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Comment on 'Chainsmoker Cat' anime discussion, what do you think? in ~anime
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Comment on Premier League statement: Manchester City FC in ~sports.football
Bullmaestro LinkI fully expect little to come of this. The last time the book was thrown at seriously corrupt football officials on any level was due to FBI intervention in FIFA (what got several seniors arrested...I fully expect little to come of this. The last time the book was thrown at seriously corrupt football officials on any level was due to FBI intervention in FIFA (what got several seniors arrested and Sepp Blatter to resign)...
They'll probably give Man City a points reduction, maybe at most a relegation where they'll shit all over the Championship harder than a German adult film star in a scheiße flick, then be in healthy contention for the next title in 2028-29.
Plus i'm sure the UAE will pressure the English FA and British government into submission, because "how fucking dare you mess with one of our main international assets"...
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Comment on Interview: Firefox’s chief on why he hopes a redesign will help win users from Chrome in ~tech
Bullmaestro LinkChrome memory leaking and crashing on my PC was initially why i switched to Firefox. Chromium getting fucked with nuked Manifest v2 support was why I stuck. Is there genuinely a good ad blocking...Chrome memory leaking and crashing on my PC was initially why i switched to Firefox. Chromium getting fucked with nuked Manifest v2 support was why I stuck.
Is there genuinely a good ad blocking browser in 2026?
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Comment on An interesting take on Reddit about why the art direction of World of Warcraft Forever misses the mark in ~games
Bullmaestro LinkI (partially) don't mind the inclusion of Skyborne. I just wished they would have asked the player base and publicised the result of their votes á la OSRS. But I do think they went with Skyborne...I (partially) don't mind the inclusion of Skyborne. I just wished they would have asked the player base and publicised the result of their votes á la OSRS.
But I do think they went with Skyborne because community polls from Reddit don't represent the player majority of WoW. But I also believe the conspiracy theory that Chris Metzen intervened last minute because he wanted something as outlandish as sky elves.
They're getting relatively close to matching Turtle WoW quality of Classic here based on my beta testing.
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Comment on 'Chainsmoker Cat' anime discussion, what do you think? in ~anime
Bullmaestro LinkIs this the one where people have said the protagonist is like a female catgirl Asmongold? I need to get around to watching it since it is on Netflix.Is this the one where people have said the protagonist is like a female catgirl Asmongold?
I need to get around to watching it since it is on Netflix.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Bullmaestro LinkUnlike a lot of other games I tried during the last few Steam Next Fests, IGTAP: An Incremental Game That's Also A Platformer didn't disappoint. I'd say you could beat the game and see the full...Unlike a lot of other games I tried during the last few Steam Next Fests, IGTAP: An Incremental Game That's Also A Platformer didn't disappoint. I'd say you could beat the game and see the full conclusion within about 10 hours of gameplay, and I would 100% recommend playing with a gamepad (and not a keyboard like I did) because keyboard controls are genuinely strenuous on your hand. If you're going for all achievements, maybe add an extra hour or two.
League of Legends has been a mixed bag for me lately. The only game mode I've been getting any enjoyment out of is ARAM Mayhem, and my enjoyment is wholly dependent on if I end up with a decent champion, a decent team-comp and decent augments.
Classic would be a good game mode if there was a serious ranked competitive ladder, if queue times weren't 5+ minutes long, and if there wasn't more draft-dodging going on in champion select than in the USA during Vietnam. Three games and a cumulative 90 minutes of dodged lobbies later and I just gave up trying to play this game mode. Not even OG Quinn coming in a future patch will likely make me want to try this mode again given its current state.
Ranked is my other major peeve. Out of the last ten games which have gotten me demoted from Bronze 2 to Bronze 4, eight have been losses and all but three have been labelled "Unlucky" on my OP.GG, meaning I performed well but had inting assholes sabotage them. The kind I got in my matches (stats below are Kills/Deaths/Assists) have included:
- 1/15/8 Master Yi jungle with 19% kill participation.
- 1/10/0 Renekton top, or less than 7% KP.
- 3/10/0 and 4/10/7 Nilah ADC and Sion support respectively. Sion has zero redeeming qualities that would allow him to be played in that role, his CC is slow and heavily telegraphed and his passive scaling relies on you killing minions which you don't want to do as a support.
- 5/6/3 Kai'Sa ADC, which doesn't sound bad until you realise that they spent almost the entire game 2-3 levels below me (the Leona support in that game), spent much of the laning phase under tower not even in sufficient range of minions to gain XP, and had less than 4 CS per minute. I only died twice and despite my best efforts couldn't carry people who refused to pull their weight, especially when they'd outright ignore objectives and give the enemy team free drakes, voidgrubs, rift guardians, Barons, etc.
