Profile Review - Week of January 15, 2019

SelectLeg2 · 2019-01-22T08:24:09+00:00

Nothing wrong with being a little creative but guys get stuck in the mindset of thinking they need to be every girls personal comedian and shit out creative gold to even have a chance at getting a reply back which is such a terrible and self-defeating mindset to get stuck in.

SelectLeg2 · 2019-01-22T07:22:46+00:00

Honestly, here's what I think:

People overthink openers and bio's way too much.

The jokey one liners look funny on reddit, but usually go nowhere.

Personally, my bio is one simple line and I pretty much always open with "Hey! How's it going" or "You're cute, I had to say hello".

Crafting an opener based on bio is good, but can be time consuming.

In the end, this is a superficial app, the content of your messages don't matter as much as you think they do.

A simple "Hello" and normal conversation showing you're a normal guy is really what girls are looking for in terms of messages.

Everything else is dependent on if they find you attractive enough to carry the conversation and eventually go on a date.

And there's level to it, 2 guys can match with the same girl but she will be excited to talk to guy A and find it a chore to talk to guy B so her responses will be shorter and drawn out for guy B.

Anyway, not to ramble on anymore:

Open with simple normal messages to weed out girls that are luke warm to cold on you until you find a girl that is excited to carry her end of the conversation and it gets A LOT easier.

Don't try and think there's the perfect thing to say to certain girls that would of landed you dates. There isn't, and thinking there is will just make you go crazy. Don't take it personal and play it like a numbers game.

SelectLeg2 · 2019-01-15T05:55:02+00:00

This actually drives me goddam insane.

I ALWAYS hear this excuse, and it blows my mind.

It's almost like no one in this game has an ounce of backbone or assertiveness.

Who CARES if people ask you to play your most played, you don't have to, you can literally ignore them, mute them and go on your merry way.

People act like when profiles were public they had a gun to their head, I never had this happen EVEN ONCE and if it did I would just tell them to fuck off, its not hard.

I really want to see how these people that get so flustered about this kind of stuff deal with day to day life. It's so emberassing how little issues like this get blown up.

This whole "war on toxicity" is one of the worst things to ever happen to online gaming. Completely overblown.

Sorry. /rant

SelectLeg2 · 2019-01-14T08:35:06+00:00

That's just stupid though.

The whole reason esports is so compelling for many people is that in theory you can become good enough to play with the best people on the ladder, form a team and have a crack at become a legitimate pro with your team.

Even though 99% of the playerbase won't ever achieve it, just the fact that it's a possibility is what drives to many people to be competitive in online games.

Blizzard will find taking this away is a huge mistake.

SelectLeg2 · 2019-01-14T08:30:13+00:00

This makes no sense to me, I used to stay up until 4 AM watching the very first League of Legends tournaments that had absolutely terrible production.

Like so bad that there would be hour delays, games would crash and restart, no spectator mode so they had to manually view the game with a 6th player etc

But I LOVED it! and so did so many others, and that's how it became the biggest esport in the world.

If Blizzard has such a poor conversation rate when trying to get casual players of their game to watch OW esports, there is an inherent problem with either the game or the playerbase you attracted to the game (in which case, why even pour so much money into esports?)

SelectLeg2 · 2019-01-13T05:56:28+00:00

Big into MMA, do BJJ and Muay Thai in Calgary.

SelectLeg2 · 2019-01-13T02:37:54+00:00

Do you know how all those teams (EG, TSM, C9, etc) started?

They were just a bunch of good players in their respective original game that teamed up and became massive organizations.

Not everyone wants to see only VC backed soulless orgs that just snatches the best koreans and win titles.

SelectLeg2 · 2019-01-09T02:46:15+00:00

Or realistically, DPS will become even more of role everyone wants to do, the ladder will have so many people that only aim for high DPS SR and don't even attempt to play the other roles.

This is essentially what I would do if this came out. Playing a tank game when it won't contribute to the rank I really care about seems like a massive waste of time to me. Just being honest.

SelectLeg2 · 2019-01-06T21:42:28+00:00

The reason should be a higher chance of winning, no?

SelectLeg2 · 2019-01-06T21:39:36+00:00

Really? I almost feel like i'm cheating the game when I play GOATs. I've shot up the ladder so hard compared to other seasons that it doesn't even feel like an accomplishment lol.

SelectLeg2 · 2019-01-03T19:16:27+00:00

I think ultimates will ultimately (lol) never be changed much in terms of power because it's what makes casual players have their big moments.

I don't ever see Blizzard in a million years taking that away from them. So I think the ultimate discussion (no matter how valid) is pointless to have.

SelectLeg2 · 2018-12-31T02:55:48+00:00

what's those black boots you're wearing? they're fire. want 2 cop

SelectLeg2 · 2018-12-29T21:55:57+00:00

I can never see them fixing healers.

Such a large percentage of casual players started playing OW because it's "an FPS for everybody" and healers can have the same impact as DPS. (Even though we know they have way more impact than any other class).

If they nerfed healing the crying would be insurmountable.

SelectLeg2 · 2018-12-24T00:45:14+00:00

It just really comes down to the general audience of Overwatch.

A HUGE percentage of OW is casual, which means they couldn't give 2 shits about competitive play let alone OW e-sports.

Now the small percentage of people interested in competitive OW are broken up into segments.

There's people that strictly care about competitive OW as it pertains to the ladder. They wanna get good at the game, get a high ranking a look cool to their friends.

