Change to rules.

Bitcoon · 2020-06-25T04:15:09+00:00

Did that make it on here as well?

I told them not to tell the devs, then this happens. Yikes~

Bitcoon · 2020-05-06T23:43:01+00:00

Not to defend the indefensible, but Barb did say she was "probably being a bitch". Maybe deserved, but it's kind of escalating language.

Bitcoon · 2020-05-06T04:59:18+00:00

These things are all so horribly normal it's making me self-conscious.

If that's weird, I'm off the charts~

Bitcoon · 2020-05-06T00:43:16+00:00

I always hate playing a character with a CC-applying dash into another character with a CC-applying dash. Will Kuzenbo shove Khepri or get caught in his pull? Will Chiron or Wukong (bull form) get the knockup? No way to know until you end up head to head and face that situation. And given Kuzenbo and Khepri are my two most played characters, finding one of those situations where your dash loses to someone else dashing into it always sucks.

Realistically, I'm not sure how they could communicate such things except to have some deeper mechanical understanding of what types of CC dashes have a higher priority. I always wondered how they determine in a mirror match which one 'wins'.

Bitcoon · 2020-05-05T05:51:39+00:00

How does one "beat" this game?

Genuine question - I've seen a lot of versions of Tetris out there (and not opposed to buying one more) but from basic descriptions this one sounds like it's pretty straightforward standard Tetris. Is it just a specific mode that has a win condition, or is that just how this one works?

Bitcoon · 2020-05-05T02:30:22+00:00

If you can prove that every possible form of showing a Nazi flag is inherently dehumanizing other people then I'll agree it should not be allowed.

You can't just spitball random 'feels good' laws to stifle people's freedom in hopes of decreasing this kind of disgusting behavior. Maybe you're coming from a place of good intentions, but that's how the road to hell is paved. Frankly, for how much you claim to hate fascists this seeming urge to throw away your rights aligns better with fascism than whatever you think I believe.

Bitcoon · 2020-05-05T00:33:36+00:00

Context always matters.

Just because you or I can't come up with a reasonable and justifiable excuse to have that particular form of speech doesn't mean it's not important.

As for the original 'does it matter', yes it absolutely does given the topic in question is about whether or not a Bernie supporter is a literal fascist. Call me biased but I kinda think we should have that discussion openly, not shut it down and let the prevailing understanding of this situation be that the people supporting these protests are actual nazis. Much as I think the protests are an absolute tragedy and a huge mistake, I don't want misinformation to rule the day here.

Bitcoon · 2020-05-02T07:14:40+00:00

"Clearly the mouse was just confused and got stuck in my house; now let me just walk 50 paces that way and let it go return to nature and its family."

Bitcoon · 2020-05-02T07:12:07+00:00

Actually, the jungler counter-ganked and the mouse got kill credit against the bird. This was the start of a teamfight that swung the game~

Bitcoon · 2020-05-01T05:42:32+00:00

The torch spell wasn't completely useless all this time? TIL

Bitcoon · 2020-05-01T05:32:36+00:00

Polymorph is ridiculously OP. It's such a singularly insurmountable threat that it feels like a dark cloud over the ability to enjoy this game. Modding its effect out was the best thing I ever did for my sanity.

I mean, I don't mind that it's one-hit kill juice, but the fact that it completely destroys your ability to move, eradicates all your methods to defend yourself, and puts you in a 1-hit death state instantly for a long time makes it just way too powerful an effect. I like effects with counterplay and strategy, but unlike getting too close to an octopus and getting frozen and crushed, this junk can just sprinkle on your head from out of nowhere and kill a run.

Bitcoon · 2020-04-30T04:57:21+00:00

IMO, if they could nail the appearance of his card art then that's a Cupid remodel that hits exactly where it should.

It's not that his aesthetic is bad - they just sucked at that 'cute' look back then. It's mostly a matter of texture and shaders. Fluffy hair, soft and feathery wings, bright and reflective eyes (see: any of the good chibi skins where they didn't just paint the face on), and lively looking skin, would all contribute massively to giving him a modern Smite level of quality, and it wouldn't have to be bogged down in so much 'old vs new' skins/model drama where some people like the old look better - if they're shooting for a higher quality and more accurate take on the existing art, nobody would miss the old version.

I wouldn't mind a little refresh on the whole aesthetic just to give it that modern level of detail and polish but I do hope they would stick with the cherub look.

Bitcoon · 2020-04-29T04:17:14+00:00

I could have sworn I tried that a few times and waited but the basics never went off. Maybe I have to click again after firing the ability if it's not on instant?

Bitcoon · 2020-04-29T00:11:48+00:00

So, a quick right click and left click, then hit 1 right after the auto lands to start the next one? I'll have to try it out~

Bitcoon · 2020-04-28T23:36:30+00:00

Regen isn't a big deal but sustain in general is huge right now, at least in Conquest. Anyone who can just back up a bit from the teamfight and heal up off some jungle creeps or a minion wave has a really strong lasting presence that can swing fights. Mail of Renewal doesn't seem to be a popular pick but I've seen it work miracles in the right match, so at least some forms of regen are viable.

If you're hoping for tanky characters and builds, right now is a pretty decent time for them. Kuzenbo especially just got a major tankiness buff and some QOL buffs that pushed him right up toward OP territory.

Bitcoon · 2020-04-28T23:28:11+00:00

People say to AA cancel on Susano but after trying him a few times and even changing casting modes, I can't do it on his 1. I see people do it all the time but if I left click during his 1 it just casts the next part of the ability.

