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Oh god, don't get me started about how much i'm sick of MongoDB \: i am assuming that is NOT what wolframalpha is using XD

oh, and that one guy who got upvoted a ton on some random whine thread talking about how he was a "UI Expert" and mentioning that Riot should be using "HTML5" in their game client so that "Everything" can be customizable. Yeah, let's put a freaking web-browser in our C++ game client. That's a really efficient use of CPU, memory AND programmer resources!

i need to figure out how to make my health bar bright gold again \: keep losing myself Also i think it's *really funny* how mad people get about the items being on the left. Like, Rito, everyone knows items go on the left!!!!! That's how every culture ever puts its items!!!!! You dumb asses this is so stupid!!!! Like, items being on the right/left is no better/worse... It's a completely arbitrary thing. The only justifica

[quote] People who can play all roles competently will be negatively impacted since being well rounded probably helped them climb to where they are currently. That's the boat I feel I'm in. Being good at an unpopular role like Support is an advantage for you and I. When this new version of Team Builder goes live, we will no longer be occasionally facing last picks who have been forced into the role and don't have a clue how to play it. When we Sup

Curse is a LOT more than just Curse Voice. Its original claim-to-fame is mostly as an add-on manager for WoW. It also runs like.. most of the popular wikis for video games (except, LoL funny enough). Riot may be thinking that with HotS being released, a partnership with Curse means that they can poach Blizzard-loyal players due to well-timed advertisement and services. Or other advertising options. It also could be Tencent is actually doing the investing, not Riot Games, whi

Yeah i'm not super sold on 4K (i've heard about games not handling it super well from various sources) but figured 2K was pretty reasonable and a nice jump up :) You're happy with the R9-280? Gonna pick up a the R9-390 that was just released. MSI has one with great one that has supposedly fantastic cooling. And it's partially overclocked so it's only ~40 MHz slower than the 390X (and missing 10% of the Stream Proccesors and TexUnits). But giving up < 10%

Ah fun! I have been video card shopping since I have the same cards from Demigod :) Even if everything else is much newer. Was certainly thinking of a 2k or 4k monitor... any tips, etc?

S[quote] including what you are calling 101 stuff. [/quote] My point was not that what you're saying is wrong...and you pointed out that part of your relevation is, well, you don't play a lot of solo lanes :) But i massively prefer to play Solo lanes. i guess you sort of have "goals", right, and WHAT those goals are is very simple (CS well, win lane, win teamfights, maintain and deny vision control, control objectives). HOW you do things

Thunder had a VERY different original post + you changed from "Gnar's maintains the same power level" to "lost some of the power he had before". Your edit makes my post ... useless since we are agreeing with each other. i want to say one of the reasons that there's not a lot to discuss with your first two post is that they are sort of... tautologies. You should: 1. Win your lane 2. Win all the teamfights While that's a great way to act

It's really confusing when people edit posts /:

[quote] bleh - i'll comment then bugger off. I don't give a fug about semantics. Gnar is maintains the same power he had before, though the window is more limited requiring more skillful play to use it properly. That's my take. [/quote] Since the terror of 4.17 Gnarven ... plz don't say he has the same power level. He

[quote] gnar skill cap simply has gone up due to the nerfs [/quote] Well that's false. You see, "cap" can stand for one of two things: 1. Capacity 2. Cap (as in the top of a tube or a gallon of milk) Note that both of these mean the same thing: ones you maximize a particular champions "skill capacity" any additional skill you acquire just... overflows. You can't fit any more skill. It's a limited.

That's the wrong way to test if MF's Q is an AA reset (which i'm pretty sure it is) Both of you should run 0 AS quints/masteries and fuck around in bots for a bit so that you can buy a Frozen Heart + Warden's Mail. Then, attack-move-click eachother from out of range. ONE of you should issue a Q command immediately after AAing. The other shouldn't. If Q is an AA reset then both MFs then the 2nd MF should attack slightly faster with he

[quote] Ah - I think that makes sense. Let's take this further though. Is the animation itself sped up to correspond with attack speed? I THINK so... think so... at any rate, I agree - I was incorrect re: the added damage - its increased damage potential based on mobility/positioning only. [/quote] Yes, wind-up and wind-down animations are reduced by AS (how much a per-champ basis and i know a few times Riot has balanced around it - my under

[quote] Anyway, compare a cait that cancels their animation to a cait that does not. 1 is stationary and lands 1 shot every 4 seconds. The other has potential to land 1 shot every 2 seconds or so. Obviously, the person canceling the AA animation has high damage potential, not to mention a huge positioning advantage. [/quote] This is not true... The cooldown of your autoattack starts from the moment your projectile is spawned and you are unable t

If you do make a client, probably want to: Make sure works for different regions and figure out what you will do about Riot IP changes (release an update? Or host a json file on github or a private server, w.e that you manage. Assuming the core of the program is just the bat you probably don't need a code review :) But I can check out whatever you give me, even if just to beta test right before releasing to make sure it installs.

[quote]OK - so apparently there was some sort of discussion re: it sucking to be against someone that is good at the game that scripts vs someone that is trash that scripts. And that's obviously not a logical conclusion or it sounded like I didn't understand that I guess[/quote] Here is a one-dimensional diagram of players "true" skill (note that this is

Did you see the one about the rager bronze guy scripting Katarina? How he just wanted to "relax" and play rank, make people rage with scripts. He went from Bronze (low Silver?) to Plat in like 2 week, so scripts are very effective, even if you are "awful". Remember that there are two forms of skill: micro and macro. All players have better relative micro OR macro compared to other players of their "true" skill. If you have both, that means that you're just ... not at your tr

My predictions of Ranked Teambuilder is as follows (assuming that Ranked Teambulider is a role-selection, not a champ-selection): 1. Average level of skill will be somewhat higher in Teambuilder. People like Cow/Karl will actually be getting their roles/champs every time. This will somewhat keep "one-trick Malazhars" from "ruining" the "sacredness" of higher ranks. However, the longer queue times for popular roles will also mean a slower climb (unless you get larger LP rewards)

On the other hand, taking the -10% damage from critical strikes mastery as a tank support pretty strongly negates that advantage ;) Of course, you should certainly run at least 1 red/blue crit glyph on Ashe always just for the Frenzy.

Ardent Censure does work on Alistar + minions at the moment. There's just a huge difference between "just" +25% AS and +30% AS and +30 magic damage... i fully expect that to get fixed though. good catch by Thunder in any case. @Cow: When are you taking the GRE? Seems awfully late since you have to go thru your application process? i had to have my GRE done by April 1st. Best of luck in any case. Also fuck

i agree with your evaluation of his runes: there is little/no reason to run ArPen on Twitch given his dependency on autoattacking to stack Expunge + the fact a bunch of his early game damage comes from true damage. Maybe he is really focused on level 2 kills with a 5-stack expunge alongside a CC-heavy support? However, it could be a metagame decision: with the popularity of Cinderhulk + Thornmail, earlier Armor Pen is really important, and extra AS just ends up killing you fast

PSA failing is why you use LSA or SVD right? If Riot was really determined they could easily train a neural net. One thing I did read was that less played rolls tend to get more points than more played roles since people good at support are more standard deviations out? But "anyone" can get two pentakills on Akali and thus deserves an A- (voyboy last night)

Pretty sure they have plenty of computer scientists who understand basic linear algebra and matrices just fine :P More likely the issue is that the people who designed the system were psychologists and marketers.

i dunno, i think it'd be cool to have Velkoz, Anivia and Gnar badges ;) Not to mention mastery badges "might" be one of the best ways to make your teammates relax when you do stuff like Quinn top or Shaco jungle.