Several years ago, HotS went into “Maintenance Mode” which means it isn’t receiving further updates although the servers are still up for now.

Which is such a shame. I’m not big on MOBAs but that was my favorite

I don’t like it very much, but the price is right.

I used to play Overwatch, and abandoned it shortly after the Overwatch 2 debacle. A bunch of my friends kept up with OW2, and when Rivals came out they made the switch so I figured I’d give it a go.

Season 0 was rough. It’s on Season 1 now and things are a bit better.

Hitboxes are bad. Maps seem confusing, although that might be that my game sense hasn’t figured them out yet. Lag is an issue a lot of the time, and the game crashes more than I feel it ought to - but I’m on Linux which I feel isn’t officially supported.

I saw an article the other day criticizing that you can’t type “Free Taiwan” into the chat. I guess I haven’t actually tested it to confirm, but gosh that leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

I don’t go in for the battlepass, but my friends usually do when they play a game and they say it’s fair. They do have a model that allows you to purchase the battlepass and then continue to fill it out even after it’s no longer the current season. So if it takes you a long time to finish content, you’re not forced into playing more games for fear of missing out.

When it’s fun, it’s a lot of fun. When it’s bad, my goodness, it’s bad. I guess it depends on how willing you are to gamble with your feelings. But hey, I guess you’re coming from League, so you might be ;)

I really hope to, but sadly then I couldn’t afford more sandwiches

Literally the first post in my feed

But I’m not mad, because I have a potato

I would love to be able to gift my unplayed games to others.

I guess you do get into a problem where a group of people might swap the game back and forth to avoid ever having to pay for the game. But people will abuse any system, so I guess that would just be a cost of it

If a game is still within the refund window, then maybe it should have an option to gift it. The devs / publishers could keep their money and Steam doesn’t have to process a refund. Seems like a win-win

Calling someone an idiot after having your opinion refuted in a thread about people having thin skin is either some high level satire or proof you have thin skin

I suppose it could be some third thing, but I don’t want to make baseless assumptions

+1 for Dread, it’s so easy to play

Instead of dice, you play with a jenga tower. It’s a physical manifestation of narrative tension, and that goes a long way in getting the players into the vibe

In my experience, the fries are great for five whole minutes before they turn into soggy cardboard and broken dreams

It’s a pretty good five minutes though

That’s the plan, yup

My approach would involve using some kind of polygon library. When you draw lines, you’re really defining polygons within your canvas. In the case of regions B and C, the edge of the screen make up the rest of the polygon.

Once you have your polygons defined, you can compare the coordinates of the click event to the polygons. With a good library, it should be fairly trivial to check if a point is within a polygon.

In the case of region A, you’d find that a click is inside both region A and region B, so I guess I’d also check to see if there are multiple polygons a click could be inside. If there are, then you need to also see if a polygon is inside another polygon to determine the specific polygon clicked. This is also made much simpler by using a good library

Honestly, that’s tough, but fair. No therapeutic tool is going to be a magic bullet solution for everyone.

My wife struggles with something similar. When we try to walk through an exercise together she thinks it’s about saying that her problems are “all in her head.” For my own outlook, I liken it to thinking that although my thoughts might be faulty, my feelings are valid. But hey, I’m not an authority, I’m just another struggling human trying to make sense of it all.

For what it’s worth, one stranger to another, I think that whatever you’re going through you’re totally valid. I hope you find or have found some relief - goodness knows we’re still looking

I highly recommend Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. CBT is the best medicine I can afford, because all you need is pen and paper.

If you don’t think you can change your circumstance, then you can try to change how you react to it. The core model of the therapy is to analyze your thoughts and look for patterns in which your brain tries to fuck with you. Identifying distortions and fallacies helps to replace your automatic thoughts with more positive ones.

Example:

Thought: I hate my job, everything about it sucks

Distortions: Overgeneralization, All-or-Nothing Thinking, Feelings as Facts

New Thought: I hate certain parts of my job, but I like X part of it

The whole thing only works if you believe in it, and the important thing is that you’re not just putting a sunny face on things that make you feel terrible. You’re working to restructure your thought based on objective truth.

I’ve struggled for a long time with the Sunday Scaries. Sometimes it feels like it’s never going to get easier, and I’m going through it right now, but I know if I take the time to untangle my feelings then things end up easier in the long run.

Good luck out there, partner

For me, I spent thirty years in the closet waffling back and forth between “am I a boy or am I girl” before I finally decided that I must be a secret third thing

For me, “non-binary” is a pretty cool label because it’s a non-label. And at the end of the day, I’m kind of about defying expectations so a non-label is perfect for me. It doesn’t serve me to have my life experience put in some little box to make other people more comfortable

If labels are helpful to you, then sure, it’s worth exploring. But labels can hold you back too. At the end of the day, a person is far more complex and interesting than any label they might have assigned to them

Although I do understand that it’s not actually correct, “everyone is a little bisexual,” does seem to line up with my experiences and biases. However, “everyone is a little non-binary” does not, so if you feel a little bit that way then congratulations! You’re one of the special humans and that’s worth celebrating

Say what you will about the woke gaming agenda, I love to see a company brave enough to take this stance. It’s refreshing to see a publisher wear its beliefs on its sleeve because now I know that I don’t have to spend money on their trash games

A saw a graphic the other day that was comparing the number of frames generated between the 4x and 5x, and people in the comments were saying that the 5x uses AI frame generation to speed things up

People in the know would know that AI is largely hype, and the generated frames probably don’t look as good as if they had been properly rendered

I’d like minimum wage to be able to support my family, so that a job flipping burgers could actually feed us

Failing that, to live as a bunny in a cottagecore tree stump, spending my days slicing up strawberries like they’re roasts, and baking pies with my neighbours

Seems like an open and shut case of “takes one to know one”

I hope we won’t have a repeat of yesterday’s outburst of unbridled creativity

Finally, Ernie has everything he needs to blackmail the warden

It’s all coming together

I paid a dollar for this two weeks ago

Worth it