Skye

yes please
 
GONNA GET MY POUR ON-
BUNP
SHIT BRO YOU SCARED ME DUMPASS

I'm blatantly stealing this from /v/, but here's something- make your ideal Poker Night at the Inventory roster. I guess mostly telltale, adult swim, and valve games, but I think anything is fair game, like webcomics and such.

Rick (Rick and Morty)
Nick (L4D)
Homestar Runner
Bigby Wolf

Dealer: The Narrator (The Stanley Parable)
Bartenders: Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff

For the sake of not blathering on about it in other topics and becoming a walking billboard for myself, here's a thread for where I can show off video reviews I make about those video games the kids are playing nowadays. The pilot episode, Secret of the Magic Crystals, was well-received so I'm continuing to make content, since I enjoy making these anyway.
 
If you like, you can follow me on Facebook, for updates when a new video is out, and Twitter, for the same but with my usual ramblings added in for good measure.
 
Special thanks to Silent for the use of Cityswing as theme music. I always thought it was a lovely chiptune when I heard, and it's cool that he's cool about being so cool. I wish I was that cool.
 
With all that out of the way, here's episode one. Or two. Does a pilot episode count? Well, either way, here's Boogerman.
 

The colors are a bit washed and the video is quite quiet, probably due to the camera, but good work on using clips.
 
I'd recomend you to watch Lazy Gamer, Ashens and even JonTron to get some tips on how get better

For the sake of not blathering on about it in other topics and becoming a walking billboard for myself, here's a thread for where I can show off video reviews I make about those video games the kids are playing nowadays. The pilot episode, Secret of the Magic Crystals, was well-received so I'm continuing to make content, since I enjoy making these anyway.
 
If you like, you can follow me on Facebook, for updates when a new video is out, and Twitter, for the same but with my usual ramblings added in for good measure.
 
Special thanks to Silent for the use of Cityswing as theme music. I always thought it was a lovely chiptune when I heard, and it's cool that he's cool about being so cool. I wish I was that cool.
 
With all that out of the way, here's episode one. Or two. Does a pilot episode count? Well, either way, here's Boogerman.
 

For the sake of not blathering on about it in other topics and becoming a walking billboard for myself, here's a thread for where I can show off video reviews I make about those video games the kids are playing nowadays. The pilot episode, Secret of the Magic Crystals, was well-received so I'm continuing to make content, since I enjoy making these anyway.
 
If you like, you can follow me on Facebook, for updates when a new video is out, and Twitter, for the same but with my usual ramblings added in for good measure.
 
Special thanks to Silent for the use of Cityswing as theme music. I always thought it was a lovely chiptune when I heard, and it's cool that he's cool about being so cool. I wish I was that cool.
 
With all that out of the way, here's episode one. Or two. Does a pilot episode count? Well, either way, here's Boogerman.
 

For the sake of not blathering on about it in other topics and becoming a walking billboard for myself, here's a thread for where I can show off video reviews I make about those video games the kids are playing nowadays. The pilot episode, Secret of the Magic Crystals, was well-received so I'm continuing to make content, since I enjoy making these anyway.
 
If you like, you can follow me on Facebook, for updates when a new video is out, and Twitter, for the same but with my usual ramblings added in for good measure.
 
Special thanks to Silent for the use of Cityswing as theme music. I always thought it was a lovely chiptune when I heard, and it's cool that he's cool about being so cool. I wish I was that cool.
 
With all that out of the way, here's episode one. Or two. Does a pilot episode count? Well, either way, here's Boogerman.
 

For the sake of not blathering on about it in other topics and becoming a walking billboard for myself, here's a thread for where I can show off video reviews I make about those video games the kids are playing nowadays. The pilot episode, Secret of the Magic Crystals, was well-received so I'm continuing to make content, since I enjoy making these anyway.
 
If you like, you can follow me on Facebook, for updates when a new video is out, and Twitter, for the same but with my usual ramblings added in for good measure.
 
