Matane 🥀🥀

@mylifeistooazn @MOMENT919 @patriot_dx @NonayaBeeznas @gilmcgowan They do not. Biggest example of no state taxes is Texas. Google "Texas February 2021", you'll understand why that's not such a great thing - well unless you live in a rich neighborhood where the privatized power grids didn't cut off the power to. Turns out taxes can be good.

My son had brain surgery that gave him his life back. In the US, the bill would have been at least $500,000. Here in Canada, we paid $0. We Canadians don’t want any part of your con-man games, Mr. Trump.

@XanozIchimonji But I think the true cause of the loneliness epidemic is a lot of guys, especially younger ones - under about 30, have basically been socialized entirely in a world where if you talk to a woman *anywhere* you're a creep, so they don't talk to them. They don't approach them.

@XanozIchimonji Eh...there's definitely guys who complain about women in their hobbies, but then they don't have any hobbies that involve women. That is 100% true and has been going on forever. Men accusing any woman who likes comics or video games of liking those things for attention ain't new.

Men, is any portion of this real? You can be honest.

@EcoVibeExplorer @putxiwhipped2 @RealEmirHan They did like it. People just don't go to the movies that much anymore. Most people who caught the last one in theaters have kids now. The streaming numbers will likely be strong.

@putxiwhipped2 @RealEmirHan Then why public in general didn't like it?

@AndroKN @lilharambe @RiotPhroxzon Both are useless.

@AudioTsunamii @lilharambe @RiotPhroxzon Because chat is useless, vc is not.

Patch Preview 14.9!! Apologies for being a day late, Arena post needed to go out yesterday. Today is also ANZAC day, respect to those who lost their lives fighting for their country 🇦🇺🇳🇿; Lest we forget Easy Champions Pass - Some of our easy champions (Amumu, Malzahar, Seraphine a bit less so) with low mastery have been sitting at 51% for a while. - For these champions, this is actually pretty critically weak, when their mastery curve is actually only something like 3% [compare this to a champion who is 50%, but has a mastery curve of 7%] - As a result we're buffing them; it's important that our training wheels champions feel powerful for these audiences - You'll also notice we have a Master Yi nerf in the patch while he's 51% - We did some work to Master Yi many patches ago to flatten his performance skew by MMR - Some of this is great! But if we go too far, it can mean that Master Yi is not able to function properly for his target audience - The thing that Yi is underserving right now is how easy he is to play now for his target audience (he's actually become a medium mastery champion for his target audience and we'd like to make him easier long term) [though we know this may be unpopular; "he just clicks on me!"]. It's important that we have champions that function like this Karma - Continued work to make Karma's mid vs support skew correct; we think we have more room, especially since Pro seasons are over now Kennen - Just some feelsgood changes for Kennen - He's not really functioning particularly well in any bracket right now, a bit of a modernization pass + some new animation work! Sejuani - Similar to the Pro Season comments from earlier, Sejuani's normal performance is not the best, so we're pulling her up a little - Trying to put a bit more power into her damage against tankier targets rather than being tanky while also one shotting squishies (very lightly favored towards tanky targets in this way) -------------------------------------------------- Nerfs - As mentioned the other day, nerfs are targeted at mostly champions that are probably a bit too performant for their frustration/profiles/mastery curves/staleness or a combo of each - As mentioned earlier, some of our previous patches have been buff heavy, so this is an attempt at hitting it down - Only going to go into some of the more specific nerfs that are interesting, because they're mostly small numbers nerfs Ahri - Her R CD is getting too short with Malignance and Ulti Haste and was previously balanced around Malignance not existing Kassadin - Pivoted off the R nerf to ensure that he is still required to R on top of people to be effective and put himself in danger Skarner - The changes are intended to be further nerfs to top lane and jungle - Nerf how heavily he spikes at level 9 especially (to hit at some of his Elite skew) - We know that Elite players function very well off level 9 power spikes - While doing this, we don't want to make W max even more powerful

@BeefSmellingt0n Not mma but Rosado vs Melikuziev ringtv.com/wp-content/upl…

What’s a knockout you remember going: “Damn, he might be dead”

@lilharambe @RiotPhroxzon No. Outside of the 98/99th percentile, comms are worthless. + the best solo q advice for most people is already just type /deafen as fast as possible.

@RiotPhroxzon Na but like Kassadin nerf is nothing ….. Also add Voice communication to the game already it’s 2024 …. League is the only competitive game in the world without voice communication like wtf ? Atleast implement it for one patch Master+ and ask for Feedback

@XanozIchimonji T8 will have double or triple what 7 had, gbvs will beat 800 from dbfz, I dont think 3s will beat umvc, mk1 will definitely beat mk11. Sf6 and strive numbers probably slightly down

Do ya'll think this year will come close to these numbers for each game? Swap DBFZ with Granblue, UMVC3 with 3S, Tekken 7 with 8, and MK11 with MK1.

@Bimbo40214866 @mma_frenzy @mma_orbit Please don't infect your staff.

@mma_frenzy @mma_orbit A loss is a loss but we literally all saw he had a staff infection.

🚨| Benoit Saint-Denis released the following statement on Instagram confirming he was suffering from staph infection and taking antibiotics going into #UFC299.

@Jauwnio My only concern is that eventually they will all find their jobs being outsource for a third of the rate.

@Jauwnio As someone joining a field that is largely unable to work remotely - this is thing I champion most about allowing the people that can to do just that. I, as a non-remote worker would have access to more jobs by virtue of commute shortening significantly and gas being way cheaper

@BackPackCamX Nah. I'm a belal guy and even just looking at 298 and 299 - the cards are way better.

