https://stayclose.social/ErwinDobson03165/ Latest updates from Erwin Dobson https://stayclose.social/blog/112456/pharah-is-a-lesbian-and-youre-allowed-to-be-excited-about-it/ If you want to make an Orisa more dangerous, a pocket Mercy will truly unleash her. Granted, pay attention to the whole team, but giving her a damage boost and healing when necessary is already powerful. Area attacks are also good combos with Orisa, since her ultimate now drags people toward her. In order for her to cause full damage, she will take a long time, but if she uses it earlier, she can still kill if everyone he


Omnic Form Ramattra is best used at range, so always make sure that when you use Nemesis Form, it either finishes a fight or ends in a safe place. The worst thing for Ramattra is to run in with Nemesis Form and have nowhere to go when that timer is up. Try to use Nemesis Mode as a finishing tool, and not for initiatio


Overwatch 2 PvE guide 2 has now turned into a free-to-play game and has teams of 5v5 characters, plus a few more new maps, modes, and characters, with the promise of releasing new content more frequently. One of the changes that will be a focus here is the 5v5 — it used to be 6v6 with two tanks, two DPS, and two supports. However, there's now a single tank per team and, to compensate for the lack of a second tank, they've become absolute beasts on the battlefi


If you're playing a hero with some range, you can get on top of the café right outside the attacking team's spawn. There's an interior you can use for cover and a balcony for closer and more open firefights. Stairs lead to the top of the café and can be used to reach anyone camping there if you need a coun


Ramattra throws a projectile with an arch in front of him that expands when it reaches the ground. Once active, this ability creates a large vortex on the ground. This vortex slows, damages, and pulls down all enemies caught in its radius. This ability can be used in both Omnic and Nemesis F


When Odessa "Dez" Stone defeated Mason Howl, the reigning Junker King, in the Reckoning, she became the new ruler of Junkertown. As a new hero introduced in Overwatch 2, Junker Queen's story is still relatively new to us and worth exploring. With great power comes great responsibility, and ruling over a place like Junkertown requires diplomacy, knowledge, and total ch


Joining the ranks of Overwatch 2 support heroes, Lifeweaver is a unique character that doubles down on healing and utility while saving teammates from trouble using his Life Grip ability to pull them out of battle. Like any new hero, his inclusion also brings an assortment of new skins to unl


Ramattra is most threatening when he's in Nemesis Mode, making uptime on this ability very important to winning team fights. A good combination for this is to use your Nemesis Form before your Ultimate . This way you spend as much time in Nemesis Form as possible, allowing you to stay in the fight longer. Make sure that you wait for Nemesis Form to end before using Annihilation, as you won't get a second boost in armor for using Annihilation during Nemesis Form . You want to use the abilities back to back, not overlapping each ot


Camping spawns is a huge part of Overwatch 2, and Hollywood is a great map to do so. It is considered a Hybrid Map, so multiple modes can be played on it. The spawns remain the same throughout, howe


It gives the perfect view of the spawn area where the enemy team will be coming from. The only cover here is the dome itself by moving around the top walkway, so it can be countered by coming from one of the side points. If you and your team just funnel through the main path, however, you're going to be in for a long game with a Widowmaker or Junkrat camping he

We merely need a critical distance to recognise what this sort of representation actually means for the landscape, how it came about, and where it could go in the years to come. I’m delighted to see Pharah confirmed as a proud lesbian woman, regardless of the context in which it exists.

Route 66 is a map with a surprising amount of high ground. It isn't way up like some other maps , but there's enough elevation to take advantage of. One of those locations is on top of the gas station just after the second Escort checkpoint is reac


Widowmaker has arguably the most tragic backstory out of all the heroes . Formerly the wife of an Overwatch agent, Amélie Lacroix cared only for her husband and ballet. That is until she was kidnapped by Talon and essentially turned into a sleeper agent through reconditioning, killing her husband in the proc

The critics are justified - queer representation in a game as globally recognised as Overwatch 2 shouldn’t become a political scapegoat as its publisher fails to cover up its own corruption. The conspiracy that characters in this game are assigned queer identities out of desperation as opposed to excellent writing and realistic dynamics isn’t that far-fetched. We can’t trust Blizzard enough to believe that it was always the plan to reveal Soldier 76, Tracer, or Pharah as queer, even though it might be true. It doesn’t deserve that trust anymore, but this shouldn’t negate what personal value we assign to characters who are now canon in their identities, especially after years of projecting ourselves onto them with stories and ideas that outgrow what the game is capable of. Feeling pride in Pharah’s reveal as a lesbian is valid, I just wish it wasn’t sullied.
]]> https://stayclose.social/blog/112456/pharah-is-a-lesbian-and-youre-allowed-to-be-excited-about-it/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:47:46 +0000 Erwin Dobson https://stayclose.social/blog/112455/pharah-is-a-lesbian-and-youre-allowed-to-be-excited-about-it/ If you want to make an Orisa more dangerous, a pocket Mercy will truly unleash her. Granted, pay attention to the whole team, but giving her a damage boost and healing when necessary is already powerful. Area attacks are also good combos with Orisa, since her ultimate now drags people toward her. In order for her to cause full damage, she will take a long time, but if she uses it earlier, she can still kill if everyone he


