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[Jopax]

Well he does this every now and then, nothing new, nothing suprising really.

[Putnam]

Yeah, so this has nothing to do with Dominion, it's just the axe you have to grind with Riot. Honestly, it looks like you came in here just to get a good rant about them in.

...i tried to make a dumb, light-hearted joke and you decided to defend the shittiest F2P company in the business in a way that encouraged me to respond. I was actually sorta hoping I wouldn't go on a rant, which only tends to happen if I have to think about Riot for too long because anyone who doesn't stick their fingers in their ears and go "lalala" over it would see pretty quickly how utterly awful they are, being a company built on the husk of a game they tried to kill and spending most of their time trying to get 12-year-olds to part with their parents' money for gameplay advantage.

Like, this is the only thing that gets me actually mad, that anyone would think these people are actually defensible.

[frostshotgg]

I wonder what it is about heavy Dota 2 players that incites them so much about anything to do with LoL. I play Dota occasionally, but I think I haven't hit the playtime benchmark where the super secret indoctrination happens.

Riot does a lot of things questionably at best and downright idiotic at worst, but shittiest in the business? Totally undefensible about anything ever? Those are pretty hefty claims.

[Frumple]

Near as I can tell, it's basically the equivalent of football hooliganism/sports team obsession/etc. It's not really an artifact of playing a certain amount of DotA2 as it is just certain folk's personalities.

If HoN (or HotS, or whatever) was all that existed for an alternative to DotA 2, you'd probably see the same behavior. In this case, it's mostly focused on LoL largely just because LoL's the main competitor/largest alternative.

[Putnam]

...And because Riot took down Dota's biggest forum and replaced it with an advertisement for League of Legends, yeah. When I say "indefensible", that's what I mean. Imagine if Toady were to take down the entire site and replace it with an ad for Gnomoria, it's about the same. It doesn't take hoolaginism to say that that's awful.

[Frumple]

P, you've said yourself the main reason you fixate on LoL is pretty much specifically so you have something to complain about. That's pretty much textbook hooliganism, just replace LoL with "Name of primarily disliked sports team". It's not a matter of whether the side being fixated on has done awful things or not, it's about how the person in question is acting in regards to them.

Case in point, does what you're talking about have absolutely anything to do with the discussion that was brought up here? Pretty much nothing you've talked about since you bludgeoned your way into the thread again has had anything to do with the point that was being discussed, nor are you really saying anything substantiative about the game itself (and that hand in hand with parroting stuff that's somewhere between gross misrepresentation and outright lies).

[Flying Dice]

See, I'd be down with that if you were just hating on the scumbags at Riot who actually did all this shit, I'd be happy. Certain of their original staff deserve every scrap of the hate.


On an unrelated point, had a Pantheon ARAM a bit ago. Fights were going both ways, they were down to their Nexus, we were down to our Nexus towers. We fought mid, and instead of helping I ulted to their Nexus and beat it down. After the game the enemy players said that right up until the game ended they thought my team had said GG because we'd lost the fight. Didn't tell my team before I did it, either. :V

[Graven]

The thing is, there was a very, very small number of people who played nothing but dominion. I enjoyed dominion as an occasional quickie, but there are people who only played league for dominion.

;(

[RedKing]

So now that there's "clubs", any plans for a B12 club?

[Frumple]

... wasn't there a club for a while? That... AD CDR weapon. Think it used to build into black cleaver or somethin'?

Are these new ones something we can hit people with?

[RedKing]

Not sure if you guys just taking the piss or what....

[Frumple]

Probably a 'lil bit.

Re: The actual question, I haven't paid enough attention to LoL lately to have any idea what that is. Guessing a clan/group/etc. type thing. Insofar as personal interest goes, I'd... probably hop on one the next time I played, if one existed? It could be months before that happens again, though >_>

For what it's worth, there does seem to be a few people still fairly active, if the fact that my friends list from years back still had people alive when I played a bit a few months back. They're probably doing their own thing, but there's at least some B12 folks still (semi) regularly rolling around, so... there might be the bodies for it. Maybe.

[RedKing]

Yeah, it's pretty much a clan/guild thing.

[HedgehogOfTrog]

Anyone up for teaming up on EUwest? Haven't played in ages as I don't know anyone playing on that server.

[baruk]

 For what it's worth I've created Bay 12 clubs on EUW (dazahk) and NA (RonaldMiasma) - I've sent out a few invites based on a combination of google doc and friends list.
 Incidentally, I got my NA account up to level 30 and tried a bit of dynamic soloqueue: after about 15 games queueing for jungle/fill I've had 14 support games and one top. I'm in bronze 2 and my win rate is only at about 30% so obviously I'm the worst player ever - that said, there may be something to the theory that you ought to avoid support/fill roles like the plague if you're playing soloqueue in bronze (and want to win). You will tend to get matchmade with duo/trioqueue players that have purposely avoided picking support, who perhaps don't value the concepts of co-operation and teamwork quite as much.