I read the the new patch notes and the one thing that caught my eye was that the Dolphin's generated heat was lowered. Then a note that stated the rate of damage it would take from heating up past the damage range had been increased. Balance. Freaking, forking, BALANCE! Why on Earth did the devs feel it necessary to do that?
Dad to SON: What's with the shiner son?
Son: BA kicked my rear end today. Really bad and that just isn't fair, he said with a tear slowly forming in his eye. BA is really big and he's older and fights all the time. I didn't have a chance, he whined.
Dad: Probably shud'a thought twice about fightin' him, son. It's stupid to fight battles you can't win.
Son: but it isn't fair that he's bigger and stronger than me, Dad. It isn't fair, sniff. And it really, really hurt when he hit me.
Dad: getting exasperated. Well son most of the time life isn't fair. That's just the way it is. If you don't learn to deal with that you're gonna have some real problems when you grow up.
Son: But Daaaaaaaadd! You need to fix it so it is fair.
Dad: Life's not fair.
Son: but it should be.
Dad: ...and if yur aunt had balls she'd by yur uncle: thinks to himself: gettin' tired of dealing with this: I tell ya what, son: How about I go out, find BA and chop off his legs and one arm (gotta leave 'im with something to eat with). Would that make it fair enough for you?
SON: YAY! You're the best dad. Do it! I'll kick his rear end then!
Dad: uh huh - walking away, head slowly turning right to left and back again, mumbling words best left unheard by his son.
Kind'a silly huh?
But that's exactly what I think about every time I hear or read someone whining about balance. I can only wonder if what they really want is a game with no challenge, a game where every hard thing has an opposing offset that effectively nerfs it. And every easy thing has no offset at all.
In ED terms using the Dolphin patch as an example: just because it produces less heat and what heat it does produce is managed efficiently doesn't mean that it will take damage faster when it does overheat. In point of fact it probably should have a lower rate of taking damage from over heating due to the very inherent efficiency of it's build and systems.
In a whiny crybaby voice laced with sarcasm:
But - but - what about BALANCE? It's not fair that the Dolphin is so heat efficient. Isn't BALANCE good? Shouldn't that demand that for every positive there has to be a negative. That's only fair.
So - until GOD starts handing out certificates of "Everything will be fair and balanced for you in your life, my son" all I have to say about BALANCE is: it's a fantasy and doesn't exist in real life - at least not to any great extent for humanity and honestly I can't think of a single instance (except in games as a way of appeasing the whiners) of a situation where it does.
Aside: actually - now that I think of it there is one example of an attempt to achieve balance that has probably created more whining, hate and discontent and efforts to achieve it than any other thing that has been said in all of history. "All men are created equal". LOL! NO - they're not and never will be. And it's senseless trying to achieve it - define equal. All smart, all strong, all beautiful? Or maybe all dumb, all weak and all ugly - now that's balance.
SCREW BALANCE!
Dad to SON: What's with the shiner son?
Son: BA kicked my rear end today. Really bad and that just isn't fair, he said with a tear slowly forming in his eye. BA is really big and he's older and fights all the time. I didn't have a chance, he whined.
Dad: Probably shud'a thought twice about fightin' him, son. It's stupid to fight battles you can't win.
Son: but it isn't fair that he's bigger and stronger than me, Dad. It isn't fair, sniff. And it really, really hurt when he hit me.
Dad: getting exasperated. Well son most of the time life isn't fair. That's just the way it is. If you don't learn to deal with that you're gonna have some real problems when you grow up.
Son: But Daaaaaaaadd! You need to fix it so it is fair.
Dad: Life's not fair.
Son: but it should be.
Dad: ...and if yur aunt had balls she'd by yur uncle: thinks to himself: gettin' tired of dealing with this: I tell ya what, son: How about I go out, find BA and chop off his legs and one arm (gotta leave 'im with something to eat with). Would that make it fair enough for you?
SON: YAY! You're the best dad. Do it! I'll kick his rear end then!
Dad: uh huh - walking away, head slowly turning right to left and back again, mumbling words best left unheard by his son.
Kind'a silly huh?
But that's exactly what I think about every time I hear or read someone whining about balance. I can only wonder if what they really want is a game with no challenge, a game where every hard thing has an opposing offset that effectively nerfs it. And every easy thing has no offset at all.
In ED terms using the Dolphin patch as an example: just because it produces less heat and what heat it does produce is managed efficiently doesn't mean that it will take damage faster when it does overheat. In point of fact it probably should have a lower rate of taking damage from over heating due to the very inherent efficiency of it's build and systems.
In a whiny crybaby voice laced with sarcasm:
But - but - what about BALANCE? It's not fair that the Dolphin is so heat efficient. Isn't BALANCE good? Shouldn't that demand that for every positive there has to be a negative. That's only fair.
So - until GOD starts handing out certificates of "Everything will be fair and balanced for you in your life, my son" all I have to say about BALANCE is: it's a fantasy and doesn't exist in real life - at least not to any great extent for humanity and honestly I can't think of a single instance (except in games as a way of appeasing the whiners) of a situation where it does.
Aside: actually - now that I think of it there is one example of an attempt to achieve balance that has probably created more whining, hate and discontent and efforts to achieve it than any other thing that has been said in all of history. "All men are created equal". LOL! NO - they're not and never will be. And it's senseless trying to achieve it - define equal. All smart, all strong, all beautiful? Or maybe all dumb, all weak and all ugly - now that's balance.
SCREW BALANCE!
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