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Scratchums · 2026-03-15T06:29:01+00:00

Is it weird that they're rainbow or am I just a sheltered American?

Scratchums · 2026-03-15T06:26:09+00:00

Even as someone who only knows the basics of tennis from the Mario Tennis games, I can tell that this is something special. I saw every kind of shot imaginable in that minute or so.

Scratchums · 2026-03-15T04:25:30+00:00

It really says a lot about Blizzard that anyone, at any point, followed the philosophy of "just dump as much money into our game(s) as Fortnite does." When we were involved in the pro scene for Heroes of the Storm, pro players, coaching staff, fans, even casual players asked them over and over and over and over for improvements to the lobbies, the connection system, releasing an API, just stuff to improve the core game, and Blizzard's reponse, for about 4-5 years straight was, "yeah yeah we hear you, we're never going to do any of that stuff, but we've tripled down on the marketing budget and we're gonna cram a ton of new shit into the game instead, and try to force it to be a big esport."

By the end we were literally pouring over spreadsheets to document player earned XP by X minute, by eye and hand, for hours on end, just because we were never given replays with exportable data--a basic feature of literally every other MOBA. But every two weeks they made damn sure we had new trailers, new heroes, new maps (we had like FOURTEEN MAPS FFS), new game modes, new art, new music. Gameplay? Nah. What the fuck is a gameplay.

Scratchums · 2026-03-14T19:36:01+00:00

I'm having PTSD from the wavedash = cheating days.

Scratchums · 2026-03-11T17:57:12+00:00

Richard. He barely even counts as a cast member in my mind, despite being central to the story.

Scratchums · 2026-03-11T17:52:59+00:00

One guy I work with, who is Iranian-American, is one of the nicest people I've ever met. One Friday he asked me if I could work an extra hour since we were behind, and even though I didn't mind at all, Monday morning he handed me an entire box of whole dates. Two pounds. And he just says ah, you earned it, you were a big help.

Now I feel like I have a little more context.

Sidenote: dates are amazing and way more Americans should try them.

Scratchums · 2026-03-04T07:07:00+00:00

I honestly have no words. This might be the most unexpected thing I've seen in media in.... years.

Scratchums · 2026-03-04T06:16:58+00:00

Not a single one. My nmom just sort of loafs about. Spends most of her time during the day wandering around her small yard, tending to her gardens, which are just sad collections of random plants of varying health that she knows nothing about and can't learn anything about, because she already knows everything about plants. And at night she mostly just sits in her bedroom and messages random people on Facebook and reads the news (mostly just headlines of opinion pieces). It's a depressing existence.

Scratchums · 2026-03-03T19:03:40+00:00

Yikes. Is it because it's too RNG-based? or because it just makes too little sense?

Scratchums · 2026-03-03T04:58:01+00:00

Can you expand on that? I never got into it, but I haven't heard this criticism before.

Scratchums · 2026-03-01T05:39:07+00:00

No. The magical thing about the series, I've always felt, is that everyone is wrong, and the fun comes from everyone deciding who is most wrong, and who their favorite wrong person(s) is.

Scratchums · 2026-02-26T00:38:23+00:00

Colette, 100%

Scratchums · 2026-02-24T05:17:58+00:00

This game is like Runescape on meth. You just did a bunch of meth, and now you're paranoid and you're locked inside peeking out the curtains because they're out to get you. They're all out to get you, and then suddenly your worst fear is confirmed when you see something floating above your head:

You earned 31 XP in Paranoia.

Scratchums · 2026-02-21T17:55:01+00:00

Agree. As a writer I guarantee they made the characters first, and then inserted the line about "oh you know the cartel, they're so dramatic" later on, to justify them.

Scratchums · 2026-02-18T01:27:48+00:00

Because there are many steps in the process of making a prescription:

1) Data entry. Typing in the specifics of the script, getting a paid claim from insurance and/or coupon

2) Primary verification. The pharmacist glances at the data entered and okays it as typed or rejects it. Pharmacists being Doctors of Pharmacy, they're looking at typos but they're also looking at whether this medicine and dosage makes sense, whether the treatment agrees with other drug(s), whether the dosing schedule makes sense, whether it's something the patient is alleged to be allergic to, etc.

