Scott Kennedy

Associate Hero Designer on Overwatch | Ex-Caster & Analyst | Retired Professional Overwatch player | 🇦🇺

[Scott Kennedy @Custa]

@Sabby 🐐

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me and my husband at a festival

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halloween over the years 🎃

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Leon Scott Kennedy @Custa and Ada Wong from Resident Evil 4 (2005)

happy halloween!!!

[Scott Kennedy @Custa]

some things never change DORADO DORADO DORADO

[Emerali @EmEmerali]

You can take Jimmy out of Dorado but you can't take the Dorado out of Jimmy.

[Scott Kennedy @Custa]

THESE ALL OWN BUT THRALL ZENYATTA TAKE MY MONEY

[Overwatch @PlayOverwatch]

We’re celebrating 20 years of World of Warcraft with a crossover too epic to miss! 🧝‍♂️🧚

The adventure begins when Overwatch 2 x World of Warcraft arrives Sep 17 🧙

[Scott Kennedy @Custa]

@BrenCasts @SideshowGaming Crush it lads

[Spilo @Coach_Spilo]

legitimately getting to the point where the negativity surrounding Overwatch is more tiresome than the design/balance mistakes that lead to the negativity.

I'm constantly critical of the bad, I also praise the good. I also enjoy playing the game a lot. I'm also optimistic about the direction of the game, even if it's 3 steps forward, two back.

yesterday's patch is a great example. Yeah, Juno is too weak. Yeah the Sombra/Mercy stuff is pretty aimless/weird, but I really feel like the Sojourn stuff is extremely promising, and I love the experimentation with LW/Kiriko, too. It was a flawed, but overall decent patch. I'm having fun playing the game. I'm looking forward to the 6v6 test. I'm excited for upcoming experimentation of other systems, and I've got a million content pieces I'm looking forward to putting together. Oh yeah, and Juno may be weak but I've really enjoyed playing her the last 24 hours.

Passion /=/ low-effort critique or emotional outburst. If I hated the game and had no faith in the devs, I'd quit. I'm not going to beat the definition of insanity by farming clout by "OVERWATCH IS BAD" for the umpteenth time, especially when that has a heavy impact on community perception. I literally have people in my DMs who enjoy the game, but are getting burned out because someone is telling them the game is bad.

The worst part about it, is it's poisoning the well of legitimate criticism overall. Any opportunity to offer legitimate criticism to the development is, once again, poisoned because people are constantly angry, and so all the valuable criticisms are lost in a well of emotion. And because emotion gets attention on Twitter/YT, the behavior is reinforced, and so the cycle continues.

Heck, we're so angry at Overwatch, we're not critiquing Marvel Rivals (a game with immense potential) to the point it deserves. It NEEDS a critical eye, and folks are completely missing the opportunity to give it valuable criticism because "haha better than overwatch."

This whole counter-culture nonsense when it's cool to thoughtlessly hate to "beat the shills," is reaching political-fervor level nonsense, and it's exhausting to have these conversations over YT/Twitch constantly the past year. If you're upset at the game, it's time to move on, because your opinion is no longer in good faith, whether purposefully or not.

maybe i'll make a video about this soon, tired of all the work I put into thoughtful/creative criticism getting lumped into lazy hate, and the praise I give getting lumped into blizzard shill. It's frustrating, but not surprising, that people are completely incapable of understanding nuance, and would rather turn their brains completely off.

[Scott Kennedy @Custa]

@Jay3OW @JawsCasts Found a reddit thread @JawsCasts posted on a burner account

[Scott Kennedy @Custa]

@Apply @JawsCasts 👀

[Scott Kennedy @Custa]

@OverwatchClassi @TempoZP person likes game they've played for 8 years instead of hating on it incessently

[Scott Kennedy @Custa]

Was fun going down memory lane with @Reinforce , it's always crazy how far we've come in 8 years

[Reinforce @Reinforce]

I'm trying something new!

I've always wanted to do long-form interviews about people's esports careers.

For my pilot episode, @Custa was kind enough to agree.

2 hours covering his time on @FNATIC, Dallas Fuel & LA Valiant, and his broadcasting career.

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[Reinforce @Reinforce]

I'm trying something new!

I've always wanted to do long-form interviews about people's esports careers.

For my pilot episode, @Custa was kind enough to agree.

2 hours covering his time on @FNATIC, Dallas Fuel & LA Valiant, and his broadcasting career.

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[Scott Kennedy @Custa]

@hexagrams I'm gonna unfollow you just to make sure I don't get it

[Scott Kennedy @Custa]

Okay at first it was fun but these earthquakes gotta chill

[Scott Kennedy @Custa]

Curry is a bad man

[Scott Kennedy @Custa]

Not like this

[porter robinson @porterrobinson]

Does anyone wanna tell me how I got curved by OVERWATCH 2 of all people

[SVB @OW_SVB]

Tonight (1.30pm PT) I'll be hosting a special episode of the Group Up! podcast with @Flats_OW where we'll be interviewing @aaronkellerOW and @GW_Alec to talk about... a lot

Big picture questions on where they see the game & it's future. And of course, the 6v6 discussion

[Scott Kennedy @Custa]

We made it to plat

This boxbox advanced league is no joke though so I'm just out here fighting for my life and it's only day 2