The Derrit
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Well I would go with the one that has a wealth of primary sources objectively proving its claims, but in your case I'm going to guess you meant the one that repeats a number of objectively disproven falsehoods which agree with your prejudices and preconceived notions.
so you're the new troll of this thread since i've been gone, congratulations on your position
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Let's just go ahead and leave these here
One of these is rooted in truth, guess which one.
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Wonderful 101 and Bayo 2, Arrow. They are essentials. You are required to have them. REQUIRED.
Can't say I enjoyed Wonderful 101. Didn't hold my interest and was kinda clunky.
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I don’t trust reviewers like IGN, Gamespot, GameInformer, Metacritic and others like them, to review a Sonic game if their lives depend on it! I’m still going to get the Wii U version (I don’t have a 3DS) and I’ll be the judge if this game sucks or not!
In other news, I just posted a first impressions of Sonic Boom (cartoon) in my gallery, on my dA account. If you’re interested, you can all check it out right here.
Why listen to people who know what they're talking about when Sonic
It seriously only takes 2 minutes of youtube to figure out these games are crap. If you'd prefer to stick your head in the sand and fund the next crappy sonic game be my guest, but you're only making it worse.
someday they'll fire the entirety of sonic team and give it to someone who knows what the hell they're doing.
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It's not a productive question because the answer doesn't lead to anything productive.
This is a stupid thing to say. A really, really stupid thing to say. "It doesn't solve anything now" doesn't make it any less relevant to the conversation. You might as well be saying "you're right but who cares?"
Your entire platform throughout this thread has pretty much been "yeah she's been at the center of all these things and yeah maybe she did a bad job with her videos and yeah maybe she's fanning the flames of outrage on both sides of this debate but why are you trying to blame her for it? It's not fair, maybe there are details that you don't know about."
People who can't own up to their shit aren't good people, or the type of people you want to champion a cause around. You probably shouldn't defend them either.
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No, it's not an interesting or productive question. But it's the question that keeps on popping up in this thread because of people who are hellbent on blaming Anita for the whole mess. I would be glad to ignore the question if people would drop it. I think that lends to your point about a war of ideologies. It's unnecessary.
No, see, it is a productive question. If Anita Sarkeesian were to have not done the things she did, would there be a major culture war going on throughout gaming? Would there be the war of ideologies that you yourself said was unnecessary? The short answer is no. The longer answer is no, and she and the majority of her constituents and strongest supporters have prolonged it with inflammatory, dismissive and frankly hateful propoganda that isn't much better than the people they claim to be oppressed by. Everyone and their mom knows the best way to make a troll go away is to ignore it. To the contrary, they have poured fuel on the flames throughout.
It doesn't strike anyone else as oddly coincidental that a woman who has purportedly become a life-long gamer in the past three years and has been calling games misogynistic and problematic for years before that is an instrumental part of the re-ostracization of gaming as a cultural phenomenon?
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I think my bottom-line response is that although I don't agree with or condone Anita Sarkeesian's style of argumentation, I also don't think it's reasonable in this situation to hold her responsible
She's doing bad things and inciting riot but she shouldn't be held responsible for that is pretty much what you're saying
Sure she said it in 2010 but a lot can change in 3-4 years. What may have been true back then doesn't need to still be true today because things change. It kinda happens thanks to a thing called the inexorable passage of time.Everything she's done regarding this, including the initial Kickstarter for her series, heavily implied and flat out said she was 'a life-long' gamer. People say different things three years later, but it's because one time they were lying and one time they weren't.
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You're the one making a claim here, you support it. Two women are continuously harassed and threatened, and somehow they're the ones antagonizing and insulting other people? I don't buy it.
what point have you made here
Literally everyone who is on the 'right' side of GG has been constantly disparaging and mocking it ever since this started. Ben Kuchera, the head editor at Polygon said earlier today
Misogyny and harassment have always existed in gaming. At least with #gamergate they self-identify so you know they're safe to ignore.Everyone still making noise on the 'good' side are literally trying to start flame wars to create more proof of the alleged harassment that is 'still going on.' Zoe Quinn tweeted out something along the lines of 'if one more person harasses me I'm going to kill myself' and guess what? No one said a thing, except 'no don't do it oh em gee those terrible trolls what have they done to you'
These people already know they're going to win the fight in the public eye. Why not ham it up, stir up some more outrage, and see what more they can get out of it before letting it blow over?
