See, this is the more reasonable concern. Moderating a fediverse instance is hard, and the flood of posts coming from Threads might be a bad problem. That's a case where I understand the need to defederate. But on the other hand, that doesn't feel like a solution that needs to be done proactively - defederating from Threads if/when Threads users become a problem seems perfectly reasonable.
Same as it ever was Kill a Pedestrian, Pay a $500 Fine
Come join the war on cars. !fuckcars@lemmy.world
I like Role Queue. Single-tank was poorly thought out, I agree.
Fundamentally, I think OW copied some things from TF2 without understanding how they interact with lower playercounts. They copied TF2's long rollouts and respawn timers, but didn't realize that this makes death way too costly in a small-team game. In 5v5 at a good level, a single kill can basically end the teamfight. If they want to drop playercount, they need to find a way to fix that. Imho that's why so many of their "Arcade" modes play with alternate respawning mechanics, like freezetag or the silly "StarWatch" thing.
Also they wanted big flashy ults without thinking how that interacts with the rest of the game. There's a reason that most competitive twitch-FPS games don't have nukes on the serious maps.
Imho, if I were running OW2?
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For competitive: 4v4. 1 heal, 2dps, 1 tank. All healers share some kind of special rapid-respawn passive, like they can respawn at the Tank or something. Make up for it by reworking more DPS classes into having off-heal powers like Sombra and Soldier. Remove the rapid-respawn passive in open-queue-style games.
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Nerf the ults in general. Either slower build or just lower-power. Although if you go slower-build, you need to come up with a sane way to have the charge carry between rounds, which would be tricky to get right.
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For casual: 8v8. Double the 4v4. 4dps 2tank 2heal. There's a reason TF2 played 12v12 casually and 6v6 competitively. If you're farting around trying things out, you don't want to be the lynchpin of your team.
Then the number of heroes and the popularity of the roles reflects the number in play - there are twice as many DPS heroes to choose from, twice as many DPS players, and twice as many on the team.
They said that with Windows 8 and Steam OS
Just let people buy the same stuff people take for prescriptions, at the same prices they would pay if they were uninsured.
If you're uninsured, a month's supply of cheap ADHD stimulant meds is like $40, and that's for somebody taking it daily not recreationally. Fancy patented stuff like Vyvanse costs like 10X more but there you're paying for timed consistent long-term release, which isn't exactly a huge concern for recreational use.
"I wanna buy some ritalin"
"Do you have a prescription?"
"No."
"Can I see some ID?"
"Okay."
"Okay. That'll be $40. Since you've never taken this before we strongly recommend you take your first hit now and sit in that chair for 40 minutes so we can make sure you don't OD and die. Fill out this consent form, watch this video, and give me another $40 for this one-time onboarding."
This is why I tried to buy all my albums through Bandcamp... but Bandcamp has a new owner that fired half the staff and I'm worried they're gonna get enshittified.
Is "gamescensor" a reputable source? Because I'm having a lot of trouble believing this line is real:
“It’s a great day for gaming around the world, and that is all I can say,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. By joining hands with Activision Blizzard, we hope to achieve our vision of enabling people to connect and play fabulous gambling games anytime, anywhere, and anyhow they like.
Yes, but concrete parking structures are an order of magnitude moreso. Assuming $50k per parking spot and a 25-year mortgage, each spot will incur $328.58 in monthly mortgage costs. Assuming full occupancy every workday and zero on weekends (21 workdays per month) that means the daily parking fee should be $16 just to break even. This is a thumbnail sketch of course, but it shows the kind of costs we're talking about.
Also a pony. And a car. And a ponycar.
This kind of stuff was what turned me off the Armored Core "Spiritual Successor" game Daemon X Machina. So many fights involved scripted foes where it wasn't obvious they were scripted as undefeatable until I'd burned out half my ammunition.
It's housing. Which isn't 100% fair since that issue is primarily provincial/municipal. But liberals have always known that the Canadian media (and thus voters) is too dumb for federalism and have never let that stop them from meddling in prov/muni issues before.
I'll never support PP. Between environmental issues, LGBTQ issues, and his general skeevyness, I could never. But I don't blame anybody who is getting renovicted and finding no place to live for noticing he's the only one talking sense on the subject.
Put some dang standard labels on the function keys.
F1 = Help
F2 = Rename
F3 = Search
F4 = Close
F5 = Refresh
F6-F10 = Decorative
F11 = Full screen
F12 = Goto definition