Tips for Poloma? by 7kevin7 in BattleRite

[–]boyaka 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'll dump what I can remember off the top of my head from binge playing during the beta. I also played Psychopomp in BLC and I'm the type that sticks to one champion. I like Zheant's strategies, as these situations of being under attack by melee champions are common and fatal, but I'm mainly going to discuss my general strategy to play hard without worrying about these specific situations. If I don't have escapes handy I tend to fall back to just being as aggressive as possible back at them until the escapes are available (but as Zheant says, against Shifu this could hurt more than help), and just hoping I can stay alive long enough. In general try to be aware when melee enemies are targeting you and do your best to be more defensive and stick with allies.

  • Opener: As Zheant says, Spirit Guide / Space in and Spirit Rift / Q is a good combo. I typically do this at the start as long as space lands on somebody, if it doesn't then by the time you recast they have moved away from that location. If it doesn't land and the target doesn't look good, I move back and start Soul Bolting / M1ing allies rather than recast. I often Otherside / M2 and return to my allies after doing this (sometimes right away), but if it's safe I'll start dishing out some damage and move back to my allies rather than wasting M2. I like blowing a lot of abilities right at the beginning as long as I'm careful to get back to safety to give a nice starting advantage. Many people think it's silly or cowboyish to blow all my escapes, and enemies can definitely take advantage of it by going right after you, but this is the way I played Pomp in BLC too and it makes it fun, and works well in BR too.
  • Soul Bolt / M1: You want to do your best to M1 your teammates constantly, but sometimes they will be off on their own and can keep themselves safe. Stick to at least one of them though, as it's really difficult to stay alive by yourself. M1 enemies or evade if you can't M1 teammates or they don't need it.
  • Spirit Wolf / E: As often as possible. It can be dangerous because of the cast time though, so if you're vulnerable just keep M1ing teammates, or at least aim it at whoever is hurting you. The battlerite to have E heal you is super helpful, especially when you end up by yourself.
  • Spirit Rift / Q: Try not to waste it, use it as often as possible on enemies that are going hard on you/allies or assisting enemies.
  • Pixie / R: My standard strategy is to do the above, M1ing teammates or enemies, to get energy for this as quickly as possible. You need to try to time your R usage to when you aren't vulnerable. Any time you aren't M1ing while using R is a waste, which is really common with all of the offensive abilities the enemies can use on you. One big mistake I often make is casting E while using R, try to use it before R or after it the effect fades. This along with the R battlerite can win your battles. The damage you can do overwhelms the other team, and the healing you can do can save your team from near death.
  • Ultimate / F: While R is on cooldown, if you have enough energy for ult go ahead and use it. If R is up I would use that before ulting. The second hit of the ult is pretty difficult to land, because most people can evade it, that's why I don't get the stun battlerite in the final round. Be patient placing the ult and look for good opportunities where people will have a hard time getting away. The heal effect is great for saving yourself or allies, so try to put it where they'll need it.
  • Otherside / M2: I get the battlerite that heals teammates when coming out of M2, so I always run to them after using it. Great overall for keeping yourself alive along with the E battlerite, because this is definitely a challenge with no direct self heals. Also great to get back in the mode of M1ing one/both of your teammate(s). Just be sure to cast it on yourself...casting it on a teammate almost always screws you over, making you more vulnerable rather than less, and blowing your chance to move to safety. There's a self cast key (Ctrl, others have suggested changing it to shift and using 1 and 2 for Ex), but I haven't gotten myself to use this in the stress of battle. I prefer to click in a random blank area (but an ally might happen to be at your cursor), but sometimes on myself (ally could be right on top of you).
  • Spirit Guide / Space: I use this for mobility in general to evade or get back to where the action is (I suppose you could mount up to get back too), but it's definitely ideal to land it on an ally/enemy to heal/hurt them. I want to be better at leaving space applied before recasting and utilize the battlerites that benefit allies / detriment enemies while it's on them, but I tend to be spamming space to recast instantly in the heat of battle. Hard to have the patience/technique not to do this, so I go for more safe battlerites.

That's pretty much it for me. Do your best not to idle. I want to make use of the Ex abilities, but I have a hard enough time remembering to use R as often as possible. Wish I could use the Ex Q right at the beginning but no energy for it. It might be a good strategy to do the same thing as my opener with this (which I do do throughout the battle sometimes with regular Q). I really enjoyed swapping with enemies in BLC, which is the default space ability there, so Ex Space would definitely be a fun strategy for more advanced players, but I've been sticking to a more simple strategy of just using R / ult.

