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  1. Eidal

    Warframe

    Last I was into this, "end game" was a group running some specific cheese strat farming mobs in a tower defense mode. What vids were you watching?
  2. Eidal

    Overwatch

    That's what I'm doing. I don't want to burn out when I know they'll have a much better product available in S2. Messing around with HOTS right now instead.
  3. Eidal

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Skanda, your concept on how thingsoughtto work simplycan not work. Once the project launches, the company is no longer capable of making all backers whole again should they seek a refund. Do we need to examine the line graph of a typical company's cash reserves as they work towards launching...
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    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    No, you can't define the product as "the game the guy who spent $3k on pictures wanted." These people want a pipedream that isn't going to happen; 95 percent of them are going to be unsatisfied and wish for a refund. What about the backers who also end up unsatisfied, but they waited too long...
  5. Eidal

    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    edit: looks like this was covered.
  6. Eidal

    Heroes of the Storm

    I think a lot of the people who pay for this think that this is the only way they'll get out of elo hell. Once they're playing with and against better folks, their team will listen to their genius calls and appreciate their genius plays. In poker, these people are the "need to move up to...
  7. Eidal

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    I love to mock this hopium dream as much as any grounded cynic, but frankly, I don't think these people are entitled to refunds. There is no conceivable way the crowdfunding model will work if the company, at any time, is vulnerable to essentially a bank run. I'd rather see adults held...
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    Step Son Joining Air Force, Advice?

    Haha, as a Marine I read this and my jaw dropped a little bit. It's fascinating to me how easy it can be to categorize people as "civilian", "servicemember", and "veteran" yet the disparity in experience is so vast.
  9. Eidal

    Overwatch

    I completely agree with you here. Their leaver policy is ridiculous. My assumption is that it's zero-sum: games being worth minimal MMR shouldn't favor any specific player... but it would drastically increase discovery time of true MMR. Plus, it's just unsatisfying. May as well go with a...
  10. Eidal

    Overwatch

    Noodle was upset last week because it was "unsatisfying to play for a few hours and not gain any rank at all." Come on Bliz, wtf, fix this leveling curve so we can hit 100 and raid. I would love to see a poll, but I'm sure that 90 percent of the LoL ladder all believe they ought to be higher...
  11. Eidal

    Overwatch

    It would absolutely improve my solo-queue experience if I only played against solo-queue players; but that isn't the game we have right now. That being said --statistically, how is there any difference between getting some godly premade on my team and winning, getting some shit premade on my...
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    Step Son Joining Air Force, Advice?

    3 seconds of googling... Is being a crew chief really that terrible? : AirForce tldr; probably, yes. This jives with my anecdotal evidence of Marines absolutely hating their experience on the flight line. The pilots are the stars on the flight line; all the enlisted men are just peasants...
  13. Eidal

    Overwatch

    It bears repeating: at least 45 percent of your games will be auto-wins regardless of how good or how shitty you play. Another 45 percent will be auto-losses despite your best efforts. That remaining 10 percent -- those are the flex games where heroics on your part might win you the game...
  14. Eidal

    Overwatch

    Neither do most people I played with at rank 57. Granted, I only played 20 or so comp games so who knows. Are you guys saying its common in your experience to have all 5 strangers up and following voice calls? I find that hard to believe. Fawe, your anecdote is fine but where are the...
  15. Eidal

    Heroes of the Storm

    What rank are you these days, Lumi? PSA: big fucking patch dropping today. Might be the biggest meta change since inception.
  16. Eidal

    Overwatch

    Pre-mades on your team or on the enemy team = totally irrelevant data unless you're a salty bad looking to prepare excuses for why [something other than you] is holding you back from your great glory at the top of the ladder.
  17. Eidal

    The Night Of

    Hated the first episode. Wife liked it. Can't relate to retarded protagonist, don't give a shit about any other characters so far. True Detective S1 made me immediately interested in the characters. It's a crime to compare it to that.
  18. Eidal

    The Fast Food Thread

    Goddamn it must suck to be diabetic with such a sweet tooth.
  19. Eidal

    Weight Loss Thread

    I'm picturing a woman desperately trying to get out of a conversation with a 5'6 250lb pudgy bald guy at a party. He's busy holding forth about his excellent calf genetics and she's nodding her head and staring at a point over his shoulder.
  20. Eidal

    Weight Loss Thread

    I in no way mean to dismiss your accomplishment, but that's not a useful data point when discussing calf definition =P
  21. Eidal

    Weight Loss Thread

    Fat people always have calves man. It's not actually a perk until you lose the weight and retain the calves.
  22. Eidal

