u/toe_beans_4_life

I've had a bit of a loss streak recently. I started playing comp when I got my Moira to level 40 and have tried to stick with her, while practicing other supports in QP. I've been practicing Wuyang (lvl 13) and Illari (lvl 10) mostly bc I feel like I can't get the hang of the others I've tried (Kiriko, Mizuki, the cat and Zenyatta). I'm ok with the two I've been practicing but really not well enough to replace my skill with Moira. I was placed in high silver but have slid down to bronze after several games off and on of people banning or taking Moira.

Any suggestions to other supports who you think work for someone who's best at Moira? Do I just need to keep practicing one of the supports who I haven't been able to get the hang of yet?

EDIT: been practicing Juno this evening and I'm doing pretty solid with her! I'll make sure to put some time into all of the suggestions tho, thanks everyone

Lol. I knew people didn't like Moira but looooord have mercy I didn't expect so much hate from teammates specifically for playing her - even if I'm doing pretty well. I've also had teammates try to vote to ban her after noticing she's my preferred character. I made the mistake of posting in the main sub about it too - although it was honestly entertaining seeing the crazy takes people have about her.

I'll definitely be turning off chat whenever I play comp. Honestly tho quick play teammates have very rarely complained which is nice, I'm at about 100 hours mostly qp and only a couple qp people have given me crap for playing her.

Anyways, just wanted to say I love our girl and salty teammates hating her for weird reasons can succ it ☺️

I haven't been playing for very long, but some of my favorite moments are when I get to play with someone I just played against.

I had a game recently where I was my team's Moira and this Roadhog was kicking my ass (I think he killed me 4 times). Then he was on my team, and I was able to save him at least 5 times, and he thanked me every time.

Obviously there's toxicity in this game but I've been pleasantly surprised by how nice or chill people are in QP.

Of course, I'm sure that'll change whenever I attempt ranked...😅 but so far, thanks for giving a new player a great experience!

New player here. Tonight I had an unranked QP match where a teammate said "2 5 switch", then later they said "8 12, c'mon".

I tried looking it up but couldn't find anything.

I recently read the moment when little Severian is incinerated by touching the mountain statue's ring.

I took a little break from the book after that part. It was so well written. Nothing leading up to it, then boom this kid is dead. I got attached to him so quickly and I was definitely expecting him to have a longer story arc.

I feel so bad for Severian as well, the way he immediately decided to become the boy's adopted father showed a level of character depth that I honestly didn't expect from Severian. And the kid's sudden death drives home the sense of isolation that follows Severian everywhere, even when he's with other people.

Not quite sure how to word that title. But basically, I just learned about The Great Attractor and how we'll probably never be able to see what exactly it is. And it's got me freaked out yet again about how unimaginably massive space is.

The Expanse gave me those vibes, with the "other life exists and it >!tried to hijack our evolution!<" storyline. But idk, I've read the first 3 books and I'm just not the biggest fan of it, I think bc of how much is going on with the multiple plotlines. I could just be burned out on the series right now tho.

The Alien movies are some of my favorites when it comes to this feeling. But I haven't found any books that nail this feeling for me yet. The closest I've found is probably the concept of Asimov's Nightfall, although I wasn't a huge fan of the writing in that story (I do enjoy a lot of Asimov's other stories tho). I loved the idea that the civilization had to keep restarting over and over, because they couldn't figure out the night and day cycle of their galaxy in time to not be terrified of it.

Horror and non-horror recommendations are welcome!

I'd like to get a plush made of a video game character (Timothy Lawrence from Borderlands).

The only plushie I have ever seen of him was crowdfunded by someone years ago. At the time I couldn't afford it. But I'd like to get one made for myself sometime soon now.

I have commissioned some plushies from someone in the past, but it doesn't look like they've accepted commissions in a long time. So any suggestions for artists would be greatly appreciated!

I'm asking here bc TPS is my favorite borderlands game, so I expect to get answers that align with more people who may have the same taste as me. But I understand if this breaks rule #2.

My favorite thing about TPS is honestly the characters. The Vault Hunters, sure, but also characters like Janey and Pickle (yes I love that kid, sure he's annoying but he's also badass for surviving on his own like that).

I do like BL3 overall and replay it every now and then. But I was very disappointed with how storylines for TPS characters were just ignored. Or given badly written endings/characterizations, like some of the TFTBL characters.

So. How do you like BL4, as someone who loves TPS?

I feel like I'm going crazy. I really like TPS, so I played it a lot a few years ago. I think I got my old Timothy up to a 60 level, if not 70. I liked how hard it felt to me at the time.

I'm starting fresh now (playing Timothy again bc I just like him), bc I just want to enjoy the game all the way through again.

Well I'm to level 12 and it's felt way easier than I remember it being. I decided to load up borderlands 3 for a comparison and I struggled significantly more in that one tonight - then again, I hadn't played bl3 in a while so maybe I was just rusty. But I'm just not feeling the challenge from TPS that I remember, and that I got from BL3 tonight.

The big difference I can think of is that I'm using more sniper rifles than in my previous playthroughs. I hadn't really used rifles in my last playthroughs bc I was worse at aiming than I am now. I did also notice that I have almost 100 badass points that I apparently didn't use in my previous playthroughs that I can use for this character. But I've only used about 20 of them, then just turned them off.

Has anyone else experienced this? Am I missing something? I have been playing some notoriously difficult games in the past few years, so I guess it's also possible that my metric for a difficult game has drastically changed. I keep wondering if something carried over from my previous playthroughs that's affecting this one tho.

TPS was the first game that I ever completed on my own, and it was the first game I ever actually became obsessed with. It's always been my favorite borderlands game and it always will be.

I'm replaying it for the first time in a few years and the nostalgia is so great. But I forgot how much I love the soundtrack. Especially Mooncore, Helio, Lunar Surface, and SpaceStation.

The soundtrack not only fits the game perfectly, but it's also so well composed. Not surprising coming from Jesper Kyd!

EDIT: oh and can't forget how good the claptastic voyage soundtrack is too

I've just started reading Mercedes Lackey's Magic's Pawn. I had asked for a recommendation here a few months back for gay male characters in classic fantasy a little while ago, as I had been reading classic scifi and was getting sick of seeing zero representation - or homophobia - so far.

I love it so far. I was a little apprehensive bc I'm typically picky about young/new adult fiction, but I'm already a big fan.

I'm realizing tho that my current TBR is still mostly barren of books that focus on M/M, since most representation is going to be in more recent series and at the time I was looking for classic stuff. And I want to make the biggest, gayest TBR now!

So! Do you have any recs for scifi, fantasy, and/or horror that focus on M/M?

Here's some of my favorite books/series for reference to what I typically like:

1. Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles

2. Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun

3. Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb (yes I do also love some lesbians in space!)

4. Dune

5. The Murderbot Diaries

6. The Magnus Archives audiodrama

7. The Welcome to Night Vale audiodrama

8. The Alien franchise movies and some of its books

I'm not super into stories where sex is the primary focus, but sex as a natural development is fine. I like strong plots that aren't only focused on romance.

Thanks so much!!

Edit: I should say that I've already been recommended the Widdershins series, if anyone was going to mention that one