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[#CB2026] 🇺🇸 Day One! In Schaumberg, IL, our two reigning AiT champions @ihoodless x @JeriTheOG are back at @COMBOBREAKER to defend their titles; for Dead or Alive 6 & Bloody Roar: Extreme, respectively. BREX in particular just got a huge $5k increased pot so it's all to play for outside of the windy city! #WeRIZE

@HighlordRetard @virkokka @Longlius @crash @riotgames Least obvious ragebait

@ItsMerge @virkokka @Longlius @crash @riotgames You already had brain damage, if you agree with what he wrote.

congrats to the owners of a brand new $6k paperweight

@virkokka @HighlordRetard @Longlius @crash @riotgames Reading this thread gave me brain damage thank you for explaining to this fella

@HighlordRetard @Longlius @crash @riotgames How is that anyone else's fault then the cheater's? If a cheater is expert enough to install a custom DMA cheating card and use it, but not expert enough to back their stuff up when their OS works completely fine as it did before, that's on them.

@FarFarWestGame @EvilRaptorGames @FireshineGames Goated game

yall... we're speechless... this is a true lifetime achievement, and we couldn't have made it here without each one of you 🥰 from both teams here at @EvilRaptorGames & @FireshineGames, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

@Manhwa_updates Im still hopefull one day there will be a good hero killer adaptation

If this is true, I wonder how this would do. So far, I don't see anything on Korean news sites yet. #Overgeared feels like it's gone on for a long time. If this does well, I wonder if you will see more #manhwas being adapted into animes as a way to expand the IP.

@patros36 @chromat1cfire So the main character who is strong by default, consistently defeats his adversaries, has other powerful people around him constantly and collects women as he goes is some peak writing?

@ItsMerge @chromat1cfire Most people here do, so i'd rather ask. Why is it "slop" then?

The day I learned mfs picked up Overgeared 😭😭😭

@soarin7even @fajyusuff @cvnide Hype moments and aura wouldnt have existed without good art, if it looked like other similar manhwa at the time it would have been forgotten

@ItsMerge @fajyusuff @cvnide it wasn’t groundbreaking but that’s exactly why it did well? the average consumer especially when it was niche wouldn’t have read any other webtoon over this. It’s a given that it’s not a manga, the art is going to be different- they loved the slop content and hype moments

calling omniscient reader's viewpoint a solo leveling clone is like calling mob psycho 100 a clone of high school DxD

@soarin7even @fajyusuff @cvnide But you are saying it was popular because of the content, but we established the content was nothing groundbreaking, therefore it isnt the primary reason it did well imo

@ItsMerge @fajyusuff @cvnide “just bc people like it doesn’t mean it’s good” that was never my point😭 i don’t think SL is good, i never fed into the hype and i chose the latter again, precovid times SL was shoved in ur face - it was never a good feeling

@soarin7even @fajyusuff @cvnide Just because people like it doesnt mean it is good! I like big macs, i like SL they are both objectively not good. There wasnt much around and it was a new to the west genre (manhwa as a whole)

@ItsMerge @fajyusuff @cvnide the art work isn’t what made SL famous, it was just the content, u would see manwha reddit domains pre covid and whenever SL comes up its “im new to manwha where can i read more like SL power system” or in SL reddit, the particular “why i like SL” the art was never the main point

@soarin7even @fajyusuff @cvnide Ns where u got GoH from, ive never even read the LN only seen the adaptation so i wont comment. This thread was about ORV v SL and how newgen fans because of the adaptation think ORV is a imitation of SL, i think you have lost the point here.

@ItsMerge @fajyusuff @cvnide “just alright” i’ll forever be team GoH from off the rip, SL is buns, and people don’t hold it to its highest anymore, it’s more “okay slander aside, the take is objectively wrong” but it’s still getting shit on for all the right reasons

@soarin7even @fajyusuff @cvnide Its because people still hold it to the highest these days, im afraid its just alright, and even back then it was, it was just new and niche that is all and everyone was naieve about what good writing actually is. I love slop, i will continue to read slop, alas slop is slop.

@ItsMerge @fajyusuff @cvnide times have changed, it isn’t niche anymore and it’s still weird seeing people put down solo levelling when i was around a time when it was upheld to the highest and taking bad on it made it seem like ur trynna be different

@JBaldwin18426 @fajyusuff @cvnide

@ItsMerge @fajyusuff @cvnide Lmao no it’s not fagbag

@soarin7even @fajyusuff @cvnide Yes but there were many alternatives around, none of which are anywhere near as popular as SL, my point is that the crazy good for the time artwork is what made SL famous ultimatley, along with good release timing.

@ItsMerge @fajyusuff @cvnide exactly, that’s why i said it was the content, most dungeon bandit beating isekai back then weren’t good nor they were popular and even then an isekai at most wasn’t even dungeon based. it appealed to people’s love for linear progression and that’s when manwha were niche, now

@soarin7even @fajyusuff @cvnide Icl solo leveling was subsurface and didnt bring anything new to the table that manga didnt already cover

@ItsMerge @fajyusuff @cvnide it wasn’t popular because of the art it’s been popular because of the content and manwha was like niche at the time rest assured the GoH and SL rivalry is dead dead

@patros36 @chromat1cfire No i just comment on things online i have no idea about because i have the iq of a fork. Yes i have read it.

@ItsMerge @chromat1cfire Did you even read it?

@h1th3sh @BLouu @grok There is no way you used AI for basic math

@BLouu @grok how many copies should rockstar sell to make 1 billion dollars in 24 hrs, if the game is 100$

Nigga they gon make $1 billion in the first 24 hours 😂😂

@fajyusuff @cvnide Because solo leveling is just classic power fantasy, the reason it was popular is because it had great art. ORV has a more interesting story with more fleshed out characters and arcs. Its all round better in every way tbh.

@cvnide ive seen a lot of people say that orv is way better than solo leveling, and i think i understand but can you explain more?

@Atreyeu_ @UK_Daniel_Card Interestingly when uk blocking came out on X, i found it difficult to find uncensored protest videos for a while. It was fixed but just food for thought about what is potentially possible with digital ID tech.

@UK_Daniel_Card I agree with you here. It could be effective and useful if built & managed in the right way. The main problem is the lack of trust. People don't trust the govt won't use this against people. Either in monitoring them or eventually limiting services to requiring one

Contrary to most people I think, I'm not massively against digital ID.... (with lots of caveats) I think having a central digital ID that is decentralised and privacy protecting is way better than the insanity of age verification systems we have today. We have passports, we have national insurance numbers, we have driving licenses..... If we have digital versions of these that can be used to attest: I AM AN ADULT I don't think that's a terrible idea..... as long as it puts you in control of the data being shared and that it's done in a privacy protecting, safe way..... ncsc.gov.uk/collection/ncs… #how-the-digital-id-will-work" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gov.uk/government/pub…

@TrunksESP @_fakebruno I feel like timmy here isnt going to do all this in a week either? I think he just ment he plays till he completes them all

@ItsMerge @_fakebruno Like, imagine getting to masters in SFV, that shit is not difficult but it'll definitely take at the very least 40+ hours of nonstop grinding This somewhat applies to the anime games too, I can see him playing Uni2 but the grind to S+4 is genuinely gruesome

the fighting game player that does this across titles would be printing free money