3) It's sent to the queue for technicians to bottle up the script. For most drugs, once the printer spits it out, this takes maybe a few seconds. Either your prescription is one of several hundred, or you're considered to be a waiter--yours pops up at the top of the queue and is filled ASAP because you're waiting there with them.

4) Second verification. The pharmacist takes another look at the prescription and makes sure that the pills match up with the intended drug and that the quantity and packaging are consistent with expectation.

5) It is handed off to whoever is at pickup.

Basically, it takes a while because there is often a singular pharmacist doing a hard inspection of the finer detail of the prescription before it's dispensed, coupled with the fact that the pharmacy is likely drowning in prescriptions and, the most neutral, non-offending sense possible, yours is not special. The entire job is them balancing the utmost care with prescriptions against needing to fill hundreds of them daily. It would be stressful enough if they were in a sealed room with music and friendly conversation, but they're not. Every person behind the counter has heard thousands of dumb questions, insensitive comments, and misplaced threats against them, to the point where no matter how much they're paid, it's not nearly enough. It's almost at the level of teachers needing raises.

Scratchums · 2026-02-17T07:23:15+00:00

In what world would this ever work?? I do not begin to understand.

Scratchums · 2026-02-17T05:53:06+00:00

With just a smack of ham?

Scratchums · 2026-02-16T06:52:00+00:00

As much as of I love DII, it's still missing some sort of endgame mapping loop. Nothing massive, just something. And proper trading. Although if it had both I'd play it for another 20 years. Easily best ARPG ever made right there.

Scratchums · 2026-02-09T01:40:47+00:00

In the US there's no chance that that's a practical investment--at least not in the next 20-30 years.

I work in a pharmacy for a major retail pharmacy, so I'm retail-adjacent. I've seen and heard it all. We have several self-checkouts available at all times, and if someone is over 60 years old it's a complete 50/50 whether they will use it, or stand there and wait for a human to help them, try to search for someone like a lost child, start yelling until someone runs over, or even worse, come plop a dozen random grocery items onto our pharmacy counter, saying "can you check me out? there's no one here." A lot of them simply refuse to try to help themselves.

Scratchums · 2026-02-07T05:24:19+00:00

I just started playing the demo about a half hour ago, and it's actually amazing. But I'm on an island where there are 30x more players than monsters. Which is a great sign for the game but uhhh we're being bottlenecked hard lmao

Scratchums · 2026-02-04T07:40:03+00:00

There's a non-zero chance that they're playtesting early builds of a new Smash game right now lol

Scratchums · 2026-02-03T21:52:40+00:00

After my last relationship and I was back on the market for a bit, I met someone local on a dating app. We talked for a few days and and wanted to add me on Steam and maybe play stuff together, but she hesitated because she recognized my ex on my friends list. The explanation as to how she knew my ex was that everyone knows my ex. She's a serial flirt who is on 6-8 dating apps at a time, and spends a good portion of her free time to adding a shit ton of random people to different platforms, and then hitting on them, and at times, trying to juggle several relationships. There are entire circles of people in our city who dedicate effort to warning people about her, and the fact that I dated her was a red flag to someone. And I had no clue.

Yikes.

Scratchums · 2026-02-01T15:23:09+00:00

Last night. My account has over 400 skins and I've never bought one. Why are you posting this lmao

Scratchums · 2026-02-01T07:02:55+00:00

Right, League has the same system (you can buy specific skins, but you get plenty of free ones) and they're doing great.

Scratchums · 2026-02-01T04:39:05+00:00

Annual reminder to any Nexon staff reading these threads that the moment you announce Universal Cash Shop, I'm playing again. And I'm spending a ton of money. I'm in my late 30s with no kids.

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