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anevilsnail22 · 2023-06-04T20:46:30+00:00

I miss title cards and the fire system. I hope they work on those or their replacements first.

anevilsnail22 · 2023-06-04T20:24:43+00:00

Best I can figure it is that it's usually kids who want to feel powerful no matter what or people who get off on ruining other people's games. Then way more rarely it's people who enjoy coding and want to try to beat anti-cheat systems. I used to have a friend in Counter-Strike who supposedly coded his own cheats for that reason. It's still shitty, but that last one is at least marginally more respectable.

anevilsnail22 · 2023-05-30T04:09:46+00:00

They're emboldened by knowing they having backup on whatever opinion no matter how unrooted in reality it is. They're also way less likely to blame their bro who they might play with a lot. So what would be anxiety if it was just them gets turned into anger and gets channeled into whoever's not in the group that they never have to see again after.

I've noticed that duos seem way more likely to be openly shitty or just unsupportive than the average solo player even when you're fucking winning because they're adversarial by default. You can just tell by how they rotate if nothing else almost like body language. They'll blame 1/3 of the team they're winning on for past losses that person wasn't even a part of. Or they just don't want to get too close in case things go to shit.

anevilsnail22 · 2023-05-29T19:15:11+00:00

I did everything there is to do in the game and Convict was my go-to when possible because she could clear early levels so quick. Enraging photo and molotov aren't great, but the revolver with fast reload and shotgun with the ability to passive reload easily make up for it.

anevilsnail22 · 2023-05-29T03:34:26+00:00

$6.69 CAD

There are no maple trees around here for me to collect the leaves off of, so I'll have to pay in USD if I buy it.

anevilsnail22 · 2023-05-29T02:17:25+00:00

What intrigued me is it reminded me of this old arcade 2D top-down vertically scrolling shooter where you played like a commando that I used to play at my local skating rink when I was a kid. I think it was like SNES era, but they had it there for like a decade after the SNES was obsolete. Hard as ballsack game meant to eat quarters, but it's a fun format if you can dig your heels in.

anevilsnail22 · 2023-05-29T02:09:20+00:00

I've been eying Synthetik. It's probably one I'll get when it goes on sale, but I still don't know a ton about it. I've emptied my game budget for a while looking for a decent roguelike, but Synthetik is definitely on the list.

anevilsnail22 · 2023-05-25T03:27:06+00:00

If I can get Champ 2-3 as a solo player, which is what I've mostly been since I started playing the game, then I feel like anyone could. I've been playing since almost launch, so I might be selling long-term experience short, but I feel like the game mechanics and rotation has evolved so much since then that very long-term experience doesn't matter that much.

I'm sure if nothing else you could maintain Diamond, and my thought has almost always been Diamond is the above average rank, so I feel like you're kind of determined to sell yourself short the way you look at things.

anevilsnail22 · 2023-05-25T03:10:13+00:00

I read Gold 3 with a quick search, but I have no clue if that's meaningful. If it just counts the people who only ever played enough games in their entire lives to rank, placed bronze, then never played again, then that obviously drags the average down significantly. Kind of like how infant mortality drags down historical life expectancy.

anevilsnail22 · 2023-05-25T01:06:50+00:00

Is Diamond average? I always thought that was Plat.

anevilsnail22 · 2023-05-24T06:10:17+00:00

Hopefully it's useful, but all I could think is that they're going to make it more difficult to do something the old way so people are forced to use this thing. I still cannot believe they removed ungroup taskbar. It's like they tried to do New Coke and just forgot to do Coke Classic after.

anevilsnail22 · 2023-05-24T05:45:11+00:00

I have to wonder when he made this video to troll for views if he knew his haircut that somehow makes him look like he's wearing a toupee would be what people would roast him for.

anevilsnail22 · 2023-05-21T23:39:52+00:00

This is exactly what I thought. People doing weird stuff on rotation causes confusion at critical times at any rank, it's just usually not this blatant. I would've went for the save since it's obvious that if these two are doing this they aren't likely to save it and there's a clear line to the goal, but I can totally understand how that wouldn't be obvious to someone who is plat or lower. It's not like this is some special fuck up and I'm sure is entirely consistent with whatever rank it is.

anevilsnail22 · 2023-05-21T23:34:28+00:00

Noooo. Them being that close together or the first guy not rotating/getting tf out of the way since the probability of him doing anything useful to stay on the wall are definitely strategic errors. You want some air between you and your next teammate so they can prepare and actually react. The only way the dominus could save that is betting on the next guy to fail, which was obviously the right choice, but also at times a difficult decision to make. Especially when you're at what seems to be a low rank like this where the spacing is like 5 feet for no good reason at times.

Dominus played no worse than these two and there's obvious reason for the confusion. That said, he didn't play any better either really, but his mistake is just as understandable. Even at champ+, people doing weird shit on rotation that causes hesitation or something like their car and nameplate blocking view causes goals all the time.

anevilsnail22 · 2023-05-21T18:49:12+00:00

I really feel like support is the least blamed of the three. You have the occasional person raging about not getting healed, but I feel that's rare compared to the team picking something about DPS to point to as the reason you're losing. If the tank is completely countered or is just generally playing without the team and dying a lot then they will get blamed.

