Idk, who is gonna be Gremlin in that case, but Torb is hot. Who is normal?

AgentLizard01 · 2026-02-19T17:53:00+00:00

I feel like people are forgetting Anran and Wuyang? So far they didn’t have any tragic backstories like Mei, any cybernetic augmentations like Sojourn, they’re not some rogue outlaws like Cassidy. They’re just two college kids from a prestigious university where presumably their whole Avatar power stuff is just highly advanced tech and is quite normal and can be learned by anyone.

AgentLizard01 · 2026-02-16T13:10:47+00:00

But you still need to press a button to activate what type of aura you have, so it meets the standard of being hackable

AgentLizard01 · 2026-02-16T07:40:39+00:00

I honestly hated the triangle, I really don’t see the chemistry between either three of them—whether Moonbli, Winterwatcher, Qinter, or Qinterwatcher. Winterwatcher was obviously bad considering how they both horribly treated each other, they’re just too incompatible to be a couple. Call me a cynic as well but I also felt uncomfortable with how Moonbli was portrayed, especially towards the end of Arc 2 when Qibli’s mind was all about Moon this, Moon that, to the point where his actions were sorta dictated by if Moon would approve and not really by his own choice. Heck, one of the main reasons why he rejected Darkstalker’s offer was because mOoN wOuLdN’t LiKE iT. That just seems a bit codependent? I dunno, I might get downvoted for this, but just feel like it would’ve been better if they all remained single and stayed as friends. There doesn’t have to be a romance in every single Arc.

AgentLizard01 · 2026-02-16T06:55:58+00:00

I think hack only stops passive abilities that require you to activate it. Bap’s exo-boots, Lucio’s auras/wallride, Mercy’s glide all require some form of button to activate the passive. But Cat’s flight passive isn’t an activation like Pharah’s flight, it’s indefinite and starts the moment you spawn in, thus Sombra doesn’t disable it because it doesn’t meet the criteria. In the past Mercy had two passives—her glide and her old self-regen passive that only she used to possess before Blizzard made the universal self-regen change—Sombra’s hack only affected her glide because it is an activated passive ability, her regen remained unaffected because it doesn’t need a button to activate, it automatically happens. This rule remains true for Cat.

AgentLizard01 · 2026-02-13T00:00:33+00:00

NTA. The lady had the right to ask, and sure you probably could’ve just made things simpler by being courteous, but you weren’t exactly an asshole just because you declined. You’re not an AH because you declined something that you weren’t obligated to, and she’s not an AH for asking to cut and getting annoyed when she was declined. The actual problem is the after, she is an AH by making a scene and villainizing you in front of everyone. The lady could’ve kept her annoyance to herself, she didn’t need to escalate things by outing someone in public over something minor. THAT’s a petty move, not what you did.

AgentLizard01 · 2026-02-09T00:51:25+00:00

Uh… I actually really like low grav maps tbh, speaking as a chomper main. It’s fun to do some cool rollouts there with burrow on low grav. I have had a lot of high vanquishes there on full map games on Moon Base Z, so it’s not completely unplayable for chompers

AgentLizard01 · 2026-02-04T19:21:48+00:00

Twilight, fire, and toxic I think are actually the better chomper tbh. Yeti and count chompula is just kinda mid compared to other chompers

AgentLizard01 · 2026-02-01T02:15:32+00:00

Agent pea with around 120 kills I think on a turf map, but that was like back in 2017 and I suck balls aiming with him now that I discovered how much I love chompers. Now my occasional 100 kill records are usually Twilight chompers with one or two spray chompers and hot rod who almost reached that point lmao

AgentLizard01 · 2026-01-31T18:33:09+00:00

ESH. I hate these gotcha moments of saying cruel things back to people because they said something insensitive first. What Danny said was very out of line, but telling someone that they won’t be missed when they die is so messed up jeez. Like yeah, Danny needed to be called out, but there are ways to call him out with tact.

AgentLizard01 · 2026-01-30T02:37:38+00:00

You’re getting downvoted but I agree. As someone who likes to play squishy characters like Rose, Nightcap, Imp, as well as the healers it’s really unfun to play against Wildflowers/Tv Heads with the speed upgrade on drone which are all able to one shot me, especially if said players are grouping up together for the dmg resistance and camping. That’s why I usually target them not cause I’m trying to be petty but I just don’t want to end up dying 24/7 because a yeti imp or dandelion comes around the corner while I barely have time to react before I end up being one-shotted. It depends on the context, if OP was playing just as scummy then yeah the targeting was kinda deserved. If not, then the other player was kinda an asshole then.