I also bought the Skyborne Epic Pack and got beta access to World of Warcraft Forever that way. I'm impressed so far with what they've done to the game world. Paladin rework has been great and the new quests have been a nice addition for the most part. What I haven't liked is the push towards a realmless megaserver and how layering has worked. Megaservers are fine for retail because rules on tapping mobs are far more lenient to prevent kill-stealing, whereas Forever works on Classic's rules.
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Comment on Ed Sheeran concerts at Robert Kraft stadiums cancelled over weather in ~music
Bullmaestro LinkEven Mother Nature is mad at Ed Sheeran's complicity in Netanyahu's genocidal campaign.Even Mother Nature is mad at Ed Sheeran's complicity in Netanyahu's genocidal campaign.
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Comment on What are the genuinely worst films of all time? in ~movies
Bullmaestro LinkWorst movie I've ever seen was FDR: American Badass. You'd think from the trailer that this is going to be a hilarious B movie spoof of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life and presidency where he...Worst movie I've ever seen was FDR: American Badass.
You'd think from the trailer that this is going to be a hilarious B movie spoof of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life and presidency where he fights Nazi werewolves on a heavily armed wheelchair.
In actuality, it was horribly scripted, overly raunchy to the point where each scene dragged on for way too long because they were full of crude jokes, and much of it just wasn't funny.
I nominated it for a film night some friends were doing. We didn't even last 30 minutes until we had to switch it off.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Bullmaestro LinkThe Loopler is a great, albeit heavily RNG-dependent game. It's a roguelite deckbuilder where you drive a car around a loop track, rack up higher scores and aim to achieve infinity. My only real...The Loopler is a great, albeit heavily RNG-dependent game. It's a roguelite deckbuilder where you drive a car around a loop track, rack up higher scores and aim to achieve infinity. My only real problem with it is that there are a lot of truly shit-tier cards, gates and charms that can kill a run early. At least you can enable/disable these with relative ease, at the cost of only being unable to earn a particular achievement for that run.
It's up there with Vampire Survivors in terms of how you can customize a run. Just wish it had more content.
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Comment on Rockstar had a mole in the union worker Discord server "for over two and a half years," GTA 6 company reveals during legal battle in ~games
Bullmaestro Link ParentI'm on the side of the workers. Given how incredibly greedy and litigious Rockstar and Take Two Interactive have been, and how they stabbed Leslie Benzies in the back a decade ago, I can...I'm on the side of the workers. Given how incredibly greedy and litigious Rockstar and Take Two Interactive have been, and how they stabbed Leslie Benzies in the back a decade ago, I can definitely see them trumping up allegations to bust a workers' union.
But it is going to hinge on what was actually discussed in the Discord server, if there were server rules preventing confidential information from being discussed, how they were enforced by server moderators, how they controlled server access, etc.
I agree that yes, their opsec was flawed, but it's not like they could have used the company's internal Slack channels for this purpose; that's just asking for senior management to use PIPs to try and weed any pro-union staff out early.
Not sure what labor laws are like in the UK but if this was in the US this would seem like a pretty clear case of violating the NLRA.
Our labour laws are generally stronger than those in the US.
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Comment on BlizzCon discussion thread in ~games
Bullmaestro Link ParentThey were rocky from the start. Blizzard and KeSPA had been in a legal dispute over broadcasting rights with Blizzard demanding they pay royalties on broadcasting professional matches of their...They were rocky from the start.
Blizzard and KeSPA had been in a legal dispute over broadcasting rights with Blizzard demanding they pay royalties on broadcasting professional matches of their game. When negotiations went poorly, they decided to give GomTV exclusive broadcasting rights just months before SC2 was set to launch.
That is why SC2 had LAN multiplayer support gutted out mid-development, so that if KeSPA tried to transition towards that game without agreeing to pay royalties, their IPs could be blacklisted from Blizzard's servers. Proleague, MSL and OSL did resume as normal until 2012 when the dispute was resolved. KeSPA not joining until two years later definitely affected the game's success in Korea.
What hurt things more was Blizzard aping Riot Games by announcing the WCS and imposing their esports league upon their stakeholders at extremely short notice. WCS was a shitshow from its inception, and this was especially the case in Korea. Ongamenet hosted one season and decided they wanted out, leaving GomTV as the sole tournament organiser. After 2013, WCS Korea was retired and the GSL brand was brought back, but by then the damage was already done.
