I'm currently at the hospital (And will likely be here for 2 or so days) getting my gallbladder removed.
While I wait for surgery and while I'm lying in bed, tell me some interesting stuff about yourself, maybe something you know, League-stuff, share some stuff, anything you may want! Just need to kill time. :)
CaptainWednesday3 votesDid you know the skin, Rusty Blitzcrank, was such a terrible skin that it was permanently removed the client and will never be sold again?
ModCaptainMårvelous1 votesI don't think that's true. Probably just a legacy skin!
CaptainWednesday1 votes"Rusty Blitzcrank is the only non-limited edition event skins to be removed from the store, ostensibly because of low quality, as it was almost identical to his basic skin. "
ModCaptainMårvelous1 votesSurprise surprise, I didn't know that. Huh, that's pretty neat.
CaptainWednesday1 votesTrust me, that skin is terrible. That being said, there are petitions for the skin to make a relaunch. You never know, but I'm glad I could share an interesting bit with you! Good luck in your recovery. Us Captains have to stick together.
RiotSweet3 votesGood luck with your surgery, wishing you well and health post-op!
ModCaptainMårvelous3 votesYep! The surgery was ok, although the surgeon said my gallbladder was 9/10 on the bad scale and "full of sludge" (ych). I'm doing well, just in a helluva lotta discomfort due to being thin as well as my abdominal muscles being kinda sore and rough.
On the plus side I got to keep the socks and I got a week off of work.
Gentleman Gaston3 votesHey Cap!
I hope everything at the hospital goes well and leaves you with as little residual discomfort as possible.
I'm currently looking for a job (post-grad yaaaay) and...I'm not excited. I'm trying to build up my resume to eventually make it into the "Narrative Design/Writer" space in games, but there's very little that pays. Getting (consistently) paid for writing has limited enough options as it is, and in the game world it's virtually non-existent for someone with limited to no game-writing experience to actually break in. I was absolutely disheartened when I found a local start-up looking for designers, artists, programers, etc. and claimed that "We can all contribute to the storyline". My desired position is, apparently, a luxury.
There are still more places I haven't looked, and worst case I can always try and find a minimum wage job to make ends meet and try and write on the side, but it just makes me kinda sad. Anyway, that's what I'm feelin'. Sorry to vent!
ModCaptainMårvelous4 votesYep, I'm in the same position. So many people discredit writing as just "do it on your lunchbreak" work. It's a rough slope but I encourage you to keep at it. I'd love to do lore/design/etc. @ Riot but it's hard to get into. My biggest recommendation is multiply your skills. Learn to write lore, balance some kits, do some ASCII work, etc. It'll look better and you can till do what you love.
Just keep at it, mmkay?
Gentleman Gaston3 votesAye aye, Captain. /salute
Ahskance2 votesWithout a doubt, the best way to succeed in the industry is to work. For yourself, or other people, work is still work. The better it is, the more impressive it will be to any and all you share it with.
You don't have to be huge into coding to break in to the gaming industry, but you will need to be a part of a team that creates one or several games before you'll be "established". Try to find start-ups that you can volunteer for, or perhaps try writing for a game/world/universe that exists in your head and then present that to people that code!
If you can "write" an RPG, or story-esque experience that would translate well to a game, then go for it! You may even find that presenting a fully written "game" in an interview can impress. In the end, it's all about hiring people that are capable of making shipped/shippable product. If you can prove you're able to go the distance, you'll find doors cracking open.
Some other suggestions might be to try and write for D&D-style encounters, or possibly for LARPs. It's a large investment in time, but you gain a lot of experience in storyline play-out, as well as how to translate your mysterious/interesting characters into large connective payoffs with real players. You will likely learn basic gaming mechanics as well, which can aid you in writing both for the world AND for the encounters.
Gentleman Gaston1 votesI've been writing Dungeons and Dragons, and related, campaigns for years. Also I've been fooling around with a program called Twine to create a pretty cool text based "Choose your own Adventure" type game. Hopefully once I polish that and put that out, with additional work, it can lead somewhere.
Worgslarg2 votesAp tristana is so underplayed for how fun she is. ( read 1k+ ults on a 36 sec cooldown, free ignite for 600+ damage)
I'm predicting the new nidalee will become permaban, simply because of her trap/ cougar damage
ModCaptainMårvelous1 votesAha, I love AP trist. Shame she's such a niche pick (One BV destroys your rotation, same as Sion).
As for Nid? Eh. I'm just glad her traps don't have the armor/MR shred of a Last Whisper/Void staff combined.
CarbonWyre2 votesDid you know Ezreal use to have a heal? His W use to heal allies and buff their attacks speed along with damaging enemies and debuffing their attack speed! Also, when Poppy came out, she could move baron around. This meant you could drag it into lane, use it to kill your enemy, kill it with your spawn pool laser, and even use it to tank towers for you!
Ryze and Tryndamere are actually the nicknames of the 2 heads of Riot! Ashe is made to look like Tryndameres wife irl.
Rylais Crystal Scepter is named after a hero from Dota!
Before they changed Malphite it was possible to read 97% reduce physical incoming damage, which meant against a full AD team you were practically invincible..that is until your buff wore off.