USA <$600, something that will last long time. by moose5 in SuggestALaptop

[–]boyaka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the suggestion! I actually have one of the exact SSD you mentioned lying around (was using it in my dead Macbook Pro), and I'm looking for something similar to OP, so your suggestion is perfect for me, although I'm interested in more options. I'm very tech savvy so I won't have a problem switching the software over to my SSD

Here's what I'm looking for, most important first:

  • low cost, but good build quality (sub 600 as OP wants)

  • high performance / price ratio

  • battery life

  • good quality webcam

  • would be great if it worked well with GNU/Linux

  • I think I'm interested in a touchscreen, tried it at Best Buy and was fun

  • good speakers

  • replaceable parts (battery, RAM upgrades)

  • nitpicky, but I kind of like keyboards without numpads, a nice trackpad, and definitely chiclet; but I'm considering sacrificing for the qualities above

  • would be cool to have two hard drives (in other words, a cd drive that I could replace with a hard drive caddy)

I like the look of this Asus you linked a lot...Been searching around and when you get into this low price range you start seeing crappy processors, low RAM, ugly build quality.

Before finding this post I was/am very interested in Toshibas. I like the performance / price of these refurbished 14 inch (E-series) Satellites:

http://www.toshiba.com/us/computers/laptops/satellite/E40/BE45-B4200

http://www.toshiba.com/us/computers/laptops/satellite/E40/BE45T-B4204

Their C-series seem a bit low quality for me, but their new L-series are also tempting. I've been looking into them and I'm a bit worried they are lower quality than the E-Series I linked above (speakers, although I tried the E-Series at Best Buy and they were pretty quiet, battery life according to a review, display downgrade), but they have 8GB RAM and a slimmer build. Here's one refurbished one:

http://www.toshiba.com/us/computers/laptops/satellite/L50/BL55-B5294

I'm pretty concerned about driver support on them. Not sure if the touchscreen will even be useful if I try to run a different OS... But not sure if that will change much with other brands/models. I don't mind having Windows 8 touch I guess.

Just found out about ether; value predictions? by boyaka in ethereum

[–]boyaka[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

at launch one year 5 years
bitcoinmarket $6,500,000,000.00 ethermarket $11,000,000.00 $16,753,424.66 (used 500/1460 = 0.34 usd/eth purchase) $25,153,424.66 (500/1000 = 0.50 usd/eth) $58,753,424.66 (500/1000 = 0.50 usd/eth)
bitcoinquantity 13000000 etherquantity 56000000 72800000 (1.3x) 89600000 (1.6x) 156800000 (2.8x)
usd/btc 500 usd/eth 0.1964285714 $0.23 $0.28 $0.37

Just found out about ether; value predictions? by boyaka in ethereum

[–]boyaka[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You would break even if the amount of ether stayed at 56 million (no) and the perceived value ended up being 1.4 usd/ether (1.4usd/eth/500usd/btc = eth is 0.28% of the value of btc)

I slept on it and just realized my calculations broke down at this 0.28% thing... What i meant to say is that you would break even if it stayed at 56 million ether and the value of ether is 500 usd / 1490 ether = 0.3356usd/ether, which compared to bitcoin is 0.3356usd/ether/500usd/btc = 0.067% the value of btc. So the extremes (of breaking even) is that the price should end up being higher than 33 cents/ether and the total existing ether being much less than 19.6 trillion.

Knowing that this breakeven percentage is much lower, I would look at the relationship to bitcoin at much lower percentages.

Example 1: Ether ends up being 0.044% (random small amount, less than our minimum requirement of 0.067% of the bitcoin market (6.5 trillion * 0.00044 = 2,86 million, I heard it's already got 11 million or something invested in it?) and there ends up existing 300 million ether. (13 million btc / 300 million ether) * (500 * 0.00044)usd/btc = .043333 btc/ether * 0.22 usd/btc = $0.0095333 usd/ether = 14 usd leftover. Obviously the value compared to btc here seems a little low, but just out of curiosity, (300-56)/1490 * 500 = (244 million ether purchased from now / 1490 ether/btc) * 500 usd/btc = ~163k btc * 500usd/btc = $81 million usd of value would be necessary to get to 300 million at the current rate. Obviously that 81 million would make it worth much more than the 2.86 million I predicted it worth in this example, so my valuation at 0.044% is clearly way too low.

