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Djagulingu
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Germany3605 Posts
February 15 2013 22:05 GMT
#41
Getting beginner tips from TROLLS thread is the LoL equivalent of getting beginner protoss building placement methods from Artosis.

However, if you want to try something out, have fun and avoid getting reported while doing that, I don't see a better place than TROLLS.
"windows bash is a steaming heap of shit" tofucake
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
February 15 2013 22:23 GMT
#42
It definitely lacks an answer to Caller's posts though. C'mon, give us some meat!
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
Caller
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Poland8075 Posts
February 15 2013 22:51 GMT
#43
so basically, refute none of my points because they're correct. i'm okay with this.
Watch me fail at Paradox: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=397564
Dandel Ion
Profile Joined November 2010
Austria17960 Posts
February 15 2013 22:58 GMT
#44
This is what happens when you have a debate(?) where neither side has any actual points.
A backwards poet writes inverse.
Scip
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Czech Republic11293 Posts
February 15 2013 23:56 GMT
#45
On February 16 2013 07:51 Caller wrote:
so basically, refute none of my points because they're correct. i'm okay with this.

What can I say, I am an european dictator.
"It may be pleasurable for some of us to imagine being ravished" - Christopher Hitchens in a debate with feminists RIP 2011 Psalm 2:9 You shall break them with a rod of iron
Caller
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Poland8075 Posts
February 16 2013 00:22 GMT
#46
On February 16 2013 08:56 Scip wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 16 2013 07:51 Caller wrote:
so basically, refute none of my points because they're correct. i'm okay with this.

What can I say, I am an european dictator.

this bohemian monarchy, is it real life or is it fantasy
Watch me fail at Paradox: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=397564
Numy
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
South Africa35471 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-02-16 00:59:06
February 16 2013 00:57 GMT
#47
I never paid any attention to the T.R.O.L.L thread since I thought it was just a bunch of dudes having fun trying out shit instead of just playing what everyone else plays. For such an idea to spark a whole thread complaining about that seems a bit ludicrous. People seem to think everything has to be viable at pro level to be played when that's the wrong mindset. The majority of people won't even make it to that level and if they develop strats that are fun for them and work at their level I see nothing wrong with that. The only wrong thing would be claiming it works at all levels based on findings from their own experiences.

I'm still fascinated how LoL has developed this "tryhard"" aspect to a whole new level. I mean people get chirped in my Dota games if they pick a full proper lineup(something like Mag/ds/luna/sd/rubick lineup) yet here I see people advocating ONLY playing like that. What's the point..

Anyway I drifted from my original point. What is the point of this thread. Did anyone ever claim that the T.R.O.L.L stuff was to be taken as law? Are they not merely fun experiments done within the scope of the players themselves and nothing more.
Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland23335 Posts
February 16 2013 01:03 GMT
#48
On February 16 2013 09:22 Caller wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 16 2013 08:56 Scip wrote:
On February 16 2013 07:51 Caller wrote:
so basically, refute none of my points because they're correct. i'm okay with this.

What can I say, I am an european dictator.

this bohemian monarchy, is it real life or is it fantasy


LOL
pretty sick reference
sometimes its hard to tell whether callers just a random troll or a secret genius
he seems to be some kind of troll genius
Abenson
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada4122 Posts
February 16 2013 01:46 GMT
#49
What's so bad about experimenting to find new strategies?
One of my biggest complaint about LoL is how boring and static the metagame is. It will always be Tanky toplaner//Burst midlaner//Support + Carry//Jungler. Anyone trying anything new is automatically labelled a troll and should therefore be banned.
Personal improvement in a game is always good, but sometimes we are forgetting that the main reason we play games is to have fun. If running a tri-lane in our group of 5's is what makes the game fun for us, then there is nothing wrong with that.
Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-02-16 02:18:19
February 16 2013 02:17 GMT
#50
Therefore, the low level player is unable to distinguish good and bad strategies due to the lack of understanding and no experience to test his theories against. And this is why I would advise you to not consider the T.R.O.L.L.S. thread as any authority whatsoever and nothing close to a source of knowledge of the game.


I feel that this is just a little ignorant. What constitutes "non-low level players"?

