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  1. Ravishing

    Unreal Engine 4 (free!)

    I have no idea what you mean :D I'm not a programmer. But I imagine the water material is doing similar things to this: https://www.vg247.com/2020/06/21/half-life-alyx-booze-shader/
  2. Ravishing

    Unreal Engine 4 (free!)

    New Free Stuff for the Month https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/featured-free-marketplace-content---november-2020
  3. Ravishing

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I have a little of both for different reasons. Bitcoin has a much higher upside. Gold is very very stable and continues trending upward no matter what over time. I don't value portability so much... I think BTC can easily suffer if shit hits the fan. Sometimes having that hard currency in a...
  4. Ravishing

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    When talking about 21 million Bitcoins, that's also money supply, so imo it's right to compare apples to apples. If BTC ever takes over, you can bet there will be credits/debits on it too.
  5. Ravishing

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Gold is also a currency that's been used far longer than any of the fiat currencies in existence. Expecting Bitcoin to match Gold in such a short timespan is foolish. And Gold is also a commodity, something Bitcoin can never be. USD was backed by Gold originally. Gold value isn't tied to USD or...
  6. Ravishing

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    "Mainstream" meaning people finding out about it. When it spiked to 20K is when everyone started talking about it. I'm not saying people jumped into it or anything. But the most non-tech people I know started asking about it. LOL @ "No Maintenance/protection costs" Good old article: Bitcoin...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I understand the properties of Bitcoin, but again, the current state of the world economy does not support a 100k, 500k, etc Bitcoin *IN OUR LIFETIME* In the future, 100-200 years from now, sure, I can see it. Especially as the world economies continue to inflate their currencies. As much as...
  8. Ravishing

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    When Bitcoin was skyrocketing like crazy I also believed it could go infinitely. Due to its nature, but we have problems to work through. It will not grow like we want: 1.) while the USD is the reserve currency. BTC would need to be the reserve currency. 2.) Using it day-to-day is still very...
  9. Ravishing

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I don't want to actively trade bitcoin but I do always want to hold some bitcoin. But if it hits 20K I have high hopes of buying back in at a lower price point. If it hits 20K, it's not going to maintain that price easily, if it even gets back to 20K. We might still be 3 years or more away from...
  10. Ravishing

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    The reason you think it doubles every year is because you have been looking at the dips & highs the past 2 years. March 2019: $4K March 2020: $6.5K June 2019: $9.5K June 2020: 13.2K The halvening happened May 2020 btw, which always leads to a price increase, and is why I can see 20K...
  11. Ravishing

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    It doesn't double every year anymore.
  12. Ravishing

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    There was a streak where bitcoin beat the market every year for like 10 years or something. The streak was broken, I forget when exactly, I know 2018 was pretty bad, and now it closely correlates with the markets. Some years it'll outperform, like last year since it spiked up from the 2018...
  13. Ravishing

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    If you've followed Bitcoin for any amount of time, you know it's very closely tied to the US Dollar & Economy. I expect Bitcoin to continue rising as long as the US economy is doing well. The days of it beating out the stock market YOY are long gone. $500K+ Bitcoin will see the light of day as...
  14. Ravishing

    Legends of Runeterra - Card game by Riot Games

    There are a lot of quests, but plenty of time I think. I'm pretty sure Ill be fine finishing the pass without grinding out everything. Regarding the new spells, so far I'm seeing viable play from at least 3 of them: Feel the Rush, Go Get It, Go Hard. I think what's holding them back is the...
  15. Ravishing

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    I don't watch many of these Pantheon streams but the Environment Art one seemed interesting so I watched most. My takeaway: Positives: Houdini: I have seen amazing stuff from Houdini and I would love to dabble in it some day. So the fact they are embracing it is very encouraging. I think...
  16. Ravishing

    Legends of Runeterra - Card game by Riot Games

    I did some labs so far. These new spells are powerful when they go off, time will tell how they effect the meta. I feel like some should see play. The recall one is pretty strong, I might try it in my deep deck.
  17. Ravishing

    League Of Legends

    Yea the animations are definitely not great, masked by the shininess / flares / camera moves. The lip sync is really really bad too, only Seraphim seems to match the words at all. Eve really steals the show in this imo.
  18. Ravishing

    Legends of Runeterra - Card game by Riot Games

    Lee still seems very playable. And the higher health just means even harder to remove. Not sure if it'll really do much at all tbh. Make it rain, good. Too easy to keep 2 mana saved, hurts aggro decks and swain/tf decks quite a bit imo.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Its only horrifying if 51% of the mining is done by a single entity or alliance of entities, as then they can control it, but it is also why they say the harder the hash rate the more secure, because it becomes much more difficult for a group of actors to take control. At Bitcoins maturity, it...
  20. Ravishing

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Difficulty fluctuates, the system adjusts automatically to keep the discovery rate at about 10min per block. When the bitcoin halving occurred, the difficulty got easier because a lot of miners quit. less miners = took longer to crack a block. Now difficulty increases as more miners get back...
  21. Ravishing

