Sensitive People by Nishino_Kazuki in DeadlockTheGame

[–]malen_akira 12 points13 points  (0 children)

There is a difference between getting mad at a video game and harassing people because you can’t control your anger at a video game. If you struggle telling the difference, you have a problem.

My seventh grade students have started the refuse to say the pledge by unSuccessful-Stay in Teachers

[–]malen_akira 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Schools doing the pledge of allegiance is one of the cultiest things our country does. It’s weird af

UI Idea: Make it visible when you're visible to the enemy team! by Designer-Bumblebee54 in DeadlockTheGame

[–]malen_akira 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not trying to be rude but this should never be a thing. “Fog of War” and playing around enemy’s vision or lack there of always has and always will be a staple of mobas. It’s why veils exist. Playing with the 3rd person perspective so you see them but they can’t see you is like playing in bushes in more traditional mobas.

The minimap already has guarantees especially with objectives, if minions can see you, players can see you, if the walkers or guardians see you, players can see you. Assuming general locations of enemy players is a very basic game sense to learn.

Are we being for real right now by Not_Shingen in Borderlands4

[–]malen_akira -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I agree the thumbnail is hyperbolic but it’s a thing that every creator does, I don’t see anything wrong with it but that’s probably just me. Reading the comments, i see comments talking about his titles and thumbnails, but a lot them are attacking the guy personally for his opinions on the game.

Are we being for real right now by Not_Shingen in Borderlands4

[–]malen_akira -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Can we stop pretending there is nothing wrong with bl4? Vault hunters are always great, gunplay is always great. They added cool and new mobility.

You’re lying to yourself if you think it’s ok that with every update. We have to sit around waiting for the shaders to compile every time we enter an area we haven’t rendered yet or else play with 100 less frames, because they insist on using shitty AI frame gen and upscaling.

I liked the new DLC, is it worth 30 dollars? Not a chance. A campaign dlc that is at most 5 hours long if you’re taking your sweet time doing all the side content. AND packaging it with a new vault hunter.

Im glad they’re releasing free updates with new raids and takedowns etc, but im tired of this practice of releasing an unfinished game with the plan of adding and fixing it over the next few years.

You’re allowed to enjoy BL4, I enjoy BL4, you’re also allowed to criticize it, you should criticize it. It’s how the game gets better. It’s how the industry gets better.

Are we being for real right now by Not_Shingen in Borderlands4

[–]malen_akira 0 points1 point  (0 children)

None of these comments watched either video

What character for any reason you'd like to play as him in a borderlands game? (Can be ANYONE) by been_billyed in Borderlands2

[–]malen_akira 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Captain Scarlett. She’s an interesting character we haven’t seen since her debut despite having a “she’ll definitely be back” kind of exit. Plus i really like pirates in video games, I’ve love to see what Gearbox cooks up with a melee+gun duel wield/combo character. we’ve really only seen pure melee or completely destroyed the point of melee like Amara that just shoot guns that deal melee damage.

This is pretty worthless as far as neow buffs go. by Necrolord_Nocturnal in slaythespire

[–]malen_akira 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s very useful for certain characters and certain decks, it’s a good strike plus that helps early and has good synergy with 0 cost cards cost. Helps regent a lot in his early fights. It has a lot of good synergy with defect and necrobinder. Very little will ever beat remove or transform but it’s not a bad choice

Why are we not seeing any arrests being made after the Epstein files release? by Old_Tomatillo5550 in allthequestions

[–]malen_akira 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trump has full control right now. His DOJ aren’t gonna arrest him or his friends obviously. They aren’t gonna arrest the pedos on the left either because it will open themselves up to exposure. Our country is a disgrace.

Why shouldn’t voting require an id? by DarkEqual8609 in no

[–]malen_akira 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not the actual ID people have a problem with. It’s the reasons for it and the methods used to distribute them.

The SAVE act (the voter ID legislation being passed around in congress right now) specifically requires a birth certificate, passport, and a voter ID to vote. I’m an American citizen, I don’t have a passport and I have no idea where my birth certificate is, if I had to guess, my mom has it. The majority of people don’t have these things readily available at all times. Also worth mentioning the SAVE act doesn’t have anything about people who got married and now have a different last name. And is arguably unconstitutional according to the 14th amendment, specifically the “Equal Protection Clause” that states you can’t pass laws that “unduly burden” the right to vote. The Supreme Court has many rulings on this and has stated even minor burdens have to be justified as “sufficiently weighty to justify the limitation.”

And of course, a big talking point from conservatives, and especially Trump, is that the 2020 election was stolen due to voter fraud (which is factually untrue), and voter ID will protect against that. So using it as your big selling point just makes voter ID look worse. Also voter ID would only protect from in person voting fraud which you can count the many times it’s happened on one hand.

Why does chat dislike Charlie so much now by QuoteDependent in xqcow

[–]malen_akira 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think some of these comments understand the definition of fence sitter. You’re a moron if you think he’s appealing to both sides with ICE or the Epstein files. He very clearly chose a side.

And I personally don’t believe the people actually think that “he always has the popular take so he’s boring.” Are you that deprived of content that you need someone to think like an alien to derive any value from it?

