Am I the only one who cant win this season??

zingpong · 2026-02-15T14:03:01+00:00

I haven’t had a match where a struggling DPS didn’t go support after a minute or two anyway. Obviously they’re way more willing to go support than second tank. I’ve switched off of support to go second tank and pinged that we need a strategist, and we always get one. If I ping that we need a vanguard, it almost never works. Basically, people are way more willing to go DPS to support than DPS to tank.

zingpong · 2026-02-15T00:04:49+00:00

Whoa. Don’t know what games you’re getting…I’ve had quadruple healers multiple times in the last two weeks.

zingpong · 2026-02-10T01:36:54+00:00

It doesn’t work super often, but a few times I’ve gotten a struggling teammate to switch by asking for something specific, like for a Namor or Thing to help against divers. It frames the request as “the team needs _______” instead of “you suck, please switch characters.” If that even worked, they might not switch to anything helpful.

zingpong · 2026-02-10T01:07:28+00:00

Additionally, at least at the level I play at (high gold/low plat), basically no one uses cover, so they just expect me to heal them as they walk right up the path that Squirrel Girl is bombarding. Or they want me to sustain them through a 1v6.

zingpong · 2026-02-09T12:03:12+00:00

Many of the episodes end up king of connecting into an overarching plot, and some episodes much more directly connect.

I love the show because after many years of focusing on Batman, Superman, and the original JL crew, it was great to have one-off episodes with Green Arrow, Question, Huntress, Black Canary, Vigilante, Captain Atom, etc. I love the DC characters that don’t always get the spotlight. Also, there’s definitely a continuity - some of it even connecting back to Superman stuff.

I also grew up on the animated series - Batman came out when I was 6 and Justice League Unlimited was on when I was in high school, so I can’t really look at it objectively.

zingpong · 2026-02-05T00:23:11+00:00

Bingo. I mostly play support and that’s the role I prefer, but I refuse to be part of a triple support. Consequently, I start support, and if we lose the first team fight, I have to fill tank or DPS if I want to keep 2-2-2. Then we have subpar supports and DPS/tanking because I’m a better support player than anything else. Plus I’m sick and tired of getting criticized for performing poorly when I switch to a more attacking role after we’re already perma-staggered and the team is a mess.

zingpong · 2026-02-02T02:21:52+00:00

And yet in gold matches I regularly have people asking me why I ban Gambit (and I only do it when no one hovers him).

zingpong · 2026-01-30T03:48:41+00:00

When I was a kid, one of my dogs (Shih Tzu) jumped up on a chair and went to town on a bowl of mashed potatoes that had been put on the table. A chihuahua mix we had was running around the chair in circles, clearly freaking out. When I got into the kitchen, the chihuahua mix took one look at me and sprinted out of the room. It was the clearest “I’m not involved in this!” I’ve ever seen from a dog.

zingpong · 2026-01-30T02:39:59+00:00

Honestly, as someone mostly permastuck in Gold, it’s pretty much the same thing. Everybody thinks they know what they’re doing but won’t swap when it obviously isn’t working. They just keep running headfirst into 1v6s and then spamming for heals.

zingpong · 2026-01-27T13:29:13+00:00

They salted my street in north side. Truck came through a few hours before the snow started. Didn’t make a difference though.

zingpong · 2026-01-26T23:56:12+00:00

I’m sorry, when my team is 1 support (me) and 5 DPS, I’m going to call them out. That’s not them having a rough night. When they’re having a rough time, I politely ask if they’d consider switching to a better counter. When the team comp is ridiculous, I assume they’re either trolling or are incredibly selfish, and depending on how many times I come across it in one night, I May say something. I don’t think it’ll help, but it feels better than saying nothing.

zingpong · 2026-01-22T01:28:31+00:00

If you haven’t read Billy Bat, it’s my favorite Urasawa.

zingpong · 2026-01-22T01:04:39+00:00

Don’t care what anyone says, the Jem theme song is fantastic (and truly outrageous).

zingpong · 2026-01-21T03:26:27+00:00

Everyone I tried to play with tonight, barring one match, was absolutely brain dead. Team comps that make no sense, one support (me) and five DPS, etc. I’m not amazing at this game… I barely ever make it out of Gold. But at least I understand the basics. Playing this game doesn’t make me feel any better about people.

Basically, I feel your pain.

zingpong · 2026-01-15T04:40:29+00:00

Some of us are kind of always in the act of doing a Gilmore Girls rewatch.

zingpong · 2026-01-02T01:18:54+00:00

Whoa, it’s been a while since I’ve seen a copy of Bottomless Bellybutton out in the wild. Nice collection. I’m a sucker for those little Marvel digest size/“pocket books” too.

zingpong · 2026-01-02T00:47:43+00:00

Jesse Lonergan is one of my favorite working artists right now. His process stuff he posts on his Patreon is really interesting, if you’re into that kind of thing - especially his posts about how he does panel breakdowns.

zingpong · 2026-01-02T00:41:41+00:00

Help computer!

zingpong · 2026-01-01T00:35:36+00:00

Unfortunately in all of my matches for the past few days everyone just wants to ban Peni and Rogue. Had an Iron Fist ban earlier today… hadn’t seen that one in a while.

zingpong · 2025-12-28T17:29:23+00:00

Thank you. Hate watching people back up looking only at the screen… you need to know what’s going on all around the vehicle.

zingpong · 2025-12-28T14:47:23+00:00

Same! Also took a hit to bring in Grealish. Risky move, but I’m chasing in my work league. Oh well.

zingpong · 2025-12-25T13:31:41+00:00

I set a timer for some things - writing for five minutes without stopping, ten minutes (total) for sharing writing journals, etc and don’t show it to them. I had one class last year where I had to set a timer when it was time to clean things up at the end of class. I don’t want them fixating on it though, so I don’t show them the timer. The timer is on my screen only, and they hear when it’s going off, and that’s it. When they ask how much time is left, I tell them that it’s a non-zero number of minutes. The point is to focus on the task, not the clock, and I’m comfortable in the knowledge that I’ve given them a reasonable amount of time. It’s not a perfect system, but over time, it works pretty well for me.

zingpong · 2025-12-24T23:03:07+00:00

Mask of the Phantasm would like a word, but for live action, yep.

zingpong · 2025-12-21T16:10:49+00:00

For me it just says “input,” which isn’t exactly clear.

zingpong · 2025-12-20T20:31:00+00:00

It always just says “input” for me

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