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LETS GO KINGGGG

Yep Helldivers became significantly worse after catering to the vocal casuals

These all seem like incredibly generic job listings which is what they are, I doubt they imply anything about the game. It even explicitly states one OR more.

No one is capable of proposing a real solution other than vaguely gesturing at something bad. A game gets copied and the copy succeeds... ok what do I do about that? The filter wouldn't work on your Threes/2048 example so already that is nonsensical. It also wouldn't work on copies that have primarily AI code which would make the Threes/2048 clone trivial since the game is so simple.

So its only useful for games made with gen AI visible assets, which is rapidly getting harder to identify. And then what?

Flemings has a slightly brighter eye test, he is very active defensively and and he makes solid passes out of a drive, but he lacks either confidence to shoot or overemphasizes his role as a PG. A lot of his turnovers come from forcing a pass that should have instead been a shot.

His length is pretty noticeably a problem, getting completely smothered by any decently skilled big.

Yeah I wish we just had more fun racials. I think it's a bit goofy to be like "heh this thing doesn't matter at all" when the whole point of forever is the flavor and meaningful choices. I'd love to want to play a race because it has something like Plainsrunning or Gnome Engineering instead of 1% random stat. It's nothing to doom over, but it's also fine to actually have opinions.

I wouldn't say completely useless, Stealth Rock users have placed top 8 in several VGC tournaments before

needing to tech an entire item against the move which is a huge opportunity cost is an edge for Stealth Rock imo

Taking into account both Singles and VGC is pretty crazy. Whats the better move, Protect vs Stealth Rock, taking into account both singles vs VGC

The only phase that we're in is the phase where we can notice generative AI. It's inevitably going to get good enough where it's hard to know and some time after that impossible to know.

Honestly I'd put this campaign above MW2019 if not for the initial novelty of missions like Clean House. It has a much more cohesive whole with better pacing. Acknowledging that basically every Call of Duty is American propaganda; I praise the team for taking a pretty hardline political stance. Contrary to others, I think the writing is even kind to North Korea who has two characters that are shown in a highly positive light

At the end of the vid when it shows all the alliance and horde on the map, there are a handful of lights in Northrend

This is why I don't like the the ticky tack stat racials, they are just boring. I am perfectly fine with weapon specializations because they have meaningful differentiation, even if they do affect combat.

I'd easily give them up for more flavorful utility like wisp mode

Silver was giga-nerfed soon after release and then her pick rate tanked, i'm also considering bans which are way more indicative of imbalance than picks

I mean I only bring her up primarily because of her Night Shift usage but she is also doing relatively well in win rate across all ranks, especially as the newest hero. Arguably the most 'balanced' is Solomon who is a competitive demon but really bad in regular online matchmaking, but even he still has insane visual clutter

I mean it's likely because he got complained about plenty pre-nerf and there is only so much more you can say about him other than nerf him again

It's pretty universal consensus that a lot of the new heroes are overtuned and loaded to the gills with effects. Harrow, Baba, Rat King (pre-nerf and slightly post-nerf), Solomon, and Violet saw immediate Night Shift usage and in very high rates.

Even Danny has a pretty strong time in noobstomp elos

Something that stands out to me is that it needs to be drilled into King to stop just mindlessly doing floaty passes around the arc. I want to say like 90% of his turnovers in these past four games have been exactly that pass.

Dyson needs to start shooting some more 3s again, it's just not acceptable that he isn't even a bit of a perimeter threat as a guard when they use him so frequently as a high screen

Well... at least we know our offense works lol

at this point why not just scrap all the combat racials (aside from weapon specs) and just give everyone the equivalent of something like Plainsrunning. A fun but decently strong utility for mostly out of combat stuff.

I think award shows for other mediums hold a pretty decent analogue. A holistic rating that is ideally blind to genre and does not take sales into account. I don't think you need to do anything "new" or novel like I believe it was reasonable to put Hollow Knight and Silksong in their respective GOTY runs despite being 'standard' metroidvanias. It's hard to put in an objective criteria because nothing about art is objective to begin with, but I think impact is a significant category as vague as that seems. Baldur's Gate 3 is a good example of a clear GOTY in its impact as the great return of the CRPG to mainstream eyes on top of its other quality aspects.

The fact that you can't even do a regular jump over them is so goofy

They should give Kecleon pre-nerf Protean as a treat

Only tangentially related but it's wild just how insanely good the Pelicans development team is, how do significantly richer teams not have a development team that is as good? At one point they turned Lonzo Ball from one of the worst shooters in the league to one of its premier perimeter threats.

All the young players we (and other teams) got from the Pels ended up crazy good.

An incredibly ballsy but insane move would be to make Northrend equivalent to the Wilderness in Runescape lol