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@SwallowBug11 @AnsonexDL Name a single esport rn where consistent internet issues like this are even remotely acceptable

@AnsonexDL brother 20 minute pauses because of technical issues happen in every single esport in the world even in LANs it happens you just pause hope it can be resolved then move on

Long one: I was mistaken in thinking Night Shift did make a rule book after the recent Abrahams bug abuse, looking into their discord for messages mentioning “rules” or “rule book” a staff member, Lotu said: “We’ve had rules since week one, wether they are in a book or not IDK” and it’s been exemplified twice in 5 weeks, clear rules are needed., People have been misled on how small of a community Deadlock has been up until very recently. While Deadlock has had incredibly high peaks for an in-development game, it’s also had some deep valleys, particularly over the beginning of 2025. While of course everyone remembers the 170k concurrent player peak the game had during its initial “reveal” in 2024 if you will, and now how it has maintained such a sizeable percentage of it’s playerbase after the Old Gods New Blood update, they often forget the lull of having 15-20k daily peak concurrent players for 9 straight months. I think a lot of the folks who have experienced the game mainly at those two peaks have missed a huge part of the core Deadlock community’s culture that was built over that lull, and that is the proper community aspect you will never see in a game now of this size. I don’t necessarily mean even in a “everyone is nice to everyone” way, but moreso a “we see where this game is going, and we want to be there” kind of mindset. People who have been here since the beginning, through all the peaks and valleys have inherited that communal mindset. I don’t think there has been a single prominent (perhaps a stretch lol) individual not named Metro who has been more critical of the scene than I; and I’ve left my truly harsh criticism for only the properly worthy moment (ABL). I’ve kept my criticism of players in line with what is said on the Night Shift broadcast, so as not to go over my skis. And for similar community-based reasons, Night Shift has a much more personal relationship (I imagine) with players than other TOs will in the future. The relationship isn’t corporate and transactional like it will be in a matter of months or years, it’s personal and they understand Eido’s issue. That and the lack of a clear rule around pausing is what leads to a 20-minute pause. The elephant in the room, Eido is Deadlock’s golden boy. People will read into that thinking it’s a slight, but it surely isn’t. There is one in every space and setting, and he’s earned it through work, performance, being authentic & entertaining. But I’m not sure anyone not named Eido or Zerggy would receive the same grace. Deadlock, now, is one of the largest games on Steam, peaking in the top 30 every day without fail. Night Shift has done a tremendous job of being a bannerholder for our community, but they are rapidly outgrowing the ability to call themselves a community show. The game and audience are getting too large for that community to exist. Sponsors have flooded back into the space after a months-long stretch of Night Shift being self-funded, and the prize pools have ballooned to an amount no one without corporate funding could match. And what comes with that is the expectation that things will be as buttoned up as the production is. Another thing the old gods have learned that the new blood hasn’t quite yet is Deadlock itself is far from buttoned up. Glitches galore, and it gets worse in custom lobbies. So we find ourselves again between a rock and a hard place, on whose “fault” this actually is. But perhaps with a rule book it might be between a rock and a soft place. Other ramblings: I’m curious where Night Shift as a company goes from here; if it will continue to scale up and evolve to LAN events or if the crew are more using it as a resume builder for when the legacy TOs move into the space. Either way, their table is set. I would encourage Eido to stop reading comments about his performance. He’s at a point in his streaming career where he has thousands of concurrent viewers, and it’s clear he’s a talented player. He’s mentioned struggling with distractions before, and he tweeted again last night about how the chat hates him. There is truly nothing to be gained by reading chat during the pause.

@Biburluve Twitter Dany vs Jon fans fighting over who’s read the books less

They'd be shipping the most perfect girl with another boring misogynistic loser lol

@fagfeyd @LoneDroog You guys talk about this shit like it’s kpop and it’s so depressing

@LoneDroog mind you, its not even a good show so he should have spared us

one HUGE sneak

@Adachi_corp @tteoktokki_ Sorry name the ones that aren’t white among Venator, Warden, Geist, Holliday, Pocket, Kelvin, Paige, Silver, Shiv, Billy, Drifter, Vindicta, Celeste, Graves, Mcguiness, Graves, and Lash. Not even counting the unknown characters that are probably also white like Paradox.

