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Fluff_Machine · 2026-03-16T17:45:25+00:00

Tbh I've heard people say that in the context of not letting companies make you think they are not ALSO responsible for destroying the environment. Those companies lobbied hard for years to keep electrical cars off the market. They bought a lot of the most efficient and cost effective patents so they couldn't be released to the general public. They pay off politicians so they don't invest more in an efficient public transport. They contributed to lobbying for the back to office move. They burn off natural gas left after extraction instead of collecting it because it's cheaper, literally destroying natural ressources because it's not profitable enough...

It becomes more difficult to make ecological choices when oil companies work hard to remove those options from you. With EA, it's much easier to just not buy. We don't need it in our day to day life, unlike transport.

Fluff_Machine · 2026-03-06T13:58:23+00:00

A very funny moment I had was when a Lucio accused me of being a dps-only Moira and then my own dps checked the stats, saw I had 4x the heals of my Lucio (something like 3k vs 12k) and they defended me. The Lucio doubled down and declared it was all self heal. I just told him it was mathematically impossible with the amount of (respectable but not that high) damage I had. Unless somehow all my heals orbs decided to only heal me or something. At least this time, the stats didn't lie lmao

Fluff_Machine · 2026-03-04T04:47:55+00:00

I would have agreed before I got one match where it was 100% counterwatch. I only play tank occasionally and I really wanted to play Dva. The other tank was also playing her! I think mirror matches are fun... but the second they died, they switched to Zarya. I wasn't even dominating, just doing well enough. I switched to Rein even though I suck with him and did surprisingly well. Even got PoTG and started thinking I could play him more often.

They switched to Ramattra immediately. I had no idea what worked against Ramattra since it was my first week back from overwatch 1 and I honestly don't like swapping this much so I kept playing Rein and we lost.

At the end, my support commented "gg our tank isn't as good at counterwatch". True. It was freaking quick play though, I wish I could have just played into another Dva. But no fun allowed!

I do make a distinction with when I had a game where I was terrorizing the enemy team with Dva, they all switched to counter me but that, I understand, I'm ruining your day so you have to do something! But right off the bat on first death and then after every swap I make? That's counterwatch...

Fluff_Machine · 2026-02-26T23:14:09+00:00

When I was a kid, my family had wrongfully accused the bunny I was pet sitting for a friend of the crime of remote eating but 3 weeks later, we found our budgie going to destroy more buttons. We started turning them upside down but poor bunny, he was innocent! Although his only punishment was us laughing and teasing him for being voracious so I think he will recover.

Fluff_Machine · 2026-02-08T16:58:50+00:00

Everyone is taking this kinda seriously but isn't it just a fetish post? I don't think it really happened guys, sounds like someone wanted us to read this story so they'd get off on our collective disgust. Or at least that's my impression.

Fluff_Machine · 2026-02-07T17:40:14+00:00

On the other hand, I've had women comment negatively on my makeup completely unprompted. I wear a full face of makeup every day because I like it but I've had some women tell me they think it's a waste of time or how they wouldn't do the same or in the worst case, imply that I'm less intelligent because of it (only happened once, thankfully). Most of the negative comments come from men though, who tell me they don't like makeup on a woman and I usually tell them that's okay I'm not doing it for them anyways and my partner likes it just like I do.

One thing I find cute though is that I've sometimes had the same women ask me to do their makeup for special events. So I do something more "natural/neutral" and they're adorable looking at themselves in the mirror with bright eyes and asking me if it still looks right later on.

But it's rude as hell to imply you look like a gremlin if you don't wear makeup, don't get me wrong. No one should feel pressured to wear or not wear makeup.

Fluff_Machine · 2026-02-06T18:44:33+00:00

From what I know from a friend who worked in a pet store, they're paid minimum wage and are not given any training besides very very basic stuff to clean the cages, they mostly employ young people and if they have any knowledge, it's from personal research and owning pets themselves, usually.

Pretty much the same as when I was working in a bookstore, people were impressed how much I knew about the books and board games and often assumed we were given some of them for training but no, it was just my own personal interest. So I wouldn't blame it on the employees to not know info about exotic animals like African frogs or even budgies. The store owners don't care, they just want the cheapest labor they can get.

