I put my hand in the mousetrap so you don't have to. Be nice.

It's about midnight here.

Sorry, I'm not going to be handling irrate player complaints. Not everyone can be a good troll, sadly.

Since I don't want to become judge jury and executioner, I will only be handling people who are clearly way out of line.

If you want to look at pornographic content, there are plenty of places to do so.

This is not one of those places.

Son Golin handled that thread.

Something terrible has been unleashed.

Now there is another.

Such an existential question!

Dark Souls was one of my favorite games.

Give me some links to threads, people, I'm going in dry!

Then let us hunt!

Even better: I just evolved the ability to ban.

Time to learn and adapt Mr Void Bug: Deleting the first post will delete the whole thread.

Hey guys, before anyone freaks out, I was just musing out loud. I'm not involved in those decisions or conversations. I'm just grumpy.

At first I read this as "What is a rug?"

But yeah, explained pretty much already by others!

Unfortunately there's a ton of you and not a ton of us; I don't see a whole lot of ways this will end besides disabling images if people continuously refuse to play nice. Obviously that's not an official policy, but it's getting pretty bad.

Edit: To be perfectly clear, this is just me musing out loud and I am not involved in any discussions or decisionmaking.

I am, however, highly vengeful. Comes with the avatar

The real mods will show up soon.

I genuinely don't. There's no easy "delete thread" button on my access level. For some reason, I can't give people time-outs, either. Not sure why.

Edit: I can now ban. Don't post porn in GD.

True, but by abusing the divergent approaches to writing numbers, I could reference a meme while also being correct.

The true way to write numbers is with 1s and 0s

In Europe, they use a comma instead of a period to as their decimal separator.

Ergo "It's over 90,00!" is "It's over 90.00!"

Look mom, a number joke and a meme, all at once!

Its over 90,00!!

I'll look into it tomorrow, I says!

In other words, how did you guys like this thread as a way to discuss the game in real time? Did y'all enjoy it? Is it something you'd want to participate in going forward, if we had threads for other matches and such?

Entirely unofficial query, for the record. I thought it was fun, and if y'all share that sentiment maybe it's something we can make a tradition out of

Mentor ribbons *will* provide a warm, fuzzy feeling, along with the reassurance that you are providing a positive influence on the world around you.

^

Morgageddon still dislikes hunting apartments...

Morgageddon hopefully you'll answer another question from me ^^ Interested in playing a game together with the community? Or perhaps just me because you are awesome and I main Morgana even though she is never played anymore... Don't understand why that is because I do really well in ranked with her but anyways. Be my friend and play a game with me?

I'm more than happy to play with the community every now and then, I've helped get a few 1000th wins before too!

Got a tip for players still stuck in Elo Hell? The real Elo Hell, the place where you play 10 games, lose 3 because 3v5 (leavers / AFK), 4 because everyone in the team flames each other and can't cooperate to victory, and the other 3 because you just couldn't play well after all those losses.

Pick three champs (who are usually not banned and ideally in 2 or 3 different roles) and play only them. Become very good with them to rise into silver or gold, and from there branch out into more champions in those similar roles.

Ever consider live streaming? Watching a member of riot would be so interesting.

I tried streaming yesterday actually, however I found the computer I was streaming on could *with lag* handle 24 fps @ 720p. I might stream if the demand is there and someone tells me how to turn off ads in Twitch...

Also can interns for riot be in high school, but be on summer break? A girl I know says she is interning for riot, and I'm wondering if she's lying lol.

EDIT:

What IF every member of riot was able to suggest a skin, and out of that a flexible bundle could launch with like 20+ skins or something realistic. For 2015 we should have a lot of content to start us off, maybe even like 3 champs or something too?

As far as I know, an intern must be in college to work here, sorry.

What is your favorite SG series and which season in that series is your favorite, and if you could kindly also say which episode in that season is your fave if you can remember.

SG-1 by far wins them all. As for a favorite episode, any episode in space with Prometheus, or the time loop, as well as the 200th episode special. The ending episode wasn't that bad either, surprisingly

Hold it you're a rioter now? When did that happen?

Round a month ago!

Few spots open, come play!

Anivia

I invited Khalai, but it said no such person was found. I'll just try inviting Space Pope 20K next time, unless there is another summoner you would prefer?

Here's the official post on the Latin America website:

http://lan.leagueoflegends.com/es/ne...-latinoamerica

It's in Spanish so you'll have to Google translate it if you don't know Spanish.

ah man gg!!!

done for now..will post again soon!

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Glad to hear it. Remember your life is in your hands now, not hers.

You rule your life and your decisions and its how you choose to cope with the bad things in life that defines who you are.

I highly recommend you do your best to start thinking about ways to proactively help others out. I appreciate you thanking me, and it would honor me greatly if you go forward in life looking for small ways to help others while expecting nothing in return.

That is how you change the world.

It sounds like you went through a really tough time. Hang in there, remember that the best you can do is grow and learn. Don't obsess over this, and remember to let people go from your life when things aren't working out.

