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@Auspice said in Good TV:

@Coin said in Good TV:

@ZombieGenesis said in Good TV:

I think the Mark Hamill as Joker is a fan-boy hope since Kevin Conroy was apparently cast as an older Bruce Wayne/Batman in the Crisis crossover.

THAT bit is confirmed by Conroy himself.

And is exciting af

Sure is. Thirty fucking years in the making is what it is.

@ZombieGenesis said in Good TV:

I think the Mark Hamill as Joker is a fan-boy hope since Kevin Conroy was apparently cast as an older Bruce Wayne/Batman in the Crisis crossover.

THAT bit is confirmed by Conroy himself.

@Wretched said in Good TV:

So i dont watch much of the Arrowverse stuff, but this is pretty cool. Mark Hamill to play live action Joker.

I can't find mention of this anywhere but that one article, and they don't cite sources. It's not on Mark Hamill's Twitter, either.

@Dreampipe said in The Esports thread:

My placement for my first ranked season was Silver IV, which I'm told is pretty alright for a first-timer. I've been meaning to get back into it for a long-ass time. I was a support main forever but I've been refocusing on Top lane because I've found my besties in Gangplank and Swain.

Promo matches are stressful AF. Especially when whether you move up or down can be beholden to your teammates doing poorly.

For reals. I'm Top/Support, too. Mostly I just rampage across the top half of the map with Volibear. >.>

@Selira said in The Esports thread:

@Coin Oh god, I'm definitely not Diamond. I usually land at about Silver 2 and have a ton I can work on. I didn't even finish my placements last split.

This is literally the highest I've ever climbed. Before this, my highest "steady" level was Bronze II, before Iron got implemented.

We'll see if I can manage to stick around Silver.

@Selira said in The Esports thread:

@Coin At the same time, your gains and losses are adjusted to reflect that fact. If you're hardstuck but a higher MMR, you should be able to climb out if you play enough games, and you can even skip divisions.

It's a dumb system still, but I always find that when I put the effort into climbing it happens pretty steadily.

That's probably true when you play at a Diamond level and are hardstuck Silver, where people still more or less have figured out the basic macro of the game and won't int. If you play at Gold level and you'rte hardstuck Bronze, it's fucking impossible, man. I stomped my lane and could literally two-shot any of my opposing team yesterday--and I still lost because my team inted so hard I just couldn't be everywhere at once. The loopholes in the system you're referencing do work for people who play at mid-to-high level so they don't get too stuck, but for people at my level they just don't really do anything. I don't play at Diamond or even Platinum; I'm never gonna skip a division.

And all this sounds like I'm complaining--I'm not, not really. I'm proud of myself knowing I got to Silver after a lot of work, and I did it in SoloQ without any of my (much more) skilled friends carrying me. And they have offered. I just prefer to be hardstuck at a low ELO than to be carried high and then drop like a stone when I'm left to fend for myself at a level I just can't manage.

@Rinel said in The Esports thread:

@Jeshin Yeah, I prefer Dota's flexible MMR for the same reason. One game shouldn't count so incredibly much more for your rank than another.

That said, I'm still terrified of doing ranked Dota. SO.

The worst part is that AFAIK, LoL still has a hidden MMR and when you get matched up you don't get matched up based on your league (Bronze, Silver, Gold, etc) but your ELO. Sure, you can't get matched up with someone too many levels above or below you in leagues, but that still means that if you're hardstuck in low Bronze but you play relatively well, in general, you're getting matched up with people who play better than the rank you're trying to get the fuck out of. It's really frustrating.

@Jeshin said in The Esports thread:

Having players Rainbow 6 siege ranked and League of Legends ranked I have to say that R6 has a more representative MMR. It is straight MMR you get X pts for winning or losing and move instantly no promos no prove it. The LoL promotions system always seems overly punishing to me given that in a solo queue statistically speaking you are going to have a disconnect, bot, or something once out of 5 games.

Yeah. I do hate the promo system. It's horrible.

But most of my friends who play MOBAs play League and while I do most of my playing alone, swinging back and forth between one game and another is difficult for me. I already tried it with Heroes of the Storm and just... my head.

@Rinel said in The Esports thread:

@Coin I've played League on-and-off since Season 1, and I can tell you that ever since the ranked overhaul that introduced promotionals, I've found Gold games markedly easier than Silver. Silver V is the absolute worst group of people in that game. Bronze players usually have humility by virtue of being Bronze (don't know how that's changed with the new sub-bronze league), but Silver V players tend to be just as bad, if not worse, with completely unwarranted arrogance. So if you've crawled out of that cesspool, you're probably a lot better than you think you are.

I know Dota has an even worse reputation for toxicity, but the attitude of the League playerbase is like 80% of why I switched. The fact that I've been playing long enough to have Judgement Kayle and still don't own every champion is the remaining 20%.