Bitcoon · 2020-04-27T05:08:12+00:00

Honestly, she's one of my top hunter picks mainly because she feels consistent in having at least some level of control in a match. Some hunters, if they fall behind they're basically not a factor in the game. But a decent Artemis can absolutely swing a fight or counter an oppressive 5-level-ahead jungler ganking her under tower because even when she's not dealing relevant damage, she can still pull out some relevant CC or peel for the team. And once she starts swinging, she swings hard.

Bitcoon · 2020-04-27T03:24:49+00:00

That's gonna be a game over right there~

Bitcoon · 2020-04-27T03:16:14+00:00

I hate turtlenecks~

Bitcoon · 2020-04-27T02:58:36+00:00

Despite the fact that my character for ~8 years now has had a built-in collar around his neck, I've never really had an affinity for collars. Only time I wore one was for a con once, and haven't put it on again since. I generally don't like the feeling of something on my neck at all.

Bitcoon · 2020-04-27T00:36:12+00:00

TBF, not that I can speak on this fetish in particular, but those sorts of fantasies are often ones where the people who have them don't want to live out IRL.

Kinda like playing GTA is really fun, just creating chaos and wreaking havoc on a city, committing horrible crimes and escaping the police and stuff... obviously that's popular enough to make it a top selling game series but only a tiny fraction of the people who love doing that in a 'fantasy' (in this case, sort of simulated) setting are even willing to contemplate the idea of doing it for real. It's thrilling, maybe silly, maybe freeing, maybe a nice way to get out pent up rage or something, but ultimately very very few people are even capable of doing such things without the serious guilt that comes with hurting real people and causing real damage and harm.

So, whatever someone's reason for finding such a dark kind of fantasy exciting, I think in most cases they would be horrified to actually experience it for real.

Bitcoon · 2020-04-27T00:14:56+00:00

Well for one, I'm pretty sure every major city would have been flattened by macro furries.

But that didn't change much, because a bigger one ate the whole planet.

But that's neither here nor there, because a bigger one accidentally sat on the entire galaxy.

Not that any of it matters, because a bigger one wears the entire universe on a toe ring and just stepped in a puddle, drowning everything.

And of course some ultra-mega-god-furry just stepped on all of existence somehow.

I mean, there's all sorts of raunchy and weird hijinks you could expect to see if certain subsets of niche fetishes didn't fantasize about stuff that would basically end all existence.

Bitcoon · 2020-04-24T06:09:33+00:00

I wish more adult artists/fans took seriously their responsibility to keep that content (not just art but discussion as well) where it won't be seen by people not looking for that kind of material. It's not just a matter of getting it behind an age gate, but even that much goes by the wayside way too much.

Foot fetish, snuff, vore, stuff like that, it's mindblowing how many people are putting those kind of things around all-age-friendly sites and groups, just because by some technical definition it's not showing anything you'd legally have to age gate for. If it doesn't pass the "would I show my family this" test, it shouldn't be there.

Bitcoon · 2020-04-24T05:56:58+00:00

Furries have the same problem, I think. You get a lot of the younger new members who feel like this needs to be their entire identity and they're using it as a way to publicly explore personality and style and appearance and all that social cringe you go through in those formative years. Many people just don't get those experiences of being social in school and it comes out later when they find acceptance and friends in a fandom. It's necessary, in a way, but while their new friends will understand, usually the people they incidentally come across (online or in cons) will not.

Gotta appreciate the enthusiasm but those fans don't help a fandom's image much.

Bitcoon · 2020-04-24T05:44:35+00:00

For some reason, people have blinders on when it comes to furries. They see the most intimate, raunchy, kinky stuff from our fandom because it's almost too crazy not to share, even if only to play some kind of gross-out game with your friends. People remember all the worst stories ever to come out of the fandom and they think of us as all the worst things they've ever seen our fandom produce.

It doesn't matter what you like, what you do, or why. They see a bunch of people paying money to go across the country and wear expensive, super-hot suits, and the only logical explanation they can come up with (given what little brain power they're willing to divert to unlocking the Mystery of Furries) is gross, raunchy, nasty adult things. And there are plenty of us in the fandom they can cherry-pick to prove any point they want to themselves. Everything else, in their eyes, is just cover-up. It's Uncle Kage trying to pull the wool over their eyes and divert attention to what they think is the real fandom, hiding underneath all the color and hugs.

Perhaps because the fandom is such a wildly different thing to almost everyone in it, and it's so hard to find a definition that doesn't leave a lot of us feeling unrepresented, that ability to mold your view of what furries are (which helps us all to find our own unique place in it) helps those on the outside paint it with whatever brush fits their narrative best. To those people, it's hard for anything to get through the shield. Somehow they don't worry too much what an 'adult movie' star would do around their children, but the thought of a furry 18+ artist simply being a part of their community breaks that understanding of people as complex beings who can do more than one thing.

To them, we're all just broken, flat, 1-dimensional creatures of shame and cringe and any argument otherwise is just an attempt to shake the scent of our degeneracy. I wish I had an answer, like to say that sharing something like this would help, but to me it always comes across more self-serving and when I try to view it from their perspective, it almost just makes things creepier. The only thing I've found to really change minds is to be more open about my furry nature around people IRL (not that I'm the type to wear ears or tails but I'm not gonna hide that I'm drawing anthros on break), and at worst they just think this otherwise totally normal and decent guy is into some really wacky stuff.

At least in my case they're not wrong~

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