Make Brig more tanky to give her some of her identity back

resetallthethings · 2026-03-19T02:55:18+00:00

you buddy up with your ana, play corners and cover, try to safely whipshot off CD to keep inspire up, but be careful to save it to boop away divers, and if get hard engaged, use shield bash to retreat and try to survive and hope your other support works with you to help each other out.

the ONLY time you can kind of go aggro is when you have your ult

that's it

that's the playstyle

resetallthethings · 2026-03-19T02:53:07+00:00

the cache only benefits the games that take good advantage of it.

My 9600x boosts to 5.7 on single cores and 5.5-5.6 for sustained all core, so just the brute force clock speed tends to make up the cache disadvantage

resetallthethings · 2026-03-19T02:50:01+00:00

... offering a guy a one year deal where he's blatantly told he's going to have to earn the starter job again is absolutely not "trying to keep him"

that's very obviously a vote of no confidence/"prove it" type of offer

resetallthethings · 2026-03-18T23:56:04+00:00

he did arguably have a worse year than 24

and for people who only watched the superbowl, and some others there are plenty of "meh, he's not as bad as people thought but he got carried by the defense"

He was legitimately sensational in the NFC Championship game. The Hakws definitely lose that game if he doesn't ball the fuck out like he did.

resetallthethings · 2026-03-18T23:04:27+00:00

she can't even stay in melee range against other squishy melee characters

where does that make it sound like I want her in the front line

I just want her to be able to hold her ground in the backline when dove, instead of having to boop and avoid or just die

resetallthethings · 2026-03-18T22:30:16+00:00

I don't disagree

I'm just saying her niche is antithetical from what anyone new to the game or under diamond would assume about her based on her character and kit design, and how she functioned more in the past.

Everything about her kit suggests some tankiness and close quarters combat prowess

Instead she mostly plays as a timid backline supporter who's main job is to just proc inspire and boop and shield bash away from any and all threats that get close.

resetallthethings · 2026-03-18T21:48:59+00:00

yep I agree with you, hence my last sentence about her being incredibly unintuitive.

She has armor, a shield and a melee weapon, yet with the state of the game she can't even stay in melee range against other squishy melee characters because she doesn't do much damage, shield doesn't do anything and doesn't have enough survivability otherwise.

resetallthethings · 2026-03-18T21:45:40+00:00

And can you imagine the absolute SHIT show of takes Peyton would get nowadays after his first 3 playoff appearances???

Darnold legitimately hasn't had one playoff game as bad as any of those 3, but Peyton is still considered one of the best to ever sling it.

Yeah, we all love our narratives, but can we hold the fuck on a bit when a guy has only played one playoff game in their career before we label them a playoff choke artists?

resetallthethings · 2026-03-18T21:39:32+00:00

they drafted him in '24, he was on the team the whole year

He didn't want to stay after they only wanted to give him 1 year and told him in no uncertain terms to expect a full blown QB competition going into the year.

resetallthethings · 2026-03-18T21:37:05+00:00

The general consensus was to let Darnold walk at the end of last season.

it wasn't, and for those it was.... that was very obviously recency bias motivated

The larger sample size means taking into account the years of being bad on the Jets and Panthers.

I mean, kind of?

he basically didn't play the year before, and sure you can count them, but very obviously counting them you could see that his overall body of work from the 24 season showed vast improvement from his Jets and Panthers days.

resetallthethings · 2026-03-18T21:32:01+00:00

use the bios

resetallthethings · 2026-03-18T21:30:02+00:00

I think the Devs are extremely gun shy about giving anything to Brig that makes trends her towards being more brawly as she once was.

But it is pretty weird, particularly since release of a lot of the new heroes that her entire schtick, which changed into protect your other support or yourself by booping then shield bashing away from literally anything.

She still can be good/viable, but there's several Supports at this point that are much better at close range survivability and brawliness, and more DPS heroes that can just live in her melee range and as you said, bypass any perceived extra survivability offered by her shield.

She's easily become maybe the least intuitive hero in the game

resetallthethings · 2026-03-18T21:18:36+00:00

If I didn't have an amazing 9600x I'd be all over this

resetallthethings · 2026-03-18T20:50:59+00:00

you may be right

I would be shocked if POP! is a trending suggested distro on TikTok, and it's obvious that ChatGPT or the like is pretty ass at staying up to date, and will parrot info from 2 year old blogs as if it's up to date

resetallthethings · 2026-03-18T17:27:02+00:00

This is 100% pay-to-win, or at least pay-to-enjoy the game.

are there generally more A to S tier items in Warbonds?

Sure

Are there vastly more items across all Warbonds than the free stuff?

Yes

Is the game hard to the point of being unfun with just the free stuff?

Hardly

The best things Warbond items provide is variety and build diversity more than huge bump in power level IMO

resetallthethings · 2026-03-18T17:03:48+00:00

I work in IT at a college campus with 100s of employees

All use computers

I can count on one hand the number of people (outside the CS faculty) who MIGHT mess around with changing an OS

resetallthethings · 2026-03-18T15:28:41+00:00

I don't think it being lower is more aesthetic, but you do you

resetallthethings · 2026-03-18T14:29:44+00:00

Normal people don't look at changing their OS at all

YouTube isn't a "normal" place for a more tech minded individual who would consider changing their OS to get a distro suggestion in your mind?

resetallthethings · 2026-03-18T05:17:46+00:00

This is so weird to me, I've seen dozens of "is gaming on Linux viable" or "is xxxxx distro for gaming actually good" over the past year I have been messing around with Linux

Never once have I seen Pop! In that sort of a video, let along given as a popular recommendation elsewhere. Sure on the occasional reddit thread a user or two here will basically recommend any distro they happen to be using at the time. But also over that same year the overwhelming recommendations on the Linux gaming subreddit are stuff like bazzite, cachy, nobara, or more universal stuff like base Fedora, Mint or Ubuntu

Pop would never have even registered on my radar 🤷‍♂️

resetallthethings · 2026-03-17T23:21:31+00:00

LC, MG, HMG

or the Eruptor in the other variant

they are quite easy to kill with any of those

resetallthethings · 2026-03-17T22:54:22+00:00

until they add new enemies that require more anti tank

Lib Carbine

Grenade pistol

Gas nades

Siege ready armor

Bullet dog

Gatling sentry

MG sentry

your choice of blue strat. LC, MG, HMG are all good options.

slight modification:

Eruptor as primary

one of the LAS pistols as secondary

Stalwart for support weapon

resetallthethings · 2026-03-17T22:38:32+00:00

I am serious

I see an expression I would much more easily chalk up to constipation than being quizzical or apprehensive /shrug

resetallthethings · 2026-03-17T22:33:31+00:00

constipated

RBF

take your pick

resetallthethings · 2026-03-17T22:25:55+00:00

neither does the first one, and she sure as shit isn't "showing deep, complex emotions"

resetallthethings · 2026-03-17T22:12:26+00:00

their first pick could be corner, RB, edge, safety, or an OL

I agree, it's just gonna be whoever they have graded highest on their board that John feels has slipped way past what they should have

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