I don’t know about that, but I will say I started playing a less around the time of role locks (when 2/2/2 became law) and then even less once role queues became a thing. It just seems the Overwatch team’s solution to gameplay and balancing problems is to make the game more bland to fit one specific vision (that still…

To me it sounded game-wide. Kind of how they said they were thinking of reworking the “Tank” role to be a more damage-dealing, middle-of-the-fray “Bruiser” role.

I’m a bit worried about passives and further blurring the Tank role. My favorite thing about Overwatch when I played it back in the day was the laser-focus on how each hero catered to a specific fantasy and playstyle. (Blizzard in general is VERY good at this. Just see how they’ve translated characters over to Heroes…

Oh wow I hope they add a Scorpion or Sub-Zero skin!

That and the Salmon Run is an apocalyptic plague of biblical proportion in the Splatoon lore.

Fitting match. Netflix has trouble making third seasons too.

High quality. Like how you can get choice cuts of meat at a butcher’s. Then it got coopted into surfer slang, I think? Anyways, it’s a fun word to use if “great”, “cool”, and “rad” aren’t spicy enough for you.

That just reminds me that the Japanese voice actors in Apex are EXTREMELY choice. Like, they take Loba’s feme fatale thing and crank it up to “Arigato, baby” levels of anime. It’s great.

A few months back there was a story about how a bunch of scalpers were getting robbed. The scalpers would post the console online, a buyer would request to pay and pick it up in person, and then they’d rob the scalper when they arrived.

If I remember correctly, Maya got dusted on accident when she took Troy hostage and he ended up touching her arm and leeching her power. Like, Maya was fighting back but ended up getting killed anyways. I don’t think the implication is that Maya gave up and died because she knew her powers would go on, she just died…

Yeah, I’ve said it before and I’ll probably say it again at some point, but I think most of the story problems from BL3's main campaign comes from a lack of focus. They’re trying to cram in so much -different planets, old characters, new character, lore, memes, etc- They take some wild stabs at themes of family and…

TBH Maya was gonna get fridged in that scene whether Ava was there or not. And that sucks. But I think everyone was so upset that their beloved siren wifu died that they shifted all the blame to the annoying new character that was there to “replace” her.

I agree Ava was bad in the base campaign, but I feel a lot of that hate is overblown. I’m fine with giving her a shot at a redemption arc.

They also just launched Season 8 today! I haven’t been able to play, but the new character looks like a lot of fun.

To be fair, my Prime subscription (that I still pay for) used to give me an ad-free experience for a service that didn’t have incredibly obstructive mid-stream ads a few months ago. I didn’t really start looking for workaround for the ads (and other annoying “features” that could crash my stream/browser) until they…

One of the reasons I stopped watching Twitch streams was because of the incessant ad breaks that got through my ad blocker. They really are unbearable. The final straw was having an ad come on so I missed the last few seconds of the last round of the last game of an Apex tournament. I was so angry I haven’t used them…

As someone who was blissfully unaware of the stock market or any of this madness before last week, does it really matter at this point?

I’m not even saying that. I’m saying you’re still going to lose every once in a while even if by all accounts you are the better player or should win. You can git gud all you want, but it’ll still happen, comeback mechanics or no. You just gotta learn to take the loss.

I don’t play fighters, but I do play competitive games and the best advice I can give you is to get over it. There are plenty of times where you “should” win but end up choking. Maybe other person employed a “cheap” strat that you just didn’t have the skill to beat, or maybe they just got lucky. That’s just how it…

I’m kind of a pinball of emotions when it comes to this story (laughing at all the memes, angry about how broken the system is, etc) but right now I’m feeling incredible schadenfreude at how whiny and scared these rich idiots are.