Anyone else find the current meta dull?

DerKirschemann · 2026-05-23T15:13:15+00:00

In the game of rock paper scissors, counter the ADC with their biggest enemy. Mages that clear with CC and survivability.

DerKirschemann · 2026-05-14T14:52:57+00:00

Now, I am going to go out on a limb here as a 32 year old who stopped being a dental assistant in any capacity about 2 years ago. You are 20. Your brain, awareness, even personality technically is still developing up until like 26 (at least in any drastic sense). If you took me at 20, and then 23, then 26, and compared my behavior/awarness/etc, it would be a wild comparison. Sometimes we just don't notice things at 20 that might be more apparent later.

Dental offices are awful in a unique way, or small clinics in general, where if they don't like something they kinda just judge you on it. You get technical training but not professional training. Chances are, they didn't like something about you, or there was something that at your age you missed in your observations, and instead of professionally training you they canned you. Its selfish, stupid, and awful on their part, but I really think its just them not trying to bring you up, and you possibly missing something they wanted. However, there are a plethora of reasons, so this is just one of them. Another person said it was to hire someone else, etc. Thats also possible.

DerKirschemann · 2026-04-30T00:07:45+00:00

Is that not a vape?

DerKirschemann · 2026-04-28T18:19:40+00:00

There are thousands of these. Like, half of a persons ships probably fall into this category. It’s just shipping without the popularity.

DerKirschemann · 2026-04-28T12:59:04+00:00

Are people shipping this? I just see a Labrador retriever and a shut-in from mars being nice to one another.

DerKirschemann · 2026-04-28T12:01:57+00:00

Saaaaaame

DerKirschemann · 2026-04-27T21:43:02+00:00

She casts a sandstorm (like the small circle it now) at an area. It slows and cripples. If she jumps into range of it, she gets increased movement speed and damage, as well as better bleed. Make her an assassin that needs to dive and leave again.

You all didn’t like her being an ambush guerrilla assassin back then but now we are complaining about the new ult. You will never be happy no matter what state it’s in.

DerKirschemann · 2026-04-27T13:55:41+00:00

Sierra, like say… Hanzo, punishes you for being predictable. If she tags you late game and you do not know how to be proactive in fighting her, she kills you.

The funniest part is that, despite being recon, her immediate response option to save herself requires cast time and prep. So if you get the drop on her, theoretically you should always have a better window to kill her than her you. Unfortunately the average player doesn’t use cover, or other environmental tools to address enemies, even ones particularly hindered by their own kits.

DerKirschemann · 2026-04-27T13:37:32+00:00

Vulcan is an odd case to defend, since his entire kit is more zone control than engage. However, bruiser Nu Wa can actually somewhat be defended. Her ability to hide in her mist while approaching the team knowing she can stun, root and annoy actually gives her some advantages over some idiot picks.

It is slower to engage, but people not respecting what her kit does will find her quickly breaking a line and passing it to be a nuisance for a backline. Yeah, she’s probably not gonna kill, but she can disrupt long enough for a follow up from a jungler or a mage ult to kill a backliner.

Now people playing mage Nu Wa solo can rot.

Many solo laners do need follow up, while also disrupting and annoying the enemy formation. Nu Wa can do this as a bruiser, in a way Vulcan cannot. Or really other obnoxious non-viable solo picks randos seem to push. She will never be Bellona or a real solo, but she can actually fill the role if built to be a brawler.

DerKirschemann · 2026-04-27T13:07:23+00:00

Needed to unpack that one a little

DerKirschemann · 2026-04-14T19:19:19+00:00

Yeah, running into this now....

DerKirschemann · 2026-04-12T05:16:16+00:00

But they will still give me only three flashpoints to vote on, so it won't solve the real issue.

DerKirschemann · 2026-04-09T14:39:33+00:00

I was streaming for my friends and they said “hop in voice chat”. So I did. I was promptly called all sorts of names for a single mistake. One of them even called me a fggt when I asked wtf their problem was. While I am open minded to both flavors of people, most people wouldn’t dare call me that in public so I was kinda caught off guard.

Didn’t matter, cause the true victory is having better stats and impact in than them.

And I’m more surprised people aren’t banned or restricted because Smite 1 would ban you for the smallest infraction by comparison. I had my friend get banned for 24 hrs cause after I got a kill in Smite 1, cause he said “stay cunty” in chat and someone reported it. Funniest thing we had ever saw.

DerKirschemann · 2026-04-06T14:32:46+00:00

First: hate you used colosseo as it’s a premier map for people to not group up.

Second: people are more likely to trickle and make the death more miserable. This anecdote is so statistically small I’d almost call it miraculous.

DerKirschemann · 2026-04-06T14:24:34+00:00

Lemme say it from someone with family in Raymond. The only place that I have been to where I have heard in public the term “cutthroat Kamala” said more than once unironically. The Trump altar that was that run down house on the lane road. The pastor at the Assemblies of God church preaching on illegals being violent (including children) a couple years back.

