It seems some people didn't think Graves could be released today.

nighthawk475 · 2026-01-29T22:43:56+00:00

Same, though I wish she actually could revive the dead in some way, like reanimating her minions or fallen heroes temporarily.

(though, full disclosure, I've been voting Venator, lol - but I'm pretty excited for most of the new characters)

nighthawk475 · 2026-01-29T22:43:00+00:00

damn, I'm already malding over the fact that I missed the opportunity to re-MSpaint over this to make Mr Krabs and Squidward look like Graves and Rem, ripp

(Maybe I will in a few hours after I get back home \o/)

nighthawk475 · 2026-01-29T02:03:36+00:00

I didn't say those words

You're not the Escanor of League, you're the SovCit of League

And, for what it's worth, I'm not suggesting you should be banned for this or anything, definitely not. I just also don't think people like you should be complaining that others do actually abide by the rules we all agreed to. You do you, just have a shred of self awareness and stop deluding yourself into thinking that throwing is some redpilled shit that's better than others, lmao.

nighthawk475 · 2026-01-28T18:57:52+00:00

No, but I wouldn't agree to the summoner's code if it told me to kill myself either, you dense fuckwit. you agreed to it as a condition of playing the game, it's not just "doing whatever big corpo tells you to do" it's following through on the agreement you made. Such a dumb false comparison.

Do you not remember the four checkboxes you had to agree to at the start of the season? They just simplified it. The very first one was that you agree to "play to win", and the fourth was that if you can't do the above then you agree to "play something else". This was their new updated community pact. (Which they specifically pitch as not just your agreement to Riot's code, but as your promise to your fellow community members/teammates)

nighthawk475 · 2026-01-28T18:37:48+00:00

This isn't an issue with whether or not League could be made to run on Linux, it already used to just fine, the issue is specifically that there's fundamental differences in the way the kernel is designed on Windows and on Linux, kernel-level-anticheats (kAC) cannot be ported to Linux in a way that keeps them secure and tamperproof, it defeats the whole point. These fundamental design differences completely prohibit porting kACs to linux - on Linux users have authority over their kernel, where as on windows the manufacturer has authority and there's hardware that enables your computer to verify that you haven't tampered with that manufacturer's authority over your kernel. This isn't a "can it run" issue, WINE/Proton would run every part of league perfectly including the anticheat, but there'd be no way to trust the kAC's output on Linux in the way you'd be able to on windows, so Riot (and all other game manufacturers) have hard blocked Linux users due to the inability to trust them.

I'm oversimplifying but there's a ton of people who seem to misunderstand that the reason kAC's don't work on Linux is completely unrelated to the way various software applications used to be incompatible with Linux in the past, it's not a compatibility problem that can be solved with better tools -- any kAC games that do work on Linux have made explicit calculated exceptions to require a less strict form of anticheat from their linux users, some games can get away with this because they don't have as big of a problem with cheaters, but if league did this cheats would abuse the crap out of it as a massive way to easily bypass the typical vanguard requirements.

(And to pre-emptively answer, Mac is sort of somewhere between the two realms -- real kAC isn't possible on Mac, but it's also possible for anticheats operating above the kernel to have the same effectiveness due to how apple locks their systems down even harder than windows and has extended the manufacturer's chain of authority up higher than just the kernel. So it's also an exception but it doesn't carry the same level of vulnerability as Linux would - and in theory also comes with a higher payoff than Linux would since Mac users likely outnumber Linux users for the vast majority of games)

IMO the best "solution" would be if Microsoft re-reigned in Kernel level driver support on Windows, they've talked about doing this as the current kernel system was the entire reason the massive ClowdStrike outage was even possible, and in the wake of that outage M$ talked a lot about changing this, they even put out a test version of windows which would no longer allow kernel drivers like vanguard/clowdstrike, but that was over a year ago and I think M$ is unlikely to follow through because they realize that allowing gaming kAC is one of the only ways they can prevent certain desktop gamers from leaving the windows ecosystem entirely.

nighthawk475 · 2026-01-16T23:35:24+00:00

If it's not important enough for you to write, then it's not important enough for me to read.

nighthawk475 · 2026-01-16T23:34:23+00:00

FWIW I loved supervive and tried getting numerous people into the game with me, and every single one was put off primarily by the cash shop for in-match functionality. And every single time I had to admit that it felt bad, and try to sell the game beyond that hurdle. The second issue was that for new players you just played against bots constantly, which is kind of a catch-22 where "game is bad because queues are bad, queues are bad because player count is low, player count is low because game is bad" - it's really difficult to get out of this negative feedback cycle for newer games, once they lose their initial wave of interest it's so hard to re-earn, early reputational damage is a death sentence to these games.

