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On July 24 2013 07:14 XilDarkz wrote:Show nested quote +On July 24 2013 07:11 Haiq343 wrote:On July 24 2013 07:03 XilDarkz wrote:Is learning faster really a 'shortcut' to be ashamed of? I hold firmly that efficiency is key.
In the abstract no, but there are plenty of situations where faster is going to be worse. And they are by far most common in learning anything. Understanding 'why' is rarely something you can get a cliff notes version of, even though helpful hints can guide you towards things to notice. A single iota of thought properly framed in a statement is all that understanding why usually requires... detailed, technical explanations aside, sometime its the fundamental base of the idea that eludes rather than the extrapolation.
...I just...i want to leave
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good night.
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it takes 10 good games to get to 50 lp and then 2 bad ones to back down to 0...so fucking demotivating
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Scarra looks like he's trying to decide whether or not to murder the cameraman.
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On July 24 2013 07:52 Requizen wrote:Show nested quote +On July 24 2013 07:37 cLutZ wrote:On July 24 2013 07:30 Zhiroo wrote:ManCloud looks pretty badass. Voyboy and Vile the only ones smiling LOL. Those OddOne and Turtle smiles tho
"Oddone smile looks like it could be photoshopped on a Titan" -Dyrus
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On July 24 2013 07:55 zer0das wrote:
Scarra looks like he's trying to decide whether or not to murder the cameraman.
Scarra wants the irl resets
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On July 24 2013 07:49 red_ wrote:
I know gamers aren't known for good posture, but holy god is Zuna a posterchild for internally rotated shoulders.
I hate you because I can't un-see now.
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Sorry man these are all japanese. Edit: WTF I swear i read "Chinese" there.
And they took such an old pic of Shiina Ringo to compare with the makeup CM she did. lol
And Yuko's still cute whithout makeup. *_*
Xpecial looks really awkward imo.
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On July 24 2013 08:07 -Zoda- wrote:Sorry man these are all japanese. And they took such an old pic of Shiina Ringo to compare with the makeup CM she did. lol Xpecial looks really awkward imo.
when doesn't he
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On July 24 2013 08:04 kainzero wrote:Show nested quote +On July 24 2013 07:49 red_ wrote:
I know gamers aren't known for good posture, but holy god is Zuna a posterchild for internally rotated shoulders. I hate you because I can't un-see now.
Seeing how it's related to my field, I really, really want to see an x-ray of his shoulder girdle. I bet it's amazing(and by amazing I mean awful for him).
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Every time I hear Vulcun Techbargains I think it sounds like a junkyard from Star Wars.
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On July 24 2013 05:54 wei2coolman wrote:Show nested quote +On July 24 2013 05:48 kainzero wrote:On July 24 2013 05:15 Feartheguru wrote:On July 24 2013 05:12 kainzero wrote:On July 24 2013 04:52 TheYango wrote:On July 24 2013 04:44 kainzero wrote:
If blind normals in 3/4 stacks was your preferred play mode and you were actually quite good at it, and then you wanted to join a competitive team, you would get rebuffed because you don't have a good solo q rating. Hell, that's my preferred play mode and sometimes I can't argue with certain people about strategy because my solo Q rank is too low and they won't accept any other credential besides that. I mean that's sort of a weird example because people wouldn't scout pro players from random normal stacks in DotA either. But the point is that there's a judgment attached to someone's solo queue rating, and so there's a pressure for people to play solo queue when they actually enjoy those stacks more. You can say "if you don't like solo queue, don't play it" and in a sense that's true, but at the same time there are *definitely* people who feel pressured to play solo queue (or have a particular rating to prove themselves) when they don't enjoy it. Well, when I said "competitive team," I didn't want to limit it to pro teams. There are plenty of posts on PvP and some here where they're looking to build a team to compete in small cups or play arranged 5s, and almost all of them have