#( guess who's back! but on a new account! )

[hypertana-posts]

"Boo!"

"Nice to be back online somewhat for this Halloween, our doors are open. Might've bought too much candy this year so go rampent."

"Everyone's welcome!"

[elysiumcalled]

Next time somebody at work asks if I can help I’m just saying no idfc anymore

[boundinparchment]

I cannot stop thinking about them oh no 😭

[daisywords]

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[rearranging-deck-chairs]

obsessed with their different reactions to being called starcrossed lovers

[loumauve]

I snapped today at work, and by snapped I mean I politely commented on a help desk ticket by summing up an mess of an (type of) issue that's come up for at least the fourth time in the 2+ months I've been managing user accounts, and asked the person responsible to fix it (himself for once) because last time I fixed his mess-up it took me two whole days to work out the details with at least four other colleagues from different departments and I really don't want to do it again. there's other shit that needs doing, I've been working 10+ hour days for most of this week already, so I need to cut down not add on more.

(good thing tho - at least we managed to fix the issue where the dataset of a newer employee got mixed up with another one of the same name and therefore wasn't able to apply for any of the access/accounts she needed. technically not entirely my area but it does impact us not being allowed to create an account for her so I figured I might as well track that issue down. took three days and at least three other people, but hey - it should all work out now. yay for that)

[homosexual-fanfiction]

in celebration of the fic ALMOST being done here's a piece of the scrapped outline from 2019 that still makes me laugh

[robinsnest2111]

dreamt Randy and Benson were my coworkers at the movie theater!!! 👀

[volivolition]

friend i think ur propaganda is working let's fuckin go -Vol

THANK YOU VOL IM TRYING SO HARD!! :'0!! WE WERE LEADING FOR A BIT AND NOW WE'RE BACK DOWN AGAIN AND IM SO!! DISTRAUGHT!!!

VOTE VOLITION GET HIM BACK UP THERE PLEASE!!!

[caint-see-me]

"Hey...! Cass... Cassie? Do you think you can ask Lucius Fox how to recover my account? Tumblr has blocked meeeeeeeeeeee."

<3

Babs, (who got locked out)

🤨

Why did they block you?

And. How?

[xeduo]

Add meeeee

[rivilu]

I dont really believe in afterlife as a place, but if one exists im finding the Roman fucker that adapted the Medusa story and pummeling him to death a second time

[waybrightgender]

google how to get someone to stop reading about crypto and using degenerate

[lyekisses]

i’m being sooooo strong and sooooo brave and not snapping on anyone today 🙏🏻

[ri4naaa]

late night financial decisions that can be traced back to me by future employers and the like 💗💗

[blazehedgehog]

Soaking this in

If you don't know what this is, here's an explanation: Both Fortnite and Call of Duty employ something called "Skill-Based Matchmaking" (SBMM for short), and it has become the bane of a certain subset of players who very vocally yell about how it is ruining multiplayer games.

In short, the game secretly and quietly keeps track of your "skill level." Even if a game has both ranked and unranked modes, it is always tracking this skill level stat that reports back how quickly and easily you're getting kills. When you connect to a new match, it tries to group you with players near your skill level.

The idea being you start with zero skill stat, and by playing the game well, your skill stat levels up until you eventually plateau and you are forever playing the game with people that are just as good (or bad) as you are, within some level of variance.

This means if you're one of these career streamer guys or a Youtube clip compilation sort of dude (or both), then you very quickly get put into high tier matchmaking pools with all the other career streamers and wannabe esports pros. Hence the very loud, very vocal complaints, because if you're one of those guys, the idea of having a "casual match" goes away. Everybody is always firing on all cylinders and you're expected to do the same in order to keep your rank and not look embarrassing to your captive audience.

So Activision apparently ran an experiment per Charlie Intel (article here) where they reduced SBMM's effectiveness, meaning the big fish pros and the little tadpole casual players were thrown into more games together.

The result was a sharp uptick in players rage quitting matches early, some even quitting the game entirely and never coming back. The report notes that while player retention for players with a high skill rank was improved, they make up such a small percentage of the player base (apparently less than 1%; the article has some grammar problems) that servicing them really doesn't make sense.

As it turns out, low level players don't want to get hopelessly destroyed by wannabe esports pros. And those pros make up such a small percentage of the player base it doesn't make sense to keep feeding them more low level chum, even though they are the hungriest for it. As more and more low level players permanently leave the game due to frustration, it turns into a wasteland where high level players are getting mad at each other until they also get frustrated and leave as well. SBMM ensures long term health for a game's multiplayer ecosystem.

And being a Fortnite player, it's so validating to hear this. "SBMM is ruining multiplayer" was always a narrative coming from streamers and youtubers who were frustrated by having to actually TRY instead of being able to score easy clip compilation fodder on clueless newbies.

Enjoy sticking to your smurf accounts now, I guess.