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[Alistair McFarlane @Alistair_McF]

I hadn’t planned to share this quite so soon, but you guys are observant.

Today was my final day at @FcpnchStds working on @playrust.

Nearly thirteen years ago, I discovered a game called Rust. Nearly eleven years ago, I was given the incredible opportunity to work on it by @garrynewman and @Helkus

I joined Facepunch from the community and worked my way up to COO and Executive Producer on Rust, originally from QA. Today, I’m stepping away and returning to where I started: as part of the community.

Rust and Facepunch have consumed a huge part of my life. I’ve loved it, fought for it and given it everything I had. Leaving has been one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever made, but I’m incredibly proud of what we’ve achieved. I've live my 10 year old dream.

Rust has one of the best development teams in the industry. For more than a decade, they’ve delivered monthly updates without fail, constantly improving, experimenting and pushing the game forwards. I’m proud of the culture we built and the legacy I leave behind.

Rust is currently reaching some of the highest numbers in its 13 year history across multiple platforms. Rust Mobile is also well underway, and I’m incredibly proud to have worked so closely with that team and helped bring Rust to an entirely new audience.

It's not always easy running a game of this scale, but I fucking loved it. Rust has made gaming history.

None of this would exist without the community. A game is nothing without the people who play it, support it, create content around it, run servers, make mods, report issues and continue play. You’ve challenged us, frustrated us, inspired us and helped shape Rust into what it is today. I’ll always be grateful for that.

Looking at you /r/playrust - you're a confusing bunch.

I don’t have another job or some big new adventure lined up, but I can't wait to see what next sparks my passion.

The years I dedicated to Rust inevitably took time away from other parts of my life. Now it’s time to give some of that time back into the areas I sacrificed.

Thank you to everyone at Facepunch, our partners, the creators, server owners, admins, modders, mappers, [you] and the tens millions of players who made this journey possible.

I’ll still be around. Just back in the community where it all began. 🫡

It's being a wild ride.

🩷🩷🩷

[Nanete_Rmcf @NaneteRmcf]

Collejón nacional🤳🏼

[César Hurtado @CesarHurtado]

Oye, esto es un temazo bestial, eh 😂😂😂😂

[Guinness World Records @GWR]

All the records Spain broke during the World Cup:

Most clean sheets - 7

Least goals conceded - 1

Oldest Manager to win the World Cup - Luis de la Fuente

Longest unbeaten run in competitive Men’s matches - 38

🇪🇸 🇪🇸 🇪🇸

[XOKAS @elxokas]

INFANTINA 🇦🇷 SUFRIÓ ENORMEMENTE CONTRA LA TODOPODEROSA EGIPTO 🇪🇬.
Messi ha pegado el mayor carro que le he visto en mi vida. Ha jugado de delantero, de extremo, de mediocentro y siempre bajando a sacar el balón jugado para los centrales. Ha jugado él solo.

[Ibai @IbaiLlanos]

KOI vs T1.

EL PARTIDO DE NUESTRAS VIDAS.

RT Y ENTRAD. FORMAD PARTE DE ESTO.
https://t.co/cL2WMcjsI6

[Ibai @IbaiLlanos]

MOVISTAR KOI vs FNATIC

TODO O NADA EN EL MUNDIAL.

AL MEJOR DE 3.

PUERTA GRANDE O ENFERMERÍA.
https://t.co/cL2WMck0xE

[Ibai @IbaiLlanos]

MOVISTAR KOI vs BLG (SUBCAMPEÓN DEL MUNDO)

Al MEJOR DE 5

ENTRAD Y RT
https://t.co/cL2WMck0xE

[Manu 𓃵𓃶 @Cabramaravilla]

.@IWDominate (el que dijo que KOI era un equipo de mierda y se dedicaba a acosar a los jugadores) me llama nena en su stream, me dice que no tengo idea de lol y que soy un cagón.

Obviando la fantasmada histórica, vamos a hablar un poco de mí y de este estafador:

👇

Lo voy a hacer en inglés para que puedan salir todos sus fanboys (tres o cuatro) y para que no tenga la excusa de la traducción. Yo no necesito esconderme. Le dais al translate y pilláis rápidamente el flow.

As for the question of who am I, I think it is the mark of a moron to expect your name to carry your takes. Anyone can and will make plenty of mistakes when talking about complicated and opinionated subjects such as League.

I feel context is necessary if you are coming late to what is quickly becoming a shouting match. My beef with Dom is based on me accusing him of basically being a grifter.

Someone pretending to understand competitive League at a high level to sell gambling content to unaware kids after, in one of his many desperate attempts to claw his way back into pseudo-relevance, he declared KOI players to be "shit" and made this a running joke within his fandom.

These alleged "shit players" in a "shit team" made finals on their first split and worlds on their first year. After upgrading their midlane to Jojopyun, have just now won LEC and made MSI. 2/5 finals, 2/4 internationals and a 3-1 LEC split finals against Cap's G2.