The new leagues means that the cesspool you're referring to is spread a little broader over Silver IV-III and Bronze I-III, unfortunately, but I've never been that sort of player.

I'll probably still run into them, though. Leagues have only 4 divisions, now.

I have been told, however, that it's a lot more unusual to be hard stuck in Silver than it is Bronze, just by virtue of people start taking the games with a little less rage, lol.

Guys, I finally made it to Silver IV on League of Legends on my own.

God damn, I am not good at these games so this is pretty neat for me.

Ugh, I don't really watch pros and stuff because I don't have the time or the patience, but I do play League. I mean, i'm not very good at it, but whatever.

Don't get me started on my dumpsterfire of a promo yesterday.

@Arkandel said in Good TV:

@Wizz said in Good TV:

Garth Ennis is the comic-books equivalent of a shock-jock radio DJ. He's deliberately offensive and gross on the level of a maladjusted teenager, TBH. He and Mark Millar are two authors whose popularity I will never understand, and Amazon made the right choice in trimming down the content of the series. It's still very explicit and dark, but in a way that is mostly not completely cringey and awful.

It's funny that you mention that because I've been a fan of both writers - Ennis more than Millar - so perhaps I can share my perspective.

Both of these guys rely on shock value at times and they can go too far; in fact some of their finest moments are from when they skirt the line. As such they've both created some amazing comics in the past whose serious moments are right there at the top with any other authors; Ennis' Hellblazer run is downright iconic, his Hitman was so fucking good and in my opinion he created penned the definitive Punisher run as well. Millar I'm more torn on; the first year of Ultimates was pretty well done and then he just seemed to get lazy or too carried away - the second year wasn't nearly as good, and then the whole thing went to hell.

But Ennis has a trait I've seen only rarely - in that way I'd compare him with Terry Pratchett. He can write these weird-ass absurd situations and focus on humor then he can flip a fucking switch and blindside you completely, pivoting into really serious characterization and dramatic, intimate moments for his characters.

@tek said in Good TV:

I describe Katee's character as "Starbuck, if she had her shit together"

I know what all these words mean but what you are describing does not compute.

Ennis is much more palatable, even at his worst, than Millar is. Millar only ever works when he's constrained and toned down, and even then so many of the things he writes need to be cut. I mean just from your example-- Ultimates --I can pick a few things, like actually abusive Hank Pym (way worse than a slap which was anecdotally a misinterpretation of the script by the artist that they just ran with) and rapist Hulk, that the book would have been better without.

Unlike Ennis, Millar is basically limited to having interesting ideas that really should be left to others to develop.

@fatefan said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

@Coin It got released early last night, so feel free to binge at will. So far, it's over-the-top as expected but not (yet?) as cringey-edgy as the comic.

i haven't read the comics, actually; and the one review I saw was really positive. I probably won't be able to watch until tomorrow.

@Ominous said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

@Coin Speaking of trailers for new series, I saw the one for "The Boys" today. I had never heard of the comic or the new series until today. After reading the premise - a CIA group of superheroes dedicated to monitoring and stopping out of control superheroes - I now want to play a MU* of that. Considering that I have never been interested in superhero MU*s, this is a big step for me.

EDIT - Thinking about it, this idea and the Wuxia idea are kind of similar. You have a semi-secret group dedicated to rooting out evil in the world with unnatural powers.

Oh man I am so excited about The Boys coming out tonight.

@Ominous said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

After playing Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, I want a game of wuxia-ish monster hunters who go around banishing ghosts and demons and killing monsters and shit and absorbing their powers to become even more badass at the risk of corruption and going mad. This idea is not thought out at all, but it sounded really fun in my head.

That does sound really fun, especially after watching the trailer for the new series Netflix is going to drop in August, Wu Assassins.

Rutger Hauer.

@Lotherio said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

@Ganymede said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

@Auspice said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

...found the backing but not the crumb. It's like goddamn Narnia in there.

Not the time to bring up Spar Oom but crickies a lonely goat man in the closet talking to kids about magical journeys someone dial CPS.

To be fair it's not like he went looking for them; they showed up in the middle of the woods on his daily walk near a lamppost!

Poor Tumnus, those little Pevensie bastards really screwed up his relatively peaceful, if a bit fearful, life.

All of this. At once.

My anxiety is through the roof lately which doesn't help.

And I always feel like the people I do connect with and play with and click with will forget about me or think I don't like them anymore when I stop playing because I can't manage it.

@Ganymede said in Good TV:

@JinShei said in Good TV:

Gentleman Jack.

Is that a show?

I mean, I know what Gentleman Jack is, and I use it when my partner is watching medical porn.

It is a show, yes.