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Queer, Engineer, Artist, Nerd. (They/Them or He/Him in a pinch). Never AI. Recovering linguist: Japanese, Spanish, French, Chinese and even less of more.
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Sorry Rivals, I like you, I had no interest in role queue, but these past few days have been... awful. Either remove the leaver penalty for quick play, or enforce something. After the Nth spiderman spamming need healing like a narcissist and the instalock 4 dps doing nothing the joy is gone.

With Marvel Rivals I kinda want a practice queue that autobans you from picking your most played heroes or with a particular proficiency level or time played. If they end up introducing mystery heroes that might work for the same training purposes.

Merry day of dealing with trifling passive aggressive familial digs and gossip. Rise above my dears. Happily just chilling with my husband and no other family drama, though the obligatory FaceTime calls are still to come.

Back on the silly fun, denying ults left and right Poor Thor and Witch didn't stand a chance! youtube.com/shorts/22E8i...

Thought I'd try a little different video, doing a map guide to help folks think about their positioning, resources, and control over space. The Marvel Rivals chaos is real, so this is just some 'sensible defaults' youtu.be/wdpKh_Mfm3A

Marvel Rivals dive heroes are giving me overwatch 1 flashbacks. Of course I handle it through memes. youtube.com/shorts/YX_ZU...

"I like to relax on my holiday" - and it's just me putting in nearly the same healing as all other Strategists in the lobby... (healbotting is generally bad mmkay, but feeders gonna feed) youtu.be/x15BJ-nisos

Dagger is more than a big white window and bubble. Their moment to moment aoe heal isn't Dagger Storm! #marvelrivals youtube.com/shorts/HBcQ8...

Let's be real, Marvel Rivals players are all new, and know little about how to play with their strategist (support). This short is for THEM. Stop. breaking. dark. teleportation! Survive those Jeff and Iron Man ults! youtube.com/shorts/lN8su...

Ok this one is just silly fun - denying ults in Marvel Rivals is a Cloak and Dagger specialty! youtube.com/shorts/dN8_e...

Stop bringing your Twitter screenshots and bs here. We left it for a reason. Leave the angry clickbait over there, it’s much more chill here and I’d like it to stay that way!

Alright, the short version of Cloak and Dagger's Ultimate in quick tip form! Marvel Rivals remains chaotic fun, and this makes you pretty much immortal when used right! Luna Snow could NEVER! www.youtube.com/shorts/FyL8K...

Breaking down the essential Marvel Rivals Cloak and Dagger tips into shorts now www.youtube.com/shorts/hF66p...

Alright, Marvel Rivals Advanced Cloak and Dagger Guide. Lesser known tips for more AOE healing, how best to use the ultimate, and some evil mode to catch retreating flankers! #marvelrivals #cloak #dagger #strategist www.youtube.com/watch?v=x15B...

Oh no, I’ve fallen down the video editing rabbit hole to try and make a Cloak and Dagger tips vid. Trying to be no waffle, text only. Davinci Fusion is fairly straightforward. Replacing an image meant restarting the app though, which was frustrating. Must be an easier way…

Marvel Rivals - Cloak & Dagger tip list Ultimate 1. For teammates - stand in it! It's hard to see and doesn't look like it heals, 220 hp/s per strip. 2. It stacks - 3 stacked dashes: 660 hp/s (luna's only 250hp/s) 3. Use to engage, use to cover capture points, it's defensive

Woof. Tried some Marvel Rivals competitive. What a shitshow. Trying to play strategist in some of the most batshit compositions. No tank, or just me on support. I’m fine with quickplay being role free, but solo competitive support queue ain’t it.

In game chat that’ll make people think you’re AI with no original thoughts: Skill issue Who asked Gap Diff I realise they’re not really social spaces but my god the echo chamber tedium. Some folks are just being silly but the sweats… ugh

Marvel Rivals has been fun enough so far. Cloak and Dagger were a nice surprise and a lot of fun to play. Mostly been on Luna though so my husband can play console C&D. Kinda expecting the support role to feel like Overwatch 1 once people lock in - constantly being dove. See how that plays out.

The shower remains one of the top 5 places to solve engineering problems. The other 4 are also anywhere but your desk. Take a break, pace, focus elsewhere.

I made it a whole Black Friday / Cyber Monday without buying a subscription to some site or service I’ll never use. This here is growth.

Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my predecessors’ actions. I say as I find another zany behaviour in our codebase.

We have Cthulhu at home

I’ve had both a staff and senior engineer use ChatGPT at work to find an answer. Staff at least had the basic decency to question the answer. Happy to seem an old grouch when I say AI is lowering the bar in some awful ways. Reason it out, search, talk to peers. Grow yourself.

Getting a haircut might be my least favourite activity. Full barbershop is too blokey, hairdresser feels femme. In either case I’ve never known what the heck to ask for.

One of the most cursed roles in life is people pleaser. Do what you can to stop. Not to lose all empathy, just… save yourself from burning out.

Does anybody else have TV shows that trigger a sense memory? Like you first watched them when ill/low mood and they’re just tainted now

TIL Google Read Aloud will duplicates requests to get fresh content. Block with: <meta name="google" content="nopagereadaloud"> For example a confirmation page was erroring. Hoping I'm not blocking good use cases.... (non-idempotency of said pages...welp :S)

"I'll just play until my first dyson shell is complete" 147 hours of Dyson Sphere Program later...

(no spoilers) We watched "The Substance" tonight. Solid body horror that honestly could have ended a lot earlier to stop it being full comedy.

One trait I don’t love about myself is I’m not a great thinker on the spot. Give me time to go background process/reflect and I’ll give a much better answer.