[Gaming] Overwatch (#boycottblizz)

That's because your measurement device is broken, because you live with under 18s and constant exposure to sub-18 dickery has acclimated you.

As for the rest, you incorporate it into the game. Remember, I'm not just talking about blizzard here. You can have a blizzard account without having any games, after all, and being a kid on your parent's account doesn't prevent you from playing a game (not even overwatch). But to access the separate 18+ queue would require additional verification, and if the kid gets in and plays there, and you get reported and the mod reviews the log and agrees, you're kicked out of the 18+ queue fuh-rev-vur.
Yeah, that would get automated and fail so often that they'd drop it pretty quick. Do you know nothing about how these things work?

Also, I feel like actually knowing teenagers (and I'm not talking about my son who is a huge outlier) gives me more perspective in this case than someone who is already wearing his grumpy old man pants.
 
Yeah, that would get automated and fail so often that they'd drop it pretty quick. Do you know nothing about how these things work?

Also, I feel like actually knowing teenagers (and I'm not talking about my son who is a huge outlier) gives me more perspective in this case than someone who is already wearing his grumpy old man pants.
...You think GB still wears pants? Hah! You don't have a lot of experience with men living alone.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
...You think GB still wears pants? Hah! You don't have a lot of experience with men living alone.
I didn't wear pants at home even when I *wasn't* alone :p

Yeah, that would get automated and fail so often that they'd drop it pretty quick. Do you know nothing about how these things work?
I'd be comfortable with paying an extra premium, a few bucks a month, for access to that queue. That'd give them the capital to maintain it. I know how these things work, you're just being obstreperous because that's how you have fun.

Also, I feel like actually knowing teenagers (and I'm not talking about my son who is a huge outlier) gives me more perspective in this case than someone who is already wearing his grumpy old man pants.
Of course you do.
 
Gas wants it to be a system where only the bad people can’t get an account.

—Patrick
Too bad that doesn't exist. But I don't think I'm wrong. Any server like that would 100% be automated, and I predict in the first week it would be populated by assholes, and then the reports would be any female voice as being a teenage boy.[DOUBLEPOST=1513025178,1513025126][/DOUBLEPOST]
I didn't wear pants at home even when I *wasn't* alone :p


I'd be comfortable with paying an extra premium, a few bucks a month, for access to that queue. That'd give them the capital to maintain it. I know how these things work, you're just being obstreperous because that's how you have fun.


Of course you do.
Disagreeing with you does not mean I'm being stubborn for the hell of it. I think you're wrong.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
Gas wants it to be a system where only the bad people can’t get an account.

—Patrick
I know what you're trying to compare to, but it's apples and oranges.

Disagreeing with you does not mean I'm being stubborn for the hell of it.
You're right, it doesn't MEAN that, but you are :p

Age limiting access can be and has been done. Granted, I acknowledge it won't (for other reasons), but that doesn't mean it can't. That's the important distinction here.
 
That's why I didn't elaborate beyond that.[DOUBLEPOST=1513025903,1513025708][/DOUBLEPOST]
I know what you're trying to compare to, but it's apples and oranges.


You're right, it doesn't MEAN that, but you are :p

Age limiting access can be and has been done. Granted, I acknowledge it won't (for other reasons), but that doesn't mean it can't. That's the important distinction here.
That's right, clearly you are never wrong and I only disagree with you to give you shit.

No, I disagree with you and think you are wrong. Most of the time, the people calling for 18+ servers are people who think getting rid of teenagers will make everyone nicer. But it's just not true. Again, I also have a different perspective from you, and most of those voices being assholes are probably more likely to be over the age of 18.[DOUBLEPOST=1513026183][/DOUBLEPOST]I would actually guess the highest age concentration for the game is early 20s, and college kids who just left living with mommy and daddy can be pretty big fucksticks.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
That's why I didn't elaborate beyond that.[DOUBLEPOST=1513025903,1513025708][/DOUBLEPOST]
That's right, clearly you are never wrong and I only disagree with you to give you shit.
Not only, but frequently :p
No, I disagree with you and think you are wrong. Most of the time, the people calling for 18+ servers are people who think getting rid of teenagers will make everyone nicer. But it's just not true. Again, I also have a different perspective from you, and most of those voices being assholes are probably more likely to be over the age of 18.[DOUBLEPOST=1513026183][/DOUBLEPOST]I would actually guess the highest age concentration for the game is early 20s, and college kids who just left living with mommy and daddy can be pretty big fucksticks.
Well, I also agree on that last part, maybe up the age minimum on the "premium" queue to 24 :p
But definitely a minimum of 18 to get rid of the squeakers.
 
