@IanPugsley Because if you memorize 0-9 and know how to add, you can multiply without a calculator. Memorizing the 12 times table doesn't add to that ability.
@Tristan The other point is that outside of the ult, which has absurd cooldown, his only other AP offense is his snowball, which while ~1400 every ~4 seconds smarts a lot, it's only single target. The 1500 heal you'd get with Consume wouldn't be enough to save you except in a 1v1 on your own turf.
This has been bugging me for a while. I've seen streams of high ELO junglers, and it seems like they always use smite as the killing blow on the jungle creeps. Why do they do that? I mean, damage is damage, and using it early could save you a few second on cooldown. Why don't they start fighting ...
The smite mastery is only 10gold per smite and after early game you are saving smite for big objectives so is it really worth it to use one point for what really amounts to one ward around the 8 min mark that you would not have been able to afford otherwise?
@agent86 For a sec, I thought you were using "flipping" as an expletive substitute and was desperately trying to parse your sentence correctly and failing.
@LessPop_MoreFizz you just have to criticize everything I post today, don't you. WELL FINE I WAS GOING TO MAKE YOU A CAKE BUT YOU'D PROBABLY SAY IT WASN'T MOIST ENOUGH SO FORGET IT. GO FLIP YOURSELF!
I'm kinda bummed that all the work I put into that Boomerang Blade answer will never get the +15 rep for being accepted. I don't think that user is ever going to come back.
@AshleyNunn I'll get to find out if I won the video card. lol
@Tristan I feel you pain. Most of my LoL answers from this contest are just dust on the wind now. Maybe they will help some random googler at some point.
If you watch at about 2:50, you can see most of the left half of the circuit. The part for the stairs looks like it isn't shown very well but that is less important timing wise. Watch carefully over and over and see if you can replicate it this way. It looks like the repeaters for the middle a...
On the chapter select screen the ones I've finished are marked with a laurel wreath. Some of them are gold; some of them are green. It doesn't seem to be based on score (or at least not consistent across levels) or intensity; I thought it might be based on dying vs. not dying but my wife says she...
MsDugITBANI is the 10 hours of "What Is Love?" video from up there. The... other... one... is the "epic villain laugh" video that Wipqozn tosses in here every now and then.
I did increased my EMC by Coalesced.bin editor and now it is about 11500 (reduce it to half cause my readiness is 50 percent, don't have time to play multiplayer) and I'm also capable to convince illusive man to commit suicide, but nothing changed. I can not see the other ending, I have only 2 ch...
When I play Nasus (Solo top of course) there's always disputes on what I should be doing.
I run Teleport + Flash to ensue map control and for an escape.
However I have 2 questions,
How do you correctly lane with Nasus? (Pushing, Freezing, Last hitting with Q, Using Q for harass?)
and also, how...
The Expose upgrade for Warp has this effect:
Increase weapon damage taken by a target by 15%.
Increase power damage taken by a target by 15% for 10 seconds.
We know from this question that once a biotic explosion occurs after being set up by a Warp, it cannot be detonated again until a ne...
My display isn't showing the box for ignored/favourite tags.
Did I goober it? Did the mothership laZer it? Did we accidentally give it away to one of the ME3 prize winners?
It's working pretty nice on my team. I mean, StackOverflow makes a lot more sense for general coding questions, but when we've got questions about things that either we can't share with the outside world, or could share but no one would be able to help, it's nice.
Previously we'd tried using a wiki to capture some information, but that just gets ugly. Plus, with a Q&A, you're asking and answering real questions people have. With a wiki, you're just shotgunning a page with random knowledge and hoping something useful sticks
@tiddy It's primarily for that, but not only. I don't see any reason we couldn't handle common HR-type questions through there. Like "How do I set up my 401k?" But right now, since it's just my project team (all developers), it's all coding/architecture/policy type questions
On-topic is basically "Q&A that pertains to anything at our company"
Depends. If you're talking about the 401k imaginary example that was never actually asked, there's the general employee handbook type thing. But I could see more specific how-tos being useful. To date, it's all been about internal project code/architecture type stuff on my team though
So, I've already expressed that I think we have a problem; but do we really?
Maybe it's my training as a developer, but I've tried to live by a rule: if you can't measure it, it didn't happen. So let's see about measuring this.
For my metric I chose: Percentage of Closed questions asked by u...
An actual problem/discussion doesn't deserve to be hidden away inside another users mindless rant.
@Decency no one is engaging in this type of activity against you, as far as my tools show. I know it's hard when actual stuff is on the line, but do whatever you can to vote based on the content of people's posts, and not the person or a to influence the results of a contest - that's not good behavior.
and this applies to everyone, it's not a policy I'm making up for you
nobody should be going around and biasing the voting system so that your friends win prizes and/or other people don't. We had to remove several people during the ME3 promo for this kind of behavior.
