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what is the highest amount of eliminations in a game you have gotten

20ish with reaper

@badp Uh... okay...

life tip: if nothing goes right go to sleep

Tweeted by pakalupapito on April 30, 2016 at 10:31 AM

6:22 PM

Nothing else has ever had a login queue, apparently

i got 29 with s76 and 33? with bastion

I have to go through my login queue to use Google, Twitter, Steam, etc. every day

commuting to the internet is hard

It's funny that you mentioned Steam, a service that regularly goes down unannounced during the day and has downtimes during sales

taking the steam bus

on some of the smaller forums the login queues can be up to 4 hours

6:24 PM

I get that you dislike b.net, but you're being ridiculous

@twobugs yes, the website has downtime, the actual service stays up

@twobugs especially so when a game becomes free

LoL has a login queue, not that @badp gives a shit about that.

@badp Steam? Not always. Steam friends? Absolutely not

I am actually a little interested in why some games need login queues.

6:24 PM

But hopefully we wont have server issues at launch unlike Diablo 3, Blizzard learned from that r-right guys?

@O-O Uh, yeah. They did.

@O-O Overwatch servers totally didn't crap out when on May 3rd when everyone tried to log in.

Oh wait.

yes, so Steam is definitely not perfect, but somehow they launch games on their platforms several times a day and nothing goes offline for hours

At least they were up like 15 minutes late instead of like 12 hours late.

you know what's ridicolous? the Diablo 3 launch.

Simcity did manage to be worse

6:25 PM

You know what's ridiculous? Steam screwing up and letting people access each other's accounts

@StrixVaria they do, but you rarely hit a long one. usually only after a major patch

But I guess Blizzard is somehow more evil

otherwise its almost instantaneous

This is like a playground argument. You're upset over b.net

6:26 PM

@Dragonrage I had a 30-minute LoL queue once.

You know what's ridiculous? @badp spelling ridiculous as ridicolous. Ridicolous!

@twobugs which never truly happened, you had R/O access

@badp By that logic neither did the Diablo 3 thing since numerous people were able to play

@StrixVaria ive had longer before they upgraded all their servers. but since the move and upgrade to new ones, while i have a higher ping, they havent had any servers go down

yup, that evening in here had a lot of people who were able to play

6:27 PM

and i havent hit a login queue either

but hey I wasn't one of them.

@badp That's a very representative sample size

It's almost as if you're doing something in bad faith again

Anyway, if you don't realize what a clusterfuck Battle.net, that's okay with me

It's a clusterfuck, but all your reasons are patently stupid.

@badp : battle.net :: me 3 years ago : EA

6:28 PM

so let's recap your argument, I am being wrong because Steam is also bad and I don't complain as much about it

I'm not even defending battle.net, I'm just asking you apply consistent logic

that is not an argument

That is absolutely an argument. I pointed out that what you're doing is singling out a service despite the fact you use an arguably worse service

@twob Sorry, that's actually not really a great argument.

UGh, whatever. I'll disengage. Have the last word if you want. This is stupid

6:30 PM

yes, I guess it's an argument because it can be falsified: in fact, the part that it can be falsified is false

@StrixVaria I'm not trying to defend battle.net

Steam >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Battle.net

I'm pointing out the inherent hypocrisy

@twobugs Then I think you and @badp are having different arguments at the same time.

and Steam is a hellhole of PHP-glued-together bullshit

6:30 PM

where one dude was able to launch their own game on their own after about 5 minutes of poking around

@StrixVaria No, I'm just really tired of his "I forgot my password and destroyed my authenticator, refused to answer my security question, etc., clearly it's battle.net's fault"

@ardaozkal You realize this pose has been public knowledge for weeks?

I haven't brought it up, and yes, that is still battle.net being fucking ridicolous

It's 100% user error

6:32 PM

@twobugs Oh, I totally agree with you that @badp's grudge against battle.net is pretty empty, but what are you going to do? He had a bad experience, whoever's fault it was, so I just don't engage. He can hate whatever he wants for whatever reason he wants.

Oh god

I personally have actually had a pretty great experience with the new Battle.net desktop app thingy.

