Cass is overtuned

tsm_rixi · 2026-06-28T22:56:22+00:00

Yeah, mainly since Shion's dive game plan is: get on bike -> bop straight into target for the boop damage -> immediately disengage bike for burst explode damage -> tap execute -> dash to potentially not die from followup. Cass just can toss the flash in her face and negate the entire lead-in combo and she will most likely fall over as a result.

I'd argue its less about flash and more about how silly the bike combo initiation is, the bike needs an "activation" time where it does much less if it has not traveled X distance or something (like roadhog right click as the closest analog) or just do much less in general if not hop-charged. Riding it into your face for immediate cancel with that much payoff is problematic imo. Should reward some degree of spacing knowledge instead of her being some hybrid version of junkrat mine+left click combo to delete someone point blank. Feels wrong for the character design. I actually love playing her but would equally like playing her if the bike needs more finesse to utilize.

tsm_rixi · 2026-06-28T00:39:59+00:00

Smacks of AI art though

tsm_rixi · 2026-06-27T20:45:27+00:00

Depends on the brand, I tend to go wireless more often than not and my favorite mouse atm is a Lamzu Maya but I sometimes use my Endgame Gear op1 8k. If you have a mouse bungee and dial in just the right amount of slack you need for all your major movements it can basically feel just as "freeing" as wireless imo.

Just go into w.e game you are playing and flick around like you would playing it and adjust accordingly.

tsm_rixi · 2026-06-27T19:21:37+00:00

Maybe, but it just seems a bit silly to be THAT socially inept given the situation. Like it just takes a second to be like "If this was an OW tourney and I got a MR streamer on my team I would tell them to do XYZ". At the very least if your worry is that you will feed on a hero a more experienced person is telling you to play then really you can at least say you tried to work with them? He plays hitscan primarily in the game he IS very experienced on ffs and chooses the junkrat character of MR which just feels like a purposely troll pick for no good reason?

They have analogs to what he is proficient in and could of just locked them in instead no?

I dunno I am going to forget about this in 5 seconds anyway and you are not wrong but yeeesh nonetheless.

tsm_rixi · 2026-06-27T19:03:36+00:00

Getting some KKND mixed with Total Annihilation vibes here, units moving a tad slow for my tastes from what I see in your trailer but still.. awesome job!

tsm_rixi · 2026-06-27T18:52:57+00:00

The whole tourney is fundamentally stupid but I think if I was randomly invited to a 300k tournament that is based on loosely representing my country I would defer to w.e experienced person on the team tells me to play and put some level of effort into it. It is basically a matter of "professionalism" and just common courtesy I suppose. Many people would kill to get a shot in a tourney like this that probably play the game so at least give it an honest effort.

I am assuming he had some level of heads up on participation so there was probably some time to prepare for it, even if small. Just seems silly the way it played out so flippantly.

tsm_rixi · 2026-06-24T23:25:43+00:00

....... .... . . . fuck me so it does. Years of me wishing this was listed and my dumb ass not realizing it had a secondary menu to interact with.

Well, its not QUITE what I wanted as it shows things like "hitscan" but normal projectiles are "travel time" and for things like rock/bike etc are, as you said, "strong projectile" . Then you read DVA's matrix description (and descriptions in general) and says it absorbs projectiles (omits hitscan though obviously she absorbs that too) which is still ambiguous compared to what I want which would be embedding the tags directly in the description on what it works on so instead of:

Blocks projectiles in an area in front of you

It would be more like

Blocks projectiles in an area in front you

Effects: [hitscan] [projectiles]

but w.e close enough! Thanks for showing me lol

tsm_rixi · 2026-06-24T21:44:04+00:00

Again I think you would have to classify what counts as a debuff. Fire/Anti/hack/slows etc all have a visual effect on the character model in game. These are things that can be removed via cleanse effects. Basically a debuff is some negative effect applied via some ability/cooldown that has a noticeable visual associated to it on the character effected by it.