    Weight Loss Thread

    The difference is fucking around on 5lb dumbbells and Pokemon Go isn't acutely miserable like a true HIIT workout is. I could draw up a pretty easy weight-lifting routine with slow as fuck progression that'd still genuinely help someone over the course of 3-12 months. The adherence rate would...
  23. Eidal

    Weight Loss Thread

    Statistically (not really), 94.8 percent of people who "do HIIT" either aren't actually doing HIIT because their circuit training isn't high intensity, or they "do HIIT" for about 1.4 sessions and then stop because its hard and not fun.
  24. Eidal

    Weight Loss Thread

    Yea but Brahma is a big fucking dood who has a 400lb bench. Doods with 400lb benches dont like HIIT. Aren't you built like a jockey? 140lb with an elvish frame? Of course you like HIIT, gravity and you get along. Fair enough -- but what about the misery quotient. I'm 6'1 200lb, nothing is...
  25. Eidal

    Weight Loss Thread

    HIIT seems fucking stupid to me unless you specifically want those adaptations for your work. We did a lot of HIIT in the USMC, but that makes sense. Similiarly, I'd expect athletes, firefighters, and LEO (lol), to do that as well. But if your goal is general health then unless you...
  26. Eidal

    Weight Loss Thread

    I didn't say drink 3 servings of shake at once. And you're the one who said the other day that you don't feel very hungry in the morning. So do a shake at 8am and noon.
  27. Eidal

    Weight Loss Thread

    Uh, just drink 3 shakes... that'd be like ~350 calories for 100g protein.
  28. Eidal

    Step Son Joining Air Force, Advice?

    Civilians have no fucking idea how comfortable the big bases are in a combat zone. It's insanity. The DFACs (cafeterias) on Leatherneck absolutely put Vegas to shame. Want a fucking BLT on a toasted ciabatta at 1 am? Sure, 3 different DFACs are open for the night shift! Want surf and turf...
  29. Eidal

    Step Son Joining Air Force, Advice?

    Yup. Although, that does sound like something a super motivated sailor would say...
  30. Eidal

    Step Son Joining Air Force, Advice?

    Without knowing the details of his deployment, he was very likely safer wherever he was than he would have been in the US and commuting to work on our freeways. Why would I respect a man whose fictional fear left him broken? Look -- you, and all the other "oh what a poor lad" folks are never...
  31. Eidal

    Overwatch

    ^ That sums it up nicely. This doesn't influence enough of my games to piss me off, however.
  32. Eidal

    Step Son Joining Air Force, Advice?

    Dood thought he was a man and found out he isn't. I saw that happen on occasion. Something tells me he isn't a stellar performer in the civilian sector, either.
  33. Eidal

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Elurin, have you tried checking for used equipment once a day or so? I've heard from other people that it isn't too difficult to find massively discounted stuff like dumbbells on craigslist. It's prohibitively expensive to ship so people don't really use ebay to sell that stuff.
  34. Eidal

    Overwatch

    EDIT: When I was ranking in LoL, I'd start a ranked match and immediately start thinking of ways to help my team win. When my Bronze V friend would start a ranked match, he'd fixate on all the ways his team was going to fuck him out of a win. His immediate assumption was that everyone on his...
  35. Eidal

    Overwatch

    I knew people in LoL that, on occasion, played quite well and were definitely playing above their level. But something would annoy them and all of a sudden they'd turn into a ragebeast and absolutely crater their team with either poor play or verbal abuse (or both). Consistency through...
  36. Eidal

    Overwatch

    The new HOTS system looks badass. Why did Blizzard just go back 2 years and start with, what appears to be, HOTS stupid system from ground zero?
  37. Eidal

    Overwatch

    I played HOTS back when they first introduced ranked and it seemed pretty retarded, what with the whole 50-40 shit and then a shitton of people being rank 1. How is HOTS ranked now?
  38. Eidal

    Bootstrappers guide to being successful.

    Anyone who thinks that they could actually get Mist a job hasn't read a single post of hers for the last decade. People like that don't make it through interviews because anyone interviewing her thinks: ("Holy fuck I'd rather smash my penis with a brick than work with a person like this for a...
  39. Eidal

    Overwatch

    Just finished my placements. Felt like all ten were pretty decent games -- maybe one or two were over a little quick but sometimes that's just how it goes. I like comp more than QP since I care about playing well more. What expectations did you have for S1 ranked that were not met?
  40. Eidal

    Overwatch

    Depends. Right now with a fresh ladder and the system literally learning millions of players ranks, some people who placed at, for example, 60 initially may derank as other people rise up to take their spot. We saw this with CSGO half a year ago, when Valve unfucked their ranks. Somehow the...