Special thanks to Silent for the use of Cityswing as theme music. I always thought it was a lovely chiptune when I heard, and it's cool that he's cool about being so cool. I wish I was that cool.
 
With all that out of the way, here's episode one. Or two. Does a pilot episode count? Well, either way, here's Boogerman.
 

You can see invisible units if you look closely on the screen.
 
They'll appear as a blur when you're close to them.
 
Stay near a teammate and spam aoe.
 

Results of scrim:
http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/536261365616511653/04652A806D58C584ECF1499A9D35BD025D614A49/
 
We lost pretty badly. But, according to both the FastCo. and enemy team we all did good individually, but we just weren't coordinated enough, but that's to be expected for first timers.
 
Despite the loss, it was still very fun and a good learning experience, I'm eager for our first match.

Maybe the blog guy is the only one who cares.

So the guy who did Freeman's Mind does a game review show called Ross' Game Dungeon. It's pretty fantastic; he usually reviews old and obscure games.
 

Additional post; Jon and Arin shown to be "coo' wid each udder" at Magfest 2015.
 

 
I'm sure we can all get on our high horses and call foul on how either or both of them aren't good or funny or what have you I'm looking at you two, Moby and Gigolo, now hurry the fuck up and kiss each other already but I'm glad that the two apparently have no ill will against each other, given all the crazy rumors. They're two human beings, and we human beings should be about friendship and jolly co-operation (because eventually the mole people are going to rise and overthrow our society, and we need to be ready for them.)
 
Also no, I have no idea what that costume is. Rarity? Maybe? I dunno.

Bitch, I bought you lean pockets.
 
WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT?!
 

Additional post; Jon and Arin shown to be "coo' wid each udder" at Magfest 2015.
 

 
I'm sure we can all get on our high horses and call foul on how either or both of them aren't good or funny or what have you I'm looking at you two, Moby and Gigolo, now hurry the fuck up and kiss each other already but I'm glad that the two apparently have no ill will against each other, given all the crazy rumors. They're two human beings, and we human beings should be about friendship and jolly co-operation (because eventually the mole people are going to rise and overthrow our society, and we need to be ready for them.)
 
Also no, I have no idea what that costume is. Rarity? Maybe? I dunno.

this may be my new favorite thing

You are objectively the worst person in the world.

Swiggity swooty I'm blinkin' for dat booty.

Swiggity swooty I'm blinkin' for dat booty.

Well, they're fun, regardless of whether you win or lose, which is one of my biggest factors in favorite heroes (see 'How I Learnt to Stop Supporting and Love the Axe.') But for further discussion, there's a number of things:
A gem is your Achilles' heel, but requires a 900 gold investment, and it is rarely the carry or a high-earning player who buys it, but usually a support. Gems remove your ability to place mines in plain sight, which is a shame, but there are several spots where an enemy cannot have vision without more assistance. This includes most uphill areas, the Roshan pit, and several spots in the jungles (such as the thin 'tree tunnel' in the Radiant camp near the middle tower.) However, gems are not bad, and if anything, there are two major advantages to an enemy team who buys one. Firstly, your mere presence has forced the enemy team to shell out 900 gold, which is one of Techies' strengths - his ability to starve an enemy of their economy. Secondly, if they do buy a gem, in my experience, 75% of the time, it will go on a support, and supports are usually quite squishy. Get a friend, suicide on top of them, and would you look at that? There's a free gem right here! Some would prefer it to stay in the fountain, but it's honestly more useful for your team to carry one as opposed to leaving it be (unless you have invisible-dependent teammates.) Basically the gem does counter Techies quite well, but there are usually ways around it, and the gem itself forces the enemy to make an investment and paint a big "Eat Me" sign on a support of theirs. Wards are a shorter-term solution to your mining antics, usually seen in the early game. Easy way to get around them? Play support. Think of the usual ward spots - rune spots, mid lane river bank, enemy jungle, uphill areas, etc. Don't put mines there - it's not a problem, there's a lot of space in the map to work with. Alternatively, if you feel you can't work around it (such as a rune spot overlooking Roshan and your buddy Ursa wants to go Aegis hunting soon) just deward them. Okay, Techies has enough trouble with gold in the early game to begin with, but one of two things will occur - they will ignore it, and you can mine to your heart's content - or they will deward and ward again, which requires another 350 gold from their pockets. Once again, just going out and doing things makes their wallets lighter, and is the key factor in how Techies can snowball. Map awareness is a general skill that most players will have. You can't really have tips or tricks to get around, other than not being seen. The only relevant advice I can think of is if your team isn't investing in smokes, you can buy one every now and then to get into enemy lines. I found this particularly effective in a game with an enemy jungling early on. Smoke up, run past the wards unseen, plant mines on those camps, head back out. Again, you have a win/win scenario - if they saw you, they'll usually panic and invest more gold into dewarding your mines or have to painfully remove them by hand (which takes them time and health) or they didn't and Chen is in for a nasty shock when all of his camps are empty and his Centaurs just exploded. Honestly, map awareness and detection is not the biggest problem as Techies, but it's time. In most of my games, the enemy team has been intelligent enough to just start pushing as early as possible. The sooner they start pushing, the weaker your mines are (lacking levels in remote mines or an Aghs in particular, but not having stasis traps is also a big problem) and the less effective you can be. Modus operandi is to be so elusive, so distracting, and so fucking frustrating, so that they focus on you and forget about the rest of the game. 
 
