Off-Topic General Discussion - Page 2558

On July 22 2014 17:45 GhandiEAGLE wrote:
Only bcuz wave asked for it

Wave and the Salty New Londo Runback

It was late at night. Wave's eyes were fixed on his computer screen. He held an X-Box controller in his hands pale hands. His fingers deftly pressed buttons and pushed joysticks with a mechanical determination, movements that were natural to him after his many years of gaming. His familiarity with the controller had served him well, as he scanned the area around his character. The character was in dark room of stone, standing calmly in the center while multiple slain ghosts moaned and faded away around him. Wave had done it. He had cleared the giant room of ghosts, signalling the progress he struggled so hard to attain in the damp ruins of New Londo. He paused a few moments, half of him soaking in the victory, while the other half warily surveying the area in the hopes that no more enemies were in his vicinity. Wave peered through the opening in the room into the dark passage beyond, where a ladder was barely seen, resting innocently against the far wall. Wave gulped, realizing what it meant. He knew how close he was. A drop of sweat rolled slowly, dramatically down his brow, off of his nose, and splashing onto the desk in front of him. Wave steeled his resolve.

With the precision of an veteran surgeon, he lightly tilted the joystick forward, and his character began slowly walking forward into the dark opening. The tension was taut enough to be severed by a knife. Wave pushed the joystick a little further; his character picked up speed, rushing down the dark passage toward the ladder at the far end. Sweat was now pouring down Wave's forehead. He clutched his controller with the iron grip of a man possessed. He even forgot to breathe as he failed to pick up the movement around his character. He had eyes only for the ladder. Wave's character was now dashing desperately towards the ladder, nearly surrounded by ghosts which had started to pour out of the walls, flooding the area. Ethereal scythes cut swiftly across Wave's field of vision, but he only spurred his character onwards through the murk. After what had seemed like an hour, Wave successfully navigated through the throng of ghosts, only growing in number and agitation as Wave set his hand on the first wooden rung of the ladder. Time was shorter now than ever before; hand over hand, foot over foot, he swiftly ascended the ladder, which was now surrounded on all sides by stone walls. Wave could see the exit at the top. Light poured in, giving him hope as he continued climbing. He could taste the bonfire. Until a ghostly blade came through the wall, knifing Wave brutally in the backside and immediately killing him. Wave's eyes failed to register the gory scene. His character lost the strength to hold onto the ladder and plummeted back towards the dark floor far below, landing with a pathetic crunch as the angered ghosts swarmed over his prone, lifeless body.

-You Have Died-

The sun was out and shining as Wave's character respawned upon the wild grass of Firelink Shrine. Wave looked away from his computer screen for the first time in hours, gazing upwards at his ceiling with glazed eyes while he reclined in his black leather chair. His arms hung limp and useless over the armrests. He stayed like this for some time, looking but not seeing. He ran his hands through the rugged stubble on his chin, covered with grime and sweat. He blinked a few times. Then, with a loud groan, he heaved his body back upright on his chair and looked at his twitch chat. All he could see was Scipaeus saying "LOL OMFG WAVE IS SO BAD" and "LOL NICE PLOT WAVE LOLOLOL". Wave winced, but all the same, he picked his controller back up, assumed the proper claw-like grip, and drove his character back down the winding path towards New Londo. Some of the more attentive stream viewers, to this day, swear they heard him mutter "fucking euros" under his breath.

On July 22 2014 22:22 WaveofShadow wrote:

Even if no one else responds, I appreciate this Jeff. Well done.

On July 22 2014 22:34 AsmodeusXI wrote:
Reminds me of the good old TL LoL Noir.

On July 22 2014 22:37 jcarlsoniv wrote:


idk, it wasn't ironic enough for my taste

On July 22 2014 22:48 jcarlsoniv wrote:
I will not be at Liquid`League this month. I'm going down to Wildwood

On July 22 2014 22:54 Cixah wrote:


You are the worst kind of people.

On July 22 2014 22:55 jcarlsoniv wrote:


pls, I'm taking Liquid`League and extending it to 3 days of drinking and frisbee on the beach

don't be jelly, zombie man

On July 22 2014 22:56 ComaDose wrote:
I understand why a bunch of casuals with no time to grind out good stuff wouldn't want to ever play an mmo or a game where you have to build up your collection of power ups to bring into a match but i can't understand why so many rela gamerz shy away from a lil grind. sounds like children being like boo his artifact is better than mine!

conversely the existence of only one currency makes it seem pretty clear that this will serve to increase blizzards profits which is probably the main reason they did it which is a dick move.

on whether or not runes are good, i think they add a lot of positive to league, having to slightly play around not knowing what your enemies runes are compared to having perfect knowledge of your opponents character every game is a trade off i would personally lean towards the rune side on. it definitely give you room to be more creative, feels good when you set up specific pages and they work well, lets you do unorthodox things with your characters. if we reduced the builds in league by over 2 thirds maybe new players and dota enthusiasts would complain less but i'd probably enjoy the game less too. i had a pretty good time collecting and building my pages over the years.

On July 22 2014 22:55 jcarlsoniv wrote:


pls, I'm taking Liquid`League and extending it to 3 days of drinking and frisbee on the beach

don't be jelly, zombie man

On July 22 2014 23:02 PrinceXizor wrote:

some people want to focus on improving their skill as a player and not slowly get points to spend to make themselves better without improving any. I'd be fine with runes if you could build pages on the fly like masteries, and if they didn't cost 15-20k per page to fill with new runes. but its not really customization when you have to bring in a set number of prefabs.

On July 22 2014 23:04 WaveofShadow wrote:

And you call your brother a hipster.

On July 22 2014 23:04 WaveofShadow wrote:

And you call your brother a hipster.

On July 22 2014 23:45 jcarlsoniv wrote:


hippy != hipster

On July 22 2014 23:45 PrinceXizor wrote:
Coma do you think a gold player can beat a gold player without runes? or a gold player cna beat a silver player without having runes?
thats what we're talking about. the runes are a requirement to begin improving. you can't just play focusing on not having runes and expect to improve in the game at all. you just learn to play passively because you lose every trade. you never get to improve yourself beyond where you are at because you are at a disadvantage and have to play vs lesser opponents to win. so you never get exposed to the top play.