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OSW Review (Every Episode!) - YouTube If anyone is a fan of wrestling I would recommend the Old School Wrestling Video Podcast. They chronologically critique the Hulkamania era of the WWF starting from Wrestlemania 1. They've done like maybe 25 full video reviews of old Pay Per Views.

Hey, you. Yeah you. WHAT DO YOU KNOW.

Rengar is one of my planned supports for S4. I've been practicing his mechanics and watching a decent Rengar player in preparation (Twitch). edit - absolutely cannot play a normal game without being matched against 3 or 4 diamond players in a small premade. Cannot be done.

I swear I would make it stop if I could.

Lots of good parts, lots of unnecessary parts, and a supernatural antagonist that (despite being built up for the entire book) makes a bunch of dumb mistakes and fails because for King evil is ultimately stupid, childish, and self-destructive. After quitting Under the Dome 2/3rds of the way...

Aaaaaaaaand I'm starting to shift to the Republican position on this. It's happening slowly but it's happening.

When this kind of information has been available in the past Riot has stepped on it. If they aren't stepping on it this time after promptly stepping the last time than why? Normal games can also be featured as can Howling Abyss. None of these sites can provide MMR for those other game modes. If...

My guess is that when Riot switched to S3 they didn't just make everyone's Elo hidden. They made a new system/heavily modified the old system and the new system isn't divided up the same way and the numbers are all different. So when you saw your MMR in between getting railed by Morello you were...

Which assumptions are being made that are wrong. How are they wrong. How do you know they are wrong.

So I'm the only person that thinks Clockwork Orange is fun. What. Ever. I kept The Dream Warriors because I really like the Nightmare on Elm Street series. When I got rid of my own personal horde of DVDs it made it into the binder. I even just rewatched it a few days ago. It's with all my...

They mine up the number that is used to determine whether or not a game is featured and the reasoning is that the number is the team's MMR. By taking that number over a series of games they can math out your personal MMR. Man I'm bored with this. When such information has been obtainable...

Fawe never made that claim. For him they are accurate enough. I think that they are almost entirely bullshit and until I can see how the sausage is made I'm not going to think any differently.

My pastor said that while the mystery of the tides is the will of God there is some meta data that is sent with each passing of the moon. I haven't looked into it but apparently some Koreans have data mined it, and when combined with their secret calculations, herbs, and spices, approximates the...

You are the best. Around. At least with all those ranked games you play you don't have time to be taken in by a Bernie Madoff type. Honey, I don't need to know the maths! I've gotten good returns!

Data? You've seen this data? You've gone through the algorithms being used and collected the information? Do you have any information that is more than something you were told? When a magician performs a trick do I need to know exactly how the trick was performed to stand back and go, "hey, I...

At the start of S3 even the highest ranked player of the prior season was dropped to Plat 1, zero LP. It's possible something similar will occur.

So you believe that the number that is assumed to determine the likelihood of a team showing up in a spectate game is the average of each player's MMR. What is it like living without skepticism? Does it hurt?

And now that you've read all that and now actually have an idea of what is going on I welcome you to my side of the argument.

I'm asking you how you think websites get this data. Surely you can take me through it on a step by step basis.

The numbers that Riot is giving out. How are they obtained. How is Riot giving out these numbers.

What numbers are being provided by Riot and how are they being provided.

In my life I have taken up the Monkey's Paw too many times and wished for a another film, another sequel or prequel or parallel story. I have wished formore. I have been given the Neverending Story 2, and Aliens 3, and Dead Like Me : Life After Death. And god help me I was given The Phantom...

In season one and in season two, when Elo was used, lines were drawn at different points to create tiers. Gold was 1500. Platinum was 1700. These sites that calculate MMR are making the assumption that those divisions within the system are the same in S3 and use them for reference points. I do...

I don't believe that Plat in S3 is the same as Plat in S2.

I don't believe their numbers because I do not believe that the tiers this season as the same as they are last season.

That's pretty much it. Volibear is legit fun, Renekton is a gold star top laner, but Olaf has yet to prove himself.

Black Cleavers, for a time, did not say Unique on any of their parts so people were playing AD bruiser/AD castery types and buying as many as they could until the game ended. The amount they shredded was larger, required fewer stacks, and I think they were cheaper too? I don't remember all of it.

The Black Cleaver Ordeal? Do you mean the Locket Ordeal? Wait, I know. You mean the Warmogs Ordeal. Are you sure you aren't talking about the BotRK Ordeal? S3 was sorta derpy at the start.

It's not the actors. It's the mentality. Maybe I'm just gun shy after The Beef was cast as Indy's son in Crystal Skull.

Good, that's all good news. I had only heard part of what was going on and it didn't really make any sense.

The lack of a reset makes the likelihood that I play ranked in S4 fairly low. I always liked the partial wipe and then hopping into ranked later in the season to see what's what. If I'm going to enter into S4 with 40 LPs worth of Plat 5 then I'll take my S4 rewards now, thanks.

Riot said they weren't doing a soft reset this season but they've got a bunch of other S4 changes planned for the system so I don't really know what it's all going to end up looking like.

You sir, you have made an enemy for life.

The view of what Hearthstone could be is warped by what it is now. If it was MtG that was the brand new game and we were playing it online with Alpha only with this many people and a similar ease of access to cards we'd have already broke that game over our knees. The real problem I see with...

Hearthstone just needs time to develop into its own game and for its card pool to grow.

I was referring to the nebulous anypeople of Hollywood. The dudes who call the shots and green light garbage. The people who want to add popular young people actors of the day like Emma Stone and Jonah Hill to the cast.

I'll always hate Millie the most. Always.

Jerle used to work for Riot under the handle of Damiya. He's a gigantic drama llama who sits out in the SA IRC channel for League of Legends and livejournals. If he was posting here you would know itinstantly.

What it loses in static resource gain and smaller card pool it makes up for with many, many cards with random elements. Hearthstone is probably always going to seem more random because of its cards even if it isn't.