hugthebed2

On 8/25/2024 at 4:35 PM, hugthebed2 said:

this game is powerful 

 

a bit of the charm has died with it going fully public though...

 

No longer will I be able to recognize 80% of the people I fight against in the top MMR brackets.

I basically quit the game for many months for a multitude of reasons (burnout, friends stopped, and I was afraid of running into certain players in matchmaking) but got back into it in the last couple months. I find it crazy seeing my dumb rank in-game (they assigned ranks to everyone in their matchmaker) that I'm better than 98% of players based on someones estimated rank distributions . Absolutely crazy because I often feel so much worse compared to the players in the best lobbies (depending on conditions).

Seriously, is it because of my unique gaming skillset of TF2, CS (kinda), and Smite that I can just demolish people in lower lobbies if I play my mains? I never grind ranked in video games literally ever but dang I must be pretty good...

I ought to make some music playlists on my phone for different occasions. 

Playlist of songs I can play with mom in car.

Playlist for friends.

Playlist for self.

I was cursed to have such a narrow music taste growing up, and I'm too afraid to share what I like with others.

my fuwamoco tshirt is pretty fire tbh

Wild

2 hours ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

I've seen like five different places in the last week use the term "crash out" to mean something like "have a meltdown."

 

This isn't really me bitching about new slang, since it's going to do what it's going to do.  It's more just befuddlement that I've never seen this term before and now it seems to be fairly common, at least online.  Literally like it sprang into existence fully formed on Monday.

 

After a more extensive search, I still couldn't find anyone using it before November of last year.  But if it is that new there should be some obvious origin from it rather than people just using it out of nowhere like they were programmed to do so....

 

...it's a TikTok thing, isn't it?

When I first started hearing it during the Deadlock Playtest in December, I assumed it was some Deadlock-specific term. I was pretty disappointed when I learned it was just some flavor of the quarter phrase.

Unfortunately because Payload Race has no cart retreating I feel like rollback points are the only way to have defendable areas that can't be conquered with chipping away at the cart progress.

Hightower's tower is just way too long though. It's funny that nothing makes people defend more than someone trying to cap on hightower.

Despite Thundermountain having occasional interesting gameplay, the incredibly long setup times and gigantic sniper problem and need for advanced mobility to get anywhere finally killed it for me.

Also Upward last is definitely rough but I really think its biggest issue is that snipers are hard to see with all the shadows. Also it's way too easy for red to Über in and destroy blue's base.

Worst points to push in (some) payload maps (trying to avoid the bias towards last)

Badwater: 3rd (takes way too long to walk there and at least you can theoretically avoid the awful sniper sightline on second by going through the tunnel [no one does])

Upward: 2nd (there's no good route to deal with battlements snipers without running into the pocketed pub stomper, also sick of seeing my teammates die to kunai drop stabs at the cave entrance)

Barnblitz: Last is the culmination of shit so I really can't pick anything else. Takes forever to get there, red spies should repeatedly sap blu teles, left stairs entrance is death to spam, main is death to sniper, and locker room is unviable without a medic. Get past them? Too bad: 3 wranglers at varying heights so its impossible to take them all out without insane coordination.

Snowycoast: 2nd is just slightly more bad than last but last is rough too. The map is kinda carried by aesthetic. Most classes feel good but spy gets so shafted with a lack of decent unspammed flanks.

Frontier: 2nd is the worst. Blu's short respawn times on this map just make me want to run sticky jumper only to avoid sniper stuff. Fuck those solid railings on the 2nd point that block bullets/projectiles.

Borneo: Pretty balanced map, you can usually tell if you'll lose by the 1st cap though. 2nd is the worst but not by much.

Phoenix: Another mostly balanced map of "annoyance" but probably last. The roofs being walkable really incentivizes soldier but everyone on both teams has to compete with a singular medium health kit often. The Dragon's fury bug where it cant deal damage around the entire elevator lift is a major nuisance as it ruins the ability to use it into the sentries/snipers with thermal thruster. Shoutout to backburner thruster on defense being actually overpowered on last since there's no good sentry or heavy spots for blu to deny you.

Pier: 2nd's mandatory long loop is so boring and I'm so sick of blu having good momentum through 1st but no one pushes the cart and the momentum dies after a bit leading to a loss. 

Swiftwater: 2nd is so flowcharty it's insane (snipers in a myriad of untouchable spots, scouts and soldiers holding the upper flank). I really ought to gunspy on that point more to deal with snipers. Side note but I hate that 3rd has such a long trek through no mans land and no one uses the far right flank since it's an even further walk. I guess that makes 3rd suck too but once you're there it has enough entrances to be interesting.

Odyssey: Surprisingly the only map where 1st is the worst. Feels like 65% of holds are on first. I have no idea what my team is doing on blu when playing this map that prevents us from destroying their nests.

2 hours ago, Huff said:

nice

 

howd you like it?

