Nadril

You take baths and not showers?

I've actually gotten to enjoy holiday shopping. It's always kind of a tradition now for my family to go shoping a few days before Christmas for everyone, so we all just go to the mall and take turns going with another person to buy people gifts. :P

Why are you downloading it from the library? You realize how big of a game it is... right? And the only way I know of how to download WoW is through the launcher.

Wait thats a real name? You're not just mashing your keyboard?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYVnRyZWs70 [hide]I sense a runner in the garden Although my judgements known to fail Once built a steamboat in a meadow Cos I'd forgotten how to sail I know the runner's going to tell you There ain't no cowboy in my hair So now he's buried by the daisies So I could stay the tallest man in your eyes, babe I sense a spy up in the chimney From all the evidence I've burned I guess he'll read it in the smoke now And soon to ashes I'll return I know the spy is going to tell you It's not my flag up in the pole So now he's buried by the lilies So I could stay forever more in your eyes, babe I sense a leak inside my phone now From all the lies I have told I know he has your private number And soon he'll make that vicious call I know the leak is going to tell you There ain't now puppy in your leash So now he'll fertilize the roses So I could stay the king you see In your eyes, babe (x2) So now we're dancing through the garden And what a garden I have made And now that death will grow my jasmine I find it soothing I'm afraid Now there is no need for suspicion There ain't no frog kissing your hand I won't be lying when I tell you That I'm a gardner I'm a man In your eyes babe (x3) [/hide] Postin' this before anyone else gets the chance to :P.

Heh alright yeah, I'm just going to stick with HoN. Every time I give LoL another go I get annoyed with how slow and boring it is. People don't seem to really die often and later on its sort of dumb because you can't tp to towers without a summoner skill. I feel like it just gives into a much slower paced game overall. Here's some of my thoughts in depth: Leveling System: I'm not totally opposed to this. I understand why they would have this in a casual friendly game like this. What frustrates me is that: A. I can't participate in ranked play at all. B. it takes forever to level up. Like I know I could compete on a decent level even without full masteries or runes. However the game forces me to go through this grind. While this might be fine for new players, and I"m sure that is LoL's target player base, for people who migrate from other games it is just a pain in the ass and an unnecessary block. Masteries System: This is alright. Like I said I actually think it adds a little bit interesting to the game with what they are going for and adds a bit of uniqueness between even the same heroes. I don't really have any complaints about it per-say. Rune System God this is the one thing that really pisses me off about this game. The problem is that you need to sacrifice ip to get runes which could be used to get new characters. As a player I will very rarely play the game hero more than once. It's boring. In LoL I don't have a whole hell of a lot of options for that and I pretty much have to spend ip on characters to get anything interesting. The problem is that I gimp myself on these runes. They aren't enough of a difference for me to really make a huge noticeable difference but they are a big enough of a difference for there to be one. I pretty much just have not got runes (Even at 20+) because its such a stupid system. I mean, it would be so much better if you could just buy a rune and have it forever to use as many times as you want. Instead you have to buy one for every...damn...slot and then if you want to play a character who needs different runes? Have fun! Game Pace: The game is very noticeably slower paced than HoN. I was alright with this at first, I mean, it felt like a chiller HoN. While it was a good break I feel like as I advanced in levels and people got a little smarter at avoiding ganks that it just... didn't really happen. The pace of the game is just so sluggish to me. Because you only can tp to other structures with a summoner skill (that not many people take) it means that there is no such thing as a tp gank or going to another lane, ganking and tp'ing back to yours. Things such as team fights and pushes seem much more deliberate and calculated than in HoN where they can happen in the flash of an eye. In top level HoN play, for example, a simple 2 man gank in a lane can sometimes turn into a full blown team fight due to people tping to the towers to support their teammates. In LoL this just doesn't happen. (This is my experience and also watching high level play on Milkfat's stream). Fights in LoL might happen around the dragon or something but you just don't get big team fights until mid game when people start grouping up constantly. Really just the fact that tp's are so slow and only go to base kill the pacing in my opinion. The game its self too is just slower. The movements, animations, reaction time of units and projectile speeds are all slower than HoN and that leads to a kind of boring experience I think. No Denies: I'm still not ok with this. Whoever thought that this was unnecessary or "improved" the game is an idiot. As a mid player in HoN I am very used to the CS (creep score) war. Pretty much mid lane in HoN is so much more intense than in LoL. In LoL mid lane, for the most part, is 2 dudes sitting there farming easy last hits and harassing each other. (depending on the mid matchup). In HoN even killing creeps is an out right war and test of skill. You HAVE to be able to out creep your opponent or you will get nothing. In LoL the only way to stop your opponent from really creeping is to harass them out of the lane (which just doesn't happen on most mid characters). In HoN you have plenty of ways to gain an advantage over your opponent. I'm sure the reason there are no denies are, again, it's more casual friendly. It means even a scrub can do decent and hold their own in mid where as in HoN you NEED to have a great understanding of game mechanics to survive it. Again this is from my own play and then also observations of high level mid play. (watching Atlanta and Milkfat play, Atlanta being one of the best US players IIRC). Heroes: Some of these guys have some cool concepts, I will give them that. Mordekaiser is a pretty neat concept, for example. Most of them though I just found sort of boring. I enjoyed playing Kass. I enjoyed playing Pantheon and corki a bit. But most of the characters I just found bland to play despite them all pretty much having 4 active abilities. Obviously I can't go in depth about balance (and I won't I have no concept of it for this game) but as far as playing them... yawn. Ability Power and stats: This one I'm torn on. I actually did like the concept of ability power in a way. For a pub focused game I found it fun to know that even if I'm playing a nuker I'll be able to make myself significantly stronger though AP. I do think it sort of devalues the concept of a "support" player a bit (save for a couple of heroes) but it's a good idea for a game who is radically different from dota anyways. I also will say that taking away some of the complexities of stats is a good idea for a casual friendly game like this. In HoN you need to worry about what your heroes stat type is (Str/Int/Agi) for what items will do for you. Having items just give a flat out +hp +AD +AP +mana +AS ect. is nice from a casual point of view. It does make certain items more widely available to characters as well which is a decent thing. Overall I just... found a lot about LoL off putting. And yes, I know I have not played it at high tier ELO blahblahblah but the game is just too boring to get that far. Once I got over the "ooh new heroes and game mechanics" thing I found the game just did not have the substance to keep me. It was a good break from HoN, and a very well needed one at that, but I'm done with it. Even though the HoN community is certainly something ...special I would rather put up with a good game and vocal community rather than a boring one and quiet community.

