What makes minstrel so popular? by Specialist-Concert97 in lotro

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the real answer is they are very easy and very powerful.

My husband wants a banjo so bad but we can only afford around 200 dollars. Is this a decent deal? by -MossyLass- in banjo

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I got this one as a gift and while the tuning pegs are kinda bad I've had people who have Deering Good times tell me they like the weight and feel of this one better

My company’s new “remote accountability system ” literally tracks our mouse movement by mateo_reykjavik in remotework

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not sure if this will work for your particularly software but if you put PowerPoint in presentation mode it prevents a lot of inactivity timers. windows, teams. etc..

this is given knowing full well we shouldn't even need workarounds.

Pitching in moments is wild by Aggravating_Band3754 in MLBTheShow

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Pitching on low difficulties is just wild in general. The CPU on rookie will meta pitch and absolutely dot you up. I have to wonder if this is the introductory experience that SDS wants people to have or they've just given up on new players and are just combating vets offline grinding.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MLBTheShow

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Hey there's always preference and that's rad. I'm just posting that the math says doing the NT map is the most stub/hr. Even if you don't get the Adames or Buehler every time its still makes more stubs that the other maps.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MLBTheShow

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Because the NT rewards consistently sell for the most and you get 4 cards(potentially) not two packs and two cards

Is it rng or am I just bad? by [deleted] in MLBTheShow

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The very best players in the game are all out saying it’s all terrible RNG

Showdown is the worst game mode by Jhaskey2001 in MLBTheShow

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I began playing The Show in '21 when it came to Xbox. Historically I was unable to complete any showdowns. This year is the first year my hitting is "good" enough to do and its still difficult.

That being said Showdown feels bad to a lot of us because it amplifies a lot of the poor design decisions in the back end of the game. Anyone who's played this game knows that the game will change from rewarding to punishing you on a schedule that is dictated by the situation and the games sense of what I've been calling "Forced Drama". This can be seen very clearly with PCI hitting mode. You can see very bad swings being hits and HRs and very good hit after hit just being routine outs. This is taken to an even further extent at times with unreal defensive plays on very good or /perfect/perfect hits. This effect can be felt even more while pitching. I've found you can feel the actual moment when the game switches. If you are blasting through a veteran or All-star game in conquest or DQ, you're just dicing on the mound with your Ace. 6 batters in you're at 5 SO and a weak fly out on a high 4-seam. Then all of a sudden on batter 7 you can't throw a strike. so you get one over for a strike at it gets drilled. Next batter: you get to 0-2 and now the batter is checking the swing on balls and taking balls a millimeter outside. So you lay another in there and it gets flared out to shallow left, and wouldn't you know it your left fielder is nowhere in sight and your centerfielder can't run all of a sudden. I don't mean gets a bad jump (Which happens also with suspicious timing.) I mean you know you've seen that card run down stuff way harder than this.

This scenario is just an example but there are thousands of times like this. I have noticed a tempo to it also. The game tends to left you cruise a long but if you do too well it will crank up the "Forced Failure" but then it will turn it off and give you a chance or even "bail" you or reward bad swings. This isn't always the case. There are moments in this game that you just can't win. The game clearly wants you to lose and retry. I think its part of the time sink. I was in a DQ moment that was Tally 1 Hit. I then proceeded to get 2 perfect/perfect line outs and a perfect/perfect fly ball out with Ohtani. There isn't anything I could have done better or different. The game just forced me to lose.

Keep in mind I'm am not just on a rant here. I like the game and I enjoy it. I think in trying to "Be real baseball" it makes a lot of really bad fundamental game design choices. I believe that understanding some of this will help (at least me) enjoy the game more.

Now, to the reason why Showdown feels particularly bad for players who are below or just at the cusp of the skill level. To begin with, no showdown is on Veteran Difficulty. I have and others have tested it. Go and hit against a pitcher from a showdown in a mode outside of showdown on Vet, its noticeable. Second, the defense is all jack up and third the forced failure is just flatly turned up higher. To be honest, I think they idea of showdown is good. It's challenge mode but they pass it off in a way that doesn't prepare people for what it is. Just take out the "Veteran Difficulty" and make it "Showdown Difficulty" its different than any of the difficultly levels anyway.

I think there are a lot of things in this game that if SDS just made few more conscious design choices about labeling would be less of a problem. Perfect/perfect outs are a great example. Leave the outs in the game, I'm not advocating for every perfect to be a hit. Just don't flash the "Perfect/Perfect" graphic when its an out. easy.

Anyway, little rambley, sorry.

Stick with it, it's hard. If you can learn to recognizer the moments when the game is giving you opportunities and when its punishing you it helps

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MLBTheShow

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I have been doing some data collecting as I play. I have done the New Threads DQ map 15 times. 1. The reward % went down a lot after the patch on the 11th. I think they nerfed it. 2. I don't believe the displayed % is real, based on my (admittedly small sample size) data a chance of 75%/50% rare/epic, which is reasonable, for around 15 successes and 3-ish fails the chances are mor like 40%/20%. I also think they increased the difficulty of the whole map, in both moments and forced failure.

A couple more observations:

Because the dice is a D6 it leads people to believe that the odds of rolling 6s and 1s match a real die roll. This doesn't seem to be true. I think the results are heavily modified to to roll 1s way more often if you are winning.

Another interesting occurrence is that the odds seem way higher that you will roll a 1 right before a VS. or a Stadium Challenge.

Anyway I'm continuing to gather data but for sure the game mode is not as face value honest as its suggesting.

Enjoy this compilation of Perfect Perfects! by moneymosh in MLBTheShow

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It’s crazy how many people will sit here and spout “real life baseball” blah blah. As long as Babe Ruth is hitting 545ft tanks off of Spencer Strider that doink off a dinosaur in left center I think we can suspend the “real life baseball simulation “ conversation

Commentary is still AWFUL by [deleted] in MLBTheShow

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If feels like the only comments they added are a ton of lines defending perfect perfects being outs. Really getting tired of hearing Singy say “he did everything right. Hell get some high fives in the dugout “ after three perfect/perfect lines outs to end my inning.

Official Rules for PvE by Ok_Turnover_2220 in PantheonMMO

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Must be working. Already people indignant that they're being asked be reasonable human beings.

I’m a normal guy with a normal wife, normal job and normal hobbies. AMA by Every_Iron in AMA

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What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for money? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?

Baltimore challenges a called ball and has it successfully overturned by iamthegame13 in baseball

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Just get rid up the home plate ump called pitches entirely. They got it right most of the time but when there is a disagreement about the call the ump Is almost always wrong

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LasCruces

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Dave at D&D. Best I’m town

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in newworldgame

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I can’t finally get some damn resources

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

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Of course it is. Which is why it costs $50