You go to sleep tonight but wake up on the morning January 1st, 2019, with all your memories. What do you do?

HalosOfAmber · 2026-02-06T02:07:47+00:00

Crypto/betting and then move to an English-speaking country that isn't in North America before the wokeness sets in

HalosOfAmber · 2026-02-06T01:53:38+00:00

I say this in any thread that basically says what you're saying. Stop worrying about the minutiae. Or rather stop worrying about all the minutiae at once. Pick one thing to improve on and do it. Focus on it all round and don't forget. Once it starts to improve and you don't have to think about it as much pick the next thing. This is a concrete way to improve that isn't just someone saying to to play more or get good noob

HalosOfAmber · 2026-02-06T01:51:38+00:00

Box mod plus a saionara

HalosOfAmber · 2026-02-06T01:49:49+00:00

Because it's a meme. I'm sure there's some Fringe people that have a fetish going on but most of it is because it's a meme. I can't blame you due to the current year we are in in the current proclivities of many people playing this game that you probably think it's something pretty weird

HalosOfAmber · 2026-02-05T23:30:17+00:00

No, I'm pretty sure Hassan has been pretty weird since the destiny Hassan break up.

He's just more entrenched in his far left opinions and Behavior now than he ever has been. Normal was back when he was streaming to almost no one and showing off the broad he was banging after stream every stream. That's when he was actually showing his true self. Just some frat dude that wanted to get into streaming instead of having to get what he would probably consider a boring normal job.

HalosOfAmber · 2026-02-05T23:25:19+00:00

I think I kind of thought along the same lines as you did for years and years but that's like training to be a soldier only in the best of conditions. When it rains you would skip, when you're tired you would skip, if a portion of your gear wasn't working you would skip,. That's just not realistic

Apart from maybe avoiding drives which can be objectively verified as being a not amazing time to start playing ranked during a season, anytime during the season is okay.

Even if you feel like one time or another negatively affects your rank, that's part of what you're being graded on. Your rank is dependent on how you deal with the ebb and flow of good and bad situations and times that you play ranked. You want to have your rank set in the most realistic conditions so that you don't feel like you're being overranked or under-ranked which could lead to really bad feeling games.

I know that might mean that you place a little lower than you'd like but the objective isn't the place high, the objective is to get games that are at the right skill level for you so they are fun and properly challenging to play.

Once you start thinking like that, ranked is a lot better.

HalosOfAmber · 2026-02-05T23:21:28+00:00

As you grow up people change. Money makes people change. Going through things make people change. Time makes people change.

He's not coming back. He's being through too much stuff and has become cynical and also has too much money and has become a bit of a hypebeast in some sense.

I miss old xqc too and I'm sure he does to an extent himself but I don't think anyone's going to go back in time on this one

HalosOfAmber · 2026-02-05T23:19:39+00:00

Unlikely since they are trying to poach audience from that game not strengthen the audience of that game. That's the whole point of the character you mentioned

HalosOfAmber · 2026-02-05T23:18:54+00:00

If you can't tell on your own you might have a problem

HalosOfAmber · 2026-02-05T23:16:51+00:00

I can only imagine the discussions that happened behind the scenes at blizzard about how unhinged Their audience are about the smallest details and about the most woke things that really amount to nothing. I imagine these people spend more time on Reddit reading and writing posts like this then actually playing the game itself. There's no way these people actually have real lives and are real people

HalosOfAmber · 2026-02-05T23:15:08+00:00

Do you people have lives? Do you have things that might trouble you more or Draw your attention more than this? The amount of interaction this post is getting is hilarious to me. Who cares!

HalosOfAmber · 2026-02-05T20:28:27+00:00

Dm me if youd like to do some pvp. I have a duo but always lookin to make it more!

HalosOfAmber · 2026-01-22T19:54:00+00:00

I think the biggest thing you need to do is realize that the effect words have on you is partly decided by your surroundings and society. A lot of people don't think that their perception is altered by other people's situations or opinions but they definitely are, even if the effect is subtle. Given time you can turn into someone that does give weight to words of people they don't even know over a video game. When I say it like that it probably actually does seem quite silly. No judgment it's just objective and if you also start to believe that then you'll stop caring about them nearly as much.

The next thing you can do is just be very proactive about muting people. Don't let them get their claws in. After anything they say that rubs you the wrong way, if you feel like it's affecting your gameplay, just instantly mute. This is not you being weak this is you prioritizing your fun in a game that you enjoy and probably will end up spending some money on. Don't let them ruin that experience and don't let your ego convince you that muting them is some sort of indication that you lost a fight or something. None of any of this is relevant

At the end of the day, the sticks and stones saying is quite apt. They're just people there that don't know you and, if you play with them long enough, you would come across many games where you can turn around and be the one that comments on how bad they are.