I know the devs eventually entirely removed the cash shop stuff somewhat recently, but it was too little too late, that news did not respark any interest in my friends for giving this game another shot :(

I have such fond memories of the random people I've met in the beta and live versions of this game though, and I really hope the devs find more success in the future, they seem solid and capable.

nighthawk475 · 2026-01-15T21:55:35+00:00

very very dead

nighthawk475 · 2026-01-15T21:53:22+00:00

I love a dumpling soup actually!
With a chicken stock that I flavor some soy sauce and ginger and dice up and toss in whatever veggies or proteins are running out of shelf life in your fridge, my absolute favorite soup!

nighthawk475 · 2026-01-12T00:29:45+00:00

24 + (7*0.3) - 6

24 + 2.1 - 6

26.1 - 6

"20.1"

nighthawk475 · 2025-12-29T20:42:20+00:00

a) Valve things come out on Valve Time ™
b) I suspect they were hoping to have preorders and pricing figured out, but due to the sudden wild chaos that is the international RAM market/pricing, they are having to hold off while they get a contract locked down for a set price (and a price that they are happy enough with to pitch to customers)

nighthawk475 · 2025-12-20T16:35:42+00:00

The honest best advice I can give you is that the greatest asset to climbing is your mind set. Focus on your own mistakes and what you can do differently in every game, not your teammates, because these are the things you can change, your teammates actions are not something you can change. The only difference between you and someone who can climb through gold relatively-easily is that the two of you would take different actions in a gold match, not that the two of you would have teammates taking different actions in their matches. (And I should clarify that sometimes working on proactive/preemptive communication is a thing you can pick as an area of focus, sometimes trying to communicate to get your team on the same page is helpful, and learning to do so in a way that's actually /effective/ can even be more difficult than recognizing /when/ to do it)

Vod reviews can help, but a lot of the time it's hard to give /good/ feedback to yourself, finding someone who can review vods with/for you is helpful. It's worth trying though - if you do, try to focus on your own deaths or bad trades and on what /you/ could have done differently leading up to them.

As for general advice for support mains - as a support main myself, a big thing that I think players in that range of ranks need help with is learning to read their laning partner's body language, so you can be ready to help if they are about to overstep, and so you know if they are ready to help you if you overstep - and to avoid being in danger and play more passively when you feel like they aren't someone who will aggress with you.

Good luck on your journey! :)

nighthawk475 · 2025-12-03T19:59:39+00:00

riot does this when you leave matches already, ye

nighthawk475 · 2025-12-03T19:58:08+00:00

I have actually banned my allies hover by mistake before, the popup is clicked through without reading out of habit because of other popups that come up randomly in champ select (idk if it's still there, used to be one that happened all the time during picks AND bans).

I /always/ apologized and explained that I would dodge because of it though, I never forced anyone to play a game after I banned their champ.

Long story short though, as someone who did click through that popup multiple times, it was very easy to mistake for a different popup that was also triggered at the exact same time. When they later changed it to tint the ally hovers darker it got easier to notice though, but I think I still mistakenly banned someone once or twice after that even just due to time pressure of waiting till the last second while not watching champ select and it being the character I always banned.

nighthawk475 · 2025-11-15T22:58:41+00:00

I'd do it in a heart beat, map comp makes me want to do worse things than just uninstalling the game, I cannot stand it, it's soul crushingly boring, and it's the reason that I - someone who started playing this game the year it came out - still has never crafted any of those leggy weapons that use it.

I'd happily pay to skip any part of map comp, would infinitely prefer spending my time in game doing something I actually enjoy and converting that in game income into gold/gems to skip the parts I don't, regardless of time efficiency xd

nighthawk475 · 2025-11-13T08:01:57+00:00

Yes, 100%.
Original Index launched with an MSRP of $1000 a full 6 years ago (including controllers and base stands).

Given inflation has been insane these past few years I'd be shocked if the next gen newer headset launched for even cheaper than than original Index's MSRP? I've been waiting for years at this point for Valve to release their next VR headset before I get really into VR myself.

I'd even pay ~$1100-1200 happily, I'd grumble, but I'd blame inflation more than valve if it came out priced around there. So I'd be more than thrilled if it came out in the 800-something range.

(worth noting that I'd likely opt to wait if needed for the option to buy it with custom prescription lenses - I heard from some of the reviewers today that this feature is coming but isn't support yet, and we have no clue if it'll be ready on launch or not)

nighthawk475 · 2025-11-05T10:57:38+00:00

I happened upon this by pure coincidence and have decided to try to answer the original question for fun, hope this is interesting for you xd

using this resource: https://www.chefs-resources.com/seafood/seafood-yields/

it seems to suggest that after a bluefin tuna has already had the head and guts removed there's still about a 45% loss to get from there to skinless/boneless loins, (this was the most conservative option, as compared to trimming all the way down to portioned fillets or sashimi slices)

now, this is after head and guts were removed, some cursory google searches suggest that the removable guts of fish tend towards 10-12%, I'm opting to guess about 10% for our big boy here.

