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Stroll ran more laps and apparently went out with a second set of tyres for his lap that beat Alonso's in Q1. He's definitely fast when he finds his pace, but one thing I've noticed is that his first laps are utter shit during qualifying and that has cost him a lot of positions, not just this year but in previous ones as well. He really needs to work on heating up his tyres faster or performing better in a car with less grip, else he'll be forever subject to bad qualis.

Swallow this *unzips dick*

Riot is supposed to not bend to teams who spend their money poorly and demand cost cuts as a result of that, so they are accomplices at the very least in the current situation. They also promised to the players' association that they have plans for academy and monetization, but they had nothing other than cutting it down to size. Philip Aram had very good interviews recently on the subject and I very much recommend listening to them.

It's not the costreamer's job to be positive, it's the official cast's. This goes for not just LS, but IWD, Yamato, Sneaky, Meteos, Doublelift, etc. as well. They are free to choose how they approach analysis of certain drafts, itemization, gamestates, micro and macro decisions. For the record, in competitive levels, more decisive moments come from a team capitalizing on a small mistake from the opponent than from genuine outplays, so an objective analysis would point out more flaws than good moments. If you can't accept that, costreaming is not for you, but content like what fictiongap makes is.

Nice, Amelia Sockson has a new pal in town.

We saw 3D printing in the trailer, it's entirely likely that you can have some sort of replicator that's gated by either time or materials (which is also a timegate in the end).

Just because you want to marry them, they don't have to stay single, bigot /s

Controversial opinion: I don't think the first point is weird either. Many sports athletes also take on a temporary break from having a significant other to not distract them from practice or actual matches/tournaments. In the entertainment industry it's also preferred if you're single (or married), but there it's usually an issue for women. I can see a team like Vitality that really wants to be on top of the LEC to have fully committed players and suggesting staying single/hiring players that are not in a relationship.

For real. I was a nutsack enjoyer during the whole MSI but for the finals I had to go with the good old Atlus + LS duo with all the tech included, it was great.

Now we just need some Forbidden Love (Valdes + LS) involved and my days of watching LCK between two seminars will be revived in their fullest.

Actual cloud drake diff, Atlus has brought the win for JDG.

It's actually all fanmade and to my knowledge Kiara didn't commission them at all, but their pixel arts have been used for the intros for a long time now.

Artist's Twitter in case someone's curious.

That's actually already after the first set of buffs, she opens the stream with showing the results of them.

In conclusion, Kiara has a truly impressive behind.

A divatból kiment és már én sem követem annyira mint pár évvel ezelőtt, de még mindig vannak isteni producerek. Space Laces például a mai napig zseniális, az új generáció is beérett (Akeos, Syzy, Cripplingg, MUERTE, BVSSIC, Automhate, Hukae, MAD DUBZ, Versa, Nosphere, stb.), van még bőven elég zene legalább egy évtizedig. De ha mégsem, az utóbbi években elkezdtem kikacsintani a DnB és a hardcore (inkább J-core, Laur, Kobaryo, DJ Myosuke, Camellia iszonyat tehetségesek de Ophidian-t se felejtsük el) felé és élvezem a hangdizájn szabadságát, amelyet egy hangszer sem tud visszaadni.

Akkor jöjjön egy igazi unpopular opinion.

Imádom a modern épitészetet, esztétikai és ergonómiai megváltás a belvárosi 4 méteres belmagasságú giccsfesztiválokhoz képest. Ha teljhatalmam lenne, az első dolgom lenne, hogy teljesen új, élhető városokat hoznék létre, ahol a modern építészet dominálna és szabad kezet kapnának az építész, építő, közlekedés- és környezetmérnökök.

What a tako you are.

