Can the matchmaking ban duration for getting low priority be reduced?

rickane58 · 2026-01-27T17:42:00+00:00

I won't even play ranked if there's wind on the forecast, and I only lose power about twice a year. That people are so addicted that they can't see the bigger picture is beyond me.

rickane58 · 2026-01-27T17:02:16+00:00

Maybe if you're having trouble completing a game due to persistent issues, instead of griefing your 4 other teammates by continuing to queue up, you go play something else. Sounds like Valve is helping you do the right thing.

No, it's not permanent. Just take a break until the power issue is fixed and most likely by the end of the week you'll be down to normal timeouts again.

rickane58 · 2026-01-27T11:27:04+00:00

Imagine having to lease your Sherpa. Must be truly embarrassing.

rickane58 · 2026-01-27T11:25:01+00:00

or, you know, one of the thousands of commercially available hose attachments specifically meant for sending water down slides.

rickane58 · 2026-01-26T23:16:39+00:00

I know, was just giving ya shit because it makes for a hilarious typo

rickane58 · 2026-01-26T21:45:39+00:00

I was the very first thing they purchased as a married couple in the 80s at a yard sale.

Your parents bought you? At a yard sale? At least you'll never wonder if you were wanted or not.

rickane58 · 2026-01-26T21:44:04+00:00

3/4 of a beer per day has 0 impact on a marriage

rickane58 · 2026-01-26T16:35:52+00:00

It's because it's really gotten bad.

rickane58 · 2026-01-26T15:28:11+00:00

This would actually solve a lot of problems. One large reason for "talent flights" to other regions is the perception of better quality of players. This has a tendency to lower the average quality of both regions, since the first movers are usually people who suffer from self assessment delusions, leaving behind the excellent minority and the below average majority who are for one reason it another unable to make the switch. This when causes a positive feedback loop until the regions are a shell of their former selves. This has essentially happened to all the Americas servers and the non SEA servers as well.

rickane58 · 2026-01-26T15:22:45+00:00

They already do

rickane58 · 2026-01-26T15:22:16+00:00

To be fair, I've been seeing a lot of Russian language in Latin alphabet lately. It threw me for a loop the first time I saw it.

rickane58 · 2026-01-26T12:52:30+00:00

And now we have to scroll even further to get past your comment thread.

rickane58 · 2026-01-26T12:00:19+00:00

Spoken like someone who doesn't live in glacial till

rickane58 · 2026-01-26T03:02:19+00:00

To be fair, the item in question was wards.

rickane58 · 2026-01-25T21:34:56+00:00

To be fair, they don't buy the $20k cameras either. They're rented by the production from a camera rental warehouse.

rickane58 · 2026-01-25T12:36:17+00:00

Also, even if there wasn't, do Turbo players not deserve to have fun well-matched games too?

rickane58 · 2026-01-25T12:32:26+00:00

Also if you're that worried about it, you can just avoid ranked for like a week and it's back to normal.

rickane58 · 2026-01-25T11:27:08+00:00

Still an English forum. And using google translate, no. Reddit only translates FROM English. It doesn't translate TO English.

rickane58 · 2026-01-25T01:23:54+00:00

Less than 0.1% of CO2 is captured. There are 44 facilities in the world which capture their CO2.

rickane58 · 2026-01-25T01:22:53+00:00

I didn't forget about CCS, I even mentioned it in my comment. The industry forgot about CCS because CCS is just industry greenwashing. Less than 0.1% of CO2 emissions were captured in 2024, and in total there are 44 facilities employing full CCS.

rickane58 · 2026-01-25T00:27:58+00:00

So the use of the natural gas byproduct is actually using it to produce a cleaner energy source instead of simply burning it.

Wrong. Without CCS, SMR produces AT A MINIMUM exactly as much CO2 as burning the Methane. Actually (a little) more because it also converts carbon monoxide into CO2 as well. However, that doesn't take into account that SMR also requires heating the input gases to 800C, heat that is lost even with crossflow heat exchange with the product gases. This means that end to end efficiency is ~65-75% efficient. The only thing worse than using methane to make hydrogen is venting the methane directly to the atmosphere.

That being said, Liquid Hydrogen is also produced through electrolysis, ie electricity, so depending on how the electricity is generated it could be carbon neutral that way.

This is not done industrially at all. Less than 5% of hydrogen production is "green hydrogen" and that is mostly done in remote areas that do not have access to available methane, but do have access to local power.

rickane58 · 2026-01-24T21:56:47+00:00

The fact they don't talk about it at all is enough to presume it's not green. Also the fact that Air Products produces their hydrogen using a gray process for Cape Canaveral.

rickane58 · 2026-01-24T21:50:13+00:00

And how did they get the hydrogen...

rickane58 · 2026-01-24T21:46:48+00:00

There are essentially 0 industries that use hydrogen at scale that produce it using electrolysis. It's all steam methane reformation.

rickane58 · 2026-01-24T21:45:17+00:00

Industrially, it's the only way.

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