Currently studying CS and some other stuff. Best known for previously being top 50 (OCE) in LoL, expert RoN modder, and creator of RoN:EE’s community patch (CBP).

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  • A more onion-y title would be something like “Conservative commentator quotes Marx, calls for mass protests and strikes”.

    The actual title is more just !ironicorsurprisingnews than !nottheonion material imo


    Edit: You’ve editorialized the title?

    Posts must be:

    1. Links to news stories from…
    2. …credible sources, with…
    3. …their original headlines, that…
    4. …would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

    Unless it was changed post-publication, the original is

    Conservative NYT Columnist David Brooks Calls for ‘National Civic Uprising’ to Defeat Trumpism – Complete With ‘Mass Rallies, Strikes’

    Imo that’s actually more onion-y than the changed title



  • Subjective descriptions like “high” and “low” are all a matter of perspective.

    From the perspective of pro players it’s pretty “low”. From the perspective of the larger player population, it’s not “low”.

    Something to consider is that a section of the playerbase is relatively “tryhard” and a section of the playerbase is relatively “casual”. The expectations of the former group are higher, because they (perhaps rightfully) expect to generally be a higher rank than the “casual” players. Using completely made up numbers, if the lowest 20% of the ranked population is mostly “casual” players, then the rank distribution for “tryhard” players is mostly about the top 80% of the ranked population, excluding that bottom section where it’s mostly players who play just for fun and don’t care much about improving / trying to win. From that perspective – and using those completely made up numbers – gold may again seem “low” for a “tryhard” player.