Slasher should have been mentioned here. He’s the only reason why we ever heard anything about possible tension behind the scenes with Boston. Leakboi may not be viewed positively by everyone but he’s been bang on about almost everything he’s covered.

Boston looked good going into this but they had way too many 3-2 victories this stage, they had grit but their 10-0 wasn’t a truly dominating one imo.

The Chinese market is the largest in the world, there’s no way OWL drops them. Pretty sure I read that Chinese viewership is the only viewership demographic currently rising; Shanghai is still bad but they’re better than they were and can’t really get worse in future seasons. As little faith as I have in Chinese…

That’s either the positioning of the supports, which is largely their responsibility, or their ability to mechanically deal with flankers (read: being out-skilled). If they’re struggling, D.Va has to play more defensively and focus on keeping them up or they need to get better in terms of mechanics, game sense,…

I’m talking about the roster here. Management chose to shoot themselves in the foot from the outset, knowing full well that they were pulling subpar players...hopefully this is enough of a shock to the system to force improvement but the issue from the outset, something that affected China’s OWWC team too, is…

The main tank dying in a dive comp is generally more attributable to either off-tank (read: D.Va) play or their own mistakes than support play imo. With the supports in this meta, all they would have on them is Harmony Orb unless Mercy, Lucio, or a Moira orb follows them in. It’s important to make sure that everyone…

Very unlikely. They knew what they were getting into when they selected a subpar roster at the start, they had access to the best players in China, players who could compete with the world’s best, but they chose not to use them.

Boston looking really good. Personally, I still think that NYXL and London are better teams but Boston is in great form right now and they’re on a roll.

Healers can’t really stick to their tanks in dive, which Shanghai runs fucking always. There are different variations of dive that allow for a greater degree of protection but I don’t watch Shanghai enough to know which form they focus on.

Reading comprehension is apparently a very difficult thing for a large portion of Kotaku’s readership. I wish I could say that I was surprised!

Oh wow, people actually have DIFFERENT experiences? It’s almost like I said “foreigners are viewed and treated in Korea and Japan always” instead of “can be treated”....oh wait, I DID say “can be treated,” which implies that I was focusing on his experience instead of making a blanket statement!

It’s really tiresome. I had hoped to provide some kind of insight into what seems to be an issue in certain areas of Asia with a cautious or negative perception of foreigners but people couldn’t resist trying to use it to launch an argument totally irrelevant to the article and my story.

He’s almost definitely going to be tuned down a little but he’s in a much better place now. Really nice rework coming from Blizzard.

I like the part where I said nothing like that happens anywhere outside of Korea and Japan. I also like that other part where I’m doing more than just recounting a story relevant to the culture discussed in the article...oh, wait, those parts never happened!

I’m not from the US ::shrug::

I’ve heard really nasty things about how foreigners can be viewed and treated in Korea and Japan. I have a friend, a white guy, who spent something like 10 years in Korea, married there, and had a kid, and he recounted incidents where he and/or the kid would randomly have to take racial abuse from people in the…

There’s a big difference...TriHard is not an inherently racist emote, shitty people just like to use it in shitty ways...this emote (or set of emotes) seems to have been created purely to attack this one person. I’m not commenting on whether or not Twitch potentially intervening is good or bad or whether this dude…

Dafran has no interest in returning but he’s definitely good enough to do so.

There’s a difference between heroes with low skill floors and heroes that, with low skill floors, are the most effective heroes in the game. The former is not an issue, the latter is a huge one. It’s why Moth meta and Junkrat meta were awful; the heroes dominated and had extremely low skill floor points to hit that…

This is hilarious. Overwatch has been blatantly balanced for low-skill players throughout the recent meta shifts, highlights being the 9 months of Moth meta, Junkrat’s meteoric rise, and the addition of two zero aim heroes in Moira and Brigitte.