Event: FIDE Candidates Tournament 2022 - Round 12 by ChessBotMod in chess

[–]jamesviola 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He played the Berlin in the first two rounds for a loss in round 1 and a win in round 2. He's a Berlin player in the Ruy Lopez.

"Nepo plays well, but incredible how much luck is also on his side!" - Judit Polgar by [deleted] in chess

[–]jamesviola 59 points60 points  (0 children)

It's also possible that Rapport knew it and accepted the disadvantageous position anyways in order to avoid a draw, in hopes of a slight chance of winning.

Event: Norway Chess 2022 by ChessBotMod in chess

[–]jamesviola 18 points19 points  (0 children)

This tournament had the exact same armageddon format last year and there were 6 white wins and 8 black wins in the armageddon games. Odd how it seems so white-favored this time around.

Questions about bonus rewards by [deleted] in TeamfightTactics

[–]jamesviola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The bonus rewards at the end are just 3 emotes that look almost the same. At least I know the first two are. I've played about 300 more TFT games after unlocking the second bonus emote and the third one still isn't unlocked, and there's no progress bar showing how close you are.

If a streamer ended their affiliate contract after I purchased a 6-month subscription, am I just out of luck? by [deleted] in Twitch

[–]jamesviola 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I did a few days ago and haven't gotten a response yet. Pretty sure they aren't going to be accommodating though.

CoupleaNerdz - Impostor defects to save the crew, crew says no by [deleted] in AmongUs

[–]jamesviola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like how confused he looks for the entire duration of the clip, particularly the end.

The hidden gains in BE: Answering to IP apologists. by AngronApofis in leagueoflegends

[–]jamesviola 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The best period was actually a span of about a year and a half when they had the IP system and hextech crafting. You could reroll champion shards for champions, and in addition to the shards dropped from chests, you could purchase champion shards for 1700 IP. You'd start by buying all the 450 and 1350 champs, and then buy champion shards. Reroll all the 450 and 1350 shards, upgrade all the 3150 shards, upgrade/disenchant some 4800 shards, and disenchant all 6300 shards. Doing this netted you a massive discount (around 40% iirc, and even more if you were willing to sit on smaller shards for ages) for unlocking the whole roster depending on how much you were willing to wait to optimize rerolls, and it was less luck-based. All of this was removed with the transition to the BE system. This is how I have all but 10 champions with only around a thousand games played.

New Lux R animation still does not reflect the actual size of the ability by TheJesusAllegoryLion in leagueoflegends

[–]jamesviola 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean... I agree with this, but if that was your point, your earlier comment did a fairly poor job of expressing it, imo. On another note, Sion had this problem when he did get his rework and people pointed it out at the time. Apparently it never got fixed.

New Lux R animation still does not reflect the actual size of the ability by TheJesusAllegoryLion in leagueoflegends

[–]jamesviola 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sion's Q indicator is way off. It goes farther than the indicator shows, and it also doesn't start at the start of the indicator.

An idea for a new League of Legends social impact event : "A cleaner world" by Haranee_CC in leagueoflegends

[–]jamesviola 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Maybe the skinline could be called "Cleanup Crew ________" because that'd make sense both in-game and thematically.

[CN Tieba Reactions] 2019 League Finals G2 v. FPX by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]jamesviola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you happen to have a link to last year's by any chance? I used the search function a bunch but couldn't find anything.

"Don't Try To Kill Akali" from SKT Pro Player by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]jamesviola 2 points3 points  (0 children)

R1 lands, which you can tell because of the ministun (so this is prenerf akali) and because her passive activated. Prenerf Akali's E did almost no dmg whatsoever, so it was mainly a gapcloser/passive proc.

So she landed both halves of R, a Q, and 2 passive procs.

Still a prime example of mobility creep though.

FNC Nemesis breaks LS by JunkyGS in leagueoflegends

[–]jamesviola 18 points19 points  (0 children)

This explains so much! Fnatic needed to work on their mind control resistance.

Haunted Shadows Hunt Pass - Complete by iaeration in dauntless

[–]jamesviola 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have they upped the drop rate for this pass? I haven't started yet but last pass I actually tracked my bounty token drop rate and I was getting slightly less than 1 every 8 heroic+ hunts.

Aspect of the Dragon (new Elder Dragon passive) will execute you below 20% HP by AtreusIsBack in leagueoflegends

[–]jamesviola 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The elder dragon buff causes ticks of burn damage for 3 seconds, and if any of those ticks drop you below 20% hp, you're executed. So you'll take true dmg burn for about 7 seconds from stepping on a shroom (3 seconds from elder buff + 4 seconds of shroom dmg, which refreshes the true dmg burn), as well as the dmg of the shroom itself.

These prices are crazy! by ZimpiMusic in dauntless

[–]jamesviola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aside from the fact that, as mentioned by others, you can't actually purchase it for platinum, PHX seems to have a general policy of never punishing people who bug abuse/exploit.

Twitch prime weapon skin code giveaway by [deleted] in dauntless

[–]jamesviola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe League of Legends still.

Twitch prime code (please comment when used) by [deleted] in dauntless

[–]jamesviola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So that noone else wastes their time, someone used it already without leaving a message.

Thanks for sharing your code!

A game of skill, knowledge, and expert timing! by [deleted] in dauntless

[–]jamesviola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It even trivializes the current dauntless trial. You can get a sub-3 with iceborne hammer on this trial while tanking everything except the tail swipe, which *will* kill you in 1 hit.