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Are you kidding me with those new characters?!
I mean, Link is awesome but couldn't they be bothered to add Birdo and Bowser Jr?!
*general outrage over good things happening*
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Hey so I'm making myself an OCRemix Project M custom music pack. Anyone have good suggestions for songs/stage?
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I'd also include Super Metroid, Myst, Portal 1 & 2, Plants vs. Zombies, and Final Fantasy IV, VI, VII, and X.
really? portal?
portal is scary as hell for small kids dude
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Everything Rayman related. Especially the most recent two.
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So popular in fact, that Nintendo was going to pull the plug on the series due to years of declining sales unless Awakening sold enough copies.
according to what
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Nice Jimmy - I joined the WiiU club as well. Bought one for myself as a birthday present
The deals you can get this week are insane. Check this out. We picked up the Mario & Luigi bundle at Target for $275. Then, we grabbed Mario Kart 8 and Super Mario 3D World for about $45 each, also at Target, price matched to Amazon. Then, Target offers a free game of equal or lesser value when you get two WiiU games, so we got Nintendoland. Then, we got the free game with MK8 (WWHD). Lastly, all that gave enough coins to afford a free digital game through Club Nintendo, so we picked up the classic Mario Party 2. Oh, and we fill prescriptions through Target and had a 5% off card that applied to everything.
In total, that's about $346 for a brand-new console and SIX games. Not bad!!
pro buying strats right there
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New discussion point, since I think we've all hashed out most of what there is to say about Nidalee until the next patch...
Who should be buying Essence Reaver? Is it a viable replacement for Tear --> Manamune on mana-heavy characters like Yorick, Jayce, and Ezreal? Is it a viable replacement for a Bloodthirster and/or BotRK? Intuition tells me no for the latter, since BT and BotRK both output quite a bit more damage -- one via raw number, the other via passive.
I think it's too expensive to buy with the intention of selling off lategame, though I know prophet disagrees with me on that point, especially at most of our levels of play where we all tend to get far more income than we should (e.g. games with more than 25 kills in them).
I find it's a great buy on Sivir and Draven. For sivir, because she's so mana-heavy and can use the cooldown reduction, and for draven because the mana regen scales with damage, so using spinning axes keeps you at really high mana all game, even in fights when you're constantly using w.
I could definitely see it being good on Jayce too but I don't really play Jayce so eh.
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This is correct, my bad. I didn't notice because practically, engaging after a max range spear has always involved diving the backline in a teamfight, which is suicide, so I've never thought to try it. In lane the speed bonus has never come into play.
that means you're doing it wrong. which speaks to my point pretty strongly.
i'm done here
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Passive only applies in brush, max damage spear is 1300 range, empowered Pounce is 700 range, and you no longer have a passive movespeed boost in Cougar form. Doesn't add up, sorry.
Well clearly you're not paying attention this is enough for me to dismiss your opinions
YOU GET A 30% MOVESPEED BOOST TOWARDS THE ENEMY IF YOU HIT THEM WITH AN ABILITY HOW HAVE YOU NOT NOTICED THIS IN 'ALL OF YOUR TESTING'
as someone who didn't even like playing nidalee before and is now wrecking teams 14-3 ish regularly your opinion on 'your character' seems suspiciously biased towards what you liked to do before
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Nidalee main chiming in. The hitbox change to the spears was good, the old hitbox was pretty messed up. It makes landing spears a lot harder, but coupled with the damage nerf, it's supremely unsatisfying to land a long range spear.
Compared to before. That's the point
I get that a good Nid was annoying to play against before, but she was by no means overpowered. It was an unnecessary rework to what was a fairly well balanced champion with plenty of counter options.
Balance is not the issue - supreme safety, high late game reward and no risk are 100% counterplay free
That out of the way, the new Nidalee runs with a few interesting ideas, but I feel like it missed the mark in a few ways. I'm gonna talk mainly about AP Nidalee, which is what I play and is now slightly underpowered, though I hear AD Nidalee is a little too powerful atm. I'm not much of a toplaner though, so other people can talk about that.
Making her Cougar form available at one would have been a buff to her pre-6, except her kit changes have made her significantly weaker in the early game than before. Her base damages are too low for her to make a significant impact in lane, or roaming.
