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Oh yeah, the bots just five man all the time. You can pretty much free farm the jungle and other lanes and destroy the bots in the mid game. I always laugh at how under farmed they are. Like a Drow Ranger with 200 GPM or the 30 minute battle fury on PA. You are pretty much invisible in the jungle too, since the bots rarely go there so can easily escape there. Playing against bots definably builds bad habits, but it is cool to try out new things without the pressure of expectations.

adjl posted...

That's basically me with DotA 2. All those hours have been almost exclusively against bots. Sometimes with friends, sometimes solo, I just go through phases of it being my go-to "need to kill 30-45 minutes" game or being in the mood for a couple casual rounds. I know the game inside and out (or did, since it's seen some major patches in the last couple years that I haven't really kept up with), but I've never really "gutten gud" at it.

Lol, pretty much the same for this game for me as well. I know all the characters & the general character & item builds, but the moment I start getting good at the mechanical aspects like last hitting & the like I get bored and move on. I started a little bit after the 7.00 patch & have several hundred hours against bots & unranked lobbies, but never played ranked.

The cycle usually starts with me watching a stream at a whim getting interested on the new changes, playing a couple matches, but never progressing much from there. I guess I mostly a grazer with games. I have hundreds of games with 20-30 hours on them, but very few that go over a 100 with me. It is hard for me to play a game more than a month. I like the idea of being good at a game initially, but realize that it is pretty silly especially if I am not making or playing with friends, so I move on.

TheSlinja posted...

441 hours of counterstrike go
and i never even got good
great times

Same for me. Although, it is mostly a result of me playing it for brief stretches of time over 8 years. Every time I start getting good, I get bored and play something else for most of the year then come back as pretty much a total noob again with the cycle repeating.

Although, now a days with the game dying on NA, I find the game more frustrating than fun. Even the silvers are pretty tough due to rank compression. I used to be a nova, but steadily decreased to lower and lower tiers of silver each time I choose to come back to the game. Matches feel worse too. I will lose badly for maybe 5 games in a row, then get a conciliatory blow out game where I barely have to play to win. It just doesn't feel like you get the even matches anymore and I have no friends that play this game, so I am probably done with the game at this point.

I prefer dubs because I can do other things while listening to the show, but I am not adverse to subs

DocDelicious posted...

That dude who identifies as Jimin having a fucking melty right now.

If the real Jimin dies it will be imperative that he carry on his legacy

Yeah, cats brains will melt if you leave them alone for a long period of time. I did that with my cat for the a week and the thing deliberately knocked a glass off the counter top when I got back home. The passive aggressiveness gets turned to an extreme and they hold grudges.

I thought the ending was fine. It reminded me a lot of the Code Geass ending with Eren turning himself into the arch douchebag, so humanity can come together and set aside thier differences defeating him. The ending not putting everything is a tight bow is also fine. It was pretty much expected that war would break out again after his death, it would seem unrealistic given the themes that were preached before then.

The gladius was almost purely used to thrust. Behind the large shield it was almost impossible to predict the trajectory and your defense was really strong. I gave the example of multiple thrusting weapons to show that thrust tends to be the preferred mode of attack on the battlefield, since you can't exactly swing a huge sword around in formation. Although, I am primarily thinking of a dual situation when I am saying the rapier is the superior weapon.

Yeah, the Napoleon example wasn't a good example because they had bayonets, so swords were pretty much useless anyways, but in the musket and pike era it wasn't too uncommon for musketeers to carry rapiers. Hence, the tale of the three musketeers & thier use of the weapon. The small sword, a shorter thrusting weapon was still pretty popular even in the bayonet era though. It just was that you weren't going to carry a large sword with you when you had the equivalent of spear anyways, so if you were to carry a sword you would want a smaller easy to carry weapon.

The rapier was an insanely popular weapon in its heyday. Whole schools of fencing developed around the use of the weapon all around Europe & even today its descendent the small sword is widely studied. Denying its popularity seems silly.

Activision is much more turn key anyways. It is pretty easy to pump out CoD games and WoW expansions and the fans will lap them up no matter how lackluster they are. Nintendo has had some pretty big slumps in thier career. They found a goldmine in systems like the Wii & Switch, but they have had some pretty rough spots as well. I am far more confident that Microsoft will not F up Activision than they would Nintendo. The later would almost be a given after what they did to Rare.

You have a lot of edge, but unfortunately very little point.

I don't think Muslims have any time for another god with all the praying they have to do. I know the dude is great and all, but how much praise does the dude need anyways? It's nice to have a self esteem booster, but come on man, 5 times a day from millions of people that comes off as just a bit conceited. And they say pride is a mortal sin.

Fusions are still pretty bad. Thier whole gimmick is that they allow you to summon a powerful monster without tributing, but it is so easy to special summon most monsters that such a gimmick is meaningless anyways. Plus they require a specific hand and in I believe Yu Gi Oh does not give you too many good ways to draw, at least compared to Magic anyways

I greatly disagree with this logic. If anything, thrust makes more sense on a battlefield due to the close quarters nature of combat. It is hard to do much more than an overhand chop in a formation and even then that is kind of dangerous unless you are using some type of polearm like a halberd or something. That is why most infantry weapons were spears or thrusting swords such as gladius. It allows for a really tight formation that is hard to defeat, well at least until guns entered the picture. Plus it makes the combat much more linear so it is easier to land your thrusts. A circling opponent will be harder to land up line up a good thrust with.

