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winning back to back Hysterias and knowing everyone's gonna throw rocks at your skull the second you join another game

hysteria

the best Race season of all time is filling.

and ended that ogre runaways

but i think the reason ELO is flawed currently is bc it’s being used as a measure of “these people are the most skilled at this game mode” - when in reality, other games that use ELO or other ranking systems are skill-based games that don’t have a social component. like the reality is if i log onto chess dot com having never played chess and i’m paired with a chess professional, i’m just not gonna win ever bc they spend every waking moment studying the game and have logged hundreds of thousands of hours. i DO think some people are more skilled at social strategy games bc they’re better socially or have stronger strategic instincts, but the reality is in a community like this it becomes very “you fucked me over last game so i’m gonna fuck you over here” or “you were good to me last time so i owe you here” - and that’s not skill that’s cosplaying as johnny bananas the two things i think could make elo better are: - fully random matchmaking. oftentimes random recruits on BB outplay the superfans, and i don’t necessarily think we need to throw all the new/untalented people into one shitty pig sty lobby. if you apply for a reality television game show, you may just be a better player than the people you’re cast with. or you may be worse! that’s just kinda how it works. high-ELO lobbies just become favor for a favor contests and tend to benefit the least employed. - maybe some sort of algorithm that builds casts from lobbies based on people who haven’t played together as frequently. this combats premades (at least sometimes?) and allows a somewhat fresh experience each time. to be clear i’m just complaining and don’t know how any of these changes would work! and i enjoy the games and will continue to play them. i’m just yapping!

is if you see a game mode designed with restrictions in place to combat premades, and your immediate thought is “well i should still join with a premade” you’re a ginormous loser

https://kovaze.com/race/9521 shrimpfriedrice has won Race. (thank you to daze for carrying me btw)

and having to tell your cellmate (serving a life sentence for armed robbery) that you're in for reporting someone on a site where you LARP as janelle pierzina

like i pretend to be mad about it but robbie winning bingo every time is genuinely laugh out loud funny

robbieriot is somewhere putting his dentures in a glass of water in preparation for Bingo this morning

that the normalcy levels on this site are a bell curve there’s the few people at the bottom who just don’t give a fuck at all and the few people at the top who are incredibly not normal about any of this but most people are just like. in the middle.

a warning for jokingly saying i swatted someone

to the hysteria waiting room

i’ll gift the first person to comment what design they want from the shops unless you’re annoying as fuck and ugly

when i see people clamoring for games based on activity levels personally i don’t think kovaze dot com should be the unemployment olympics but that’s just me

Private message from Gemini just walk i doubt 15% will help that lol

getting called queen feels like stolen valor

immediately neg Nenalala every time she posts i do it too i’m just wondering