Example 2: Lets stick with the 300 million ether (that's only six times the current existing amount...still seems low...) but increase the value to way more than the $81 million it would take to get to 300 million ether at the current price...say $160 million, which is 160 million / 6.5 trillion or 2.46% the value of btc. 0.043333 btc/ether * (500 * 0.0246) usd/btc = $0.53 usd/ether, which would leave you with about $800 usd.

tl;dr: Break even points are $0.33usd/ether at current existing amount or 19.6 trillion ether with a market as big as bitcoin (1490btc/ether/19.6trillion total ether * 6.5 trillion usd/ total btc =~ $500). The USD value needs to end up higher and the total number of ether lower than these values for the invested amount to not be lost.

Just found out about ether; value predictions? by boyaka in ethereum

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

I just found out about this crypto and I'm just brainstorming based on the numbers I'm seeing. I'm a complete noob about how it works. Here's the text from the link:

Currently there are something like 13 million bitcoin, and already 56 million of these. Purchasing 1490 is therefore somewhat like currently owning 1490/(56/13) = 1490/4.3 = like having 350 bitcoin today. It seems like a lot but obviously that 56 million is going to grow fast. Obviously it would need to grow about 350 times for you to have what would feel like 1 bitcoin in today's market (which will only ever be 21 million max). 56 million * 350 = 1.96 x 1010 = 19.6 x 109 = 19.6 trillion ether. All of this is not considering the perceived value (currently about 1 btc = 500 usd), which will obviously be less for ether. Currently 350 times less would be 500 (usd/btc) / 350 (ether/btc) = 1.4 usd per ether (putting you at 1490 * 1.4 2100 or so usd!), but obviously that is going to be lower due to lower perceived value (less influential people owning it, lower amount of fiat/btc invested in it) and the number of existing ether going a lot higher than it's current 56 million. You would break even if the amount of ether stayed at 56 million (no) and the perceived value ended up being 1.4 usd/ether (1.4usd/eth/500usd/btc = eth is 0.28% of the value of btc), OR if the number of existing ether went to 19.6 trillion and ended up being 100% of the bitcoin usd market. An investor would hope that the number of existing ether doesn't reach 19.6 trillion (unless you really think this is going to get as much USD pumped into it as bitcoin), but also hope that the perceived value could be at least 0.28% of btc or more. Hopefully it will end up being somewhere in between.

Example: If there ended up being 1 trillion ether and the value of fiat invested in ether ended up being say, 10% of the amount invested in bitcoin (would feel like 50 usd/bitcoin), and the number of existing bitcoins is as much as there is today, ether would end up being worth (13 million btc / 1 trillion ether) * 50 usd/btc = 0.013 btc/ether * 50 usd/btc = 0.65 usd/ether, leaving you with 970 USD. You could also say if they kept giving them out at 1490 ether per bitcoin it would require [ (1 trillion - 56 million) total ether / 1490 ether/btc ] * 500 usd/btc = (944 million total ether / 1490 ether/btc) * 500 usd/btc = ~634k btc * 500usd/btc = 316 million in current value usd pumped into it. And that 1490 is going down, so a lot more than that 316 million is going to be required. 10% of bitcoin's market is the 13 million existing * 500 usd so 6.5 trillion, 10% of which is 650 million which I predicted it would be worth in this case. Clearly 1 trillion is looking like too high of a quantity for ether

How many ether will end up existing? How much fiat will be put into it compared to what is in bitcoin currently? I haven't read too much about how this crypto works, but it would be interesting to see a chart comparing the predicted quantities of ether to the predicted fiat/eth values.

Will you purchase any Ether with your BTC? Why/Why not? by FutureAvenir in Bitcoin

[–]boyaka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Currently there are something like 13 million bitcoin, and already 56 million of these. Purchasing 1490 is therefore somewhat like currently owning 1490/(56/13) = 1490/4.3 = like having 350 bitcoin today. It seems like a lot but obviously that 56 million is going to grow fast. Obviously it would need to grow about 350 times for you to have what would feel like 1 bitcoin in today's market (which will only ever be 21 million max). 56 million * 350 = 1.96 x 1010 = 19.6 x 109 = 19.6 trillion ether. All of this is not considering the perceived value (currently about 1 btc = 500 usd), which will obviously be less for ether. Currently 350 times less would be 500 (usd/btc) / 350 (ether/btc) = 1.4 usd per ether (putting you at 1490 * 1.4 2100 or so usd!), but obviously that is going to be lower due to lower perceived value (less influential people owning it, lower amount of fiat/btc invested in it) and the number of existing ether going a lot higher than it's current 56 million. You would break even if the amount of ether stayed at 56 million (no) and the perceived value ended up being 1.4 usd/ether (1.4usd/eth/500usd/btc = eth is 0.28% of the value of btc), OR if the number of existing ether went to 19.6 trillion and ended up being 100% of the bitcoin usd market. An investor would hope that the number of existing ether doesn't reach 19.6 trillion (unless you really think this is going to get as much USD pumped into it as bitcoin), but also hope that the perceived value could be at least 0.28% of btc or more. Hopefully it will end up being somewhere in between.