Rapiers were popular on the battlefield until the bayonet came into existence. Napoleons musketeers where equipped with rapiers for instance and the swiss guard still carry rapiers today. It wasn't exactly uncommon on the battlefield

Some of it is cultural though. Mainland Europe had a disposition towards rapiers, whereas the English despised them and preferred cutting swords, so you will have authors such as George Silver that loathed the thing and will rant and rave about its weaknesses.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Two spell cards to make a monster that's weaker than a blue eyes and can be beat with trash tier traps.

Plus you are sacrificing your whole deck for a card that is hardly even a win condition. If I was making that much of a commitment I would want a near guaranteed chance of victory. Disabling your opponent from attacking for a few turns in hardly a win condition & the card doesn't disable monster effects, spell cards & trap cards, so it is doubtful it would even last more than a turn or even be able to played in the first place. Even if you were playing some UU format, I don't see it being an effective build even if you just use it as a card to try to ramp.

Well, the saber was used on the battlefield more than the rapier because it could be used from horse back easier. You aren't going to be using a rapier on horseback. The rapier was a popular sidearm for infantry before gunpowder & extremely popular for civilian use.

The rapier is extremely long range for a one handed sword. Probably the longest one handed sword you are going to find. Actually, makes it a bit difficult to wield without proper training, since it is pretty heavy and you tend to hold it in front of you instead of close to your body.

The rapier is almost purely a trusting weapon, so there is very few other concerns. You can cut a person with it, but it won't lop off a limb like say a long sword would. Although, I am preferential to the trust since you can keep your distance and be in less danger compared to a chopping weapon where you have to close the distance & may die doing so. There is nothing wrong with having one attack mode. The spear is in a similar situation and is quite strong.

Saber is a pretty good balanced weapon I will agree with that. I could understand why some may prefer it, but I still would want the extra reach for a dual like situation.

Probably a rapier. I generally want to keep distance from my opponent in an fight & the rapier has both range and speed. Plus stabs are easier to initiate & harder to defend than cutting motions. There is pretty much a reason it was the go to sword since its invention.

Yeah fusions and ritual summons were always useless. They eventually tried balancing it around tribals or whatever the Yu-Gi-Oh term for it was and got some success as it pushed the player to play around certain strategies, then they broke the game in half with pendulum summons. Now cards have so much damn text on them it is like reading a Jane Austen novel. I don't know why any one would play it now

It's just a poorly designed game. Always has been. The lack of mana & the all or nothing combat system makes it really hard to balance over powered cards. The classic example of Yu Gi Oh imbalance used to be black hole vs. raigeki, since raigeki does the same exact thing as black hole, but doesn't affect your monsters making it straight up better. Of course, the game is so broken now a days that even raigeki isn't played.

Revelation34 posted...

Next you'll have to chase them into space.

Space, the final frontier. These are voyages of the monster hunters. Thier mission, to defeat strange new monsters, to carve them for new weapons and armor, to press x a million times to gather materials for crafting, and ,of course, to boldly push G rank like no one has done before

I mean on paper, underwater combat sounds cool. Like, you beat the holy heck out of some monster so it jumps into the ocean & you jump after it to take the fight to it, but in practice your character feels like he is swimming & fighting in molasses, while the monsters are flipper on crack swimming all around all over the place. I mean having to chase monsters around everywhere is a classic monster hunter complaint, but the underwater segments are like this, but to a thousand. it feels like you have to wait for the monsters to complete thier three thousand laps around the pond before they allow you to get a couple of slow hits on them. It's a major drag.

Now mounting, while not being as flashy of a gimmick, added a lot more to the game, since it felt far more tactical using the terrain to your advantage & it did balance things out for the various weapons, since dual blades & the sword didn't have too many great ways to break monster parts on large monsters before, but via strategic use of mounting, traps, tripping, ect, you could bring the monster down to you and break parts easy. Overall, while not a flashy change, the change had a positive impact on the gameplay.

I don't think the problem was that they were overused, since most of the Borg episodes were pretty good. It was just by the end, the power creep was so high for Voyager that the Borg were pretty pathetic, not the scary juggernaut they were in TNG. To be fair it is the way in most shows with a super bad. For instance, by the end of Stargate the Goa'uld were pretty much a joke & by the end of Supernatural even high end demons and angels were barely a challenge despite being redoubtable adversaries in the early days.

Regardless, it is nice to have a recurring bad guy, especially in a show like Voyager that is infamous for "hitting the reset button" every episode. Well, as long as it isn't the Kazon

I am surprised there is so much 3U love. The only thing more sucky than under water segments is underwater segments with janky monster hunter combat thrown in and underwater fighting felt like half the game. Although, that was the first one I played so there is some nostalgia I guess

Sorry, I will try to be not as noisy when banging your mom

Easily balls. Boobs are borderline acceptable anyways. I seen enough saggy African titties on Nat Geo to say they are ok for TV.

