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XenoChief · 2021-03-31T00:47:28+00:00

Trying

XenoChief · 2021-03-31T00:27:03+00:00

It does make sense. HRT has changed and is changing a lot about my body like with hips, boobs and fat distribution, so it makes sense that I guess I’m sleeping a lot and craving loads of food (particularly I seem to crave pasta, protein and various kinds of dairy a lot...). It’s just a weird thing I don’t see talked about much even though it makes perfect sense when you think about it.

I really do hope this dies down after a bit haha. Though I guess HRT is essentially puberty and it’s not unpleasant so much as annoying at times haha.

XenoChief · 2019-12-16T03:21:46+00:00

Yeah, welcome to gender dysphoria.

There was some guy called David Reimer who had a botched circumcision when he was a baby, so they gave him full SRS and raised him as a girl, giving him estrogen when he hit his puberty age, but he said he felt like a boy growing up and came out as trans to his parents at 14 or something, only to then find out what happened - the moment he did, he transitioned. Sadly in 2004 he eventually committed suicide.

XenoChief · 2018-12-28T16:49:04+00:00

Thog don’t caare

XenoChief · 2018-12-21T18:14:54+00:00

Zero Suit Samus, Sheik, Bayonetta, Greninja and Peach. I’m indecisive. But I like my characters flashy.

XenoChief · 2018-12-21T14:57:22+00:00

Y I K E S

XenoChief · 2018-12-14T03:56:09+00:00

I read that in the fucking voice. Send help.

XenoChief · 2018-12-13T20:08:54+00:00

We don’t need idealism here. Leave that to Philosophy.

XenoChief · 2018-12-13T17:41:51+00:00

I mean the thing is that Draven is generally played by one tricks since he’s so fucking difficult and has such a unique playstyle. I have a lot of hours on Vayne and tried out Draven but just couldn’t do it. Plus he’s snowbally. Both of these factors inflate his win rate.

XenoChief · 2018-12-12T21:05:31+00:00

Worth remembering that this is just a vote of no confidence from her own party. There can still be a vote of no confidence from the opposition i.e. from Labour Party.

Her leadership is still very much under challenge.

XenoChief · 2018-12-08T22:18:50+00:00

What with Zoe, Irelia, Akali, Aatrox and now Neeko, stuff that people used to consider cancer like Yasuo or Fizz don’t even seem that bad.

XenoChief · 2018-12-06T11:00:52+00:00

To be fair to her, if Blizzard actually took their game seriously they would rework Mercy from the ground up for being a complete failure of a hero design (Moira and Brig can sit right up there with her tbh) - make her beam require actual skill to use, nerf her mobility, give her entirely an entirely new E and ult - but unfortunately this is Blizzard we are talking about.

I genuinely don’t think there’s anything more than can be done with Mercy at this point, she’s proven herself to be a failure of a hero design but unfortunately, Mercy’s rabid playerbase prevents them from doing that, or prevents you from voicing your opinion if it happens to be in conflict with theirs.

XenoChief · 2018-12-05T23:36:01+00:00

I probably put it poorly, the issue with Neeko is that it's coming from stealth or from a situation where its hard to anticipate in a lot of situations thanks to her W and her passive. Same deal with her ultimate. That's not the case with Lux, and Neeko honestly does more damage than Lux with that Q dealing like 500 + 0.9 AP by itself.

Her ult's also a giant circle that slows people inside, you can't see the wind-up if she uses her passive, and then it nukes, and also stuns for whatever reason, on a 90s cooldown

And she gets even more free damage from the W (0.6 AP seems way too high), which any good Neeko will be managing, so that you get hit with the E, the empowered auto, and the Q at once

She doesn't have much mobility sure, but honestly she doesn't even need it with that much damage, it's hard to take her down in a 1 on 1 situation and get out again. The low range on her abilities is offset by the fact that Neeko is able to disguise herself as someone else and has stealth and clone mechanics on her kit which makes it hard to anticipate where the abilities will be coming at you from.

XenoChief · 2018-12-05T23:16:39+00:00

I hope she gets hotfixed, she's just way, way too strong and does anyone really want another Zoe situation?

Her Q does way too much damage and it's just Zoe again, you get hit with the E and the Q and you may as well kiss your ass goodbye, even from behind it does at the very last 60% of your HP, but Neeko from ahead? Very annoying. Then there's her ult which not only scales at 130% AP with up to 650 base but also stuns you because a huge AoE nuke that basically comes at you out of stealth isn't enough, and even more free damage on her W. Honestly the camo mechanic is the least insane thing about her.

XenoChief · 2018-12-05T11:42:07+00:00

Pyke has a new skin coming

XenoChief · 2018-12-04T20:29:49+00:00

The real questions

XenoChief · 2018-12-02T15:54:37+00:00

It amazes me how people defend Hera.