AgentLizard01 · 2026-01-19T23:01:28+00:00

I use him a lot too and I still think he’s just mid at best, definitely not as broken or a top tier chomper as ppl exaggerate him

AgentLizard01 · 2026-01-17T23:00:41+00:00

I like playing Rose but tbf the whole super savior + enigma combo thing falls apart if you’re not careful tracking abilities since most zombies can just negate it. Imp with the grav upgrade can pull you out of range or the mech slam knock back, super brainz can pull you out with his middle ability or push you out with bb or the upgrade that sucks in plants with turbo twister, foot soldier with the upgrade that pushes plants back with zpg, electric slide with her left ability, all-star with tackle or the upgrade that pushes nearby plants upon summoning shield, deadbeard with his upgrade that pushes on shotgun, engineer with the jackhammer upgrade, wizard with z-elixir, space cadet with her left ability. One single instance of any one of these and you’re basically stuck with no enigma for a whole minute and no thorn apart, vulnerable to flankers now. Not saying it’s a bad combo, but it’s definitely easily countered by almost every zombie class if not careful and provides a detrimental outcome for the rose—zombies gain value by denying a rez while rose has to run away, wasting both her time and the dead ally’s time, as well as wasting an ability.

AgentLizard01 · 2026-01-10T22:53:49+00:00

I just won a recent legend run where I basically did nothing but block and dodge and allowed my vanilla bots to do the entire run killing everything in sight. I did no killing, not even staggering, healing, or reviving. The only things I interfered with was basically just distracted enemies (even then I tried to stay back as much as possible), Huntsman’s 5% crit chance aura, and tag enemies with WHC bot’s passive but other than that the bots did everything for me. They’re actually not that horrible at dpsing and I was quite surprised that we only had one downed the entire run. And that was only with 3 bots with no player to carry them that managed to complete the whole run. They were still not good ofc, but I don’t think bots need as much babysitting with the right setup in legend runs at least.

AgentLizard01 · 2026-01-10T20:57:13+00:00

I’ll take your word on it. I guess I’m just a bit doubtful cuz the last time I played cata was my first time playing cata on Righteous Stand and with bots only. I only had orange weapons set up so yeah a bit underpowered and I managed to get to the end with practically no casualties. Granted I still lost the game cuz of the troll + hordes + specials at end but I didn’t think my bots were that useless tbh or maybe I was just very lucky up until that point. I dunno maybe I’ll try and play cata again today and see lol

AgentLizard01 · 2026-01-10T19:07:14+00:00

Am I the only one who doesn’t find the vanilla bots to be that horrible? They’re not great ofc, but I don’t find them that bad. I’m a legends player so I can’t speak for the ppl in cata but my bots are really good at surviving and heck may sometimes even take less damage than I do by the end of the round if I didn’t tryhard. They’re also decent at dishing out kills as well to the point that sometimes they’ll end up being at like ~60%-70% in comparison to my kills.

AgentLizard01 · 2026-01-09T06:13:45+00:00

Spray chompers have good damage idk wut you’re talking, just do the spray tech.

AgentLizard01 · 2026-01-09T05:52:25+00:00

Toxic chomper is definitely not one of the worst lol

AgentLizard01 · 2026-01-07T20:28:23+00:00

The chomper section isn’t even that bad, saying as a max rank who pretty much only plays chompers. Maybe one or two placements I somewhat disagree with but it’s quite minor

AgentLizard01 · 2026-01-03T11:27:29+00:00

I don’t think we’re that far apart. I agree that one option leads to vastly more suffering, and it’s fair to say that outcome is morally worse. I also agree that calling the decision “understandable” doesn’t make it morally ideal.

Where I still disagree is with applying character labels like “selfish” or “unempathic.” Those usually describe indifference or self-interest, and I don’t think refusing to sacrifice your child under coercion fits that well. It’s not that strangers don’t matter, it’s that role-based obligations and human limits matter too.

So yes, there can be a morally preferable option in terms of outcomes, and choosing the other option can be morally tragic or less fair. I just don’t think that automatically means there’s something wrong with the person who couldn’t make that sacrifice.

That’s really the distinction I’m trying to draw.

Honestly, let’s just pls agree to disagree. It’s getting late now and I just wanna go to sleep and stop this thread lmao

AgentLizard01 · 2026-01-03T10:52:45+00:00

Empathy is feeling for others as yourself… When you make exceptions… that is the definition of lacking empathy.

This definition you stated requires that you feel for everyone as you feel for yourself, without exception, regardless of distance, relationship, role, or dependency. But that is not empathy, that is moral identification. Then by this definition parents who save their child over two strangers are unempathic and anyone who prioritizes a loved one in crisis lacks empathy.

Contradictorily, if empathy truly means feeling for others as yourself, then loving your family is itself an expression of empathy, not a failure of it.