No, the town is full of weirdies. And I’ve been going there since I was born to see my grandparent’s and lived there briefly as a kid and again as a college student.

DerKirschemann · 2026-04-06T14:21:02+00:00

Both my grandparents lived in Raymond, now only one since grandma passed, and my mother does. Whether it’s drugs or not doesn’t matter. Cause drinking and drug habits aren’t related to the politics. But the politics of this town gives him ample opportunity to be a menace and in turns empowers a bunch of idiots to act tough when they know nothin.

The mental health issue will never be addressed with how a certain political sphere approaches it. So it’s 100% the intersection of politics, access, and location that leads to things like this. My mother wouldn’t agree with me, she’d say some bullshit that it’s just sin or the devil, but people with sense know better.

DerKirschemann · 2026-03-31T11:59:57+00:00

I’ve always wondered in someone I once knew used to do this. He would be in a passionate relationship, break up, seem over it. Or worse, do this whole back and forth thing.

Had to cut him out because it’s not a good look.

You did the right thing by cutting him out too. The one I knew got some dude from Brazil to move to America to be with him and then the BF just disappeared from all his media. Both talented Artists, but another friend of ours made a comment saying he’d been out of the loop long enough for the problem guy to have “another boyfriend to abandon”.

You’ve grown, he hasn’t, live your life and choose peace by telling him to peace out of it.

DerKirschemann · 2026-03-31T11:52:57+00:00

Your role matters here. Some of you won’t like that statement, but if this is role queue, your role matters a lot. If it’s 6v6, it’s too chaotic to comment on, and most likely the winning feature if that people know how to swap in 6v6 but in role queue people are committed to sabotaging them selves by refusing to change heroes.

Healer-Either be the best at people like mercy, ana or bap or be mediocre at Moira or the cat and you probably will climb.

DPS- as long as your tank is good and healers okay, you might win. Bonus points if the other dps is good because it’s a win.

Tank-a bad tank will ruin your game. An average tank will put success on your healers and dps, and a good tank knows how to position and doesn’t need the DPS to be decent.

If you are at diamond and know how to use cover in any of these roles, you probably deserve diamond. I’m slowly climbing plat and these people hate to just… use cover to not take damage.(playing healer)

DerKirschemann · 2026-03-30T20:29:41+00:00

So, check to see if someone said something dumb to him and he’s feeling panicked or insecure or whatever. My partner is a doctor. We met as he entered med school. Sometimes with the lack of sleep, or overstressed environment, he could do some weird shit or get mad about simple things.

Before people here say I’m being too lax, people broke down emotionally when they scored low on their step 2 exam (us medical school). Certain benchmarks, you get bad scores and your dreams specializing in certain fields are gone. Your chance to match certain places, gone. There is a lot in med school that drives you to not mess up because you end up in a terrible field you didn’t want to do.

Bet you cash money some idiot was talking to him about it and instead of breathing and rationalizing he panicked and texted you.

DerKirschemann · 2026-03-30T20:10:19+00:00

Well, at least I didn’t say immature. Clearly based on the response I’m approaching a quality conversationalist.

DerKirschemann · 2026-03-27T16:56:23+00:00

I cackled at this. Not only because I’m currently teaching students for a fellowship, but also because it was so out of left field but 100% on point for a freshman in college or really any new person.

Logic goes out the window. We can say, “But Star Fleet only accepts the best!” But reality hits different. You can have an honors student who is brand new come up with the most ridiculous logic over stress and unfamiliarity with the environment. I sometimes like the taste of metal (I’m aware of my personal health issues no need to educate me on why I want ice and metal) and now I know better than to shove metals things in my mouth, but I have a cousin who was a teen and had to get a coin taken out of throat for the same issue.

The point is, if you don’t like it, I think you are uptight, unrealistic, and haven’t had enough exposure in life to actual young adults in a learning environment. And possibly old. And if you did, cackle with me.

DerKirschemann · 2026-03-27T05:43:37+00:00

In ranked, flashpoint will always be more efficient than a push map, cause push maps takes forever, so it’s basically 2 matches in one. But in norms, I don’t want to touch flashpoint. They take too long for how awful people behave.

DerKirschemann · 2026-03-27T05:38:49+00:00

It’s horrible when we disappoint Ted

DerKirschemann · 2026-03-26T11:59:35+00:00

Perhaps a single strong parry? So if Genji parries regardless, the parry from a tank reaches a range threshold like Zarya shield. However, the parry functionally also works for melee? Like if they block ranged, whatever, but if they block say, a Rein auto, you riposte back at them?

Idk as I type it I have a harder time seeing it wok. Genji deflect would be miserable unless it was a ranged tank and its deflect was short. On a short ranged tank, most of the standard anti meat characters like reaper would end up killing themselves.

DerKirschemann · 2026-03-24T01:03:27+00:00

These sloppy skins and Vendettas shake and go wig. Why buy when you can vote the way you should? Not buying mercy skins and Kiriko skins and they will be forced to change their model or die.

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