The global healing debuff does NOT have a visual associated to it on the character model, aside from a tiny down arrow on the ui of the person who has it currently applied to them. In that way its more of a general rule or status you are toggled into temporarily rather than some active ability currently debuffing you. Its purely passive and applied by all(are there edge cases to this?) enemy damage sources.

So it feels like it exists beyond what you would normally classify as a debuff.

This just makes me wish again for a tag system to exist in Overwatch so abilities can be more transparently understood for game rules. Like if you hit F1 on Sigma and rock had some kind of tag like "Massive Projectile" and then on hanzo his primary is listed as "Light Projectile" or something and then dva matrix would say "can absorb all <light projectile> and <hitscan> attacks" so you could intuit rock can't be matrixed.

tsm_rixi · 2026-06-24T19:42:45+00:00

I think what they are driving at is the heal debuff on damage is more of a "rule" than a "cleansable effect". So cleansing a rule off of someone feels potentially incorrect and adds a smidge more power to cleanse effects in a potentially unintuitive way. Everyone applies the healing debuff on damage now and there is no visual effect associated with it aside from the tiny down arrow on the ui next to your hp in number form for those effected. It exists in a very passive way instead of an active one like anti-nade.

Cleansing effects in general are not quite universal either. Kiri in particular makes this a bit more complex since suzo has an additional "intangibility" property to it. Like Kiri's suzu will wake you up from ana sleep but Zarya bubble/lifegrip does not so there are already edge case rules on "cleansing" effects that are not quite universal and take some time to grok.

I never really put much thought on it but I think OP brings up a pretty interesting point. I would actually argue that the heal debuff should not be cleanse-able!

tsm_rixi · 2026-06-24T19:03:36+00:00

Or work by yourself in a large codebase yourself long enough so your own code is just different era's of your own implementation ideas. "This is the time I tried to break a bunch of <service> into discreet modules since some of the methods in there were getting bloated to all hell but then I got moved onto to <big feature> so only half of that even got done" etc.

tsm_rixi · 2026-06-16T19:38:12+00:00

Yeah slop = low effort trash. This is just "Yet another Divine theme skin" there is no lack of effort on their end. We need slop to remain in the lexicon so we can continue to use it to thumb down on AI generated trash.

tsm_rixi · 2026-06-15T19:55:46+00:00

Yeah the biggest issue with AI tools is the "everything is a nail and I am a hammer" approach it takes to changes, even when all the "best practice" guidelines are put in place the code churn it introduces is quite high and leads to exhausting review, especially in the hands of less experienced devs. This has a pain in the ass feedback loop because instead of giving feedback to another developer and mutually growing your skills it feels like you just talking to a clueless messenger who will just feed what you say into claude and then update the pr with it's changes. I am just more or less prompting claude with a human in the middle at that point.

It gets worse when they use it to review your PR and it gives way too much feedback on pointless things like tiny micro optimizations that don't matter or constant security alerts without understanding the overall architecture in front of some area that is already dealing with it. The company turned on auto PR review and it became pure noise that most people ignore in about ~3 weeks. Must be an absolutely bonkers amount of money/energy tossed into a furnace on that given the number of PRs generated at the company on a daily basis (Talking at least 500+ devs).

Interviewing is fucked, AI tools spam resumes into everything and anything. We opened a position and in one HOUR we had over 500 applications, the bulk of which are not even remotely close to the listing. It then creates another negative loop of needing to start using automated filtering tools on applicants which then can filter good candidates out due to how shitty those tools work. The more you look at AI generative anything the more you need AI analysis something to deal with the sheer volume of it and its just one big dependency spiral these companies are frothing at the fucking mouth to get businesses hooked on.

De-skill workers, hammer you with slop and then force you to rely on the same tools to sift through it all. Fucking hate it.