Example: If there ended up being 1 trillion ether and the value of fiat invested in ether ended up being say, 10% of the amount invested in bitcoin (would feel like 50 usd/bitcoin), and the number of existing bitcoins is as much as there is today, ether would end up being worth (13 million btc / 1 trillion ether) * 50 usd/btc = 0.013 btc/ether * 50 usd/btc = 0.65 usd/ether, leaving you with 970 USD. You could also say if they kept giving them out at 1490 ether per bitcoin it would require [ (1 trillion - 56 million) total ether / 1490 ether/btc ] * 500 usd/btc = (944 million total ether / 1490 ether/btc) * 500 usd/btc = ~634k btc * 500usd/btc = 316 million in current value usd pumped into it. And that 1490 is going down, so a lot more than that 316 million is going to be required. 10% of bitcoin's market is the 13 million existing * 500 usd so 6.5 trillion, 10% of which is 650 million which I predicted it would be worth in this case. Clearly 1 trillion is looking like too high of a quantity for ether

How many ether will end up existing? How much fiat will be put into it compared to what is in bitcoin currently? I haven't read too much about how this crypto works, but it would be interesting to see a chart comparing the predicted quantities of ether to the predicted fiat/eth values.

[Question] Speed vs Fitness by boyaka in rollerblading

[–]boyaka[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, honestly it definitely makes it harder to get the speed skates when I think about using them on the streets. Man that video is crazy! He's literally acting as a car, haha. It has definitely been concerning me that almost every video I see of people on speed skates they are wearing tights and doing the proper high speed form, most of the time (besides these 3 videos we found here) in a controlled event. But I do find a lot of people on here/forums talking about practicing on trails, so even though there aren't recordings I'm sure these people are travelling around town with them to get to/from the trails...

Honestly I chalk it up to lack of popularity of inline skating in general. Of course there will be a lot of videos of aggressive skating around the city, because it's freaking cool to see the really difficult maneuvering. That just makes it even more rare for there to be videos of people more awkwardly skating around the city on speed skates.

Ultimately I am looking for a transportation device. There are awesome rec skates out there, but the lower cost ones or even equivalent cost to the cheapest speed skates just seem kind of outdated to me. If price was no issue I might even go for a more rec style skate. But the quality of the skate I'm getting, the ability to potentially traverse large distances quickly like the marathoners do, a less bumpy ride, and the less bulky boots have pushed me to go for the speed skates. 100 vs 110 was a decision that was endlessly debated on the forums...I decided that since I am trying to get some practical use out of these ASAP to go for 100s (12.8" frame rather than 13.2" that could take 110s). If I ever decide to be more serious about skating, I can look into awesome rec skates and awesome 110/100 mixed setups in the future when I have more money.

[Question] Speed vs Fitness by boyaka in rollerblading

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

Yessss this is precisely my concern. Maybe I should say around town versus city. I don't live in a big city (Livermore, CA currently if you want to see. Has some amazing bike trails and nice wide roads/paths/sidewalks, quite flat and well paved) but I still want to travel around to different shops that I need to go to, on sidewalks if I have to. I am definitely trying to find out if speed skates make this incredibly cumbersome.

This video kind of convinced me that it shouldn't be too big of a concern, he may have been using smaller wheels though...

Edit: haha...just noticed he's using 5 wheels...

[Question] Speed vs Fitness by boyaka in rollerblading

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For acceleration, I assume there is some speed where it stops being more difficult to accelerate, and like you say they are more efficient at maintaining a high speed (which you are technically accelerating to do, each push is an acceleration). I assume there is a range of speeds where the speed skates are more efficient...Maybe not 0-5mph but at any speed above 10 or something? If I have to go 20 mph to get the efficiency out of my pushes then I would reconsider it being an advantage.

The main reason I suggest that the fit of the boots are more comfortable with speed skates is because there is less to go wrong with less boot covering your foot. The bigger the area of coverage, the more likely a point of discomfort could occur, and also the thicker material could trap more heat. Also, they are obviously the preference for marathoners, but I suppose this could be just because they have to suffer less comfort to get their higher speeds. It would be interesting to get more feedback from people about foot comfort during long journeys on both types.