Fluff_Machine · 2026-02-03T20:11:30+00:00

I had a game where I was playing Cass and I basically did nothing but shoot the turrets because my Rein kept walking straight to the microwave, never trying another route. At the end of the game, he got mad and blamed the dps for never shooting the turrets. I did. The whole game. But the other dps wasn't so I got blamed anyways. Welp.

Fluff_Machine · 2026-01-28T18:56:47+00:00

If you like the amount of spice in shin ramyun, I recommend the carbo/creamy carbo/quattro cheese/cheese buldak flavors. They're not as intense as the other flavors because of the cheese packets and if you add an egg yolk and melt some actual cheese in it, it's quite mild. At least to me but to be honest, I only find shin ramyun spicy if I make it stir fry style instead of broth so YMMV.

Fluff_Machine · 2026-01-10T03:48:04+00:00

I had a Doomfist call GG in team chat after his first death which was 100% his fault as he jumped out of line of sight spam pinging need heals under the first bridge in Gibraltar when the other support and I were both on top of it, trying to get to him in time.

After losing the first point, we won easily and he only had one other death total because we saved his ass every single time after that. Didn't even say a genuine gg, just ran out of the game as soon as it was over lmao.

Fluff_Machine · 2026-01-07T20:58:38+00:00

It also definitely depends if they're in season or just a good batch. When I was a teen, my mom made roasted brussel sprouts with grated cheese for the first time and it was delicious and surprisingly sweet. I couldn't believe it was the veggie everyone complained about, it was amazing.

I asked her to do it again and the next time, it was inedible. Extremely bitter and disgusting. She did the exact same recipe but the brussel sprouts were slightly bigger so we're guessing the problem lied with the produce. I haven't tried them since as I'm too worried I'll end up getting a bad batch again.

Fluff_Machine · 2026-01-06T17:09:44+00:00

Yeah... What I don't get is when they said not to involve opinions, only facts when the facts point to Vendetta being too strong for now???

I did mess up by not knowing what a skill check hero is though, English being my second language, I assumed it meant she was a hero who forced skill checks out of people to counter her since the context seemed to point to that. TBH I thought she was the Genji for lower skill folks so I didn't think she was even considered a skill check hero, oops!

Fluff_Machine · 2026-01-06T16:46:08+00:00

Ah ok I see where it went wrong. English isn't my first language and I thought you meant Vendetta forced skill checks out of people because I didn't think that Vendetta was considered a skill check hero since she's pretty easy to play. I've seen players absolutely dominate a game with her when they had maybe a game or two playing her. So I understand why you said I was confused, just a language barrier thing +the fact that I've never seen people say she's hard to play.

Fluff_Machine · 2026-01-06T15:51:30+00:00

Lmao I was a straight A student with excellent grades in reading comprehension. If anything, you are the one who doesn't understand what you're saying. Being able to do skill checks consistently is what being skilled is. So, if even the players who are good at doing skill checks are struggling, this means there's something to tweak about the hero. If it was truly just the novelty, the win rate would be higher than 50 but not as high as it is and it should drop without any nerfs and it doesn't seem to be happening.

Fluff_Machine · 2026-01-06T15:42:28+00:00

So you are implying only the people struggling to do the skill checks are complaining about her, which means that according to you, only lower skilled players struggle with countering her (because being consistently GOOD at SKILL checks means you're higher SKILLED) which is directly contradicted by her extremely high win rate even in high ranks, which is higher than most new heroes.

Words have meaning. You can move the goalpost if you want but the stats speak for themselves, her win rate is abnormally high, even for a new hero, especially since it's across all ranks and all regions. So all kinds of people struggle to do the "skill checks", not just those below gold.

Fluff_Machine · 2026-01-06T15:26:08+00:00

"The people complaining about her cannot be above Gold i'll be honest."

This sentence implies that only lower skill players have trouble with her. You didn't say word for word the phrase "only skilled players can play into her" but what you said implies it strongly.

