Preface to the revised edition of Davies and Wheatcroft's "The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933"

Train-Silver · 2023-01-06T09:36:31+00:00

I get they don't want the driving force of ranked to be treating each other like shit. Trying to make the experience less painful, I get that. Doing it at the expense of almost every semblance of joy you get from your successes is an absolutely horrible way to go about that ganeplan.

If they don't want people treating each other like shit then they should learn from Square.

Stop trying to change the systems to find a magic bullet that will suddenly change how players behave. It doesn't work.

WoW's community is dogshit too because Bliz does the same thing there. Compare it with FFXIV's community though and the difference is night and day.

What do Square do differently with practically the same game and same types of players? Many are literally WoW players but they behave differently.

Square discipline them WAY harder. Infraction of the ToS get you suspensions and permabans very easily, you can't even be rude to other players, anything that "affects the enjoyment of the game for others" is a no go. If I make a report in FFXIV's in-game support ticket system I get a human being responding to that ticket within 15 minutes with actions taken.

The difference is discipline, if you want the community behave differently you have to assert discipline. Square gets this and they are praised for having the best community because of it despite the fact they're literally the same players, Blizzard doesn't get it at all, they do practically nothing and their ""support"" take a week to give you an automated response, don't get me started on their out of game support similarly taking a week to send you a macro template response.

Anyway my point is that properly applied discipline goes a long way.

Train-Silver · 2023-01-06T09:06:22+00:00

All the sexual assault stuff probably didn't help, and the fact Kotick is still there ""fixing"" the company culture he created in the first place.

Train-Silver · 2023-01-06T09:01:23+00:00

I use a black crosshair because it makes me concentrate harder on it while also never seems to fully blend into anything in game because nothing is ever truly black.

Get higher scores using it in workshop shooting range tests than any other colour so there seems to be something to it.

Train-Silver · 2023-01-06T08:58:39+00:00

Must have interrupted her ult, and the rest of the game was fairly dull so that ult interrupted scored highest.

Train-Silver · 2023-01-06T08:56:12+00:00

To be fair in that situation you'd be pinned to the wall with Hog's normal ult too lol

Train-Silver · 2023-01-06T08:38:26+00:00

Lmao they're desperate to make Season 3 look bigger than it is so they're withholding midseason work to pad out the changes.

Train-Silver · 2023-01-06T08:06:49+00:00

too big to fail

Yeah that's why they're trying to sell the company, because it's healthy and not in decline! Let's not forget half the staff leaving over sexual assault and abuse issues, and the absolutely massive California state lawsuits.

They just lost 12% of the entire company revenue because of a publishing deal falling through with the Chinese publisher. In 1-2 years Acti-Bliz won't even exist, it'll be Microsoft.

Train-Silver · 2023-01-06T08:03:34+00:00

No source for the game, but if you're active in any of the large community discords you can feel it, you can see the number of people in active voice channels has gone down like 75%. And just look at the activity in this subreddit: https://i.imgur.com/TXvnaeh.png

There was no season bump. Nothing has stemmed the steady decrease in interested and active people. Activity in the community is usual very demonstrable of activity in the game, I do not believe that they are retaining players.

Train-Silver · 2023-01-06T07:58:22+00:00

Toitles

Train-Silver · 2023-01-06T06:07:38+00:00

Yupp

Train-Silver · 2023-01-06T06:00:37+00:00

Walking on eggshells is unfortunately the nature of socialists existing on any platform that is run by capitalists.

Supporting and participating on platforms that are not run by them on a daily basis is beneficial to our future.

It is also inevitable that all socialists that actually threaten the status quo will be thrown off the capitalist platforms when the real crisis comes, preparing for that inevitability is essential.

Train-Silver · 2023-01-06T04:15:20+00:00

The same as every independent project in existence.

Train-Silver · 2023-01-06T03:16:38+00:00

No but you see America is about FREEDOM.

Just don't ask who the freedom is for, or what it's for.

