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Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010
Nothing like playing a game where no one's in voice, being the only person to an enemy getting in position to use an ult...and being the healer.

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strong bird
May 12, 2009

Verranicus posted:

WoW will get better at the very least.

https://twitter.com/celestalon

slev
Apr 6, 2009

Did Metzen write Reaper's backstory

Jastiger
Oct 11, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
I remember reading the original starcraft instruction manual that had all the backstory and thought it was the COOLEST poo poo that marines were "corrupted" and turned against their former friends.

Little did I know that this would be the case for nearly every major character that would come after.

Arthas-Corrupted
Illidan-Corrupted
Kerrigan-Corrupted
Kael'Thas-Corrupted
Widowmaker-Corrupted

Its very telling that I thought it was the COOLEST poo poo......when I was 14.

I mean he's contributed a lot for sure, but I also feel like he had a very distinct brand that they could have moved away from a bit.

Brannock
Feb 9, 2006

by exmarx
Fallen Rib

slev posted:

Did Metzen write Reaper's backstory

http://www.sonsofthestorm.com/report_soldier76.html

Cirofren
Jun 13, 2005


Pillbug
I just hope the Bliz writers left in Metzen's wake don't feel beholden to his legacy.

Panfilo
Aug 27, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 7 days!
Winston will find the skull of Gul Dan and become a chaos gorilla that turns on his friends.

SlimGoodbody
Oct 20, 2003


Christ this is bad and reactionary as gently caress. I keep forgetting Blizzard is based in Irvine, the most bourgeois party of Orange County, which is already California's Texas. "A grizzled, retired soldier defends the country from religious extremists and race rioters," holy gently caress I hate this so much

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

Apologies if this has been posted already


Overwatch 'Healsluts' Turn Playing Support Into An Erotic Experience


quote:

The process of engaging in some BDSM in the seemingly squeaky-clean video game Overwatch is simple. Equip the angelic healer Mercy with her Imp skin, spray-paint an arrow on the wall, and crouch beneath it. If you’re lucky, a tank will walk up to you and emote “understood.” You’ll serve them dutifully and wait for the private message after the match.

Overwatch was not built with kink in mind. It’s rated T for Teen. The developers were so averse to sexualizing their game that they pruned one character’s over-the-shoulder pose from the game for being too risque. But for the venerable “healslut” scene, which is all about the eroticization of playing support roles in games, you’ve got to work with what you’ve got.


Rules

quote:

There are no hard and fast rules when it comes to healsluts, but according to the Discord channel, there are five general roles across the games they play. Tanks are gentle doms who play for the adoration and devotion of their healers. If you’re DPS, you represent a darker, more violent version of the same desire. Switches (as in real life) are fluid in their taste. Healers are submissives that prefer lighter domination. The titular healsluts are more masochistic. All of these closely mirror the same fundamental designations of your average sadomasochist fetish. But in Overwatch specifically, it’s interesting to think that someone could identify certain semantic sensual qualities in the mechanics of certain characters, such Reinhardt’s barrier field, or Mercy’s cherubic heal-beam.
http://kotaku.com/overwatch-healsluts-turn-playing-support-into-an-erotic-1786553002

FrostyPox
Feb 8, 2012

:stonk:


Oh. OK, then. Uh... whatever floats your boat?

Panfilo
Aug 27, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 7 days!

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Apologies if this has been posted already


Overwatch 'Healsluts' Turn Playing Support Into An Erotic Experience




Rules

http://kotaku.com/overwatch-healsluts-turn-playing-support-into-an-erotic-1786553002

It's about time!

Willie Tomg
Feb 2, 2006

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Apologies if this has been posted already


Overwatch 'Healsluts' Turn Playing Support Into An Erotic Experience




Rules

http://kotaku.com/overwatch-healsluts-turn-playing-support-into-an-erotic-1786553002

with that kind of effort you could literally just Have Sex. freaky sex. IRL. in the year 2016.

Kai Tave
Jul 2, 2012
Fallen Rib
"Oh baby, I'll do anything you want."

"Anything? Would you...get on the point?"

"What are you, some kind of sick freak?"

Internet Explorer
Jun 1, 2005





So that's why my wife plays so much Mercy...

Theta Zero
Dec 22, 2014

I've seen it.


I got slapped into Platinum which I think is good? I lost four matches, won 5, and tied one but I got constant golds as Zenyatta, one time of which I literally had all golds, so I'm happy the system is based off of how you actually do instead of whether or not you rolled lucky for getting decent teammates. I was insistent on using voice chat to make things easier and I got placed with teammates who didn't even speak English sometimes.



I also got my partner in misery looking particularly evil.

Manatee Cannon
Aug 26, 2010



if it works anything like last season did, gold is average and diamond and up is a tiny percentage of the total playerbase

Theta Zero
Dec 22, 2014

I've seen it.

Manatee Cannon posted:

if it works anything like last season did, gold is average and diamond and up is a tiny percentage of the total playerbase

Then I'll do what I did last season and get to 70/diamond and call it quits until the next one because I'm lazy.

Manatee Cannon
Aug 26, 2010



70 is master, 60 is diamond

divide your current rank by 50 and you get your season 1 rank

Discospawn
Mar 3, 2007

Manatee Cannon posted:

70 is master, 60 is diamond

divide your current rank by 50 and you get your season 1 rank

That is not actually true based on the percentages that the player base fell into at the end of Season 1 versus what the percentages are now for Season 2. That formula was only true briefly on PTR before they changed their placement algorithm.