DISENGAGE, DISENGAGEEEE!

I personally game on consoles D:

let me see if I can find that gif

/me ducks

6:33 PM

@StrixVaria It just gets extremely annoying when out of the fucking blue I get shouted down for using Battle.net

Talking about Overwatch??? YOU FOOL! BATTLE.NET SO BAD!!!!!

We should call a truce.

for starters, this is not about you

when @Dragonrage mentioned the fact that somehow Blizzard thought it'd be acceptable to ship a FPS in 2016 that by default is locked in at 30 frames per second, I totally lashed out then, too.

I'm just going to completely disengage

when @O-O corrected himself saying that the game doesn't have autoaim I retracted

@badp he is a security expert.

@StrixVaria yes

6:35 PM

@ardaozkal right, there was a little bit of nuance on his end, but all he did was bring up the browser inspector

no validation whatsoever on the user-suppied user ID field?

no part of this should ever have happened

so apparently EU LCS is failing pretty hard

Strix: I have all of them, that is the actual point.

and Korea is underperforming

turkey might get a number 1 seed into the world finals over Europe

and NA if CLG doesnt step it up

I haven't seen any of the games, but CLG is 2-2 right?

And they beat Flash Wolves, who beat SKT?

@StrixVaria RNG and FW

6:38 PM

It's always inspiring when documentation has numerous typos and uses really kitschy images

lolesports.com/en_US/msi/msi_2016/standings/default

►

CLG has been my team since competitive LoL was a thing, so just seeing them at the world stage is pretty cool.

►

my highlights

murgatroid99

> This video is private

6:39 PM

y can i not preview?

waait they are private

lol

Wait. Who's saying Overwatch is 30 frames per second?

@StrixVaria TSM has sort of been mine lol

ok i seem to have bugged broforce :(

6:39 PM

public now

@Dragonrage Those NALCS finals though.

@Fluttershy in the settings, the default limit is 30 fps, but you can change it

Whoever won, that was an entertaining series.

@Fluttershy Apparently it a default setting? Which is news to me because mine autodetected 60fps...

@StrixVaria yea, basically it came down to the fact that CLG learned more in the semis than TSM did and had a slight edge

but they were very close

6:41 PM

@twobugs mine did too. :o

Q: Storing books in the Arcaneum library

I should actually look through the Overwatch settings.

Lazers 2.0

0

If I store books that I no longer need in the Arcaneum bookshelves (the ones that are unlocked), will those books still be there if I look for them later, or can they become lost?

skyrim

@Fluttershy mine runs at 60 fps fine, but the default setting was 30 for me

I spent enough time in the settings to set it to borderless window and set mouse4 to melee and that's it.

Also, I've found that I enjoy watching HotS tournaments more than LoL.

6:41 PM

I think I'm the opposite of TotalBiscuit in how much I care about options screens.

I only turned on the kill feed

@StrixVaria I didn't realize until yesterday, but you can actually configure keys for individual heroes.

@Fluttershy Yeah, that's pretty neat.

I looked over everything else but the default settings were acceptable

@Fluttershy this last season was bad imo because of tank meta

6:42 PM

@Fluttershy I didn't know that, great feature

I think I might wind up doing that for some people.

tank meta makes for boring games

93

Esports is just really boring in general, IMO

@Dragonrage Wait, you mean Lucian top is a bad idea?

6:43 PM

Better than real sports at least

CC @Huni

this new split should be better as it is going to be more objective oriented

@StrixVaria having 3 adcs is bad.

I'll rage about esports when they start costing taxpayers millions and millions of dollars

especially when you cant shut down a makoai

So hopefully not for a while

6:44 PM

@Dragonrage Also best of 3.

This next split should be really great.

yea i really like all the changes

except the one they did to fiddle

fiddle needs a buff

What did they do to Fiddle?

