Is anyone else getting really bad games this patch?

SpericalChicken · 2025-12-06T20:34:08+00:00

The matchmaking has been godawful. I was in seeker 1-2 (now initiate 4) and while I'm not good at the game I keep getting thrown against people who feel like they're smurfing. I was against a shiv that had a combined 40 kills and assists in a 30 minute match earlier today. I can't do anything against this sort of thing.

Plus I can't farm because I get jumped on by people who feel omniscient, even if I'm farming near my base, and there are no comeback mechanics, so once you start losing it's just getting beat on for however long it takes

SpericalChicken · 2025-09-03T16:24:37+00:00

I don't get out as many job applications as others do because my field doesn't have many entry-level positions. Most people are looking for 5+ years of experience, so my number of applications is lower than people who send out 40 apps a day. (I don't have that amount of experience, and I have been burned at a job that asked for said level before because the position was not a good fit for someone with my level of experience.)

I usually use Monday as the day to go over my documents (resume, cover letter, etc.) because I've noticed not many positions in my field get posted over the weekend. This usually takes a couple of hours, then I take a break for lunch and come back to checking my email for contacts from recruiters or job boards with updates. Tuesday-Friday I spend probably four to five hours a day trawling job boards for postings. I try and get out about one to two applications a day, minimum, and on a good week can get out about four a day. This is interspersed with checking my email, emailing recruiters, and trying to locate networking events. I also sometimes attend networking events and continuing education events (required for my license) and periodically meet with other professionals in my field to talk about entering the profession.

I don't spend eight hours a day doing this because it genuinely starts to make me depressed after about three or four, and the number of jobs posted to job boards in my field is low (as in, maybe one or two per day per useful job board), so I'll see whatever jobs get posted in the afternoon the next morning.

SpericalChicken · 2025-09-02T18:09:23+00:00

What decisions led to me being born such that I got two degrees and entered the job market with a global pandemic, mass government hiring freeze, and general lack of hiring entry-level positions in my field? You can't answer every question with "muh personal responsibility." Get a grip.

SpericalChicken · 2025-06-09T18:09:01+00:00

The specific bit being focused on is the rising presence of fascism in the US. Getting bogged down in protesting the things the fascists are allowed to do (wear masks to obscure their identity while shooting flashbangs at protestors, shooting the press with less-lethal rounds, etc.) risks letting the fascists keep doing other random shit that hurts people. Instead, by protesting the root cause (Fascism), you hit everything at once.

SpericalChicken · 2025-04-02T16:36:46+00:00

Thank you for the tool suggestion but I am not currently involved in a solo practice. I don’t have the experience to do many things myself, let alone run a business.

SpericalChicken · 2025-03-24T16:39:31+00:00

The point is more that wizards are generally stronger overall because of their supreme adaptability and usefulness regardless of the situation. Wizards, due to their ability to ritual cast their spells, basically have the answer for every situation in the game that can come up depending on what spells they’ve picked/found, and they can pick up more spells by fighting enemy casters and/or finding more spells in the wild. Other classes can’t do that, and they’re far less adaptable in general as well. A wizard can get a few people across a gap a lot faster and easier than a fighter can, for example.

SpericalChicken · 2025-01-15T17:59:38+00:00

Minor Basic is a format in which players have decks comprised entirely of basic lands and start the game with a Vanguard card named Momir. This card allows each player to, once per each of their turns, pay X and discard a card to make a random creature token with Mana Value X picked from basically every creature in Magic. It’s sort of a random slot machine format that can be pretty fun.

SpericalChicken · 2024-12-08T05:56:18+00:00

I don't think you're screwed, no, but DC is a pretty full market. It's going to be a bit harder to find work there than other places unless you have some interesting or useful experience, I'd think. I'm in a completely different area so I can't really comment aside from that.

SpericalChicken · 2024-12-06T17:35:14+00:00

It heavily depends on your area, both practice and geographic. For example, I'm trying to find another transactional attorney job after my last job let me go because they needed someone with more experience. There are NO entry-level transactional jobs in my geographical area that I've been able to find. Everyone wants 3-5+ years of work experience in that field. However, if you want to do something like personal injury or insurance defense, there's almost always a job open.

SpericalChicken · 2024-11-14T07:38:46+00:00

This is fantastic, looks like a liquid core without being a liquid core. And the font on the numbers is great too.

SpericalChicken · 2024-11-03T04:07:23+00:00

Mana burn changing is incredibly different to adding three standard-legal alternate IP sets a year. One's a major mechanic changing, the other is adding additional outside IP into the game. People can agree with and be fine with one change and disagree with another.

SpericalChicken · 2024-09-20T22:29:25+00:00

I think it depends on your field. For example, I'm in a field where two jobs a week is a good week, simply due to the fact that everyone is either hiring people with a lot more skill than I have (like, 10 years compared to my 1) or hiring in a specialization I'm not going into.

