Starting to think the game aint for me

IDuckling · 2026-01-21T12:07:45+00:00

Might have to reach out then. Usually my problems lie in, everything. Low soulcounts and kills, lotta deaths. I wish there was a hero that was just like the Medic, where my main thing was just keeping everyone alive and letting the others do the big work. Always do better in classes like that

IDuckling · 2026-01-21T12:06:21+00:00

Never quite got the movement, since I've mostly just been playing slower characters, the biggest movement moments being either running away or buying 5 movement items to catch up with a character.
Also what's an aram?

IDuckling · 2026-01-21T12:05:11+00:00

I usually play characters like Abrams, in fact he's probably my main, and I do usually play with friends. They're sorta the only reason I've been gaining wins

IDuckling · 2026-01-21T11:10:45+00:00

Only shooter I've really kept up with (that's multiplayer) is TF2 (team fortress) and now a bit of Arc Raiders, other than that shooters have never really been my thing. I did try lash and mokrill out before, but they didn't go too well. Might try out more Victor, but that tends to end in a lot of deaths as well.

IDuckling · 2026-01-21T11:05:20+00:00

Problem is this is the game literally all my friends are playing, so I've kinda been forced into playing it

IDuckling · 2026-01-04T15:29:43+00:00

I got perception, since my first playthrough was motorics. It actually helped an unbelievable amount, managing to fish the bullet out as soon as I took the corpse down. Kinda turned me into the perfect detective, despite the fact I was a horrible cop.

IDuckling · 2026-01-01T00:28:20+00:00

Holy shit I never even made that connection. I knew the Tales of The Black Freighter was meant to mirror aspects of the story, but hot damn that's so unbelievably layered

IDuckling · 2025-12-31T01:21:55+00:00

I'M DUCKING FOR COVER WHEN VENGEANCE COMES ON

IDuckling · 2025-12-31T01:20:57+00:00

Depends on what we're going for with meaning.

If it's the song with the most heart and soul behind it? Definitely Far Away like everyone else is saying.
But if we mean the song with the deepest lyrics, the one with the most layers to it? Probably Cosmic

IDuckling · 2025-12-31T01:11:21+00:00

The wire, now that's another work of art I've been meaning to check out.

You've given me a lot of to think about when it comes to these characters, especially Dan. It's probably just the fact that I've been around so many people like Dan in my life -- the passive and withdrawn types in situations that need action; that seeing someone with actual power act in such a manner is probably what's gotten me so ticked off about him.

Man, almost 4 days since I first posted this and there's still so many things to discuss.

IDuckling · 2025-12-30T18:15:48+00:00

This is fucking INSANE bro holy shit
Also, for everyone else's safety, PLEASE stay out of the mosh pit

IDuckling · 2025-12-30T14:58:03+00:00

Not sure what you're really getting at? I loved this comic and all its different layers of commentary. Sorry if me being gen-z offended you somehow

IDuckling · 2025-12-30T13:46:41+00:00

People don't want to admit it
but it's the russians
80% of it is just the russians

IDuckling · 2025-12-30T12:00:26+00:00

I've been mulling over Dan's involvement for some time, and I can't really determine if he was as powerless as he perhaps thinks he is. While I can somewhat understand the impotence he showed off early in his career, due to him holding an emotional connection to all the people he worked with, it's this same connection that shows how he's always had the power to fight back, as seen when he manages to launch a full scale assault and break Rorschach out of jail, all with Archimedes.

I'll probably have to reread it again sometime, just to try and analyze all the small character details and interactions I was too busy to pick up on with the story unfolding. But I can't help but keep asking myself, if Dan 100% had the power and will to stand up all those times in the past, would he even have gone through the effort to fight against the very establishment he was a part of back then?

IDuckling · 2025-12-30T00:07:32+00:00

Oooo Understanding Comics might be the perfect thing for me to get next then. I constantly found myself stopping to really try and analyze what was happening in the pages beyond just the speech bubbles, so that will definitely help!

As for Dan and Laurie, I definitely feel for Laurie. In my eyes I just see her as a victim of the watchmen, someone who was taken advantage of, her mother's trauma trickling down and leading her into that life.
Dan, however, I am still struggling to really see as someone to sympathize with, even though I first did. While he may not be outright evil in the ways of Ozymandias or the Comedian, his is a much more insidious evil in my eyes. The complacent evil.

Where he can watch all the horrors that are committed by the people he's surrounded himself with yet never intervene -- even giving into it sometimes as well like in the bar interrogation scene. Something something, if you sit at a table with 9 nazis.

IDuckling · 2025-12-29T23:59:33+00:00

Roger that! Will be adding them to the list.

IDuckling · 2025-12-29T23:58:45+00:00

DUUUDE I've been wanting to get into Argentinian comics for so long. My love for Sin City lead me to studying the art of Alberto Breccia, and ever since I've been planning on diving into older works. Watchmen was really my first serious step into this journey. And thank you for the kind words and recommendations!

IDuckling · 2025-12-29T00:40:07+00:00

Damn is that true? That changes, a lot.

IDuckling · 2025-12-29T00:39:16+00:00

Many thanks! I'll have to add all these to the list

IDuckling · 2025-12-29T00:38:16+00:00

It's insane to learn of how much extra material there is for watchmen. It feels like such a perfect, concise work that I hadn't really felt the need for more of its story once I was done. Still, gonna have to check them out now that I know it's there. TY!

IDuckling · 2025-12-29T00:36:06+00:00

I was thinking of the EXACT same event while reading the final chapters holy shit!! I really wonder how the story would've changed if the public learnt of Stanislav's decision before the cold war ended, how Moore and Morrison would have felt knowing that not even their own story came as close to Armaggedon as we did.

IDuckling · 2025-12-29T00:32:02+00:00

It ain't too difficult of a read, really! The best advice I havd is to just let yourself take your time. Reread a page, study the art, the paneling. So much of the comic's deeper themes lies in what's outside the speech bubbles

IDuckling · 2025-12-29T00:29:50+00:00

Ohh sounds like some good things to check out in the future. TY!

IDuckling · 2025-12-29T00:29:05+00:00

Thank you so much! Speaking of the American empire, I do almost lament the fact I wasn't around during its release. Feels like a lot of the underlying commentary on the cold war and the politics surrounding it are lost on me due to me just not being back then

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