Random Image Thread XLII: Ragns Secret Porn Stache

[Raelia]

LoL tends to be almost too balanced. Every time a group of people start wrecking face with some champion that hasn't been touched in years, boom, nerfs. Without fail.

And yet the amount of pigeonholing of roles and singular build/skill strategies and inflexibility of the metagame can make it stale as fuck too.

Yet they can't fix Renekton's W getting wasted on non-hits (dead creep or CC'd) and his Fury system having a delay that you can too easily use an ability between an autoattack and actually getting the 50 fury that would bonus it.

So yeah, it's easy to be in the crowd that doesn't take LoL seriously, but at the same time it is a brilliantly engineered competitive game.

The best part of LoL is the first few dozen games on a new account when everybody is playing with just the free rotation. Roflstomp the noobs for a bit, and then there's like this little sub-game space of 'Smurfs Like Us' you end up in where nobody wants to blow cash on shiny champs or has perfectly decked-out runes and masteries and it's a completely different game.

[6souls]

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[Dimmauk]

LoL tends to be almost too balanced. Every time a group of people start wrecking face with some champion that hasn't been touched in years, boom, nerfs. Without fail.

And yet the amount of pigeonholing of roles and singular build/skill strategies and inflexibility of the metagame can make it stale as fuck too.

Yet they can't fix Renekton's W getting wasted on non-hits (dead creep or CC'd) and his Fury system having a delay that you can too easily use an ability between an autoattack and actually getting the 50 fury that would bonus it.

So yeah, it's easy to be in the crowd that doesn't take LoL seriously, but at the same time it is a brilliantly engineered competitive game.

The best part of LoL is the first few dozen games on a new account when everybody is playing with just the free rotation. Roflstomp the noobs for a bit, and then there's like this little sub-game space of 'Smurfs Like Us' you end up in where nobody wants to blow cash on shiny champs or has perfectly decked-out runes and masteries and it's a completely different game.

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[Raelia]

[Sylvrdragon]

LoL tends to be almost too balanced. Every time a group of people start wrecking face with some champion that hasn't been touched in years, boom, nerfs. Without fail.

And yet the amount of pigeonholing of roles and singular build/skill strategies and inflexibility of the metagame can make it stale as fuck too.

Yet they can't fix Renekton's W getting wasted on non-hits (dead creep or CC'd) and his Fury system having a delay that you can too easily use an ability between an autoattack and actually getting the 50 fury that would bonus it.

So yeah, it's easy to be in the crowd that doesn't take LoL seriously, but at the same time it is a brilliantly engineered competitive game.

The best part of LoL is the first few dozen games on a new account when everybody is playing with just the free rotation. Roflstomp the noobs for a bit, and then there's like this little sub-game space of 'Smurfs Like Us' you end up in where nobody wants to blow cash on shiny champs or has perfectly decked-out runes and masteries and it's a completely different game.

You don't notice any of this stuff until you've been playing/following the game for a while. Even then, it's your choice on whether or not to let it bother you. Whenever they change something in a way that effects how I normally play the game, I ask myself, if I had just picked up the game for the first time today, would I consider it a good game? So far, the answer has always been "yes". If you don't dwell on the past, and just play the game as it is now, then the changes aren't that big a deal.

[Raelia]

Yeah, that's all just stuff that builds on you with time, though there's still instances like Elise getting three nerfs in two months. Game is definitely 95% fun.

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That's just the Jungle cycle though: Jungle too hard, nobody wants the role, nerf jungle, real or new junglers start steamrolling it, nerf those champs, unintended champs start jungling, buff jungle, champ you bought as a rare AP jungler has now been completely gutted (and they ruined her spider form dance animation to boot).

That's just little gripes about a huge system. The Renekton stuff is what really bugs me as just a huge inconsistency compared to other on-hit abilities or fury systems. I'd love to play nothing but Renekton on my main account, but every time I do there's always that naggy shit about him that got ignored when they remodeled him just a month or whatever ago. "This next swing will give me 50 fury, but I can't hit my ability immediately, I have to wait for the stupid meter to actually show i have 50 fury" or "Okay wait, I used W, saw Ren start to swing at that minion, my W got used, but the minion died and I didn't get the gold, wtf?".

[SamanosukeShiva]

[Cantih]

This is what you signed up for when you became a sysadmin.

[6souls]

[bluefan]

Finally got my replacement pump in, redid the loop. Decided to sell off my other AMD 7970 as I maybe used Crossfire 3-4 times in the last couple years. Means I got rid of the external dual radiator and am rolling the one triple rad internally. Tubing all over the place to prevent kinking and keeping maximum flow. Pump I'm using is probably the weakest on the market but it's literally dead quiet.

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And yes, that's a dryer sheet taped to the rear intake fan. Life pro tip, they make amazing, cheap great smelling dust filters!

[Stef]

Not sure if this guy's work has been posted here before, but I really love his pixel art:



More of his work here: http://ahruon.tumblr.com

[jinkazama]

And yes, that's a dryer sheet taped to the rear intake fan. Life pro tip, they make amazing, cheap great smelling dust filters!

I second this, we own a movie theatre and our new digital projection system has such a strong intake system that it brings in the oils from the popcorn machine in the next room and burnt it up one time. We remedied it with the same thing. First we tried a cheese cloth but it was still too porous, so we switched to a dryer sheet.

[BaneTheBrawler]

i use a furnace filter for my larger box fans. keeps the blades from getting all nasty, keeps out lots of dust, and also prevents people from seeing through the fan, since i use them in my ground-floor windows. and they're pretty cheap. i'll have to give the dryer sheets a shot at my pc.

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[Raelia]

Finally got my replacement pump in, redid the loop. Decided to sell off my other AMD 7970 as I maybe used Crossfire 3-4 times in the last couple years. Means I got rid of the external dual radiator and am rolling the one triple rad internally. Tubing all over the place to prevent kinking and keeping maximum flow. Pump I'm using is probably the weakest on the market but it's literally dead quiet.

Thanks for reminding me I gotta go buy some tubing!

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Didn't even know anyone made 1/2" compression fittings until last month...

[6souls]

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[Raelia]

Fuck reservoirs.

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That's my secret: I'm always bleeding.

[Qeomash]

[Rulke]

[Dryr]

Houston Gem Drop (table breaking unfocused loot!)

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