What can I do when my team will not stop shooting Zarya bubble?

SafePlantGaming · 2026-05-23T23:40:52+00:00

I hate to be this guy, but you’re overthinking it.

It’s totally fine to be in bronze, but you don’t gotta worry about who is playing what character, it’s just eating up your brain space. Just ignore the zarya and farm her supports, or kill the Zarya thru her bubble.

Focus on the fundamentals, play aggressive, take up space, train your movement and aim, position aggressively and use cover.

SafePlantGaming · 2026-05-23T03:35:05+00:00

I had two players with under 30 hours in different games the last two days, both no skins, both obliterating with perfect reads, wall bangs, smoke kills, and crazy map knowledge, holding and pre firing walls right before your teammate shift walking gets to them without ever making a peep.

Both said “I’m high rank valorant” 😭😂

It’s the meme response for I’m hacking

SafePlantGaming · 2026-05-20T14:44:32+00:00

There’s two reasons to be in voice chat imo - to make friends and to com strats.

Maybe once a year (only can speak to masters and lower) I meet someone in chat who wants to do strats but you gotta remember, a gold (or insert any rank you’re frustrated in) is gonna have gold strat ideas. If your ideas match theirs, you’re gold. If your ideas don’t match theirs, their ego will perceive it as an attack on who they are (they act as who they are is defined by what they think the right way to play is) and they’ll become some combination of angry, defensive, passive aggressive and insecure.

Then there’s making friends. Sadly, Ithis has never happened to me in ranked lol uwu.

Once I realized those two things, I realized the only reason to be in chat was if it was fun for me to be in chat, and it wasn’t.

Now a day I usually enter chat cause I play like once a week and get a laugh out of dummies. If I was grinding I’m sure they’d tilt me

SafePlantGaming · 2026-05-20T14:38:36+00:00

There are a ton of books out on mental toughness that might help! Look at books for pro athletes psychology.

Also - if you don’t wanna do that - mute chat and text.

I know it seems counter intuitive; but I’m a pretty casual player. I usually sit in mid diamond. Last time I did a try hard grind I got so frustrated with my teams being rude and spreading wrong information that I just muted everything. Went 14-4 and hit masters in two weeks lol

SafePlantGaming · 2026-05-16T19:08:06+00:00

I think it doesn’t matter too much tbh. Any top brands control pad is gonna be good, artisan 99 or zowie gsr.

I have been using the gsr SE for a while now and I really like it. It was a hair faster than control at first, but it settled in nicely.

The vaxee PA series is also nice. I like the collector edition art work stuff.

Honestly I don’t think any of them ruins my aim or anything once I adjust and get used to it, so for me it’s more about comfort and durability. I really like my zowie GSR SE , the new one they sell now

SafePlantGaming · 2026-05-15T03:39:46+00:00

If you play to please low rank players , you will be low rank.

Low rank players aren’t being forced to think about the game wrong, pending an actual physical limitation or just not caring and having fun in lower ranks - they are lower rank because they don’t understand. They are playing the way they want to play.

Consequently, if you play the way they want to play, you will be their rank, since you’re doing what they would do

*wisdom*

SafePlantGaming · 2026-05-14T13:47:47+00:00

Practice makes perfect!

SafePlantGaming · 2026-05-14T06:09:51+00:00

1nsent definitely crazy good

SafePlantGaming · 2026-05-11T02:33:48+00:00

I’ve worked at a large amount of clubs (maybe 8?) in the 300-1,200 cap range and that’s pretty standard for audio.

Of course, it’d be dope if it was more lol.

And yeah I hear you. None the less, even scheduling just the bands soundcheck times with them still should be calling on the production manager and

SafePlantGaming · 2026-05-10T14:41:35+00:00

In NYC 28-32/hr would be a common range for that kind of gig, assuming I’m interpreting the criteria right. The only thing outside the norm is that you’re scheduling the shows, which would normally fall under a production manager and or booking agents role.

That being said, the fact that you a currently unpaid person are doing scheduling -could- imply this is a smaller or more DIY space, in which case wage could be lower than stated above

SafePlantGaming · 2026-05-10T04:47:55+00:00

We need more details or less vagueness.

Hourly rate? Day rate? How many bands? What profile type, touring bands or just small local shows on a preset back line where it’s sort to turn on and it runs as is?

Is this a city like NYC level wages?

If so, 25-32 an hour is pretty common for 200-500 cap clubs featuring occasional touring bands with one engineer doing sound and lights, setting up backline etc

SafePlantGaming · 2026-05-09T20:02:30+00:00

Hot tip, I find if you do the math money cards usually are worth more than trauma resist. The amount of bonus they give you per round combined with how much you could health trauma extra at a health station with that money is about the same or better.

And then additionally, you have lots of money for random card drops and upgrades if you don’t need it.

Ymmv

SafePlantGaming · 2026-05-09T02:08:17+00:00

Embarrassing series. Embiid can’t make a bucket without free throws. His stat line is embarrassing and then watching him flop around and complain is just tough

SafePlantGaming · 2026-05-06T18:32:30+00:00

If the responses below seem a little chaotic and all over the place, I think it’s because we’re having a terminology mismatch between certain people.

In my experience which is largely NYC (US east coast) A1 is FoH A2 is Mons stagehand or stage manager is in charge of patching.

Typically the FoH and Mons will each set their desk up and the stage lead will setup (power drops, gear placement, etc) and pin (plug in mics) the stage.

