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rammus might not be the fastest jungler but he's definitely good at ganks. i'd put xin and shaco in there before lee sin honestly.

trundle is a riot - he can take tons of damage, get around fast, and has that penis of filth move. also, rammus is overpowered? or easy mode? not sure which.

i'm enjoying ranked games more than non-ranked. people don't leave, your team is mostly try-hards, people buy wards, they usually don't do ridiculous things, they ping for ganks early enough that the jungler can get over there, etc. as a tank who never, ever will carry a team to victory, i appreciate having smart AD and AP carries. it makes the game so much more fun. i've only had one really mean idiot in a ranked game so far, and it wasn't in the loss (which i went 1-6-8 in, really bad time...never tank jungle warwick. blame my team for forcing it on me). i played with a sion who talked crap all game, starting in the first few minutes when he didn't leash properly and i lost it, and subsequently couldn't get blue until almost ten minutes in as fiddles (who is hyper-dependent on mana regen early-game). i didn't play well, for what it's worth - i think i went 2-7-15 or so, mostly as a result of being underleveled and asked to cover turrets from enemies four and five levels higher than me - and annie ate me a few times when she was 12 and i was 7 (which is totally my fault, right? when i have full health under a tower and she can spike me to nothing almost instantly). we got two aces late game solely because of my pulling the team's asses out of the fire, though, and we pushed and got three towers and baron from each, so we won it no problem. sion spent the entire time after the game berating me for being terrible, and to enjoy my shitty life, while everyone from both teams told him to shut up. it was frustrating that we had won and that guy still felt he needed to just complain the whole time. beyond that? ranked has been fun.

i am 4-1 in ranked games. my ELO - which only displays to others obviously - is 1337. A SIGN. edit - i am averaging 1.4-4.5-10.4 per game with four of five games coming as a tank, so i'm doing ok. the three games i played with rammus and udyr i'm averaging 2-3-11 with tons of farm and several awesome taunts/stuns to protect teammates, so i feel good.

i've played DoW II and the expansions. retribution doesn't feel like DoW II that much, but it's definitely fun =)

guys GUYS i am laughing so hard. remember what happened in 2008? and 2010? and happened this year? everyone was all I WANT IN when it started, everyone put it off until the last weekend, and everyone bitched that they didn't get a memo saying 'sweetiepie, please start now'. if you all want i'll dredge up my post from last year, but i basically said that music isn't hard, it doesn't take forever, and you had three months...so obviously it's rama's fault for starting this! everyone who is complaining, go throw yourself off a bridge. the world needs more people to take responsibility for their actions. you screwed up, don't blame someone else because you didn't bother - over a period of three months - to check when the compo started. honestly. three months. you didn't think to yourself, "hrm, self, i wonder if FBRC started yet"? to be honest, i forgot in 2009 after signing up, and then copped out when i realized i wasn't motivated enough to put in the extra time - and lose sleep - to finish a track on time. if everyone said that, i'd be fine. but these people moaning about no official start can suck a bag of dicks. what a joke. props to the people who did this, or who stepped in and manned up and said that they forgot and couldn't finish it because of their mistake. no props to the people who are blaming the guy who ran the competition for their screwup.

naw, those images were where someone took a 1920x1200 picture, chopped the outsides of it so it was 750x1200, and then stretched it. i just want a picture that's the proper size =)

rozo, i prefer pictures of the world over that computer-generated stuff. mountains, skyscrapers, etc. i've actually found these exact same ones at multiple sites. they're all cut down from stuff found at deviantart and interfacelift and other sites. none are actually originally that size. a few of these are pretty good. thanks =)

if i wasn't a Johnnie Walker man, i'd love that

i'm assuming this is a related topic since it's about computers, if not, well, whatever. i use two monitors on my primary system - a 1920x1200 and a 1050x1680 (22" monitor turned vertical). there are NO good desktop images with the 1050x1680 image size. i've used the custom search in google images and just get jack. half the results either aren't the right size or are completely unrelated. like, i search "nature", and most of the images are celebrities. sigh. i know people use this, it's just that there's nothing out there, and vertical wallpaper dot com hasn't been updated in years. anyone got any good vertical wallpaper, or some good images that can be cropped to look good vertical?

yes. i think this extends to other genres as well, similar to your analogy as well. strategy games like SC2 at their basis are fundamentally flawed because some humans physically and mentally cannot keep up in terms of APM to other people who are simply wired differently. for FPSes, there's always some asshole with the noob cannon grenading the whole level and getting to tenth prestige without doing really anything. most gametypes have a fundamental flaw, the difference is that most try and hide that flaw behind some sort of balancing mechanic. DOTA doesn't...they promotes that as the way to win games.

thing is, i know i can be more efficient. i spent 20m looking for a drumloop and then just settled with a far more inferior version of it (you'll hear it clearly). if i'd known where that was, well, that puts me under two hours, or roughly 1:15 of music per hour. that's ridiculously fast for composing or arranging (not counting mastering time, of course).

i'm judging the genre in regards to what i've played of LoL, that's true. although i've definitely put more time into playing actual matches in LoL than any of you three, having played over 250 games

1135 was when i looked up the youtube and midi. i finished roughly now, 235. that's three hours. the episode i watched was roughly 45m since there were no commercials. so, 2:15 or so. not bad! i'm just about to upload it now.

