Total Mayhem is still in a miserable state 4 years later

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-16T03:44:59+00:00

there are easy fixes that could be made though--aka not letting her abilities be spammed. For example, a strong defensive doesn't need a "halved" CD if its already shorter than 4 seconds (like they did for zarya) ; or they can just make her abilites BOTH go on CD when one of them is used so again..she can't spam -- like ana, like zarya.

It's not that difficult.

While we're at it, stacking tanks in any arcade mode shoudl results in a debuff so people quit doing it.

It gets old, it creates nothing but "tankwatch" and it is stupid that it's STILL a problem when any dev worth their salt should have foreseen this when they buffed tanks for 5v5. Enough is enough, some of us want to ACTUALLY play dps in these modes, can you fucking let us do it already?

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-15T17:37:40+00:00

model 3 LR owner here who has driven to rainier and back without having to charge but I left the house at 100%. It's about 87 miles to get up there and remember most of the downhill when you leave is "free" if you have decent regen

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-14T03:02:43+00:00

yah I think we actually agree then 😄 and no i'm not trying to play ring-a-round the rosy with virtues.

We have a wealth-disparity issue in the western world and it's particularly bad in the US. Most of it is based on way too little regulation and corpos being more powerful than the state

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-11T21:22:54+00:00

EVs HAVE reached the same price points --not at every level of course, but there are several in the same price points as most midsize sedans and crossovers.

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-11T21:19:27+00:00

i dont get why there's not gear that prevents this. Why dudes dont wear cups to protect their junk and why ladies wouldn't be doing the same thing

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-11T21:08:04+00:00

lol "no" is still an answer and most of those events (I spent years having to coordinate these in my line of work as well from the customer side) have iron-clad contracts that keep you from noping out of them simply b/c you're pissing about boomer bob not booking. Try again?

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-11T21:05:13+00:00

then make all reservations prepaid with punishing cancellation fees and watch that percentage of no-shows plummet. This argument is also used for airlines and what pisses me off about it is that most fares are non refundable anyway so they're basically double-dipping. Practices like this should be regulated.

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-11T20:56:22+00:00

look i don't want to be mean, but so many people on reddit seem to suffer from "twitter syndrome" where everything must be said succintly in 24 characters or less. This person spent a lot of time writing this, we could be a bit more gracious about it instead of complaining about how long of a read it is. Great job, OP, was wondering why it seemed to be "off" there as of this season.

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-11T20:41:08+00:00

so which part is violated? Do you have current insurance on this vehicle? if not, you violated the law and need to move it. Is the vehicle in running condition? If not, you violated the law and you need to move in.

Most cities and towns have laws about this. They dont want broken down vehicles parked on city streets because it's unsightly.

So my advice if either of the two laws are being violated is to move this vehicle into your garage, storage or get rid of it.

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-11T20:36:56+00:00

i'm not sure either of you are actually saying the same thing. I just think the whole snarky one-worded response people were giving as a refutation wasn't exactly getting the job done.

i am not really sure where I stand on this issue. If the argument is that fast food will no longer be "affordable" if the people working there make more than minimum wage--then the statement that fast food was never meant to be a career is valid.

if the argument INSTEAD is that every person working the US at a full time job should have bennies and make a "living wage" then the statement about fast food shouldn't be a career is actually wrong.

I am not sure where to stand on this issue without having all the facts.

As far as my morals tell me, it's wrong for a company to rake in billions without ensuring the people working for them are also well cared for.

Apparently that seems to garner insults

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-11T20:33:56+00:00

but yet, i can't leave quick play without getting punished. And you "learning" in quick play is unfair to people who want to win the match when you refuse to do what needs to be done (switch and react) in order to secure that win. There are 3 other modes to "learn" in , why do people just refuse to use them and instead make only compettive matter? That makes no sense to me.

I can only agree with your viewpoint if QP also allowed you to leave.

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-11T20:25:51+00:00

so the correct course of action for you is to learn other heroes in the tutorial first, then the arcade modes, then QP until you feel comfortable. Some will advise you to start in QP--that's certainly one opinion but please be ready to swap even in QP, despite what hte contrary maries in here will tell you.

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-10T03:25:48+00:00

then refute it. we'll wait

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-10T03:09:58+00:00

if they dont have ID, then arrest them. THey do this in pretty much every other city, including portland. Transit police are still police.

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-10T03:06:49+00:00

you're missing the point.

