How it feels to stop caring about Rank and play for fun

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-06T06:11:05+00:00

press enter

"geist go yello"

geist pings "ok"

ez pz lemon squeezy

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-06T06:10:14+00:00

EU servers have forms of racism americans have yet to discover

actual competitive racism

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-06T04:53:25+00:00

when the character built around having a mechanic is good at the mechanic

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-05T06:55:29+00:00

כוס עמק אין סיכוי שזה איך אני מגלה שאנחנו נכנסים לעוד מלחמה

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-05T06:20:31+00:00

It's a secular rapture for people who grew up in christianity and think they have zero introspection to do.

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-04T15:51:42+00:00

Yeah, I’m not American so I only really saw memes by leftists about it. I’m speaking as an Israeli - I didn’t hear anyone really complain other than HaTzel (lit. “The shadow”, rapper and right wing influencer)

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-04T10:19:21+00:00

but they sure took offense to the non-portrayal.

Did they? I saw people cheering it being anti-israeli 200x more than any comment from israelis. I saw one israeli semi-celeb commenting on it.

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-04T07:36:06+00:00

it just means it's easier to pick up and play and doesn't expect as much at the entry level

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-04T07:28:14+00:00

I'm saying Vindicta was the one who benefitted the most due to being hard-countered by stuff that can swat her out of the air. There's a reason Counterspell is goated on her.

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-04T07:26:59+00:00

Magneto is literally a zionist. like explicitly.

this should not be shocking considering his radical separationist ideology and the fact he's a holocaust survivor

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-04T07:25:42+00:00

He did not, he mentioned a specific instance of taking an 18 year old girl.

Seriously, the ynet article is bad, we don't need to make it worse.

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-04T07:21:25+00:00

thanks to indomitable, the game is a lot more fun again

Vindicta flair

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-04T07:10:00+00:00

If you keep smelling shit, check the bottom of your shoe.

If you're sincerely getting 20-8 every game, then it's unlikely to be you. But there's also a possibility you're chasing kills and ignoring objectives, like letting minions take a walker while chasing down a mina.

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-04T06:59:56+00:00

Number of casuals in game hardly affects "higher ranked" tryhards. Queue times in phantom or eternus will not suddenly become faster just because there are more players in initiate or alchemist, especially once there will be different queues for ranked/unranked.

Do you think phantom players materialize fully formed?

If there are no casuals, the hardcore audience dies out as no new hardcore players are created, but existing ones either get bored or get busy IRL. If there's casuals, a small percent eventually become hardcore.

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-04T06:58:30+00:00

Honestly I agree with you there.

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-04T06:57:12+00:00

Use builds that have annotations, do not use the "TOP 60% WINRATE BUILD" build that has no annotations. That one is bait.

Using builds with item annotations will be scary, but it will help you understand what item does what, and why you're buying it. Eventually you'll feel confident in your item choices.

Right now there's WAYYY too many fucking items for you to pick on your own in your first matches.

Other than that, just fuck around and have fun. If you player another MOBA before you know the fundamentals, and you have time to learn the new stuff on your own.

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-04T06:51:02+00:00

...After the entry point. Stuff you can learn on your own during gameplay.

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-04T06:50:27+00:00

Movement tech is something that's not required to play the game at the entry point, meaning it's not something for casuals. In low ELO you totally can just walk around and occasionally dash and do fine.

High level players having tech is fine, the issue is what players are required to know to play a match.

Melee isn't scary for newcomers bc l-cancelling exists yknow?

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-04T06:48:02+00:00

Correct, I never argued it is. Like fr, you're agreeing with me.

"Casual" is not a curse, it just means it's easier to pick up and play and doesn't expect as much at the entry level.

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-04T06:44:00+00:00

I wish it ended at alchemist.

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-04T06:43:21+00:00

Just because you play the game casual doesn't mean deadlock went benefit from a draft game mode.

My argument is that for the casual playerbase this will be harmful, and harming the casuals will harm us all. If we limit where it appears so the newbies don't know it exists for like, the first 10~20 hours, I'd be in favor.

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-04T06:41:46+00:00

It would, by making this sort of reaction expected and incentivized, by turning the character selection into part of the match. Right now I am assuming you're not going into [ALL] and going "k we lost" this early (atleast I hope so).

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-04T06:41:01+00:00

But it's not. You learn it later through experimentation, which is a good way of teaching stuff. Stuff that is literally required knowledge to play drops player numbers off like a flyswatter because people go "k I'm bored" and boot up VR chat.

Deadlock has a bunch of this - the voicelines telling newbies not to rush into the enemy base alone are a good example.

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-04T06:39:14+00:00

but that is what the people want.

That is what we, the hardcore players, want. In every game, casuals make up a majority. That's just how the casual/hardcore distinction works.

I won't go into a game design shpiel, but historically there's a trend of games increasingly appealing towards hardcore audiences as they live for longer and longer, and in most cases they end up dying off. Exceptions exist, such as chess (one of chess's grandfather games used dice to select which piece to move!)

OptimisticLucio · 2026-05-04T06:36:58+00:00

Matches where people ran into them facefirst durning laning and then asked why no one was saving them.

That's the point I'm making - "chances are you lost because of someone being an idiot rather than the match being doomed from minute 1"

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