u/sleepyFox78

I've had a pretty good mental playing spidey for the past few seasons. Honestly the only reason I think I enjoy rivals is because of spidey and how much damn fun he is to play. Learning his kit and all its intricacies has been the most fun I've had playing a multiplayer game in a long time.

But, damn. I'm starting to get tired of it. Since season 8 started I feel like I've just been getting farmed. People chase me across the map, Bucky's land a hook and I'm insta-dead, WF is impossible to dive and makes other supps way harder to dive, etc. I've never played early season ranked before so maybe that's why I feel like I'm walking through quicksand? Even when I'm locked in and performing well, I feel like the games are just unwinnable. I'll kill the entire backline, but my entire team is already dead. I'll distract the supps for the entire teamfight, but we still lose.

The nature of playing spidey is always looking at what you're doing wrong and what you have to improve- that's what I love about him. But Jesus, it's demoralizing to play an engagement absolutely perfectly and still need to leave or even die because the opponent is an overshield merchant with quasi-immortality. I've spent hours practicing, reviewing, learning, and all my effort gets stomped by a CnD managing to juggle between her fade and bubble cooldowns.

Some games it's impossible to dive backline so I swap to SL. Suddenly, we start rolling them. I have a fraction of the time on SL as I do on spidey, yet he can get 10x the value for 1/10th the effort. I need to be absolutely dialed with spidey to get any value at all, but can be blasting music and trace a big ahh dino head with SL and carry. What the hell? It baffles me that Netease can cook so hard with a hero like spidey then make overshield slop heroes that feel so arbitrary and needlessly overtuned.

I often take breaks from playing when needed, and I'll probably take one soon, but what do you guys do when playing spidey just feels like shit? I feel like that panel of him sitting on a ledge in the rain rn frfr

What do y'all think about spidey mirrors that go out of their way to find and target you? Or spideys that neglect diving just to disrupt you?

Personally I get kind of annoyed at em because chasing another spidey around or being unable to dive without immediately getting popped by a backline spidey is unfun to me. I like the 1v1 you get whenever you see each other in happenstance, but ego diff spidey's that seek you out feels like you're just playing against a flying Namor squid. I get that spidey is a great spidey counter, but damn bro can't we just both dive in peace 😭. Games feel soo much more enjoyable for me when spidey's just let each other cook a little bit

Hey y'all,

My brother has Down's and keeps streaming his music onto my Alexa and setting it to full volume. From my searching so far, I can't find a way to prevent people from streaming music onto my Alexa from Spotify without stopping it on the Spotify app. Most solutions seem to revolve around disabling various options like "drop-in" or just making it so the Alexa defaults to my Spotify account when asking it to play music. I prefer not moving my Alexa to its own network since I would need to then rebind all of my smart devices onto that network to make it work. Is there any way for me to make it so that only my account/phone/whatever has the permission to stream Spotify on the Alexa?

Thanks

Edit:

Maybe I should clarify: he's going into the Spotify app, clicking the device icon in the bottom left of the player, and selecting my Alexa from there. Once he starts playing music it lets him freely set the volume of the Alexa speaker using his phone. AFAIK this is fully through Wi-Fi and doesn't use any Bluetooth connectivity. The echo dot isn't listed in either of our Bluetooth devices, but we can still connect to and stream from it.

He can't ask Alexa to play anything or do anything because he is non-verbal.