ModCaptainMårvelous1 votesI did know about Ezreal's W being out of control, as well as Baron being able to be pushed around by poppy. I believe this also could be done by blitz.
I also knew about Ryze/Tryn (And even played a game with Tryn once) but I was unaware Ashe was based off Tryn's IRL wife!
Knew aboout Rylai's as well. I like playing Crystal Maiden. :)
Ouch, I didn't know that about Malphite. I do know the way to get the most armor in the game is to have a malphite with 6 thornmails ulted by trundle, then have another trundle ult THAT trundle (Both wearing 6 thornmails)
Fantom Fishstick2 votesI don't know any cool stuff about league or MOBA games in general but I do have some interesting things to tell you about me. I am a Digital Artist and I have taken contracts from a bunch of different people, recently though I've been writing music for guitar, classical music that expresses basically my soul. Most people don't find this interesting but I also play 4 different wild instruments. I play the Nikelharpa, Lyre, Moraharpa and Sitar! That is in addition to piano violin and guitar. and YES THEY ARE ALL STRINGED INSTRUMENTS! I hope you get better soon!! ^.^ Who knows, maybe I'll see you in game some time!
ModCaptainMårvelous1 votesThose are some pretty wild instruments. Can't say I've ever heard of them, actually. On the plus side, it's always good to have work and hopefully your digital work gets you some big work!
BLU Medic1 votesKog'Maw is like one of the best ARAM champions ever, combining long range damage and tank-destroying powers with the ability to go either AP or AD depending on what's needed.
On the flip side, Teemo is overrated in ARAM because you can by the Lightbringer (that the Pentakill song was named after) which shuts him down. How? It lets you see nearby shrooms.
I wish you a quick recovery!
ModCaptainMårvelous1 votesThanks. And while I agree on Kog being powerful (Maybe not the best but high up there), I disagree with Teemo. Why? Well, 90% of the time noone wants to sacrifice their raw DPS build to build a sweeper/Lightbringer.
BLU Medic1 votesIf you're with people who know what they're doing or are a tank, it's a great item. Alright, it's low on attack damage (+25), but it offers 15% life steal and +25 armor and +200 health, on top of a 20% chance to do 100 bonus damage on autoattacks. Throw it on your tank and make them happy, and those shrooms become far less of a threat.
Heck, I build it on Ashe on a regular, VS Teemo basis, but that's just me.
ModCaptainMårvelous1 votesNo denying it's a great item, but most of my issue with it comes from yelling "Can someone get a sweeper/lightbringer?" and people would rather build three rabbadons as opposed to even one lightbringer. Sure, you get the occasional guy who knows what to do but most of the time it's a struggle. :P
BLU Medic1 votesIf that's the case, why not buy it yourself?
ModCaptainMårvelous1 votesBecause sometimes I'm not using a champion that complements Lightbringer/Sweeper
Abusive Panda1 votesGreat day to have surgery the game is lagging out the ass cause riot uses all the RP we buy and donates it to save pandas like me.
ModCaptainMårvelous1 votesEh, sometimes that stuff happens. I had my surgery yesterday afternoon but only got home...about 5-4 hours ago. Spent a whole day in the Hospital waiitng on the surgeon to give me the OK to head home.
Flintfall1 votesAw, that sucks. I have discovered Aardvark
ModCaptainMårvelous1 votesI don't get it.
BadLemonNoHope1 votesHey Brah :D this is Loomoos reporting. and I noticed my chat doesn't work. where can I go to get this?
ModCaptainMårvelous2 votesGo to get what? Surgery? I'd guess the hospital.
bzhen09151 votes"Text me when you have found your phone"
"Ok"
"Did u find ur phone yet?"
"No"
Samflash31 votesI wanna build statikk on lee. Good or bad idea? Also how would you deal with annoying parents?
ModCaptainMårvelous1 votesNot a terrible idea I think. There are items I'd think you'd want more on Lee but hey, I'm no gaming authority.
Parents? The easiest way is to do what they ask. Most of the time parents really want what's best for you so just do what they ask. Sorry, I'm a bit of a straight arrow.
EMOFRATPARTY1 votesI once had to do wall sits for 15 minutes straight. Within that time frame, someone stood on my quads a few times. It's about as awful as you are imagining it to be.
ModCaptainMårvelous1 votesI don't understand workout jargon so forgive me if that entire post is jibberish to me. :(
EMOFRATPARTY1 votesI was just being dumb and trying to distract you from the matter at hand haha. Um...I've gone skydiving before? That was fun. Let's talk about skydiving.
EMOFRATPARTY1 votesModCaptainMårvelous1 votesI'll look at these later. Hurts to laugh. :(
EMOFRATPARTY1 votesSorry to hear that :/ Definitely don't watch them if it hurts to laugh.
bzhen09151 votesHopefully the surgery feels like a astral blessing from soraka. And hopefully u feel as energetic as drinking a mana potion, while getting infused by soraka.
AND EAT MANY BANANAS.
ModCaptainMårvelous2 votesis Soraka your favorite champion? :P
bzhen09151 votesUsed to be, I kinda found better champions now..
I just reference her as a mobile fountain that heals and gives mana.
ModCaptainMårvelous1 votesI like Roka. Shame she's always shifting between 'utterly useless' and "Goddess of the Rift"