Crinklewott 💕 @thingywott@awoo.space

@noiob hahah, sorry!

I saw you once and that was basically it

@noiob hi!

@noiob they're kinda hard to explain

i can join one of your matches for a game if you wanna see what it looks like! (no guarantees i'll end up on your side though)

@noiob kinda! they usually take more than one hit to splat an opponent, but they have similar range and spread

the cool part about them is that you can hold down fire and the umbrella part expands into a shield that can take an unreasonable amount of damage

and if you keep it open for long enough, the umbrella part will fire off, and you can follow it as a shield that inks along the way

also, you can shoot and walk through it, but opponents can't

@noiob one of my favorites are the brellas

they lend themselves really well to close quarters, and are just fun to use in general

@noiob even if you do, there are lots of other types of dualies too!

actually, a lot of the most solid weapons in the entire game are dualies

@noiob yeah! i actually like the idea a lot!

it means you don't need to trap yourself with a single loadout if you wanted to play around with other things

@noiob it's a per-weapon ranking that grows based on how well you've been doing with it

it's used in matchmaking to pair you with others at the same level

being per-weapon means that you can safely try out new weapons without having to face your usual level of competition right off the bat!

@noiob oh yeah! you can do some real nifty things with those

(also, i guess i should mention that i don't mean you should retreat from everything--but keep it in mind if you see unwinnable situations! sometimes those can reverse if you can survive!)

@noiob hee, that's fair!

i mentioned it because retreating is actually significantly easier than 1v1ing peeps, and it often ends up being really good for your overall games

@noiob one general non-obvious tip that can turn things around a lot is that surviving is much higher priority than accomplishing most goals

don't be afraid to retreat

if you go down, it becomes 4 against 3 until you can get back, and that can shift things pretty drastically

@noiob oh nooo

@noiob oof

i had this problem for a while, and i discovered that a LAN adapter basically solved it (this is the only one the switch supports: https://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-Internet-Officially-Licensed-wii-u/dp/B01N6S068R)

my wifi is pretty reliable, but there was just something about it that would cause all kinds of online grief in splatoon

@noiob yays!

@noiob ahh!

i was actually gonna say that i noticed that there are two common css files loaded on every page--one for glitch and one for vanilla, and i figured that the components scss file got compiled into one eventually

@noiob hmm, looking at the (quite sparse) docs, maybe components.scss might do it?

from your top-level, that's app/javascript/styles/mastodon/components.scss

(i pulled that name from https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/contributing/frontend/#file_folder-the-styles-folder, and looked for the file on your github repo)

@raccoon welp :mouth_over_face:​

@raccoon om nom nom

@Yokai so basically, when the whole "hi! i really like this thing you did" turns into the only thing anyone knows about you, huh?

heck, that would be even less cool if the only reason someone wanted to talk to you was because they liked a thing you did once, and want to be acknowledged by the person who made it--no matter who that person might be

yeah, i can see how that would be dehumanizing--where you basically become a vessel for your work, and nothing more

oof, yeah, that sucks even more