Seems to me that, after combining defamatory language with such an ill-informed professional blunder (I don't consider him a analyst but he does, so it is a professional blunder from his pretended pov), it would fall on Dominate to give a proper public explanation. Instead, he hides on his stream while accusing others of cowardice.

Let's put a pin on that and come back to the subject of what have I ever done (a weak whataboutism that barely qualifies as an excuse for running a harassment campaign against rookie players).

I started taking League seriously and joined the scene as a writer in 2017. By the end of that year I managed to join Mad Lions, a team that would find great success without me during 2018, being that I left within the span of two weeks.

After an argument with then coach Araneae, I became disillusioned with the competitive side of League.

In this argument my head coach, a veteran player and unarguably successful coach before and since, was adamant about the idea that lane matchups decide strongside. I argued that it is actually jungle windows of play that determine who should get to push the wave.

Today, we all know it's a bit of a mixed bag, and winning matchups have evolved much beyond who gets to crash any given wave. We agreed that both of us were people that have a hard time letting go of our opinions and parted ways amicably.

To me, what makes League a worthwhile pursuit is exploring the interesting ideas that can be built through it, not necessarily the drive to win. I left the team wanting to use content as a means to an end, as after that argument, I became obsessed with understanding the competitive jungle.

It took me a year and a half, and you can call it luck, but I'm actually quite proud of the narratives I was able to push building around that knowledge.

By MSI 2019, attended by at the time world champion "Ning" and mechanical prodigy "Clid", I pushed Jankos as the clear best jungler of the tournament. I understand the English speaking community has no way of knowing this, but I faced significant backlash for putting a western player above these two greats.

His cover style of jungle allowed G2 to greedily succeed in getting the most of their flex-heavy drafts that often landed them on the winning side of matchups, and coasted them into a midgame where they found no match.

G2 took that tournament and set a record for the quickest international finals. By the time EU legend Jankos arrived at worlds, many had them as the key player/mvp that made 2019 G2 work.

This time, even though most experts had Clid as clear top 1 jungler and I had just found success (maybe luck?) through Jankos, I actually pushed Tian as the top 1.

Admittedly, this one is kind of murky, since it was Doinb's understanding of midlane windows that actually had Tian play the peak of his career. Still, the fact remains that FPX brought the best jungle/river play system and ended up taking the tournament.

Finally, after a clear-cut exceptional Canyon that dominated 2020 and pushed the limits of what jungle efficiency is (hard to argue against his inherent quality nor was I ever inclined to do so), I had Wei as my top jungler for 2021's MSI.

This time, professional junglers (with whom I had an amicable relationship, this was not in bad faith) wrote to me privately, joking about how they were expecting for the tournament to end and Canyon to stomp Wei so they could laugh at me publically and quote-RT my tierlist.

I was committing the sacrilege of putting some chinese guy above the best jungler to ever play the game, in the tournament following his peak performance.

Sadly, their time never came. Wei's mastery of damage limits and unique skill with the Rumble pick (which was disgustingly broken, even if only one guy could actually play it, never mind what Phreak's winrate analysis told you) made Canyon's Morgana spam look disappointing to say the least.

Bear in mind that Canyon is still in my mind the best jungler to ever play the game, he just wasn't in his best form at that particular MSI.

Call it luck if you want, but bringing three dark horse takes in a row and have them all pay you back is no easy feat. Ask Dom how his KOI take is doing, I don't think he's too happy with it.

I can't sit here with you and spend all day exploring every bullseye I've ever gotten (there isn't enough room in a tweet), but I can tell you a few more.

Had Fnatic becoming a dysfunctional team over Razork´s transition from selfish jungler into adc lapdog, recently confirmed by Vladi in chat (I think he is a bit better than Dom at the game).

Had "Nisqy will never make an international tournament ever again" after he parted ways with Elyoya, while other content creators were pushing the opposite. We had to sit for years and pretend he was enabling Elyoya to look good and not the other way around.

Nisqy seems like a fun guy, I'm actually low-key a fan of his, but I don't build my takes on whose dick I can suck deep enough so that they might show up on my stream and give me credibility by association (unlike other people).

I had 2023 T1 beating JDG when the narrative was JDG's royal road. How?

Because since MSI 2022 I've been pushing every team to study T1's early vision system. Like, I literally said over and over again, whoever is not studying this team's early vision system is hard trolling. Recorded several videos on it. This is before Faker ever made world finals against DRX.

Back when I was saying T1 had revolutionized competitive League of Legends, accusations were that T1 were washed and chokers (remember which side of that narrative jungle soloq genius IWD was on?). After they made three World's finals in a row and won two of them, it seems like I was onto something, wasn't I?

I also made a very controversial video in 2022 that titles "The Second Korean Age", speaking about how T1's advancement in vision systems would push Korea ahead for years to come.