tl;dr: Enemies buying gems and wards and being clever hurts you, but their investment and focus on you is also a boon (and hurts their wallets.) Use tricks to get around it, or use it to your advantage (taking that gem off their hands, or just being fucking irritating and keeping their attention on you and not your teammates.) Teams pushing quickly and removing your map control is a bigger problem.
 
Haven't proof read this, sorry for typos.

Apparently, we're making memes about not liking memes? I don't get irony. Or stupidity.
 
I'm going back to playing Techies. Still bad, but getting a bit better each time.

Welcome to Payday hell

You might experience what I did, which was an inability to put the show down. Like I said in my long blog post about LotGH, it starts out pretty slow, but following the first season climax I was hooked. It's really good if you can get past the initial episodes (Which aren't bad mind you, just not as good as the rest of the show).
 
Speaking of things that are really good: "Seirei no Moribito".
 

 
This anime is basically my wet dream. It's got all the qualities of a good Samurai story, but without all the clichés that follow, because it's not actually a Samurai story. It follows a female warrior named "Balsa" whose past is a mystery to the viewer. All you're told in the initial episodes is that she "once took the lives of eight dear people" and she now works as a bodyguard for hire in an attempt to find atonement. She will not rest until she herself has saved the lives of eight people. This anime has a number of things that really sells it though, besides the "Wandering warrior haunted by ghosts of the past" trope.
 
Animation. It is fucking gorgeous looking. It's made by Production I.G. so it is not too big of a surprise that it looks good, but this TV anime has better quality than many animated films. Setting. Even though it might look like we're on planet earth somewhere in Asia, we're not. This world has two moons and the culture that surrounds Balsa is a mishmash of Chinese and Japanese squished together to form something unique. World building. I can't really explain this very well but there is something about the world of Seirei no Moribito that just makes so much sense. It's not an anime that spends literally entire episodes on exposition (See: Fate/Zero) but instead just makes it feel natural by the sheer detail put into the world that surrounds our heroine. It feels realistic, even though the show includes supernatural elements. You'd probably have to watch it to experience what I mean. NO FUCKING FANSERVICE. NO DUMB LOLI DEMIGODS. NO STUPID "EMBARASSING" MOMENTS. NO "KONO HENTAI, ECCHI, BAKA"... So far anyway. The truth of the matter is that I've only seen the first four episodes (4/26) of Seirei no Moribito, but with the way things are currently looking I will be very very very very very surprised if I find any of the stereotypical clichés that permeate Otaku culture in this anime
 
TL;DR: If you like medieval/martial arts/fantasy/samurai themed stuff, give Seirei no Moribito a try. I can almost guarantee you will like it.

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