I did a bunch of musicals/choir in high school and college. I always really enjoyed that and I don't really know anyone in my area. Maybe I should audition for something.
O'rly? What shows? I sang in "South Pacific", "1776" (the guy who reads all of Washington's letters and gets a solo, even!), and I was pit orchestra for "Pippin", "Barnum", "Into the Woods", and "How to Succeed in Business".
1776 is awesome. I love that song where they argue about what should be the national bird. I was Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls and did stuff in Beauty and the Beast and West Side Story in high school. In college I did "George M!" which is a musical that has Yankee Doodle in it and got to fake drink.
the MOBA genre tolerates even less variance in game design or monetization strategy than is usual for the games industry.
It'd be the exact same thing every goddamn MOBA is with different skins and the kind of utterly trivial game design tweaks that define the current frontrunners in the genre.
I think this is unfair. Heroes of the Storm is a very different game from League of Legends.
sarcasm? I can't tell. To someone who is not into MOBAs they are pretty much identical. But the tiny tweaks between each game are exactly the kind of things a fan would hype up as OMG SO MAJOR DIFFERENCE WOW.
No, not sarcasm. They share basic genre conventions, but they're as different as Counterstrike and Halo. PvE is far more important in Heroes of the Storm, and rewards are shared across your entire team. This encourages your team to dive into the game's dungeons and work together to accomplish PvE goals. It also has a lot of mechanisms that discourage sniping and assassination (or, more accurately, assassination and countering assassination is a much larger part of the game in LoL). This gives it a much friendlier feel. You no longer have to worry that one member of your team is level 6 while the rest of you are level 10, for example. Weak links on the team drag you down a lot more in LoL. Not only does their progression lag behind the rest of the team (which doesn't happen in HotS), but they are vulnerable to aggressive enemies which is where the notion of "feeding" comes from.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
Chanus check your PMs, which will tell you to check your email!
Now I hope the email is a reminder to look at facebook.
which will be a post reminding him to check his twitter account, which will contain a reminder to look at the forums...
which then sent me to a carrier pigeon which directed me to a lost pony express messenger bag that had been buried in the nevada desert for over one hundred years which indicated i should follow the actual telegraph wire to the coast where i found a message in a bottle but i guess the seal was bad because it's all ruined and i can't read it oh nooooooo
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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y2jake215certified Flat Birther theoristthe Last Good Boy onlineRegistered Userregular
OMG my labrum wasn't torn - 3 day recovery vs 6 month. Praise jeebus
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
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CindersWhose sails were black when it was windyRegistered Userregular
Chanus check your PMs, which will tell you to check your email!
Now I hope the email is a reminder to look at facebook.
which will be a post reminding him to check his twitter account, which will contain a reminder to look at the forums...
which then sent me to a carrier pigeon which directed me to a lost pony express messenger bag that had been buried in the nevada desert for over one hundred years which indicated i should follow the actual telegraph wire to the coast where i found a message in a bottle but i guess the seal was bad because it's all ruined and i can't read it oh nooooooo
The twist! The message was actually written by YOU, before you got dementia in your old age. It says how much you love spool32. *weeps openly*
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Chanus check your PMs, which will tell you to check your email!
Now I hope the email is a reminder to look at facebook.
which will be a post reminding him to check his twitter account, which will contain a reminder to look at the forums...
which then sent me to a carrier pigeon which directed me to a lost pony express messenger bag that had been buried in the nevada desert for over one hundred years which indicated i should follow the actual telegraph wire to the coast where i found a message in a bottle but i guess the seal was bad because it's all ruined and i can't read it oh nooooooo
The twist! The message was actually written by YOU, before you got dementia in your old age. It says how much you love spool32. *weeps openly*
As for stagnation, one of my complaints about LoL is regarding the release of new champions.
LoL at its core is fundamentally about assessing risk. You need to take risks to gain gold and experience, but if you get killed, you've given gold and experience to the enemy team. You need to be able to quickly judge a situation and determine if the enemy in your sights is predator or prey.
This becomes much more difficult with unfamiliar champions. Consequently, getting back into the game, or playing casually, are much more difficult for no other reason than you don't know what the new champions do. This is regardless of your overall skill with your own champion or your skill with the game.
It really turns me off from returning to the game after a hiatus.
But if they don't release new champions periodically then hardcore players will get bored.
