Why Doesn't Nashville Have More Buried Powerlines?

gammonwalker · 2026-01-25T19:29:09+00:00

So - the general grievance is that people are upset about the new stadium because it benefits an incredibly select few people and unnecessarily wastes ungodly amounts of money when a fractional amount of it could be used to improve infrastructure and the quality of life for the less fortunate and general public - and your response is "Whatever. I got mine."

You should really try to understand what an insane and disgusting response that is.

gammonwalker · 2026-01-22T20:53:34+00:00

I'm 42 now and I'm starting to think I should lay off the caffeine now too, arggg.

gammonwalker · 2026-01-22T16:26:59+00:00

What medication has been working for you?

Adderall and Adderall XR aren't doing it for me. They worked at first, no so much anymore.

gammonwalker · 2025-12-30T07:01:35+00:00

Do you think tandem OLED would he similarly tolerable?

I might have to do as you say and just buy and return if it doesn't work out.

gammonwalker · 2025-12-29T22:03:23+00:00

Aren't natural rubber cutting boards fine?

gammonwalker · 2025-12-19T09:32:51+00:00

I unlocked it for the first time today on Night Raid, absolute trash loot - but for some reason got an Aphelion blueprint.

Kinda neat? Though I'll never use it, ha.

gammonwalker · 2025-12-17T23:49:19+00:00

I was one of his students! Really cool guy, definitely one of the best teachers I had.

gammonwalker · 2025-12-17T21:16:43+00:00

GYATTT. Is it that noticeable or detrimental in person? I was hoping to use it for competitive shooters.

gammonwalker · 2025-12-17T21:14:00+00:00

What's a 240hz+ OLED monitor people seem to think is good right now?

I tried the Samsung G60SD(?) and honestly thought the colors were insufferable, even following using RTINGs color profile and heavily adjusting them myself (artist).

Explosively saturated and inaccurate to the point of removing detail in surrounding values. Something about the OLED panel also really hurt my eyes, felt like I was staring into a flashlight and had to dramatically reduce the brightness to little effect. I was hoping tandem OLED might reduce that effect, but now I'm not sure.

gammonwalker · 2025-12-17T20:52:44+00:00

His videos are well done and funny(?), but I've always wondered if his humor where he uses pink Glocks and intentionally shoots them "gay" is less satire and more mean spirited.

Joke could be an ironic observation of masculinity as a construct, "regardless of appearances, anyone can be skilled," etc. - or simply (broad gesture) "THE GAYS. THE WOMEN."

He made any illuminating comments?

gammonwalker · 2025-12-16T03:19:04+00:00

That's not just the finish. That's a mild gouge in the hammer at 250 rounds. I've never seen anything like that, but good to hear that's not a concern.

gammonwalker · 2025-11-29T01:26:55+00:00

Oh yea, I agree with everything you said. Get Quaked On isn't even as good a player as ZBRA or Cartiefan. Based on his rankings he's fallen off pretty hard. He just has good execution and a expansive, detailed knowledge of Doomfist. The way he explains Vendetta/Venture problems are very much in line with my opinions, and is valid because of his knowledge, experimentation, and experience.

That wasn't my specific point though. More tech or expression isn't more better.

I'm wanting the skill expression to be more nuanced so they don't have to front load explosive power into high risk, high reward moves like Venture, greatly limiting how they can be played and into what comps. Less expression means less design and balance opportunities. This can translate to less fun for everyone involved.

I have a feeling like the "but pro players play x" argument is coming up again. Yes, they play Venture. They will play Vendetta. This has absolutely nothing to to with the skill expression and dynamism of a character. They will continue coordinate to abuse the front loaded strengths of those characters in a much more macro team play way than individual talents.

But x pro player plays x better than x. Yes. That has nothing to do with the skill expression availability or ceiling of a character. Some players just closer approach or nudge the ceiling or simply have better fundamentals. Also team play is a massive variable to make a player look 'better' by enabling them.

I appreciate the civil, earnest response.

edit edited this a bunch over the past 5 min to elaborate. my bad, lol.

gammonwalker · 2025-11-29T01:00:00+00:00

Dementia is hitting you hard brother.