Here's (imo) a good example. Tiensinoakuma was (iirc) 2400+ Elo Katarina player in S2. Back when Katarina was getting a remake, obviously he took a lot of interests in it and claimed to have played her extensively after the remake. Afterwards, he wrote a very lengthy post on Facebook, claiming that the remade Katarina was too weak. Riot took notice of this, and buffed Katarina by incorporating some of the suggestions by Tiensinoakuma.

He wasn't the only high Elo player who thought this way. Scarra also claimed frequently on stream at the time that the Katarina remake made her worse than before.

But we all know how good Katarina really was. She became perm-ban material really quickly - before any pros played her successfully in a tournament.

So what went wrong here? How can two VERY HIGH ELO players who used to main the old Katarina give such utterly wrong opinions about the Katarina remake, which arguably has a similar kit? It's just ignorance. These players probably tried the remade Katarina a few times with their old mindset, didn't work out, then immediately dismissed her as weak. They did not think outside of the box. From what I have seen, this is not what TROLL is doing.
https://twitter.com/SufficientStats
phyvo
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States5635 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-02-16 02:50:47
February 16 2013 02:23 GMT
#51
I don't understand Caller's criticisms of TROLLS his accusation of it being circle-jerk, or whatever the crap any of it had to do with US vs EU vs BR vs RU.

On February 16 2013 06:50 Scip wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 15 2013 12:05 Seuss wrote:
The sharing, development, and refinement of ideas is a skill like any other, it must be practiced in order to see improvement. If one refuses to acknowledge the efforts of novices, misguided as they often may be, you deny them the opportunity to learn and advance beyond their misunderstandings. The goal of T.R.O.L.L.S. is not the development of strategies, that is the means, but the development of strategists.

This is a long-term goal and the fruits may not be seen for months, maybe years. I may disagree with Ketarah's assessment of GSG's push strategy, but regardless of who is right or wrong (or even if there is a right or wrong in this case) what's important is that everyone involved had an opportunity to think, to bounce their thoughts off the foils of their peers, and then think some more. It's a chance to improve the mind, and God knows we need every opportunity to do that we can find.

Have we discovered the new meta? No. Are we qualified to dissect LCS matches? Probably not. Are many of the ideas we discuss inane? Certainly. Have we come to any conclusions that are meaningful and useful? Not yet (indeed, we have not finished significant testing of any one idea). But none of these are the point.

My goals may be far too lofty, too difficult, or too abstract, but if even one person uses this opportunity as a step towards greater things, even outside of LoL, I will have considered it a success.

Alright, on the development of strategists. If I understand you correctly, you are proposing that the tutor-pupil relationship (as for example the one we saw in ZERG RUSSIANS replay-watching thread) is for this purpose inferior to that of an environment where ideas get thrown around and criticized by everyone. And I do not necessarily disagree with that (although some restrictions/quality control is probably necessary). But I don't think that this environment should be in any way linked to research, data aquisition or anything like that.


You remind me of my animal behavior professor my last semester of college. He was trying something new for lab periods and asked us to design our own experiments as a group. One particular experiment we had involved 4 groups of mice to test for two different things. When I asked if we should perhaps limit ourselves to 2 groups and one thing in order to have a chance at getting more meaningful results the professor shut me down saying "you're not going to get meaningful results". Later in the semester he complained that we weren't "thinking our experiments through enough". Surprise surprise, he basically said it was cute to watch us play scientist and, seemingly, his students took things less seriously. You're not as self-defeating as my professor, though similarly you're saying that TROLLS shouldn't be involved in "data collection". But both you and him forgot that discovery and the basic scientific method (trying things repeatedly and observing the result) are essential parts of learning from the day we are born to the day we die whether we do it perfectly or not and that effort should not be looked down on whatever level it occurs at, if it's sincere.

The fact is that in the real world nearly everyone on the planet has one on one tutors (ideally parents) and opportunities for group learning (friends). Both methods are actually used in classrooms in college and high school to great effect even in seemingly rote subjects like math. Were all the stupid scientific experiments I did in high school a waste because they'd already been done one way or another, never got me published, weren't lead one-on-one by a respected researcher, and forced me to work in a group of at least one other peer who might not know anything more than what I did?

Maybe it's just because I love the sciences and am doing my best to enter a scientific field. But no, I wouldn't say they were a waste at all. Similarly I wouldn't write of TROLLs as a waste anymore than I'd write off LiquidPractice... they're just two sides of the same group learning coin.