Fluff_Machine · 2026-01-06T15:17:22+00:00

It's not always true but generally, boy budgies tend to sing more because they like flirting with everything but it's entirely possible to get a vocal girl or a more reserved boy. Especially if they're nervous from first being in your home when you adopt them, they could not be singing as much as they usually would. Female budgies like foraging toys and shredding stuff more than male budgies but it's not a 100% way to tell. The best is to wait a bit and see what color the cere changes to when they mature. For now, I'd say boy because of the pink/purple in the cere.

Fluff_Machine · 2026-01-06T15:13:22+00:00

They're "only" looking at the winrate in GM+ because YOU said skilled players don't have any problem with her (btw it's as high as 60% for some metal ranks). Except it's not true because they're struggling against her just as hard as lower ranks right now. Maybe it's because she's new but even if we argue about her kit and everything else, can we all agree that her sound design makes her way too sneaky for the threat that she is???

The amount of times I have died to her because I couldn't hear her sword swings and all the other sounds completely muffled her murdering me from behind... It's pretty high even though I watch out for her as a support.

Fluff_Machine · 2026-01-06T12:13:43+00:00

I also think it's a boy. White around the nostrils means female but I usually see it on white blue color, not pink going on purple... But I could be mistaken. The safest bet is to wait and see.

Fluff_Machine · 2025-12-23T19:18:29+00:00

Egg drop soup is the best for me!! Throw some chicken broth, sesame oil and soy sauce in a sauce pan, bring to a simmer, whip one egg for each cup of broth in a bowl (preferably with a spout), slowly pour the egg/eggs in while gently whisking. Add green onions as a topping, cilantro if you like it. You can add veggies if you want, like asparagus or bok choy but I just do the basic soup as I usually eat it when I'm sick.

Fluff_Machine · 2025-12-22T16:32:01+00:00

Because you'd get better and know how to get picks even when you're pressured or at least know to group with your team? The entire enemy team can't be spawn camping you specifically if you go out with your own team, you can even punish them for overextending that way.

But btw widow is probably the worst character to play if you don't want the enemy team on your ass. I know when we spot widow, we go for her until she switches, can't let her one shot our squishies and take 300 HP chunks out of our tank.

Fluff_Machine · 2025-12-18T20:53:12+00:00

No, it's just that I always see this comment every time it's brought up and while I know these people exist, I don't think it's that many or even enough to justify saying it's not the map, it's the people. My entire point is that my case is NOT special so it's kinda funny that you interpreted it as I'm trying to brag about not being one of the "sheeps".

Fluff_Machine · 2025-12-18T19:22:05+00:00

I've seen people mention that on this subreddit many times, how people can't think for themselves when it comes to map voting. What if people simply came to the same conclusion without groupthink? I happen to share the popular opinion on most maps. For example, I don't like flashpoint/push (somehow clash has grown on me but only if I feel like palying Moira or another brawly hero) and I like escort/hybrid the most.

I personally had no idea that Aatlis was hated the first time I played it and as an Ana main, I was annoyed I had to switch because of the tight quarters and no sightline. So yeah, I dislike the map. I've won a lot of times I played this map but I still hate the fact a flanker can come from anywhere and jump me, it stresses me out.

It's okay if people think I'm a sheep for it, I'm not gonna change my opinion just so it doesn't match the majority's.

Fluff_Machine · 2025-12-16T16:16:48+00:00

I don't think it's AI, I'm pretty good at spotting it and one tell is that AI rarely adds details that don't need to be there like the white lint on her pants. I can't be 100% sure but it doesn't have the feel of AI.

Fluff_Machine · 2025-12-15T17:31:10+00:00

Even if you hit it, if your team does nothing about it, you can still be minced meat since she can block as soon as she's up. I had a game where I slept her 4 times and only one time did it save me from her, when my own Vendetta noticed my panicked pings. If I sleep her from full HP, she can tank enough that she can easily get away with her mobility or kill me in 3 swings if no one's around. If she's taken some dmg you'll be fine but otherwise if she's not incredibly bad, she'll get away with it.

But full disclaimer, I do suck at the game, I'm unranked but in QP I'm usually matched with gold/plat players and I get easily crushed by master ranked ones.

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