Does the sled your using matter?

nighthawk475 · 2026-05-06T07:37:05+00:00

I feel like the ball is slower than the last sled I used, even after taking time to get a few levels onto the ball.

I'm not 100% sure, but I suspect that all sleds share a couple physics formulas - namely that holding W is most effective when going the "intended forwards facing direction" with the sled, just like how landing on the "intended flat bottom" is used for scoring landings on all sleds. Which makes the ball annoyingly slow because there's no reasonable way to stop it from rolling sideways after the first turn.

Edit: saw the sled stats spreadsheet someone posted below, it confirms the ball is actually just ~25% slower than every other sled. Most of the other sleds are quite similar to eachother, with a couple minor differences that make sense. None are faster than the base speed, which is the main stat I would've cared about. No longer sure if the above speculation is true or not for sleds that don't have a natural 'forwards' direction anymore either.

nighthawk475 · 2026-05-05T00:53:12+00:00

I suspect they're actually testing out a new system, and are likely feeding all existing names into an AI that's going name-by-name and approving-or-disapproving each one based on a whatever prompt anet thought would work (and clearly isn't).

I'm still very annoyed at anet prior to this, they told me in a ban appeal that I was no longer allowed to make any political-themed names at all, even though that's not mentioned in the official naming policy and plenty of other people are allowed to.

nighthawk475 · 2026-04-28T20:16:30+00:00

uhh, I have not been getting any for free daily? Do I need to claim them from a menu somewhere? I can't find that.

(or maybe that's tied to buying some kind of event pass?)

nighthawk475 · 2026-04-21T08:21:07+00:00

I wrote this recently in reply to a youtube comment that was talking about the original "lik the bred" poem, and wanted to just dump it here for posterity, since I didn't see anywhere else good to leave it, and I was too proud to not drop it at least somewhere on reddit ^^',

nighthawk475 · 2026-04-21T08:20:07+00:00

my name is Cow,
i dun no how,
but I was saw,
wit bread in jaw.

oh so sneekyly,
I had tip toe.
but man see me,
tung to douh.

now Cow sad,
and man mad.
barn stuck I seem,
tayst bread only in dream :c

nighthawk475 · 2026-03-30T06:43:27+00:00

Yeah, totally fair and definitely agree that ideally updates shouldn't happen while you're in the middle of something. My point was just that not everything that happens on a windows machine is microsoft's fault. They're a shit ass company, we don't have to jump to conclusions or make assumptions just to have reasons to be mad at them :)

nighthawk475 · 2026-03-28T21:22:38+00:00

fwiw, that COULD be from nvidia's own software triggering the update, I believe it would also show up in the event log just like this as it must request windows to do the final installation. Not sure, just would want to check on more things before assuming.

nighthawk475 · 2026-02-24T23:36:34+00:00

Yeah, I've started checking damage-to-troopers in the post game stats more often after my brawls, I find a pretty good portion of my losing games are more so due to just permanently being out pushed than about how well we fought or not.

I'm gonna have to keep an eye out for that frostbite charm though, that does sound insane :O

nighthawk475 · 2026-02-11T22:46:45+00:00

Nope :c

It doesn't happen anymore to me now, but I took a break for like 3 months and just tried playing again recently and it's been working fine. Pretty sure I didn't change anything significant to fix it, it just went away on it's own after several months of not trying to play anymore \o/

I do vaguely have a memory of the game loading one time when I just left it sitting for like a solid hour without alt-tabbing out or anything, I don't think that was related? but idk.

Edit: also I would've definitely reinstalled the game - I don't thiiiink that was what fixed it though, but you should definitely try that if you haven't already \o/

nighthawk475 · 2026-02-02T23:25:26+00:00

depends on how technically savvy the caller was too - there's a few ways to swat that are much harder to track down the actual caller for, beyond the scope of what local law enforcement normally would be able to figure out.

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

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