I haven’t played a game since early august it’s honestly been very nice touching grass

This has become such a common occurrence that the owner of the restaurant has started sitting down with me and my dad and we talk about how annoying these people are lmao

If you go to a mexican restaurant and request that they turn on Fox news at the bar then I genuinely wish nothing but the worst for you

Unfortunately, my dog Fifa passed away this past Sunday night. He would’ve turned 17 on the 25th, so he lived a long and good life, but it still hurts that he’s gone

Random thought but I hate when people vod review when they lost badly and chalk everything up to being “mech diffed” and act like there’s nothing to learn from it

Now that the weather hasn’t been completely miserable lately I’ve been touching a lot of grass it’s been very nice

remember to blink

The maps I’m referring to are like mahi, crableg, hammerhead, wahoo, mincemeat, brinewater, lemuria, haggle, bluefin, and maybe a few others. A lot of maps feel bad for AOE weaps like sblast and bucket to move through and rapid’s longer range and extra sustain with cooler feels so nice

I think I didn’t like double cooler with rapid because it felt like you still had to anchor too much so you couldn’t abuse how oppressive the weap is when it has cooler, but playing it as a midline with pen/edit on certain maps feels insanely strong. I’d probably run mint+dualie as the other two

Also same for edit. I’d like for it to get its paint back but that gun is also criminally ink efficient so I’d rather it paint again but have worse ink efficiency

I don’t wanna nerf mini’s paint because paint keeps getting nerfed on a lot of weapons and it makes low paint midlines start to feel shit to play. I think mini could def use an ink efficiency nerf so it can’t contest zone as long but I’d like moving around the map to still feel good

Also people have been bringing this up as a reason JP is better than the west which I don’t get at all😭. Experimenting is cool and it could help find good meta calls to give you an edge over common picks but that only matters if the field is even so it should be really low on the priority list lol

Yeah honestly +1 does a good amount of experimenting. I think my main gripe though is that probably since it’s primarily pickups, a lot of the stuff tested falls flat because there isn’t really a “vision” with what they’re doing but that’s most likely a pickup issue (ML experiments a lot)

I honestly don’t know what to do with clams like I agree with you but idk how that’d be implemented

A lot of people disagreed with grey saying to remove +2 and +3 but I honestly agree. Those servers are usually dead anyways and they just end up creating huge egos that do more harm than good

And yeah I agree it should move faster on points you’ve already gotten so breaking checkpoints aren’t the only thing making the tower move “faster”

True. Honestly the only thing I’d change is make the tower move WAY faster when you have control of it on your half of the map. It’d be a bad map anyways, but if you’ve played wahoo TC it’s just so horrible if one team pushes close to KO because it feels impossible to get the tower back to mid lol

Yeah true. TC gets hurt a lot by map design but I think the mode in general is good. However I also think if TC only was more common I think some of the borderline maps could become more competitive and smooth when optimized in the same way a lot of zones maps have

Mandated norishio vod reviews even if you don’t play stamper

Zones only with the occasional TC only tourney is the way to go

idk the people just like ballpoint I guess

triple v shot vs zimi jr mint who will win

The west doesn’t play too slow but they do play too safe

ballpoint

Why did we always call getting stuck on pencil “pencil jail” and not “pen island”

As a general observation beyond just today I think JP has better lockouts than the west largely from how aggro and stubborn they get with positioning for them. Every 10 seconds you watch a JP top player make an individual play that here we'd call feeding yet it works, or at least isn't punished🧵

I also think it’s why they’ve always been ahead of us on hopping on the bubbler train since it naturally gets more value the more you’re able to accomplish with your main weapons

we often use so many resources to retake/win a mid fight that we don’t have the resources to hold. Both styles have merit but I think the JP style naturally has a higher ceiling since the risks they take will have more payoff as the player skill increases

My biggest takeaway from watching JP gameplay for a while is their style generally focuses on giving themselves more chances and then taking a successful push as far as they can while we tend to try make sure each play made is successful but we also settle more for back and forth gameplay since

I’d give some compensation nerfs in the future if needed like pfs or whatever but I’d honestly be okay with some things potentially getting over buffed and working our way back from there because the main weap power level in this game has felt so bad for while now