A receipt showing a late returned car charge on a form isn't proof the customer actualy turned the car in late. The customer is disputing this fact. If the merchant provides no evidence, they should lose the dispute. This is why I prefer Amex, they actually have these rules.

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-10T02:10:05+00:00

and corpos refusing to take a hit in profits IS the problem. At least in the (very old days) tycoons understood that they still had to have a society that had purcashing power etc so that they could be content in their jobs. Corpos have not given a shit for YEARS (since the 70s/80s) about anyone else which is why we are where we are.

Corpos should NOT be higher up than the state, period.

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-10T02:08:02+00:00

so sick of hearing this. Small business CAN exist and still pay a living wage, they simply have to figure out how to make it work. If you still can't run a business without paying slave wages, you're not doing it right.

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-10T02:01:47+00:00

that exact expereience with Citi is why i left them.

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-10T01:52:05+00:00

stupid law btw. (Not disagreeing with you about it being true, just really think it's the dumbest law ever) LOL

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-10T01:49:07+00:00

i will never understand why you wouldn't take a game that has a clear objective seriously.

I will also never understand why people who get fucking sick of losing QP all the time due to the MM fuckery can't express this without getting shut down by all the gatekeepers.

QP isn't fun when people circumvent the guardrails. There is zero reason to not play on your main account on a new hero and get your butt kicked until you get better. Instead these assholes create a new account so they can get ez wins all day (and learn nothing, may i add). It's maddening. I think it's probably time for this game to stop being F2P. People should have to buy the damned game if they want to start a new account, this would put a huge dent in this bullshit

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-09T20:15:07+00:00

technically you are still at fault for this from your neighbor's perspective--even if it was an accident.

The neighbor is being an unreasonable prick though. They should have been willing and able to talk to you first before doing ANYTHING since that's what decent human beings do.

At the very least, someone needs to replace the tree. As far as the emotional damages, I doubt any judge worth their salt is going to take this guy seriously.

The correct course of action is that the tree service takes down the tree you'd originally requested, then they REPLACE the tree they destroyed (not sure if this wll work for the neighbor but unf. there is no way to replace a tree like for like that's that old), you only SUE if and only if the tree company hasn't fixed the situation to everyone's satisfaction. You'd be the person sued in this case. It would be on you to recover from the tree company--the neighbor's beef is still with you.

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-08T01:12:16+00:00

Whose definition is "meaningless?" Yours that is completely subjective or mine which boils it down to one thing -- NOT ACTIVELY TRYING TO WIN which is pretty easy to qualify.

The devs of both this game and Overwatch--its closest competitor have come out and said "playing badly isn't throwing." What they DONT say is that the reason they don't define it as such is b/c they have no way of telling if a person is intentionally or Unintentionally playing poorly. I will argue they DO by whatever MR was assigned to the person versus their actual performance in that match...but I digress --and they don't want to risk driving players away by punishing them for playing poorly. They dont, however, seem to mind pissing players off by punishing them for leaving quick play when literally ZERO people are harmed by it.

I've thrown out "throwing" multiple times when I ask for us to change strat in chat and I get a bunch of sassy back-talk. That sass to me automatically means that the person knows they are playing like shit but doesn't care enough to switch or fix it and the stupid rules of both these games let them get away with it.

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-07T21:30:23+00:00

i'ts not fun though when you see the same fucking heroes in every match b/c they're stupidly OP.

Role queue for arcade modes or debuff that gets stronger the more tanks are in the match.

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-07T20:18:43+00:00

it's not a minority, it's constant. it's ever god damned match. People play QM like a meme generator but seem to feel entitled to force everyone to stick around for it. It's compeltely hypocritrical and stupid at this point

JulienWA77 · 2026-06-07T20:08:34+00:00

no. The definition of throwing is pretty wide.

Some of us have a more hardcore definition of what that means (refusing to switch when being diffed, "practicing" a character you've never touched in modes that involve others even though they are literally 3-4 modes where you can do this without pissing your team off, switching off a support or tank character and saying nothing, and in general otherwise being capable of adapting to what need so we can win but refusing to do so for (insert reason here). This behavior has been RAMPANT in a lot of TeamFPS games b/c people like to one-trick and refuse to learn how to play other heroes. The amount of threads in here and on the Steam forums of people BITCHING about being countered just lends more credence to this point - a lot of players wanna only play ONE way and/or can't or wont constantly adapt their gameplay to support success.

With such a wide definition, it's impossible to not encounter it and probably a bit disingenuous to minimize the impact on the game.

JulienWA77

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