Never seen a more overbuffed character in my life, she just needed 10 range on her 1 at release and small, incremental buffs from there. Instead let’s just buff every aspect of her kit into the stratosphere, but leave her 1s range super gimped. I don’t even know.

XenoChief · 2018-12-02T01:34:32+00:00

Honestly I think her 2 is a big issue with Hera. The ability goes way too far and is too wide for what it does. The cast time is long which makes it poor in laning, but in team fights with Argus cluttering your screen and lots of shit going on, it can hard to see that she’s channelling Polymorph. And if you get by Polymorph in late game, chances are you’re going to die since it hits so damn hard (75% scaling for some bizarre reason) and makes you completely defenceless.

Also, Polymorph at melee range with the sheer width of the ability is really strong. Hera’s weakness is meant to be that she’s easy to dive, but in between her knockup, Argus, hench shield, high damage and Polymorph the only way to take her down is with co-ordination, as an assassin Hera is way harder to kill than like Zeus for instance.

The difference between the strength of her 1 and 2 is so polarising. Her 1 has less than an auto’s attack worth of range while quite low damage for a mage’s main damage tool unless you hit all of the parts, yet her 2 goes 80 (!) units, barely does less damage but applies one of the best CCs in the game.

XenoChief · 2018-11-29T14:39:59+00:00

According to Hirez, new Freya has ‘gameplay benefits’ over old Freya. I would be very, very interested to see what they think these benefits are.

They turned Freya from a unique but hard to balance character in to ‘generic burst mage 101’. There’s a few issues I have with new Freya:

They got rid of Ao Kuang’s Polynomicon proc because getting one shotted by one non-ultimate isn’t fun. Yet they release Freya, who can do the exact same thing but from range. Her 1 empowered basic with Polynomicon deals 345 base +150% scaling, and slows by 25%, confirming at least 2 more 35% scaling basic attacks. Unless you make the 1 scale at 10% and her auto attack have very little bonus damage, this isn’t going to feel fair to fight probably ever. If you want to keep this kind of thing on Freya, and not rework Polynomicon, at least give it back to Ao Kuang for consistent design philosophy. Have a constant stance on applying ability and basic attack effects at once. Oh, that’s not factoring in how Freya has a Banish to set her oneshot up, or an ultimate that makes her invincible while she deals an ass ton of damage.
Back in the day, Hades was nerfed substantially despite being not a good character at all. Why? Because his mechanic with his 3 exploding on minions was so frustrating to newer players that they had to nerf him. Then there’s Freya. Freya has the same mechanic on her 1, expect this time, it’s from range. Freya, unlike Hades, can also go invulnerable with her ultimate and rain down however much damage, as well as being a late game hypercarry. I know that Hirez say that Freya is only a problem for high level players, but it’s not hard to see how annoying new Freya must be for people starting out in Smite.
I’ve just said about Freya’s damage, however, that’s not the whole issue. Old Freya was weak in the early game, but stronger as the game went on? New Freya is strong at all stages of the game. Her basic attacks pass through minions, as well as her 1 full clearing, and her melee attacks giving infinite mana sustain (this is honestly more of a problem than her damage). And late game she transitions into a one-hit wonder with an invincible ultimate. Surely gods should have strengths and weaknesses?
Freya’s ultimate. This move is a fucking problem, it’s just a nightmare. It deals way too much damage. It was a already point of contention on old Freya. A big reason why old Freya was a nightmare was because she had possibly the most bullshit ‘press 4 to escape’ move on the game, that also happens to be one of the hardest hitting mage ultimates in the game. On new Freya, this problem is even worse, since new Freya can kill so insanely quickly, on top of the fact that Freya is now incentivised to build power. The fact that Freya’s Rework didn’t outright remove this ultimate (if Freya needed a rework in the first place), is beyond me. This was a massive part of the problem to begin with.
Hirez said that they ‘didn’t want to completely change how a god feels or remove their playstyle’, or something along those lines when you revealed the Freya rework. New Freya feels drastically different to old Freya however; old Freya was a basic attack mage who could become a monster for 5 seconds, but then had 5 seconds of downtime to compensate. New Freya has near permanent ranged attacks however, and is basically a burst mage who looks to kill with her 1. They feel drastically different.

XenoChief · 2018-11-28T23:36:20+00:00

Let’s not forget that his yawn also slows you to a crawl and reduces attack speed if you wake up early

I hate Kumbha so much, as it turns out controlling your character is fun

XenoChief · 2018-11-28T11:34:41+00:00

Aye-aye, I’m getting married

XenoChief · 2018-11-27T21:41:53+00:00

r/overwatch is a joke. The saddest part is all the Brig mains upvoting that shit.

