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haven't bumped in a while. i'm selling my graphics card now (EVGA GTX 560), too, so if you're looking to upgrade i've got a nice, well-maintained one for you.

blue, send me details of your card. i'm definitely interested. in an obviously unrelated note, i'm now selling my EVGA GTX 560 XD

lee sin can do everything, really really well. he can support, he can tank, he can ad carry, he can bruiser, he can jungle, he can assassinate. he can do most of these from roughly the same build. he's broke as shit, dude, and it's time someone fixed him. dunno if how riot's doing it is the right way, but he desperately needs to be tuned. the biggest thing that needs to change is that the feeder sin is always your top lane, and the fed sin is always their jungle. fix that and he's actually more balanced.

i apologize for not being any good at mid. this is why i am trying to play more mid =)

sorry for the double post. this is a good point - while they're both low-mobility champs, they definitely have different focuses. i don't think that vel compares to karth or fiddles, though - his abilities have relatively narrow hitboxes and don't do the same kind of damage in an entire lane like karthus or fiddles or kat can. i can't think of another mage that has his ability to chain so much hard cc on someone. the ability to heavy slow -> root -> knockup -> root, combined with the huge damage that comes from that and his ult, isn't one i can think of elsewhere, besides maybe old xerath, but old xerath didn't have vel's low mana costs or crazy low cooldowns. maybe ziggs is a closer comparison? more functional hard cc but less mobility?

my biggest issue with vel'koz is that they reset all the normal ELOs, and i haven't play enough normals to normalize. in four games with him mid, i've had a team with a proper support in bottom lane once. the others featured such fantastic combos like ziggs support. i won the one with a real support (my first game, 9-9-12) and have lost the other three averaging something like 5-10-13. part of that came with laning against akali, kassadin, and [someone who i beat, don't remember], where they went even against me but left, got kills on my derp bot lanes, and then came back and steamrolled me. in my three losses, too, i had a lee sin with 400 damage but zero tank who tried to throw three times before doing it (he was the 'tank'), a shaco jungle tank who only dived when i pinged to back off (that was the game with ziggs support), and a game where i fought a clearly skilled kassadin to a standstill in mid and outfarmed him but couldn't get a gank to save my life. he got a triple kill in bot lane and came back to eat me alive in late game. in short, i think vel'koz is just as viable as champs like lux are in the current meta - long-range casters with hard CC and heavy damage are fantastic to have with a real teamcomp, but they need proper support and beef to keep people off of them, and even then some teams just can overwhelm an individual caster. his lack of mobility really hurts him, too, but the relatively long range of his abilities is super nice, and having what amounts to three different hard forms of cc - his mega-slow Q, the rift, and the cho'gath knockup - mean you vomit damage in big fights, and if you've got that tanky initiation (malphite, mummy, and sejuani come to mind), you can land and chain CC and his passive enough that you can burst anyone down regardless of resists or tankiness. edit: is anyone else as sick of the "it's normals" comment as i am? yes, it isn't ranked, but you're still wasting a minimum of 20 minutes because you're a moron and decided to do double ADC bot when you can't last-hit. all three of my losses featured someone saying "it's normals" and then locking in something totally ridiculous. teambuilder literally can't get here fast enough. i will never play another normal game again. i'm all for crazy builds - i mean, look at all my movespeed builds on aram and elsewhere! - but i have more fun winning than getting stomped because my hard counter got fed munching on a 4-17 bot lane.

he is everything i've ever wanted in an ap champ. and his ult is hilarious.

haha, vel'koz is SO BROKEN

do we know when cthulhu is being released?

just play twitch. the long-range ult shots he shoots split at the end like runaans. clearly this is the fix for this issue.

agree, sam, soloqueue has been ridiculous lately it seems.

that's a unique pick against him. can't say i expected that. i've seen two AP nasus players the last few games. is he coming back? i've wanted to try him but can't fathom throwing that hard if he turns out to be a giant lemon.

graves is kinda tanky early anyways, so having taric's shatter bonus on him is crazy. you can get 80 or 90 armor in lane very eariy-on if taric maxes shatter first...levels 4-5 he's basically unpokeable if he starts with dorans into lifesteal.

this is awesome!

no, my opening post involved reading more than the title is all =) i never said i wanted to listen to a 99-track mixtape of acidjazzed evening. i said what i liked, and asked if anyone else had music similar to it. so far, people do! i like that. if it's not chiptunes, well, at least it got people looking at the thread. it's not like there's a ton of conversation on these forums lately anyways compared to seven or eight years ago. a for amiga is pretty hot, not exactly what i was looking for, but it's fat and sounds great. hadouken's album is pretty nice. the singer is pretty solid. same with i fight dragons.

