Posts made by Selira

@Auspice I'm sorry your taste buds don't work right. It's okay. We all have to be wrong about something, and you can be wrong about the best pizza.

@Arkandel Pineapple, ham or Canadian bacon, real (streaky) belly bacon, onions on a garlicky crust with a drizzle of barbecue sauce and a marinara base.

With little to no cheese because I'm not here for hardened cow juice.

@Apos While they still had Pobelter, and thus 3/5 of the MSG team, I was casually referring to TL last year as CLG.Horse. Regi has made some really baffling roster moves lately.

@Apos said in The Esports thread:

@Selira said in The Esports thread:

Personally, I'm watching to see if TSM is going to fail to make it into playoffs in League this summer.

I've literally been a fan since before the season 1 worlds at Dreamhack, never missed a single game, and I'm about the saddest I've ever been.

I understand your pain. I really do. I came in during S4 Worlds, so the year after that was 2015, and I got to see CLG go on their crazy run until the stomp at MSG.

Not a single member of the team exists from that first victory anymore, and it wasn't that long ago at all that people were treating CLG as a joke, and their standings validated that.

I fully believe TSM will be able to bounce back. NA got a lot tougher, and they will figure a way back into it after their recent flubs. They better, because I don't want this rivalry becoming one-sided the other way now.

(okay, I kind of do)

@Auspice For me, the self-improvement is what got me into it - I had just started League, and knew what role I wanted to play, but I wanted to see what the very best people in the world were doing. I started looking around and found out about this guy named Doublelift, and, well.

There we go.

I'd never felt any kind of connection the traditional sports because I never played much traditional sports, never had the drive to improve, but suddenly I understood what being a fan meant and how it all spun out. Seeing someone play the game at the highest levels, doing things I could never imagine, has been wonderful - and then seeing those strategies trickle back down to the regular players and the game as a whole improving and the skill level rising was amazing.

@Zobi: You're right, Arena is a pretty huge thing that they've tapped into, and WotC is smart trying to play into the tournament element right away. Magic is interesting in that it comes with an already preestablished base of extremely skilled players, and so it's launching right away with the very best competition.

I know I can't be the only one who follows the Esports scene at all. My focus is admittedly League of Legends, and, as it's growing, I'm starting to follow Teamfight Tactics as well. I suspect that once it's out of beta, it's going to become a really interesting strategy game, and it's already pulled a lot of the biggest names from Hearthstone over.

So we have the last week of LCS regular season coming up this weekend, as well as EVO starting in two days, and we're only weeks away from the Dota 2 International. Where are people looking, what's interesting to you, and what's happening out in other games that those of us who tend to be focused in one or two might be missing?

Personally, I'm watching to see if TSM is going to fail to make it into playoffs in League this summer. That would be such a drastic dropoff for the org, and the implications for Worlds are huge. I'm a perpetual CLG fan, and I'm loving how the org has come up strong lately, and am hoping they manage to squeak into worlds yet again despite their disastrous spring performance.

@Ganymede To be clear, the ingredients used in homeopathy are so diluted that they are functionally not present. I have yet to see anything showing that it is in any way more effective than a placebo, and it is part of a whole set of quackery that really bilks people out of their money.

What homeopathy (and to a lesser extent, naturopathy) are good at is not rushing a patient through, making them feel like a real person, and not demeaning them.

Of course, most con artists are good at that.

After quite a while out of work, for the first time ever I was offered a job mid-interview. Hopefully a launching point to get my life back on track.

So many small things I will be able to fix once I have income and insurance again.

The feeling of finally breaking through weeks of burnout and actually clearing out most of my backlog and getting things moving forward again, and the wonderful people who have been so patient with me as I work through things.

Somewhere around here I have a copy of Intergalactic Cooking Challenge, but it will be pretty hard for me to find. There was also the Mister Lincoln Experiment. I had the fortune of living with someone who designed a few silly games in college.

@Ghost except Luna doesn't have a personality and her entire role in the story was seemingly to get fridged.

I really liked FFXV but man they stumbled with her.

I really, really wish I knew what to do about my reaction to summer. The heat goes up, the day stretches long, and suddenly my sleep is on the fritz, my anxiety ramps up, and I start to mentally shut down. Yesterday was sunny and hot - I slept until 3 PM and couldn't drag myself out of bed for another hour, I couldn't even motivate myself to make caffeine, and I had no desire to do anything at all.

Today? Overcast and in the 60's-70's. I'm up early, moving around, thinking clearly, happy and laughing and getting things done.

This is a yearly problem and I have yet to find a solution. It builds up, too, until the weather finally cools down and I hit my stride again. It's exhausting, literally the largest problem in my life, and I know it can't be healthy, but I really don't think there's anything that I can do about it. I'll be trying out blackout curtains once I have some income again, but AC isn't an option.

So, just venting.

why would you defile pineapple with olives, how do those even work together?!

Pineapple goes best with something salty, a little sweet already, and with a flavor profile like cloves, smoke or curry - rich, savory and bold. Spice can be okay but not what is used in, like, Italian sausage. Otherwise the pineapple overpowers it.

Olives are too bitter for pineapple!

Chrono Trigger is the good one, Chrono Cross is the one that thinks that applying an accent filter counts as unique character development.

@Ganymede I have claimed multiple times it's some of the smartest writing on television - despite how dumb a lot actually is. It's a strange contradiction and it absolutely does feel like small-town Ontario.

Love me some Letterkenny.

Working through Eva for the first time, myself. I have opinions.

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