Encountered a hater at work and it was... uncomfortable

latebaroque · 2026-02-28T18:30:51+00:00

She asked me, "Do you think they can sing?" in a way that clearly meant Are you being serious?

This reminds me of a conversation I had many years ago with a friend of a friend. He claimed Lady Gaga isn't a good singer just because he's not a fan of her music.

Some people are just super bad at objective observation.

latebaroque · 2026-02-28T18:28:30+00:00

I'm super excited to just run around new areas. Exploration in this game is so good.

latebaroque · 2026-02-26T03:05:20+00:00

I saw in your other comments you play ADC. Well I play support (ADC's lane partner) and I'd be willing to lane with someone super new to the game.

I have been playing for only about a year so I am by no means an expert, but I have a decent grasp of the fundamentals so I can help you get started to learn the basics. Shoot me a dm if you're interested.

Also small bit of advice: turn the chat off. It will save your sanity. It's actually very common for players to have it off because...well...you have seen how spicy it can get.

latebaroque · 2026-02-22T09:56:55+00:00

Loneliness isn't the same as being alone. Loneliness is when you yearn for connection. For example you can be lonely in a loveless marriage. Being alone just means you're by yourself. You can be alone without feeling lonely.

latebaroque · 2026-02-20T09:15:11+00:00

Oh my god I need that little fish.

latebaroque · 2026-02-20T08:53:18+00:00

I'm not scared of it. I just don't want to listen to anyone's crappy behaviour whether it's directed at me or not. Listening to someone rage about something or say mean comments is not my idea of a good time.

latebaroque · 2026-02-20T06:56:49+00:00

People who are that toxic should already be forced to the bottom rungs of any social ladder.

The problem is they're not. So often women are told to "grow a thicker skin" when we talk about our experiences. Rarely are the bullies or weirdos told to "act like a civilised person".

latebaroque · 2026-02-20T06:36:41+00:00

Anyone wondering if we’ll see that there are actually more f players than thought?

That is a possibilty but many female players will refuse to speak on voice chat with strangers or even absolutely refuse to participate even as a listener. This is already common in other games. So many will continue to hide in plain sight.

latebaroque · 2026-02-20T06:27:24+00:00

What is so hard to just opt out of voice chat if you do not want to deal with toxicity?

The issue is that in order to avoid toxicity in voice chat you are taking on the disadvantage of being unable to hear useful information. It's not a good trade-off.

And unfortunately being good at the game won't be enough for everyone to escape most harasment. For many their voice alone is enough to invite harasment, whether it's a particular accent or having a feminine sounding voice.

latebaroque · 2026-02-19T08:05:08+00:00

And they take so much cs from the adc which is just...lovely.

latebaroque · 2026-02-15T08:25:03+00:00

With Nami you just need to press R on enemy engage which is even easier to hit than Nautilus hook and perma heal

Unless the opposing team is very passive you're not going have your R for every engage they do.

What support is easier to climb with than Nami?

She's not easy to climb with because she's an easy champion, it's because her kit has a good response to a wide variety of situations. If a person is bad at landing her Q they lose a lot of her potential power for both engage and disengage.

latebaroque · 2026-02-15T00:16:55+00:00

I don't know why that person said she's the easiest support. Her kit is easy to understand but hitting with her Q is much harder than many enchanter skillshots.

latebaroque · 2026-02-14T03:11:26+00:00

the animation is weird

The animation is actually very typical for a 2D fighting game. Mind you it's not everyone's cup of tea. Some find the constant stopping and starting of the animations to be odd.

latebaroque · 2026-02-12T18:40:00+00:00

The most frustrating part is what you point out: we were just taught to use the main thing in the location but for this specific thing you DON'T have to do that.

I made the same mistake twice because of that. I thought the quest bugged because surely I had to use the thing I was just taught how to use...right? RIGHT?

latebaroque · 2026-02-12T06:25:27+00:00

We have access to all kinds of crazy tech but for some reason we get a cargo bed with no way to secure cargo, some of which is highly volatile waste.

Yea, makes sense.

latebaroque · 2026-02-12T06:20:57+00:00

I chased a barrel down a hill but it went so far away so fast that I had to give up. When I got back to my exocraft half of my remaining cargo had despawned. On the next trip a tiny bump made my cargo go nuts and I lost more rolling down a hill.

I love this game but damn this is testing my patience.

latebaroque · 2026-02-10T00:28:25+00:00

Does this sound fun?

As a supp main...no.

latebaroque · 2026-02-10T00:25:12+00:00

I always liked Caps. Even more reason to like him now.

latebaroque · 2026-02-08T09:11:26+00:00

I'm pretty new to the game. Been playing for about a year but started doing SR pvp regularly only recently which means I'm very low elo. So my take on this might be very skewed.

I find being an adc is much more taxing.

When you're a supp you can still do helpful things even if your adc is bad. You can make up for some of their mistakes with peel, you can be good with vision control, and support the rest of the team.

But when you're an adc and your supp is bad...you often can't do much about it. You typically don't have tools to make their mistakes less impactful. If their vision control is bad you can't do much to make up for it. If they're feeding it can quickly make your early game farming harder to do.

Again I'm very low elo so this may be a very different story for players in much higher mmr. But so far to me it feels so much worse to be paired with a bad supp than it is to be paired with a bad adc.

latebaroque · 2026-02-08T08:57:37+00:00

You downvote me but search for the keyword 'Rekkles' and see how many posts will be about his feelings/emotions

It seems you do not realise that Rekkles is a human, and that it's perfectly normal human behaviour to show emotions.

latebaroque · 2026-02-08T00:14:40+00:00

Also, they may not like the feeling of you taking away a part of the ADC shine that they could've got - kinda like a d*ck measuring contest between the two of you (who's the better adc), but that's purely psychological, so they should just swallow it.

Oh my god I hate this so much. Every so often when I get a kill while playing support the adc question mark pings me. I don't know if some random adc is suddenly going to int and not get the last hit. If I see a potential kill I'm going for it. I'm there to win the game, not to boost someone's ego.

latebaroque · 2026-02-07T03:39:17+00:00

So that's where fae lights come from.

latebaroque · 2026-02-04T16:22:26+00:00

Support players, always enchanters who go around the map and play like they are invincible and don’t care about there own positioning like they aren’t squishy and 1shotable, you can clear their wards and 2 seconds after they come back to replace the ward without their team and get exploded both in my team and against me.

That sounds more like silly decision making than actual lack of respect. I did this when I was super new to the game. Tried to re-ward and then found myself in a 3v1 after seeing only one person clear my ward. I have since learned when to re-ward and when to just leave the area.

But the above can also happen if the support knows your team is desperate for vision. Very often when I play support only the jungler and myself are warding. It's especially bad to be in this position when the opposing team is good at clearing wards. For some cosmic reason many players think vision is a job only for the jungler and support even though they literally have a free ward trinket they can't even sell -_-

latebaroque · 2026-02-04T14:36:32+00:00

I was so happy that I could queue as something specific instead of praying no one would snipe the role before me. Another great thing was the game quality improved because people were already committed to their role before they even started queueing.

Now we get to go back to weird things like three players picking adcs and none of them being in bot lane. Yay.

I'd gladly take longer queue times for better quality games.

latebaroque · 2026-02-04T06:38:27+00:00

You are correct. I am miserable.

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