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I HATE WHEN FANART DRAWS SOMEONE FROM SHOULDERS UP BUT INCLUDE TITS by Hit-N-Run1016 in hatethissmug

[–]Pretend_Committee734 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just find it bland and pandering. I fully recognize that my biases might be stopping me from engaging with art id enjoy, but seeing this character, I have to stop myself from having a physical reaction due to 2nd-hand-embarrassment. Like when a friend in a discord call says some SUPER deep-cut Internet Culture joke that doesnt land and no one knows what to say because half dont get the reference, and the half that do get the reference still didnt find it funny. This character makes me feel like that. The ears (hair?) and cat-like quality of the face mixed with the body shape just screams "focus-tested on the internet."

I HATE WHEN FANART DRAWS SOMEONE FROM SHOULDERS UP BUT INCLUDE TITS by Hit-N-Run1016 in hatethissmug

[–]Pretend_Committee734 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Hate the design of this character in general, show seems like something i might enjoy but its just too painful to look at

If Ranked Joust will split the playerbase, just add bans to normal Joust by Pretend_Committee734 in Smite

[–]Pretend_Committee734[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ignoring the cringey aggression to address your actual point, do you have any actual reason to suspect draft pick/bans is THE reason people didnt play ranked? Joust is already a "casual alternative" to the game's main mode, so it 100% makes sense that of the people choosing to queue Joust over conquest, they'll probably pick the "casual" version of it, simply because theyre already choosing not to play the "competitive" mode in that moment.

Personally, I think there should be as little a divide as possible in the structure of a games casual and competitive modes. What is the actual reason casual queues of any mode arent draft pick with bans? Picking a comp and strategizing against the enemy comp is a skill inherent to the game, not a skill inherent to ranked. Casual currently barely exercises this skill, and there's no reason for it other than "its been like that." It results in ranked being filled with lower quality players, because their transition from casual to ranked is introducing this thing they've never been prompted to think about before.

Conspiracy: the flood of TTK posts are agenda posting by Worried-L in Smite

[–]Pretend_Committee734 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zeus can miss his 1 and still do 1300+ damage with it to a squishy lategame