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Quote from: Cthulhu on July 29, 2014, 02:07:00 am

I went Vlad against one and harassed him the whole laning phase, killed him twice, meanwhile the rest of my team is losing and it's like, I'm the only one on my team doing well but if I try to make something happen to help my team Nasus will instantly be back in the game.

So what you're saying is it's not fair that his team won even though only one member of his team doing poorly? :p

No, no, the point being made is the nature of his opponent -- not his opponent's skill, but just the champion itself -- meant that 'thulhu couldn't go about and, y'know, help his team. Because if squiddie did that, the dogman would barrel out of control and murder everything. Which is a fair enough complaint, I suppose.

Part of that declaration handles the Rights of Children. One of these rights states that every child should have the opportunity to be raised by both it's biological parents. By using sperm donation, or surrogate mothers, combined with a right to anonimosity of those, you deny the child this basic human right.

Eh. If one (or more) of the biological parents waive their connection (or whatever it should be called) with the kid, then m'of the opinion that should be that. So long as the child's got support and the parent is uninterested, then... okay. Kid's got a right to support of some sort, but not necessarily by their biological parent if there's other options available. So long as said support is available, I wouldn't say the child's right to support supersedes the biological parent's right to be left the hell alone, y'know?

Personal experience has strongly demonstrated that biological means precisely jack and shit when it comes to parenting. What's important is all that... love and support and that sort of rot. There's nothing about biological decent that privileges biological over non-biological parents, at least from what I've seen. What matters is care and willingness, not blood.

Which is the problem with the "born that way" movement : it doesn't adress the root of the problem, namely, why would you want your children heterosexual and not homosexual?

I thought the problem was why the zog is the parent trying to influence the child's sexuality at all instead of just letting them do what they do and supporting them in that? Parent doing their job otherwise and the kid's choice of partner is going to matter basically none, so...

Nah, the problem is the game doesn't run worth a damn on this rig without everything tuned as low as it can go, including blur mode. LoL's the same way, it just happens that its "low as you can go" doesn't involve gratuitous graphical fuzz. LoL seems to run a little better in general for me,* really, though I desperately wish it had DotA 2's load-once-and-subsequent-games-load-faster whatever the zog it is.

That said, even when m'watching youtube replays or whatever DotA's definitely less... distinct, I guess. Muddier, less vibrant, harder to tell what's going on -- mostly an issue of coloring (less contrast, darker/more same-y colors), I think. Don't remember the WC3 map being quite as bad, but it's been a few years since I last played that, so it could just be memory. Definitely have to give props to LoL's aesthetic design  (well, re: coloration and whatnot.), personally. Suits my eyes a bit better, generally somehow less chaotic despite arguably having more effects and whatnot flying around, that sort of stuff.

*E: In game, anyway. LoL's client is kinda' a piece of shit.

People still rickroll?

It's never really stopped. Definitely not as common these days, but rickrollin's still in use. I can only image, decades from now, people will still be using it. Whoever that guy is is now forever immortalized in the memetic hive mind.

Even if no one will remember his name.

Wait, if Grindelwald is wizard Hitler, then what is Voldemort?

Just your garden variety domestic terrorist, really. Grindels is wizard hitler because he actually teamed up with hitler, from what I recall. For all the books are dramatic or whatever, Grindels was a driving force behind one of the ruddy world wars. Voldie's penny ante minor civil war junk. A much smaller dark lord.

Counterpoint A, though: Eliminster. Or however you spell the rotter's name.

In El's favor, though, dude was kinda' like the james bond of ancient wizards. Dude got play. Gandalf didn't get much, s'far as I'm aware, and Dumbles got wizard hitler booty, but not much else. Favor: Forgotten Realms.

Think merlin was pretty spry, too. Point being made, I'unno if it's a true standard or not. I'd kinda' except ancient wizards to be frikkin' ripped, myself. Hundred years and infinite arcane power and they don't have a flab to ab spell? Yeah, right. Might don the ancient wise man look for the masses but when they get home it's off to bench press anvils and frolic with nymphs.

More explicitly, yanderes have the "doomed love" ability which inverts the bonus, if negative, on cursed weapons. Worse, if the bonus is actually positive, it doubles and one attack per round automatically hits, bypassing all defenses and attempts to dodge or deflect.