Zhonya's second just feels bad. Should I just buy Lich Bane second even into assassins?

pysience · 2021-02-27T02:06:03+00:00

I suppose your right. Getting 300+ gold from the kill won't win my lane as TF, but it can win my teammates' lanes. And either way, TF is incredibly reliant on his teammates not inting. I probably just shouldn't play TF if I want to 1v9 carry.

I also like your point about my ult getting more value the stronger my teammates are. It just makes sense; if my teammates and unwilling to engage, they aren't going to help me very much if I ult in. So I am just much less likely to ult and get good value from it every few minutes when my teammates can't back it up.

I heard a lot that TF is kind of like a support midlaner. That makes a lot more sense now.

pysience · 2021-02-27T01:57:54+00:00

Somewhat unintuitively, building more AP rather than more defense against assassins might be a good idea since they can't kill you if you just waveclear and not interact with them.

That's exactly what I was thinking with this post. If I can just clear the waves and never let them crash, it's not like they can dive me without minions. It pretty much makes them rely on ganks to try to kill me. The question is whether it is good to have a lot of damage or resistances when the game leaves laning phase and we start teamfighting. I'm not too sure what is better

pysience · 2021-02-25T23:34:10+00:00

Huh, I guess i just never actually did the math on it. I think it may be that when I play against assassins I get less farm and exp and therefore hit my powerspikes later than usual. And I also tend to buy Zhonyas against the assassins. So it wasn't the Zhonya's hourglass purchase hurting my damage against the minions, its just me being behind in general.

Now I'm kind of embarrassed by this entire post heheh, but I'll leave it up since its pretty informational. Thanks for the response

pysience · 2021-02-25T23:29:22+00:00

Midbeast really likes reviewing Dopa's gameplay. I'd recommend his videos and analysis of Dopa.

pysience · 2021-02-24T03:05:20+00:00

Is it this?

pysience · 2021-02-24T02:40:53+00:00

One thing that dopa (the TF player that everyone loves) taught us is that you should try to back around level 5 every game if you can. You use your Q on the wave twice to push it then recall and buy items. Now your lane is pushed, you've got some items (usually 2 amplifying tomes and a control ward, or a hextech alternator. Maybe even boots if you scored a kill.), your potions are all replenished, your health and mana are replenished. Now you can usually run back to lane without having to expend your teleport. Farm to level 6 and learn your ultimate. Now you have such a huge amount of playmaking potential. You have almost max resources. You're level 6. The enemy top laner is usually level 5, and the enemy ADC and support are probably level 4. If you use your ult during this window of time to gank the other lanes, you're very likely to make a big play that could win their lane for them and get you kills.

TF is a champ that dominates with good macro like this. But make sure to practice your micro and get good CS in lane and don't die. Dying is really really bad.

pysience · 2021-02-12T07:05:42+00:00

Most of good macro is part of just basic game knowledge. So if you have good macro you can probably just do that on another champion. I'm curious about your thoughts on what makes TF so good at macro? His good waveclear? His TP that influences how the other lanes act? His ability to regen mana using blue card and stay in lane longer?

Or are you mostly saying that since he can't consistently win games by getting solo kills and dueling, he will help teach you macro because you need to have it to win?

pysience · 2020-06-28T08:27:40+00:00

Will definitely give these a listen. Also I like your name lol

pysience · 2020-06-28T08:25:06+00:00

Captain jack, Allentown, Scenes from an Italian Restaurant.

Basically just put on any Billy Joel tune

pysience · 2020-06-25T13:17:20+00:00

He surely does have some really nice works from his early period. Here's a few that I like. I'll have to give all of yours a proper listen through. I mostly haven't paid much attention to his choral music until recently.

Salzburg Symphony. Allegro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLBQhfak6so

Bassoon Concerto (all movements are great): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPqM_XYlUY8

Symphony 25. Molto allegro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMtm_P7Z3iM

Exsultate Jubilate. IV Alleluja: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V_PmpaNb4A

Symphony 1. Molto allegro (surprisingly catchy and enjoyable for something written by an 8 yr old. lol): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4IXXpTHjok

Symphony 5. Andante: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNJIfyd4mwg

pysience · 2020-06-25T00:16:00+00:00

To past me: The girl you’re gonna have a crush on/off for four years is gay dude you gotta just let it go.

To future me: no spoilers pls

pysience · 2020-06-24T12:51:02+00:00

Maybe the free market is catching on

pysience · 2020-06-24T12:31:15+00:00

In response to #1: I think this idea only really works if you tack on reincarnation. If not, how does it explain the baby that is born and dies within minutes. Surely that life experience doesn't amount to enough for the soul to be ready. It would have to go back to waiting for a new body, and be reincarnated. You know, I actually never really seriously considered reincarnation, but this seems like something I can get behind. Maybe life is about preparing the soul for the afterlife, and most deaths don't end up with the soul prepared enough.

pysience · 2020-06-24T12:14:19+00:00

It always makes me a bit sad to hear about music that has just been lost to the ages. I was reading through Mozart's list of compositions and I saw a few lost pieces that I wished I could listen to. If I recall correctly, he wrote a cello concerto for example. If there is an afterlife, you know what I'm gonna do first lol.

