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He outplayed everyone more or less 1 by 1, with a few clusters I think?

Fizz is really strong, yeah. Same kind of role as Kassadin. Zero: True, simply looking at win rates is usually very informative. The main reason I posted this was simply to give newer players an idea of what champs might be worth learning or practicing. Regarding Yasuo, he doesn't *appear* to be particularly dominant OR underpowered, but he's definitely scary in that his 3rd Q -> ult combo can 100% to 0 an ADC in about one second if you're not careful. That happened to me earlier as Jinx. Even with barrier, I was toast. Few champs have that sort of ranged assassination.

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I haven't had enough experience with/against him to comment much, but Kha DOES seem pretty strong overall. The only issue *appears* to be that while his leap is great, and he certainly has great gank + damage potential, he appears to lack the CC/utility that other top tier junglers have. He's also not as tanky. Vi, J4, Lee Sin, and Shyvana (who I neglected to mention, but I think she would be at least A?) all have huge natural resilience and major disruption in teamfights. That said, he's pretty beast in lane, kinda like Zed I think. Updated the list a bit.

That's certainly one solution. Another solution would be to allow for dynamic splits of ad revenue. For example, if a gaming commentator uses my music in the background of their video, I've elected not to participate in content ID. As a result, I get $0.00 for that usage. However, it would be nice if I could opt-in to a content ID system that takes, say, 10% of the revenue instead of 100%.

You're right on both counts, Leona is damn solid and overall tier lists are difficult for a game like this. But as Neblix said, matchup lists are also tricky. After all, you have to define winning or losing a lane. If LeBlanc ends laning phase 1/0/0, I'd argue that she didn't win, since she needs more kills to snowball early. On the other hand, a Nasus or Gangplank that's 0/0/0 and 140 CS in 13 minutes has probably "won" in that they have massive farm to take them into midgame. I suppose the reason I made the tier list is to give some of the newer players an idea of who the strong champions are to consider learning. Most of these champs will be powerful even if they receive some slight nerfs. For example, Lee Sin can do so much that while his numbers have been whittled down over time, he's still a monster.

Whoops, yeah, I forgot about Zed. He's really good. I also forgot about Corki, who is reasonably safe and has good burst. Right now though the S-tier AD carries are pretty insane. On lolking Sivir has something like 58% winrate right now, the highest in the game. Taric is also very very high on the master winrate.

I like making tier lists, but since there are so many champs now, here's an abridged list... let me know your thoughts. I'll just have "S tier" and "A tier", without bothering with anything else. Top Lane: The best top laners have few bad matchups, relatively safe farming, and can contribute to teamfights even if not very farmed. They usually have escapes, CC, and sustain. S Tier: Riven, Renekton, Lee Sin, Cho'gath, Zed A Tier: Nasus, Gangplank, Aatrox, Garen, Malphite, Shen, Kha'zix Situational: Quinn, Teemo, Vladimir, Ryze Mid Lane: The best mid laners have burst and fairly reliable CC. S Tier: Annie, Lux, Morgana, Zed, Kassadin A Tier: Orianna, Kassadin, Ziggs, Ahri, Brand Situational: Riven, LeBlanc, Cassiopeia, Swain Jungle: Top tier junglers have relatively fast clear time, sustain (or high defense), escapes, excellent ganks, and high disruption. S Tier: Vi, Lee Sin, Jarvan IV A Tier: Amumu, Cho'Gath, Udyr, Zac, Trundle AD Carry: This role is a little weak right now, but the strongest AD carries can output a lot of damage quickly even before being fully farmed. They also typically have escapes, self buffs for AS/MS, and high range abilities of some kind (to stay safe). S Tier: Lucian, Jinx, Sivir, Draven A Tier: Corki, Caitlyn, Miss Fortune, Quinn Situational: Tristana, Kog'Maw Support: Currently, this role can be very variable. Good supports now tend to be on the tanky side with the ability to CC and lock down hard, to compliment an aggressive carry. This CC can be used not only to initiate, but also peel or counter initiate. S Tier: Thresh, Nami, Taric, Lulu, Blitzcrank A Tier: Sona, Leona, Fiddlesticks, Janna, Zyra Situational: Soraka, Annie

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Thanks for the kind words guys! Jim is local to me and I've been over at his place every two weeks for D&D. The game currently looks AMAZING. If you donated to the Kickstarter you've seen the new art previews. Basically the sprites look extremely awesome now in terms of detail, depth and perspective, and it just 'feels' way better overall. On top of that the new UI is great. Mouse control, far improved equipment/inventory system, Diablo style skill trees with icons... it's just great.

