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  1. Xalara

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    The PS4 supporting OpenGL is pretty much meaningless except for some indie devs. All it says is that the hardware at least supports Y features. Any game company with the resources to do so will call the hardware directly. That or just buy a license to an engine that does that for them. Now, what...
  2. Xalara

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Is it an official pic? Because if not, I am fairly sure that is not an Amazon warehouse. Namely because walking into one while keeping any sort of electronic/metallic objects on your person is pretty much impossible.
  3. Xalara

    League Of Legends

    AD Sion is an absolute monster too if he gets farmed up. Luckily with the way top lane is these days it is very hard for AD Sion to get farm.
  4. Xalara

    League Of Legends

    Glad to see the old WoW druid flow chart still around.
  5. Xalara

    League Of Legends

    Playing a champion for the first time in ranked is sometimes ok. Like for me, I started playing Jinx in ranked after one bot game. However she has a bunch of skill shots and I'm good with skill shot champions. Now, I will have to learn Kassadin outside of ranked since his playstyle is very...
  6. Xalara

    League Of Legends

    Yeah I laned against a few challenger tier players in my company's LoL tournament. It was fun to see how hard I got my ass handed to me.
  7. Xalara

    Battlefield 4 (Frostbite 3)

    Yeah it really is what BF3 was trying to be. Unfortunately it being BF4 means I have to unlock everything again -.-
  8. Xalara

    League Of Legends

    Played a few games as Ahri last night and so long as you can land your charms she is about as strong as ever. The change to her passive is interesting. I haven't done the math yet but her passive I think is weaker early game but stronger late game than before patch? Either way it doesn't matter...
  9. Xalara

    Battlefield 4 (Frostbite 3)

    Ok, so I finished the single player story. Bottom line is that the first half rocks, the second half is crap. I was also getting tired of the fact that every mission ended with you getting blown up. There was like zero pacing in that regard. The pinnacle of Battlefield single player...
  10. Xalara

    League Of Legends

    I haven't been paying much attention to the Heimer rework, but he's either still going to suck or is going to be ridiculously overpowered. He's just one of those champions that's very hard to balance in my opinion :\
  11. Xalara

    Battlefield 4 (Frostbite 3)

    Yeah, if you've got an nVidia graphics card, get the latest drivers. I was having issues with massive rainbow flickering until I installed them. Played through the first three missions of the single player. It's pretty awesome so far and the story is actually interesting for once.
  12. Xalara

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Yeah yeah they have a single pool of RAM but some portion of it will be designated the VRAM. Much like what often happens with low end motherboard graphics for the PC.
  13. Xalara

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I doThough these days I mostly work on high performance web servers, but I do dabble in PC graphics programming from time to time. There are at least a few game devs that know more than melurking around though. The biggest difference you will probably see between the PS4 and Xbone is...
  14. Xalara

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Sean is confusing RAM, VRAM, and ESRAM (cache). The VRAM, which is what determines the maximum size of the buffers for the GPU, is much larger than 32 MB. Like, 32 MB is what my TNT II had back in 99.
  15. Xalara

    League Of Legends

    I will surrender a hopeless situation but if a single lane loses, or hell even two lanes lose during the landing phase that is not a reason to straight up surrender. As I said, in silver, this game is League of Throws.
  16. Xalara

    League Of Legends

    Also best tip I can give is: if your team is starting to lose and feeling a bit down, remind them that this is the "League of Throws." I have won many a game by reminding people of that.
  17. Xalara

    League Of Legends

    That said playing a tier one jungler still doesn't mean you'll rise in rank as you still need your teammates to execute. The best thing I can say as a jungler is that it is your role to enable the rest of your team. The tier one junglers have a very easy time doing that. The biggest thing I have...
  18. Xalara

    League Of Legends

    Yep, and if you're Jarvan and can get away with it, try to build Spirit of the Elder Lizard + Hydra then tanky, it will let you blow up the squishies on the other team for most of the game.
  19. Xalara

    [NO Spoilers] Star Wars: Episode 7 - NO PUSSY SHIT

    This is a bad thing how? George Lucas has generally always had excellent ideas and concepts, it's just that his writing is shit and none of his underlings could tell him that while he was making the prequels because by that point he was so big he could do whatever he wanted.
  20. Xalara

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Looks like Sony is modelling PSN after Steam, no surprise there. As far as textures are concerned here's a simple explanation: Let's say you have a square texture of side length X and area A. Now you want to double the side length (resolution) of the texture to be 2X. The new texture's area is...
  21. Xalara

