I feel like this is going to get me in trouble at some point if I don’t stop soon

I had a lot of fun! It was my first ever prerelease, and I ended up going 2-2 in matches and placing 4th overall.

It’s a good set, I really like how my deck came together and it was pretty fun to play. Earthbending can be pretty powerful

(The match actually started closer to 2, but that was a stretch too far and I was ok with missing the opening ceremony and game one)

Yup! What else would I have gotten up at 3 AM for? 😜

Abilities or not, there’s a lot of funny things you can do with 30 toughness if you can afford to cast it

As an audio/visual professional, I really appreciate your videos on various media formats

You and me both. I’ve been a fan of 100 Thieves for as long as I’ve been watching LOL esports, and it breaks my heart to see them go

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And I am attempting to interact with your mastodon account via Bluesky

I really hope he gets a good offer for next year. I especially hope that the Quid/River mid-jungle duo stays together, when they’re both on it’s super fun to watch

“Heard they’re re-forming the Dawnguard. Vampire hunters or something, in the old fort near Riften. Might consider joining up myself.”

Currently we have two of these simultaneously, sports betting sites and Saudi sportswashing money. Probably the most shady so far, and I really don’t think this is good for the future of the scene but I don’t know what to do about it

Next was crypto, which stuck around for a few years, most notably with FTX’s deal to rename the legendary org TSM as TSM FTX. After the big FTX scandal came out, that deal fell apart pretty quickly and other crypto sponsors started pulling out too 4/?

The big one was venture capital. In the mid-2010s, venture capitalists saw the esports scene growing and wanted to get in before it got huge. However, since esports couldn’t figure out monetization, they weren’t getting return on investment and started pulling out around 2020-2022 3/?

This inevitably leads to another crash, which begins the cycle over again. Recently, though, it’s been getting faster and currently we sort of have two at once. 2/?

The display technology is better than it’s ever been, but sizing is weird, everything is smart even if it doesn’t need to be, and they keep adding unnecessary features

As an Audio/Visual professional, let me tell you that buying TVs in this day and age is an absolute nightmare