I could have cried laughing in tribute to KEKW when LS and Nemesis said G3 S10 Spring final draft was unwinnable for Nemesis and he wasn't an issue for not doing anything with four kills and items.
They open VOD and go to where he is 4 kills up, and show him die for no reason in jungle, with vision of enemies. They quickly backtrack their comments to a neutral position like "was it my fault here? I'd need to rewatch the game" and then quickly close VOD.
If LS and Nemesis could destroy my points they would. Instead they just shift the goal posts and declare I didn't score. Like if I point out you didn't carry the game they flip it to "but I wasn't the worst player on my team in the game."
News flash: you don't sign Mids to elite LEC teams to simply "not be the worst player on the team" and think you're going to win LEC.
You guys now get a sense for what Nemesis's team-mates and coaches have been dealing with in FNATIC, though.
Wouldn't be the first time he failed to be able to handle a self-made man :>
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It's wild to me that Doublelift still ascribes to "ahead" and "behind" thinking about LoL.
If LoL has shown us anything it's that every patch is a slightly different game and macro concepts can be learned by totally fresh line-ups within weeks and months.
Preparation and practice is about removing the impediments which hold you back and aligning the strengths of the meta with your personal strengths.
How is CoreJJ so good still if NA is behind? Is he using left over magic from 2017? Of course not.
How has Jensen performed internationally despite playing his entire competitive career in LCS?
Imagine life as a game of DnD and your different skills, strengths and weaknesses as abilities that can be quantifed as stats. Similarly, you have an "alignment" that is essentially your paradigm of principles that guide which actions you will take.
Now let's say in this game you know everyone else's stats and alignment, as you do with your party. Doesn't it become easier to anticipate how they will react or how they can help or hinder you?
Now consider that most people aren't in your party. For the sake of your own strategy and success it will benefit you to ensure that different groups make the wrong assumptions about you.
It's easier to be kind to your loved one than to yourself, often.
Don't run from that power. Understand it and lean into it. Then you become unstoppable.
The damaged will say otherwise and attempt to conflate being capable of being on your own and independent thought with being lonely. It's a coping mechanism. Pity them.
I initially linearly focused on depth in one area but ignored the horizontal plane of other skills. Now I branch out before "completing one".
It may help to visualise as a linear journey initially, though:
Craft
-> Experience and personality enhancement
-> Marketing
-> Business of field
-> General business and financial concepts
-> investment and how to save
-> delegation and building infrastructure
Each line could be expanded out further into the sub-sections and techniques which it encompasses. There is obviously overlap too. It all accelerates and compounds over time in its effects.
The reason I made the hiring decisions I did for Flashpoint 2 is the golden age of talent has passed.
"Tier 1" is as diluted as most country's currencies.
So why not scout the next talent and build the culture that could help them become true tier 1 talent tomorrow?
That is a far more meaningful task than dunking on the would-be all-stars and hoping they eventually respond with some fire.
Tier 1 for analysis peaked when you had hosts with their own flair who could throw to me, YNk and SPUNJ and we all were going to get our shit off, segue effortlessly and blend it all in on camera presence.
If we're going to be anything approaching a community and work together to grow this space then it's essential the elder statements and figures with big voices be responsible with the public debate tactics they use.
An argument "won" in the fans' eyes because you got the other guy "cancelled" is not an argument won. It's just giving in to the worst aspects of our nature and playing off the evil that lurks in the hearts of all. We can be better than that.
Disagree with, dislike them or deride them as much you like, that's an entirely subjective discussion about tone, but punching below the belt is fucked. Not least since so many of us have had that done to us and know how unfair and destructive it can be.