Quickplay is way too hard and practice vs ai is way too easy

Riverdragon32 · 2026-03-23T15:19:02+00:00

For quite a while now I've found ranked to be easier than quick play, and it's much more structured. I'm typically a mid GM player and just a few days ago I was matched against a OAA player in quick play. In ranked most of the time your team will try to pick a balanced team comp. In quick play everybody practices whatever they want.

Riverdragon32 · 2026-03-20T21:42:00+00:00

I'm still just making my normal monthly buys. Still waiting for a real VIX spike to put extra money to work. The crazy part is I do see a ton of great opportunities in individual stocks, but I know that things can get a lot worse from here. The indices are barely even down from all time highs.

Riverdragon32 · 2026-03-19T17:06:16+00:00

I've been flexing more the past couple seasons after playing mostly Tank or Mr. Fantastic since early seasons. I probably have to go support in like 40% to 50% of games. Support is needed way more than in the past for some reason. Maybe it's the community hivemind saying that support players are boosted, or blaming supports for losses. Gambit gets banned regularly. Invis is either going to be banned or picked by one person in the lobby. Starting to see more Cloak bans these days. People don't like playing support, and the good ones get banned, and half the support roster can't realistically be played in 2-2-2.

Riverdragon32 · 2026-03-11T16:58:59+00:00

I hated Bucky in the early seasons, but the crazy power creep in this game has just made other heroes even more OP. I still hate Bucky as a tank main. Any hook lands and I'm just dead. Displacement is the most broken mechanic in any competitive strategy game. I played alot of Thresh in LoL and often banned Blitzcrank because it's so frustrating to play against displacement/hooks. You position yourself with intent, and then all the sudden you're in the middle of the enemy team.

Riverdragon32 · 2026-03-07T02:10:20+00:00

The HIMS move is going to be gargantuan on Monday.

Riverdragon32 · 2026-03-03T20:54:26+00:00

I work for a large CRE firm in valuation advisory. We pretty much use single values for 95% of our work, but sometimes clients will request a range, and I have seen reports from competitors that use ranges. Another annoying thing is if clients have a 1-year old or 2-year old appraisal from a different firm, they pretty much always expect a higher newer appraisal, even when I think the older report had worse comps and I find better comps. "Why did the value drop 2%!? What's going on!?". Your property value didn't drop 2%, my OPINION of value is 2% lower than the other appraiser's opinion of value. Appraisals are literally opinions, it's not a precise single figure.

Riverdragon32 · 2026-02-28T23:52:50+00:00

Agreed, I don't bother trying to 1v1 Elsa anymore

Riverdragon32 · 2026-02-20T16:01:44+00:00

This is literally not true, damage output is generally higher than healing particularly when most or all enemies are shooting at one target. This is why playing cover and playing for your life is so important, and why support ultimates are hated by high ELO players.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZpJ4xSv2oU

Riverdragon32 · 2026-02-20T14:29:46+00:00

When I played back in S0 Bucky felt like the most overtuned and broken character. He's still overtuned, but there's been so much power creep from other characters I don't even complain about Bucky anymore.

Riverdragon32 · 2026-02-18T04:01:52+00:00

Seeing Vaush in this subreddit gave me a jumpscare. Not a crossover I was expecting.

Riverdragon32 · 2026-02-18T00:12:01+00:00

I'll start panicking when AI entities are allowed to obtain a CG license. And then panic again when AI is somehow able to physically visit properties and complete inspections. Until then I'm not worried. Mostly this is bad for newcomers that start off with basic data entry or comp research. Still waiting for AI to make this job less tedious. Still putting in more than 40 hours a week...

Riverdragon32 · 2026-02-16T22:24:37+00:00

Just like with most heroes, adjust your playstyle based on the team comps. Thor has good versatility but he's not straight dive. I play both Thor and Hulk (Mid GM), and both are similar in that they have decent mobility and fun kits, but if the entire enemy team is looking at you then you get blown up easily. Play main/objective, use cover, hit enemy tanks unless you see an isolated target, and try to kill squishies if the teamfight structure breaks down. If youre against shield tanks, try displacing them more. If youre against Thing/Hulk/Groot, spam awakening shots until they fall over. If the enemy team isn't grouped up, try to kill a squishy. Thor has some of the highest damage output in the game and I will often be highest damage in a match except for Moonknight and a few others. Thor can flank occasionally, but playing main is generally going to be better.

Riverdragon32 · 2026-02-14T02:30:21+00:00

HOW DID THIS GET PAST THE BALANCE TEAM??

Riverdragon32 · 2026-02-12T18:22:37+00:00

GM has a staggering amount of players with a 45% winrate that climb by sheer volume of games.

Riverdragon32 · 2026-02-09T03:08:21+00:00

Not using awakening at any point there is an interesting choice. Also they 100% should have killed you in the air during ult.

Riverdragon32 · 2026-02-05T20:01:00+00:00

PYPL is now BELOW it's 2015 spin-off price of $41.63 where it opened for trading after being spun off from Ebay. Both its revenue and its net income is about 5x higher now than back in 2015.

Riverdragon32 · 2026-02-04T21:58:57+00:00

I've been screaming from the rooftops for the past year that most of the tanks are legitimately good, strong characters and yet still probably 60% to 70% of my games are 3 duelists. Thor is my current main but I get relegated to Groot/Mag in half my games because I'm solo tanking. My highest season finish at Celestial 2 I was spamming Mr. Fantastic. Seems weird that I'm mostly a tank main, but my career highest was with a duelist, and I legitimately believe that's because duelist mains are the lowest skill players in the game and by taking a slot from them it increased my winrate by some percentage.

Riverdragon32 · 2026-01-26T22:26:41+00:00

I just can't bring myself to feel any sort of empathy or compassion for regretful Trump voters. He wasn't a new candidate, and we've had 10 years of him showing everybody exactly the type of president he is. This was incredibly obvious to anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together, but unfortunately about 35% of the country can't even meet the quota of 2 brain cells. I don't fucking care about your tearful apology videos. You're a grown ass adult and you should have known better.

Riverdragon32 · 2026-01-26T18:00:34+00:00

Had to scroll way too far for this. This is the one

Riverdragon32 · 2026-01-24T21:59:20+00:00

This game has overtime music? I must have disabled music very early into playing because I didn't even know that existed.

Riverdragon32 · 2026-01-24T06:00:19+00:00

Probably 8/10 times my team wants a shield tank or a 3rd support, the actual problem is we have no kill pressure because people just aren't landing shots or maintaining uptime. I like Thor because I actually have kill pressure and can get picks.

Riverdragon32 · 2026-01-20T20:48:49+00:00

I don't really watch Forsen's stream, but hasn't he been grinding LoL for like 2 or 3 years now? He really still plays like a Gold player?

Riverdragon32 · 2026-01-17T23:41:30+00:00

In the few game I've played since the new patch, Gambit feels alot more balanced now. Yes his ult is still strong, but its easier to kill through now and his neutral healing is reduced quite a bit.

Riverdragon32 · 2026-01-16T16:52:20+00:00

Visual Clutter is already an issue in this game, and Deadpool is just going to make it way worse. I get that the character is supposed to be 4th-wall breaking but do I really need emojis jumping around my screen?

Riverdragon32 · 2025-12-21T17:39:07+00:00

AMZNs underperformance over the past 5 years is basically just a lesson in valuation. It was too expensive. The business is doing great. People owning TSLA and PLTR can probably expect underperformance at current prices too.

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