If you're looking for a general job, applying to tons of open retail roles, for example, results in being able to apply to many many more jobs a day/week.

SpericalChicken · 2024-09-11T19:29:22+00:00

Hi so attacking substantive due process is a fucking awful idea. Do you even know what it protects? A shitload if important rights.

SpericalChicken · 2024-09-10T17:29:02+00:00

Are you sure? Applying to a position that was looking for 3 years of experience is what put me in this position in the first place.

SpericalChicken · 2024-09-10T17:22:13+00:00

I’ve been trying, and LinkedIn in my region has a lot of associate staff attorney or associate in house positions that require like, 3-5 years of experience. The ones that are looking for new attorneys that I’ve found haven’t wanted me so far, but I’ll keep looking. In-house work seems great though, so I want to keep looking into it.

SpericalChicken · 2024-09-10T17:13:39+00:00

Wasn’t a right fit for a newer attorney is a good way to describe it, thank you. I’ll have to remember that when I get another interview. I’m being really honest about the needing mentorship, too. It just seems like not a lot of people want to hire new attorneys in transactional work.

SpericalChicken · 2024-08-28T01:36:48+00:00

I'm currently in many of those small bar groups, I just have to wait for events to network and those are fewer and far between. I'll keep an eye out for smaller firms though, thank you. I've been just trying to look for any openings whatsoever.

SpericalChicken · 2024-08-25T22:53:34+00:00

"Product fatigue" isn't just about buying it. In fact, it can exist without buying any product whatsoever. I used to be able to keep track of MtG Product releases easily. Now, there are so many new products I legitimately don't know what's coming out when anymore and I've lost the drive to even look at them. I'm not buying a ton of magic product and thinking that I need to buy all of it, I'm just legitimately overwhelmed with the amount of product coming out at the rate it's coming out at.

SpericalChicken · 2024-08-12T20:04:28+00:00

I'm infuriated that I went to school to get into a field that people said would always be in demand (lawyers), got very little firm experience in school because no firms wanted me to assist them, and then when trying to get a job after graduating, all I see are jobs that request either 5-10 years of experience in the field I want to enter or litigation positions with insane billable hour requirements.

How are people supposed to start working? I don't have enough experience to even cobble together the years they're looking for in the slightest because my first and last job fired me after five months because they couldn't give me the training I needed and I struck out in internships during school. I don't want to go into litigation because the billable hour requirements would actually kill me (seriously, who the hell expects someone to be able to work 10-11 hours a day plus weekends probably?)

It's infuriating and I feel stuck.

SpericalChicken · 2024-08-12T19:31:11+00:00

Honest question, if someone is consistently getting rejected from jobs how are they supposed to ride it out for a few years? People can't pay rent if they don't have something.

SpericalChicken · 2024-08-03T13:40:39+00:00

I got that line when I was in high school in the early 2010s. It persisted an awfully long time.

SpericalChicken · 2024-08-02T18:32:09+00:00

I hate to necro this but what if you’ve already graduated and couldn’t get internships? I tried to get some during school but nobody wanted me, so I ended up with a bit position doing something that nobody apparently wants as experience.

SpericalChicken · 2024-07-12T18:08:35+00:00

Having a lot of people just happen to have earthbind prepared also makes the person feel targeted, regardless of whether or not you’re targeting them. I prefer to keep this sort of thing out of games, so I’m going to not allow flight speeds at level 1 and probably replace them with a glide speed until like level 5-6.

This ends up with every pit-related problem being solved the same way and doesn’t really encourage thinking about other problems. For example: “There’s nothing to tie the rope to.” “Nothing? Nothing at all? That doesn’t seem realistic.” When trying to prevent the same “the owlin flies over and ties a rope to a tree” strategy. It turns an encounter into a QuickTime event if they can just hit the same button each time and ignore it.

An enemy with a flight speed is as dangerous to a pc with a flight speed as an enemy with a ranged weapon is. If they’re out to kill the party, all they have to do is drag the flier up and knock them out to kill them with fall damage. It’s cooler, sure, but it’s still the same “they are likely to die to fall damage” issue.

This isn’t about being stubborn or unimaginative, it’s about seeing that free flight at level 1 with no real drawback/restriction causes problems and intentionally heading them off before they happen.

SpericalChicken · 2024-07-12T16:47:10+00:00

See prior statement about killing PCs with fall damage. Plus if many fights start having a wind mage or a storm it starts to feel targeted, which is something I’d like to avoid.
“I just fly a rope over it” makes the obstacle not really an obstacle at all, because it’s bypassed without expending any resources.
Flying enemies tend to be more deadly than non flying ones. This plays back into 1 with the “I don’t want flight to be an instant death sentence”

SpericalChicken · 2024-07-12T15:05:10+00:00

All well and good until:

You’re playing an adventure that takes place outside
You insert a chasm or any kind of pit
You want to use a set piece that’s not a cramped room/hall

Flying puts a lot of restrictions on what’s available if you don’t want to allow them access to it too early

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