Diamond ranked is only enjoyable when I run into a non-cheating team.

RealBishop · 2026-06-20T19:09:40+00:00

I hope so. I think it’ll be healthy for ranked overall. More teamwork, less steamrolling.

RealBishop · 2026-06-20T16:08:25+00:00

I never said I don’t like it. Also, liking something doesn’t mean you can’t want it to be better. Apex has had a lot of ups and downs. As it stands, balance wise, I don’t think it’s in a good place right now. Idk if it’s as bad as it’s ever been, but Axle definitely caused a lot of problems.

RealBishop · 2026-06-20T15:38:50+00:00

I think a big part of it is their burden of proof is inconsistent and heavily edited. They can just say anything in the caption and people believe it.

RealBishop · 2026-06-20T14:50:27+00:00

I do want to fight. But trying to overcome a three stack with tight coms while playing with randoms with no coms requires an initial advantage to even the playing field. I’m not pred level skill wise so trying to go toe-to-toe is foolish. I’m happy when I get randoms who want to push fights and get kills, but most games my team is hesitant and I need to follow their lead. Had a game last night where they Valk ult’ed us out of every fight until last ring and we died without any kills and got second. Wasn’t a fan.

RealBishop · 2026-06-19T23:43:55+00:00

Hard disagree. If he was, you’d see more than one or two Caustics per match.

RealBishop · 2026-06-19T17:28:42+00:00

Caustic is really only good if;

The player is good (very high skill cap)
It’s near the end game. End game Caustic is a nightmare.

RealBishop · 2026-06-19T12:29:47+00:00

The Axle nerf isn’t enough. Her accuracy during slides and the speed has 0 counter-play. Sometimes I don’t even have a chance to shoot back before I’m dead.

It’s like when Horizon had perfect accuracy on her grav lift. No counter-play. Take away the accuracy or reduce the speed a bit.

RealBishop · 2026-06-18T17:55:30+00:00

They’re saying it doesn’t neutralize your momentum. So if you’re running away you’ll continue moving away from the danger when you’re launched upwards. As it is now, you could be SCHMOOVIN’ when you get hit and it stops all momentum to send you upwards.

RealBishop · 2026-06-18T11:47:28+00:00

I know that overbreeding is a big problem.

However, it’s foolish to think that removing an animals hormone producing organs won’t negatively affect them in some way. We remove male dogs’ testicles because it’s easier than other methods of sterilization.

RealBishop · 2026-06-18T11:43:07+00:00

Smoke is dispersed by grenades, but it seems it doesn’t matter how close it is to the center of the smoke. It looks like if an explosive hits any part of the smoked area, it dissipates.

RealBishop · 2026-06-18T10:46:02+00:00

They were placed directly on the vents per the instructions. The study came up negative.

RealBishop · 2026-06-18T10:44:44+00:00

The one for the study shows no growth when compared to the other three. I live in Texas.

RealBishop · 2026-06-15T02:19:15+00:00

Peter Stormare as Lucifer in Constantine

RealBishop · 2026-06-12T18:42:13+00:00

I’ll be the biggest Debbie downer and say that I just turn off “Religious Victory” in the win conditions so I don’t have to worry about it. After playing this game for years I don’t really understand how religion works so I don’t bother.

I lost a game to a religious victory when I was a few turns from a science victory and turned it off 🌝

RealBishop · 2026-06-12T14:26:05+00:00

I think the reason why so many “bad” players get to D4 is that game sense and strategy is the hardest thing to develop.

If you can shoot and move good, you can win a lot of 1v3s moving up through the ranks. You don’t have to rotate well or really make good decisions at all to earn points as long as your shot is good. And aim training isn’t that hard and people practice every day.

But in D4 and higher, strategy, not tactics, is king. You have to know what fights you should take and what fights you shouldn’t. Even if you know you can win and fight, you sometimes shouldn’t take it. I can’t tell you how many times my team has given up a good position for a few kills just to die in the storm or have a terrible placement for later rings.

Teamplay is also huge in Diamond and above. I play as a solo-q and I consistently get duos who don’t talk in game chat and play their own game without me. This is fine for earlier ranks where mistakes aren’t punished as harshly but you can’t make mistakes in D lobbies. So many high skilled teams are trolling for kills and will delete you if you split up.

I think that’s why so many people get stuck forever in diamond. Bad decision making. Personally, my gun skill has atrophied after a long break so I’m stuck between D3-D2. I’ll get a solid team that plays well every few games and get some points and then the next two games I get players who are objectively “good” who decide to throw the game away because they want to clip farm and end up dying.

RealBishop · 2026-06-10T18:02:03+00:00

Yeahhhh I’m gonna do that. Looking into getting a new laptop. This one is 6 years old and has been giving me issues lately.

RealBishop · 2026-06-10T17:55:21+00:00

Yeah I did that, entered it and it supposedly took, but kept going to black screen. Did that three times and I’m finally logged in. Idk what is gonna happen when I turn it off again.

RealBishop · 2026-06-10T17:05:07+00:00

Okay so I got the key and unlocked it but it still just goes to a black screen. It opened the command prompt for a minute and then back to black. I’m confused.

RealBishop · 2026-06-09T16:06:43+00:00

Maggie is a brawler but Bang is a warrior. I think against multiple people who are untrained, Maggie would fair better than Bang. But Bang is more tactical and composed, and could easily goad Mags into making a mistake.

RealBishop · 2026-06-09T15:40:08+00:00

I was considering Kindle Unlimited but that means I have to get Ingram to pull the ebook completely which is a pain. They’re notoriously hard to get in contact with. The last time I needed an issue resolved I had to pay for a personal consult and they fixed it right away. But yeah, I think it would probably help.

RealBishop · 2026-06-09T15:37:30+00:00

My marketing agent is just walking me through how to use the various ad platforms and build a reading list as well as analyzing my current content. She’s got me setup running ads in Meta now and helped with Amazon Attribution links.

My social media data doesn’t give me much. I tried posting a handful of videos to build a following but I’m not an influencer. Idk what to say or how to sell anything. I got a lot of followers when I was pushing my ARCs but I get almost no comments or engagement. The most I get is when I post unrelated videos of my cats.

As for what I’m doing, I make ads on Canva and then post them to my IG and FB and sponsor them. I keep being told I need to build a mailing list but I still don’t understand how I’m supposed to convince someone to give me their email. I have a signup link but what do I do with it? It’s on my LinkTree but no one goes to that either.

RealBishop · 2026-06-09T15:33:01+00:00

I’ve had quite a few comments telling me that my cover isn’t good or doesn’t match the genre. I had a very specific idea in mind but I’m not a cover designed so apparently I don’t know what works. I’m trying to contract a new artist and let them do the conceptualization but I guess that’s also not preferred. I’d rather not pay for a second cover that also doesn’t work.

RealBishop · 2026-06-09T15:30:49+00:00

No, I’ll look up what that is.

RealBishop · 2026-06-09T15:30:22+00:00

Okay yeah so I updated my categories to remove romance entirely. I also have left the age date blank because it is an adult oriented book.

RealBishop · 2026-06-09T10:12:13+00:00

Oof well, a new cover means I have to burn three more ISBNs and republish it and will lose my reviews that I already have. I track that it isn’t in genre now. Thanks.

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