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Who knows, but if quantum computing ever becomes reality I'd imagine the "difficulty" level will just be set extremely high to accommodate, idk how achievable that would be. Also, at some point the reward for finding blocks will be about nil, except for the transaction fees, so maybe breaking...
  22. Ravishing

    Legends of Runeterra - Card game by Riot Games

    I think I heard they intend to award prizes to the top 32. But no idea. I don't know about the expansion being weak, I've been seeing a lot of different stuff, but aggro and Lee sin decks do stamp out a lot of things. We'll see i guess. Imo the meta isn't solved yet
  23. Ravishing

    Legends of Runeterra - Card game by Riot Games

    This is really good news, and it's amazing LoR will have in-game tournaments while HS has scrapped the idea entirely. A flourishing competitive scene open to everyone should be a nice draw. $10K for 1 person, weak prizing tbh, but hopefully it grows as this matures. I'm really happy to see...
  24. Ravishing

    Legends of Runeterra - Card game by Riot Games

    I'm really liking Dragons right now. Not sure how viable they'll be but I feel like they can be strong. Lots of options on how to build it though. I haven't tried Soraka or Tahm yet, I saw Swim using them to some success and I've faced them some, but I am liking playing with Dragons right now
  25. Ravishing

    Legends of Runeterra - Card game by Riot Games

    Played vs Jeff Hoogland yesterday. I had some crazy ramp in this one.
  26. Ravishing

    Legends of Runeterra - Card game by Riot Games

    I wasn't really trying but was diamond 1 and since they announced ranked resetting i decided to grind masters. Took 3 attempts at the final boss lol. I wasn't sure if ranked would be reset between these mini expansions Regarding the changes.. the bastion change is nice. The others seem...
  27. Ravishing

    Legends of Runeterra - Card game by Riot Games

    I think Dragon decks will be a decent deck, at least A tier. There were already some dragons being splashed in the meta in A/B tier decks. Dragons look like a deck that can steamroll out of control easily. Between Fury and all the combat tricks, if they take board it'll be tough to reclaim...
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    Legends of Runeterra - Card game by Riot Games

    I'm happy to see shyvana coming, definitely building dragons first. The landmark seems OK, but not for Noxus units. Nox units want to utilize overwhelm and stuff, this is better with high health and regen units, even dragons with fury. Best landmark so far has to be the healing spring...
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    Legends of Runeterra - Card game by Riot Games

    I think it's silly not to expect some rng in an online card game. Cards in general are inherently RNG. The concern is that RNG shouldn't be on game enders, and I don't see how this card ever gets you there. Losing your entire hand every round for 3 random cards seems really bad... but of...
  30. Ravishing

    Legends of Runeterra - Card game by Riot Games

    Soraka/Tahm seems pretty well forced, could be strong. I will try it like everyone else, looks fun but could also be annoying. Only 1 More champion to be shown... If its Shyvana then I may need to switch to Dragons as my 1st deck for this expansion.
  31. Ravishing

    Unreal Engine 4 (free!)

    The Model/Mesh should be no problem to transfer between engines (legalities aside). Getting the model/mesh to do similar functionality between engines is going to be the biggest work. You can probably copy "concepts" but will still need to re-program from the ground up for the most part.
  32. Ravishing

    Unreal Engine 4 (free!)

    Also while you look at the Free Monthly content. There are 3 other categories of permanently free content, they show in your asset Library after "Purchasing" them: Epic Games Content: Has the Paragon assets & Infinity Blade assets, plus other tools. A lot of High Quality assets (Paragon...
  33. Ravishing

    Unreal Engine 4 (free!)

    Set a recurring reminder, it's monthly. Most months it takes a few days for them to appear. So set a reminder for the middle of every month if you want to be safe.
  34. Ravishing

    Unreal Engine 4 (free!)

    Yup, they've been doing it a while. Started in 2019. Definitely worth it if you ever plan to use the engine. I have $1000s of assets for free from the giveaways.
  35. Ravishing

    Legends of Runeterra - Card game by Riot Games

    We'll see but for regen to work means your dudes need to take damage. I think I'd like to control my destiny by incorporating self damage units instead of buffing braum and hoping my opponent plays into it
  36. Ravishing

    Legends of Runeterra - Card game by Riot Games

    New win-con card, I'm always a fan of alternate win cons, hopefully it feels good to play as/against.
  37. Ravishing

    OUTRIVAL: The Game I'm Making

    Hey thanks, I've been grabbing them every month, they can be helpful. Epic started giving away monthly assets last year. I have a pretty large library now lol
  38. Ravishing

    Legends of Runeterra - Card game by Riot Games

    I like playing Deep the most but it's kind of weakened in this meta. Instead I've been grinding Warmother. At D3 right now, not really trying hard to climb though. A lot of days I'm not playing at all. What I like about Slaughter Docks is it is giving you a Sea Monster from outside your deck...
  39. Ravishing

    Legends of Runeterra - Card game by Riot Games

    I like the flavor. Fortune Croaker and Shakedown are like the 2 strongest cards in the list. Shakedown is nuts for 1 mana. Tahm Kench isn't the most exciting but has flavor. Bayou Brunch could be fun to play with.