I'm glad that thread gave you a little spark of hope - and that you chose to become a greater person.

plat and diamonds go down!!! to bunch of rag tag silver and bronze and golds...it was like....SPARTA!!!!

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against a plat and diamond on the other team! yikes!

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No idea about pricing, but I think potentially a "lower tier" of skins would be promising. Almost like the TPA skins. Mostly model changes.

The first is just... a hooded woman...

The second has promise. I like the plant/druid thing.

The third is copyrighted :P

It's actually not. Blank slates and little to no silhouette landmarks or big geometry to glom onto leaves them in a very odd and nebulous zone where most of what we can do to them feels like color/model swaps. They also don't have any extremely compelling animations, particles, pose, etc. The closer it is to a standard human, the harder it can be to make skins depending on the champions. Women especially. That comes down to mostly costume change which doesn't always provide the most impactful of changes. Depends though.

It's coming along nicely

I didn't put a helmet on this one, but I gave some headdress stuff to it. And yeah, I wen't more cloth.

I'm not privy to anything to do with icons.

Snake hair is one of the aspects about her we probably don't want to ditch just yet. It's a big read in game.

Oh, that's a really great question. Skarner isn't as hard as you might think. You can make him into pretty much anything, from a bug, to a lobster, to a robot. Not sure the particulars as to why he hasn't gotten a skin yet, though.

Hmm, actually it's sort of multifaceted. Because there's champions who are hard to make skins for logistically (lot's of assets/models/particles/etc to make), conceptually (base lacks large silhouette landmarks, "big hook", etc), or technically (older champions, outdated rigs, etc).

So, here's a list of what just comes to mind for various reasons:

Evelynn - Technical.; Outdated model/rig/animations/etc
Fiora - Conceptual. Lacking large visual landmarks, she's mostly just a lady in a costume.
Hiemerdinger - Technical. Mostly, outdated.. everything.
Lissandra - Logistical. Holy ****, so many particles! All of those particles are separate models with seperate, and possibly, custom animations on them.
LeBlanc - Conceptual. She's actually one our most standard of standard human females.
Malphite - Technical. Not so much unusable rig, but still has it's challenges.
Master Yi - Technical. Pizza feet...
Rumble - Technical and logistical. As stated.
Shyvanna - Logistical. Basically two champions in one.
Sion - Technical. Yikes..
Sivir - Technical. Outdated model/rig/animations/particles.. So yeah, rework first.
Swain - Technical. Outdated assets, basically also two champions.
Taric - Technically outrageous. Outdated assets.
Teemo - Existential. Every subsequent skin we make for him unlocks another gateway to hell.
Twitch - Technical. Very outdated assets, he's actually missing legs I think.
Udyr - Technical and Logistical. Fairly outdated, but pretty much 4 different champions depending on complexity.
Varus - Conceptual. Dude with a bow and purple pants.
Xerath - Logistical. Piles of particle work and strange rig voodoo I have no idea how to even describe.
Zac - Conceptually and logistically. Virtually no differentiated landmarks on skins, pretty much all texture or animation behaviors can be leveraged.
Zilean - Outdate assets, but not really an animation nightmare. He floats.
Zyra - Conceptually and logistically. On her body, not a ton of distinquishing landmarks. All of her plants require new models and new animations.

REMINDER! The above list doesn't mean these champions a) will not have a skin for them any time soon b) are huge challenges to overcome c) don't already have stuff in the works despite challenges listed. This isn't a blacklist, this is just what comes to my mind when I think of champions we've had challenges with. Each of these challenges can be solved in it's own particular way. Things are solved sometimes in just updating the assets, like in the case of Tyrant Swain or Battlecast Urgot, or sometimes with a complete rebuild like any relaunch/VU we make. Very much depends on the champion and what we have to work with.

So, not to derail this thread, but I can offer some insight on this. If we're going to make any skin for Rumble that involves anything that isn't his current wonky mech, we have to essentially completely remake his rig and animation sets. This is one of the reasons it's been difficult to get the bandwidth for a Rumble skin that isn't just a geometry shift.

There are tons of amazing pieces of fanart I've seen of Rumble skin ideas, and some fantastic ideas! The only catch with putting Rumble inside anything from a high-tech mech, to a Sherman tank, or any other contraption, is that he's almost a completely new champion in terms of rigging and animation. That aspect of a champion, or skin, is a lot of work. It's presented problems in the past when we had more restrictions on bandwidth.

Fear not though, we have something in the works. Animation right now is going to have the bulk of the work for any subsequent Rumble skin however.

What sort of answers would you like? Some game servers are LAX, some are in PDX. There's not much more to it; I would contest the claim that the PDX servers are "high ping".

The fact that they have a higher ping to certain parts of the US doesn't negate the fact that they have lower ping to other parts (such as the Pacific Northwest)

Next skin will be a bit more.. pretty(?) than DV. Little less dark, a little more elegant.

That ok?

REMEMBER! "In the works" can mean months out from actual release. We aren't yet to model with this skin yet, so depending on prioritization, could be a little while. However, we're cognizant of the fact that she hasn't gotten a 3rd skin post-release.

Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about the moon?