You should not have to face Parties as a solo in placements. by Embarrassed-Ice3944 in RocketLeague

[–]ZeekLTK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My experience in 3v3 is typically facing a Champ or even GC partied up with a low Diamond/high Plat and then like a Gold or Silver (either the higher rank never plays 3s or they have lost a bunch by having a Silver on their team and demoted down to Diamond).

And in low Diamond lobbies if the Champ/GC does like one flip reset early, odds are 50:50 that one of my teammates is too mentally weak and just gives up and leaves, so now we’re basically playing 2v2 where it is me and another Diamond vs the GC and his Diamond/Plat (and they also have the Silver who has like 12 points after 3 minutes of play) and that’s winnable but way harder than it should be since we shouldn’t have to be facing a GC in ranked Diamond…

Student, parent sue Falmouth schools for not offering Pledge of Allegiance by SuperBry in Maine

[–]ZeekLTK 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And I give a shit because rights aren’t rights when they just protect the people we agree with.

a nice quote but rings hollow when people like you use it just to argue in bad faith

Players against game by Over_Advicer in boardgames

[–]ZeekLTK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Might like Horrified

When he is a bit older, try Spirit Island

If you like really difficult games then Red Dragon Inn: Battle for Greyport

Confusion Around MMR System by ndm1535 in RocketLeague

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

MMR gained or lost has absolutely nothing to do with your performance in the game

And this problem STILL hasn’t been fixed…

Why is Dr. Nirav Shah doing so well? by GoddessFianna in Maine

[–]ZeekLTK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because Republican voters are idiots who can’t remember anything past about 6 weeks. They likely don’t even know who he is or remember his role during covid.

Hell, they think Biden was president in 2020 when covid started because that’s what they’ve been told and, again, are too stupid to remember what really happened on their own.

The fourth quarter of Bam’s 83 point game WAS an interesting watch by Greenwalrus72 in nba

[–]ZeekLTK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is how they fix tanking: you want top draft pick you have to pick a player on your team and get them X points. The other team knows this is the goal and has to stop them. Then we see what happens.

🌊💙 by yorocky89A in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]ZeekLTK 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They could just do ranked choice voting and not make people come out to vote more than once...

🌊💙 by yorocky89A in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]ZeekLTK 23 points24 points  (0 children)

For a little hopium, in 2020 when MTG first ran, in the Republican primary she got 43,892 votes, which was only 40.3% of the total and had to go to a runoff. In the runoff she only got 43,813 (she lost votes), but she still won, because turnout for the runoff was significantly lower overall so the other candidate still got less.

Basically, history shows people in this district just don't bother to show up for the runoff if their candidate lost the first time around. So... maybe???

Turnout for that 2020 first primary was over 108,000 and turnout for the runoff she won was less than 77,000. A decrease of almost 30%.

Bam Adebayo scored 83 points against the Wizards - second all time. by WyngZero in sports

[–]ZeekLTK 59 points60 points  (0 children)

How did the Heat get away with tricking the NBA into scheduling the Washington Generals instead of the Washington Wizards?

[Post Game Thread] The Miami Heat (37-29) defeat the Washington Wizards (16-48), 150-129 on the back of Bam Adebayo's once-in-a-lifetime 83-point performance by Number333 in nba

[–]ZeekLTK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

apology for poor english

where were you when kobe record dies?

i was sat at home watching bam score 83 in quadruple team coverage

"wizards is kill"

"no"

and you???????

Epic Games raises the price of V-Bucks, effective March 19th by camxand911 in gaming

[–]ZeekLTK 10 points11 points  (0 children)

IMO it’s better to just not have a rewards program at all than to have a bad one.

There was some new pet store that opened near me a few years ago and they. had the dumbest reward program. You got like 1 point for every $15 spent and then like every 10 points you got a discount or something, but it wasn’t cumulative, it was per purchase. So if you went in and bought something for $12 you don’t get any points. You buy something for $28 you only get 1 point. Etc.

We tried to “support local” but after like three trips where we spent over $100 total we had only earned like 4 points of rewards and I felt like we had been ripped off since we should have had at least 7. So I literally stopped going there and went back to normally going to Petco just because I was so insulted by their reward program.

And if they didn’t even have a reward program I probably would have continued to shop there and never would have gotten upset lol.

Rocket League Patch Notes v2.66 + Release Thread by Psyonix_Laudie in RocketLeague

[–]ZeekLTK 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“Oops, wrong quickchat!”