Sorry if I got a little ranty or incoherent... I rewrote this several times and didn't give up because, well, I've never been much of an essayist and while we're talking about practice I might as well practice communication.
"BE A MANGO TO SLEEP LIKE A SNORING TIGER" - Monte
Sc2eleazar
Profile Joined February 2012
United States70 Posts
February 18 2013 21:20 GMT
#52
I would like to add my thought of one major value of TROLLS. Many of the current lower level player base were not around for the days when some of our "experiments" were meta (or at least actively used). We have not seen how these strategies worked and why they were set aside. TROLLS gives us a safe chance to "relive the past" and relearn those things rather than just being dismissed with a half explanation of that was tried before. I can't count the number of times I came up against something that I knew should fail miserably but didn't know how to counter. One famous encounter that could have ended badly was a team that went 5ap all mid. My counter was unintentional but worked perfectly: I was adc so just stay in lane and farm/push. I downed our turret first and by the time they turned towards me my Kog was almost double their level, farmed out and was 1v2ing their team like a pro. By the end of the game the enemy vi ulted on me and I just stood there and returned fire until she fell. Games like that teach us WHY we play standard and how standard counters nonstandard.
Bill Murray
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States9292 Posts
February 18 2013 23:56 GMT
#53
null hypothesis
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Bill Murray
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States9292 Posts
February 18 2013 23:56 GMT
#54
caller wins the internet
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Bill Murray
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States9292 Posts
February 18 2013 23:56 GMT
#55
gg
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Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
February 19 2013 00:37 GMT
#56
On February 19 2013 08:56 Bill Murray wrote:
null hypothesis


p-value > 0.05. FAILED TO REJECT. Bill is right. ggwp
https://twitter.com/SufficientStats
zulu_nation8
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
China26351 Posts
February 19 2013 06:30 GMT
#57
On February 16 2013 11:17 Sufficiency wrote:
Show nested quote +
Therefore, the low level player is unable to distinguish good and bad strategies due to the lack of understanding and no experience to test his theories against. And this is why I would advise you to not consider the T.R.O.L.L.S. thread as any authority whatsoever and nothing close to a source of knowledge of the game.


I feel that this is just a little ignorant. What constitutes "non-low level players"?

Here's (imo) a good example. Tiensinoakuma was (iirc) 2400+ Elo Katarina player in S2. Back when Katarina was getting a remake, obviously he took a lot of interests in it and claimed to have played her extensively after the remake. Afterwards, he wrote a very lengthy post on Facebook, claiming that the remade Katarina was too weak. Riot took notice of this, and buffed Katarina by incorporating some of the suggestions by Tiensinoakuma.

He wasn't the only high Elo player who thought this way. Scarra also claimed frequently on stream at the time that the Katarina remake made her worse than before.

But we all know how good Katarina really was. She became perm-ban material really quickly - before any pros played her successfully in a tournament.

So what went wrong here? How can two VERY HIGH ELO players who used to main the old Katarina give such utterly wrong opinions about the Katarina remake, which arguably has a similar kit? It's just ignorance. These players probably tried the remade Katarina a few times with their old mindset, didn't work out, then immediately dismissed her as weak. They did not think outside of the box. From what I have seen, this is not what TROLL is doing.


he said the remade kat was weak before riot buffed her.. what's the problem?
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
February 19 2013 09:20 GMT
#58
Actually the only "buff" was on Shunpo's base damage an CD, all the other "buffs" were putting her spells ahead of where they are now in terms of base damage (Bouncing Blade went from 50-190 to 60-160) and reducing the AP ratios (except for Death Lotus'... to combat the prominence of base damage again).
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
February 19 2013 10:38 GMT
#59
to be fair. Kat with s2 itemization was weak. s3 itemization, very strong.
liftlift > tsm
BlueSpace
Profile Joined May 2011
Germany2182 Posts
February 19 2013 11:34 GMT
#60
This is boring. Scip and Seuss should have their students compete with each other. Both of them should select a group of five low elo players and tutor them for a month or so. After a month they will compete with each other and victory will determine who is right. I want to see BLOOD!

PS: Scip has to use Hec for historical accurateness.
Probe1: "Because people are opinionated and love to share their thoughts. Then they read someone else agree with them and get their opinion confused with fact."
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