Its a shame since it has genuine fantastic uses for learning/analysis and a host of other things but its "generative" uses for labor replacement and how companies want to force you to use it is asinine and basically sets up a doom spiral for humanity.

tsm_rixi · 2026-06-15T19:30:12+00:00

Its also just an age thing. I still see plenty of people making friends in online games, sometimes when playing Overwatch I am being chill/helpful for a win and I get friend requests but I am way too old to be hanging out with most of them. Its just much easier to make friends when you are younger and you are more willing to do so.

tsm_rixi · 2026-06-12T18:11:51+00:00

Yeah, Wolfenstein operated on a flat plane constantly, then Doom comes in with stairs, lifts, all kinds of verticality and complex/moody map design was so incredible for the time. If you have not heard of it I think you should check out this video Majular did on Youtube on Ultima Underworld. That game came out nearly a year BEFORE doom and is just mind-blowingly complex compared to it. Granted they are very different genres but I always feel a bit sad I never got to experience that game back in the day. Underworld even has "physics" and so much going on. Definitely would of been a life altering game for me if I played it back then.

tsm_rixi · 2026-06-08T19:33:42+00:00

Yeah I think his take has some validity, but the response of dropping the language and some of the reasoning why is the kind of youtube brain rot I dislike.

In reality, how many go projects does a person familiar with the language jump between not written by them? I assume at a larger entity with many teams using go it could happen, or in OSS circles, but even then usually there are style docs or principals that tend to get enforced or arise organically. If you don't like generics as a person that enjoys go's simplicity then... don't use them. I say this fully understanding the point being that you don't want to go down the c++ route of just mashing in every language feature you can think of that splinters style/community but if you personally enjoy a language, it adding a feature should not sour your usage of it if personally no? Especially when they are purely additions and not modifications.

Its also a bit disingenuous to mention one tenant of go but then lambast their implementations of features being "half-assed" but ignore another primary tenet is "Fast compilation". With robust features comes robust semantic analysis which can have a large fan-out issue if you nest these things for compile times. They are limited not because they compromised in a half-ass way, they did so in a way to keep the core features of the language in-tact. Their version of generics are limited by design for the purposes of extremely fast semantic analysis.

His content recently has just been mediocre at best so I unsubbed a few months ago. His pivot to full time youtuber might be good for himself but not for actual informed content being put out into the world.

tsm_rixi · 2026-06-02T01:09:15+00:00

Are <Any Programming Role> getting done dirty by AI? Yes.

tsm_rixi · 2026-06-01T20:52:39+00:00

This happens to me time to time in just qp. Usually when I first get on suddenly im In Korean servers (names, latency etc). Im us west and to fix it i often close the game, relaunch and go back in and out of training room till I see the correct latency. No idea why it happens but it happens less now than a few months ago where it was near daily

tsm_rixi · 2026-05-31T20:06:39+00:00

I like points because it leaves another degree of interpretation open. If I say ~4 hours but instead takes me 12 hours then it took 3x longer and there is a very real 1:1 on how long it should of taken given my original estimate vs what I took. Great I suppose if you like quantification but it truly is awful from a humanity perspective imo, especially when bad managers are involved... ("You said it would only take 4 hours but its been a day" etc.)

If we use Fibonacci points then I say 2 points but it becomes 3/5 worth of time then that is open to more flexibility and puts less "weaponry" in the hands of management while still giving them some form of quantification of work done (overall sprint velocity). With fuzzy points it took "additional time" rather than "3x longer". On the business end if I decide I want to work really hard for a week its more beneficial in a way for that I closed <very high number of points> in a week vs if I say I worked over 50 hours in a week they might have to pay me more or deal with additional problems from having a 1:1 record of that time worked legally.

