For people that didn't know already, I will be going to FLAN.

BE THERE

c u @

new favorite thread.

People complaining about the shortstop probably haven't tried it. If you got close enough to actually do that to anyone in a competitive game, you'd just be feeding.

The only issue I have is the medic speed thing, and I am not totally against it. I want to see how it plays out first.

"Of course we won! We are AMERICANS! If you didn't win, I would need to see your birth certificate!"

This update has way more political jabs than I think anyone would have reasonably expected.

- All Mediguns allow the Medic to match the speed of their heal target

wh.... what?

OH MY GOD BADLANDS IS FINALLY ALMOST PLAYABLE AHHHHHHHHHHH

for the first time in my life, i will be purchasing a taunt.

that trombone taunt is fantastic. i love the idea that he's just carrying around a freaking trombone for when something ridiculous happens at all times.

Definitely agree. The Asian scene is way smaller than the OZ scene (at least from the numbers I've seen), and there just isn't enough competition to compete at the top level.

Would an Asian superteam beat me/ my team? Yes.

Would it beat invite/ prem teams on lan? No.

I really would prefer to be wrong rather than right on this. Prove me wrong @ i61.

Not being top 16 may be a bit of a stretch (depending on EU turnout), but watching AsiaFortress demos is like watching bubble open teams trying to get into playoffs. It's all you can do to not just scream at your monitor.

There's nothing wrong with smaller scenes not being quite as competitive, but I would not be surprised if an Asian superteam weren't able to compete with many/any teams outside of group stages.

Sad that we'll never know. (Until next year???)

Don't know why miggy is getting minus fragged. Perhaps a reflex folks have developed when dealing with other UGC admins on the forums? :P

Miggy, imo, is probably one of the most reasonable guys in UGC at the moment. Nothing in his post was even remotely controversial. UGC is overwhelmingly bad, but their OW division has some serious potential being led by Mig.

i want to get off populism's wild ride

Back when I did regular LANs with friends in high school, we almost exclusively played AoE2 (and AoE2 HD when it came out). Later in the night as people crashed, the folks that stayed up later would play minecraft and then sometimes me and my 1 tf2 friend would play mge (or arena 1v1 if i didn't want to set it up).

Me and my friends also played through a really small indie MORPG once, which is super fun. Some of them stayed up all night to finish it. It was a game I helped in the development process in (and engineered the sound/ made the music for) when I was like 13ish, and it is actually surprisingly decent on lan.

http://wukaworld.weebly.com/free-download.html

It wasn't originally a lan game, but I could probably hook you guys up with the server files that you would need to run it if you're ever interested.

Mainly AoE tho

This referendum will not take full effect for months/years. I wouldn't worry about this.

ahhhh, i gotcha eee

And I think this will open the eyes of many people on Trump in the US, whymeo. This referendum (which looked like it had no chance of actually going through according to many polls) is proof that the bradely effect is very real.

Hope it makes millennials actually show up in November.

Yes, but it's not like that money is sent directly into the void. The UK (to my understanding) got about half of what they sent directly back in the form of a rebate. A billion pounds also goes toward international aid, which will end up being paid regardless of EU membership. On top of that, they save shitloads on trade. Because of their membership with the EU, many American companies traded through the UK to the EU. In addition, various private citizens also get paid in subsidies from the EU (~£4.5 billion last year), and various private organizations received about £1.5 billion in total. Add in the harder-to-calculate-cost things in like peace in Europe, having strong allies with Germany/others, and the potential to lose Scotland and Northern Ireland, and you could easily pull together a strong case directly contradicting what you say.

On top of that, a good portion of the money spent by the EU indirectly benefits the UK in a very hard-to-measure way.

There are still fees that go into the EU, and the EU is a bureaucratic nightmare. I'm not pretending to know what I'm talking about on all the issues, but your specific argument isn't necessarily correct.

And to answer the OP question, that largely depends on how the UK handles itself. I'd say buy in a bit tomorrow and see how you do.