alexgndl

Actually, aye, one more.
 


 
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Donna is the best because they didn't try to force a fucking love interest angle between her and the Doctor.
 
Also because of how much we got to see this guy.
 

Spoiler  

Rrrgh.

"the head mod over at /V/ and leader of 4chan.org and Anonymous."
 

ACG in all its glory.
 
Notable things people might be interested in: New Rage Powers for Jrahk, which grants some of the Bloodrager's Bloodline abilities (Lesser, Normal, and Greater flavors), new Wizard archetypes, and IIRC a very Reach weapon friendly Feat for Bulldozer.

Oh Captain my Captain.
 
RIP you beautiful man.

Pretty pretty please allow this in your games.

The only yugioh card I ever physically owned was a hamburger with a face.

I'm actually a staunch believer that League's F2P model kills the MOBA genre.
 
The two main concerns are the fact that you need to use IP to buy Champions/Runes. I'll start with Runes first.
 
Long story short, if you don't have Runes, you're going to lose the lane compared to someone that has runes. You're legitimately putting yourself at a disadvantage because you don't want to spend IP. Okay, that's your choice, fine. However, every good League player knows that buying anything that isn't a Rank 3 Rune is a complete waste of IP, so you have a choice to make:
 
- Buy runes suitable for your level, which requires grinding like a motherfucker
- Don't buy runes until Summoner Level 20, which means you're starting with a disadvantage in every game, through no fault of your own skill.
 
Just like that, you're punished for not spending money, or grinding for IP. This is before your personal skill ever comes into play. (You could say that it requires more skill to overcome these disadvantages, but that also means people require less skill to defeat you. It'd be like you're trying super hard for no reason at all.)
 
 
The champions are worse, since each champion needs to be bought. Since most players will only have access to a few champions alongside the Free Rotation, the game needs to be balanced around the fact that players don't have access to every champion, so then every champion ends up being the same. Other than a few trending powerful champions (Which players are also punished for not buying), you could replace any champion for any champion of the same role and the game would go mostly the same.
 
Obviously, there would be slight differences - A Blitzcrank can secure kills better than a Soraka can, and a Riven is going to have more mobility than a Nasus, and a Heimerdinger can hold mid better than any AP mid - but when you look at every league match in general, it all plays out exactly the same.
 
Your ADC is going to farm until bot T1 is down, then he'll pick fights while farming lanes in between.
Your support is going to harass the enemy support/carry while keeping the enemy support from harassing his carry. After that, he twiddles his thumbs until a teamfight breaks out.
Your AP Mid is going to farm until he's won lane, then he ganks top/bot or maybe aids with Dragon.
Your Jungler is going to farm until he can gank a lane, then he goes back to farming until it's push time.
Your Top is going to camp top forever until he either loses lane or the team seriously needs him.
 
There's a really astounding amount of champions that follow the cookie cutter build of:
- Spammable Nuke
- Spammable CC with mediocre effect/duration
- Spammable mobility/sustain spell
 
Do you remember the jungler fuss a few months back? Every jungler is considered weak because they weren't Lee Sin. Then they nerfed Lee to be like every other jungler. Riot's balance philosophy has been like that for the longest time - Cut down a champion's strengths, and cover up their weaknesses.
 
 
 
TL;DR:
 
- Runes punish/reward people based on time/money spent, not skill.
- Champions must be bought and this forces all champions to be dreadfully similar.

Death will come for you eventually so better learn to laugh in its face beforehand

Airpwane season
 

The only good goblin is a dead goblin.
 
The issue here is BECOMING accepted. Goblins are attacked on sight within city limits. Even a goblin who kills other goblins would be seen as expressing his evil nature, but thankfully turning it toward other evil creatures.
 
ON TOP OF THAT, you're a Tiefling, so what you essentially look like is a literal goblin from hell, which people would probably be shouting "KILL IT WITH FIRE" until they learned you were resistant and started beating your skull in with shovels and hoes.
 
Becoming accepted requires you to somehow survive in the town long enough for the townsfolk to get to know you, without hurting anyone, stealing anything, etc.
 
You could, MAYBE, come up with something really darn good, but it'd be a lot easier on Cube for you to be something, ANYTHING, other than the PRIMARY ANTAGONIST OF THE ADVENTURE.
 
On top of that, you're evil in a campaign that doesn't have a ton of moral ambiguity in it. It's basically "See evil thing? KILL evil thing!" the whole way through. So you don't even have the "I'm a GOOD goblin!" excuse to cover your ass.
 
About the time you hit 4th level my Paladin is going to start getting mighty fucking suspicious of the evil goblin creature going *PING!* every time he turns on his evil radar.
 
It worked in Skull and Shackles, and would work on a few more...mercenary APs (Serpent's Skull, Carrion Crown to an extent, Jade Regent from what I've heard, Kingmaker), but this is Paizo's first AP...it's about as black and white as it gets.

oh for fuck's sake CAN WE NOT GO A WEEK WITHOUT SOME SHIT GOING DOWN

What is with Malaysian flights not reaching their destinations, these days?

This is like, subspuf 101.

I have a story from tonight I gotta share.
 
*WARNING* This Story takes place in Book 6 of Rise of the Runelords, the Spires of Xin Shalast. While the spoilers contained here-in are minor and not story significant, they are spoilers. If you wish to avoid all spoilers whatsoever for Rise of the Runelords, do not read. *WARNING*
 



 
I laughed until my head started hurting.

Is the ship "Business End" by chance from the Vogon system.

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

Because Binary's server won't be staying up much longer, I'm going to blow the dust off of my old PC and fire it up as a replacement! I have a stable internet connection, and the machine itself is pretty decent (quad-core 2.2 gHz CPU, 3 GB of RAM, and, most vitally, it's enclosed in a shiny piano black case that collects dust nicely).
 
IP: 98.197.19.229
 
Our IP has only changed once twice in the past four years, which happened when we got a new modem. I doubt it'll be changing again.
 
I'll have full remote access to the machine, so my return to college in late August should not be an issue.
 
I have the following major mods installed or planned for:
WorldEdit WorldGuard VanishNoPacket Lockette I'm currently getting the server set up, so permissions are mostly functional but still need tweaking. For now, it'll be a standard single-world server with survival, no PvP, and normal difficulty. I'm not sure if the server could properly support multiple worlds- will have to see how things go.
 
I'll be bringing over the old world from Binary's server. I would advise against building anything until it's installed, since you'll lose your work. I could use help making sure the server is stable and whatnot, though.
 
The server will be whitelisted once the old map is running, so you'll need to post here to get in.
 
Cheers!

Audrey Hepburn and a fawn.
 
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Just a tip-you can jump on the back of the frog bomb and get away before he blows up if you're quick enough.  You can use this to get across spikes, water, you name it.