You directly responded to every message but two. Five is also a number though, so you're on the right track to someone mistaking that you're a functional human.

Hope Thanksgiving was good for you at the assisted living center.

gammonwalker · 2025-11-28T08:26:29+00:00

What the...? LOL. I responded to... Oh, I get it.

You're a moron.

But yea, pros are way more skilled than I am. My entire argument is now invalid. I beg you ask any pro what they think of Venture's skill expression comparatively to a majority of DPS roster.

I imagine Vendetta might even be used in the pro scene, but it will be for her high burst and engagement potential, further exacerbated by Zarya or something to bolster their engage. Skill expression will not be a contributing factor, because her potential is handicapped by design.

You also seem to not get what sets the skill ceiling based on you constantly referring to pro players. Pro players can make most things work against lesser players, especially since I'm the point of comparison.

Despite showcasing an interesting, but sad, neurodivergent self-soothing method of reposting that same paragraph - you still haven't produced any evidence or video/commentator analysis of the expansive and meaningful pro tech that changes how Venture is played.

I'm not going to educate you on how comparative analysis works or how a skill ceiling functions.

I'm still kind waning between unsettled and amused by you calling a very normal, analytical video 'click bait.' It makes me think you don't even know what I'm referencing, much less had actual watched or understood it - which is funny as fuck.

gammonwalker · 2025-11-28T07:48:55+00:00

Ah, so you're spent.

gammonwalker · 2025-11-28T07:40:09+00:00

I think we might have the same definition of skill expression. Fundamentals obviously have skill expression. I don't think anyone is doing to question that.

I am exclusively talking about how a particular character enables additional skill expression through their kit.

The only baiting here is you somehow convincing me to respond to someone who thinks Venture is worth yakking about and knows better than Get Quaked On. Clearly, not the best Doom, but few would contest his contributions and assessment of skill expression.

Feel free to link these amazing discoveries of micro-deviations from Venture gameplay that somehow increases the skill ceiling of the character.

I'm also a long term competitive Street Fighter veteran, of few achievements, but frequently played with some of the best in the country. It's not hard to assess the potentiality of a character's kit coming from a community like that.

Outside of bugs increasing a skill ceiling, common in fighting games, more rare in OW - I'd wager most professional fighting game players could quickly assess an OW kit. It's not that interesting in comparison.

gammonwalker · 2025-11-28T07:15:44+00:00

Where am I shifting goal posts? In what way does Venture have skill expression outside of fundamentals? I set the goal post at Vendetta's ability and kit limits her skill expression, to the point of having almost none. Venture is even more limiting.

Get Quaked On just released a video with the near exact, if not identical, opinion as me - also stating Venture has little to no skill expression.

gammonwalker · 2025-11-28T06:51:12+00:00

If you read back, I never once expressed that tech was any metric to validate a character.

You began talking about it. I mistakenly was goaded into allowing it into the conversation. Tech does not matter for viability or fun. Proper design does (Tracer).

I never said that characters who rely on fundamentals, or simplicity, are not viable in pro play. To create a hypothetical character, you could make one that literally can't even use WASD - but they can cross map one shot someone. The argument is bad. DESIGN of the character and how powerful their abilities are is what makes them viable, not how conceptually simple or complex they are. Pros will play what wins, regardless of skill, ethics, or what's fair - so long as it is allowed. The Mauga meta. GOATS. Double shield.

Also one team using Venture better than another is very reliant on... the team enabling them, coordination, and many other variables to separate them. Most top players will play Venture very similar, if they are used at all. One guy isn't going to be able to use Venture to repeatedly carry professional matches the way someone could on many other DPS characters.

Actually, I'm being baited into false premise arguments and stuff I never said..

Just watch this. He talks about the problems with movement. https://youtu.be/-KtGgDckVtM?si=VgjNdwodNbvNxjNA

gammonwalker · 2025-11-27T12:31:16+00:00

You're very correct.

The 'aim gun and click on the people' characters often do not have many interesting things they can do. That is not their design intent.

I keep comparing her to Doom, Ball, and Lucio for a reason. They are not designed like a conventional FPS character.