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A couple differences: for some libraries with multiple mics, we condensed to one mic position. There is very little difference between the Sitar Nation close and room mics, for example, so we just did the Close mics for the ReFills. Also, we downsampled to 16bit, another change that is virtually if not entirely inaudible. The reason for these changes is because Reason does not do disk streaming but rather loads everything into RAM.

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We're still doing the regular album shipping, which is in the ballpark of 75% done. We have another big packing event planned this weekend. We'll try to get the remixer copies sent by the end of the year!

Yes, reading the thread and your arguments have given me some food for thought. I've also been influenced by the behavior of certain people (via facebook, tumblr, reddit) that seem to be hyper-defensive when it comes to matters of sex vs. gender. Some folks seem very, very quick to label people as "transphobic" (etc) because of benign comments or innocent mistakes, like assuming someone is male because they look male, for example. Obviously I don't support any sort of intolerance or discrimination, but in turn, it seems backwards to judge someone because they're making assumptions based in our natural understanding of biology. As an example, Gabe of Penny Arcade saying he thinks women have vaginas, and getting death threats for it, seems very over-the-top to me.

New video - "Ms. Male Character". Just to vary it up, rather than talk about the things I DO agree with, I'll talk about a couple things I disagreed with... Anita talks about how the "gender binary" is an entirely artificial and socially constructed division. I think that is very far from the truth. I understand that "sex" is used to describe biological differences and "gender" is often used to describe cultural or social differences. But can we really say that ALL gender differences are ENTIRELY cultural or social? Doesn't that ignore everything we know about evolutionary psychology? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_gender_distinction#Criticism_of_the_sex_vs._gender_differences_distinction "...it would be more accurate to view behaviors of an individual as phenotypes—a complex interweaving of both nature and nurture. Given this, a more appropriate and useful distinction to make would be whether a behavioral difference between the sexes is due to a underlying trait that is either a sexually dimorphic (different) or sexually monomorphic (the same in both sexes) psychological adaptation." This view makes much more sense to me. I also have to wonder what the alternative to the trope is, when you're talking about simplistic games with minimal graphics and story. For example, say we're back at a time when Ms. Pac-Man doesn't exist. Is it better to not create a female character at all? I guess not? Given the limited number of pixels you have, how else would you differentiate them other than things that are universally viewed as largely feminine...? She mentions games like Towerfall or Thomas Was Alone, but these either have far more plot/narrative, OR higher fidelity graphics. Another questionable point was regarding marketing for Mass Effect. What's the alternative here? Let's say BioWare chose to advertise the characters equally in trailers and promotional material. Surely this would confuse a great many people - it might look like two separate games, or at least two separate versions, rather than ONE game with character customization. To some extent you do have to just.. pick a default and run with it.

Why is it weird? They said it increased the amount of people playing ranked by like... 200% or something like that.

Is there a way to fast travel between locations?

Is this satire? I can't tell...

I'm not playing with 3D, and it isn't always lag... I'm talking more like, the bottom screen sometimes becomes totally unresponsive. At one point I did something in Pokemon Amie and the bottom screen literally froze. I could move around on the top screen but the bottom screen was locked, even if I tried to bring up the menu. I had to close + reopen the 3DS to fix it. And then sometimes in the super training window (with the punching bag) the buttons won't work, period. I have to 'jog' the controls by hitting L and then R again to get back, and then it will work perfectly.

I love the game, but is the bottom screen very unresponsive sometimes for anyone else? At times, clicking it does nothing. Sometimes it gets frozen. Other times, L/R don't work. It's not my 3DSXL, which is new, and which works fine for everything else. The bottom screen just seems buggy.