60 hours a week doesn't matter when you only need two or three for a song. most people spend more time on the crapper in a week. mastering mine now. i'd have been done earlier but i watched an episode of NCIS with my wife over lunch. it's short, but it's a very fast tempo so it balances out.

exactly. it's crowd control, not death timers, that make DOTA-like games somewhat poor design. now, it's FUN to make your opponent unable to do stuff, but since LoL's matchmaking system is so damned broken and doesn't take skill into account, just time investment and your recent string of wins or losses, more often than not your opponent's team is better at doing that than you are.

there's also the point that bleck had where he said that any game design based around denying your opponents the ability to play the game - or, more accurately, a game designed around not playing it for half the players - is poor design.

well, shit. i just saw this and remembered that i signed up for it. going to start now.

the problem with kat is that all of her artwork looks great - only new janna has a better 'figure' - but all of her in-game artwork is basically a palette swap. it's kind of great because they make her look like this death goddess and then all you see is this crazy hair-scarf-thingie. i don't play cait enough to want a skin for her, as ranged AD champs represent my worst gameplay in LoL. i used to have a yearly subscription to PC Gamer for roughly 3$ a year, but i got sick of the useless articles and the fact that - gasp - game informer was usually better researched, had more information, and better and more introspective commentary...which isn't saying much, i know. plus PC Gamer feels like it's written on toilet paper, and is clearly marketing to underage boys (see above picture).

you'd be able to see more if your computer wasn't made out of rich mahogany. or a toaster, for all we know

i wish they'd give you a vote to replace leavers after a few minutes with bots that were worth little gold upon death. it means that the other team can get kills, and that your lane isn't completely hosed if you have someone DC.

to be honest, the fact that it's about teamfights and not your one star overpowering their one star is a good thing. i feel it makes for a game where everyone is contributing the whole time. while you still have teams built around one character like karth, sion, or kog'maw, everyone is still a critical member of that team, and any of those players can significantly increase your chance at winning with a skillful play. i don't feel that that is represented in what little i've watched of HoN or DotA. edit: yeah, andy, i know. i don't choose to play tanks in pub games - i usually get stuck with them because i don't jump in and auto-lock my favorite character. singed, however, is someone i'm really looking forward to getting. i think that i'd be pretty darn good with him just because all you need to do is toss shit and stack belts the last few games i've led my team in creep kills, so that's definitely starting to help. it's always hard to farm early-game with tanks, but i'm getting better. udyr and amumu can annihilate creep lanes by level seven or so, so once we're out of the laning phase and the rest of the team is ratballing i'll usually stay in lanes and farm up so i've got my thornmail/frozen heart and FoN/banshee's as soon as possible. i've been getting both by level 12 or 13 lately, which is awesome. it's just that anyone can farm with special attacks like udyr's tiger stance or amumu's tantrum/despair. i'm just not good at using auto-attacks yet. sooner or later i'll get it =)

i've been having the same feeling, zircon, but for different reasons. i think we all know that i have very specific limitations in-game - i'm not the greatest farmer, and i have trouble communicating sometimes - but my frustration is that i tank in pub games, which is apparently something that doesn't happen often. most games i'll wind up with a score like 2-6-6, with a surrender at the 30m mark, and have most of those deaths come because i initiated when told to and then everyone backed off. then at the end-game screen, people will tell me that i did terrible, even though i farmed pretty well and had the items i needed at the level i was at. clearly the defining trait of a tank is not dying, and i understand that - but no character tanks well at level 12 when your team doesn't output damage. the point of a tank isn't to survive no matter what, it's to survive just long enough. if i play as udyr, it's even harder, because i'm expected to spend the whole fight using bear stance to stun everyone rather than using turtle stance. i had two players 'yelling' at me because i was trying to stay alive in a fight rather than using bear stance so they could fight without fear of getting caught. we then went on to get wiped, because i stopped using turtle and almost immediately was focused down and slaughtered. i also have unreasonably bad luck with pubs. i've had seven straight games with at least one member of my team either unable to speak english (and being the jungler, or something communication-critical like that), or AFK for a significant portion of the game. particularly when i tank with a character like udyr, who is so dependent on not getting poked hard early to really be able to tank mid and late game, being stuck in a lane where my gold is exclusively coming from a HoG and a philosopher's stone really gets annoying fast.

most of those links are dead, unfortunately, but the few i got to see were pretty cool.