@moonsideB @tteoktokki_ White skin≠white

genuine truth nuke

@Adachi_corp @tteoktokki_ Where tf did you get 8 from there’s 17 and most of the other heroes aren’t normal humans

@tteoktokki_ 38 heros , and only 8 are white tf are you on???

@DanHarmone @RaxRazing The head writer of avatar was not there for Korra so actually yes he might know more than the writers cause they didn’t write the source material

@RaxRazing "I know more than the writers" ahh tweet

Because the Legend of Korra writers didn't watch the Last Airbender

@MsViviValentine @GwenpostingTTV Oh I didn’t know it was about win rates sorry. Holliday’s op just play her then. What rank are you to be talking like this

@moonsideB @GwenpostingTTV Sorry haze and paradox the hero’s with sub 50 win rates in eternus? Well ig you wouldn’t know that since ur miles away from that rank Also haze is a assassin not a pick character if you don’t know the difference ur self reporting that ur low ELO

Are pick heroes genuinely just useless if your team can't stop taking dumbshit fights?

@MsViviValentine @GwenpostingTTV Bebop and bebop are nightmares and haze para are solid asf rn you’re just bad at the role lol

@moonsideB @GwenpostingTTV maybe in alchemist theyre good rn but we're talking about the real game

@MsViviValentine @GwenpostingTTV Most pick characters are good asf now lol. Doorman haze paradox bebop are all good

@GwenpostingTTV Pick heros are just generally useless rn because everyone has such high hp they survive the pick tool 90% of the time

@DeadlockAnon Sure pal

Lower rank players should not take the advice of eternus players, the skill level and meta are so different that it ends up just ruining games

Man scrolls through r/GOT looking for new tweet material. He finds a normie loser who thought a shot looked cool. He chuckles as he takes a screenshot, thinking to himself “Twitter’s going to love this.” He’s 35.

@LegacyArdor @CrazyShadyFacts You people are useless

@CrazyShadyFacts showing the AAA industry that you cant just have this giant property and do basically nothing with it for a decade. and if it succeeds with a high price the prices of AAA games will continue to rise for no good reason. Being an example that focusing on "improving" graphics to be-

Gta fans really pretending they dont understand why people want gta 6 to fail

@Juhwooce @managarmrr_ Tf did Geist do wrong

@managarmrr_ not all geist players but always a geist player #noticing

went 0-7 in lane and our geist told me to stop feeding so i just left the game

@ZenkaiGamingZ @azulabetter Zuko admits in the fight he wouldn’t stand a chance if she wasn’t losing it, azula is a prodigy lol

@azulabetter She couldn’t budge Zuko an inch in that final fight quite literally. Cool gimmicks though

Fire is literally the most boring element in ATLA and then you see Azula use it

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐞 #doorman #deadlock

@naimbotlevrai @Hazy__River @sugurudeimos Sure bro everyone cares about one piece still

@moonsideB @Hazy__River @sugurudeimos You will check the spoilers then hate

is there a manga spoiler more widespread than gojo’s death

@Hazy__River @sugurudeimos No one gaf

@sugurudeimos the only thing beating it will be the ending to One Piece

@FairwellNoob @DeadlockAnon Victor is only good in pisslow as a carry idk what to tell you

@moonsideB @DeadlockAnon If you are bad at them maybe

I hate the fact that you can’t build spirit carry in current meta. Gun damage is just overall more superior with more consistent damage and faster killing mid boss and towers. Not to mention some mage characters underperform late game if you don’t invest some gun damage.

@FairwellNoob @DeadlockAnon None of these characters carry late game

@DeadlockAnon There's still a lot of good spirit carries at the relatively late game, Victor, Apollo, GT, Mina, and Pocket

@lewnerys Always a Dany stan

my lukewarm take is that it was never as good as people said it was. "it fell off in the later seasons" no it's always been mid, but perhaps that's my book bias talking.