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[PA Comic] Monday, February 18, 2013 - The Corollary
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LoL has an honor system where you essentially rate someone's positive contribution to the game. I believe right now it only earns people badges and lets people see how "honorable" you are too.
Edit: The actual page http://na.leagueoflegends.com/honor
... My, what a boring Signature.
His actions will be of greater assholishness than any of his words.
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I haven't played LoL in over a year precisely because of the rage it induces. I completely understand Gabe's feelings here.
I still miss LoL, but I think my blood pressure is down.
"lol u fagit"
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You have to put their whole name inside quotation marks. Quote this post to see what I mean.
@Albino Bunny
Glad those Gnaw players are really relaxing you :3
Awesomenauts is actually surprisingly good community wise. Worse you get is taunt spam and the best you get is taunt spam. Because Taunt spam is the correct response to taunt spam.
Also yeah, it's shocking how much people changed in League because someone gave them the chance of shineys for not being ass holes.
3clipse: The key to any successful marriage is a good mid-game transition.
Maybe it's the shorter games, maybe it's people talking less, maybe it's that people drop in and out, but even getting wrecked by a cheesy Gnaw is still more relaxing than being told to go play in the street by my jungle who missed his gank because I missed my skillshot.
I certainly hope Riot sells it that way, because it gives people a pragmatic reason not to be jackasses, but I think causation there may run the other way - I think if a team is losing, its members are more likely to flip out and do things that get them reported than if they're winning. Adjusting for ELO would suggest that two evenly matched teams playing each other, the team that loses is likelier to do something reportable. Which just means people are poor sports.
I'd actually be more interested to see if higher ELO matches have fewer reports period, which would suggest that better players are also more courteous. Or thicker skinned?
BattleTech campaign at: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/169696/battletechmegamek-fight-for-gan-singh#latest
i'm curious about the news post... after a few tries, i the best parsing i could come up with for the above sentence is that the phrase 'gamers gonna game' is meant to be explanatory of a supposed aversion or difficulty that gamers have to the game of poker? is he saying that gamers not like poker, or that we are we just not good at it? and if that is what he's saying, how does 'gamers gonna game' explain why? i'm confused. someone help.
Yes, but what does it mean in context?
BattleTech campaign at: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/169696/battletechmegamek-fight-for-gan-singh#latest
http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/af21
Poker is a relatively straight forward, simple game. Which doesn't mean it's easy, but it does mean that if you like figuring out and exploiting systems Magic probably has a much larger appeal since their system changes every few months.
I think perhaps by "poker", Tycho meant "gambling." Gamblers often believe there is a 'system" involved when dealing with strict statistics. "I have lost X many times, so I must be up for a win" that sort of thing. Thus you might have a problem with gambling if you are trying to exploit a system that doesn't actually exist.
(this is just a guess as to what he meant)
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Adding that at the end, I get something along the lines of gamers trying to 'game' the system - ie, find flaws and use it to their benefit. Like, there's not a lot of flaws in Poker?
Dammit, I was so confident I knew what it meant.
In this context, I think he's saying, "just as a gamer will deconstruct Poker until there's nothing enjoyable left, eventually the Karma system is going to get 'gamed' and exploited until it's another type of stat instead of a social consequence." Either that, or he's saying, "just as gamers are innately interested in the mechanics of systems, to the point where poker holds no appeal, a karma system will hold more clout if it has in-game consequences attached." Two different points, but following the same basic premise.
Ah, to know the mind of Tycho...
No, the goal of monopoly is to steal from the bank and take money from people with less.
It's an ironic take of capitalism. And it amuses me to no end that it was banned in Russia because they thought it was a pro capitalistic game.
Satans..... hints..... I'm a mo bro!
They banned it because it's God fucking awful.