@XanozIchimonji One of the big 3, Your local, whatever midsized event is in your region if it still exists (rip scr)

If you had to recommend 3 tournaments for someone to have the 'FGC Experience', what 3 tournaments would you recommend?

@RiotPhroxzon Match making is also more diceroll than usual. Emeralds vs golds in most games I've played. Incredibly high variance and spread of ranks in each game. Game has basically turned into "who rolled the good top laner".

@RiotPhroxzon Mmr definitely still wonky. Went 3-2 in placements, got demoted over a tier(was not a demotion shield case), immediately started with negative lp gains.

Patch 14.2! Ranked - We're making some changes to reduce how lenient tier boundary demotions are. While we think making a tier boundary is a big milestone, we also need to be demoting people more honestly to ensure the ranked system functions properly - We're also continuing to investigate some players with negative LP gains. The vast majority of these are coming from the above, where people are not being demoted properly, so their visible rank is higher than their current level of play - We're also chasing down a few cases of some Diamond1/Masters players having some negative LP gains for a short amount of time, but these only seem to be affecting a small number of accounts in large regions Overall: - After reviewing all the patch data, game time is stable and higher than 13.24 (mainly due to increasing the backdoor damage reduction and buffing towers) - Snowballing is lower than 13.24, however, burst is up (especially from AP), which is a bit counter-intuitive. We suspect because people are getting burst pretty quickly, it's easy to build leads, but harder to end and easier to throw - We're looking at moderate burst reductions as a result - Objectives have landed in a mostly decent spot; chain ganking bot vs fighting for grubs seems to be carrying real tradeoffs that teams are engaging in - Rift Herald usability is the main thing on our mind as something worth following up on here AP: - Our strategy with AP items was to increase the overall AP values that players are getting (it was unsatisfying to be 180AP at 3 items) and reduce base damages (on AP champs that have problematic tank builds) and reduce ratios (on everyone else) over time on AP champions to compensate for this, especially on the outliers. This will lead to some short term instability, but long term will be better for the AP system and champions overall - Players had also been asking for reductions in haste (game it too URF) and HP (I don't want this stat) on AP items, which also contributes to increasing burst as champions are both dealing and receiving more damage. Our goal once the system is tuned is to end up with both less burst and less AH coming from the item system Stat Shards: - I'm sure @RiotPhreak will have some notes on this in the rundown as this is one of the passion projects he's been trying to do for months 😅, but Season Start is the only reasonable time to do it - The main goal of this change is to make choices more satisfying and intuitive. While we're losing some interest in choosing armor/MR against opponents, we hope to gain more intuitive choices like early vs scaling or movespeed/tenacity vs durability. These changes are also intended to combat some of the increased burst in the game - They were intended to go out in 14.1 to counteract some of the burst increases, but had a small delay and were desynced a patch as a result Items: - Double support item (and quadra support item) are being nerfed. We're being pretty heavy handed here - Even after the buff, Stridebreaker is struggling to find its place, as is Horizon Focus when Stormsurge is so much better - Stormsurge is receiving a substantial nerf and we think it's the root cause of a lot of the increased burst - Bloodsong also appears to be the best of the support items - Finally, Frozen Heart and Riftmaker are a bit too efficient Buffs: - Almost all of the champions in the list had a core item that they had a great synergy with either removed or reworked (or in Gwen's case, overnerfed) - Everfrost, Sunderer, Tri Force, AH for Hwei, Karthus Liandrys, etc. Nerfs: - The nerfs in this list are for champions who have incredible synergies with the new items - Sundered Jax, Liandrys DoT champs, Fizz Stormsurge, etc. Thanks for playing the new season, we're hopefully close to getting it stable and hope you're all having a blast!!

@MMACHICK_ This is not new. The UFC has been the WWE for over half a decade. Unfortunately it's also where the best fighters are, so we're married to it.

THE UFC HAS OFFICIALLY BECOME THE WWE. NO URGENCY WITH TITLE FIGHTS. RANDOM POINTLESS MATCHUPS. SLAP HAS RUINED THE UFC.🪦

@RiotPhroxzon I wasn't losing at my tier barrier and I got reset to gold 1 from emerald 4. I'm currently being matched against people who were emerald 2-4 and all my teammates were g2-p4. This is a *miserable* gaming experience and probably going to be the last of league for me after 10 years.

PSA: We start of season resetted to where your MMR should put you. Because of the thing I mentioned last week, where we were not demoting people often enough (especially from tier boundaries like E4, P4, etc.), there were many cases where a player was Emerald with Gold MMR or Plat with Silver MMR, etc. This was usually because someone lost a lot at the tier boundary. Some peoples' placements might feel a bit "brutal" as a result. Unfortunately, this was one of the side effects of making better visible rank matches this season and it's our bad for allowing these "inflated" situations last season in the first place. We understand a lot more about why these situations are happening now in the first place and will do our best to avoid them for this season and beyond.

@dieworkwear Is this purely for places that have winter? What is fashion advice for some that lives in a place that the coldest it gets is 70F and the hottest it gets is like 110F? Am I just doomed to look like I'm wearing a potato sack? It's basically always "layers would kill me" hot.

If they can't wear a jacket for some reason, then still go with a textured knit like a Shetland, not a smooth and plain Merino. Draw from prep and Americana history. Pair the sweater with pants like tan chinos, grey flannels, or taupe five-pocket cords.

A lot of people have a hard time separating body type from style. This outfit would not look good on anyone. He needs a jacket; the sweater would look better if it was textured; blue chinos are hard to wear. This same outfit would look bad on a skinny or athletic person. 🧵

@BCDC_Live @XanozIchimonji Issue is the bread is from kids. All 3 of those girls have OF and are using this to groom 16 year Olds to buy their OF in 2 years.

Bruh