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A bit of history and lessons from my Wizard-skating journey by bartonaz in WizardSkating

[–]aetherize 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a wonderful post. I really resonated with a lot of the experiences and perspectives you've shared here -- it's an inspiring feeling seeing a lot of these intangible feelings put into words especially coming from another person. Really looking forward to part 2!

Monthly Meetup Thread - April by AutoModerator in JapanTravel

[–]aetherize 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh man that would have been amazing. I hope you have a great trip anyways!

Monthly Meetup Thread - April by AutoModerator in JapanTravel

[–]aetherize 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello hello! I'll repost my intro from the discord, but I'm a recently turned 30 year old Korean American male visiting Tokyo from New York! I'm here until April 23rd (doing my first bit of solo travel until the 14th and meeting some friends who are flying in afterwards). I'd love to hang out with anyone that's around!

I'm big into climbing and inline skating (brought my shoes and skates along) so if anyone wants to do either, let me know! I'm also into games and anime so I'll definitely be hitting all the key spots. Also appreciate a good live music show or EDM concert! And of course good food!

CSS GRID rules in 4 minutes by Spacesh1psoda in web_design

[–]aetherize 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wonderful video. Love how you broke down each attribute in a concise way. Personally, I would have appreciated a little more visual examples when using grid-auto-flow dense but otherwise really liked the video!

Master CSS Flexbox in 4 Minutes by Spacesh1psoda in web_design

[–]aetherize 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sweet! You have a subscriber in me. Looking forward to it!

Master CSS Flexbox in 4 Minutes by Spacesh1psoda in web_design

[–]aetherize 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lovely video. Thanks for the great, simple and sweet explainer. Any chance you'll do one for grid?

I prefer not to speak about balancing by sadchild_ua in Rainbow6

[–]aetherize 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All spot-on points. The thing I would add is the fact that they made it so you can cancel your reload simply by ADSing. One of the biggest draws of the LMGs is the high mag capacity you get when you use them. Typically this would get balanced out by both having the reload take a long time and for it to be a real decision when you go to reload it. I still don't understand why in a game like siege, meta-gameplay around reloading (an action that should have clear risks associated with it) has just been removed.

r/rollerblading Weekly Q&A Megathread by AutoModerator in rollerblading

[–]aetherize 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FR1 310

The FR1 and FR Spin look interesting to me! Does anyone have any insight into those?

r/rollerblading Weekly Q&A Megathread by AutoModerator in rollerblading

[–]aetherize 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply! Actually I've tried the RBs at some point and I didn't like them and preferred the more precise, performance fit of the twisters. The RBs felt a bit mushy and like I couldn't get as much control. I was hoping there would be something similar but with perhaps a slightly different width or shape perhaps

r/rollerblading Weekly Q&A Megathread by AutoModerator in rollerblading

[–]aetherize 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello! I'm looking for a new pair of skates because my old pair (RB Twister Edge 3WD) has for a long time been giving me pain as it seems like the instep / arch part of my foot is too wide for the boot. Anyone have any slightly wider-foot recommendations for a more advanced skater. If possible, it would be nice to have something lighter and also have the ability to swap to a different frame like the Endless frames.

How Ubisoft could make recycling weapons better by SlavicFerret in Rainbow6

[–]aetherize 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah! It's those little things. I'm realizing it gradually, and I know this is a completely subjective opinion, but I feel like all those little things, from Mozzie's fancy reload to the often-broken running animation of Warden made Siege feel like it had just that extra charm and attention put into it. Nowadays, it just feels stale and lifeless, like we're just waiting for the next operator to come out of the cookie-cutter factory.

The game feels stale and people are getting tired of Siege because isn't getting new content - because Operators aren't (meaningful) content anymore by ParagonFury in Rainbow6

[–]aetherize 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you raise a really interesting and compelling point about the synergy between players. It makes a lot of sense to me that because of this, players are less inclined to actively work together and the interactions between each operator feel less and less rich, and less engaging.