Omnic Form Ramattra is best used at range, so always make sure that when you use Nemesis Form, it either finishes a fight or ends in a safe place. The worst thing for Ramattra is to run in with Nemesis Form and have nowhere to go when that timer is up. Try to use Nemesis Mode as a finishing tool, and not for initiatio


Overwatch 2 has now turned into a free-to-play game and has teams of 5v5 characters, plus a few more new maps, modes, and characters, with the promise of releasing new content more frequently. One of the changes that will be a focus here is the 5v5 — it used to be 6v6 with two tanks, two DPS, and two supports. However, there's now a single tank per team and, to compensate for the lack of a second tank, they've become absolute beasts on the battlefi


If you're playing a hero with some range, you can get on top of the café right outside the attacking team's spawn. There's an interior you can use for cover and a balcony for closer and more open firefights. Stairs lead to the top of the café and can be used to reach anyone camping there if you need a coun

Ramattra throws a projectile with an arch in front of him that expands when it reaches the ground. Once active, this ability creates a large vortex on the ground. This vortex slows, damages, and pulls down all enemies caught in its radius. This ability can be used in both Omnic and Nemesis F


When Odessa "Dez" Stone defeated Mason Howl, the reigning Junker King, in the Reckoning, she became the new ruler of Junkertown. As a new hero introduced in Overwatch 2, Junker Queen's story is still relatively new to us and worth exploring. With great power comes great responsibility, and ruling over a place like Junkertown requires diplomacy, knowledge, and total ch

Joining the ranks of Overwatch 2 support heroes, Lifeweaver is a unique character that doubles down on healing and utility while saving teammates from trouble using his Life Grip ability to pull them out of battle. Like any new hero, his inclusion also brings an assortment of new skins to unl


Ramattra is most threatening when he's in Nemesis Mode, making uptime on this ability very important to winning team fights. A good combination for this is to use your Nemesis Form before your Ultimate . This way you spend as much time in Nemesis Form as possible, allowing you to stay in the fight longer. Make sure that you wait for Nemesis Form to end before using Annihilation, as you won't get a second boost in armor for using Annihilation during Nemesis Form . You want to use the abilities back to back, not overlapping each ot


Camping spawns is a huge part of Overwatch 2, and Hollywood is a great map to do so. It is considered a Hybrid Map, so multiple modes can be played on it. The spawns remain the same throughout, howe


It gives the perfect view of the spawn area where the enemy team will be coming from. The only cover here is the dome itself by moving around the top walkway, so it can be countered by coming from one of the side points. If you and your team just funnel through the main path, however, you're going to be in for a long game with a Widowmaker or Junkrat camping he

We merely need a critical distance to recognise what this sort of representation actually means for the landscape, how it came about, and where it could go in the years to come. I’m delighted to see Pharah confirmed as a proud lesbian woman, regardless of the context in which it exists.


Route 66 is a map with a surprising amount of high ground. It isn't way up like some other maps , but there's enough elevation to take advantage of. One of those locations is on top of the gas station just after the second Escort checkpoint is reac


Widowmaker has arguably the most tragic backstory out of all the heroes . Formerly the wife of an Overwatch 2 PvE guide agent, Amélie Lacroix cared only for her husband and ballet. That is until she was kidnapped by Talon and essentially turned into a sleeper agent through reconditioning, killing her husband in the proc

The critics are justified - queer representation in a game as globally recognised as Overwatch 2 shouldn’t become a political scapegoat as its publisher fails to cover up its own corruption. The conspiracy that characters in this game are assigned queer identities out of desperation as opposed to excellent writing and realistic dynamics isn’t that far-fetched. We can’t trust Blizzard enough to believe that it was always the plan to reveal Soldier 76, Tracer, or Pharah as queer, even though it might be true. It doesn’t deserve that trust anymore, but this shouldn’t negate what personal value we assign to characters who are now canon in their identities, especially after years of projecting ourselves onto them with stories and ideas that outgrow what the game is capable of. Feeling pride in Pharah’s reveal as a lesbian is valid, I just wish it wasn’t sullied.
]]> https://stayclose.social/blog/112455/pharah-is-a-lesbian-and-youre-allowed-to-be-excited-about-it/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:47:33 +0000 Erwin Dobson https://stayclose.social/ErwinDobson03165/ https://stayclose.social/ErwinDobson03165/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:47:15 +0000 Erwin Dobson