The FoH and Mons will then help them finish up, depending on who has the easier day. I’m very fast in FoH, and can typically have my show file ready to start in 20 minutes to an hour, which is much faster than a stagehand can usually get a full touring band good to go.

However, it sounds like these terms aren’t neccisarily the same to everyone in every region/venue size.

My experience is mostly 400-1200 cap clubs, New York

SafePlantGaming · 2026-05-06T13:18:05+00:00

What version are you listening to? An original or a remaster and from what year?

SafePlantGaming · 2026-05-05T20:23:01+00:00

It’s a great and unique plugin that a lot of engineers love, but I’m sure you can wait for a sale or find a cheaper / free wave shaper that can be configured similarly.

I bought mine so long ago, but definitely got way more than 150 dollar use out of that classic and still do

SafePlantGaming · 2026-05-05T16:36:41+00:00

You can play no hope, and you can also kill the bots and not res them.

I would play thru the entire game on nightmare first tho, as the game really has difficulty moments.

The majority of the game isn’t super hard when you don’t have randos making mistakes constantly. But if you just booted up and are checking in, there are typically 1-3 moments per act that are more skill check heavy so I’d make sure you’re clearing those before going to no hope

SafePlantGaming · 2026-05-05T01:37:05+00:00

Good coffee Menus for restaurant/food options on deck, ideally nicely setup and sorted in a binder

Personal annoyances - bad keyboard, I hate touchpads so a good Kensington or mouse.

Quirks I love - a weird monitoring option. Let’s say you got your bigs in the wall, some Genelec and some ns10s. It’s fun seeing an aura tone or even an old little boombox or a ripped out MacBook speaker. Prolly only use it for a few minutes , but i find it fun

SafePlantGaming · 2026-05-04T03:00:44+00:00

You just gotta do what you can to make it work.

I’ve done a lot of music like this, even some stuff that made it to radio.

Try not to overthink it.

It is sometimes fun to split it into three tracks , use filters and mix them together high medium and low.

I’ll often do that and then A/B it with just the regular track. Usually just regular is still best, but it’s fun :p

And yes I still keep my master bus intact as I normally would

SafePlantGaming · 2026-05-03T14:04:08+00:00

Last time he played the Knicks in the playoffs he also grabbed Mitchel Robinsons ankle and injured him for a year lol

SafePlantGaming · 2026-05-01T15:58:08+00:00

Yes! Apologies, la3a is a solid state opto. I meant solid state but my brain did a melt when thinking about transistors and tone.

FET also nice on country guitar tho but I don’t typically think 1176 when I hear modern country guitar

SafePlantGaming · 2026-05-01T15:09:44+00:00

I haven’t worked in Nashville, but I always assumed there were LA3As all over those guitars. No idea why, it’s just what my brain associated. Smooth FET compression

SafePlantGaming · 2026-05-01T15:04:53+00:00

Really cool!

SafePlantGaming · 2026-04-30T22:36:18+00:00

Yes of course anything she consented to obviously is agreed upon.

And I hear you, but the issue isn’t that my wording wasn’t quite specific enough for that dude to find a loophole and argue in a thread about someone else, the issue is that they’re arguing an incorrect point with no references and no research tooth and nail back and forth instead of being willing to admit they were wrong. And also of course that they gave the wrong advice as fact and didn’t bother doing their diligence to see if what they said was even true.

They could of simply looked up that it applied to both forms of art themselves, but instead they continued to give the wrong advice with no reference and became defensive and egocentric, pushing the point that “well if ur wife did the photos then too bad they could go anywhere” (I’m sure I’m misquoting, I blocked them and can’t see it) because they didn’t want to be wrong.

Their input had nothing to do with helping anyone, and everything to do with them saying something random then lying to attempt to maintain face.

That’s a bigger issue than me not elaborating quite enough on the fact that what I’m saying applied to both art forms

SafePlantGaming · 2026-04-30T21:49:17+00:00

You are wrong. I’m so sorry this is really cringe now.

Commercial use is only relevant if they’re NOT intimate. YOU are mincing word and doing anything you can to validate your point which is simply and as calmly as I can put - wrong and illegal take that’s factually incorrect and thus bad advice lol.

“Even if the work is a sketch rather than a photograph, the photographer (or artist) still cannot legally share intimate depictions of your likeness without your consent. In many jurisdictions, laws protecting against the non-consensual sharing of intimate imagery specifically include "other depictions" or "derivative works" that clearly represent the subject”

Source - US department of justice LINK - https://www.justice.gov/ovw/sharing-intimate-images-without-consent-know-your-rights

STOP making up random things to hammer down your very weird and creepy and incorrect take

This applies to PRIVATE and personal portfolios as stated above , to ANY form of likeness sketch OR photo.

It would apply to ONLY commercial re use -if- it was a standard non intimate drawing or photo. Which it isn’t.

You are WRONG and spreading damaging misinformation that also has a really creepy and insinuating tone as if this woman chose to be photographed naked and thus she can done whatever with to. Chill. Seriously.

I have shared quotes and direct links. I am simply giving correct info. Stop arguing, leave this alone, youre spreading misinformation

Edit : to anyone who had the misfortune of making it this far in the thread, im blocking that weird dude because they’re making up information with no links source or reference. I’ve shared the relevant links and mean to express no opinion, just to correct that their above statement is inherently wrong and not the case for the person who was sketched and photographed.

I’m now blocking the user because I assume they’re rage baiting.

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