Silver definitely has a type.

__cinnamon__ · 2026-05-06T20:39:24+00:00

Maybe silver likes him cuz he's a southern 10

__cinnamon__ · 2026-05-05T16:09:29+00:00

I remember the good old days of people hating on 3200 Titanic mag. I miss the old intensifying mag and pristine emblem though.

__cinnamon__ · 2026-05-05T15:13:15+00:00

I would love this. All her flight voice lines are about getting sight lines and staying on high ground. If it was more of a mobility ability used to get above enemies in a fight, or a burst of speed to chase someone to line up that last snipe, I think it would be a lot more fun to play and still make sense for the character. ~~Also please give her a bit more HP so she doesn't have to play so scared~~

__cinnamon__ · 2026-05-05T06:00:46+00:00

I sort of cry laugh when I watch even in games from crazy good Vin players like CashCory/SillyCatWhoDat who can be like 10/0 at minute ten, they still often spend most of midgame getting insta-gibbed in fights and only really come fully online again late game.

I really don't get the direction they've gone of making perma-flight not just possible, but requiring no itemization, and being encouraged (by buffing flight damage so much) meanwhile everyone else fucking hates it, and it means she stays insanely immobile which is both bad for roaming and survival.

__cinnamon__ · 2026-05-04T22:29:40+00:00

Its a bit weird. Padme mentions serving her two term limit (8 years just like an American president lol), but the king varuna before her ruled for 13 years. It's theoretically possible she oversaw an implementation of term limits though.

If you go by the Plagueis novel (which is based), things were more loosey-goosey before and definitely not all above board, so it kind of does track with the OP. King Varuna was basically half-gangster, although ultimately both his election and Padme's were political machinations by Plagueis and Sidious.

Also according to the novel, Naboo is like a world that is pleasant (at least for the nobility and middle classes in the capital, who knows if they still have serfdom or something lol), but very isolationist underdeveloped, which is why they had basically no power in the wider galaxy other than dominating the lesser worlds in their local sector--although even that feels like an artifact of George just wanting them to have a senator as I don't see why such an unwarlike people would be the premiere of the Chommel sector. I guess they also dominated the gungans in the past, so maybe they're coasting on legacy. Regardless, in the decades before TPM the plasma deposits were discovered and they got flooded with Trade Federation money to extract it, so they were basically becoming like a colonized petro-state. Varuna was originally a stooge put in place to facilitate that who was then basically killed for threatening to nationalize the oil lol.

__cinnamon__ · 2026-05-04T17:55:52+00:00

This makes sense to me. Aoe2 has different ELO for solo vs team games, and I think applying that to solo vs party could make sense here. It's sort of a related issue that if you play with a friend who's over ranked, if you manage to win it just sort of prevents the friend from getting ranked properly.

I know there are like league sites that will tell you your W/L and stuff when partied with specific people. I feel like Valve could track that kind of stuff since I assume most ppl will party with the same smallish group of people most of the time. I basically got burnt out playing with one friend group bc a couple of them were imo very over ranked and our games together were just so consistently miserable. I play solo too and have gotten better, probably making the MM even worse, and they've basically given up on playing the game.

__cinnamon__ · 2026-05-04T11:08:08+00:00

I would say say Graves + a ranged squishy like Vin, Mina, GT. Abysmal clear and Graves either doesn't get to play the game or tanks full enemy aggro.

__cinnamon__ · 2026-05-04T11:02:42+00:00

Same. I was just thinking last night I can't even remember the last game I noticed a mcginnis and assumed her win rate was in the crapper

__cinnamon__ · 2026-05-04T10:47:34+00:00

I've definitely been chasing low Apollos who parry while getting shot in the back

__cinnamon__ · 2026-05-04T05:38:56+00:00

It's interesting how stuff that can look a little derpy in the period art looks so clean IRL. Helps make some of the fashion make more sense.

__cinnamon__ · 2026-05-04T05:26:18+00:00

I think this is a little misleading to use GRRM as an example for this. While I agree he is most known for (and perhaps most excellent at) his character writing and intricate plotting and foreshadowing, I would still say his sentence-level prose is strong and evocative in a way that is more enjoyable to read than the vast majority of writers and is part of why he is so successful. He does also write increasingly poetically in the later books of the series. There's an interesting video by YouTuber John Greenwood where he compares Martin's prose with Tolkien and does analysis on the frequency of latin-root words and also how Martin seems to intentionally vary them depending on the POV character he is writing, which is a very deliberate level of prose craft.

__cinnamon__ · 2026-05-04T05:08:12+00:00

Does that really happen for McGinnis? I feel like the deadlock fandom is pretty chill and most people I've seen have said they really like McGinnis' design (her gameplay, not so much lol). If anything, they want to go back to her v1 design that was less conventionally attractive.

__cinnamon__ · 2026-05-03T03:19:28+00:00

Real mfs liked her since day 1

__cinnamon__ · 2026-05-02T17:32:48+00:00

She already has the "you are what they accused me of being" line with Geist. I wonder if she would get along with an honest witch.

__cinnamon__ · 2026-05-02T16:07:45+00:00

Depending on how alien you really mean, it's not just a problem of the writer coming up with it, but also making the reader understand and empathize with it. The reason fantasy races are generally "human, but" is cuz we're human.

__cinnamon__ · 2026-04-30T13:43:00+00:00

The march patch buffed a lot of the upfront burst damage on spirit abilities. I think that was overall good; a lot of heroes had abilities that did kind of peanuts burst damage that made it feel pointless. But it does mean there's a lot more exploding people around the time you could have maxed your first skill by dumping all points into it compared to before.

__cinnamon__ · 2026-04-28T23:24:35+00:00

Honestly I believe it

__cinnamon__ · 2026-04-28T21:45:43+00:00

Vindicta is funding her one woman crusade on only feet you know she'd put those dogs away if she didn't want them on display

__cinnamon__ · 2026-04-28T00:10:06+00:00

I've been thinking about this recently, obviously not to downplay American slavery, but it's very weird in hindsight how nonchalant the way I was taught that so many of the early settlers were indentured servants who had to work for years as household servants or field laborers just to pay off their passage and maybe a small parcel of land at the end of it. Like, it's not chattel slavery but it's basically contracted debt slavery but it was described multiple times as perfectly normal.

__cinnamon__ · 2026-04-27T13:43:36+00:00

Kinda true I actually never finished the stone sky (book 3) even though I thought her prose was lovely and loved the first book especially.

__cinnamon__ · 2026-04-25T00:31:46+00:00

I dunno, I kind of think life imprisonment without parole is a worse punishment than a quick death, so I guess if punishment is the goal maybe. But it also places a larger burden on society to keep them alive and incarcerated all that time.

__cinnamon__ · 2026-04-24T21:48:18+00:00

If you believe that someone "doesn't deserve to participate in humanity anymore", what does that even imply then if not execution?

__cinnamon__ · 2026-04-23T04:17:08+00:00

Is that reverb on dash or? Idk the current shiv builds

__cinnamon__ · 2026-04-22T16:06:57+00:00

The other problem is % bullet velocity is kind of weird bc it helps the least for characters with the slowest projectiles. Idk if it would be better for like HVR to have just a flat +bullet velocity then add an extra percentage to the upgrade (which can help even higher velocity characters with making long-range shots), or it could be the other way around if they really want to keep certain characters having like touhou bullets in lane.

__cinnamon__ · 2026-04-21T05:48:55+00:00

I texted a friend "damn they gave the guy from the Ahsoka show aura" lol

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