Real sports have big advertising deals that get the money flowing. Mobas cannot hold a candle to the amount of advertising that a match of handegg or dive grass can distribute.
Also let's not forget that there exists a lot of inequity in pro sports as well. Minor league baseball players earn next to nothing and a lot of football players on the line are replaceable at will.
The wife is still doing the art thing. Here's a sneak peak of her next piece:
This one is looking really good already. She'll be using a "painterly" style that she learned about from her art class video. Here's her first try at that style (spoilered for non-HotS content):
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Not sure why but I was thinking about Cowboy Beebop and how Spike would be a cool character.
Can do Melee combos (not like Karazhim, actual 2-3 big hit combos) or use his handgun for ranged crits.
Ultimate would be calling in his ship, jumping into it and pew pewing or using those rockets.
Then again that might just be Greymane, sans ship.
Had some amazing hooks, saves, and general silliness (come here KT) the whole game. Granted, there may have been 3 AI by the end, but it's always nice seeing someone having a good time playing HotS.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I have finally brought my maiev win percent to above 50%
Yeeha.
Including one game where I had some of the best and worst plays I have ever had on maiev. Including: diving into the team all alone even though I knew it was a bad idea and was telling myself not to do it, and wiping their entire team with cages and knives twice
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
My immediate reaction to seeing someone pick Convection is literally always, "fuck, have I lost that much MMR?"
the other day i ran into a Greymane on BoE who refused to attack the first immortal (or any others beyond that)
we lost, naturally (both the obj and the game, because he had 10 deaths while everyone else sat at 2/3), so i said "hey greymane, needed your dps on the immortal"
he replies with "jaja noobs defend not attack. noobs."
hmmmm
wonder what sort of MMR hell dimension i entered for that game
one of the literal highest DPS heroes for the immortal race and he walks over to ours instead to 1v5 and die
I don't mean this to be as ad hominem as it sounds, but I genuinely think you should think twice about responding to the concerns of people who's complaint is "your system doesn't work for me because I have no friends"
Blizzard: "Play our games with your friends!"
Also Blizzard: Limits friends list to 200.
forty on
Officially the unluckiest CCG player ever.
+4
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
My immediate reaction to seeing someone pick Convection is literally always, "fuck, have I lost that much MMR?"
Shit man I have no idea where my MMR is even at now, I'll go one game and get matched with bronze/silver and then another where it's diamond/masters and I have no idea what is happening
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I don't mean this to be as ad hominem as it sounds, but I genuinely think you should think twice about responding to the concerns of people who's complaint is "your system doesn't work for me because I have no friends"
Blizzard: "Play our games with your friends!"
Also Blizzard: Limits friends list to 200.
This is something that practically every online game except for MMOs is doing badly these days - supporting "community" style grouping rather than individual friends. I want to be able to join a PA clan or whatever and match with them as if they were on my friends list.
I don't mean this to be as ad hominem as it sounds, but I genuinely think you should think twice about responding to the concerns of people who's complaint is "your system doesn't work for me because I have no friends"
Blizzard: "Play our games with your friends!"
Also Blizzard: Limits friends list to 200.
This is something that practically every online game except for MMOs is doing badly these days - supporting "community" style grouping rather than individual friends. I want to be able to join a PA clan or whatever and match with them as if they were on my friends list.
That said, I also want a friends list too. But it would clear things up since I wouldn't have to keep so many of you darn PA-ers on my list :P
I don't mean this to be as ad hominem as it sounds, but I genuinely think you should think twice about responding to the concerns of people who's complaint is "your system doesn't work for me because I have no friends"
Blizzard: "Play our games with your friends!"
Also Blizzard: Limits friends list to 200.
This is something that practically every online game except for MMOs is doing badly these days - supporting "community" style grouping rather than individual friends. I want to be able to join a PA clan or whatever and match with them as if they were on my friends list.
That said, I also want a friends list too. But it would clear things up since I wouldn't have to keep so many of you darn PA-ers on my list :P
Yeah my biggest pet peeve with modern gaming today is the death of the dedicated server. On TF2 I could just log in and bam I'm playing with a full server of PAers, or a mix if we're low on people. Manually creating a group and playing against strangers is just not the same.
4 Uthers on my team in 3 Brawls. I am not joking. What did I do to deserve this, deadgame??
Had a brawl where the only options that we had for support were myself as Malfurion, and somebody who opted to windmill slam their lock in for zeratul instead of considering Ana.
We had Etc, Maiev, zeratul, myself as Malfurion, and some unmemorable guy as the fifth. Etc didn't know when to disengage, and zeratul/maeiv kept trying to dive in alone to 1v5 the enemy team.
