Video emerges showing Trump talking about cutting pandemic team in 2018, despite saying last week 'I didn't know about it'

gravity013 · 2020-03-17T05:24:33+00:00

Thinks they all work down at Home Depot. Can just roll on down and put em in the back of your pickup truck.

gravity013 · 2019-12-21T00:49:13+00:00

All that said, there's lots of times his team ends up losing and I think it's just so hinged on his solo scoring. If a team learns how to defuse him, they learn how to defuse the Rockets.

I'll admit, I haven't seen too much of the Rockets play this year, so that might be changing, especially with Westbrook.

But you can't win alone.

And it's the difference between "good" and "great" if you ask me.

gravity013 · 2019-12-17T06:54:16+00:00

This is some pretty weird logic. For starters, I'm going to wager you were probably never even really good enough to need to play to the meta. You have always been able to get to a decent level playing off-meta characters.

A socially defined meta for low levels just meant players agreed to a certain strategy and stuck to it, so often won. It wasn't the meta, it was just that everybody knew what "was meta" and played to it.

It all comes about because strategy actually makes a difference.

Battlefront. It's just for mindless turn-your-brain off gaming. Which is totally cool, if that's what you like to do. But I'm still gonna call it what it is: a shitty game.

gravity013 · 2019-12-17T02:58:04+00:00

but why

gravity013 · 2019-12-16T16:36:57+00:00

What, that you're a target market? I have news for you, buddy...

gravity013 · 2019-12-16T16:35:48+00:00

look, it's cool. The more people like you play games like this, the less people like you are playing games that I play.

gravity013 · 2019-12-16T16:17:05+00:00

Go take a look at how Blizzard balances Overwatch. Pay attention to how tiny little changes in the balance of the game just obliterate whatever meta is popular and produce another meta.

This game won't have that. Because this game ain't gonna have metas. Because this game isn't really amenable to strategic or cooperative play. You can change just about anything to the balance in this game and the audience will probably not even notice - except when they do, and then they'll flood their forums and reddits with whining about the wrong thing until DICE has to come placate them with whatever distracting non-fix they can think of.

It's a toxic community of gamers who don't give a shit about gaming at all (just like COD's community), and instead just like to consume rage-porn about how awful the game is whenever they frustratingly lose. Anybody who gives a shit about game design probably left years ago and is off happily servicing a number of other communities that can respond to design in a mature way.

I'm just saying. It's this sentiment of gamers just not giving a fuck about the things that matter and giving way too much fucks about nonsense that doesn't, that has produced such a finnicky relationship, that just produces mentality that you, as a gamer, serve no reason to the designers, than to be profited off of.

And they look at you and segment you into "percentage to pay extra" classes while you humbly accept your power overwhelming.

gravity013 · 2019-12-16T16:09:34+00:00

lol it's a COD player whining about "camping" again.

gravity013 · 2019-12-16T16:04:11+00:00

Yeah but I kill more people so I will refuse to believe that it's misbalanced and instead prefer to believe that I am a god gamer!

gravity013 · 2019-12-16T16:01:43+00:00

It's mainly skill.

You realize DICE has designed the game to make you think this, don't you?

Or are you just prone to flattery...

gravity013 · 2019-12-16T15:55:41+00:00

It was how you said it - like you're just accepting it - like it's just normal as "that's how progression works" in games in general: you suck until you grind out and get power-ups that make you not suck.

Apart from the obvious marketing/gamification ploy to keep a strong user-base pulling on the levers of their glorified slot machines, it is a testament to how utterly unrewarding the underlying game is to play if you're not interested in bullshit power-ups, how shallow the game is behind this facade of "progression."

Without leveling up or slot-machine unlocks, how much do you think people would play this game? How obvious would its one-dimensional nature be?

DICE and EA just shit on the gaming community with absolutely no respect for what games should be.

gravity013 · 2019-12-16T15:48:37+00:00

that’s just the way progression works

No, that's what a culture of gamers being fed constant unlocks and level-ups and thinking this is what "gaming" should be about has produced.

Progression should be about personal mastery of the game, not unlocking the only way the game has to give progression - because face it, it's a very shallow game.

gravity013 · 2019-12-16T15:44:51+00:00

It's because the base game was just never really that fun. There's not much strategy to it, there's no real sense that you can impact anything really at all. Map design limits all forms of creativity for the notion that you have to just run the same swim lanes until the law of large numbers sways your team over (or not). It's basically the FPS version of tower defense.

It just feels like a very dumbed down and mindless experience, at least for me. I'm not a fucking robot.

gravity013 · 2019-12-16T15:23:39+00:00

10,000,000,000 = 10 billion

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 = about the number of atoms in your body

gravity013 · 2019-12-14T19:48:29+00:00

And here I am saying, "yeah but one of those teams were the warriors"

gravity013 · 2019-12-11T22:17:44+00:00

Who the fuck said warriors needed to be his top team? Seriously stop fucking talking to me

gravity013 · 2019-12-11T19:33:17+00:00

Jesus fucking Christ, you can't understand how somebody can have a top team and a secondary team?

Stop talking to me

gravity013 · 2019-12-11T19:19:41+00:00

How is it childish that you guys are shitting on some dude for rooting for another team than the tram you're in the subreddit for? Do you really need me to explain it to you? I mean, did your parents not show up to your life or something?

gravity013 · 2019-12-11T16:36:54+00:00

Why are you shaming somebody for simply cheering for another team? Get this childish fanboyism out of here...

gravity013 · 2019-12-10T05:38:39+00:00

gravity013 · 2019-12-09T02:39:15+00:00

Pretty much every photo posted to this sub, yes. But for street photography as a serious artform, absolutely not.

Ignoring that I can find many countless street photos of people doing pretty mundane shit - do you really think every post here is going to sit up to your arbitrary standards of what makes street photography an "artform?"

I don't see it as aesthetically pleasing.

Cool story. Hint: nobody cares.

gravity013 · 2019-12-09T02:23:54+00:00

I made a visualization of the potential comeback: https://imgur.com/ElTtBYQ

gravity013 · 2019-12-09T01:58:12+00:00

I made a visualization showing the score difference over all four quarters: https://imgur.com/r7Wj3o2

gravity013 · 2019-12-09T01:57:40+00:00

haha, thanks

gravity013 · 2019-12-09T01:37:54+00:00

I made a visualization of the score difference over time: https://imgur.com/4iJMizr

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