• ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Credit where credit’s due, but it seems like great pains have been taken to hide the fact that this was a tournament of 4 players.

    Looks like she also had a 1st place finish in this tournament, which had over triple the entrants (14), and she did it while 7 months pregnant—that’s much more impressive, imo.

    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      Classic Dexerto, making a headline that gives a wildly inaccurate impression of reality.

      The headline made it seem like she won a tournament on the likes of EVO, not some small local tournament that could have just been among family members. Its cool she did this, but the author is REALLY trying hard to live up to their name (Virgina Glaze ).

  • xxce2AAb@feddit.dk
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    15 days ago

    “When you were a baby, Mommy was ripping out people’s spines while breastfeeding you.”

    “…I can respect that.”

    “You’d better, honey.”

  • Fmstrat@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    The player worked her way through a four-person bracket …

    So, she beat… 2 people?

    Still… Noyce.

  • kamen@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    That’s kind of the total opposite of the typical “Florida man” scenario.

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 days ago

    When the baby is that small, it’s the perfect time to do stuff like this. You have to be “on call” if they need you, but they spend 90% of the time sleeping. So just hold them or have them strapped to you and do your thing!

    I got caught up on so many shows during the first few days when my daughter was still nocturnal, and I know my wife beat a few games she had on the back burner.

  • ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com
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    15 days ago

    “I’m still recovering from a brutal c-section that almost resulted in a rupture (but went well because my surgeons are goated). Glad that I left the house and it gave us a small idea of how to gauge bringing our daughter to tournaments and travel. She was actually chill.”

    Feels like every “make me a sandwich” asshole [G]amer on earth just got humbled.

    I know it’s “just a local” but as someone with a history in (very technical & skill-based) competitive gaming during my youth: mad respect

  • fartographer@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Of course she won; she had a literal second set of hands to help her. It’s the same reason that Goro is the best character in MK. I obviously never win when I play as Goro, but that’s because everyone else is cheaters.
    /s