I will point out since I'm so unfair and hypocritical that there was a gif I wanted to repost about Blizzard's account lockdown process circling back into the log in page, but I couldn't find it because chat search got super terrible a couple of years ago

I tried to replicate and, one email verification later, Battle.net allowed me to log in

so there you have it: Battle.net got slightly less terrible

congratulations Blizzard on sucking a little less ~

@StrixVaria they got rid of his mr reduction passive and gave hime movespeed buff when standing still

@Dragonrage wat

"movespeed buff when standing still"

6:48 PM

if he stands still he gets a slight movespeed buff that decays over time after you start moving

Oh, weird.

apparently its supposed to help him reposition after ulting or draining, but you dont run around after ulting most times

Well you run to keep the ult centered on the other team.

you ult into a bunch of people and zhonyas so you dont die

True.

I'm pretty disappointed Fiddle wasn't reworked more significantly along with all the other mages.

He's kind of...not great.

6:49 PM

yea, he is really cool idea, but just needs some help

gallio too

Clearly the solution is to abandon LoL completely and play HotS with me instead

You had me at "abandon LoL"

like his whole kit is build mr to be anti mage, then his ulti is all auto attack me and do physical damage pls

But lost me at "play HotS" :P

They did just nerf Tracer though.

6:51 PM

@Fluttershy for me HotS is just not fun.

@Fluttershy NO

WHEN

MY PRECIOUS

not entirely sure why, but it just doesnt appeal to me

FRIGGIN BLIZZ

@ardaozkal In HotS. Not in Overwatch

I just don't like MOBAs.

6:51 PM

@Fluttershy oh

idgaf then

I like the gameplay of LoL more than HotS, moment to moment, but I like not having to worry about items in HotS so much.

I haven't really played any heroes I liked in HotS and so much of the gameplay in MOBAs just feels very boring to me

It's like driving, I guess. It's not engaging but if you lose focus it's very bad

MOBAs have a lot of busywork gameplay.

It's both good and bad how much can hinge on a single teamfight

I hate playing solo and some of my friends are really frustrating to play MOBAs with so I don't even see a point

reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/3y27xu/… < me atm

6:54 PM

@StrixVaria i like items because i like having the extra element to adapt in game. sure HotS has some adaptability with different abilities, but it just seems kind of flat and one dimensional to me

@Dragonrage I don't care for the strategy of LoL as much as the tactics.

I don't think items really add that much, the vast majority of the time I see people do the same builds or modify slightly depending on the situation

It's fun to watch high level teams play very strategically.

Which is what you can do in HotS anyway

I just don't get any enjoyment out of that kind of analysis or decision making.

6:55 PM

ryuu ga waga teki wo kurau

@twobugs some items can literally change the game. i have won a game just because I bought the right item to deal with their fed carry slightly better

i like the complexity of it. but thats just me

i dont have to force you to like it

I'm not sure what you're trying to say. I'm not disputing that items are helpful, I'm disputing the choices themselves

I see very little build variety whenever I look at MOBAs

I'd compare it to Diablo 2 where sure there was "complexity" in allocating stat points but it amounted to almost the same decisions in the vast majority of cases

there are some core items, but a lot of items are highly situational

and the order of item builds is also very important

I'm not trying to say you're wrong, I'm trying to explain my opinion

I don't view items in MOBAs as complexity, I view them as busywork

fair enough.

then you would probably enjoy HotS more than LoL

7:01 PM

I just can't get myself to play mobas

I have played HotS. I just talked about it. I like some parts of it but I fundamentally don't enjoy the genre very much.

Q: Which games are featured in this logo ensemble?

they are sooo hard

maybe I'm just not good with strategy games.

Lazers 2.0

-1

I can identify: Assassin's Creed NASCAR ? ? StarCraft Heroes of Newerth Guild Wars Plants vs Zombies Hitman Half Life The K and U elude me.

game-identification

Nate Kerkhofs

Okay, so since it's friday in all timezones of UTC+3 and higher: I just read reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4hzkvi/… to the tune of the Rebecca black song and I can't stop laughing

well now @agent86 and @Evilardaozkal both answer half the question

7:12 PM

@Dragonrage COMMUNITY WIKI

damn keyboard

I'm going to steal both answers and post a new one with both parts :)

@Dragonrage go ahead. MAKE IT COMMUNISM WIKI

@Evilardaozkal @agent86 may have beaten me to it

without the communism though

do what?

oh. I guess someone beat me to figuring out the other one :/

apologies

@agent86 it's ok. i made a wiki for it

7:19 PM

that one is a weird image

the K I knew almost immediately, but that U is very generic...