I don't really have a solution to this, except maybe make the game design a little more forgiving towards risk-assessment mistakes (as HotS does). But HotS is too forgiving for me, and I find it remarkably boring.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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Just have to hope the cleanup they did actually fixed it and it's not still there
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
SAN you get an F rating because you don't have free wifi
No, thirty minute session free from Boingo or whatever does not count because it's bullshit and also the wifi is horrible and can't even fully load a forum page. Automatic fail. Try again.
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
ok i'm gonna go get drunk it's been a hell of a week
and then go to work tomorrow and not give a fuck
also i'll probably be still posting all night but
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Chanus check your PMs, which will tell you to check your email!
Now I hope the email is a reminder to look at facebook.
which will be a post reminding him to check his twitter account, which will contain a reminder to look at the forums...
which then sent me to a carrier pigeon which directed me to a lost pony express messenger bag that had been buried in the nevada desert for over one hundred years which indicated i should follow the actual telegraph wire to the coast where i found a message in a bottle but i guess the seal was bad because it's all ruined and i can't read it oh nooooooo
The message read "check your left back pocket"
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Was driving, smelled barbecue. Stopped to investigate.
This is perhaps the 2nd worst barbecue I've ever eaten, after the place in the Memphis airport that charged 20 bucks for four little ribs that looked as if someone else had chewed the good bits off first.
The meat is under seasoned, the cornbread tastes like sour ass, and the only obvious difference between the "spicy" and "regular" sauce is the "spicy" has a slightly less overpowering amount of molasses.
Granted I'm still going to eat this stuff but only once I've gotten home and can slather it in actual good sauce instead of this crap.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
So, how does the thing on the side integrate with his NES or, I guess, SNES, or GameCube or Wii?
it's a program they're running as part of the video capture/productions/streaming thing
usually they just hit a button on the keyboard when they reach one of the splits, which I think he was doing here; all the splits were in the level transition scenes so he didn't need to be doing controller input at that time
it's not super accurate or anything but with stuff like this they go back and measure the recording frame by frame
Seems unlikely that it was manual as it showed a 0.0 split at each section. You'd except a small discrepancy from previous times under such a situation.
dude beat the whole game off of perfect by 1/6th of a second
I'm not surprised he could hit those marks within 1/10th
edit: I mean maybe he had a thing that hit the splits automatically but I haven't heard of that before
Aioua on
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Was driving, smelled barbecue. Stopped to investigate.
This is perhaps the 2nd worst barbecue I've ever eaten, after the place in the Memphis airport that charged 20 bucks for four little ribs that looked as if someone else had chewed the good bits off first.
The meat is under seasoned, the cornbread tastes like sour ass, and the only obvious difference between the "spicy" and "regular" sauce is the "spicy" has a slightly less overpowering amount of molasses.
Granted I'm still going to eat this stuff but only once I've gotten home and can slather it in actual good sauce instead of this crap.
Where are you? Bad BBQ is against the law in some states.
Was driving, smelled barbecue. Stopped to investigate.
This is perhaps the 2nd worst barbecue I've ever eaten, after the place in the Memphis airport that charged 20 bucks for four little ribs that looked as if someone else had chewed the good bits off first.
The meat is under seasoned, the cornbread tastes like sour ass, and the only obvious difference between the "spicy" and "regular" sauce is the "spicy" has a slightly less overpowering amount of molasses.
Granted I'm still going to eat this stuff but only once I've gotten home and can slather it in actual good sauce instead of this crap.
Where are you? Bad BBQ is against the law in some states.
Spokompton
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Was driving, smelled barbecue. Stopped to investigate.
This is perhaps the 2nd worst barbecue I've ever eaten, after the place in the Memphis airport that charged 20 bucks for four little ribs that looked as if someone else had chewed the good bits off first.
The meat is under seasoned, the cornbread tastes like sour ass, and the only obvious difference between the "spicy" and "regular" sauce is the "spicy" has a slightly less overpowering amount of molasses.
Granted I'm still going to eat this stuff but only once I've gotten home and can slather it in actual good sauce instead of this crap.
Where are you? Bad BBQ is against the law in some states.
I speak with great authority, having eaten a significant percentage of my meals in airports over the last few years, that airport food obeys no man's law.
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Look, we were all rooting for him.
