https://youtu.be/iu5rnQkfO6M I saw this a bit ago and I was spellbound. Literal sorcery, conjuring music from the void.

Listen, I take your intended point, but you did initially claim that there's a "grain of truth" to the idea that MSG is bad somehow, the thing you replied to. If you're going to be precise about reading comprehension, please be equally precise about what you've written.

I understand that we’re all fighting helplessness and despair right now but one ought to refrain from forcing strangers to be part of one’s maladaptive coping mechanisms

Petitioning Bluesky for the ability to nominate skeets for some sort of global pinned feed.

I was nodding along in the sympathy of solidarity until I got to the part with multiple bodies. Ow. X3 That's me. I've gone on record as saying that I would ideally be a Genshin Impact team, a small group of bodies all working in concert. We may not be the same but we have that point of overlap.

I think it's tempting to want to save one's energy for one big dramatic thing that finally breaks the siege of fascism. But that's not how it works. It's a slow grind in which small advantages add up quickly. And securing as many of those as possible is not only valid but vital.

The thing about a win more move is that grinding out a victory in which your opponent has zero chance versus snapping their metaphorical neck in a risky coup de grace nets you the same number of wins: one. So the pro move is to follow the safe, boring path to victory, most of the time.

I'll also bring up the concept of a "win more move", also from Starcraft. If a player is ahead in the game, sometimes they'll try to win in a dramatic, fancy way, when they could have simply pressed their advantage over time and gained a more sure victory.

I keep thinking about how Republicans tried to repeal the ACA over and over and over again. It wasn't because they thought it would work. It was because they were trying to waste time so that their opponents were tied up in responding to it. They were throwing out biles and advancing in other ways.

The IRA was wrong about one thing. It's not just about having to get lucky once. Getting unlucky in the right way is good enough if you know how to do it.

The allegory writes itself. The move causes a predictable response by the enemy which is not them attacking you, which allows you to gain tempo on your own attacks, to force them to reposition, and to skill-check them; if they don't respond correctly, you get massive damage.

You see, battles are all about minimizing the DPS of your opponent while maximizing your own. And in the case of Roaches and Ravagers, you can't shoot while you're repositioning to avoid the biles, while the bile player can. So at the pro level, biles gain advantages even if they don't connect.

This fixed the matchup by introducing additional tactics. But crucial to this context, at the pro level, biles almost never land. Yet they're thrown out constantly. This is counterintuitive unless you truly understand the mechanics of battles like this.

This was a bad, boring meta.

The third iteration, Legacy of the Void, introduced Ravagers, which are in situ upgrades to Roaches. These have an ability called Corrosive Bile, which is essentially a mortar shot. Shoot a projectile upward, two seconds later, it falls and does big splash damage.

So in the second iteration of the game, Heart of the Swarm, there was an issue with Zerg mirror matchups. You couldn't transition out of Roaches. These are tanky, mid-DPS, short-range units. Battles consisted of sometimes *dozens* of them on each side, all trying to shoot one another.