...Why did you make a community wiki?

Whatever. These questions are awful and I hate them

@twobugs because i stole elements from two people

and to protest

It's not protesting. It's misusing it itentionally

And you posted it seemingly after it had already been answered completely

i posted it about the same time @agent86 edited his. i didnt see his edit till after i posted it

Well the timestamps show you as having made it several minutes after @agent86

7:22 PM

oh this is actually fun

lulz

did you make a T out of an E?

yep

@agent86 didnt you edit youre answer? it doesnt show as being edited

fredley

Tavern on the Meta is FULL OF STARS

2

I can't even

user15026

I left because it was too much to follow

fredley

7:26 PM

is there some sort of argument going on?

Anyway I don't think making a CW as a "protest" is a good idea at all.

pedantry seems to bring out the stars in everyone

user15026

@agent86 They're trying to do some sort of Town Hall Chat

ahhh

fredley

7:27 PM

@agent86 So yes

Tim Stone

@AshleyNunn They should have called in the expert coughs

@fredley indeed.

user15026

@TimStone Are you said expert?

paragon FTP weekend starts now

lol @ image link vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/unturned-bunker/images/9/92/… "Unturned-game-pc-hack-exp-aimbot-esp.jpg"

7:30 PM

@Evilardaozkal yeah, I found it on a lot of shady sites. some ukranian servers too, for whatever reason. makes you wonder how an image like that circulates through the 'net

Tim Stone

@AshleyNunn I've been known to transcript a town hall or 20

internet is fun.

user15026

@TimStone So you're pretty much a magician then

Looks like Hotline Miami 2 is on sale this week? Not sure if I should pick it up. I heard it was worse than 1

I liked 1 a lot, though

if (same series && you liked the first && game on sale){ instabuy(); }

7:36 PM

have you played "not a hero?"

similar in many ways to hotline miami, by the olliolli team

oh, check that tooi.

just finished that recently, was quite good

the reviews were mixed but I heard that the game is decent

I managed to 100% it, but the last level was a paaaaain in the buuuuuutt

someone needs to do a 2d game like superhot

that, I'll play

7:37 PM

long boss fight with scripted bits + a long, tricky level with infinite enemies

Tim Stone

@AshleyNunn I do wish I had a top hat. RIP in peace OrigamiRobot :(

@agent86 No, never heard of it

@twobugs it was in the recent humble devolver bundle. chances are good you could trade something for it on /r/indiegameswap or similar

I traded trine 2 complete for tropico 5 a week or two ago, that was epic win

78

[heavy breathing]

tomorrow, it looks like.

Trine 2 was where I started to lose interest in that series

I felt like 2 had a lot more combat

And story

It was still a very pretty game but I just liked the platforming

Q: One piece of unique armor still applies bonus?

I played some trine 3 with the wife on the stream, she liked it

Lazers 2.0

7:46 PM

0

If I'm wearing a full set of armor (like Dwarven) except for the helmet, which is a unique one (for exapmle the Visage of Mzund), will I still get the 25% bonus for wearing a full set of armor? I know I need a perk to get that bonus, I just want to know if I can have the bonus like that.

skyrim

3 looks like it has even more combat, is that accurate?

but I think i got it in a bundle or something, I had less interest in that series as you did by the end of the second

dunno, haven't played enough of it to really know

Ah. I appreciate the eye candy, but I really just want to jump and do basic silly puzzles

if you haven't grabbed the humble eye candy bundle, human resource machine is really quite good

probably the most fun programming sim I've played, and I've played a lot

SaintWacko

I didn't even know there was a trine 3

7:57 PM

Now you know!

there was some controversy at launch... I think they ran out of money and just released what they had as 1.0

SaintWacko

I loved the first one

They had to independently publish for some money reason I guess? I didn't really understand