Already started. Revolt seems like it could be a near 1 to 1 replacement soon.
Sunsofold
joined 3 months ago
I didn't even know about it until I read this comment, but now I'm one of the salty.
Agreed. Role queue was dumb. I liked having the ability to look at how things have been going and say 'They're doing X. I'll swap to this character and screw up their plans.' The thing I loved most about OW was that it wasn't locked into the left click first competition. Their Widow is causing trouble? Lucio>wall climb>drop in>boop them out of their safety bubble and get them shredded. Distract them behind a shield to the left so someone on the right can sneak up on them. Or go Sombra and do an invis run/tele to magdump into their head at point blank. Or go monkey and pig meatwall to get close enough to ruin her day. Whatever. Just something with more intelligence than left-click and die repeatedly.
I miss Mayhem too. People complained that it took too long to die/kill but that was what was amazing about it. How many games can you say have ever felt like you were in an epic fight where every thrust, parry, twist, duck, and swing mattered? Where you don't win by the luck of a single shot but have to tactically manipulate enemy attention so you can change the angle of attack so it favors your healer over their Junkrat? Battles won or lost by the timing and precision placement of a Zarya hole catching the targets thrown by a Lucio boop to hold them just off the payload just long enough to get to the next checkpoint?
Man, I miss that game.
Life in the social media age is one in which identity is developed performatively through profilicity. People from the earlier eras created themselves in the face of the Big Other, often as God, or as the crowd of society at large, their families, etc. Younglings of the new age have personified the Big Other as the digital crowd, imagined viewers of their life-as-livestream.
Might sound odd to some, but Overwatch.
Early Overwatch was great. Then some updates made it better. The only things wrong with it were design choices that were made for financial reasons. Then they made it much worse. Then they made it worse. And worse. And then they made 2, which turned it into just another 'left-click on the target' game, because those make more money. It saddens me that it died.
In this thread: people doing the exact opposite of what they do seemingly everywhere else and ignoring the title to respond to the post.
Figuring out what the next big thing will be is obviously hard or investing would be so easy as to be cheap.
I feel like a lot of what has been exploding has been ideas someone had a long time ago that are just becoming easier and given more PR. 3D printing was invented in the '80s but had to wait for computation and cost reduction. The idea that would become neural network for AI is from the '50s, and was toyed with repeatedly over the years but ultimately the big breakthrough was just that computing became cheap enough to run massive server farms. AR stems back to the 60s and gets trotted out slightly better each generation or so, but it was just tech getting smaller that made it more viable. What other theoretical ideas from the last century could now be done for a much lower price?
Ten Candles LARP?
This just in: Actor does promotional stunt to promote their movie, tune in next time to hear about how a certainpolitician has shockingly told people to vote for them
Don't forget the internet is global. People for whom English is a second language are much more common than they once were.
The phrase 'can God do this' makes me want to see a parody of Genie's song from Alladin where it's 'Can Your God Do This?' and it's just a deity dis track by Ganesha, Odinn, or Cthulhu.
How much of the anti-musk/anti-tesla success is due to people's activism vs the cybertruck being a piece of crap? I suspect if Tesla had just kept making EVs and put a bit of effort into fixing up build quality instead of creating pretty much the ugliest, most overpriced, and nonsensical vehicle to hit the road, possibly ever, the company would not be in anywhere near as bad of a position. If, as I have heard, Musk was the one to push for it to be made, and then Musk decided to get involved in politics, creating reputational issues, it all could be said to be his fault.
The point of HOAs is protecting/increasing property value. We need property to be cheaper, not more expensive. Higher property values benefit speculation, not ownership. Burn them all.