Not only, but frequently :p

Well, I also agree on that last part, maybe up the age minimum on the "premium" queue to 24 :p
But definitely a minimum of 18 to get rid of the squeakers.
Just keep sitting there yelling "Get off my lawn," I'm sure it will work for someone eventually.
 
I know what you're trying to compare to, but it's apples and oranges.
This is true regarding the specific things themselves, but as a programming exercise, the difficulties are the same. Both get destroyed when 1) people lie, or 2) bureaucrats screw up.

...oh, and the cutoff should be 30, after the hormones start to calm down. And it can be enforced by playing decade-appropriate music over chat to drive away the pretenders (but obviously not The Pretenders, they get to keep spreading their Message of Love).
[DOUBLEPOST=1513028756,1513028383][/DOUBLEPOST]...you know what, you could do age groups just like you do SR. Make a game mode where you’re not allowed to queue with/against anyone more than 10yrs away from your current age.

—Patrick
 
I really missed my calling in life. I shoulda been a housewife.
Well I take a nap because I have to get up at 5am and then spend an hour and a half trying to get my son ready, while also trying to reassert his ability to take care of himself which he's been regressing on lately. It's the only way to keep me from being a giant ball of stress all day afterwards.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
Well I take a nap because I have to get up at 5am and then spend an hour and a half trying to get my son ready, while also trying to reassert his ability to take care of himself which he's been regressing on lately. It's the only way to keep me from being a giant ball of stress all day afterwards.
There are different kinds of housewives. Some get up at 5 to take care of the kids, some wait till their husband goes to work at the radio station so they can go fuck their lover. Takes all kinds.
 
Kinda disappointed in this year's skins. Was hoping for cool stuff, but we get Hanzo in a park and Bastion in a ski mask?

I'm just gonna keep Soldier 76 running around in his BBQ Dad outfit.
 
Kinda disappointed in this year's skins. Was hoping for cool stuff, but we get Hanzo in a park and Bastion in a ski mask?
I don't know about you, but I absolutely love the new Sombra and Ana skins. The Hanzo one was fan requested since last December. Most of the others I am okay with, though I do feel the S76 one is super bland. It makes him look like something out of Crysis.
 
The only one I really want is Sombra. The Roadhog one is cool, but I prefer my Chinese New Year skin I got on. Bastion's is ok, but the Dune Buggy one still beats it. Holding out for crates, but I'll finally get my Yeti Winston! Is it true you get 5 crates on Christmas?
 
I got three over the last couple of days. Last year's Winter Pharah, Pornstache76, and LegCurrency (which isn't, really).
Since I already have almost every grey and blue in the game, boxes just fuel my future purchases now...after they fill in all the low-level seasonal stuff, that is.

--Patrick
 
Oh one more question, do legendary drop rates increase over holidays?
None of the ones who have tried to test it show any difference that I've seen. The "secret" just seems to be, "Farm more loot boxes," which of course is easier in comp than the other game modes.

--Patrick
 
Overall had my worst luck this year on my usual 50 box purchase. Usually I hit the majority of the event skins, but this year I only got three. Somba, Ana, and Junkrat. I actually got five legionaries total, but two of them were regular ones I had not gotten yet. (funny enough, one was Mei's Yetihunter skin)

At the very least, the three I got were absolutely the ones I wanted, so I am still pretty happy in that regard. The rest I can probably live without.
 
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