Welcome once again to the weekly broadcast of giant robots and explosions and lasers.  Today we’re going to be talking about the most difficult part of this game, how to finish off the enemy without getting blasted to pieces in the process, and the biggest part of this is knowing how to read your enemy’s status and take advantage of it.

Whenever you’re fighting an enemy ‘Mech, you should hit R to lock on.  This gives you a lot of advantages that you wouldn’t normally have, like the ability to see what your enemy’s weapons are, what their damage looks like, how far away they are and it marks the enemy for your team so that they know where it is and can shoot LRMs at it.  Now all of this is well and good, but we’re going to be focusing on the damage readout so that you too can deliver that final money shot of hot sweet love/death into your enemy. Continue Reading

So, have any of you ever heard the acronym “G.I.R.L.” when referring to women on online games?  Maybe some of you would know it more from the full term of “Guy In Real Life”, as it is often colloquially called.  It is a phrase that really irritates the ever loving crap out of me, like seriously guys.  The kind of spineless and hateful pieces of crap that use this term really just get my goat sometimes, but of course I do not feed the trolls themselves.  It does not do one well to actually show rage online, but inside it still eats at you especially when one is trans such as myself.

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Luck – a : a force that brings good fortune or adversity.

b: the events or circumstances that operate for or against an individual.

If you are a gamer then more than likely you use dice. I’d be willing to bet that you own some dice. I personally have a set in my purse, just for those instances I might need some in a jif (You never know!).

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