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Overwatch 2's lack of merit is giving me heart problems

Let's have a round of applause for Overwatch 2's ranking system. They really hit the nail on the head. It truly feels like they got a team of experts together to fine-tune a competitive algorithm.  Blizzard offices wanted to be true to the player, so they had a meeting and asked themselves how best can we serve these players? They want an authentic, balanced ranked system that shows they are actually a video game and not a two-bit cosmetic marketplace. In order to do that, they made a pile of FUCKING SHIT. Never in my life have I played such a nonsensical, ass-backwards competitive game. Overwatch 1 came out and their mission was to make it worse with every change they have made, and here we are now, being served a bowl of shit soup. The person in charge of balancing the ranking system took his underwear off, saw a skidmark, and had an epiphany on what to base it on.  There aren't enough different types of fecal matter to accurately represent the myriad of ways they created...

The year twenty twenty five in summation

My New Years resolution going into 2025 was to upload at least 1 drum track a week for the entire year. I didn’t actually get started until February, and I had a child on June 24, and in spite of that, I still managed to make 44 drum tracks this year.  During this year, I also wrote 2 written reviews for this website, as well as reuploaded 6 articles from my previous website. I started a new segment where instead of my typical reviews based on deep game analysis and dissection, I do a scathing takedown of some bullshit-or-other in the gaming scene, and I added 3 articles in that style to the site.  Since I was so active on YouTube from uploading my drum tracks, I decided to make the home of the gaming podcast there, and thusly added 5 brand new episodes of the Bone Robot Games podcast to my YouTube, in addition to reuploading 2 episodes from the podcast website to YouTube.  These are all my different creative pursuits.  I also read the last 7 books in The Wheel of Ti...