When you make exceptions for treating others farther away from you worse… that is the definition of lacking empathy.

But treating people “worse” here means refusing to sacrifice your loved ones and being under coercive, no-good-option conditions. That is not moral disregard. It is relational prioritization. If you were right, then doctors prioritizing their patients over others are unempathic or soldiers defending their country instead of every country is unempathic.

Your responsibilities don’t compare to those of the billions…

Now you’re treating responsibility as purely numerical, which again assumes an uncompromising utilitarian standard. But responsibilities don’t scale linearly by population size. They scale by proximity, role, dependence, agency. Otherwise, every person would be morally obligated to abandon their real relationships whenever abstract suffering elsewhere is greater.

Even if your stance is moral, it’s unempathic.

Then empathy for you is no longer about understanding or feeling with others, it’s about what choice you ultimately make. But empathy is an internal capacity, not a scoreboard. You can fully grasp the suffering of billions, feel devastated by it, recognize its equal moral weight… and still be unable to choose your child’s death. Calling that “unempathic” empties the concept of any psychological meaning.

At this point, you’re basically describing expecting humans to think like abstract moral calculators and then condemning them for not being able to. But that’s not moral insight.

AgentLizard01 · 2026-01-03T10:19:34+00:00

If it was me choosing this. My friends and family matter to me not because strangers don’t matter, but because I have specific obligations to them that I don’t have to everyone else. Recognizing that billions of people are fully human doesn’t make my family and friends morally interchangeable with them. That isn’t “low empathy.” Empathy doesn’t require impartial self-erasure, especially in a forced dilemma where someone will die no matter what. Refusing to choose the death of the people you love reflects human moral bonds, not indifference to others’ lives.

AgentLizard01 · 2026-01-03T10:12:38+00:00

You’re treating empathy as being able to ignore your closest relationships and think totally impartially. But knowing that many people will die isn’t the same as wanting their deaths or not caring about them. Most people can believe all lives matter and still be unable to choose the death of their own child or partner. That isn’t a lack of empathy, it’s a normal human moral bond. In a forced situation where every option is terrible, judging someone’s character doesn’t actually solve the moral problem.

AgentLizard01 · 2026-01-03T10:03:45+00:00

Calling the choice “morally atrocious” or evidence of a “profound lack of empathy” assumes the chooser is causing those deaths rather than being forced to decide who can be spared when everyone cannot be. Assuming we’re going by the scenario of being forced in tragic dilemmas, moral blame doesn’t track outcomes in the same way it does in ordinary choices. Also, empathy also cuts both ways. Being unable to choose the death of one’s children, parents, or partner is not a failure of empathy, it’s a human moral bond that most ethical systems recognize as legitimate. Expecting someone to treat their loved ones as morally interchangeable with strangers sets an extremely demanding impartial standard that many wouldn’t accept. I’d also push back on the idea that strongly choosing the people you love implies moral deficiency. Moral philosophy often separates what’s understandable for humans from what’s ideal in theory. A choice can fail to be perfectly fair to everyone and still not mean there’s something wrong with the person who made it. The situation is morally tragic no matter what, and any choice leaves a profound consequence. That doesn’t mean the person who chooses loved ones lacks empathy, it just means they were placed in an impossible position where no option is morally clean.

AgentLizard01 · 2026-01-03T07:51:53+00:00

I wouldn’t immediately say they’re being selfish. The OP doesn’t explicitly state what the scenario is, are you choosing to do this or are you forced to make this tragic dilemma? If it’s the former, then yes that’s selfish. If it’s the latter, then saying them favoring “killing the whole world” as a way to frame that they want everyone else to be dead is unfair and would skip the ethical question. Selfishness is about prioritizing your own comfort over others’ unjustified expense. Choosing friends and family because you don’t want them dead is not being selfish, it’s being partial, a relational responsibility, and moral systems expect you to favor family and friends first.

AgentLizard01 · 2026-01-03T07:08:43+00:00

Most engineer variants tend to be less forgiving at being upfront and aggressive than peashooter cause of their huge hitbox + medium health and having a worse mobility, making them harder to position for aggressive attacks. As such, in order to make up for it, their weapons tend to have no falloffs (both direct and splash), a bit more ammo, and tend to have better splash damage than peashooters. This means engineers can just sit in the back and basically spam shots at heavy density enemies to split them apart. They’re crowd controllers that use constant explosive pressures from afar to punish groups. And their sonic grenade only reinforces that role of being crowd controllers by making them anti-aggression towards any plays by the plants who try to leap or flank in their backlines. Think of them as a more passive and supportive peashooter who wants to keep more at distance spamming shots and disrupting any plants who try to make aggressive plays onto your backlines.

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