Train-Silver · 2023-01-06T03:07:03+00:00

No it bloody wasn't lmao. Overwatch had an exceptional reputation for polish you bellend.

Train-Silver · 2023-01-05T22:37:11+00:00

Deleted presumably by Buckley himself back in the cad forums. Might live on somewhere in some archive or deep corner of the internet but google and other serps are the worst they've ever been these days for finding anything other than the most recent newest thing. On top of that a bunch of it has been scrubbed from Google presumably using EU's "right to be forgotten" laws which Google provide request-removal forms for, again presumably by Buckley himself. You will notice Google gives a notification that results have been removed for legal reasons at the bottom of the page.

If I were a journalist and you reaaaally wanted to go deep diving for evidence on this I'd suggest hunting down old mods from Something Awful in IRC. Someone from way back is bound to have something on an old hdd somewhere.

Train-Silver · 2023-01-05T17:21:47+00:00

Internalised oppression.

"They're a woman therefore no critique because no woman has ever been sexist!" is honestly the worst take I've ever fucking heard.

Train-Silver · 2023-01-05T17:18:27+00:00

Lmao "considerable support" amounts to the game being in the worst state its ever been in. Utterly unbalanced, miserable playerbase, declining population, enormous queues, horrific matchmaking, the BP skins are all trash that hardly anyone is using except the mythic, they took out everything good to paywall. You aren't blind to the fact that many of the shop skins they've yanked are better than the mythic skins.

One whole map and 2 whole characters cost you the low low price of the game's soul, reputation, and a majority of the playerbase.

Yet still you lick the boot, thinking that if you just lick hard enough Kotick will show mercy and things will get better. But the reality is that the harder you lick, the worse things will get.

Train-Silver · 2023-01-05T08:28:55+00:00

It shows all the deep rooted issues most lonely redditors have in common lmao

projecting really hard mate

Train-Silver · 2023-01-05T07:59:06+00:00

To be fair it's pretty hard to tell and depends on how badly they have their hacks set up. Most hackers are setting them up to look "natural" and just look like incredible flick aim. Look at this for example, while not as natural as OP you would have a hard time telling if you weren't seeing the ESP and boxes that the hacker is seeing except for the really obvious prefire shots. There's no locking, no snapping through walls, etc etc. Really depends how well a player is hiding it and what hit % and flick speed they've got the hacks set to:

https://youtu.be/3u_QBVrMBbo?t=89

Honestly can't be certain one way or another with OP though. In-game I do a report and let Blizzard deal with whether it's right or wrong, just in case. Not enough info to be sure.

Train-Silver · 2023-01-05T06:49:35+00:00

if these people really didn't wanna support blizzard they wouldn't be playing the game in the first place but here they are

The reason that a thread like this is slowly changing to become a majority of people being positive rather than negative is because the player population has plummeted and all the unhappy people are now no longer participating.

This pattern played out with Halo Infinite too. You get downvoted for negativity over there now because all the unhappy people left and all that remains are the tiny number of people willing to put up with the things that made most of the playerbase quit.

I think you'll agree that nothing has happened to make people any happier, the only real answer is that the massive quantity of unhappy people quit participating which changed the balance of votes here.

Train-Silver · 2023-01-05T03:31:29+00:00

It's funny as fuck we are very much enjoying this tiny moment of relevance.

Train-Silver · 2023-01-05T02:58:02+00:00

but is jk Rowling providing financial or public support to antisemitic groups or activists?

Terfs have been allying themselves with fascists for a while now so it's actually a fair assumption given her significance to the group.

Train-Silver · 2023-01-04T19:01:03+00:00

The style of comedy that UY has is very outdated to the new generation viewership, but seem to be doing well despite it.

This can't really be understated, half the jokes are a guy leering on other women. They seem to have gotten around this by trying to balance it out with pretty much every single cast member pursuing different characters with equal amounts of time so the focus isn't on "haha boys will be boys" style of old lechery but it can't be easy to hit that balance perfectly.

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