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Chromie rework is odd. They're sort of taking "Artillery Support" and underlining the support; looks like she'll do way less damage baseline but has a mini-VP with a huge armor reduction option at level four (which you'll take every time 'cause the other fours are tremendous garbage).
Another Chromie rework already? Her last one wasn't even a year ago.
I haven't looked at the notes yet, but reading "Lucio rework" makes me nervous. What are they going to do to my boy??
Officially the unluckiest CCG player ever.
+1
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I think Chromie is probably going to be garbage because she's just going to do no damage but I like the idea of making her W being a thunk-thunk-thunk type like Rag's W in Molten Core. That seems like it'd be satisfying to land.
yo check out this SPICY fucken splash screen art though
:winky:
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5-Minute Predictions: Chromie is now OP at high-MMR bands. Lucio is probably "weaker" at lower MMR bands (i.e. less like Li Li) but has more variety and utility in general, and will be roughly the same at higher MMR bands with a larger viability spread.
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Normal sports leagues have all kinds of rules about minimum salary for this reason.
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This one is looking really good already. She'll be using a "painterly" style that she learned about from her art class video. Here's her first try at that style (spoilered for non-HotS content):
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Can do Melee combos (not like Karazhim, actual 2-3 big hit combos) or use his handgun for ranged crits.
Ultimate would be calling in his ship, jumping into it and pew pewing or using those rockets.
Then again that might just be Greymane, sans ship.
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wra
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Had some amazing hooks, saves, and general silliness (come here KT) the whole game. Granted, there may have been 3 AI by the end, but it's always nice seeing someone having a good time playing HotS.
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Amazing hooks and saves
VS 3 AI
Sounds about right yeah lol
https://clips.twitch.tv/LachrymoseRudeQuailLeeroyJenkins
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wra
Don't hate!
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Yeeha.
Including one game where I had some of the best and worst plays I have ever had on maiev. Including: diving into the team all alone even though I knew it was a bad idea and was telling myself not to do it, and wiping their entire team with cages and knives twice
the other day i ran into a Greymane on BoE who refused to attack the first immortal (or any others beyond that)
we lost, naturally (both the obj and the game, because he had 10 deaths while everyone else sat at 2/3), so i said "hey greymane, needed your dps on the immortal"
he replies with "jaja noobs defend not attack. noobs."
hmmmm
wonder what sort of MMR hell dimension i entered for that game
one of the literal highest DPS heroes for the immortal race and he walks over to ours instead to 1v5 and die
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Also Blizzard: Limits friends list to 200.
Shit man I have no idea where my MMR is even at now, I'll go one game and get matched with bronze/silver and then another where it's diamond/masters and I have no idea what is happening
This is something that practically every online game except for MMOs is doing badly these days - supporting "community" style grouping rather than individual friends. I want to be able to join a PA clan or whatever and match with them as if they were on my friends list.
That said, I also want a friends list too. But it would clear things up since I wouldn't have to keep so many of you darn PA-ers on my list :P
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Yeah my biggest pet peeve with modern gaming today is the death of the dedicated server. On TF2 I could just log in and bam I'm playing with a full server of PAers, or a mix if we're low on people. Manually creating a group and playing against strangers is just not the same.
It felt too complicated and we never really used it.
(i.e. I never figured out how to use it properly)
Witty signature comment goes here...
wra
Had a brawl where the only options that we had for support were myself as Malfurion, and somebody who opted to windmill slam their lock in for zeratul instead of considering Ana.
We had Etc, Maiev, zeratul, myself as Malfurion, and some unmemorable guy as the fifth. Etc didn't know when to disengage, and zeratul/maeiv kept trying to dive in alone to 1v5 the enemy team.
At least the match ended fast...
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PTR notes: https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/22933130/
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In a couple weeks. I just edited my post to include a link to the PTR notes.
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A new theme event, could be interesting. Have to see the skins and such.
Storm League is the new Ranked name :P . Here's the big rule their instituting to try and make it not degenerate:
Chromie and Lucio reworks. I don't think I knew either of those were coming.....
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I haven't looked at the notes yet, but reading "Lucio rework" makes me nervous. What are they going to do to my boy??
They're removing one of the most binary obnoxious fucking one-shot Heroes in the game and replacing her with a better designed Hero, that's what
It's fucking great
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Blessing of the Bronze - While Chromie is alive, teammates get 10% movespeed and 30% cooldown reduction
As long as you're not a minor league player this is true (I feel like I posted this comment already). NCAA/MiLB salaries are shit.
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His new Ult and Trait seem really good. Sound Barrier still probably better tho? Hmm.
But he's got a lot more aggressive/offensive potential now.
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yo check out this SPICY fucken splash screen art though
:winky:
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McIntyre recorded a Lucio game, HE LOOKS GOOD Y'ALL
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