It would appear the Padres got fleeced here. Woof.

This guy needs to be out of the league for a while. Wow. 

I know some folks in Denver who don’t have great things to say about the guy. He’s not an awesome person off the field from what I understand.

Disappointing to hear as a Huskies fan. 

My wife and I have been playing every day but we also rarely see other people playing. It doesn’t feature the same incentives to group up that Pokemon GO did because there aren’t any raids that require 7 or people to take down a legendary. And the fortress rewards aren’t enough of a draw to get people to do them…

Not that it’s fully clicked yet, but I started to feel much more in control as I was going through Shadowland in the Hand mission. I don’t dodge or block nearly enough and I still have trouble reliably pulling off a synergy attack (I rarely hit the queue to pull one off using A as I seem to almost always miss it) but…

This really bums me out. Sports thrive when they embrace innovation and this feels like trying to ban the shift in baseball.

Small quibble, but Machado is on the road at the moment. Padres played the Marlins last night so this likely came from his hotel room after a frustrating loss. 

I disagree about the need to enact deep changes. As I pointed out in another reply, the patch changes this season only nerfed GOATS on the margins — this was not the introduction of Brig to kill dive. I would argue that having the same state of play for a while encouraged teams to invest in innovating because they…

But Blizzard didn’t need to fix anything, the teams just needed the courage to try something other than GOATS. If you look at the patch changes this season, they have been exceedingly minor switches, certainly not enough to neuter GOATS outright. And yet, a team running triple DPS just mowed through the playoffs (and…

Just like my regular sports, I prefer that teams have the freedom to innovate rather than having all deviation codified out of the game. It’s like trying to ban the shift in baseball. There are counters to the shift but teams don’t use them. Why should teams that are innovative and try things out of the box have to…

Agree 100% This reminds me so much of the handwringing about Dive, but GOATS got more attention because they weren’t flashy or sexy heroes. The level of hate directed at Brig continues to amuse me, especially given how bad I am with her in my own matches.

The Stage Three playoffs are some of the best OWL I've ever seen. I loved that there was simply no dominant meta and the variety of unique styles and strats. I think this stage showed the meta is just fine and why any sort of 2-2-2 comp lock is problematic. 

As someone who works in PR, this whole thing makes me cringe. The company is either admitting they’re way out of their depth by providing artists (who apparently don’t work on the core game mechanics) for an interview without any media training/someone to babysit them OR they’re lying. Either outcome is a terrible…

I’m firmly in the camp of not putting restrictions on comps aside from no repeated characters. I’m a huge London fan and should probably welcome this change but I enjoy the innovative approaches we’ve seen this year.

It’s frankly appalling how bad the Padres are getting snubbed. One or both of Renfroe or Reyes absolutely deserve to be in the derby (they each have 24). Tatis Jr. has some of the best numbers of any NL SS and he’s not even getting in despite being one of the most exciting players around (guy scored from third on a…

Professional writer as well and I agree completely. If a significant portion of the audience doesn’t understand your intent as a writer, that’s on you for failing to communicate effectively. It’s the same sad defense movie directors use when their projects bomb (see Kinberg, Simon on Dark Phoenix).

It just honestly sounds like hell. If that's what backward compatibility means, maybe it's not worth it?

This sounds miserable. 

I have a really hard time with this because it is so exceedingly rare, as countless people have pointed out. We have a very real problem as a society in that we freak our over things at the margins while ignoring what happens in the middle of the distribution.