ossifiedtoad.bsky.social

@labmuffin.com Have any advice/guidance on choosing sunscreen for young children? Are there specific regulated claims/labels for safety/efficacy in children? Is labeling as ”for kids” regulated? I presume ingredient limits might be lower because small bodies have higher surface area to volume.

10 Aug

Outside of regulated claims, is there anything specific you’d look for? I’m trying to help my friend navigate all the online fear-mongering, and I suggested she just try big-name drugstore brand kid’s formulas. I’d love to be able to give her something more specific to check off tho.

27 Mar

@srslypaladin.bsky.social I submitted a bug report about this, but I’ve been noticing a weirdly high rate of ”expected” wins across many comp games on multiple accounts. One session, 4 out of 6 wins were “expected”. I don’t think I’ve seen any of the other imbalanced-match flags in the past week.

27 Mar

I haven’t been keeping exact track, but it’s been often enough that 50% seems like a plausible rate. I’m wondering if maybe any win with a >50% predicted win chance is being marked as “expected”, or something like that?

25 Mar

@srslypaladin.bsky.social Is there still inactivity decay in MMRs? Or has that been basically replaced by the periodic soft-resets? If there is inactivity decay, how does it interact with the soft-resets?

25 Mar

I’ve seen a number of complaints from players who returned to OW this season after substantial time away, who have placed too high and are having to play through many losses to stabilize. Maybe just normal variation, but I wondered if there might be something systematic going on.

@srslypaladin.bsky.social Can you help me make sense of my recent Stadium Comp experience? Prior to the Oct 1 patch, I was in All-Star 1 for ages, with each loss wiping out 2-3 wins’ worth of points. So, I thought I must be above my predicted rank.

14 Oct 2025

Update: I’m now in Legend 1, and I’m *still* gaining 220 or losing 60 every game. Decent WR since I was at an even 80 gain/loss in All Star 1 (~57% I think), but not nearly high enough that it makes sense for my predicted rank to have (seemingly) shot up so far.

14 Oct 2025

It really feels like something weird happened to my MMR/predicted rank. I was gonna keep playing until it leveled out, but I’m gonna run out of time. And maybe ranks? Not sure what’s at the top of the Legend 1 progress bar.

(I know Stadium is different, and players may have skills that get more value in Stadium than in the regular game. But I’m basically 1-tricking Freja, so it makes a *big* difference if the enemy Soldier/Cass/Tracer is masters or plat.)

Freja did get buffs, which definitely helps. But having a larger explosion radius isn’t increasing the accuracy of my predictive pre-fires onto flanking Tracers. Playing into more-predictable less-skilled Tracer players would though.

Before the patch, I was holding steady while earning far less per win than I lost per loss, so I had a pretty high WR. Afterwards, I held rank with equal gains and losses, so my WR must have been even. So how did my predicted rank go up so much?

I think my recent WR genuinely is quite a bit higher, but the games seem far easier. Before, I was regularly matching up against masters/GM players on my role, but now I’m seeing mostly gold/plat.

Eventually I did get promoted to Legend, a game earlier than I expected, because I got 125 for the promo match instead of the 80 points I had been getting. Fell back out during a loss streak, and then got promo’d back in a single win that granted me 220.

Ever since, I’ve been getting 220 per win and losing 60 per loss and am sailing through Legend pretty quickly, so it seems my predicted rank is now much higher? IME 220 seems to be the max you can get from a game.