I'm super done with overwatch 2. The more I play it the less fun it is. Especially after I play league. Cuz I mainly play support in both games and it's so noticeable how much more carry potential there is with league supports than OW supports. Just based on kits alone, most OW supports feel so fuckin weak.
5v5 exposed just how boring and simplistic support kits are. Because now we can get flanked real easy, and unless you're kiriko, you're in trouble. Ana players have to be perfect on aim to escape flankers, baptiste has to be super careful to not waste his two cooldowns, zen literally only got Tha gripperz as peel. Mercy has to have a teammate around to have good movement.
When I play league by comparison, I can actually impact at every stage of the game through my kit. Engage supports are plentiful rn. Amumu, Rell, blitzcrank, maokai (tree homie is locking down 3 roles bruh) and so many others. Enchanter supports are insane with damage and utility rn. Soraka, Renata, Janna, lulu, a literal truckload of old midlane mages are now support gods. Xerath, brand, heimer?!
There's so much variety right now and trying to play overwatch after league, it's like I'm being put in handcuffs.
Like, you can tell just by the amount of characters per role, they do not give a shit about support in OW. Dps are always main charactering, ESPECIALLY the hitscan. Lord forbid you play pharah in this meta. Tanks at least have an impact but still need a fucking leash else they run off away from their supports and die 1v5ing, unless you're roadhog. Homie is tank dps and healer all in one, no need for any other role.
It's almost funny cuz adc in league is so weak. You have to be so careful on positioning and even when you do it right, you can still die because the assassin got to you.
I hope the pervasive myth that blizzard makes good games starts to die. Like yeah overwatch feels great to play, woo. But it's hard to enjoy that when they clearly don't design the game very well. So many things dropped from 1 to 2. What happened to being on fire? What happened to the Stat cards at the end? The UI feels so bland, the battle pass is a fuckin joke. 80 stages with no in game currency, and you basically HAVE to buy the pass to access a new character, and actually finish the pass in time.
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so within the universe of Dune, gender roles abide by a rigid false dichotomy created by the bene gesserit - men lead the noble houses, while the women may join their order, and the powers of both are kept intentionally separate. at the same time, the plot demonstrates repeatedly that the role of paul atreides as a character is that of the border between the concepts juxtaposed within dichotomies: he is both an outerworlder and fremen, both harkonnen and atreides, both a duke and a disciple of the bene gesserit.
as such, it follows that within the in-universe gender structure, he occupies the roles of both male and female, thus being functionally and societally nonbinary. in this essay, i will -
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The scene in the Barbie trailer when Barbie is skating around with Ken and asks "Why is everyone staring at me?"
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE AN ADOLESCENT GIRL.
Living in Barbieland (childhood girlhood) but then suddenly you're all grown up in the real world subject to scrutiny and sexualisation (the guy slapping Barbie's ass) and feeling like existing is a crime?
Being forced by adult men into a box (which leads to the not like other girls syndrome) and exploring the 'real world' (being forced to grow up too quickly) while fighting the realisation that maybe the world sucks and being a woman is so difficult while hoping with all your heart that it's not always going to be this way.
Losing touch with the very things that made you happy because they're considered immature and girly? (The group of teens that said they hadn't played with Barbies since they were five.)
Older women telling you that you have to learn the truth about the world and that you can never have your old life back (Kate Mckinnon's Barbie) despite it being the only thing you yearn for, but also older women being a bright spot and support (the old woman on the bench) in the endless slough of life.
And this is just the trailer!!! I'm so excited for this movie I can't breathe, Greta Gerwig the woman that you are 😭
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watching the sdcc panel and i am just very :) about how sweet their answers to “what are some of the micro moments from the game that have stuck with you the most over the years?” are. taliesin saying what the fuck is up with that which was the first like The Party Gets To Know Each Other moments of c3. travis saying asking his wife if he could kiss her in campaign. marisha going way back to the cannonball competition in campaign one. ashley choosing the beauyasha date but also just the silly goat noise matt made. liam adding onto that to compliment matt roleplaying grass so well and then saying his favourite moment was writing a story for laura and reading it to her as caleb for jester. and then matt saying that was his answer, and that his favourite moments of the game are when they find ways to give gifts to each other whether tangible or not. and sam saying his favourite moments have less to do with the story and is more so when he can just. see his friends across the table from him. when marisha perches and when laura and ashley are (badly) drawing dicks and liam saying he loves when sam sneezes and ashley tells him to stop it and just. yeah. they Are an extremely popular online powerhouse, but i’m so happy that they’re also friends building a world together out of gifts to and love for one another.
like i Am so enamoured with the characters and the world of exandria but the moments when you can feel the love that those people have for each other reach out from behind the stained glass of their performances (to steal a metaphor from brennan lee mulligan) are so extremely special and i am endlessly grateful that they decided to share their silly little home game with the world.
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Tell me all the id fic/fanart you’d write/draw if you had all the time and all the energy and none of the shame
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Liliana telling Imogen, "You know how much I miss just taking care of those horses? You know how much I dream of just walking the fields and making breakfast at sunrise? All that was taken from me" really brings to mind something that Laudna said to Imogen in episode 49:
"If you wish to have a quiet life in a cozy cottage in a field, raise horses and just be, no gods or fates or destiny can keep you from that."
That's the crux of why Liliana's argument fails to be convincing. Laudna is right--at any moment in this journey, Imogen could have decided she didn't need to do this and found a cottage to settle down in. At any point in 14-16 years of wandering Exandria before finding the Verity, Liliana could have gone home and had all the things she feels were "taken" from her. But she didn't, and that was her decision, not the fault of the gods, or Predathos, or any other force she thinks kept her away. She decided she needed answers more than that cozy life she loved so much. Foisting the responsibility of that decision does not erase that it was hers
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