Krazikarl

People don't really give special names to things like exoplanets unless they are REALLY important for some reason. Its great that he discovered this, but a random hot Jupiter is going to stay named WASP-142b (the article doesn't really know what its talking about here - it has been named as far as the IAU is concerned https://www.iau.org/public/themes/naming_exoplanets/ ). The boy would hav

[quote who="psychoak" reply="2379" id="3560749"] Edit: Obama is a Nobel Prize winner too, for peace of all things. Try not to put much weight on it, you might break it. [/quote] If you claim that Nobel Prizes aren't a big deal in the science, you don't have any clue of what you are talking about. The Nobel Peace Prize is granted by a committee appointed by the Norweigan Parliament. It is reasonable to claim that it is fairly political. Thing

[quote who="eviator" reply="2378" id="3560739"] You don't know me, but I'm not the kind of guy who just believes what I'm told or disbelieves what experts tell me. Logic and evidence are important to me. Here's what I see: the hottest year on record was 1998. Since then global temps have leveled off despite all predictions by those Academies of Science you mentioned, and there are dozens of theories that attempt to explain it. [/quote] Eh? 2014 (

[quote who="psychoak" reply="2376" id="3560706"] Oh look, another appeal to authority... [/quote] You don't even understand how that fallacy works. The appeal to authority fallacy happens when you claim something is correct because a source of authority agrees with it. That is not the form of argument that I am using. I am arguing that I am correct because the data agree with me. The fact that the authorities agree with me is not the reason th

[quote who="eviator" reply="2374" id="3560670"] Quoting Krazikarl, reply 2372 As I stated earlier, the "pause" in climate change that was the original topic of this post never really happened: <a href="http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2015/noaa-analysis-journal-science-no-slowdown-in-global-warming-in-recent-

As I stated earlier, the "pause" in climate change that was the original topic of this post never really happened: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2015/noaa-analysis-journal-science-no-slowdown-in-global-warming-in-recent-years.html http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33006179 <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/earl

You guys do realize that if Teambuilder gets its own queue, its going to be trolltastic, right? Since Solo queue is the standard try hard queue, teambuilder be the ranked queue that people goof off in. "Hey, let me see how high I can get as Mid AP MF" "Everybody watch my stream where I try and hit Plat as AD Malz" And because that queue is sandboxed, they can do it without having to risk their solo queue standing, or having to level up an ult.

I've been telling you all that Nasus vs Riven is a good matchup. But nobody listens. As long as you don't super feed early, its so easy.

WTF, FNC keeps solo killing Faker. Clearly that guy sucks.

[quote who="awuffleablehedgie" reply="1714" id="3546619"] PSA failing is why you use LSA or SVD right? If Riot was really determined they could easily train a neural net. One thing I did read was that less played rolls tend to get more points than more played roles since people good at support are more standard deviations out? But "anyone" can get two pentakills on Akali and thus deserves an A- (voyboy last night) [/quote] I'm not sure how useful LSA wou

Well, I can't connect to chat tonight. Thats fun. I believe that you can try and manually invite me to games, so go ahead and try that if you want.

[quote who="awuffleablehedgie" reply="1709" id="3546444"] Pretty sure they have plenty of computer scientists who understand basic linear algebra and matrices just fine More likely the issue is that the people who designed the system were psychologists and marketers. [/quote] I think that even a lot of psychologists nowadays would look at a problem like this and say "hey, we could do something similar to a PCA". The kind of psychologists who work at Riot sh

[quote who="awuffleablehedgie" reply="1619" id="3538177"] ADC players do that all the time. Eg, picking Kog into Graves or playing Twitch without Thresh. [/quote] Sure. But thats because the benefit of having a hypercarry late game can be very high, so it might be worth the risk of taking a weak early ADC in some cases. The benefit of having a support with slightly more gold is generally seen as much lower. [quote who="awuffleablehedgie" reply="1619" id="

Oh please, claiming that there will be no difference due to laning due to the loss of ~17 AP and ~70 hp is absurd. Those amounts of stats around level 1-5 is HUGE. Pretending that it won't matter in 2v2 situations is silly - we've all played with the wrong runes/masteries and felt the effect. It is especially large when the opponent can obviously notice it ("HEY, THAT GUY HAS ALL GOLD GENERATION") and play qualitatively differently to take advantage.

[quote who="awuffleablehedgie" reply="1610" id="3538153"] The only time it, really truly, has an impact is when you die only barely ( [/quote] Well, the main concern is setting the early flow of the lane. As Thunder says, you aren't going to win reasonable 2v2s. Often times, the other team will realize this (since they might look at your runes/masteries or just notice that you have crap stats). &nbsp

Gold strategies like this don't really make sense to me unless the gold generation is really quite OP (which I don't think that they are). The fundamental issue is that early game gold/stats are fundamentally more powerful that late game gold/stats. For example, lets say that you could choose 500 bonus gold at 0 minutes, or 1000 bonus gold at 30 minutes. Everybody would take the 500 gold because its better to have it early and use it to snowball (i.e. gaining more

It comes down to this: Let's say things "work" and you get their tower but they really don't do much to yours because they zone out. So you flip back. Yay! Now your top is probably a few levels behind and substantial gold behind (even with 150 gold from the tower) since your top was zoned out of xp/gold. If you are behind levels and items in a solo lane, guess what happens? You get zoned out again! This is what you see happen to pro games

Um, lane swaps aren't typically played as you describe. That is, you don't attempt to hyper aggressively push down a tower. Riot has put mechanics in place to make this difficult, and if the other team plays intelligently, I don't think that it works out in most cases. This is why pro teams rarely use this strategy in lane swaps. They almost always go for a zone out strategy. There is a lot of risk of putting our top massively behind their top if yo

So far today in the LCS we have had 2 Udyr wins, a Udyr ban, a Shaco ban, 3 Vlad picks, and a double smite game with Shy taking smite top. So thats something.

Well, Cinderhulk really is just better than the other jungle items right now. I mean, you build it over the other items on anybody who can plausibly use it. So, the smart thing to do would be reasonable Cinderhulk nerf and then small buffs to non Sejuani tier tank junglers. But the problem is that tank junglers are really hard to balance because they are typically fairly strong in low ELO but weak in higher ELO. I mean, Amumu would probably need a compensation buff

[quote who="Raevn" reply="20" id="3531785"] All licenses involve some kind of contract with the game publisher, true. But Steam adds another layer of ownership into the mix, whereby instead of the contract being between you and the game publisher, there are now two contracts - between Valve and the game publisher (eg, the one you just bought for valve), and betw

Well, he was played by the worst jungler in the LCS, and is now 0-2. So he has that going for him.

And now a Zac...FAIL INCOMING.

Picks have kind of gone nuts all over the world, especially with this patch. Urgot mid, Cho mid has appently been kind of a thing in China, Sion mid, Naut support.

[quote who="Thundercles" reply="1467" id="3531012"] Seems like lots of people end up trying out champions that received buffs whenever there is a patch. I'm not sure that their win rates are the best way to judge the new strength of those champions. [/quote] It's not. But winrates aren't meaningless either. Its very difficult to claim that a low winrate/low playrate champion is really strong. Most tank junglers (with a few excepti