It was pretty controversial back then, in 2022, when China had won 3/5 of the last world championships. Now Korea has won three years in a row, not so controversial anymore.

Lucky again.

However, my proudest work is not something that seems that impressive at first glance. It's called "Pyramids towards 13.19". It's a work that explores the evolution of season 13's World's metagame, drawing a paralellism between understanding a patch and the religions in the lost city of Teotihuacán, wherein they'd build towards the sky in order to get a bit closer to the gods without any possible end to that process.

Just as a side note, I also have a video about how laning between turrets is sleeper op and Riot will have to nerf it eventually. T1 and some Chinese teams were toying with it last summer, but everyone focused on swaps instead (as they were easier to build and had a more solid body of working examples).

I recorded my theory in 2023 MSI and watched the best teams in the world converge on it a year later. There is more stuff like this, but again, I can't list it all.

Not bad for a nobody, I wonder how that compares to knowing what item is op on Volibear in terms of respectable and interesting knowledge of the game.

I often get professional coaching offers, including at the LEC level, despite only having two weeks of experience on the job. I've made a habit of declining them in order to keep working on what I consider to be interesting.

Other than that, I've built quite a successful private media platform centered around analytical pro League discussion (that thing everyone tells you no one actually cares for) in a dwindling ecosystem where no one understands what people care about enough to pay for.

I'd say that's pretty impressive in and of itself. As far as I can see, your numbers keep going down, so maybe I can help you with that too.

So at this point I wonder, at which point am I allowed to ask what has Dominate ever done? Other than harassing players, a pattern older than his beef with KOI. I remember he used to gloat and act like an absolute turd, reacting to Rekkles' tears for YouTube views back when he had that string of public breakdowns.

Is this a moral standard on which he gets to call me out on the crime of (and I wish I was kidding), posting a screenshot without context and then defending the Kcorp player "Vladi" in it to my Spanish-speaking fans?

What a fucking ass I am. I wish I could harass kids online, sell gambling to minors, and bully people having public breakdowns so I could have the legitimacy of a real, tried-and-true voice of the community.

The absolute gall to call me a pussy while you hide behind reaction content disguised as insight, a parasite of the co-streaming era of content, while I put my best foot forward building interesting stories that no one is talking about and get proven right; over and over. How is that KOI take aging mate, are you proud of that one?

Where are your deep explanations? The actual content, where is it? Other than ragebaiting I mean. I'd really love to check it out, since you are sooo good at clicking with Udyr on the NA server.

I want to remind everyone, as this can't be stressed enough, that this whole beef is about a guy making a shit (joke intended) take. Posing as a respectable professional to sell gambling while completely uninformed, driving a harassment campaing against players he knows nothing about, and then being butthurt that some Spanish guy calls him out on his pattern of abuse.

You see, my mistake was that he can get Challenger on Dr. Mundo or whatever the fuck he plays, which somehow turns this into a debate and not someone being called out for acting like an absolute asshole. Then it invalidates my whole career, as I don't speak 3rd grade English natively and am unwilling to leave behind my people who supported me from the beginning.

All I know about you, Dom, is that you are a bully who seems to enjoy it. Believe it or not, I'm not eager to get into a screaming match while I teach you league for free, all while joining your stream that averages similar numbers (while having streaming rights for years) as mine does broadcasting a stopwatch whenever I feel like streaming once in a blue moon.

I don't think it takes courage to do that. It takes pity, of which I don't have enough for you, or perhaps a morbid curiosity for whatever might you say when actually confronted by a human. But I don't have that either, since I already know what you are going to say, the same thing you always say.

"One time, ten years ago, I almost was"

[Old Media @oldmedia]

The rain scene we were all waiting for 🔥

[Dallas Nation @TheDallasNation]

DEAR NICO HARRISON:

“ONE THING YOU’LL NEVER BE AND THAT’S OURS” 🤯

GIVE THIS A LISTEN!! 👂🏽

[Fernando Cardenete @fercardenete]

¿Y si Jojopyun no ha dado un corazón porque le pertenece a Elyoya?

[Myrwn🦝 @Myrwnn]

BIG WIN @Flakked_LoL @KNekro

[Jojopyun @jojopyunlol]

Humanoid not beating the washed up allegations 💀💀💀

[DramaAlert @DramaAlert]

FIREWORK gun used by PROTESTER to confront riot police in Georgia. 🎆‼️

[Jojopyun @jojopyunlol]

Content Day Done ✅

[🇪🇸 ☆ 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧(A) ☆ 🇪🇸 @progrestonnnA]

Más de un millón de asistentes en la manifestación feminista por el 25 N en Madrid.

Éxito rotundo sin ningún tipo de duda.

[Oscar Haro Tasende @OSCARHAROTASEND]

Que porque me gusta @marcmarquez93 …

[Inclan @Inclan99]

@mas_culer @xavit0p @RuizSantaclara la de la ironia no se la enseñaron parece jajajajajja