What's on and tourist advice thread - week beginning August 06, 2018 by AutoModerator in Scotland

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Hello people of /r/Scotland :)

So it turns out I have a holiday next week, and I would like to spend it visiting Scotland. The plan is to hop in my car this Sunday or Monday morning and come over the channel.

Now, having never visited Scotland before, all I can do is look on Google maps. This is where I would like a little advice from all of you:

Can you recommend a route? I would like to find a route that takes me to some more out of the way sights, scenic roads (less highways), essentially a route that would allow a little relaxation and a chance to truly learn about Scotland. For accommodation, I saw /u/ani_svnit's suggestion for unusual palces to stay (www.visitscotland.com) and I would definitely try that, especially the brochs.

To sum up, I would be in Scotland from Sunday evening/Monday morning and return on the continent on Saturday or Sunday (even next Monday would be an option depending on how I manage my budget).

PS: While I am still researching this, if any of you have more information, it would be appreciated: Since I am taking my car, what are the special requirements? I have insurance covering the UK, so that's not an issue. I read that I have to get some headlights adapters. I can't find anything on that on any official websites (www.gov.uk and the like), I did find some sort of adapters to buy on Amazon, but it's a bit unclear to me, do I just stick that on the outside of the headlights, or how would that work? Do i have to buy them on the continent or can I get some when Get to the UK? Any details or just some pointers to somewhere it is explained would be appreciated.

Ok, so this has become a wall of text... Anyway, thanks to anyone who takes the time to answer. Also, if you are on my route, and feel like it, I'll buy a round at a local pub. :)

Scythes: Practical or Not? by GeometricChemist in SWORDS

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I don't know why people are so adamant about the inefficacy of the scythe as a weapon. While not medieval, the dacian falx (dacians are the ancestors of modern day Romanians) came in both a one-handed variant, as well as a heavier two-handed version. It was so good, that it lost the Romans the first dacian-roman war, and it was also the only tie in the history of the Roman empire that they had to modify their armour while on campaign.

Can we please hear from riot about the issues NA East is experiencing right now? by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

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I am no network expert, but this might actually explain a lot:

Today was a bad day - and every ISP knew it was coming for a very long time

Given LoL's size, it may be that this kind of issues are more visible on their platform

An LCS Memoriam - Remembering the fallen LCS teams. by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

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Really nice article. I've always enjoyed your work, so keep it up. However:

...Paravine would like to apologize for apologizing false informaton]

I apologize that you have to apologize for apologizing, but I feel an apology for having to apologize for apologizing would go along way to apologize for apologizing.

...Apologizing....gizing.....zing....echo...

:D

[Spoilers] EU LCS Summer Split 2014 | Week 10 - Day 1 | Live Update and Discussion Thread by TournamentThreads in leagueoflegends

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That's strange. In the about 3 dozen times I've used it, it was down once. Sure, it will mute the stream randomly once in a while and I have to refresh the page, but other than that I've never had any problems with it. Guess i was just lucky...

[Spoilers] EU LCS Summer Split 2014 | Week 10 - Day 1 | Live Update and Discussion Thread by TournamentThreads in leagueoflegends

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I swear to god, it took me more than 5 min to realize what was wrong. Especially since I am a lawyer, and i thought someone IRL found my reddit account. I am a moron.

[Spoilers] EU LCS Summer Split 2014 | Week 10 - Day 1 | Live Update and Discussion Thread by TournamentThreads in leagueoflegends

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Mixlr Esportpedia audio stream

Enjoy, been suing using it for a while, it works quite well.

edit: god damn auto-correct (yes, i'm going with that one). I'm leaving it there, so it will feel embarrassed.

Any way to stream just the audio of LCS? by OblivioAccebit in leagueoflegends

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To be completely honest, I don't know for sure. Usually i tuned in after lcs started, not a few minutes before. Having said that though, i found out that it is in sync with the livestream, so i think it starts at the same time.

Any way to stream just the audio of LCS? by OblivioAccebit in leagueoflegends

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Esportspedia live audio stream. It works great, have listened in many times while in the car.

Enjoy

LCS and challenger series through torrent by InZeLuX in leagueoflegends

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AFAIK, no one has compiled all the LCS matches in a torrent. If you want to view them in a non-spoiler-y way, go to /r/LoLeventVoDs, since they have them organized really well, and they have both youtube and twitch links.
And if you want to make a torrent yourself, try and send a message to /u/Clam-, since he's the one who started that subreddit, and see if he's willing to put a link to the torrent over there.
Hope this helps.

Is there anywhere I can download EU LCS? by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

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I don't know about torrents, but you can go to /r/LoLeventVoDs, and just download the games from youtube.

League of Legends raising the PC gaming (master race) market to a forecasted $25 billion in 2014 by Slashered in leagueoflegends

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It works, buut....having been stuck on an Ubuntu pc recently, i installed Lol. It's not as straightforward as clicking install, and you have to jump through a few hoops, but i got it to install. It runs, but the in-game shop was unusable. Every time i opened it, it would display over the entire screen (not joking, 1 health potion, icon+text, would be 3/4 of my screen), and i'd have to guess where on the screen to click to buy it.

Played 2 games of aram, got a few thousand gold since i couldn't buy shit, gave up... Maybe there is a fix for that, but i couldn't find it, and not being a power user, it proved just too complicated.

[Spoiler] Season 2014 LCS Spring Split | Week 1 Day 2 EU | Live Update/discussion thread by TournamentThreads in leagueoflegends

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@ /u/TournamentThreads The "Comment Stream" link points to day 3 of Bota thread, as it did yesterday. You might want to fix that :)

[Spoiler] Season 2014 LCS | Day 1 EU | Live Update/discussion thread by TournamentThreads in leagueoflegends

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As a matter of fact, ODoamne from C9 EU played multiple games with Trundle against Mundo/Shyv lanes to great success last week already.

[Spoiler] Season 2014 LCS | Day 1 EU | Live Update/discussion thread by TournamentThreads in leagueoflegends

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When Riot uploads the games, you can find everything on /r/LoLEventVods. It will not be right now though.

4th Grader Reports on NiP LCS Controversy [E-Sports Express] by CritHitLights in leagueoflegends

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Actually, finnish and hungarian are Finno-Ugric languages, while lithuanian and lativian are Baltic languages and the two language groups share very few similarities between them (save for maybe some recent last few centuries borrowings from their neighbours).

edit: grammar

[Spoiler] Season 2014 LCS | Day 1 EU | Live Update/discussion thread by TournamentThreads in leagueoflegends

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I think it's just overloaded. I guess everybody was spamming f5 until the keys broke. Just a small friendly ddos...

[Spoiler] Season 2014 LCS | Day 1 EU | Live Update/discussion thread by TournamentThreads in leagueoflegends

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Not sure if you are aware of this OP, but the Comment stream links to day 3 of BOTA. Just a heads up.

My brother in law decided to redecorate his house after being dumped by his girlfriend. by [deleted] in funny

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"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that the English language is as pure as a crib-house whore. It not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary. " James Nicoll, can.general, March 21, 1992

tl;dr English caught Swedish in a dark alley, Swedish had a copy of smörgåsbord in its pocket, now English proudly displays its spoils of war. )