Battlerite in it self was a second attempt by SLS, first was Bloodline Champions. Battlerite took what BLC was and made it super polished, I loved the gameplay, it was truly all skill, had a very WoW arena feel to it.

But it just seems that this is not a formT that people are into. On the one hand I get it, it is kind of sweaty, OTOH, the matches were super short.

Other notable examples of short burst fun competitive games, that just missed the mark for the general public: OmegaStrikers (basically as dead, still not quite there) and SpeedRunners (still a good pickup for playing with friends, if you strictly play together and don’t practice outside of your group, endless fun).

you can’t even group/nestle book marks on Firefox.

You can with extensions. Tree Style Tabs, I dont even have a top tab bar.

In league non-ranked matchmaking is pretty all over the place. It is also supposed to be mmr based. In a single session i can play vs everything from iron to emerald, how is it in dota?

I had read somewhere about it being in a rough state playerbase-wise, which i guess isnt true, but it is no longer receiving updates, right? Anyway, might check it out.

Hmm, is there a ranked mode for it?

I mean, ive played some dota in the past, i have about 200h on it, not nearly as much as league tho. But IME, especially for solo, league is just nicer overall. The mechanics for champions seem a lot more polished these days, and it is a lot more action focused, you have to worry about macro much less. The games are also like 50% shorter in league. As a solo player I find league to be a lot more laid back, where I can just play the champ more than play the game, if that makes sense.

To each their own of course, Im not saying one game is better than the other, but it is a hard sell to transition league to dota.

There’s realistic only DotA and I can understand the reluctance, the two games are massively different, League is much more suited for casual play.

I doubt there sustainable way around a kernel anticheat, that will not get you banned eventually. People either have to quit or dual boot.

The game leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Stunlock fucked over their playerbase with Battlerite, shifted dev focus onto a Battle Royale, which was supposed to be a gamemode, made a standalone game, fractured the community, then took what they had so far and rehashed it for a yet another new game.

Battlerite and OmegaStrikers

Kind of like that, I got into them as they were thriving, since it was on beta/release, but they died very quickly afterwards and it is a shame because nothing captures that feel for me, I like short burst competitive games like that, but I guess people generally aren’t into stuff like that.

E: And actually one more like that, the goatest of them all tbh, just been so long that i forgot about it, but this is one that is an awesome idea for anyone looking for some fun friend group comp game:

SpeedRunners.

This last one is a damn shame, because there really is nothing like it.

Its a good game but most releases are DLC level, yet they are forcing the player to buy, at least every few releases, because you slash the remaining userbase every time you release a new game.

Eh, rap is so different from other genres imo, that it can kind of make sense, especially if their only exposure to rap is what hits charts.

Oh yes, compelling analysis of the court case, hope you publish soon.

The genocidal act of checks notes defending your country against a foreign invader.

If only we had an international institution to deal with such claims 🧐.

Ah yes, the perfectly straightline route from lowering conscription age (to an unreasonable 25 years !!!1!1!111) to genocide. No slopes involved.

I hear you, but a usb-c has more uses than one, the only real problem with a dongle is now is that occasionally you need to charge.

Careful, might slip down that slope.

But like, 3.5 to usbc is a 10 buck conversion. Tbh i see merit in double usb c over usbc and headphone jack, might be more doable too, the DAC prolly takes more space than an additional usbc

Fair enough on the multi users front, didn’t consider that.

That said, this does look like a great QoL for surgery, theres people with personal portable ultrasound probes in the same price bracket (a much more questionable choice tbh, bringing in personal diagnostic equipment is asking for trouble), can totally see a surgeon buying this for personal use.

And even purchasing for each surgeon is really not a big problem, you have disposable items that cost more sometimes.