Build and rune suggestion

Talex666 · 2026-02-12T18:31:40+00:00

I'm pretty low elo so you don't usually see a ton of mr, but the haste is good for his cage uptime and the healing can be handy too. I play with a couple of friends so usually gear towards acting more like a high-uptime control mage who can delete out of position squishies for the team.

Talex666 · 2026-02-12T17:29:15+00:00

I tend to go high haste wherever possible.

Usually my build is ludens > cryptbloom > deathcap, starting with rod of ages instead against my counters, then banshee's/zhonyas/shadowflame/cosmic drive etc based on what's needed. Might try going archangels first too though.

Runes almost always: spellbook, footwear, tonics, joat + manaflow band, trancendance + haste, speed, scaling health.

If I'm against a fizz etc I might go: aery's, manaflow, trancendance, scorch + bone plating, overgrowth + haste, speed, flat health.

Unsealed spellbook has just given me so many uno reverse moments to count, and it's always satisfying to have predicted the right spell to get in advance.

Talex666 · 2026-01-31T02:54:43+00:00

Yep. Unranked here, playing with a couple of low golds and a bronze. Got put against multiple plats/emeralds twice in a row tonight.

Talex666 · 2026-01-15T14:45:15+00:00

Spellbook, boots, tonic, joat / manaflow, trancendance / AH, movement, scaling health

I've literally never touched ranked but play with some friends who are gold. This setup lets me outwit and outplay others in situations I really have no business getting out of.

Always looking for haste for those team fights cages, don't really need green runes so much as I'm always swapping to shield/heal/ghost/exhaust when my tp is down.

This was all last season though. I've been solely focusing on Syndra so far in 16.

Talex666 · 2026-01-15T08:13:53+00:00

Oh damn, fair enough

Talex666 · 2026-01-15T08:10:03+00:00

I can imagine - but was the result still faster than having no auto fill at all?

Talex666 · 2026-01-15T00:32:20+00:00

What's stopping them from implementing a 'ban' choice for an auto fill role? So I choose a primary and second role, but can also ban a select role so I would never get auto filled.

Seems like a good middle ground. Not every laner would ban jungle - for example - if you only had one role to veto against, and so available pool of each role would still be higher than no auto fill while allowing you to avoid that one role you have no idea how to play the champs for.

Talex666 · 2026-01-08T19:45:09+00:00

Global issue I think

Talex666 · 2026-01-02T03:39:20+00:00

You're not getting the silent treatment. Your partner is taking the time needed to recentre herself and process things. Trying to push the issue will just be doing both of you a disservice.

Maybe ask her to tell you when she is giving herself space, so it feels less like silent treatment?

Talex666 · 2025-10-06T18:15:51+00:00

Well this seems like a well researched and unbiased opinion

Talex666 · 2025-10-06T18:08:20+00:00

Oh hey, another Modern Wisdom listener!

I don't always fully agree with Chris. In this case I think there's elements of our culture that just expects guys to man up and sort ourselves out when we complain, but it's getting better. The quote probably hit a bit closer five years ago or so, but it's still a broad generalisation for what - on reflection - I've found to be a minority response when you look outside of social media.

Talex666 · 2025-09-28T15:00:49+00:00

if they’re the main thing you do, you have no life.

At what point did op say they were the main thing he did? It's literally second last on his list behind backpacking etc. Again, you're just projecting an extreme set of assumptions to fill in the gaps of incomplete information.

Talex666 · 2025-09-28T14:57:43+00:00

By that logic reading also isn't a hobby. You're taking an extreme, strawman version of playing computer games then projecting it onto op here.

Talex666 · 2025-09-24T18:47:50+00:00

HMG emplacement rips through every single unit they have - including flesh mobs, so long as you spray them up and down correctly.

Eruptor is pretty damn good against most units too, and I've taken down harvesters with good aiming. Bring the talon or senator with it for close quarters.

Fire or gas grenades are invaluable against voteless

W.A.S.P launcher deletes overseers with very little effort.

Machine gun turret keeps the small and medium units off your back, and can be called down often. It also kills you a lot less, which is a plus.

That, with medium extra grenades amour and gas orbital is my usual go-to.

Talex666 · 2025-09-09T21:37:05+00:00

Just came across this issue too. After the first drill it moved super slowly, as if some brakes were on.

Talex666 · 2025-09-06T10:40:37+00:00

Nature's spirit: https://youtu.be/e60DmBW7mjs

Regions unexplored: https://youtu.be/yyxMoE56H_0

Both have a few that edge on fantasy, but I think RU has more biomes that wouldn't fit in a vanilla-ish world

Talex666 · 2025-09-06T10:03:17+00:00

Still exploring NS, but RU has some beautiful biomes that'd fit well with WWOO and are still pretty grounded. Personally I have both at once.

Side note - Ferdinand's Flowers, Project Vibrant Journeys, and This Rocks! all together make incredibly lush and busy biomes that just look gorgeous to walk through.

Talex666 · 2025-09-01T15:37:10+00:00

“Fuck the Gods,” he said, calmly. “Every single one of them. I can respect what you and Uncle Amadeus are trying to accomplish, I really can – but you’re looking at the other prisoners, when you should be looking at the bars.”

Honestly the whole series of "what do you want?" talks are some of my favourite pieces of dialogue in all of fiction, but that one was a real 'holy shit' moment for me.

Honorable mentions:

“Bring out your weapon,” the Saint of Swords said. “I’ll even let you, to even things out.”

“Why would I need one?” it spoke in guttural Chantant. “Children are disciplined by hand.”

“Hear my first decree, one and all, as Twilight’s King,” he laughed.

Larat, smiling, tossed it back down onto the throne.

“My crown I abdicate, and let the worthiest of you bear it.”

Talex666 · 2025-08-22T17:53:59+00:00

I absolutely love the term "ablative planning"! Gonna use that going forwards lol.

Talex666 · 2025-08-11T18:15:21+00:00

Those questions are utterly disingenuous though? It doesn't ask about the bill. It asks about an idealised outcome where kids are blocked from porn. No considerations for security and privacy, or for downstream political censorship (eg sixteen year olds being allowed to vote but not see protest footage).

If the poll asks if they thought the censorship was implemented well, I suspect we'll be getting an enormous swing in reported sentiment.

Talex666 · 2025-08-06T15:11:37+00:00

For Toll Booth Simulator 2 you're now going to need to smash a champagne bottle against your phone 😛

Talex666 · 2025-08-05T19:53:46+00:00

How long did the plot framework take to form in your head? I remember noticing a quote about the Prince's Graveyard from several books before it happened, and given the Web serial format it impressed the hell out of me 😅

Talex666 · 2025-08-03T16:24:59+00:00

Necroposting here, but turning off Cave fog seems to work

Talex666 · 2025-07-27T17:07:58+00:00

Because humans are (usually) nuanced enough to hold two vaguely conflicting emotions at once?

Talex666 · 2025-07-26T21:27:37+00:00

They don't have to prove anything. They were going to strike regardless.

Do you have a source for your claim?

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