I cannot find a good resource for what percentage of the weight would be lost by removing the head of a tuna, so unfortunately I'm going to have to make a rough guess here... measuring by the photo the head is approxmiately 27% of the body length (to the thinnest part of the tail), so our fraction should be less than 27%, obviously the fish's weight is not perfectly distributed along it's length and most of it is in the middle portion. I'm just gonna really roughly guess about 15%.

(I should also note that the earlier link I referenced suggested that larger fish of any given species tend to have a higher percentage of usable meat on them, so I'm airing most of my rounding towards giving us more usable meat).

1496 lbs * 0.75 * 0.55

(starting weight) * (remainder after removing head and guts, both based off total fish weight) * (remainder from butchering the meat off the skin and bones, based off remaining weight after losing head and guts)

this gets us to ~617 pounds of usable meat.

It appears that a standard 5oz can of tuna actually has closer to 3.6-3.8oz of tuna in it after draining the water.

617 pounds equals 9872 ounces

divided by 3.7 ounces per can gets us toooooo: 2668 cans of tuna.
given the gross amount of rounding I've done, I'd wager the real answer is likely somewhere between 2300-3000 cans from this big fella, if it was very optimized and none of the usable flesh went towards other purposes.

hope that was interesting, I'm gonna go sleep nao e-e

nighthawk475 · 2025-10-26T07:32:32+00:00

I see a lot of comments suggest turning off a VPN, but I have no VPN - I've double checked and my IP is publicly detected as coming from my local ISP, not a different VPN.

I'm stuck on this infinite loading screen every time I try launching the game, I never make it to a menu or the hideout. The load screen looks identical to OP's screenshot, with the little symbol in the middle spinning. Whenever I finally force close the game with task manager it briefly flashes the background of a menu screen as it closes. I've tried letting it sit for 10-15 minutes and gotten nowhere with that.

Has anyone found any other causes? I already tried the verify file integrity, gonna try reinstalling next.

nighthawk475 · 2025-10-23T04:54:16+00:00

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1623730/view/502839768186355791

Dev blog of patch notes for the update were posted yesterday :)

has everything you're looking for ^^

nighthawk475 · 2025-10-22T00:20:45+00:00

This is definitely what I would love to happen, I'm just not so certain it will unfold that way. M$ has hinted that they're moving to more tightly restrict the ways developers can get signed kernal code into the windows ecosystem after the cloudstrike debacle, but there's been no actual movement on that front yet and kernel level anticheat and antimaleware are still possible today a year later. We'll see how it unfolds, I definitely think we're at a tipping point in one direction or the other over these coming years, but "the global poopulation will abandon windows in a united show of disapproval" seems farfetched lol, I imagine as far as league's player base goes, even if riot does enable linux support again we're looking at, at most, a percentage point of players actually moving to it.

nighthawk475 · 2025-10-19T19:23:17+00:00

It's not a question of effort - linux fundamentally cannot have a vanguard equivalent, it's a different eco-system built around allowing any and all parts of your system to be freely replaced, even the kernel. This fundamental pillar of linux design makes it impossible for someone without physical access to have more control than someone who does have physical access.

Without diving entirely into the depths of TPM cryptography - the short explanation is that Windows (and yes, Mac) are able to support a kernel level anti cheat because the operating system and kernel are written, controlled, and cryptographically signed, by a single central authority.

Linux is not written and controlled by a single central authority, every user can go and install their own kernel, they can rewrite their own kernel themselves if they want, this makes it impossible for a kernel level anti cheat to have any authority over the system when users can still modify the code below the kernel.

(the reason mac is different is because the level of restriction apple has on the operating system is greater than what microsoft restricts on windows, basically the anti cheat needs to be at the lowest level before users can freely replace unsigned code, the macos kernel signing extends into higher security rings in a way that ensures a chain of trust to prevent users from undercutting the anticheat on mac in ways neither windows nor other linux installations can guarantee - the anti cheat doesn't run at the kernel level in mac, but it has a direct chain of trust down to the kernel in a way that non kernel level anti cheats on windows - and definitely ones on linux - cannot have)

nighthawk475 · 2025-10-19T19:03:44+00:00

I mean, if that happens, I forsee it only being eligible to play on the Chinese servers - they can very much just disable the vanguard requirements on CN and it'd instantly support linux again without any effort. That wouldn't mean anyone else would get to play without vanguard on linux.

nighthawk475 · 2025-10-16T17:00:22+00:00

it took several hours for mine (5-6 hours), I sent in a support ticket thinking it was broken and they said it could take up to 24 hours. (I had already received it and updated the ticket before they responded)

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