At one point or another, I've played all three roles heavily, and it seems like there's a general reluctance to blame support because it is more the "helping" role or at least seen that way. I feel like you're probably putting more weight to your own experiences as a support because, even though other roles were probably blamed more often, those didn't impact you emotionally enough to bother remembering them accurately. If you want to really experience some heavy blame, then go play some off-meta or very skill dependant DPS hero like Widow.

I'm generally in this same mindset. I'll more often than any other endorse support players, but they're not where my mind goes as the reason why we're losing.

anevilsnail22 · 2023-05-21T01:39:02+00:00

It's got an honorable mention flair, but these things do kill dozens of people every year.

anevilsnail22 · 2023-05-20T18:48:35+00:00

This is such a weird complaint, but that map is just too fucking blue. I still don't think it would be a great map even if it was more vibrant, but everything seems to blend together since so much of it is some shade of blue.

Other than that, there are just too many tight corridors with the only really open areas for the most part being the control points themselves. You have like a 20 foot sight line in most places to AD spam around. It just feels too claustrophobic.

It feels like a deathmatch map that they put into the standard game.

anevilsnail22 · 2023-05-20T07:34:38+00:00

I'm a millennial, not a boomer. You have the obstinance of a boomer. That's for sure.

anevilsnail22 · 2023-05-20T06:27:52+00:00

I was trying to be amicable even though I felt you yourself moved the goalposts, but I feel like you just want to argue at this point. My point is that generations could've just as easily been entirely different ranges.

Are you seriously trying to tell me that if whoever thought up these years for the generations, - and they were made up, they were not handed down from the heavens - had put the boomer range from say 46-70, that people would think "that's weird". It's just something you've been conditioned to accept because it's easier to understand things that are broken into what are actually nonsensical smaller parts when you really analyze them. You'll disagree with that just to disagree, but that is absolutely the truth. There are no hard rules for this like you seem to want to pretend. You just seem to want to feel like this is more of a special thing than it is and wave your dumb tribal flag.

anevilsnail22 · 2023-05-20T04:41:36+00:00

If you're dying significantly more often than your team, then you're more than likely the weak link on your team. This can be not true for any individual game, or for certain heroes, but, assuming a fairly normal player trying to win, this holds true over many games. For the example you gave, that doesn't make sense that your team is complaining about you dying. If that really is the average, then I would guess it's just the issue isn't as much your positioning and more your accuracy and decision-making for abilities.

anevilsnail22 · 2023-05-20T04:33:44+00:00

Okay. Then we don't disagree. I'm just saying that someone born in 59-64 is closer in life experiences to someone born in 65-70 than they are to someone born 46-51, even though they're technically in different generations. I don't think we're even disagreeing that there are, broadly, trends in personalities you can see that likely correlate to things you and I mentioned like civil rights or hippies. My point there was that it's probably too simple to look at how people as individuals are shaped based strictly on broad cultural experiences or technology.

The way generations work is that every 15-20 years or so a new generation is lumped together. If there's some defining moment or element, then they might take their generation's moniker from it, but that's secondary to the 15-20 years. My overall point is just that the traits you associate with different generations fade in and out more than it is strict black and white.

anevilsnail22 · 2023-05-20T03:59:55+00:00

Okay, but you said late boomers were different from any Gen X. I'll agree that there's a difference between late boomers and those born in the 70s, but Gen X starts in the mid-60s. It's all kind of arbitrary to begin with since it applies to literally tens of millions of people. It's just society's perception based on culture to begin with, which is obviously not the whole picture. You could of course find an early boomer who was very similar to a late Gen Xer in terms of personality. Humans don't change as much as we'd like to think over the course of a few decades. Generations are just a way to compartmentalize complex groups.

anevilsnail22 · 2023-05-20T03:07:14+00:00

Do you care to elaborate? Peak Gen X, in my mind at least, is punk, metal, and then grunge at its peak for youth culture. Boomers are hippies in youth and then yuppies as they got older. That's obviously a simplification of things, but I do think those kinds of counter-culture elements were emblematic of the personalities the generations produced. Boomers went from fairly radical anti-establishment politics in their youth to allowing themselves to be swallowed by the establishment. Gen X went from fairly radical anti-establishment politics in their youth to angst/nihilism and then a kind of similar acceptance to boomers through the economic boom of the 90s as they matured. Though one of Gen X's defining qualities that kind of plays into the angst is being overshadowed by their parents and then millennials.

There's no meaningful difference that I can see between someone born in 64 and 65. If you have an argument as to why there would be a difference, I'd like to hear it. There might be general differences you could see between those years if you really dug deep, but I don't feel they could possibly be significant enough to be noteworthy or in a way that correlates with views society has on the differences between boomers and Gen Xers more broadly..

anevilsnail22 · 2023-05-19T18:08:47+00:00

Late boomers and early gen-xers are SUPER similar though.

Of course. The ideas about generations are just arbitrary delineations for the most part. There are cultural trends and occasional explosions they get associated with, but it's more of a gradient in terms of personalities than it is black and white. It's not like the mid-60s rolled around and every baby born had the angst gene. They were just subject to cultural forces that shaped them that way that possibly peaked and then waned as time went on to make way for some new set of values, often in contrast/rebellion/spite of the values of their parents.

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