It's not like it's going to blow up or anything. The tv probably isn't terribly good (or you got it real cheap) if it was $100, as I find most monitors are cheaper than TV's, but should be fine.

What is this all ab0ut?

Persona 4.

Nah 360 is patched first because that is activision's money maker.

It's a very subtle story and it most certainly does not "stop" after an hour. Just because you aren't being treated to cutscenes doesn't mean it doesn't have a story. It's really why I think Half Life does story so much better than the second one (though the second is still very good). Just take it from someone who has played through the original Half Life probably 6 or 7 times, there is a lot of story to that game if you think about it even if it isn't right in your face. All of this being said though I'd give a guess that you didn't play Half Life when it originally released? I personally think the game (and its engine) have actually aged surprisingly well compared to other FPS games of the time but maybe others think different.

...really? Oh and Far Cry is a million times better than Far Cry Instincts which was trash.

edit: nvm. Now I remembered why I quit playing hon lololol. Might give LoL a bit more of a go.

http://io9.com/5696973/finally-a-movie-the-exposes-peter-pan-for-the-kidnapping-creep-he-really-is YESSSSS Someone posted that in the comments section. Haha.

Are you playing it PC Albel? There isn't just one issue for the PC version. The main issues though are: - The game runs at a much lower FPS than it should for many people. Considering this is a modified version of the Quake 3 engine (Well, a modified version of the WaW engine which was a modified version of the CoD4 engine which is a modified version of the Quake 3 engine) it is not running what it should be. People with like i7 GTX480 computers are getting 40 fps when they should be getting a lot more. (I, personally, am getting around 40-45fps). - In sort of an adition to #1 changing detail settings often has little to no effect on a persons FPS. I run 1920x1200 resolution normally. I switched it to 800x600? Got a 5FPS increase. If I turn settings from Extra down to all low and no AA/AF than I actually lose FPS. - The game is known to stutter a lot. What this means is that it will hitch up at certain spots ( a lot of times in fire fights) making it almost unplayable. For some this is worse than others. I used to have it really bad but managed to do a few fixes that have lowered it a lot to make the game playable. - Due to these above issues and the fact that the netcode, for some reason, is partially based off of what other people are getting for FPS there is some pretty shoddy latency issues sometimes. You can sometimes see a person lag-warping around due to stuttering issues which means that even if your PC isn't effected this is still an "issue". Those are the main things. What sucks is that there are tons and tons of fixes out there and they all do different things. Case in point: For some people setting BO to High priority in the task manager helped their FPS/Stutter a lot. For some, it did nothing. For some, it made it worse. Likewise some other people (like me) have found out that setting BO to low priority in the task manager has helped their FPS/Stutter a lot. Likewise plenty of people this does nothing for/hurts. it's the same thing with VSync on/off and pretty much every other setting out there. Even similar builds of computers are acting differently. It seriously is a cluster[bleep] of issues and the game engine is clearly not acting how it should. I really wish they would have just taken the MW2 engine and used that or something because that game actually ran very well on my PC.

A 360 player saying their game is unplayable due to lag? Cute.

Not everyone's is, Furah.

I do stuff like this. Like I'll turn my alarm on my phone for the next morning. I check, make sure its on and put it on my charger. Than I check it like 3-4 more times to make sure that it didn't magically change or turn off or something. Don't know why but I've just gotten to the point where certain things I'll check again and again just to make sure.

Unlocking 'The Kid' in Super Meat Boy. Everything sort of pales in comparison difficulty wise after that.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=18887672&posted=1#post18887672 For some reason the low affinity fix worked for me. It's not perfect but yeah, a lot better.

Neat. Figured since MP is still a laggy mess I'd try SP. Got near the end of the second mission and the guy just won't follow me when I need to protect him. Yeah they need to fix their [bleep]ing game.

I've actually taken to banning people off the TF2 server I frequent because of how annoying it is. My roomate has "U Mad Bro" as his emblem on his gun in COD:BO. I find it hilarious.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/11/22/8-funniest-call-of-duty-black-ops-kills/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw0ZO-1a4qM&feature=player_embedded My favorite one ^. Tears from laughing so hard haha. Oh and also:

I play him mid.

Motorolla droid here. Really like it, use it mostly for the web. (Posting from it right now). Def my favorite smartphone on the market.