Godspeed to everyone going for Masters London tickets today 🫡

I wish they'd actually fix what makes the mode fundamentally broken but I'll take it being banished to custom games until then.

Shackled unreasonably tight to a seasonal narrative, willing to undercut whatever's not compatible with the present direction.

No, this wasn't done to give the lore the care it needed.

That idea was nonsense even before this released, and now
they're undeniable indictments of Riot's intentions.

Mostly short stories before? Now its mostly comics. And the depth stories had before? Not replaced.

Retcons? Still happening, and done in places where "inconsistent threads" didn't exist.

And so from that, you then do the very thing you claimed in this video to want to avoid:

Genuinely embarrassing for anyone to still believe in anything that was said about the new vision for League's lore in this video at this point.

That had better not be a Jarvan redesign.

That had better not be Jarvan at all tbh.

2020s STARGATE

WE ARE SO BACK

5-GAME TELECOM WAR WORLDS FINAL

LEAGUE OF RETCONS

One year ago today 🥐

Might have been the loudest we were all day

Worlds 2025 semis could turn out bad but the draw definitely could have been worse

Fraud stage over, KT - TES avoided, and GIVE ME THAT G2 - T1 SEMI

Quick video I cobbled together showing the before/after for the 25% >>> 10% changes of the equip + reload buffs on the Vandal (base 1 s equip and 2.5 s reload)

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Will get on to that lore video of mine soon, got to think about the formatting and how much editing I'm willing to tolerate to get my thoughts out in a reasonable time before the end of the year.

Right now though, it's time for Worlds.

Did a lot more this year at Paris with the Fan Fest, was there for the VA panel, tried out the AMORANT demo, and it was great to meet and talk with Joe and Cynprel. Also got to cheer on an EU team at home for once.

A special one to remember.

Masters London next year means I'll have been attending esports events for 4 years in a row now. Nothing compares to being there in person.

We'll see what kind of jammy luck I can get once again to secure another Grand Finals ticket in London. I'll be going to playoffs no matter what though.

The immediate response mid-series from David was serious and appreciated but then the narrative team has always responded to concerns over the years, it's not any of them I doubt

I just hope that mine and others' feedback will reach (in one way or another) the people at Riot who do need to hear it

The original vision was for a larger retrospective look but I think now I just want to keep it to a review of this year and how it ended up falling short (pending on what more is left to be released) to produce the community reaction we saw today, and how those issues specifically could be addressed

Once the narrative arc is truly wrapped up for this year I think it's time to work on that video I've wanted to make about the state of VALORANT lore.

The year start trailer still suggests a bit more to come but as a conclusion (as suggested with some of the wording), today didn't satisfy that.

Not a 0-3 at least but maybe it might still be me, idk man

Does it matter where exactly Atlas fired on the VLT/R from?

Most likely not at all.

Am I gonna look it up anyway?

Yep.

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me when I realize I'm once again about to watch an EU team in a grand final at a viewing event and my previous two occasions are watching 0-3s at Worlds '18/'19 in cinemas

#ValorantChampions day 2 seeing the Boaster Op on Bind

can anyone stop this thing

#ValorantChampions day 1 of 3, let's go!

London Masters for 2026??!

This is going to have been an expensive 12 months by then 😭

"Its beauty, every stone, is OWED TO OUR WORLD"

Been quite a while since I cited my old Responsibility and Reparations theory but this definitely adds to it.

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Will try again later, here are the screenshots for now.

I'm still on vacation this week so updates from @valorantwiki.bsky.social for 11.05 will just be for gameplay, lore video for the YouTube archive will be delayed until next week

Incroyable

Chances of me securing one of 2000 Paris Grand Final tickets in the next hour while in the middle of Cilaos?