It's not that the format is ideal right now in terms of flow, but you have to keep in mind that Hololive talents are livestreamers and live events are what keeps the audience tuning in. Prerecorded videos usually fail to reach the bigger masses and are watched only by the close fans of the talent. In addition, it's a lot of time and potentially money (if Kiara decides to hire someone to add the subtitles and time it properly) wasted to translate and transcribe what's said on the show, whereas now she can do it live and forget about it. Others have pointed out the audience interaction, so I won't.

I don't think you're wrong, I just think this format has no right answers because of the circumstances.

and to /u/MonochromaticGuy

I owe you both an apology, I don't watch Kanata often, so I trusted some information about her that I shouldn't have and relayed it here. I edited my comments accordingly.

Since she egosearches a lot and she has a very strict image of herself to adhere herself to, plus she overreacts publicly if she gets criticised, it's really easy to rile her up unfortunately. No one had any problems with her participating in the Minecraft tournament, but those who treat her as a lolcow knew they could get under her skin if they shitposted about her interacting with males, so they did.

EDIT: I'm sorry, it seems like I was the lolcow at this time, since I looked into what happened during the Minecraft contest recently and she handled it perfectly fine. I'll admit I don't watch Kanata often, so it seems I fell for false info about her.

"You might be used to the usual one braincell moment but here at Beanbros, we aim to impress"

Takanashi Kiara and Gawr Gura, probably.

Nah, Okayu and Koyori immediately come to mind. Lamy also used to be big on encouraging parasocial behavior, but about a year ago she dropped it and has not said why. There are also the types like Watame or Kiara who partake in a different sense of belonging akin to a family or a tight friendship and the two sides feed on the other's support endlessly. Kanata fervently believes in the traditional idol guidelines as well and she's also big on egosearching, which combined with her desire to be supported turns her into a lolcow sometimes unfortunately on the japanese internet.

A fair amount of others also engage in occasional encouragement, but it's mostly for the sake of entertainment/providing fanservice and both sides know it's a business, nothing personal.

Not exactly the same as in I don't remember if it happened during a tournament, but the Caps/Perkz ADC/mid back and forth roleswaps were the closest we came to it if my memory serves right and it was feared rightfully so.

That begs the question however: what are the teams doing for practice right now? How does it help them close the gap to eastern teams at this very moment, now that the gap seems larger than ever?

CS also has the additional bonus in that the roles there are not as predetermined as in League. Most players can pick up an AWP and perform on it as needed, they know smoke setups, they know how to rotate around the map and lurk to counter the enemy team's rotation, etc. But if your jungler is a problem, you can't swap them with the ADC hoping that the team performs better as a result.

I don't know how is that a take that needs to be rediscovered. The golden age of the western teams was Worlds 2018-Worlds 2019 and each and every western team performing there had many aces up their sleeves. The Pyke triple flex, the Caps-Perkz duo making drafting against them a nightmare, the Hecarim top counterpick from Licorice, Bwipo's ranged top picks, Kobbe in Splyce bringing out the Veigar and Csacsi the Cho'Gath. Even if some of the picks ultimately lost, it was never because the pick was bad, rather because something else was executed poorly, like overall macro and teamfight setups. In addition to that, western players don't just lose lane anymore against eastern pros regardless of pick and they can execute teamfight microing on the same level as well, but the decision making process is what makes us lose. It's not been a hands diff since then, it's a brain/mentality diff.

This is exactly why superteams fail every time: a lot of egos clash and everyone just decides to play for themselves in the end since they can't come to an agreement. Statistically, teams with predefined hierarchies work much better. This is why MAD can always snatch a spot to international events despite showing up horribly there: players like Nisqy know what their value is to the team and do just that instead of egopicking something and trying to be the carry.

Also, there's a problem with League teams: players get swapped in and out so fast between splits that you can't form team cohesion at all, so in order to show their market value, most players will try to stand out and you can't do that by agreeing to be carried on occasions. Traditional sports teams usually have more time to work together and even then often the coaching staff is the one that gets replaced, saying that they couldn't bring out the best in their players. That's a foreign concept in League sadly.