It's pretty unrealistic to think that she is going to be treated the same way as Adam anyways considering she is a nothing that no one's ever heard of. Compared to Adam who at least has nostalgia going for him.

The whole endeavor's doomed anyways. No one cares about G4 after the rise of YouTube and Adam's review style is far to verbose and boring for a modern day audience. I mean you are reviewing Halo, not writing a book review for the New York Times. Pretty much why he failed since leaving G4 the first time. Why would I watch him when I could watch something entertaining like Scott the Woz

Gr8M8 posted...

Specifically with the element of water (self-esteem and learning ability). As a symbol of strength, tigers are stronger than 13 men in real life. So they swipe hard and jump 16 feet high and 33 feet far. Their bite force is 1050 psi. Also, the Amur subspecies can reach larger sizes than even their Bengal cousins, run at speeds of 50-60 mph, and survive in the unforgiving cold thanks to their thick fur.

That thing is pretty fricken broken. It needs a nerf

Damn, she is 13 !? I thought she was in early 20s or late teens. She has "the mom" hair cut in the first image which threw me off.

You may laugh about the soaks now, but when the dude is sporting two busty Nintendo loving Morman wives, who will be the one laughing.

I don't like thier noses, thier beady eyes & the way they snort.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/can-pigs-make-a-body-disappear/

Yeah, that is some Sicilian mob sheet.

No. The right wingers pretty much support Isreal because they are "God's chosen people." There isn't a whole lot of strategic benefit to supporting them at least from a US prospective. With that said, the Palestinians are a really hard people to get behind. Even most middle eastern countries hate them. They pretty much only exist at this point to grift the world at this point, since they seem to have no willingness to form a country of thier own & make peace with Isreal.

Pretty much a new game for rich people that have too much money.

We got those too, but ads targeting peoples sense of belonging are pretty strong too. It doesn't hurt to diversify most of the time.

I always feel bad for taking all thier free games without purchasing anything from thier store, but it is kind of hard to want to buy anything from thier store front

She seems like a standard Instagram/Tick Tock thot, but I suppose if I were born into the public lime light it would be a hard temptation to ignore.

I didn't mind Voyager. Seven of Nine & the hologram doctor are pretty entertaining & most of the cast is at least acceptable (although, I dislike Nelix). It also has some pretty varied episodes & even a decent special effects budget, so there are a few Hollywood action style episodes. Although, I do have the agree the Kazon are a joke for a super bad and waste many episodes in the first couple of seasons, but the Borg starting season 3 make up for it. It is a decent but not great series

Now Enterprise. I really disliked that one. There were some decent episodes starting at the end of season 3, but almost the whole cast of the show sucks (outside of Plox, I thought he was good) & the early seasons of that show are a total grind to get through. Plus the series was canceled when it was getting good, so it almost feels pointless to watch. Probably one of the worst endings in Star Trek, since it was so abrupt and anticlimactic.

A Mt. Rushmore made up of a bunch of B-tier JRPGs.

It's pretty good from the start unlike most Star Treks, although it is at its best around season 3 with the Dominion wars. Worf also returns around there and plays a prominent role. DS9 does a good job of fleshing out the various species, although the Ferangi episodes still drive me up the wall at times. I am not a big fan of the Bajorans as well, since they are pretty boring.

Ah, that sucks. I thought it was funny though. Should've only got modded if was boring

Who cares. It is not like you got warned for it or anything. I thought is was pretty funny in a cringe way. I didn't know it was hobbit on human sex at first, so thought it was a strange pedophilia thing. Like, the hobbit was doing a full size chick doggy style and barely get above the chicks ass with its head.

Zareth posted...

Cool, now the whole world can hear your bad opinions

And watch your awful gameplay!

I could maybe buy a few votes here and there being tampered with, but Biden won some "contested states" with hundred of thousands of votes. It is just too much of a lead to tamper with in an untraceable manner. Plus a Biden win was hardly unexpected given the circumstances Trump was in. If anything, he beat the spread.

Crazy obese women aside, I don't think mass murders are too popular with most people.

Revelation34 posted...

He's totally doing steroids.

Yeah, he pretty much looks like that buff meme dude

Well, Diablo 3 is pretty simplified. Itemization is mostly through item sets and you are primarily focused on damage, which the game conveniently calculates for you. You don't really have to learn too much to play. But it is pretty fast pace and fun.

I always liked how flexible the itemization is in Grim Dawn. The fact that everything is sockable allows for a ton of choices in gear, since you can round out lower tier gear with them. There is also much more of a focus on defensive stats as well, since resists are huge in the game, so you have to balance damage and defense creating interesting item decisions. Plus the two character trees add a lot of different build opportunities. Weaknesses are that it is a slower game with slow level up times, so people tend to get bored with it. It is probably the slowest of the mainstream ARPGs

It is pretty hard. I try to avoid buying from companies like Amazon, but every time I do, they never have what I want and charge up the wazoo. No wonder these companies are taking are taking over the world.