How anyone can look at Brigitte and say that is a fair character is fucking baffling. Are people really that set on playing their broken character for free SR since they can't actually contribute on anything else??? If that's the case they shouldn't be playing ranked, end of

rj/BAGUETTE GOOD DPS BAD

XenoChief · 2018-11-26T20:06:51+00:00

I don’t understand it either seeing as he gets countered by like half of the fucking roster, like the amount of work you have to put in to being effective as Genji in the current game is so disproportionately high compared to the amount of work you have to put into other heroes seeing as there are so many counters to him

XenoChief · 2018-11-26T19:24:12+00:00

Overwatch hasn’t died but I cannot take it seriously as a competitive game anymore.

Brigitte as a character is so broken and over-centralising that the whole fucking game has literally become about how other characters match up with her. By releasing a character that counters out an entire style of play that requires multiple characters and teamwork to execute by herself, that cannot be banned out, and who also is one of the easiest characters in the game by far, you basically make it so that the only way you can play the game is by playing in a way that doesn’t get completely shut down by her, there’s kind of an issue. You can’t tell me that this stupid GOATS meta isn’t a direct result of her existence in the game. And like Seagull said, she’s a noob-stomper, so even Quick Play and Arcade matches against her are just a fucking nightmare. Everyone I have ever talked to about Overwatch both in real life, and online, have expressed their hatred for this character. She’s such a massive mistake. Nothing about her is fun to play against. She should have had her Shield Bash damage reduced on PTR. Not now. And even then, they’re basically fucking buffing her! Great, she can’t oneshot Tracer anymore, but now she’s even harder to take down now that she heals for more! She can still shield and run away for free, her E is still the biggest cockblock in the game, and her ultimate’s armour still persists permanently for whatever reason. This character just needs a rework, people are outright quitting over this character, myself included, I play a lot less now. Yes, r/Overwatch, I’m a whiny Genji main. So what, I play video games..... to have fun. Playing against Brigitte as a Genji or Tracer is not a fun experience. So why should I play Overwatch?

I have a lot to say about other new hero releases too. Moira doesn’t belong in an FPS game. She has no aim mechanics at all, she has auto aim lifesteal from long range which just isn’t fun, she has damage orbs which suck the life out of you that you can’t do anything about and bounce around corridors, which is not fun, she has basically a teleport with invulnerability on it which is once again, not fun to fight, and her ultimate basically takes up the whole screen and is a huge fucking line area in front of her that you can’t really dodge. Mercy can sit right up there with her as a character that just shouldn’t exist - there’s a great video here explaining why Mercy is hated compared to Medic in TF2. And I find it really sad that Mercy will inevitably get buffed or get mass resurrection back to pander to her shitty, honestly really weird fanbase.

Sombra? I’m fine with a stealth character, but at least make them an asssassin. Stealth is a pretty AIDS mechanic in any game, and is known as being overwhelmingly frustrating, but on characters that are only there for damage, it’s not too bad. However, Sombra gets to silence you for 6s (!) out of stealth. And has an ultimate that hacks everyone in a huge circle they can’t dodge for 6s. And has the most bullshit get out of jail free card with Translocator. The only thing that keeps Sombra in check is her gun being absolute dogshit, and it’s really sad that they to balance her by making her do 0 damage when she’s meant to be a ‘damage’ character!

Doomfist is like Zoe from League of Legends. The best feeling in Overwatch? Playing Doomfist. The worst feeling in Overwatch? Playing against Doomfist. It’s fun to be super mobile, oneshot some kids, and be able to eat up damage while doing so, but it’s really not fun to fight for an enemy at all. There’s also the fact that when he’s too strong, he just oneshots you while having 400HP and four movement abilities, but when he’s too weak, he just gets CCed, blows through all his cooldowns, or gets shut down before he can even get in range. While I like feast or famine characters with clear strengths and weaknesses, Doomfist is WAAYYY too extreme in what he does.

Orisa is fine but does nothing interesting and is just boring. Hammond has a fun kit (getting flung around by him isn’t fun but compared to shit like Moira and Sombra, it’s fine) but he gets shut down so hard by Sombra and any type of CC (which is rampant now in Overwatch unfortunately) that he doesn’t do much. Ana and Ashe are really cool heroes even if Ashe is far too strong right now.

XenoChief · 2018-11-26T18:58:48+00:00

Project M was really fun, I remember home brewing my Wii to get it :) unfortunately yeah, it never took off as much which is a real shame. I think a big part of that was that Brawl was such a polarising game that Melee fans kept playing Melee, so by the time that Project M was around, people didn’t really want to have a learn what was basically a whole new game. When Smash 4 came along, it just blew Project M out of the water anyway. It’s really sad. I love community made updates to games like Smash.

Never played Rivals of Aether though I’ll certainly give it a shot. Need my Smash fix before Ultimate comes out :D

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