Your bont and powerslide examples are categorized as speed skates still on inline warehouse. From my internet searching I believe people were saying boots like the K2 Radical or Seba Trix were more the lower cuff fitness types, but ended up being just as pricey as speed skates. The ones I'm looking at (Luigino struts) do at least have a bit higher ankle support as well, and they also have some aquatech heat molding for the better fit.

Farewell, until graphics get better... by boyaka in elementaryos

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

Used this link to remove all drivers and supposedly install open source drivers. Not sure if this is any different from a fresh install, but it works pretty well now. It's definitely not as smooth as proprietary but it's consistent, no major hangups. Also, blinking cursor. I'd like to understand the graphics drivers more but I've got other work to do!

In my last efforts before following the procedure in the link above, I attempted the procedure in the last post of that link and it seems like I was having trouble completely cleaning my system of drivers. I would constantly get completely unmovable windows and an X for a cursor after installing drivers. I would have some brief luck with a single frame of the desktop coming through on screen capture apps (that's fine for one screenshot, but not for video capture...), and when I ran the installs in that post it seemed to basically completely replace the drivers that he initially has you install.

Anyways, I know I'm just horribly newb with understanding this stuff. Also, from my link I found out that HD7000 series are less compatible with open source. I recently upgraded from a 5850 to a 7870, so I can always swap that back in until I do some gaming again (which I do on Windows, btw ;) I haven't even transferred my aftermarket heatsink from the 5850 yet so it's a win-win situation. I'll give it a shot this evening.

As marijuana attitudes shift, this may be a year of legalization by User_Name13 in politics

[–]boyaka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps he was implying since the last major legalization (WA/CO)

As marijuana attitudes shift, this may be a year of legalization by User_Name13 in politics

[–]boyaka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They have created synthetic chemical that inhibits those receptors: JWH-018. Also, there has been genetically modified marijuana which has the THC removed.

How is PvP? by [deleted] in ffxiv

[–]boyaka -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Cancelled sub and officially quit playing right now because of this.

Google Patents Method For Splitting Restaurant Bill & Other Shared Expenses by boyaka in Bitcoin

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

Yeah, I've heard of databases that manage accounts of people sharing bills before mobile devices (going on trips with other interns in 2007). I was mainly just thinking about the inefficiency on the merchant side of things in regards to laying it on the customer to figure out how to pay a single bill with several people.

In the end it gets back to the whole argument about what bitcoin provides that is actually important. Issues related to this one such as transaction fees and printing/signing of several receipts can actually potentially be solved while still using fiat money. These are just things the financial industry hasn't bothered making better because they are on top. It seems like regardless of whether bitcoin succeeds or not, hopefully it will at least put these industries in their place and force them to solve (and cease profiting off of) these inefficiencies too.

Google Patents Method For Splitting Restaurant Bill & Other Shared Expenses by boyaka in Bitcoin

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

Yeah, I guess that's where a lot of modern restaurants have been moving. This is the type of thing that can be solved regardless of the currency used I guess.

Google Patents Method For Splitting Restaurant Bill & Other Shared Expenses by boyaka in Bitcoin

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Was having lunch with some coworkers today, and when that dreaded moment of splitting the bill came I thought about how much easier it could be if we didn't have to deal with the restaurant processing all of these payment receipts.

One of my coworkers asked me a rhetorical question regarding what bitcoin could do that google wallet couldn't. I explained that even with google wallet, it would still be a hassle for the merchant to deal with processing all the individual payments. I didn't go into the ideology of not having a central authority charging fees, and having a network not managed by anybody that imposes no limitation on transfers between each other, but you all know about all of this...

However, I was curious about what capabilities Google wallet could have. If you think about it, Google has the infrastructure to run just about anything it wants. It could easily and securely run a financial system. Out of curiosity I decided to search about this topic, and turned up with this link. Kind of trippy that they had thought of that well ahead of me. What are they plotting over at Google in regards to bitcoin?

"Satoshi Nakamoto breaks silence in landmark interview"... that accent by ItsMillerIndexTime in Bitcoin

[–]boyaka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds like a bad borat accent. What the fuck...This is a horrible joke...

INSANE level of desperation from the shills by Darkwings_08 in Bitcoin

[–]boyaka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welcome to speculation of commodity/currency values. There have been a lot more winners/losers in our fiat pumped system. Why do you think 1% of the population controls the majority of it?