 

I liked it a lot, I ended up playing it while my sister and two friends watched (one who played it on the DS years ago). Perhaps I chose the wrong pomeranian to be my profile picture on this website when I first joined. I'm usually pretty bad about giving long gushing reviews for games (partly why I struggle so often to participate in the GOTY threads, my very few amount of new games played each year not withstanding) but I can at least talk about the highlights. The remastered soundtrack is absolutely fantastic, and the character designs/sprites are full of life and humor. We played it over the course of 4 different play sessions and discussed theories and the game at large between each, which was fun for sure. One of my favorite things about the game was 

I leave it off with a random fan art. Overall a fun game, makes you wish it was longer. I can sum it all up with something my sister said: "If I had played this game when I was a kid, it definitely would've been a formative experience for me".

https://x.com/cherriecore/status/1855293493650010356/photo/1

https://x.com/GOOMYLOID/status/1858633025799811223

On 1/7/2025 at 2:24 PM, Gyokuyoutama said:

In Ghost Trick the character you play as is actually

 

  Reveal hidden contents

a ghost

 

You joke but I didn't actually click this anyway. I actually got spoiled for Valkyria Chronicles by this same "joke spoiler" for a character because I knew something was up with said character.

In the end what they said was 

On 2/8/2023 at 8:00 PM, Huff said:

play ghost trick

done

My strict avoidance toward media spoilers is all fine and dandy, but when it's really agonizing is when I want to listen to a game's OST that I haven't completed yet. If you google "game name" you'll get "game name final boss is this guy theme" or death themes etc.

Currently wanting to listen to Ghost Trick's music after the last session, but looking up literally anything regarding it would be a bad idea. I've previously lamented not being able to look up FFXIV tracks on youtube because I don't want to be recommended spoiler tracks either.

I somehow lucked out and dodged a Persona 5 spoiler when looking up music for it which I'm thankful for. I'm a bit more lax with anime and whatnot, but I'm well aware I could find spoilers when looking at fanart (doesn't really happen).

I will always find it funny that I bought the Carpe Fulgr Collection on steam for Reccettear but I never ended up playing it. I've definitely said it before here, but I (not necessarily by choice) played through the other two games in the collection twice each.

Maybe it's finally my time

I find it very funny they basically admitted "okay we're not gonna try and explain the guy between the two ripped photos" with that joke with soldier at the end.

3 hours ago, Moby said:

 

my tf2 server also did this (and got a legendary reaction from a NON-KNOWER)

My dad has usually always tried to fix stuff himself. I do the same for stuff I'm responsible for or using often, but I haven't lived alone yet to verify if I'd actually be a good handyman.

Turk

I keep getting requests for a single-time access code for my microsoft account and there's no way to disable the emails or that feature from happening.

Awesome system. It's rather unlikely they hit the 1 in 1 million chance to log in, but still it's a bit worrying.

As someone with very small Gundam knowledge, I always find it funny seeing people say Char Aznable's name.

Today's new anime girl link monster is "Hikarinaki Kage A=Bao A Qu"

1 hour ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

In other news, Valve finally admitted that they are making that game that was leaked a while back:

 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1422450/Deadlock/

 

I know that there's been a lot of reporting on this before (though nobody talking about it here) but I think this is the first time that Valve has officially confirmed both the game's existence and that they plan to release it (i.e. it's not just one of their experiments that ends up going nowhere.)

 

As far as I can tell it's supposed to be a MOBA in FPS mode with UT2k4 movement mechanics and Overwatch-style Hero shooter aesthetics and character branding?  That seems either incredibly ambitious or the laziest take you could make, depending on whether the game design or the marketing came first.

 

Right now all I can say is that in the private Beta gameplay available nothing has great readability, from the character models to the UI, so I can't tell what the hell is going on.  But that's also one of the easier things to fix in Beta, so who knows.

On 6/1/2024 at 4:45 AM, hugthebed2 said:

deadlock is ruining my social time with non-deadlockers

this game is powerful 

a bit of the charm has died with it going fully public though...

No longer will I be able to recognize 80% of the people I fight against in the top MMR brackets.

A few weeks ago I was healing someone named "Bogus" on a server. And as I Übered them I said "Release the Bogus!" in reference to Super Macho Man from Super Punch Out on the Wii (a game I have only seen, not played).

After the Ûber they said "wow I've had my name as this for almost a year and you're the first person to get what I was referencing". Someone else chimed in saying they liked Super Macho Man.

I may not be a punch out fan, but I am glad I could make someone's day.

11 hours ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

What I have learned about Russians from getting slav tube recommendations:

 

-They like HOMM3 even more than I had thought they did.

-That pig video is apparently a huge meme but I still don't know anything about the context despite seeing like 30 variations of it.

-They apparently really like The Helpful Fox Senko-san.  Nearly all the Senko AI covers I have seen have been in Russian and even the ones in English have Russian video descriptions.

-Speaking of Senko covers, this song let me know that the tendency to ignore all safety regulations when around a drive shaft apparently extends beyond national boundaries:

 

 

For me it was PTOs on tractors and not part of some factory machine, but the idea is the same.

This made me go back to those "Senko's Lab" .webms that got shared a lot years ago. The youtube upload for them has the default community closed captions as russian. Funny

deadlock is ruining my social time with non-deadlockers

Usually part of the Catharsis of beating a video game is being able to look up its OST spoiler-free and also not in Incognito so as to not poison my recommended youtube videos with spoilers.

However I'm disappointed I still can't do so for Final Fantasy 14 despite clearing Endwalker! Because I just know if I have FFXIV art in my twitter/youtube recommendations, there will be Dawntrail (new expansion coming soon) spoilers on day/week/month 1.

"Oh you liked listening to this FFXIV song two months ago? Here's the Dawntrail final boss theme with name and everything..."

At least I could download Shadowbringers' OST. Need all

Took like 7 years but finally completed Persona 5 with friends.

First play session stopped from COVID, later bought PC port. That one took forever cuz the person controlling it is insanely good at getting distracted. Regardless, gud gaem.

girl choice: