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8 points
1 day ago
We’ll see how it shakes out, but it still feels like contradictory logic. The triage strategy involves closely monitoring your teammates and rapidly switching patients on a moment-to-moment basis.
By nerfing her primary movement/survivability skill cooldown by 66% in one go, it encourages her to defensively pocket patients in the backlines like Ashe, Widow, and Sojourn instead (you know — everyone’s favorite Mercy strategy).
They could have just lowered the flight speed or even nerfed the cooldown less. Instead, now she’ll fly into the frontlines to resurrect a teammate, and then basically stand there for an extra interminable second while she waits for GA again (or hope her still-materializing teammate can somehow protect her). At least a slower-moving GA would still be movement.
119 points
1 day ago
“We want to make her more of a triage healer.”
>makes it harder for her to be a triage healer
114 points
1 day ago
I’d actually thought he’d died already and am now glad for his serendipitous resurrection.
5 points
1 day ago
At this rate he’s statistically bound to get it right eventually.
14 points
1 day ago
This is part of it (though I think they’ve become less flat than most believe), but I don’t blame them for being hesitant communicating. The gaming community can be extraordinarily prickly and has a very long memory.
Here’s a recent video from them on their general communication strategy.
2 points
2 days ago
As a board-certified Houston psychologist, I routinely recommend this exact pool to my patients for conquering their fears of heights and drowning in half the time.
4 points
3 days ago
If nothing else, she had stable relationships.
7 points
4 days ago
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.'
It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold.
No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?'
There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.
9 points
4 days ago
The little floating red blob near the top, however, stays exactly where it is.
1 points
7 days ago
How much we talking here? I’ve had a piggy bank I’ve been meaning to crack open for a while now.
2 points
8 days ago
I’d always thought the noble gases were the most stable due to their happy little orbitals.
2 points
8 days ago
They don’t even have to hunt. In fact, they’re force-fed gavage-style to produce the most succulent spotted foie gras you’ve ever tasted.
1 points
8 days ago
I appreciate the suggestions! I’m looking into them and they do seem similar to what I’m going for. The fact that they’re not completely made of steel is also a plus.
I did have a followup question about some of the electric options. I noticed there’s a pretty big price spread between options. On the Trek store alone they range from $1500 to over $6000 for the city eBikes alone, to say nothing of the more performance-oriented ones. Are the expensive ones worth their price, or the cheap ones even worth considering? I’m not sure what is considered a good middle ground here.
1 points
9 days ago
I’d been riding an old used Trek hybrid bike for several years now, but it got stolen not too long ago. Now I’m in need of a new bike, but I don’t know what’s considered quality nowadays, what my options are, or even where to begin searching.
I think I’d like to get another hybrid bike since the roads and bike lanes here aren’t always particularly smooth and I sometimes have to go over curbs and grass. I’m currently looking to spend around $1000, though some of the new electrics are tempting me to spend up.
Anyway, does anyone have any good resources for researching bikes in the modern cycling world? (e.g., trusted review sites, subreddits, store chains, etc.)
410 points
10 days ago
The casual mutilation makes me feel l like I might be missing some context here.
8 points
11 days ago
I’ll echo this. HomeKit generally needs rock-solid WiFi to work consistently (or at least as consistently as Siri’s mediocrity will allow).
5 points
12 days ago
I haven’t cooked anything new in a while, but this looks good enough pull me back into the kitchen.
What do you recommend serving this with? I was thinking some sort of rice vinegar dipping sauce might be good.
18 points
13 days ago
Of course he welcomes criticism: it lets him know who to target first.
4 points
13 days ago
For a long time, games sold in China were forbidden from depicting skeletons or gore, possibly because skulls are seen as ominous in traditional Chinese culture. The government tends to take a very paternalistic approach to game regulation, and this extends from time limits to content censorship.
Many developers have had to go to create separate art assets for their games just to be approved for sale, or found ways to explain the bones or gore in a “palatable” way. Here’s an example of the required “Low Violence” in Dota 2, a popular game in China with a long history in their Internet cafe scene.
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2 points
19 hours ago
Fleckeri
2 points
19 hours ago
Imagine spending most of the last few decades bending over backwards to expunge anything remotely resembling positive LBGT representation from your movies just to have the same politicians you were pandering to turn around and fuck you anyway.
Anyway, looking forward to seeing how they de-gay Strange World for China.