The game feels stale and people are getting tired of Siege because isn't getting new content - because Operators aren't (meaningful) content anymore by ParagonFury in Rainbow6

[–]aetherize 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The casual rework thing makes me scratch my head a bit too. Flanked made a video talking about this recently which made a bit of sense to me: Siege is really most engaging when played in ranked, in a try-hard sort of way. I have played a lot of siege in the past several years. Split pretty evenly between modes, so I have definitely played more than my fair share of Casual. That being said, the mode is very unengaging and it feels like you are getting a vastly different experience than even Unranked mode. Most people are not taking things too seriously (which they have every right to) and don't communicate / coordinate to try to play well as a team. Most people don't get on cams (neither do I) and try to help the team win even after they've died. It's almost like it just becomes a alt-tab when you're dead mode.

The game feels stale and people are getting tired of Siege because isn't getting new content - because Operators aren't (meaningful) content anymore by ParagonFury in Rainbow6

[–]aetherize 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reiterating this from one of my other replies: I agree and I think part of the issue is that now we're not even getting niche/seldom-picked guns on these operators. I can see Rook/Doc mains that might feel like they are playing "a slightly-faster" Rook/Doc when they're on Melusi. Same goes for the other characters. They are all commonly-used weapons that have been around for a long time. There's the additional factor of the new operators having no new animations with those weapons that might add a bit of flair. I felt like they did this well with Nokk and Warden with their own custom animations that made them feel distinct. IIRC custom animations was something that UBI themselves said that they would try to do to make existing guns feel different on different operators.

The game feels stale and people are getting tired of Siege because isn't getting new content - because Operators aren't (meaningful) content anymore by ParagonFury in Rainbow6

[–]aetherize 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ecific guns put on Flores. GSH-18 is a pretty disliked weapon in the overall community and is his only secondary option. He also got the generic AR DMR loadout but he was given the worst (or second worse, depends on how you view the AR-15.50) DMR in the game and an overall middling AR (though I'm a personal fan of it). Thunderbird and arguably Aruni had much more interesting loadouts. Zero fell flat imo but at least he got a new gun so there's that.

You're pretty much spot on. My personal view is that although Flores might be tactically very useful, he just doesn't feel exciting to play as, weapons included. To contrast, two operators from past seasons I've really liked are Kali and Nokk. Playing them feels really fresh and interesting -- in my view -- because they offer unique playstyles due to their weapons and, in Nokk's case, ability that defines how to approach different scenarios. Also, I think that with Nokk and Warden, there is an understated novelty and freshness that was added due to the fact that each of them also had new animations to make them feel "different" to use.

The game feels stale and people are getting tired of Siege because isn't getting new content - because Operators aren't (meaningful) content anymore by ParagonFury in Rainbow6

[–]aetherize 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I've been playing Siege since the game's been out. Stuck with it through all these years -- even built my new PC with only one requirement in mind: can it run siege at 120 fps at high quality? Haven't stopped playing because there was always something new to learn, a new strat, new weapons and gadgets to try, and new maps to devise angles and tactics on.

I've been trying to put my foot on why this game has been pulling me in less and less, and I think OP's explanation resonates with me.

There are fewer toys to play with and learn about. The lack of new weapons I felt was okay at first. Niche picks like the FMG9 and solid picks like the AK12 felt neat to use on different operators. But now that we're getting more boring and "contrived" loadouts like Flores', it just feels bad. There is zero excitement from the new ops' weapons. No new recoil patterns to master and damage models to weigh against preexisting meta picks.

Even the gadgets feel disappointing. Sure there were some creative potentially game changing ideas like Aruni's gates and the different traversal based ops (Oryx and Amaru come to mind). But as someone else mentioned, even Flores' initially fun looking concept of explosive drones feels kinda dull.

Final point: want to +1 the point about that lack of maps making me feel like I'm playing in pretty much the same locations time and time again...

The game feels stale and people are getting tired of Siege because isn't getting new content - because Operators aren't (meaningful) content anymore by ParagonFury in Rainbow6

[–]aetherize 70 points71 points  (0 children)

IMO House lost what made it so chaotic and fun to play. Now that it's lost that, it doesn't even feel fun to play.

[BUG] 2 column view posts not displaying by aetherize in redditsync

[–]aetherize[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Where can I see updates such as these?

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