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Being required to be online all the time, even to play single player games, is far different from having to download a patch.
  22. Xalara

    MTG thread

    When determining whether or not to money draft on MTGO use this as a quick reference for card value:http://www.supernovabots.com/ Generally anything worth 5+ tickets I take no matter what. Between 2-5 I have to think about it and otherwise I draft like normal. That said I play to maximize my...
  23. Xalara

    League Of Legends

    I am also confused, why does jungle Nasus need to be farming unlike other junglers anyway? To get his Q up? Jungle Nasus' strength is not his Q, but it is a nice bonus
  24. Xalara

    League Of Legends

    My main is Nasus in the jungle. Not sure why people like him top so much given that Nasus has excellent objective control and strong ganks. Plus I feel like Jax, Renekton, Shen, etc. are stronger picks top lane anyway.
  25. Xalara

    Final Fantasy XV (PS4 / XB1 / PC)

    You didn't dodge the ligtning bolts did you?
  26. Xalara

    Final Fantasy XV (PS4 / XB1 / PC)

    A couple of things: In a lot of Final Fantasy games most of the characters end up more or less the same by the end so that point is moot. As for Vaan and Penelo, AFAIK Basch was supposed to be the main character but it didn't focus test well with their target demographic. As such Vaan and Penelo...
  27. Xalara

    League Of Legends

    Honestly, that's the biggest flaw with the promotion system. If you're being promoted you should be playing people at the tier you're going to be promoted to, not the ELO you're *actually* at.
  28. Xalara

    MTG thread

    Don't feel bad, at the Game Day yesterday where I went 5-1 I arguably could have gone 6-0 if I wasn't stupid and turn one Thoughtseized a Loxodon Smiter.
  29. Xalara

    MTG thread

    Managed to place third tonight at Theros game day using a variant of Willy Edel's black/green deck. Gaze of Granite is probably one of my favourite cards right now. All that said I am wondering if I don't want to try mono-black devotion. I hit a couple of 8 devotion Grey Merchant of Asphodel's...
  30. Xalara

    League Of Legends

    Ah, yeah I just got promoted to Silver I and am sitting at 0 LP. I figure I've got one or two more losses before I get demoted so I'm hoping I can eek out a win.
  31. Xalara

    League Of Legends

    Hah yeah I'm on a four game losing streak because people have been "giving up early" and trolling. My favourite was the game where our ADC refused to participate because he was behind early and we would have won three team fights to swing the game if he had been participating. It's effin stupid...
  32. Xalara

    League Of Legends

    10 games until you see a number, hundreds to see where you should be.
  33. Xalara

    MTG thread

    I should add that Mihara's deck more or less accomplishes what I was trying to do with Prophet of Kruphix much earlier than Prophet of Kruphix. That is have access to ridiculous amounts of mana to cast things like Garruk, Caller of Beasts on turn two. That said it is ostensibly a combo deck so...
  34. Xalara

    MTG thread

    I also want to put together Mihara's deck but I think it'll be a bit too expensive if I want to do it by this Saturday. In any case I already have most of the cards needed for a BG deck in the vein of what Willy Edel had at PT Theros. I just need to practice with it, and yes, I'm going with it...
  35. Xalara

    League Of Legends

    Because a lot of AP champions that you might want to put in bottom or top lane don't have the escapes necessary to avoid ganks because bottom and top are longer lanes. Furthermore you don't want your ADC wandering too much whereas when you are you mid generally want to wander as part of your...
  36. Xalara

    MTG thread

    I'm confused... I had Duels of the Planeswalkers 2014 on my Galaxy Nexus months ago...
  37. Xalara

    MTG thread

    I agree with you. It is why I have been play testing with it but haven't found a great way to abuse its reanimation ability yet. It is also why I moved to a whipless BUG deck to see what I could do with Prophet of Kruphix. I think for this weekend I'll be going with either BG or junk and expect...
  38. Xalara

    MTG thread

    Yeah Aetherling doesn't really belong in a BG whip deck due to the lack of blue. Obzedat is definitely good but also can't be your primary win condition, so I feel it is a two of at most. Varolz might belong in a BG whip deck but there is some tension between his scavenge ability and Whip of...
  39. Xalara

    MTG thread

    Yeah right now I am trying to gear my deck towards going at least 3-1 at FNM. Granted the FNMs I go to are relatively competitive since it is Card Kingdom. The only upcoming PTQs are sealed, and while I will be going to GP Vancouver for standard, that isn't for a few more months. I will say a...