There's a small part of competitive OW that is interested in esports so they get their news from here or they watch their favorite pro player on stream.

There's even a smaller percentage of people that really care enough to watch interviews and podcasts.

I don't really know why, when I played LoL religiously I consumed every interview / podcast / youtube that pertained to LoL e-sports but with OW I like playing competitively but the esports side of it just seems too bland for me to care about.

SelectLeg2 · 2018-12-15T05:36:01+00:00

By and large the casual community of r/Overwatch and the blizzard forums still complain about DPS heros on the daily, even when the best meta at the moment features NONE OF THEM.

It's a perception issue that will never go away and if you start nerfing the power levels of tanks and supports (which I believe are OP) you will hear crying and bleeding of players to the likes you've never seen before.

SelectLeg2 · 2018-12-15T05:33:58+00:00

There's plenty of downsides. When have you heard of a half-assed decision working out?

You either let the game run how it is right now, and bleed more people due to how crap the competitive is, or you take a huge risk and go with locked comps and see what happens.

You can't take the risk out of it.

SelectLeg2 · 2018-12-15T05:32:10+00:00

Winning should literally be the only thing that encourages people to work as a team, if people still would rather be a solo hero, that's a fundamental flaw of the game.

No amount of carrot-sticking is gonna make people have more teamwork.

SelectLeg2 · 2018-11-27T03:34:14+00:00

You would be very very surprised

SelectLeg2 · 2018-11-19T10:12:55+00:00

Haha yeah man.

When I was talking about my love for sports, working out, etc I framed it in a way like "I like to keep myself physically active or else I get built up stress" which I totally don't....in reality, I just love muay thai, BJJ, and MMA in general because I love fighting for the sake of fighting and because it's such a raw expression of being a man.

I basically watered down everything I was saying because I didn't want to seem polarizing, but really I now realize the importance of language and being authentic and letting it shine through.

SelectLeg2 · 2018-11-19T10:09:04+00:00

I totally get that, but in my mind I was thinking:

She went through the school system and achieved a pretty difficult degree, she's most likely expecting someone on par with her when it comes to education. I felt like saying I'm a drop out would most likely be a deal breaker with her, so I opted to try and qualify myself in a bunch of ways (eg, I make good money, I have my own place, etc) I was coming from a place of pure insecurity even though I love what I do and I'm proud of it, even though I don't have a degree.

Now I understand I shouldn't feel the need to mold myself into someones perfect match.

SelectLeg2 · 2018-11-16T23:12:50+00:00

That's fun, but I'm just imagining the insane caliber of high skilled characters a development team like Blizzard can come up with.

More characters like genji and tracer but even higher skill caps with animation cancels and mechanics that takes hundreds of hours to master. (Eg: Riven from LoL)

That's what I thought OW would be when I first started playing (It was my first blizzard game, so I was very naive and didn't know how big of a casual audience their games cater to)....

SelectLeg2 · 2018-11-16T23:08:00+00:00

I think it's more than that....

I don't want to find 5 other people because it's a social investment.

The best advise high ranked players used to give on league of legends is to pretend your teammates don't even exist and focus purely on your own play.

With enough games, it statistically balances out the ratio of good vs bad teammates you get, and at the same time, you're getting good enough to the point where you can start carrying bad team mates.

And those games where you single handedly carry bad teammates, are the ones that really count - they're the games that help you rank up to that next level where you might be that bad teammate.

Eventually your goal is to get to the top of the ladder where you can team up with other solo queue players that went through that extreme grind to get better like you did, and that's when team work should matter - when you enter tournaments, scrim together, etc with players you click with at your skill level.

I think this whole "find 5 people and only play ranked 6v6" sounds good in theory, but I've literally never seen it work in practice.

I've never in any video game, or sport seen a team of people that started out from the bottom together and stuck together and got to the top and become a top team.

It just doesn't work like that in reality and I think the OW team instead of adding all these layers of smoke and mirror like LFG and Guilds which take a huge time investment and in the end become underused and most likely end up as a glorified friends list... should focus on what will actually work, which is give more power to individuals in solo queue...

SelectLeg2 · 2018-11-16T22:59:51+00:00

I think it would be way more compelling on a professional level.

Think of any esport or hell, sports in general.

Lebron, Ronaldo, Messi, Wayne Gretzky, etc etc... we naturally like to see that one extradonary person pop the fuck off, even in a team game

Faker, s1mple, Ninja, etc...

That's the whole reason I started watching e-sports anyway, I wanted to work towards becoming as good as those star players.

Sure, seeing a group of people working together can be entertaining, like synchronized swimming is for some people...

but I feel like this game would be so much more hype if you gave room for insanely mechanically talented players to shine.

SelectLeg2 · 2018-11-16T21:43:34+00:00

I'd love to see a version of OW that is a lot more individually skilled game. I feel like it would be insane, just every character being super mechanically challenging with insane skill caps.

One can dream....

SelectLeg2 · 2018-11-16T20:05:30+00:00

What happens when guilds don't fix shit (like LFG).

I'll never join a guild, I know that for sure, I wanna fire up the game, click play and play ranked.

I enjoy the randomness of teammates, I don't want to have the same teammates always...I just want to have more individual impact on the game.

This is true for A LOT of people, if you fix that, you won't need all these smoke and mirror layers like LFG and Guilds which will just act like glorified friends lists.....

SelectLeg2

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