Notices by bailey//rockruff⚪ (ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz), page 80

do i suffer through clam blitz or do i just go play something else

friendposting

@monorail too many people seem to overlook it and either fall back or hang out around the objective.

took me a bit to realise what exactly was making me lose games so quickly, but once i figured it out, it was pretty easy to flip on them.

(don't get me wrong i absolutely get upset over my teammates not doing well and impeding my progress. i'm working on it. mainly i really need to be directing my frustration at the poorly implemented matchmaking systems and not the other players that also suffer because of them)

i guess that's part of why i dislike people being upset at other players for not doing well, even in ranked.

ranked game modes, even if they're technically exactly the same, have a different feel to them thanks to player experience, motivation, and strategy.

unranked won't always prepare you for ranked. especially in splatoon where ranked and unranked are literally different game types.

strategy is great but there's also a lot of just making shit up on the fly. it takes a lot of practise and pattern recognition but eventually after losing and de-ranking a bunch you start to realise weak spots in most player behaviour and use them to your advantage

if you're doing bad at ranked, i urge you to play more ranked. trust me, playing turf war doesn't really prepare you well enough for it

it'd probably be better to have visual aids for this but i don't quite have the energy to make them today. maybe some other time

being that far up the map also lets you spawn your teammates between the objective and the enemy team rather than having to go all the way back and let the other team push forward

and if your team is wiped, it's better to keep yourself alive by hiding and let them go after the objective, if it means an extra teammate can come join you and you can attack from both in front and behind. surround them as much as possible

the best strategy in any game of splatoon is to get as close to the enemy spawn as you can and take them down before they have a chance to reach the objective or colour the rest of the map. even if you splat like 2 enemies you end up creating a cushion that the rest of your team can use to push the objective further along.

if you let the fight all pool at the objective, whoever's left standing can immediately hop on it and get the advantage. going backward is easier than going forward.

@octobyte extremely relatable

@chosafine smaller size is more accessible and few people will notice much difference in sound quality/have the equipment to properly hear the difference.

and if people are already okay with the sound quality as it is, no reason to change it imo

@Are0h ...even though my attempts at allyship are absolutely not contingent on what you say about the marginalised groups i belong to, it does make me feel a bit distanced to not know what your thoughts are on those marginalised groups.

it's a lot easier to feel at ease and open up to new ideas without having to keep a partial shield up.

in the same way you're wary of everyone talking to you about not seeing you support them, because you haven't seen them support you.

@Are0h i'm sorta conflicted. i've learned a lot from you, seen people attack you in bad faith and dogpile on you, i've seen poc run right off the fediverse.

and honestly, you have all the right to only talk about racism. who else is talking about it, while so many others are nonstop pumping other marginalised groups? the fediverse has a huge problem with being too white.

there's a huge imbalance here and you're doing your best to correct it. i respect that. but...

@hoodie
it's pretty telling that the tag is "not safe for work" rather than "not safe for kids" or "not safe for survivors"

really speaks to the relationship work and "professionalism" have with our personal lives, where employers and customers alike are prudes that discourage diversity and exploration of ourselves in so many ways

dog is actually god if you reverse the letters so it's probably very likely that whoever created the universe, if such a being exists, is probably a good pup

@neugierdsnase despite this we also have a lot of negative chaos going on too. you just gotta really figure out what exactly chaos is supposed to look like.

is it cops running rampant killing who they please and getting not but a slap on the wrist? is it politicians lying to and abusing everyone around them, turning politics into some sort of reality tv show? is it bombing and invading other countries on a whim just to create fear? is it white terrorists attacking people in the streets?

dog morning

@neugierdsnase too much order and you end up with no freedom to be yourself, experience mistakes, try new things, be weird and spontaneous.

too much chaos and you start doing all these things without an ounce of critical thinking, not considering the greater effects you're having on yourself, others, and the world around you.

right now society is skewed toward the idea of order, where freedoms are oppressed and assimilation is more important than diversity