{"id":9693,"date":"2016-09-12T08:30:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T15:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=9693"},"modified":"2016-09-12T01:19:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T08:19:49","slug":"because-i-was-really-busy-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/because-i-was-really-busy-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"because i was really busy on saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overwatch had a free-play weekend these last couple of days, and so the system was flooded with n00bs. And that&#8217;s fine, but somehow, it <em>deeply<\/em> confused the skill ranking system used to set up matches.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, it&#8217;s always been flaky, and find of setting me up as the high-ranked player with five mid-ranked players against teams <Em>well<\/eM> above our level, but Sunday? It would be me with my one star and levels plus one person who has two digits of experience pus four literal single-digit n00bs vs. FIVE STARS and a NOBODY.<\/p>\n<p>Because sure, that&#8217;s math. I mean, the game has always had issues with its levels matching, but c&#8217;mon.<\/p>\n<p>(Crashing on me three times during winning games did not improve my statistics either.)<\/p>\n<p>Is this what I thought about on Sunday night instead of working on the lyric video for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/track\/were-not-friends-the-future-has-a-place\">We&#8217;re Not Friends<\/a>&#8220;? Yes. Yes, it is. BAD MUSICIAN NO GAMING except of course lots of gaming, at least, when not working on day jobbe, because this is Big Time for Day Jobbe month.<\/p>\n<p>Also I think I&#8217;m shipping Phamercy now. Because sure, why not. My section of Tumblr fandom has pretty much decided everyone in Overwatch is queer, and really? <Em>I&#8217;m good with that<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, so &#8211; how was <Em>your<\/em> weekend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overwatch had a free-play weekend these last couple of days, and so the system was flooded with n00bs. And that&#8217;s fine, but somehow, it deeply confused the skill ranking system used to set up matches. I mean, it&#8217;s always been flaky, and find of setting me up as the high-ranked player with five mid-ranked players [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9693"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9697,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9693\/revisions\/9697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}