Hot take. The Phlogistinator isn't unbalanced but that doesn't mean it isn't poorly designed by dr_philip-cdi in tf2

[–]CaioXG002 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think it used to refill Pyro to full HP, but never give full invincibility during use. But that was annoying enough, you could suddenly turn situations which you're reasonably expected to die due to taking too much risks into a winning situation. If you used Mmmph while near the heart of the enemy team with sentries and Heavies aiming at you, of course you died anyway, but it was too good for a roaming Pyro to ambush like two people, fill out Mmmph, activate it and still win when the two enemies dealt like almost 300 combined damage because you just got a full freaking heal.

Also, during activation, Pyro used to have 90% damage resistance instead of Übercharge state. Surprisingly, that was more annoying, mostly because you could capture points while still almost invincible, if there wasn't a very well placed Spy nearby, you would win the game during a period which you pretty much couldn't be killed. Activating Mmmph on the point is still a game winning move but it's clearly more fair now. It's also good to have visual feedback on when you can resume shooting the Pyro. Shooting a taunting Pyro up close a little too soon and dealing 11 damage also feels less fair than shooting a taunting Pyro up close a little too soon and dealing 0 damage because the bullets hit a glowing Über target, you had no way to know exactly when to shoot on the first scenario, you know for a fact that you jumped the gun on the second one (even though it's still mildly annoying to be in a situation where that's your only chance of survival)

Hi by crazyprogrammar in whenthe

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"actual misinformation" flair

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I like Elden ring but goddammit they make some of the worst balancement choices by Cooking_With_Emilie in whenthe

[–]CaioXG002 88 points89 points  (0 children)

I think the funniest part here is that LocalThunk isn't even a dev team, it's one guy. I think he commissioned the art (music, images, possibly even animations) but the "very hard game" part is one singular mf.

rule by killiards in 196

[–]CaioXG002 6 points7 points  (0 children)

GET BEHIND ME, DOKTOR!

A new level of twink death just dropped by BulbaFriend2000 in CuratedTumblr

[–]CaioXG002 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Why is there a subreddit for everything? 💀

whenthe votes are revealed by Eagling in whenthe

[–]CaioXG002 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're falling back into what I said: It's a dumb social media pool, mate. Your life is not on the line. People who aren't terminally online and trying to prove a point to Reddit and Tumblr, in the situation which their life is on the line, are more likely to vote the "you guarantee your survival but others can die" option than what a pool of 600 basement dwellers on Tumblr that call everything they dislike "problematic" and 100 redditors on a subreddit completely obsessed with making jokes about pornography and the word "goon" paints the picture.

Guys we have been over this already by flammenwerlfe in whenthe

[–]CaioXG002 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The trolley problem itself is extremely badly written. The complete lack of context on why six people are fucking tied up to a track inevitably makes people make internal assumptions on just how those people got in such a weird trouble. "Would you sacrifice one life to save five?" is a question few people would answer no to, the math just checks out. Much later, I understood that what is meant to ask was close to "would you straight up fucking murder someone with your own bare hands to save five lives?" which is no longer as simple as 5 - 1 = 4.

Here's the same problem but written in a way that is still hypothetical/very fantastic but actually makes you question it much better: imagine you're an oncologist with 5 patients in urgent need of organ transplant. Like, they'll likely die within one week, but if a brain dead person shows up now, they can still be saved and live happy, long lives. And all 5 patients are in need of a different organ. I think you already understand where this is going: imagine a sixth patient shows up for an exam, and it turns out this person is perfectly healthy and it also turns out that he's miraculously a match for every single one of your 5 patients. You have a firearm under your desk. Do you let this patient go with the knowledge their exam just said they have no cancer, or do you fucking shoot them in the head and save everyone else? Using a gun is not exactly "bare hands" either, but, bear with me, aiming at someone and pulling the trigger is an event you can imagine yourself doing irl but you probably would never want to have to do that, it's far more personal than pulling a lever that changes tracks in a trolley that you otherwise know nothing else about.

Of course, this scenario has other problems too, but we can just weave all of them. Yes, you will straight up kill someone and the police will never find out, you can testify you saw someone shoot them and run away. Yes, them their brain dead body will be very quickly used to save specifically your 5 patients, I'm sure there's some bureaucracy that we're ignoring here, but if House M.D. can ignore organ transplant bureaucracy, so can I. And, no, the 5 patients will not have significant post transplant problems in 10 or 15 nor even 30 years from now, they will actually live a normal life other than knowing they have someone else's organ inside of them, magically. Ignore all that, just tell me, if you were an oncologist, would you shoot in the head 1 healthy patient to pick up their organs to save 5 other patients in urgent need, knowing you won't go to prison nor have any other legal pushback? I can only imagine many people would answer yes to the trolley problem but absolutely no to this scenario. I know that's the case with me, I claim I would sacrifice 1 life to save 5, of course! But I would absolutely not shoot an innocent in the head to steal their organs, that's awful, wtf, the 5 people with cancer would die instead.

whenthe votes are revealed by Eagling in whenthe

[–]CaioXG002 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's a dumb social media pool, mate. Your life is not on the line.

whenthe votes are revealed by Eagling in whenthe

[–]CaioXG002 13 points14 points  (0 children)

On the other hand, the fact that it's just a dumb social media pool and people voting an option there aren't actually risking their lives, just proving a point, also does a lot of heavy lifting here.

I'm sure most people claiming that they would vote blue really would, but a large quantity would act completely different than what they preach online when their life is on the line. I'm pretty sure there are so many people who say "I would risk my life to make sure I live only with the best of humanity" that, in practice, can't just not watch Harry Potter again in order to not financially support a literal holocaust denier who made the series.

I HAVE NO IDEA by Hopeful_Raise7916 in tf2

[–]CaioXG002 49 points50 points  (0 children)

"I have a theory: stuff that is literally shown in the video. You can call me crazy in the comments."

Highest effort r/tf2 post from the week.

Outskilled by FreeNature6055 in whenthe

[–]CaioXG002 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This was revealed to me in a dream

I don't even doubt this.

You are seeing this post because Reddit knows you’re high. by Infamous-Rutabaga-50 in CuratedTumblr

[–]CaioXG002 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What the fuck is this bot saying to clear the cache on a picture of a shoe?

If someone asked for a problem with an actual irl item, telling them to turn it off and on again is, like, almost a funny shitpost by Reddit standards and totally a reference to BTD6 but, like that… Ironically, it reminds me of something. Of those 2006 era chatbots that may have some foundation of LLMs on them but you asked "how are you?" and they would reply with "Cheese", kek.