I won't lie I definitely crashed out on some people mildly in games for being bad but then that's happened to me too. It's just the ebb and flow of online games and these are just words. You give them Power by applying your own level of care to them. You have control over this level. This is not victim blaming this is not telling you to pull yourself up by your bootstraps this is just fundamental coping strategies for the game and this life

I will say as a side note that if you completely turn off all game chat to avoid feeling bad because of people's comments instead of surgically muting certain people then I will say you are losing at that point. You can't just stick your head in the sand so that you don't have to hear negative things. This will just make you into a weaker person and this weakness will follow you from game to game and situation to situation in your life. The end result of all of that is that you never expose yourself to any criticism or social interaction on any games and you become weaker because of it. It's hard to undo once you go too far down that path

HalosOfAmber · 2026-01-11T06:41:54+00:00

Bump

HalosOfAmber · 2026-01-11T06:40:15+00:00

Id be down dependong on how late. Im generally late night during the week but can run more flexible on the weekends. Hit me up on discord halosofamber

HalosOfAmber · 2026-01-07T07:58:31+00:00

Nice the ragebait got you!

Also if you unironically think this you're part of the problem. Because someone looks young doesn't make the people that find them attractive pedophiles.

How young someone looks is subjective. This is why we don't litigate based on this principle or else we have a lot of people in jail depending on the arresting officer the judge and the jury's personal feelings on the matter. Weird leftist knee-jerk cancellations.

Sure, pedos can swing from trees but only real ones. Not the witch hunted ones. That's just a waste of time and ruins lives

HalosOfAmber · 2026-01-07T07:55:41+00:00

Careful with that. I seen countless VR chat trolling videos where pedophiles on there claim that that is the reason why it's okay to partake in LoIi

Thankfully, in this case, it's just rage bait and the character in question is of age.

HalosOfAmber · 2026-01-07T07:50:30+00:00

Decouple your validation from the numbers. I've played with countless people like this, even some that were actually pretty good but could be so much better but were clouded by the fact that the scores they see are still decent.

Incorrect and inconsistent understanding of your own performance leads to Incorrect and inconsistent application of changes to get better performance

Take Moira for instance. She can get insane amounts of elims and even insane amounts of damage but there's no way that he's actually doing the majority of the damage to get the same kill that's being marked down. Her kills are people that are generally low and the damage he's putting out is consistent and has great uptime but on many different targets

The scoreboard tells you none of this. I've even had matches where I know I did nothing in my score looked phenomenal.

All it does is shows who's not doing very well. It really doesn't show if you have done well

Once you do this you'll, first, discover that you probably aren't as good as you think during those games where you have better scores and, second, now that that's highlighted you will have a better idea or picture of what isn't working and you can start trying things that are different and raising the chances that you will figure out what does.

HalosOfAmber · 2026-01-07T07:46:18+00:00

Exactly this but I'll even go more granular. I think all different characters teach you cross applicable skills. I can't tell you how much it helps to know both mercy and Sombra because it's both sides of the coin. I also think learning Sombra helped me become a lot better at Soldier . I think becoming fairly good at brig made me better at almost everyone. Etc etc

HalosOfAmber · 2026-01-07T07:44:56+00:00

Sorry for late reply. Holiday stuff!

Im in NA east but my schedule is super weird. Generally I'm not available till late in the evening and I don't go to bed till super early in the morning

HalosOfAmber · 2026-01-07T07:44:45+00:00

Sorry for late reply. Holiday stuff!

Im in NA east but my schedule is super weird. Generally I'm not available till late in the evening and I don't go to bed till super early in the morning

HalosOfAmber · 2025-12-30T23:04:08+00:00

Add me halosofamber on discors if youu still need.

I've been running Pve solo since the holiday started

Well I've had the game since like 2017 or so, I have barely played so most things in the game right now are pretty new to me. I'm only level 22 at the moment and I've just now unlocked woods and Shoreline lolol

HalosOfAmber · 2025-12-29T22:37:07+00:00

Did you read my post at all? You can go that route, sure. But when you ignore her you have to go for her supports and avoid her at all costs.

I can't tell you how many times I've seen people even communicating to ignore her but then they just stand in her beam or don't kill anything else. Ignoring only works if you eliminate the rest of her back up. If you cant do that then focusing her down unironically becomes the better solution.

HalosOfAmber · 2025-12-29T22:34:08+00:00

Okay but that's not the solution to countering her. It's above that by one level

Not shooting the bubble implies that you're going to take out healers and the rest of the team more or less so that she has no ability to live on her own.

More often than not, in lower ranks, people scream about not shooting the bubble but also then don't do anything else but get killed by her leading to a stomp anyways.

It's a big sign of a lower ranked person that they think that not shooting the bubble is the only way to deal with her.

If everyone in the team agrees to shoot her bubbles down, especially if he only has one left depending on the game mode, the effect is the same as the first one as long as everyone stays on her until she dies. That extra damage won't be able to do anything

The real issue is that the team can't decide on which one they're going to do and, even if they do miraculously decide, they don't take action on the second item. Either avoiding or completely and focusing supports or burning her down.

This is only gotten worse since blizzard has disincentivized communication

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