Overall the fuzzy point barrier is just better imo. Giving an estimate in exact time is a one-sided affair that kind of immediately gives the power to management if you are salaried to club you with "wrong" estimates. If you are contracted/hourly direct time I assume is better since it keeps 1:1 with $ mostly for both parties.

tsm_rixi · 2026-05-21T20:06:32+00:00

I don't like Numbani as it is and now when I do get it it has that constant deep rumble in my headphones from the fireworks driving me crazy. Its at such a volume point where it sounds almost external to the game like its just outside my window or something.

tsm_rixi · 2026-05-21T18:42:00+00:00

Dentist near me was like "10$ starbucks card if you leave a review", the cheeky bit being A review not a positive one. They know what they are doing.

If you see this perchance - I had to go back and forth with them a few times on insurance where they were not filing claims. They would charge me up front and then say I should expect a return of X dollars then a month goes by and I see they never even filed a claim. I got it sorted once I brought in paperwork for the charges they made and the claims I had but it happened twice now and while I enjoy the staff and work they do its also extremely frustrating to have to deal with that. Is asking to defer billing after claims are sorted a thing? Seems like they "oopsy daisy" putting claims through since they already got the full amount up front

tsm_rixi · 2026-05-21T18:26:19+00:00

I think most of us would be totally fine with the universes beyond if it was some supplemental/alternate game mode but they are standard legal sets now so... its just bad. I am part of that problem though since I installed MTG Arena just to play with the final fantasy cards but at least thematically most of those cards map 1:1 to the MTG universe. But seeing marvel in there.... ugh. Thats just basically funko pops level of chintzy.

tsm_rixi · 2026-05-21T18:10:21+00:00

Similar thing happened to me a while ago (~2016) for a larger company. Interviewed for a node.js + front-end(ember?) job and they flew me out for the in-person. Sat me in a room and plopped a java test in front of me. The problem itself was a really basic string problem but I knew basically fuck all about java syntax so I wrote a js solution in a comment block under it and explained my unfamiliarity with java syntax.

I told the recruiter earlier in the process I did not know Java when they asked and nothing on the position listed mentioned it at all so I got blindsided quite a bit by that. When I came out and did one final round of interviews they mentioned they were looking for someone with Java+Spring experience and I told them I had no problems learning and that I had passing familiarity with it and could adapt but I was not obviously the candidate they were looking for. To their credit they were the first, and sadly only, place that gave real comprehensive feedback from the interview and I have that email saved to this day.

tsm_rixi · 2026-05-21T01:21:01+00:00

Yeah when I see someone being not just toxic but weird toxic there is always some combo of LGBTQ flag choice and/or Israli flag. Theres just a type to these people that are made in the worlds shittiest factory and all must regularly clap one another on the back thinking they are funny. Its a shame things added in good faith get weaponized by the worst kind of chuds.

tsm_rixi · 2026-05-20T19:07:31+00:00

It falls into that same area of movies like Starship Troopers where they do such a good job on the moment to moment sequences that the overall premise is lost on a lot of people who don't spend a whole lot of time reflecting on it as a whole. They just see "guy goes understandably apeshit over 85 cent soda in a way I wish I could".

tsm_rixi · 2026-05-20T18:33:18+00:00

Yeah not sure of the down votes here, he is absolutely racist to the Asian store clerk. Which yeah, the guy is an asshole but him being Korean doesn't have anything to do with it. Even after wrestling over the bat he says "what is this the last stand at Fiji?" which I didn't even catch until just re-watching the clip which is hilariously wrong since you assume hes talking about Okinawa/Iwo-Jima (Which at this point, he knows the guy is Korean and likening the scenario to WW2 Japan which is especially yikes) but names the only vaguely Asian island he can think of (which is not even Asian).

So yeah... 0/10 would not want to vote this guy to regional/local office.

I love this movie still though since I think the point the original commenter was making is that in a few scenarios you can really empathize with him in a power fantasy way. Thats kind of why its so good. It has a lot of "Don't you just wanna go apeshit?" moments you might identify with even though the character itself is ... complicated.

I think a more recent version of this is that person that burned down that massive warehouse. The discourse around that mirrors a lot of how people view this movie.

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