@Thorin Launch Valorant was a really good game though to be fair. It was never going to kill CS but it had solid gunplay and the maps were pretty good.
The ability power creep has made it ridiculous though. Far too many heroes flying around at crazy speeds with a million smokes/flashes.
@elonmusk put the audio post feature back on this app. Thanks, you hairless no-neck havin, chimpanzee. Face look like it was drawn from memory. When u swim on ur back at the beach shit look like a man o’ war. Hourglass ankles. Not tryna be mean though sorry.
In America, a stranger will rename you in a single breath, and you are simply expected to come when called.
I went to eat at a busy restaurant. A young man at the front asked for my name, to mark my place in line. I gave it the weight it has carried for eight hundred years.
"Nobunaga."
He smiled, nodded, and wrote it down with great confidence. Then he read it back to me, to be sure he had honored it correctly.
"Perfect. Banana, party of one."
Banana. He had heard my name, held it a moment, and returned to me something rounder and more cheerful. To refuse the name a host gives is to refuse his welcome. I bowed. I was Banana now.
Then he handed me a small black disc, said it would "light up and buzz" when my table was ready, and turned to the next guest as though he had not just placed a living thing in my hands.
I held it in both palms, the way one holds a small sleeping beast that may wake. I found a place to stand. I waited, ready.
It woke.
It screamed. It flashed red. It leapt and shook in my hands like a captured spirit demanding release. A lesser man would have dropped it. I did not. I gripped it, steady, looked into its blinking lights, and told it, in a low voice, that its time had come. Then I carried it back to the host with both hands, the way one returns a hawk to its master.
He took it without looking and shouted across the entire room.
"BANANA! Party of one, your table's ready!"
A hundred strangers turned. I rose. I crossed that floor as Banana, spine straight, chin level, a man answering to his name. A child pointed at me. I gave the child a small bow. He had recognized me.
All through the meal they kept me. "How's it tasting, Banana?" "More water, Banana?" The check, when it came, said Banana, and thanked me for visiting. By the end the whole staff knew me. They waved as I left. "Night, Banana!"
So tell me honestly.
For eight hundred years my clan answered to one name. Tonight I answered to a fruit, calmed a screaming relic in my bare hands, and ate among people who were glad I came.
When the little disc lights up, is the table truly mine, or am I only keeping it warm for the next Banana?
Because I have already decided to return on Friday, and to ask, very humbly, for the same disc.
@JasonFortyFour@RMGBuckeye4Life@FoxNews The playing field was level before but people were cheating. Now its extremely unlevel in favor of who spends the most. You got this entirely backwards.
@Rivsum43@hallicai@lmfaotesuals They do not count as hitscan because they are factually not hitscan.
They are just being played by the hitscan player role. That does not make them hitscan.
Why is this distinction so hard for people to understand?
@TommyMaverickk@wineandbloody@venturetwt For sure. 5am specifically is the worst time. Its filled with people all thinking "Why am I playing Overwatch at 5am?".
@SamuelFByers@MidAtlanticMM You are mad that houses cost insane amounts of money but you somehow disagree with the sentiment that there should be no property tax?
Property tax is wealth extraction via inflationary valuation. The reason they cost so much is because of the tax revenue they can generate.
Just spoke to a homeowner in rural Nebraska
She said a data center will disrupt her family dairy farm that’s been in her family for 9 generations
Then I showed her exactly how quickly she’d be able to render an image of a cow with the data center so close to her
She started crying (tears of joy from the beauty of the image, no doubt)
We went ahead with construction of the data center and heavily polluted her water supply
@janettedoe_@ZawaTweets@Brewers_Kitchen Its gotta be the removal angle. People just do not seem to run it at all in casual games.
I play decks that would fold to a single Swords or board wipe but it just never happens. Then people wonder how I made 25 prowess tokens - literally just kill Sokka once!
PICARD: Data, shields up
DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.
[camera shakes]
WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS
DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't