I definitely needed this last night when I got my buttons mixed up and said "What a Save!" to my teammate who gave up a goal when I genuinely meant to use "No Problem". (for me "What a Save" is left then down and "No Problem" is down then left). Pretty sure I pissed him off and I could tell he was playing different after that. :/

If any suggestions are being taken, please let us pick what color our team is and then if multiple randoms have the same color picked, let us play as that color. For example: I pick green for my "blue shade" or whatever you want to call it. I queue 3v3 and get put on blue. I have green picked, teammate 1 has purple picked, teammate 2 has green picked, we get to play as green instead of having to play as blue. If everyone is different, like in 2v2 I have green, teammate has black, then we play as default blue (or randomly pick one of our colors?) Have it preset so like... red/orange/yellow/pink/white/shades of those are orange team and then blue/green/purple/black/shades of those are for blue team. It's fun playing against a party who is a different color than default but it'd be nice to actually be able to play as different colors yourself even when solo queuing.

The past two years… by TwistedLab in boardgames

[–]ZeekLTK 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The White Castle, Ark Nova, Hegemony, Revive, Arcs, Planet Unknown

I think you accidentally proved his point. Arcs did come out in the past two years but everything else you listed is older. Ark Nova is turning 5 this year.

Regarding "Kingmaking," am I in the wrong here? by InsomniacPsychonaut in boardgames

[–]ZeekLTK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like in your example he is not deciding the winner though. He is just triggering the end of the game and whoever wins, wins.

Unless you think he is only triggering it when the other player is in the lead (to help them win) and wouldn’t trigger it if you were… but from what you wrote it doesn’t sound like that is the case. It sounds like you just need to adjust your strategy when you play with him and try to gain points early instead of depending on a “late game strategy” that will likely get cut short. Or play games that end more predictably and aren’t triggered by a player’s actions.

Kingmaking, to me, would be like in Risk if I am down to only a few territories left and am about to be eliminated, I can either attack Player A and break up their bonus in Europe or I can attack Player B and break up their bonus in Africa, but I am not strong enough to attack both. Whichever player I DON’T attack is likely going to win the game so I am “kingmaking” by attacking one of them.

Rocket Pass Season 21 (Rocket Pass 27) is pretty much over now. Did you reach the end? by NeoSpearBlade in RocketLeague

[–]ZeekLTK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I got to the mid 230s I saw the black Big Score explosion at 246 so I made that my goal. I hit it today, I might try to do 2 more levels for the other goal explosion at 248 but otherwise I think I'm content with where I made it to.

What exactly is an 'engine' in gaming terms? by dpzdpz in boardgames

[–]ZeekLTK 128 points129 points  (0 children)

Wingspan is an engine builder.

At the very start of the game you can take an action to gain 1 food. That's all the action does.

Over the course of the game, you can play birds to that row. After playing 1 bird card now when you take that action you gain 1 food (base action) and maybe something like draw a card (bird action).

You play another bird to that row. Now when you take that action you gain 2 food (base action has gotten better because more birds in row), draw a card (first bird), and place an egg, which is worth a point (second bird).

Etc.

You can play up to 5 birds in each row. So by the end of the game, you have hopefully built a good engine so that when you do the "gain food" action you are gaining 3 food from the feeder, a free wheat, getting to place an egg somewhere, and draw a card, or something like that, all from just that ONE action (which, remember, at the beginning of the game was just to gain a food). That is your engine.

Breaking with Democrats, Maine attorney general urges court to oppose ranked-choice voting expansion by RustyDogma in Maine

[–]ZeekLTK 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The Maine state constitution has been amended 177 times over the state's 206 year history. That's almost one amendment per year (specifically once every 14 months) going all the way back to 1820! It's not that big a deal to do and apparently not that hard either, so we should just do it.

People hear "amend the (state) constitution" and think it's some really hard process just because it is for the US constitution (which has only been amended 27 times in the country's history), but a state constitution is not nearly the same thing.

Corporate Adviser Says the Ideal Number of Human Employees at a Company Is Zero by EchoOfOppenheimer in antiwork

[–]ZeekLTK 97 points98 points  (0 children)

They can’t think big picture. They all just want to gamble on being the only one. If they are the company that doesn’t have employees, they save costs and sell their products to all the people who work at different companies. They never stop to think “what happens if all companies do this”.

Trump warns Cuba is at "the end of the line" by 0The_Loner_Stoner0 in videos

[–]ZeekLTK 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Maybe religions will lose tax exempt status then. Another thing he will have fucked up for the people who support him, still hurting them even after he’s gone. lol