is it really so surprising that people write ai off completely when most peoples exposures to "ai" are just shitty spam advertisements. Or generating a non-consenting persons likeness, including for use in pornography. Or all the underhanded attempts to get consent (or complete disregard thereof) to use peoples data to train models. Or see memes mocking some allegedly revolutionary chatbot utterly failing to grasp basic common sense. Or see their already trash insurance, internet, bank, etc company replace their customer service (which people already notoriously hate) with some shitty chatbot that serves as noting more than a hurdle to speak to an actual person. Or the fact that so many public advocates of the magic of ai look, sound, and act the same as crypto shills.
add on to the fact that the outputs of generative ai is often so bland and devoid of anything interesting that it seems like the most interesting thing about it is that a computer made it, a novelty which wears off extremely quickly.

ok yeah in that case i probably agree

is it really so shocking that pubbers are upset that they can barely play casual when tftv has a thread every few months over mild inconveniences, obviously people care about what affects them. proudly declaring that you don't actually care about the thing that other people do doesn't make you cool

there should be a separate rating that only captains can see that tell you if the player youre picking took a bong rip just before queueing

all this in a lan season is gonna make s15 one of the most memorable invite seasons in a while
even low-mid invite looks like anyone's game at a glance

yes every roller is a missed pipe which just hitting wouldve been better but likewise every splash rocket is just a missed direct but we all understand that splash is still a very useful tool
while rollers of course are extremely nice to have for unintentional chip damage, even ignoring that rollers have the unique ability of lingering without being shootable like a sticky so they are still absolutely useful as an intentional stalling measure to reload a couple more stickies to continue holding a choke, or stalling to help escape like in the example of the clip in the video

this is actually a fine example to counter the stance that rollers are barely purposefully used with a very clear example of the usefulness of rollers being used intentionally
even among players who dont want to play with the loch, people were openly mocking etf2l's official position on the ban because it just reads like someone whos never played against the weapon wrote it with help from chat gpt, and that part of the video is talking about that in a totally normal way
like its fine to ban the loch if you want and i wouldnt even care if it got banned in na but at least be honest about the reasons and say that its unfun to play against or that random cross-map pipes are too much or really any of the actual reasons rather than trying to launder the ban under some other pretense that sounds nicer to say

i think making it lane-based is a good solution to isolate smaller fights rather than the heal blob bullshit we see in similar games
wont be playing it but good luck i guess

yeah but i didnt get permanently banned for being a manipulative sex pest and trying to play innocent by continuing to focus on pointless shit and leaving out necessary details

alfa should consider himself lucky he dodged a courtroom its sad that hes so hopelessly addicted to tf2 that hes still trying to slither back in

Tierlist for every 5cp point, rank your favorites here and post results

in NA bagel is by now the most popular and well-liked koth, but what elements make it so good? Is it the fast cap allowing teams to convert a cap off of even minor advantages like damage and positioning? is it the fast spawns leading to a more aggressive sack-heavy style? is it the discrete separation into houses making spamming the point a more committed option for soldiers while also isolating fights?
or is it just that product and clearcut have more obvious flaws that bagel doesnt have?

b4nny tried so hard to be mad https://clips.twitch.tv/PiercingCutePineapplePastaThat

i mean the number itself "doesnt matter" in the sense that it could function with invite being 500 elo or 10000 but if low inv players deflated to relatively lower than main players just because they played in harder pugs then yeah that's a problem with the system
an important component though is that in the case of ties or close games, the elos of each team should get closer to converging. the big issue is that the self correcting process is really annoying because the site just arbitrarily assigns some number and these inflated or deflated elos fuck with the predictions until enough pugs have been played to iron them out, until which point teams will have close games or wins that they lose elo for, since elo predicts not just a win but winning margins. a winning team losing elo is by design

bottom row since its a humble demo that gets the pick instead of a cringe scunt