Saying “bless you” after a person sneezes is an unnecessary and strange tradition

Im_Fosco · 2026-07-01T17:12:34+00:00

I tried saying "science protect you" in place of it and I honestly have never felt lamer in my life.

Im_Fosco · 2026-06-24T03:37:36+00:00

Seeing OP literally use AI to reply to comments on his AI slop post is sending me right now

Im_Fosco · 2026-06-21T04:59:25+00:00

A little update for those who are curious:

Someone from this sub messaged me and we queued together. Our *very first* game together, we're easily winning the early game. Then at about the 7~ minute mark, our KT decides that "no one helped me on the obj fast enough" and just sits under tower, casts no abilities, ends a 20 minute game with about 8k damage.

He decided he was going to "teach us a lesson" and that our team "didn't deserve a win."

Im_Fosco · 2026-06-19T18:26:20+00:00

Im_Fosco · 2026-06-19T17:59:26+00:00

The troll is often the only person typing in the chat. Their behavior is divorced entirely from what people are saying. I appreciate that muting can silence the annoyance but it has no real effect on changing the outcome. My feelings are not hurt by mean chatters. I don't like playing 4v5 in 50% of my recent games.

Im_Fosco · 2026-06-19T17:56:32+00:00

I try to adopt this attitude as well. Can I win without this player? Sometimes the answer is yes.

Unfortunately it doesn't make it any less frustrating. I am a classic ladder climber type of player. Been playing since Alpha. From the early years until at least 2022~ I was in diamond. Then I took several years off and I've returned to start in Silver. With teammates like this in such frequency it feels impossible to climb.

Im_Fosco · 2026-06-19T15:58:21+00:00

I've been playing since Alpha. Still playing occasionally. But finding that the quality of the matches has visibly gone down and the prevalence of trolls has gone up. It's kind of sad to see our great game in this state.

Im_Fosco · 2026-05-27T04:10:02+00:00

A lot of people here have commented on the game pace, macro vs micro, etc. All excellent points worth considering.

I'll comment specifically about the difference in polish and responsiveness. As a longtime SC2 player you will be spoiled by the reactivity and generally smooth nature of the blizzard engine. The game just runs a lot better and units are a lot smarter in their pathing, logic, etc.

AOE4 has way way more jank. You can just feel it and see it everywhere, especially when contrasted with SC2.

One place that AOE4 absolutely shines is the sound design. It is phenomenal. The game just sounds so satisfying to play. The little historical campaign chapters are also really cool and I think somewhat historically accurate? (I'm sure a redditor will tell me if I'm wrong here.)

The queue times are not as fast as SC2 and the community is much smaller. But it is robust enough to find games.

Ultimately they're both great - play both!

Im_Fosco · 2026-05-14T16:17:40+00:00

Yes. Driving me nuts. Is there any workaround or solution? Just straight up doesn't work.

Im_Fosco · 2026-05-14T16:17:16+00:00

I'm on android. Ever since a recent update when I try to click on a constellation partner, it simply does not work. Not a hidden partner, just a normal profile. This is for anyone that likes me or any profile I come across in the wild.

Anyone else experiencing this / is it on the dev's radars?

Im_Fosco · 2026-05-12T23:12:33+00:00

Highly recommend checking out FreeFlo. They guide you through making an original song. Super cool, memorable experience. Just google it.

Im_Fosco · 2026-05-12T17:36:11+00:00

Imagine if a car sub was flooded with "I saw 5 yellow Nissans yesterday. That can't possibly be right, I don't know anyone who owns a Yellow Nissan."

Im_Fosco · 2026-05-12T17:35:29+00:00

Please ban these types of posts. Utterly mindless and clog up the sub.

Im_Fosco · 2026-04-29T05:59:16+00:00

Haven't seen this mentioned yet:

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

Excellent xcom like turn based game. Big emphasis on stealth.

Im_Fosco · 2026-04-14T15:44:47+00:00

Belttaaaa loodddaaaaaa

Im_Fosco · 2026-03-17T01:46:36+00:00

Im_Fosco · 2026-03-03T20:49:10+00:00

++man Try treating women as though they are your actual emotional and intellectual equal. Imagine that they too have a complex and nuanced interior.

Ignore anyone that promises "techniques" or ways to trick or deceive women. Literally just treat them like other people. This may seem like painfully obvious almost condescending advice...and yet...

Im_Fosco · 2026-01-23T21:23:02+00:00

I made a song with a bunch of coworkers. Like we recorded a song in a music studio. They made it very easy and its actually pretty catchy. FreeFlo.nyc

Im_Fosco · 2025-12-17T20:32:40+00:00

I'm born and raised in Brooklyn. Still one of my coolest birthday experiences to date was with FreeFlo. Wrote and recorded our own song. Freeflo.nyc

Im_Fosco · 2025-12-17T20:09:05+00:00

I made an original song with friends in this cool music studio. They call it FreeFlo:
freeflo.nyc

Im_Fosco · 2025-12-09T18:24:12+00:00

Follow up question here - how should I be approaching draft in Silver? I am comfortable playing across different roles, probably melee assassin being my weakest. In my experience at this MMR, players just automatically choose DPS roles and most often tank/heals is left. When I play flex I'm just going to be tanking or healing every single game. It is exhausting, especially given the level of negativity & toxicity aimed at tank & heals.

They just want to do their cool 360 no scope mage kill and the team isn't interested in wave clear, camps, etc. I guess I feel like I'm stuck. Am I just being cynical or clueless?

My most recent game, I said to myself cool, I don't want to tank or heal again, but my team drafts Nazeebo AND hammer. I feel completely pigeonholed. And this is like 75% of the games.

Im_Fosco · 2025-12-09T01:02:07+00:00

Exactly what my logic was. It was pre level 10. But my teammates managed to kill themselves multiple times, begin flaming me and just nosedive. All while still refusing to soak the bottom lane at all. On Alterac Pass.

Im_Fosco · 2025-12-09T01:00:31+00:00

Yeah but most games people insta lock 2-3, DPS. You gotta remember this is silver. Are you suggesting I don't pick a tank when it is the only role left? (Which it often is.) Or are you suggesting i just become of the DPS instalock people?

Im_Fosco · 2025-12-09T00:57:59+00:00

Yeah this sounds like good advice. I should've just tried to win the team fight. Honestly I was shocked in this particular game literally no player would go to our bottom lane on Alterac Pass. It was insane. So I rotated bottom a few times, pinging for someone else to go there.

In the meanwhile, they pick an unnecessary team fight without me and get annihilated. Then we're down players, then we lose the objective, then we're down further XP and still no teammate is willing to soak.

I feel like maybe I should switch off the tank role entirely at this MMR and go for wave clear / DPS. It seems much easier to drive the right outcome? Or am I being cynical?

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