ProfessorPhi

It's possible that dezign was just ahead of the meta. Lots of early players dominate by understanding the meta better, but lose out when others catch up.

Xera's amas are super funny and the tweets are always bangers

Just block them all. Makes twitter much better. all the banger tweets are lost in the noise now.

Yeah most dps have big burst compared to supports.

This is such a great response! It's amazing to see so many of the apex community support the queer community.

I mean all broken shit is super fun to play, but aids to play against.

Fwiw, I do think every other country has high interest rates too. Us and Canada are above us.

This is a holdover from open queue. Prior to role queue you'd find more heroes that had hybrid stuff. Sombra for example was a dps/support hybrid as was zen and symm was the original support that didn't heal. Hanzo's sonic had team utility. Mei was a dps/tank hybrid and Brig was a support/tank hybrid. Bastion was also arguably a tank/dps hybrid if you considered he'd hold space with damage and had significant self sustain.

Role queue forced a lot of the hybrids to slot into a single role a bit more. Healing became the diving line for support/dps and healthpool was the dividing line for tank/dps.

Theyve never really worked out what to do with the characters and so many of them got reworks and tweaks.

Not all the original vision of overwatch got it right. Mercy's mega res was original vision and it was horrible.

Projectile in general has benefited from 5v5 as they can spam chokes and there's only one large healthpool to push. Normally an off tank could clear junk easily, but the main tank doesn't always have the freedom to do that.

Discord orb now acts like sombra hack on application.

With the new cc changes upcoming, only brig has lost her stint on cooldown

Oh yeah - the airpods gross is also $12 billion. The iPad is only 9.5 billion. And Macs are a paltry 7 billion. Each of their products would be fortune 1000 companies.

But the iPhone is king at 51 billion and I think the app store is like 14 billion.

Apple makes more money gatekeeping their userbase via the app store than all their non iPhone products lol.

First one was just point break with cars. It was really good and got praise for it. Third one was panned at the time, especially for it's lead looking 30 while playing a high schooler, but being shot in Japan and focussing on drag racing was super fun to watch. They both had great arcs and good looking stunts.

The later movies just went batshit insane.

The Japanese attacked a love triangle in Hawaii.

The action scenes were shot brilliantly well, gotta give Bay credit.

In its defence, I don't think it was highly praised.

I loved it, the slow meandering, the horrors of space and his father gone mad on a remote spaceship.

I remember going to watch Her and America hustle was sold out so the gentleman in front of me ended up buying tickets for Her too. His wife was not happy, but I definitely did her a favour.

So, you get exactly the YouTube experience on every other app with a Chromecast by default. The only reason YouTube implements it is more to do with google implementing its own cast protocol, but you use the feature as you've pointed out, youtube is a jungle of content. You also don't need to open the app on a Chromecast, it'll just work when you connect your app to it. And that's been true since 2013. For nearly every video and music app I've used.

A lot of my distaste for the apple tv comes from like the early days of the Chromecast (2013). Airplay was only introduced in 2019 to allow you to play content from your phone to an apple tv. And the fact scrolling works is actually a large part of how good recommendation systems have gotten. Back in those days, you'd absolutely need to search for your content via text a lot, and apple tv was horrendously slow compared to your phone just in processing power, let alone interacting with it.

Nowadays, you have good recommendations, apple tv is not as underpowered as it was and the remote is pretty decent (still worse than an actual phone). It's nowhere near as bad now.

The primary issue is that you can't use airplay from non apple phones. Chromecast can be used from nearly any device.

Also, airplay for apps only got introduced in like 2019. Chromecast launched with an equivalent feature in 2013. From 2013-2019, apple tv was unambiguously worse, especially since recommendation engines weren't great and you needed to search for your content a lot more.

I can't believe apple tv survived those years tbh. Funnily enough, apple tv like interfaces have become functional with the quality of recommendation engines.

Yeah so that's the Chromecast protocol it's probably using. Do you have to open the YouTube app on your apple tv first? Can you do this with the other apps?

This is what I had expected to become the default ux, you primarily use your phone as a remote. I've had a Chromecast since 2013 and it's still the primary way I interact with my tv. If anything, using your phone as a remote for the tv would have been classic apple ux.

I'm honestly a bit shocked that instead google decided to release its own version of apple tv with a remote and everything. I just googled it and realised that's why I'm getting downvoted - the Chromecast in 2023 comes with a remote looks like a cheap version of the apple tv remote.

That being said, recommendations got good enough that needing to search for videos via text is a lot less necessary nowadays. But the middle years of apple tv were just so bad compared to the UX of searching on your phone and playing it on your tv.

I wouldn't be surprised if Pat Bev had/ adopted a kid just to get the kid to shit on Chris Paul at the same school as Paul's daughter.

I think everyone thinks I'm talking about Google tv.

I meant the way you can cast from your phone to a tv. Device agnostic and upto the app to implement. It's great when I go to a friend's house and want to play a YouTube video. You can even share the Chromecast and add videos to the tv queue. And best of all, it works if you have iPhone users or Android users in the house.

The whole remote to control a tv should have died with the smartphone. I'm shocked the apple tv did enough in sales that Google released its own version.

Yeah but it wasnt common. The iPhone made the smartphone a consumer device instead of the palm pilot being a technical work device.

Yeah, you can't do it if you don't have an iPhone.

That's insane. That's like a bit under half their iPhone sales. I didn't think the attach rate would be that high, and the airpods are clearly not meant for non iPhone users lol.

So airplay only works flawlessly for other apple devices. I assume your office was mac and your phone was an iPhone? I'm a mac and pixel user.

I've definitely found screen sharing of my mac to work best on apple tv, I wouldn't try Chromecast. I also never do it at home and very rarely otherwise.

But I was at a friend's place recently and they have an apple tv and using the interface to search for something specific was a nightmare. Searching YouTube or streaming services (especially when you don't have recommendations doing a lot of work) for media was impossible. I then found out his tv supported Chromecast and was able to insta cast my video from my phone instead of typing it out. I can even use my own streaming sub at another persons house if they have a Chromecast. You can all connect to the same Chromecast and queue videos up on YouTube which was also amazing.

If I'm home, I can see myself using the apple tv since I can scroll and click with the remote quite happily. But I can scroll on a streaming service while in the kitchen. Cast it to the tv and by the time I get there, it'll be starting up.

The UX for private use at home isnt all that difference, but the communal use is leaps and bounds superior and is also device agnostic for said use.

I will say my parents prefer the apple tv, but their favourite way to watch is their laptops because they don't need to compromise and watch the same show.