Ive seen pretty beastly udyr junglers as well as really good top lane udyrs. Is he more useful in the jungle or up top? Any ideas on builds/runes/masteries for whichever as well? i just bought him and i want to try him out when i get home from school :) thanks so much guys.
When you reach level 20 and promote your class in multiplayer you get 75 war assets in singleplayer.
If I get to level 20 again (whether its with the same class or a different one) can I promote again to get an additional 75 points?
If so what is the limit to the amount of times I can promote e...
@BenBrocka Like I said, I will. But since tzenes is the one who put in all that work, I'm going to wait a few days to see if he'll follow my suggestion and make one.
@Wipqozn @tzenes has some interesting data in there, but as my comments I just added to his Answer suggest, I think we should get a bit more information before we start drawing conclusions over how we are seeing the activity go over the past few months.
@Wipqozn But ignoring the impact the contests have had on the site over the last 2ish months would be irresponsible in then using that exact data to draw conclusions
@OrigamiRobot We have a top new users section or something like that. Said users are sent an e-mail and all that jazz. I know this because I was a top new user when I first joined. shades
My recent posts on meta about how I don't know how to read meta to actually understand what the rules/policies are kind of relates to Ren's and Tzenes's posts too
so are new users likely to get their first questions closed? very much so, and it will continue to happen regardless of how well we document the close reasons
@James I don't think the ME3 contest had much of a bad effect. There seemed to be some attempts at vote fraud but I think we got some very good content and views out of it
@BenBrocka Again just my point, when the new user count is 1-4% if 15 accounts were closed as puppet accounts, then the numbers we are looking at could be very far off
@James Irrelevant. Even if we were losing zero users, improving the new user experience is only a good thing.
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I don't know about linking to the meta discussion about no more ITG - people just argue that they never got a say, or we decided too quickly, or that the margin of majority isnt big enough. >.<
@OrigamiRobot I close soooo many questions in a week that are obvious violations of the FAQ guidelines. Adding more guidelines won't reduce the close rate, I can guarantee you.
I'm sure the most important thing in influencing the new users is the content of the front page, it's almost certainly the only thing, if any, most new users read
A different way of attacking this problem is to make sure we don't close questions from new users that are valid. In problem areas like game comparisons, all a newbie might seeing is a war on whether or not the question should even be open. That's a problem we can solve by addressing our veteran users rather than the newbies
@James Eh, our good content is more often on the front page than the new questions page IMO. Anything with lots of answers or anything that's been improved/added to is on there
@BenBrocka I do not come to the site because I am looking for a random question that might apply to me.. I generally did a google search and it lead me to a specific question and answer.
@OrigamiRobot meta's an ever-shifting landscape of discussion and arguing. I don't particularly think that a good first time experience is "your question is closed, now wade through 6 pages of us fighting about why we should close all questions like this"
@Wipqozn Noob Question: Can we edit our own FAQ? I think we were just leaving the 'WE closed ITG cause' in the tag description, but that information should be in the FAQ
The more I think about it, the more I realize I'm wrong. The only users that will bother to read the FAQ are very likely to turn out to be good users anyways.
@BenBrocka Thought so. I had the game name in the title (working on posting a strategy question for Triple Town) and I had 4 relevant questions show up.. I then removed it from the title and they ALL went away even though the question was tagged with the tgame.
@tiddy It's especially problematic if the game in question only gets tagged once, and 6 months later the tag is removed. Now you've got a question with no game name
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I read everything I could, but I do that for every site I join
What Runes and Mysteries should I use to maximize my AP Mid capabilities as Malzahar?
The smite mastery is only 10gold per smite and after early game you are saving smite for big objectives so is it really worth it to use one point for what really amounts to one ward around the 8 min mark that you would not have been able to afford otherwise?
If you watch at about 2:50, you can see most of the left half of the circuit. The part for the stairs looks like it isn't shown very well but that is less important timing wise. Watch carefully over and over and see if you can replicate it this way. It looks like the repeaters for the middle a...
I romanced Tali and locked it in in ME3 but she dies on rannoch so can I romance someone else in the game?
My display isn't showing the box for ignored/favourite tags.
Did I goober it? Did the mothership laZer it? Did we accidentally give it away to one of the ME3 prize winners?
So, I've already expressed that I think we have a problem; but do we really?
Maybe it's my training as a developer, but I've tried to live by a rule: if you can't measure it, it didn't happen. So let's see about measuring this.
For my metric I chose: Percentage of Closed questions asked by u...
When you reach level 20 and promote your class in multiplayer you get 75 war assets in singleplayer.
If I get to level 20 again (whether its with the same class or a different one) can I promote again to get an additional 75 points?
If so what is the limit to the amount of times I can promote e...