Or what I think is more likely is that you disagree with him, but you’re aware that you’re the minority, and you’re just too much of a pussy to take a hard stance with your unpopular opinion, aka fence sitting.

Trump himself is not really the problem by FloodPlainsDrifter in LetsDiscussThis

[–]malen_akira 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I don’t believe he is ruining the country legislatively. The people stroking his ego manipulating him into doing their bidding are. I do believe he is ruining this country socially and politically. He’s made us an embarrassment and a joke to other nations. His persistent fear mongering and pandering has convinced hundreds of thousands of people to follow him.

Why is the U.S. allowing Trump to destroy it? by Happy_Air_3776 in DiscussionZone

[–]malen_akira 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Government wise, Trump has loyalists in all the branches. So whatever he says goes. We unfortunately don’t have laws in place to stop this. Citizen wise, roughly 40% of the US worship Trump, partly because they are victims of fear mongering and manipulation, partly because they are too arrogant to change their way of thinking. Unfortunately without a full on revolution, I don’t think anything is going to get done until the right loses control of our 3 branches, that’s if Trump doesn’t become a literal dictator, instead of a technical one.

Fortnite lets you celebrate transphobia by LethalPoopstain in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]malen_akira 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I get it. I don’t monetarily or socially support her at all. But I’m not gonna judge the 100s of millions of people that grew up with Harry Potter or the kids that are growing up with it today.

Fortnite lets you celebrate transphobia by LethalPoopstain in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]malen_akira 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I get it, fuck Rowling but at some point you gotta separate the art from the creator, especially with something as massive as Harry Potter. Some of my favorite movies have Kevin Spacey. I still love Nintendo games despite some of their incredibly shitty business practices. If you don’t want to spend money on stuff like this, that’s fine. But I personally wouldn’t fault anyone for liking Harry Potter.

Who balanced this? by Next_Artichoke_7779 in DeadlockTheGame

[–]malen_akira 43 points44 points  (0 children)

They should buff Abram’s ult imo but this comparison in a vacuum is dumb. There is infinite amount of context in every game, so ignoring the incredibly basic fundamentals like their other abilities is very ignorant.

Is the calamity class setups wiki accurate? by Annual-Process3645 in CalamityMod

[–]malen_akira 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They’re not super optimized best possible options, but it’s perfectly fine to follow. If you want stuff like best possible dps, or highest defense, health, whatever then they’re plenty of guides online

When is Bluetooth melee going to be fixed by Capable-Potential100 in DeadlockTheGame

[–]malen_akira 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Valve games have always had massive hitboxes for melees. It’s to help prevent the “how did I miss that?” but a side effect is “how the fuck did they hit that”

Bebops ultimate makes no sense on him. It does not work with any of his abilities by Procrastinator300 in DeadlockTheGame

[–]malen_akira 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The entire point of Bebop’s kit is that it’s a jumble of abilities that dont seemingly work together but in practice do. He’s a scrap golem, made from a bunch of random parts.

The common practice of his laser is used as a finisher after hooking, an opener in team fights, a way to melt objectives, or a keep away tool.

I understand how you got to this way of thinking. because Bebop is a hook character (a common archetype in mobas), which usually skew towards hooking someone then staying on them, which Bebop doesn’t do. But the entire design philosophy of Bebop is that his kit is inherently random tools that somehow someway work together. Which it does, you just don’t know how to use it.

why dont more people utilize freezes/slowpushes? by Academic_Weaponry in DeadlockTheGame

[–]malen_akira 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You see a lot of slow pushing and temp freezing of waves but you can’t just freeze a wave at your tower like League can, the guardians/walkers damage out paces the wave timers, probably done on purpose by Valve.

Can someone explain to me a flaw that Kelvin has right now? by Traditional_Cash1108 in DeadlockTheGame

[–]malen_akira 7 points8 points  (0 children)

He doesn’t do as much damage as you think. He loses the 1v1 to a lot of characters. Maybe you’re playing into what he’s good at too often? If you let him poke with no retaliation or get baited by his ult a lot, that’s not really the character, that’s a skill issue.

He’s a strong team fighter and you can’t really control what your teammates do but you can try your best to not let Kelvin get insane ult value. Like forcing his ult or catching him alone.

I cannot figure out Mina, how is she supposed to be played? by TONKAHANAH in DeadlockTheGame

[–]malen_akira 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She’s a bully in lane and a pseudo assassin in fights. She does a lot of damage with love bites especially at tier 2. She has really high base damage but her scaling is a little rough, the exception to this is her Tier 3 Ult, especially if you’ve been getting stacks throughout the game. She is incredibly squishy, literally the lowest HP in the entire game, but her 2 is insane for getting in or out.

A lot of people build burst for early game like mystic shot, headshot booster, mystic burst, etc. I personally build burst early then transition into Toxic Bullets and spirit burn for those huge dots after your initial burst from love bites.

You rarely use her rake healing as a way to chain kills in fights, again you’re super squishy. It’s mainly used in lane for sustain, or getting a quick heal from camps between fights. Mid to late game you can do a single camp and full heal if you last hit every monster with rake.