She gets bullied by just about every popular midlaner, and even champions I was surprised to struggle to lane against, like Karma and Kassadin. Everyone outpokes her and out-trades her pre-6. There are two main ways to play her early game: stock up on potions and farm safely, or all in ASAP.
both of these are dumb. outfarm your opponent, hit spears if they're there, use traps to stay safe. if you hit a spear, your cougar all in will do near half of their health, not including the spear that already hit. make them back off, heal yourself and go back to farming
That said, Nidalee gets stronger in the mid game. If you can outfarm the other team, get your power spike before they have a chance to build MR, you can start dealing decent damage with spears, to the squishy ADCs if no one else, and get yourself fed before you fall off to defensive items in the late game. Once you hit three complete items (typically Sorc Shoes + Morellonomicon + Seraph's/Rabadon's/Void Staff) you have an opportunity to build a lead, and with her new assassination potential you can snowball hard enough to carry into the late game. The more fed you are, the slower you fall off as they build defensive items.
Your first issue is that you're not buying lich bane. Free 450 damage cougar q pretty good
In summary: Farm safely in the early game, but don't be afraid to Flash for a kill. Build and extend a lead in the mid game, you can snowball pretty hard during this power spike. Close out before the game goes too late, once that ADC gets a Banshee's, you're out of assassination targets.
AP Nidalee 2.0 features some cool new mechanics. She's lots of fun, but she's also weaker overall than other AP mids. Whether it's poke or siege or supporting or assassination, specialized champs like Ziggs and LeBlanc and Akali and Kayle do it better. AP Nidalee is a jack-of-all-trades, master of none.
Sorry, but this is not true at all. Only to a no defensive-item squishy, only in the mid game with sufficient damage items, and only at max-range does it do damage that could be described as "crazy", which is maybe 40% health at most.
I can't believe this is what you think is 'not enough damage'
you do 40% on a 6~ second cooldown. If you hit more than one spear you can kill guaranteed with cougar form, which is safer than it's ever been because you get pounce back immediately after killing someone
With the hitbox changes, it's almost not worth it to try for those long range spears. Especially because if you land a max range spear, you're out of range even for an empowered Pounce.
speed from your passive puts you in range very easily you just have to leave your little 1500 range bubble to do things now, which everyone else in the game appreciates
With no follow-up, that ADC's gonna be back at full after a brief trip to wraiths.
tl;dr you're playing new nidalee like old nidalee which is dumb and designed not to work - that's why they reworked her in the first place
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On the subject of Nid... It's still really early, and it'll be interesting to see how she develops, but ultimately? I don't see her being very popular for awhile. I think her poke game got hit a bit. (Probably needed, as much as it pains me to say that.) I think building the pure AP glass cannon nid that everyone used to play is non-viable, so her only viability comes in the form of Tanky-Bruiser nid and AD assassin Nid..both semi viable and certainly interesting to see, but ultimately? there are other champions that fill that role better. I feel like she has less build options and will only be played top now which makes me sad. I was kinda excited to see her as a potential support (especially with cougar at the start of the game) but she seems far to fragile for that. Time will tell, ultimately.. I love/hate the changes to her kit.
As for the item-changes, I think they are all good and positive changes. ADCs have needed some buffs for a bit now. Personally, I'm hoping they do something with Hurricane down the line, but I think overall its a good change for the game. Also excited to see Twitch/Lucain get the nerf stick a bit, they were in every SINGLE ranked game that I've played. It was getting annoying.
sorry to say but your thoughts on nidalee are wrong
spears still do crazy damage from deep, and now you can always catch the person you're trying to kill after hitting one due to your new passive - not to mention if you kill them/any minion your pounce cooldown resets to 1 second. buy lich bane and kill everyone
also support nid with the new support item gives 45% attack speed with her heal, and traps are actually useful because regardless of AP it's %health. think about that one
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how does the tournament thing work i want to play
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Yay! Hopefully they release it to the public and I don't have to buy four WiiU Pro controllers straght away!
Can someone explain to me where everyone got this idea that Nintendo just isn't going to release this product that everyone wants and they just announced to the public?
Like seriously. What kind of ass backwards thinking is that. And it's popping up everywhere.
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Details on the E3 Invitational have been announced! I'm the head editor at Smashboards and wrote this up - it's everything in the video plus more details. Please read it! http://smashboards.com/threads/nintendo-announces-players-commentators-rules-peripheral-for-e3-invitational.356715/page-2#post-16809025
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Never heard of him.
straight up scrub. not missing much
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