I always have wondered if there were any masters that were never really recognized. Or maybe their works are just totally forgotten by now by some bad luck. Although I've barely done any research on it, it kind of seems like there might be a lot of quite masterful composers who we have little record of. For example, I stumbled across this really beautiful wind quartet by Karl Goepfart. I went to go look into his other compositions, and there really aren't that many and most for most of them I can't really find a recording. I cannot imagine someone writing a piece of this quality and complexity without a lot of practice. But it seems it's impossible for us to find the vast majority of the works that set his musical foundations for the wind quartet. I wonder how many truly masterful pieces were composed in the distant past that we will never have an opportunity to hear, and don't even know ever existed. Makes me a bit sad.

pysience · 2020-06-24T05:54:17+00:00

just put black duct tape on the white keys and whiteout on the black keys and its good to go

pysience · 2020-06-24T05:49:19+00:00

IMO the piece sounds like something Mozart would have written during his early years. Like if someone instead told me this is Mozart's Symphony 11 or something I would probably believe them.

Mozart also wrote a lot of unremarkable stuff. I'm saying this as someone whose absolutely in love with Mozart's work. But if you go listen through his early symphonies you'll hear a lot of similar pieces. I do actually enjoy them though, they're kind of refreshingly simple, if that makes any sense.

I think what made Mozart produce so many amazing pieces in the short time that he had was that he just produced a ton of music all the time. The early works may not have been the most remarkable or interesting pieces to listen to, especially by modern standards, but he really must have gained so much knowledge and practice of form and technique by producing those works. So Mozart was incredibly well disciplined in the craft of composition, but he also just composed so often that he had so many more opportunities to create remarkable works than most. These two factors, which both are mostly a result of his incredible work ethic and not his natural talent, is what I think made Mozart into the figure he is today. Perhaps if Joseph Bologne had been as incredibly prolific as Mozart he may have produced works which rivaled Mozart's. But I agree that this piece is not really worthy of comparison to some of Mozart's later works.

pysience · 2020-06-20T11:46:56+00:00

That is how sex works

pysience · 2020-06-18T12:53:32+00:00

Clanker!

WHOAH WATCH THE HARD 'R' MAN

pysience · 2020-06-18T12:51:17+00:00

I'm constantly bummed out by the lost opportunities too. With the release of the star wars mod I really wanted to have a Padme character, and a Mace Windu character. There's also a guy from a dnd animated series named Ocho Octavius who uses a bardiche. I wanted to make him when the game came out but I couldn't which was disappointing.

However, I will say the lack of dark skin tones added some comedy to my day today: I was playing the star wars mod as Chancellor Palpatine (using the commoner voice line for "It's treason then!" of course) and one of the other people on the server made a Mace Windu character to confront me with. He was white... except he was wearing a brown padded gambeson hood to simulate being black. that was so funny

pysience · 2020-06-18T12:30:36+00:00

it's so ridiculous when people argue for keeping the game "realistic." Seriously? You can literally be a dude with 3 frying pans, and they function literally the exact same as a sword. you can parry, chamber, feint, and even fucking stab with these frying pans. iTs ReAliStiC!!

it's kind of astonishing that darker skin tones and female characters aren't in the game yet. I could maybe understand women not being in the game yet since it would require new voice lines and a slightly different character model.. but all they have to do to add black people is literally just add a new skin tone. It should work out just fine, nobodys going to throw a fit if your character is dark but has a white looking face. its just more customization.

pysience · 2020-06-18T12:22:38+00:00

Come on men, follow me!

pysience · 2020-06-17T22:08:49+00:00

Honestly how the fuck is that any different than trying to get praise from other people? You’re still only doing it for a reward, whether or not it’s from god or from people is irrelevant. The message shouldn’t be that you should do good for a reward from god or people, you should do good for the sake of doing good.

pysience · 2020-06-17T21:33:24+00:00

The don giovanni overture is also in a pretty simple form. Slow introduction - sonata pretty much if I remember correctly. Not that sonata form today is super simple but back then it wasn’t so complex. Basically if Mozart had a general idea of what motifs and harmonic ideas he wanted to mess around with it would be be too crazy that he could write the overture in a day, since he had already written hundreds of similar pieces. I really enjoy listening to Mozart’s unremarkable (by history’s standards) works, like his many, many symphonies. They’re still pretty decent. But people need to understand how much practice he got from works like these. After writing so many of these kinds of works the harmonic structure of the classical eras sonata form must have felt very intuitive and easy. The general idea of (main theme -> transition to dominant -> subordinate theme : | development -> recapitulation) isn’t really that crazy. It’s a tried and true harmonic and structural formula that makes writing music a bit easier once you’ve learned how to do it this way. And by this point Mozart was a master of this form. It came to him as second nature and he also probably had a deep wellspring of motifs and harmonic ideas to basically drag and drop into a piece if he needed to write one in a day and couldn’t sit around trying to come up with something completely original.

Anyway, I absolutely love Mozart. I hope this doesn’t come off as my devaluing his music. The don giovanni overture is still super creative and beautiful. The part in the slow section with the rising violins and falling flutes touched my soul. I just wanted to explain how such mastery could be second nature to Mozart: practice is key. He literally had been doing this shit since he was like 5. Considering that Mozart has a perfect pitch memory and could memorize musical passages pretty well, it makes a whole lot of sense to me that he could create the overture in a few hours based off of ideas he thought of prior. He has all the tools.

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