLutZ
Profile Joined November 2010
United States19574 Posts
October 10 2023 04:48 GMT
#211769
On October 09 2023 08:02 TheEmulator wrote:
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On October 08 2023 13:59 emperorchampion wrote:
Wheel of time went a bit off the rails this season

This season was better than the first one by quite a bit until EP 8 imo. Unfortunately this finale was almost as bad as the one we got in season one, which is a difficult feat to pull off.

The Moghedien reveal at the end went hard though. The forsaken were portrayed quite well this season for the most part. The showrunner just needs to stop doing Rand and Lan dirty.



As someone who didn't read the books, the whole show has been confusing and horrible from the start.

And people that have read the books that I know say it doesn't really represent them well.

I don't see how it could have turned out worse. It is harder to follow than an anime with subs turned off half the time, and the other half it is just cringe.
Freeeeeeedom
eieio
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States14512 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-10-10 08:23:27
October 10 2023 08:21 GMT
#211770
On October 09 2023 20:40 Firebolt145 wrote:
I've just noticed how pathetic the TI prize pool is. Really takes away from the lustre of the whole thing.

oh whoa why is it so low this year? haven't been keeping up but that is stunning (and such a huge drop from last year!)

also i implemented flappy bird inside of macos finder (mac's file explorer) over the last few weeks:
+ Show Spoiler [flappy dird gameplay] +

[image loading]
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PoulsenB
Profile Joined June 2011
Poland7729 Posts
October 10 2023 09:29 GMT
#211771
On October 10 2023 17:21 eieio wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 09 2023 20:40 Firebolt145 wrote:
I've just noticed how pathetic the TI prize pool is. Really takes away from the lustre of the whole thing.

oh whoa why is it so low this year? haven't been keeping up but that is stunning (and such a huge drop from last year!)

also i implemented flappy bird inside of macos finder (mac's file explorer) over the last few weeks:
+ Show Spoiler [flappy dird gameplay] +

[image loading]

There's no battlepass with expensive hats, only a compendium. Valve said earlier this year that they are moving away from the battlepass so that they can make more updates and game improvements along the year (as previously the battlepass was eating most of the development time in a year).
IdrA fan forever <3 || the clueless one || Marci must be protected at all costs
Erasme
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Bahamas15899 Posts
October 10 2023 11:39 GMT
#211772
man if only there was a solution to allow a smol indy compagny to do both
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7lxwFEB6FI “‘Drain the swamp’? Stupid saying, means nothing, but you guys loved it so I kept saying it.”
rabidch
Profile Joined January 2010
United States20289 Posts
October 11 2023 08:40 GMT
#211773
the expensive hats will come after TI. valve are just deliberately not funding it
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PoulsenB
Profile Joined June 2011
Poland7729 Posts
October 11 2023 10:47 GMT
#211774
Technically they are funding it the same amount as always, but this time there's no battlepass for the community to inflate the prize pool.
IdrA fan forever <3 || the clueless one || Marci must be protected at all costs
lestye
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States4186 Posts
October 12 2023 09:42 GMT
#211775
I have complicated feelings about it. In retrospect the stupid high prize pools wasn’t great for the scene.

I remember I think in 2015 watching the CS:GO Major in Cologne, it was INCREDIBLY exciting and hype in spite of only having a 250k prize pool. Especially because I believe Halo that same year had like a 3 million prize pool.

I’ve also loathed how there was so much on air time for TI to talk about the prize pool and breaking certain thresholds.

At the same time, I hate the economic whiplash the scene is going to go through with all the money leaving the scene in just a year.I think I’m mostly disappointed because looking at the previous TI prize pools, I wish way more of that money went to the players who needed it, or atleast putting on LAN events in underserviced areas around the world. That’d make the subsidy actually do something instead of millions going to just a handful of people.
"You guys are just edgelords. Embrace your inner weeb desu" -Zergneedsfood
emperorchampion
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada9496 Posts
October 12 2023 14:40 GMT
#211776
The optimistic outlook is that valve is now more focused on boosting the active user count vs the TI prize pool.
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Firebolt145
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Lalalaland34501 Posts
October 12 2023 21:10 GMT
#211777
I understand no longer breaking records, but going from 40m to <3m is really quite sad.
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TheEmulator
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
28096 Posts
October 12 2023 21:54 GMT
#211778
Honestly I didn't even realize TI was starting until the other day. My interest in it has been so low this year, and I think it's due to the lack of a battle pass / compendium. The BP usually convinces me to play the game for a couple of months every year, which in turn gets me excited for TI.
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cLutZ
Profile Joined November 2010
United States19574 Posts
October 13 2023 03:02 GMT
#211779
What's the expectation on the meta? I always find myself hating when shadow fiend and leshrac are popular.
Freeeeeeedom
PoulsenB
Profile Joined June 2011
Poland7729 Posts
October 13 2023 08:56 GMT
#211780
SF and lesh haven't been meta for a while now, but it's TI, they might start cropping up again, who knows.
IdrA fan forever <3 || the clueless one || Marci must be protected at all costs
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