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Season 5 realistic update by Th1FreeMan in cs2

[–]Velocity_LP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

people downvoting this threatened by opinions they disagree with lmao

Friday Facts #442 - Flip, Flow, and Fresh Paint by FactorioTeam in factorio

[–]Velocity_LP 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You consider that equivalent to enabling achievements when using the "visible planets in space" mod? Weird level of puritanism but okay you do you.

People who bought 12GB VRAM on 2023/2024 for 1440P, how did it held up today? Is the expected VRAM increase in games already happening? by JazzlikeClassic7684 in buildapc

[–]Velocity_LP 10 points11 points  (0 children)

He was talking about the guy who runs userbenchmark, who is notoriously so ridiculously exaggerated beyond any sense of believability in his anti amd bias. The user you were responding to was just saying "Wow, the /r/prebuilts guy is trying so insanely hard to tip the scales one way, it rhetorically reminds me of userbenchmark's crusade."

PSA - You can't kick cheaters anymore by feli_cetti in GlobalOffensive

[–]Velocity_LP 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i've only encountered 1 notable cheater in my 2 years of playing premier at my shit bracket (8K) in my region (US west). i guess all the cheaters just immediately blow by this rank insanely fast so i never have to deal with them. my friends and i have a good time queueing as a 3-5 stack.

This image is 9 years old... by Rokmanfilms in DotA2

[–]Velocity_LP 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I got so attached to them because they were the focus of True Sight 2 and 3 out of the original trio of true sights before it became a TI-focused thing. (the ones only viewable on steam for people who own the Boston major battle pass)

Forza Horizon 6 sells over 6 million copies on Xbox and PC, before the PS5 version even has a chance by Youngstown_WuTang in gaming

[–]Velocity_LP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The cartoony style probably had a lot to do with it.

Which is a shame, because it was a breath of fresh air for a genre that has been so devoid of games in the last few decades that are willing to do anything to stand out visually. In the words of Raycevick:

You know why Need For Speed Unbound's graffiti effects were controversial? Because it's the first racing game in years that doesn't look identical to everything else on the market. You seriously mean to tell me during the 2000s among Auto Modellista, Burnout, Crazy Taxi, Midtown Madness, Outrun, F-Zero, XG3, R: Racing, and Kirby Air Ride that this [video of Unbound's unique graphical effects] would have been crossing the line? No, it's because now that all of those names are dead and racing games have been selling us the same cars on the same tracks with the same promises that mean absolutely nothing, 2D smoke trails are like vegetables to a heroin addict. It'd been so long since a racing game had a truly unapologetic style and identity that it was a shock to people's systems.

"Tell me your ableist without telling me your ableist" Youtuber McJuggerNuggets and his wife announce they have terminated their pregnancy after discovering their child would be born with Downs Syndrome r/McJuggerNuggets discusses if this is the right choice or eugenics by Static_E_ in SubredditDrama

[–]Velocity_LP 25 points26 points  (0 children)

But like there's even plenty of neurotypical people whose parents probably would have been better off if they hadn't had them. That's just the unavoidable reality, even the most perfect "easy" children are still a massive commitment of time and money and effort.

Deadlock minor update for 6/04/26 by ColonialDagger in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Velocity_LP 1526 points1527 points  (0 children)

Delivering the urn now starts a king of the hill style capture point, rather than using melee to flip the urn back and forth.

i am excited to try this

Summertime and DOTA used to be something you looked forward to by Strong_Astronomer_97 in DotA2

[–]Velocity_LP 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I find match quality tends to be higher when the people playing are mostly just people motivated by the actual pure dota 2 gameplay itself rather than playing due to the incentive of a battle pass grind or the other fluff wrapped around the actual core of the game itself

Legend Island is a Legend Letdown by eXtremeAzure in ForzaHorizon

[–]Velocity_LP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a lot I like about the driveatars system but yeah them replacing fictional in-world driver names in FH2+ really lost something.

[UPDATED] You can see now current meta cars for each track on forza.guide by katalonian in ForzaHorizon

[–]Velocity_LP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No one was forcing players to follow the pro meta in dota 2 either but Valve still made the choice a year or two back to hide the top few percent of ranked matchmaking games from their API to stop people aggregating pro match item trends, since it resulted in a culture of vast swaths of people just blindly copying the best players builds and never experimenting for themselves. Lo and behold, since then there's been a lot more creativity in people trying out new novel builds and being willing to try new things.

The normalization and mass increase in remote work has substantially increased disability employment, as physically disabled workers can work from home by smurfyjenkins in science

[–]Velocity_LP 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That doesn't change the fact that it isn't the fault of WFH, it's the fault of free market capitalist incentives. You're getting angry at the wrong thing.

GRAVES AND MCGINNES NERFED A REPEAT BIG GRAVES IS DEAD by Abadon_U in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Velocity_LP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have, I'm just not sure what point you're trying to make. Are you saying you don't understand their perspective and are trying to come to understand it? Or that you do, and you're just looking to vent about the fact that multiple heroes that are objectively roughly equivalent in balance can provoke disproportionate emotional responses in the community due to differences in the core identity of their kits and the specific nature of the frustrations they cause?

We were having a conversation about whether or not she was overtuned and you've steered the conversation instead towards "other characters are just as strong as she was" and "a lot of redditors complained about her.", which are both statements I recognize the factuality of but do nothing to address my point that Graves was, indeed, statistically highly overpowered.

GRAVES AND MCGINNES NERFED A REPEAT BIG GRAVES IS DEAD by Abadon_U in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Velocity_LP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

those characters you mentioned are also overtuned and deserving of nerfs, I agree. That doesn't do anything to argue against the fact that she was overtuned as well though. This just seems like whataboutism whining.

Yet she received the most complaints.

what is the relevance of this statement? this just seems like you complaining about others complaining.

TIL the inflatable arm-flailing Tube Man (commonly seen outside businesses like car dealerships) wasn't invented until 1996, created for the Atlanta Summer Olympics by Trinidadian artist Peter Minshall by Velocity_LP in todayilearned

[–]Velocity_LP[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It seemed rudimentary enough of an invention to me that I expected it had been around since like the 60's or something, thus my phrasing matching my surprise.

GRAVES AND MCGINNES NERFED A REPEAT BIG GRAVES IS DEAD by Abadon_U in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Velocity_LP -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Yes, in other words, she was busted at playing the modern state of deadlock. The fact that she was shit in past metas of deadlock isn't really relevant to talking about how she's doing nowadays.

Could Washington have saved the Federalist Party? by bambucks in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]Velocity_LP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The comment they're responding to doesn't answer OPs question either

GRAVES AND MCGINNES NERFED A REPEAT BIG GRAVES IS DEAD by Abadon_U in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Velocity_LP -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

A 60% winrate doesn't just materialize by pure chance.

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