see, i didn't like danimal cannon's stuff, though, because it sounded like a dude with a gameboy, and while the writing was interesting it got tiresome fast because it's the same couple of sounds being used over and over. i don't like that. i like where people take those sounds and add a ton of other awesome stuff in it. like, anamanaguchi sounds like it's got a full band behind it sometimes, with guitars and drums and singers and stuff. that complexity is awesome, and the chip tones add a lot to it that normal instruments wouldn't. therex, that IFD album sounds like just my style. i'll check it out when i'm home, along with other stuff in this thread up to this point.

i'm more specifically looking for albums. i should note that while i said chiptune in the thread title, i wouldn't necessarily call anamanaguchi (the band that makes me want to listen to them) solely a chiptune artist. so please don't just suggest guys with gameboys to me =) are there artists that have a similar sound to that? that's what i'm looking for.

I KNOW I KNOW PLEASE DON'T SHUN ME but i recently was listening to anamanaguchi's album Endless Fantasy, and it's fantastic. so i listened to dawn metropolis and loved it too. so, tell me what essential chiptune album you can't live without. i've found some reddit lists but it's particularly long. i'm looking for new stuff to listen to a lot lately since i can listen to music at work. i've heard a few chiptune/rock mashups that i liked as well, so if you've got suggestions there, that'd be awesome.

put jeff at support, he's super good, like granite XL

who cares about supports, when you can play aram and beep boop your way to victory? i won an aram today as him where we were 3v5 for ten minutes before going full 5v5 for the last five or so. he is the great equalizer. he punishes those whom do not know how to position. he secured The Ocho. all hail beepboop. WHA WHAWHA WHA WHAWHAWHA WHAWHA WHA.

name a champ you're more willing to go into a 1v2 engagement with. jax has a wall-hopping disengage (better now with the free ward button), an aoe stun that's often up, excellent mixed ratios, and great cooldowns *when he is properly built*. the other options i can think of that can steamroll an entire team during a teamfight comfortably are nasus, hecarim, shyvana, jayce, and fiora. that is, they're comfortable overcoming loads of CC and still surviving long enough to take several people down with them. jayce, hec, and jax are the only ones with hard cc not tied to an ult, and jax's is half the CD of the other two. he's the only one with a consistent autoattack speed bonus - allowing you to build more damage than you would otherwise - and the only one with a defense steroid. all that said, he still sucks if you don't get fully built. deprive him of gold and he's worse in the long run than anyone else in that list because he provides nothing to a team other than an aoe stun every ten seconds. at least nasus gets farmed no matter what, fiora and jayce have much higher damage potentials with less cash, and hecarim has two disruptions as well as a heal bonus if your team dishes out damage.

their low-end units are decent quality for the price, but once you go over 450w you're looking for something that has high efficiency, low ripple, high-quality caps, and good long-term stability. while your unit might be doing well, the fact is that rosewill PSUs don't last as long as equivalent CM, silverstone, or seasonic PSUs, they've got some of the worst ripple among industry leaders, their PSUs consistently are the lightest in weight among high-sale manufacturers (implying poor build quality), and their efficiency numbers are usually inflated by testing them in coldboxes. i haven't bought a rosewill i liked in four years =( i love rosewill accessories, and their add-on cards and the like are well-built and usually far cheaper than other units. i avoid their mid- and heavy-use PSUs, however, except in specific circumstances.

jax is pretty shitty right now in lane. his ability to aid jungle ganks and finish kills are superb if he can get proper positioning, but a champ like nasus can run him over simply by withering him and Qing him every time he comes over. nasus's mana costs are minimal compared to jax's, and forcing jax to use his jump every time he wants to get some farm means that nasus can just sit in the lane and auto-attack his health back up. this is exacerbated by smart nasus players starting cloth 5 pots (one mana), where most jaxes start with a doran's blade and hope they can auto enough hp back. if jax gets ahead, he bulldozes teams worse than maybe any other champ in the game except maybe - MAYBE - akali or diana, due to an epic passive and ult, short cooldowns, and his laughably available mobility and AOE stun. if he doesn't get ahead, he's worthless, because every jax player in the game acts like he's fully built after 20 minutes, and tries to solo the other team until the game's over. also, his early game (in the jungle) is tough because he has to build lifesteal early to be able to consistently survive there without blowing all his mana and never being able to gank.

micro ATX boards in big cases make me sad =( seems pricey for what you've got in there that i can see. green storage drive, oversized offbrand PSU, not a big radeon. hope the cpu is big to compensate =)

i have some nice studio monitors (300$ for pair, normally 250$ a piece), a wireless-n netgear router (45$, normally 60$+), and a 24" asus 1080p monitor (125$, normally 160$+) for sale. i'd consider trading some stuff for a smaller LCD TV as well. let me know =)