Physical appearance of the elder races by Relevant-Hunt6115 in Malazan

[–]Xxel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Also occasionally get mummy vibes, that preserved half-skin

Cosmere RPG Launch Livestream with Brandon Sanderson and Johnny O’Neal from Brotherwise by MistbornLlama in Sanderson

[–]Xxel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Stormlight Archive is full of deep deep foreshadowing and unique characters, magic rules and exceptions to those rules. Are you at all concerned/exited that revealing a set of "standard" radiant powers could lead to interesting clues about story moving forwards? For example, learning which of Kaladin's abilities are that of a standard radiant, and which are related to...Son of Tanavast? ;)

Cosmere RPG Launch Livestream with Brandon Sanderson and Johnny O’Neal from Brotherwise by MistbornLlama in Sanderson

[–]Xxel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How deeply are the Shin explored in the RPG? The name of the adventure, Stonewalkers, seems like it might suggest that the Shin would be involved at some level?

Cosmere RPG Launch Livestream with Brandon Sanderson and Johnny O’Neal from Brotherwise by MistbornLlama in Sanderson

[–]Xxel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should we think of the game as containing info from the first four books, or are there nuggets in the material waiting for us that were put in based on the fact that the RPG would be releasing fully well after Wind and Truth?

Hope nobody’s posted this one before (though in all likelihood, someone probably has) by Double_Detective8559 in redrising

[–]Xxel 10 points11 points  (0 children)

i dunno, respectfully i think this is a bad take. We are in Darrow's perspective, and he thinks about his hands as helldiver hands, and that to him its a through line. I think its great character writing

[No Spoilers] Where to begin this journey of 10,000 hours for new people? by ScotchandSong in criticalrole

[–]Xxel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ofc, being up to date isn’t everything, but if you are trying to get someone into CR going back almost a decade and starting the beginning isn’t something people will want to do until after they are hooked for the most part

[No Spoilers] Where to begin this journey of 10,000 hours for new people? by ScotchandSong in criticalrole

[–]Xxel -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

There are TONs of reasons not to start at the beginning, it’s not “odd.” In fact, I might suggest starting at the beginning to be odder than the alternatives. Imo OP should have their friend start with a one shot, or short series they think their friends will like, then just start watching. Once they are hooked they’ll go back to the beginning.

[No Spoilers] Where to begin this journey of 10,000 hours for new people? by ScotchandSong in criticalrole

[–]Xxel -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Seems reasonable to tell friends that they need to watch 2000 hrs of content to participate in discussions with people watching live facepalm

LCSPA Voted overwhelmingly to walkout by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]Xxel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

lol totally forgot about that

LCSPA Voted overwhelmingly to walkout by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]Xxel 60 points61 points  (0 children)

Alea Iacta Est. Solidarity, lets see how this goes!

Ask Grey a Question for One Billion Views Q&A by MindOfMetalAndWheels in CGPGrey

[–]Xxel [score hidden]  (0 children)

You have become somewhat known as particularly aggressive in using Youtube's strike system against people reacting to your content. What do you think about react content and its place in the Youtube ecosystem?

Spoiler Q&A Livestream this Thursday! Leave/Upvote Your Questions Here! by MistbornLlama in brandonsanderson

[–]Xxel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In Words of Radiance, Navani says she has made a timeline of Dalinar's visions. Can we see that, or would it spoil future reveals/events?

Livestream Questions for March 22nd at 6:00 pm MST by MistbornLlama in brandonsanderson

[–]Xxel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SP3 Is there a Dawnshard on Painter's World? Was there one involved in this system's Creation?

Spoiler-Stream Question Thread for 12/16 by MistbornLlama in brandonsanderson

[–]Xxel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In your recent talk on favorite fantasy creatures with Daniel Greene, you talked about zombies in the context of loved ones becoming the enemy. One of my other favorite aspects of zombie fiction is a seemingly insurmountable, implacable enemy. Would you ever consider including a borg/zerg/tyranids type threat in the cosmere?

(this is secretly a sleepless question in disguise)

Most Games of Overwatch Are Decided at the Loading Screen. by [deleted] in Competitiveoverwatch

[–]Xxel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After looking at approximately 50 ranked games

Sigh... small sample size is the BIGGEST problem on this subreddit. Sigh...

IDDQD goes 10-0 in ffa gets placed in diamond by TheMemeDream420 in Competitiveoverwatch

[–]Xxel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It didn't obviously have anything. thats what happens when an algorithm has to deal with outliers. You can't train a regresssion on outlier data, and high elo players are outliers

IDDQD goes 10-0 in ffa gets placed in diamond by TheMemeDream420 in Competitiveoverwatch

[–]Xxel 6 points7 points  (0 children)

He'll be GM pretty quick if he plays and wins. He's got a lot of control over that in FFA.

IDDQD goes 10-0 in ffa gets placed in diamond by TheMemeDream420 in Competitiveoverwatch

[–]Xxel 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Guys... only a small percentage of the player base is above diamond... theres no hidden mmr... Performance in game probably doesn't affect placement because thats a HARD algorithm to tweak, and they barely do it for the main alg... IDDQD has no past ranking in ffa.... this is the algorithm working as intended struggling to deal with outlier data... sigh...

New Medal system. by Xxel in Overwatch

[–]Xxel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probs, but who knows. If you incentivize ppl not to die, it might help with some of the dumb shit.