1776 is awesome. I love that song where they argue about what should be the national bird. I was Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls and did stuff in Beauty and the Beast and West Side Story in high school. In college I did "George M!" which is a musical that has Yankee Doodle in it and got to fake drink.
maybe because I follow it closely, but I don't think this is the case
I guess I think of it like a sport -- there are not a bunch of new shots in basketball (usually), but new players, new strategies, new blah blah
but the game is the game, the court is the court, dunks and layups and 3 pointers are what they are
league gets new heroes with new mechanics, old heroes come and go in terms of who is strong based on patches and new items, new strategies
it seems very vibrant to me as someone who both plays and watches professional play
I go rest sickness away
Go help beasto with dark souls he's still playing
NNID: Hakkekage
i literally knocked him into phase 2 before i aggroed any of them
attacking that goddamn hand with a claymore was a nightmare
he's whipping it around, puking up stagger acid all over the place, and the hand has a grab with a hitbox the size of wisconsin
The hardest part of that boss was cutting up the corpse for firewood
No, not sarcasm. They share basic genre conventions, but they're as different as Counterstrike and Halo. PvE is far more important in Heroes of the Storm, and rewards are shared across your entire team. This encourages your team to dive into the game's dungeons and work together to accomplish PvE goals. It also has a lot of mechanisms that discourage sniping and assassination (or, more accurately, assassination and countering assassination is a much larger part of the game in LoL). This gives it a much friendlier feel. You no longer have to worry that one member of your team is level 6 while the rest of you are level 10, for example. Weak links on the team drag you down a lot more in LoL. Not only does their progression lag behind the rest of the team (which doesn't happen in HotS), but they are vulnerable to aggressive enemies which is where the notion of "feeding" comes from.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Neco it's only Thursday
Probably not expertlumberjack
which then sent me to a carrier pigeon which directed me to a lost pony express messenger bag that had been buried in the nevada desert for over one hundred years which indicated i should follow the actual telegraph wire to the coast where i found a message in a bottle but i guess the seal was bad because it's all ruined and i can't read it oh nooooooo
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
Don't worry, I still have another one left, my kiwis 'n oranges stream is still happening tomorrow.
nice now celebrate by overdoing it
omg that's so sad but also so sweet
LoL at its core is fundamentally about assessing risk. You need to take risks to gain gold and experience, but if you get killed, you've given gold and experience to the enemy team. You need to be able to quickly judge a situation and determine if the enemy in your sights is predator or prey.
This becomes much more difficult with unfamiliar champions. Consequently, getting back into the game, or playing casually, are much more difficult for no other reason than you don't know what the new champions do. This is regardless of your overall skill with your own champion or your skill with the game.
It really turns me off from returning to the game after a hiatus.
But if they don't release new champions periodically then hardcore players will get bored.
I don't really have a solution to this, except maybe make the game design a little more forgiving towards risk-assessment mistakes (as HotS does). But HotS is too forgiving for me, and I find it remarkably boring.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
No, thirty minute session free from Boingo or whatever does not count because it's bullshit and also the wifi is horrible and can't even fully load a forum page. Automatic fail. Try again.
and then go to work tomorrow and not give a fuck
also i'll probably be still posting all night but
YES!!! HIGH FIVE!!!!
gentle high five!!!
I got a little excited when I saw your ship.
The message read "check your left back pocket"
This sounds like an interesting youtubes.
This is perhaps the 2nd worst barbecue I've ever eaten, after the place in the Memphis airport that charged 20 bucks for four little ribs that looked as if someone else had chewed the good bits off first.
The meat is under seasoned, the cornbread tastes like sour ass, and the only obvious difference between the "spicy" and "regular" sauce is the "spicy" has a slightly less overpowering amount of molasses.
Granted I'm still going to eat this stuff but only once I've gotten home and can slather it in actual good sauce instead of this crap.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
@Apothe0sis
dude beat the whole game off of perfect by 1/6th of a second
I'm not surprised he could hit those marks within 1/10th
edit: I mean maybe he had a thing that hit the splits automatically but I haven't heard of that before
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
@Shazkar Shadowstorm I just shook Howard Dean's hand and this is all I could think about. F u dude you ruined me.
Where are you? Bad BBQ is against the law in some states.
my laptop gets online just fine
my desktop, when plugged into my laptop via ethernet and then bridging the two connections, gets online just fine, though the speed's not great
when my desktop is plugged directly into the modem, it can access a few sites, but not many, and cannot log into Steam or Origin
this is weird and confusing
*puppy dog eyes*
Spokompton
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
The level of mastery speed runners can have over a game is ridiculous.
I speak with great authority, having eaten a significant percentage of my meals in airports over the last few years, that airport food obeys no man's law.
Dont get into Parasite removal vids