I suppose it's closer to accurate if you fell within 45-55 SR last season, and you're within 2300-2700 this season (which is most of the player base), but it stops being true at higher levels.

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Apologies if this has been posted already


Overwatch 'Healsluts' Turn Playing Support Into An Erotic Experience




Rules

http://kotaku.com/overwatch-healsluts-turn-playing-support-into-an-erotic-1786553002

Lol what does this mean for lucio

Kashuno
Oct 9, 2012

Where the hell is my SWORD?
Grimey Drawer

FAUXTON posted:

Lol what does this mean for lucio

He's a whore

Help Im Alive
Nov 8, 2009

smdh at crouching under the arrow spray

True healsluts use the kneel emote

Dietrich
Sep 11, 2001

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Apologies if this has been posted already


Overwatch 'Healsluts' Turn Playing Support Into An Erotic Experience




Rules

http://kotaku.com/overwatch-healsluts-turn-playing-support-into-an-erotic-1786553002

What the gently caress

strong bird
May 12, 2009

You all need to keep up

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!
The seeming majority of Overwatch fandom is people doing erotic fantasies with the cast so :rolleyes:

Kashuno
Oct 9, 2012

Where the hell is my SWORD?
Grimey Drawer
I have unknowingly enabled so many healsluts :ohdear:

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

I wish I would get games with healsluts, because then I wouldn't be stuck rolling Zen or Lucio in a majority of my matches.

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

I play Zarya a lot so I guess there's that angle to it too but lol at Zenyatta being the bottom in that relationship because the canon says Zarya hates robots.

Just hatefuck until the bolts fall out and then keep going. WE ARE IN HARMONY, YES? TRANK-VILITY ROBOT FEELINGS, HEH *crushes "orbs of destruction" between thighs*

FAUXTON fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Sep 13, 2016

Kashuno
Oct 9, 2012

Where the hell is my SWORD?
Grimey Drawer
Zarya hate fucks with that cannon

junan_paalla
Dec 29, 2009

Seriously, do drugs
No healslutshaming. I regularly give it up to everyone on my team while dooting with pleasure.

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

junan_paalla posted:

No healslutshaming. I regularly give it up to everyone on my team while dooting with pleasure.

This reminds me I need to post the hilarious Ilios triple doot POTG another goon (Dysia, iirc) got a couple days ago because the third was like the sickest punchline ever since the first two got dooted together, then Dysia went back into the point and hit us with sound barrier, then went back out and dooted #3 like "and gently caress jazz too"

kaptainkaffeine
Apr 1, 2003

Drug Free Since: Lunch

this is way more hosed up than healsluttin'

Wildtortilla
Jul 8, 2008
I was happier with life before I learned heal slitting was a thing. People are so strange.

sleppy
Dec 25, 2008

"" posted:

If you’re lucky, a tank will walk up to you and emote “understood.”

Kashuno posted:

I have unknowingly enabled so many healsluts :ohdear:

I am pretty liberal with my acknowledge button, and you just made me think back to a mercy pocket who added me after what I thought was a mediocre game... now I feel a little better about declining.

Prav
Oct 29, 2011

strong bird posted:

You all need to keep up

all these goons thinking that the perma-mercy they were playing with was just a helpful guy while he was fondling his balls all match long

terrified of my bathroom
Jan 24, 2014

GAY BOATS
smh at goons not wanting a big strong tank to protect them and carry them to victory :rolleye:

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

It's not just Overwatch

quote:

The beauty of healsluts is you can make anything—literally anything—part of the kink. A player who is an active member on r/healsluts tells me that outside of League and Overwatch, he also participates in the fetish with Town of Salem, Borderlands, and the incredibly chaste Civilization 5. “It varies from game to game but generally I make a set of rules that encourages submission for the submissive,” the player says. “For example, in a Civilization game you might limit their ability to build things like wonders and religion. In League and Overwatch it’s fairly easy to implement rewards for good plays and punishment for bad.”


A quote from a proud heaslut

quote:

"This is just something enjoyable for me that’s practical as well. I can’t expect to have any real life sexual interaction on a constant basis,” he says. “But with video games I know I can always log in, hit the play button, and prepare myself to become someone’s healslut for the next thirty minutes.”

LeisureSuit Canary
Dec 27, 2012




I watch their discord occasionally. Tends to be funny. They've got profiles and crap. Some use charts to document their kinks and what is their interest level. I think you need to submit a profile to see some hidden channels. They also try to run movie and anime nights.

They were formed on a discord by a dude who asked people to call him big tank but he didn't use it as his discord name if I remember right. I think his actual screen name was komache or something like that.

The mods split because surprisingly a guy who put bdsm associations to being a tank had a tendency to go mad with power. He chased half his rp base away. The group that fled formed the Reddit and a new discord. They eventually agreed to reunite if the founder gave up power.

It was weird to watch. They've really blown up since I last looked at it.

They tried to form a server called heal slut academy. It was only for heal sluts to rp being in school and learning how to be heal sluts. Pretty sure that died out quick though.

LCL-Dead
Apr 22, 2014

Grimey Drawer
This thread man..

..the past two pages have almost been as bad as the oversmut channel on the chillbro overwatch goon discord.

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Kai Tave
Jul 2, 2012
Fallen Rib
I've noticed that whenever the subject of weird pornographic fetishes gets brought up regardless of thread or context it usually results in at least a couple pages of people showing off how much they know about those weird pornographic fetishes in detail, occasionally with links and illustrations provided.

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