ok yeah I tried playing it a couple of times and I was so hopelessly lost, does individual skill with piloting a champ (or whatever they’re called in dota) matter less in dota than in league?

which MOBA is this? league doesn’t use these exact terms but I kind of get the gist, but even in league I used to win with terribly constructed team comps all the time because everyone was on a comfort pick and the other team wasn’t

hexbear made you double post

like I said I think destroying suburbia will pretty much fix this without needing to hyperfocus on making americans not use AC but I guess we’re both just spitballing here so idk if it’s worth arguing about

god the coping “smurfs” man… not only are they clearly lying, but to lie so pathetically to a bunch of random people you’re supposedly mad at too that you shouldn’t care about their opinions? they need to be banned for their own mental health

mostly agree, although I also think they need to put resources into making the team queue more popular as well, really weird that no one takes the team queue seriously and only plays solo/duo queue

this is only true at the very highest of levels and with very certain matchups (at least for league as that’s the one I’ve played), most players are like me and get bored playing the same champ over and over and so they will pick random champs they’re not good with, and even when they try to counterpick they don’t know the champ they’re playing well enough for it to be an actual counter if the other person plays the champ alot. Jayce was the only character I ever actually could main without getting bored, and I could beat every single one of his counter picks other than malphite (his only actual unplayable matchup that I permabanned), because they didn’t actually know how to play the counter-pick and weren’t comfortable with it, and so I could beat them, even though I was trash at jayce.

just bad matchups that made the games lopsided

this is just a problem with league or any other game that has win more mechanics, by winning the early game it makes the mid and late game easier, putting the winning team in the drivers seat in terms of agency. Of course riot has put in ways to mitigate this, like bounties and some champs being better at different points in the game than others, but there’s a limit on what they can even do to fix it because it also feels horrible to dominate your opponent for half the game, make one mistake and then the game is on even footing or you’re now even behind, it’s just an inherent flaw to games like this. Counterstrike for example is technically never over, there’s a slight win-more mechanic in terms of the economy but ultimately you can come back from 12-0 to tie and win the game at a rate that league could never hope to match

only problem with CS is how lax the moderation is, if I could just kill ban every racist toxic shithead I’ve met on there it would be so good 😭

I think skill is impossible to quantify

objectively wrong, just because people cope about their own level of skill doesn’t mean you can’t easily make a system that will properly put players where they belong (also, because of needing to juice player retention due to capitalism many ranked systems have a goal of not only putting you in the right skill bracket but also making the experience addicting and frustrating, which helps cause the coping about individual skill). Now, the biggest problem with sbmm is that it struggles to properly rate your ability to be a teamplayer, because people who do best in supportive roles generally shine in an environment where you’re playing with the same people every game compared to random solo queue games where the easiest thing to measure is individual skill, and also the best way to ensure the highest winrate has a solo player throughout most of the player base is to improve your own skills enough to try and drag the team on your back as many games as you can.

i agree, mostly because I think games that do skbmm will never properly input proper moderation to cull the toxic gamers

this is an actual opinion many people on hexbear hold it doesn’t matter if it’s just a meme

rule 3 doesn’t apply to left coms because they deserve all sectarianism they get. also yeah repost this in the dredge tank

is that only including ac to cool homes, or does it include the waste spent on cooling empty office buildings? additionally, this is stat is very inflated by suburbia, which I am all for destroying and forcing the vast majority of people living in it back into apartment buildings, which I think would heavily drop this number too. how far exactly do you think we need to drop american energy consumption???

i’d like us to focus degrowth on getting rid of suburbia rather than weird “we must make americans suffer” shit

idk who garg is outside of hextube but if you know stalin could you let him know the version of raise the red banner i asked somone to upload is just white and doesn’t have the lyrics on it

do u know that you’re on a lemmygrad community lol

i have no clue how I would even do that, not even worth my time looking up how to do it tbh. they would have sent something to my parents probably thats what’s on my drivers license and who they sent the original summons to