by zanderism » Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:43 am
gonna tiny text this bc 1) it's a lot but 2) i have a lot of complicated feelings about this very serious issue and want to be very careful as to not break CS guidelines talking about it
i agree with abolishing the death penalty bc i understand it targets and affects marginalized people worse and people who commit egregious crimes usually live 10 years sometimes longer just waiting for The Time To Come while the state just Does Away with folks who commit less egregious crimes much faster. a part of me however feels like some folks who commit Very Specific Unforgivable Crimes don't deserve to live the rest of their lives in prison and should be Done Away With and its very conflicting for me to rationalize both sides of the issue
my unpop opinion will be a much lighter topic as like. a palette cleanser?
i don't think overwatch 2 is a bad game or that it was ruined. i think that blizzard has been making EXTREMELY crappy or questionable decisions with its characters but i also feel like they cater too much into the desires of the content creators and their inherent biases and thus balancing the game has been much harder to do. the team running the game now might be much less problematic than the ex-blizzard CEO's team but they've shown that they're struggling with things like content much less cohesively balancing the roster and that doesn't necessarily mean the game is bad or it's ruined, their priorities are just not where they need to be.
bonus: overwatch 2 doesn't work as a 5v5 like they thought it would. keeping the game at 6v6 would have made more sense. issues like double shield could be avoided by one tank picking a tank with a shield and thus making other shielded tanks unavailable (for example comps like rein/orisa could work again bc orisa doesn't have her shield but teams wouldn't be able to pick rein/sigma, they'd have to pick somebody else like ball, zarya, mauga, etc. and they could develop other tank characters with abilities that don't revolve around shielding and would moreso be designed around damage absorption or generating overhealth for the team like brig's ult does).