Ben Trautman
@captainplanet.bsky.social
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Analyst - Overwatch Gameplay and Business Insights . Posts are my own and don't represent Blizzard.
the humble roadhog
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I became a victim of Discourse on the other site once because a subtweet I wrote escaped containment and Neil Gaiman quoted it disagreeing with my sentiment but I think in the long run I think I'm ahead in the vs. Gaiman situation now
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great time to start using the AI poisoner filters and all that if you haven't already
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7 days ago
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Not reposting the matador thing, but interesting word choice for someone who was rumored to be in a throuple with said matador as the not-bull
20 days ago
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I like this but maybe workshop the name a little (or it probably makes a lot more sense in Chinese)
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21 days ago
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every day i heard about this guy doing the right thing
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22 days ago
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I've got wired, 404,
@lataco.bsky.social
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@laurajedeed.bsky.social
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25 days ago
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I'll be talking Overwatch Stats site soon on
www.twitch.tv/spilo
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25 days ago
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Thought of a new way to describe UX design Eye-gernomics
27 days ago
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Like did you hear in the discord they found a new skip for translating time into frequency they're calling it fast fourier skip named after the speed runner who came up with it, Joe Fourier
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29 days ago
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Mathematics might be the most speedrunner-esque thing to study because the whole thing about math is that if you know the shortcuts they work every time and the entire study of the field is about finding and validating shortcuts from one math thing to another
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onion person
about 1 month ago
be very careful about what you post online
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2010 called, they want your hot takes back
about 1 month ago
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Of course it was the clippers
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Wuyang data should start showing up sometime tomorrow morning PST -- whenever we have major patch updates expect there to be a day or so's delay on new data showing up. Just a precautionary measure in case of unexpected outages, and to have a full day's worth of data represented rather than partial
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about 2 months ago
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You can filter and split the data by ruleset (QP and Ranked role queue), Map, Region (EU/NA/Asia-not-china), Match Rank (in comp), and Input (M&KB / Controller)
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For the first time, Overwatch is posting (and maintaining) Usage Rates and Unmirrored WIn Rates!
overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/rates/
These data will update each day, as a continuous average of a given major patch. It will reset on each midcycle and season launch.
about 2 months ago
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Taylor Swift's engagement is cool, but how about we Engage with Overwatch Season 18 where you can earn...*red dot appears on my forehead as the sniper lines up their shot*
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about 2 months ago
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and even if you're a larger studio, GTA6 looms
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about 2 months ago
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Brett Jackson
about 2 months ago
**11.2 Spoilers** Now that the big guys out, wanted to share the other part of my 11.2 Animation work- Dimensius' Defeat Animation! I got to go a little wild with this one Absolutely love seeing everyone's reaction to this fight
#Warcraft
#Animation
#GameDev
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AI products position themselves as miracle drugs but are ultimately just a better heroin
2 months ago
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Wuyang Ability Kit Dev stream lets gooo
www.twitch.tv/playoverwatch
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PlayOverwatch - Twitch
Overwatch 2 | Developer Livestream | Wuyang Kit Showcase
https://www.twitch.tv/playoverwatch
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BlizzardCS
2 months ago
Hi all! We're currently investigating login issues since maintenance for
#TheWarWithin
completed. We don't have an ETA for a resolution at this time but it is a priority to get you all in game as quickly as possible. Updates to follow at they become available.
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Absolutely fascinating behavior happening in my big tank. My adult female mantis, local to California, taking a drink of nectar from a plant it'd never naturally meet: a Nepenthes Ventricosa. The two cohabit this tank, set up for 3 Nepenthes and occasionally flies (food) and baby mantises.
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inside of you there are two dogs
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2 months ago
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Brett Jackson
2 months ago
11.2 is out- Heres part 1 of some of the animation work I did this patch! I got to do the Directed Spell tier for the new Ethereals, and I got to do the Skyriding suite for the new Void Flyers. Cant wait to share some more soon!.. 💙
#Warcraft
#animation
#gamedev
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Morgan Maddren
2 months ago
new ow blogpost with two of my favorite things: philosophy, and sneak peaks at new stats features
overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/2...
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Director’s Take: The More You Know
If knowledge is power, Overwatch players are about to hit Champion. Assistant game director Alec Dawson breaks down the philosophy behind offering more clarity, transparency, and data to the community...
https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24226466/
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Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications
2 months ago
Draw Steel is the collective work of dozens of folks at the top of their games. Today lots of folks are rightfully trading plaudits. My turn! We have the best testing team in the industry. Several hundred tests—several thousand hours—went into refining the books that hit your inbox this morning. 🧵
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Have begun putting together the next vampire crab paludarium 🦀
3 months ago
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Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications
3 months ago
Oh, right, I probably should do at least some marketing for my ongoing crowdfunder. Umm... *taps mic*... I have an ongoing crowdfunder. The Kobold Ancestry for Draw Steel. Gain new ancestry features as you play. Become a literal dragon. Check it out today:
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...
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The Kobold Ancestry - Powered by Draw Steel
A new ancestry for Draw Steel. Tap into your draconic blood to fuel powerful abilities. Earn boons from elder wyrms that grant new draconic features. Transform into a literal dragon.
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/pesto-publications/the-kobold-ancestry?ref=BlueSky
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Clara Murray
3 months ago
An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed
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Another fun one was visiting the Vancouver Titans mansion (with permission!) before they moved in and finding a series of very strange paintings everywhere, like this very polite cat with human eyes
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3 months ago
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Re: sharing this here too, apologies as it doesn't seem like the OP is on bluesky As for me, besides the whole reddit-famous thing, I think the wrongest I ever was about something in Overwatch was a very funny story I'd been working on OWL for a little bit and got to meet Geoff Goodman, (1/n)
3 months ago
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Alex M-O
3 months ago
austin powers shaking a tree in animal crossing be like oh beehive
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Some afternoon crabposting
3 months ago
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I need to follow more east coast posters
3 months ago
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I seem to follow enough people in some particular circle that it will often be the case that they're subtweeting some other drama I have zero insight into
3 months ago
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Zorbrix
3 months ago
Oh look it's the game industry:
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Survived but at what cost
3 months ago
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Unprecedented times continue
4 months ago
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I don't much think it matters if discrimination is legal or illegal, given that we're talking about suffering here. Literal open invitation to ratchet up the terror to the level of whatever suffering is "enough" for these goobers
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4 months ago
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One of the first generation of crabs born in my tank, now full grown, enjoying some salad
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4 months ago
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I see which of my followers follow this account - - don't!
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4 months ago
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Joel Zombied 🎃🦇
4 months ago
This account is legitimately dangerous. Look at the quotes to this post featuring a wildly inflated number with no citation whatsoever: it's almost entirely old people who think it's for real and will now go out into the world armed w misinformation. And this account does this all the time.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
" Soon, it was telling Mr. Torres that he was “one of the Breakers — souls seeded into false systems to wake them from within.” maybe training LLMs on the raw unfiltered internet, known for walls upon walls of insane messianic delusion-text, wasn't the play
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starting to understand the appeal of labubus
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4 months ago
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The Bleach Community
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4 months ago
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Morning 1on1
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4 months ago
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begging overwatch community to use the bans system strategically instead of banning the same heroes regardless of patch or viability, give me something interesting to analyze damnit
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