plat/diamond solo Q minimum. I can understand it being a filter if they're being flooded with requests and they need a quick way to determine unskilled players vs skilled players, but the reality is that they get like 3 or 4 silver/gold players that are mildly interested but ashamed of their rank, and instead they just decide to not form their team. I think that's a huge impediment to getting 5s off the ground. The difference between silver and plat solo queue is cataclysmic, nevermind diamond, why form a team just to get facerolled in cups, better to do your own thing. The two times I've encountered pro players in normals with my 5 stack, we rolled them. I've also successfully laned against Plats in normals. (Them Diamonds keep destroying me though, in the rare time that I do get a solo lane and lane against one of them.) I've also lost to mid-high Silvers, so no, this isn't a brag post. It is normals, but at the same time, because I play normals over ranked, all I have to show for solo Q is my Silver 3. How do you evaluate my skills as a player because I prefer normals? How do you know that we're going to get facerolled every single time? I don't know. I just think that there are certain players that want to try ranked 5s, try play competitively, try to improve as a team, but they're automatically being blocked because of their solo Q ability. And at the top, you have groups of 4 diamond players who won't play cups because they can't find that last diamond player which further stunts the competitive scene. Lets look at this realistically, from everyone else's point of view. Lets say you're diamond 1; looking to recruit some promising players. You're not expecting to get to LCS right away, but you just want to create a fairly cohesive team with around equal strengths. Now you've picked up 3 other players, and only have one slot left. You going to pick the Silver 3 guy? or the Plat 2 dude? Also; I play a fuck ton of normals with my diamond friends, their mentality of how they approach normals is completely different than how they approach ranked; so don't expect that you're playing against their 100%.
I can 100% relate to what both of you are saying.
In Season 1 all I did was mess around in ranked but I actually took normals rather seriously (I was around 1450 rating in ranked). Then season 2 hit and I decide to try-hard as much as possible in ranked. Within 1½ months I'm sitting in top25 on EUNE.
On the other hand; now that I'm high rating in ranked I play EXTREMELY casually in normals and I just pick whatever and sometimes I will experiment with stuff and try hard but most of the time I'm just playing normals with friends and don't care much.
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On July 24 2013 08:36 Fusilero wrote:Btw guys meanwhile in EUW challenger nfaculty has picked teeto vs gaminggear.eu (CIS regional champs) http://www.twitch.tv/kaostv
OH NO DID THEY TELL ME ALL ABOUT IT
DO YOU THINK THAT MAYBE NFACULTY LACKED BOTH ENGAGE AND POKE THERE
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On July 24 2013 08:07 -Zoda- wrote:Sorry man these are all japanese. Edit: WTF I swear i read "Chinese" there. And they took such an old pic of Shiina Ringo to compare with the makeup CM she did. lol And Yuko's still cute whithout makeup. *_* Xpecial looks really awkward imo.
You racist, lol.
The only Chinese reference I have is LPL, of which I've seen one game so far from the Summer Race. YG and EP.HK players do look like they had a visit from the makeup artists. Everyone lookin' so pretty.
On July 24 2013 08:15 red_ wrote:Show nested quote +On July 24 2013 08:04 kainzero wrote:On July 24 2013 07:49 red_ wrote:
I know gamers aren't known for good posture, but holy god is Zuna a posterchild for internally rotated shoulders. I hate you because I can't un-see now. Seeing how it's related to my field, I really, really want to see an x-ray of his shoulder girdle. I bet it's amazing(and by amazing I mean awful for him).
Kinesiology?
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On July 24 2013 08:36 Fusilero wrote:Btw guys meanwhile in EUW challenger nfaculty has picked teeto vs gaminggear.eu (CIS regional champs) http://www.twitch.tv/kaostv
He was doing about as well as I expected when I opened up that stream haha.
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Fail. Nobody has their back turned, looking over their shoulder.
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hey eu players, what do you know about these guys?
Myw
XL Winner
HipsterJesiz
HAWKDON TPS
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