Brian @MD_BoD@octodon.social

@kara_dreamer sorry if I come off as hard selling here, I just had the exact same reservations on the game, but decided to give it a shot during the free weekend a few weeks ago and was pleasantly surprised. Also, Blizzard takes reporting seriously if you do happen to run into particularly toxic players.

@kara_dreamer elaborating on Arcade mode, lots of fun game types, like Mystery Heroes, where what hero you play is randomized every time you respawn, or Mayhem where ultimate charging is increased.

@kara_dreamer They offer a variety of play modes:
Training - just you and some bots
VS AI - team of players vs team of AI
Quick Play - players vs players, outcome does not affect your "competitive rating"
Competitive - players vs players, outcome affects competitive rating (people can get really salty in here)
Arcade - fun stuff

Every now and then they'll also have story-driven PVE scenarios that are players vs AI.

Lots of options to play without running into toxic types

@kara_dreamer I've so far steered clear of the "comp mode" in game and just played in Quick Play, or even vs AI. Not a lot of toxicity in those play modes, as more of the "just playing for fun" and "learning a new hero" types are in there.

@kara_dreamer I'm not normally into FPS games, but Overwatch is super fun... and it's 100% because of the characters.

Missiles fired at Syria. Fucking great. If I was running a simulation and this shit was happening, I'd hit the restart button.

@Capndan I believe that's just the Home timeline.

I love this figure. Though the hair makes me feel like I should paint him up as Conan, I don't know if I'd be able to resist painting him up as He-man riding Cringer/BattleCat. https://octodon.social/media/YaL4eWuHkM___iY2LQg

@BrunoLefevre I'm pretty sure it's @CobaltVelvet

@tjr87 Yeah, definitely... though there are still some parts of it I find valuable. Namely the timely news and Black Twitter

What's going on now? Avatars are busted? Mastodon is looking like the wild west out here.

Still struggling with the added freedom of 500 characters. Hopefully I can break this urge to write in pseudo-haiku and lament what grammar crime I'm about to commit.

Got sucked into a YouTube rabbit-hole thanks to the recommended videos the other day. I now find myself obsessed with bee keeping and all things honey bees. TIL Los Angeles approved backyard bee keeping two years ago... so this may become my next hobby. :)

@pzmyers hopefully it promotes more rational discourse than seems to be possible in Twitter's model.

Another day, another social media platform.