I’ve just uninstalled and removed Balatro after yet a near, very close 8/8 ante finish. I have been failing and failing, I’ve only ever seen and gotten to 8/8 ante twice, this being the second time. Every other run has been just insulting me to where no strategy has ever worked, I feel like a lot of it is RNG and pre-determined outcomes based on seeded runs.

And I hate that way of playing. It always feels like I’m getting smacked down by a troll bully who I can never overcome. They’d kick me down every failed run I’d have, then they give me a false sense of security the further I get. “Awwww, getting tired of being owned? Here, let me help you by giving you a few seemingly lucky breaks. SMACK Oh! OWNED YOU AGAIN! FUCK YOU! LOLLOLOL! I BANGED YOUR MOTHER, GIT GUD, NOOB!1”

I just don’t understand why these kinds of games are around, even when I have a good idea who it is for.

  • rabber@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    I’ve always wanted to learn to play rts online like starcraft or aoe2 but I just get beyond stressed out

    • starelfsc2@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      You should try the arcade games, some really creative ones in there. Or try the scenarios in beyond all reason, it’s more of a puzzle than a stressful game since it’s vs ai.

      • rabber@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        I have no issue with RTS…it was the genre I grew up with. Facing hard bots doesnt really stress me. Something about facing another human does lol

        Which is weird because I’ve been 6000 mmr on dota before, ive been top 5 worldwide banshee kills worldwide in halo reach, etc, so I don’t know where this anxiety stems from

        • namingthingsiseasy@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          In my case, it’s age. I only have so much free time during a day, and ruining it on a shitty Dota2 pub match just makes me feel like trash for weeks later. Even today, I cringe when I think back on some of the stupid things I did in that game.

          The last thing I need is more embarrassing memories running through my brain when I’m trying to sleep at night.

          • rabber@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            I am glad I have not played dota 2 in over 10 years. Nothing in life has ever made me more angry than that game ever did.

            My last match was against S4 and Loda. I got shitstomped after queueing 45 minutes for a match because there were no other worthy opponents at our mmr. I uninstalled the game. I just lost to s4 in the mid lane…I finished dota 2. I completed the game.

            I lost actual friends playing dota 2 with them competitively. That game is a hard drug. Lol. I played solo offlane on our team too which is probably the most soul crushing role to play at high level. Every single tryhard match for me was me being tortured for the benefit of our carry and it wore on me

            Most cringey moment for me. We were close to winning a tight match. The elites were stacked several times for our carry to farm them. I was personally angry at this person that day though, so I decided to farm his saved up stack (I was furion) and threw the game. I never spoke to that guy since. We were classmates in college.

            Still proud of myself for reaching that level but it came at a cost of like 8 hours practice per day. I’ve never been that good at something before in my life so kind of cool I guess. I also quit all drugs and alcohol during my dota “career” as losing for me wasn’t an option so I stayed sharp as possible.

            • namingthingsiseasy@programming.devEnglish
              2·
              1 day ago

              Damn! Matchmaking is definitely really hard at high MMR levels, and I remember back when I read reddit about how many people would post angrily about matchmaking - there’s no easy solution to that problem at that point. I remember watching a twitch stream after TI9 where Ana was fountain farming an opposing team until they got an abandon. (The deserved it for being asses in the allchat to be honest, but the skill gap was still obscene.)

              But at the same time, your experience is exactly how I figured things would go if I ever tried to play Dota seriously. When I played football in my teenage years, I realized that eventually, you reach a point where getting better stops being fun because everyone else is equally talented and trying their hardest to get to the next level too. At that point, I realized that I just wanted to have fun and stopped competing. Still played recreationally in my regional league though. We had terrible results, but losing on a bad team was a lot more fun than winning on a good one.

              Glad to hear that Dota helped you kick all your bad habits. It’s always good to find a silver lining, no matter how crappy the situation is.

        • starelfsc2@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          I think it’s maybe that rts feels like you’re going into a dark room and have to fistfight some random person, in dota you at least have teammates that can help you / frustrate you, rts is just “sit there blind and try not to die to this guy who could be doing literally anything.” Once you get a lot of experience it becomes a fistfight in at least a moderately lit room lol