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You get it after graduating university or after your junior year, IIRC. I know for a fact that you get it from university.

(I feel so Canadian calling it "university" with no articles you don't even know)

I actually approve of calling it "university" and have as often as I could. "College" is too vague in the US. It could mean a trade school, a little tech school, a community college or an actual university. Saying that you went to "college" tells you basically nothing in the US and you only get looked down on by people outside of the US who maintain that distinction.

I go with the last, namely that the meta right now is the ranged AD, which hasn't changed a bit since Preseason 1.

Actually, I'm not sure about that. I've been hearing a lot lately that AP carry is the big deal. They got most of the attention from the fans in Worlds, they got most of the interviews, they got talked about the most and it seemed that their picks were more important. One of my friends that follows the game really closely also said that the game is shifting in focus to be around the AP carry rather than the ranged AD.

That could just be how Riot was handling things or that AP carries are Feature of the Month or something, but I don't think it is.

I already have Civ V. Is Mafia II any good? I've heard some rather mixed reviews.

It's like a more mechanically-complicated, more story-driven version of GTA with less things to do. Less arcade-y, I suppose. For me, it was pretty entertaining but I could definitely see how other people wouldn't enjoy it very much.

In case other people have this problem and/or the OP is not fake (as choppy suggested), I'll say this:

I often feel the same way. It's not about being spoiled by good games and finding other ones inferior. It's about losing interest after a while.

My whole problem with games is that they have to be interesting enough to keep my interest for the amount of time I'm playing. If I'm playing an RPG, that RPG has to keep my interest for its full duration on top of being more interesting than any other game I might feel like playing instead. That's not me having high standards, that's me having a problem with wanting to continue playing games. Usually what happens is that I'll dump something like 10-30 hours into a game depending on its genre and if it's actually worth playing. After that, I lose my enthusiasm, even if I think the game is amazing and that I'd recommend it to everyone. I keep the game installed because I know it's a great game and I really should finish that, but my heart's just not in it. Eventually, maybe after a month, I give it another shot to finish or I decide that I'll likely never play it again and uninstall it, hoping that one day in the future I'll look back and go "Yeah! I want to finish that!"

Right now I'm in a lull playing Xenoblade Chronicles, and it is the best-designed RPG I've ever played. It has so much for all sorts of different players. It has depth in places most people wouldn't even look or care. The mechanics are solid. The story is great. It's keeping me in suspense.
Despite that, I recently reinstalled Darksiders II and I'm playing that instead. My enthusiasm just isn't there despite it being such an amazing game. However, unlike Darksiders II, I probably won't take a year (or more) break from it because it's that good. I just don't know when I'll feel like playing it again, especially since my interest in Darksiders II will probably wane soon and I'm pre-empting that by starting up the redownload/reinstall of Assassin's Creed Revelations that I also didn't finish (also in preparation for playing ACIII which I recently got on sale). I'm also eying up SPAZ since I'm on the home stretch to finish that game, but I doubt I'll play it again any day soon.

It's a cycle, and when you're interested in as many different genres as I am and live where there are so few things to do like I do, the cycle is to switch out different games until you beat one, mark it off your list, and go with another game.

(or, as I usually think: "Why aren't I spending this time hoeing a vegetable garden and going on dates IRL?"  This is not an issue I typically have with grand strategy games, fortunately)

"Damn... why didn't I wake up and try annexing my neighbor today, instead of playing this game... ugh..."

Xaritscin, you're pretty much just wrong. Not trying to be a dick, but you're trying to say, definitively, that Kassadin is underpowered and should be rebalanced/reworked/etc. Basically everyone else, either from playing him, playing against him or watching games with him being played are saying that this is not the case. Please accept the possibility that you might be wrong about him being underpowered.

Kassadin's RQE combo will not result in a kill on someone at full health unless Kassadin is completely fed, higher level, or they build absolutely no defense and are naturally squishy. Kassadin is not a full-health burster. He whittles you down, bit by bit, then he pounces. That, or he shows up towards the end of a team fight to clean up. He has considerable burst, but it's all about the time leading up to the burst that matters, not the burst itself. Positioning is absolutely important considering he does not build to supplement his melee attacks (although those can be useful with his w, they are just dangerous), so he usually only goes in when he can guarantee that he'll also get back out.

If you have played other assassins, you should know that very few can burst someone down from full unless one of those situations are met. Assassins are terrifying because they stop you from doing pretty much anything, constantly chasing you down and doing absurd damage as long as they stick on you. Only assassin champions like LeBlanc (who was rebalanced so it's less of a case now) put you in danger of immediate death when you see her, and that's still only if you haven't built defense or are naturally squishy.

That said, if you're an assassin and you're jumping, alone, onto anyone that can survive your burst and stun you after you silence them... you're doing it wrong. You listed 2 tanky dps champions who are naturally resilient against assassins (so you're saying, "Kassadin can't burst down his counterpicks!") and Master Yi who is an AD assassin, meaning that all he requires to kill you is to get close, which is necessary for Kassadin. So again, you're right. Kassadin going against them is a bad idea. That's because he is not good against them, not because he doesn't have the power required to be an assassin.

You also won't see those types of champions mid unless you're horribly unlucky (or lucky, considering it should allow your other lanes/jungle some advantages).

Ok, so the Steamboxes they're unveiling now are literally just computers with the SteamOS preinstalled.

That's... that's what the Steamboxes are. They are pre-built PCs. With PC stuff in them. Also, SteamOS.
Why did you think they were anything but that?