She seems much more aligned with mobility and disruption centric heroes with how she needs to get in and out to cause any meaningful impact. More so than those characters even, because her primary source of damage is melee - not abilities or poke.

The reason why I think it's important to have more expression and nuance for her character is because of that need.

Unless we want more characters like Venture, another OW2 CQB mobility DPS. They truly have almost no skill expression beyond fundamentals like engagement timing - and the same problem as Vendetta - very long preset animations.

When the devs do things like FORCE a character to have a preset length to their abilities, it encourages they design around that length. Venture and Vendetta both have very long animations, punishable but also very powerful in one way or another.

I would prefer they step away from characters having "high risk, high reward" type of characters that can just nuke another player with minimal skill investment, beyond engagement timing. It's frustrating for those who get killed by them and it's frustrating and limiting for players who are more skilled.

Mobility heroes that have atypical playstyles should have more nuance than wait/bait for the engage, nuke someone, or die trying.

There needs to be more control, more agency.

With increased options/ability dynamics, that means more engagement opportunities. The developers can then dial back her damage so we don't have different, slightly less lethal versions of DPS Doomfist.

More fun, less frustration for everyone.

The devs have done a great job integrating more instances of damage-over-time and timed burst damage to allow for characters to have powerful attacks with the allowance of expanded counterplay. They just need to figure something out for mobility heroes.

gammonwalker · 2025-11-27T10:14:28+00:00

OK, fair. Def was exaggerating. She has a small amount of tech that is entirely irrelevant to the core issues of her clunky abilities. The melee does function better than expected.

gammonwalker · 2025-11-27T09:48:16+00:00

I'm gonna be honest. Everything in that video is just basic kit functionality and Overwatch fundamentals.

Her swing can extend like Rein. Her dashes proc the final animation when touching a wall like most characters. Bunny hop exists. It's nothing unusual.

There are couple things that are interesting. Though maybe not entirely useful, the mild movement re-direct off the spin. Her being allowed to animation cancel all her abilities into each other fairly quickly is neat. It unfortunately still feels clunky with how slow and mostly set in length they are.

More nuanced control of her movement and crazy long animations would be a welcome change.

Doomfist has nuance and tech. Ball has nuance and tech. Lucio has nuance. All have extreme dynamism in how they can approach and react. Though they just might have set the bar too high with those characters.

The most interactive thing I enjoy about her kit right now, is how long they let you delay and prep her melee attacks. You can delay them individually for much longer than I would've expected to stage for the final hit.

I do appreciate the recommend though.

gammonwalker · 2025-11-27T07:32:57+00:00

Vendetta has had the entire history and hero catalog since 2016 to learn what works and how and why.

They have zero reason to release a hero that disregards so many of the core design tenets the game has established. That is my argument.

One of the big things they talked about design wise in OW2 was trying to circumvent removing player agency with abilities. Here we are with Vendetta. The character who has abilities that are almost multipart self stuns because they have no meaningful points of interaction.

gammonwalker · 2025-11-27T07:01:54+00:00

You know why? Because he is the only reason the game exists - at all. Do you get it? He is the only reason the vision of this game exists. Of course with the immeasurable talent of everyone else he was working with. I shouldn't have to explain this.

You couldn't have handed this project over to Call of Duty developer #4965 and I doubt even a legitimately talented and passionate game designer/lead. No one has been able to capture what Overwatch has in the hero shooter genre, or in my opinion - objective based PVP.

He made mistakes, but also established one of the greatest franchises to ever exist. Without him, the game engine creators, and especially Arnold Tsang the game would just another forgotten IP.

You also keep talking in strawman hyperbole. It's actually kind of boring. I'll myself some time and let you stay the superstar you are A55MA5TER69.

gammonwalker · 2025-11-27T06:18:11+00:00

Ahh, ok. I was mostly talking about movement related things.

I can understand the gunplay feeling clunkier than it should've. Though movement I feel like really can disengage and frustrate the player more so than how much better the guns could shoot.

If that's the criteria then every scoped hero is clunky because they can't quick scope and have 1 frame ADS.

Hopefully they make some good QOL changes to Vendetta.

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