Proleague went on for another four years as a SC2 team tournament until 2016 when dwindling viewership and balance issues in Legacy of the Void ended it for good. All the KeSPA teams disbanded, except for Jin Air Green Wings, who stayed active until late 2020.
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Comment on BlizzCon discussion thread in ~games
Bullmaestro LinkWoW Forever looks great. The Skyborne Elves are an odd choice to add for a neutral race but I'll let Blizzard cook. Some of the things they revealed in their deep dive panel seem really solid too....WoW Forever looks great. The Skyborne Elves are an odd choice to add for a neutral race but I'll let Blizzard cook.
Some of the things they revealed in their deep dive panel seem really solid too. They're not straight-up copying Retail with their planned Paladin rework, for example. Holy Strike is basically that game's version of Crusader Strike, and it appears that Retribution will be designed around Seal Twisting.
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Comment on BlizzCon discussion thread in ~games
Bullmaestro Link ParentNot surprised. Serral is an absolute monster. If anything, Korean SC2 died when KeSPA pulled out of the esport. There are still strong Korean players but the gap has narrowed considerably. They...Not surprised. Serral is an absolute monster.
If anything, Korean SC2 died when KeSPA pulled out of the esport. There are still strong Korean players but the gap has narrowed considerably.
They are still absolutely dominant in Brood War though. And that's largely because few people outside of the country are interested in playing a game so clunky that it's a one-way ticket to severe carpal tunnel.
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Comment on BlizzCon discussion thread in ~games
Bullmaestro Link ParentThere's a rumour going around that Nexon will be developing it. I can't tell if that's better or worse...There's a rumour going around that Nexon will be developing it. I can't tell if that's better or worse...
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Comment on Nintendo - Customer appreciation sale in ~games
Bullmaestro LinkFor context, Nintendo is currently facing a class action lawsuit over their decision to pocket tariff refunds they've received from the US government. They're probably doing this because they're...They're probably doing this because they're spooked that the courts will rule against them, and want to show the judge they have been doing something to pass the savings back to consumers.
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Comment on Apple announces iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone in ~tech
Bullmaestro LinkSurprised they even bothered with a foldable phone, considering how easily they wear down and break. The only real advantage you get from using one is having double, even triple the screen real...Surprised they even bothered with a foldable phone, considering how easily they wear down and break. The only real advantage you get from using one is having double, even triple the screen real estate.
At this point they're well and truly aping Samsung and Huawei...
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Comment on Nexon pursues ‘StarCraft’ sequel development rights from Blizzard in ~games
Bullmaestro LinkThis is the same company that is charging $59.99 for Founder's Packs which would give customers early access to MapleStory Classic World for two weeks before its official launch. Now I get it,...This is the same company that is charging $59.99 for Founder's Packs which would give customers early access to MapleStory Classic World for two weeks before its official launch.
Now I get it, they made Shattered Galaxy and their home country loves the franchise to the point of treating it like a televised sport. But licensing StarCraft out to Nexon doesn't bode well for me.
They are up there with EA, Supercell and Take Two Interactive as the four horsemen of greedy publishers.
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Comment on What made that wedding that you attended particularly memorable? in ~life
Bullmaestro LinkIt's more like what happened around that day. Wedding ceremony itself was at a countryside inn and got interrupted several times by moving trains and people doing welding work nearby. I took part...It's more like what happened around that day. Wedding ceremony itself was at a countryside inn and got interrupted several times by moving trains and people doing welding work nearby.
I took part in the quarter-final of a (unrelated) karaoke competition later that eve and got eliminated.
And I caught food poisoning and spent the next few days uncontrollably shitting and vomiting...
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Comment on What are your "how on earth did I not learn this sooner" tech moments? in ~tech
Bullmaestro LinkDefinitely Ctrl+Shift+Esc on Windows. Gives immediate access to the Task Manager without having to go through an additional menu. And to a lesser extent Windows Key + . brings up an emoji keyboard.Definitely Ctrl+Shift+Esc on Windows. Gives immediate access to the Task Manager without having to go through an additional menu.
And to a lesser extent Windows Key + . brings up an emoji keyboard.
Former Diablo/Warcraft content creator. Nicknamed the cockroach king because he lives in squalor and doesn't clean up after himself. Became a right wing political streamer.
More recently came back for the WoW Forever beta. His followers came in the thousands, made characters with offensive names, got banhammered, then proceeded to dox, harass and expose the historic post history of WoW Forever's lead dev James Gunn style, all because he told people with homophobic and racist names to be better people...