Learn some history.

The only real developer to move in with Riot for League was Steve Feak, better known as Guinsoo. There was another developer, Pendragon, but he didn't actually work on the game itself - he made the original forums, and helped foster the new League community. Guinsoo was not the original creator, either. He forked it from a guy named Eul, and lots of other people forked it too. Guinsoo took all of their ideas and pulled them into one blanket, calling it DotA Allstars. He threw feature after feature in and, for the most part, the balance was abysmal.

Then, after two years (and a few other developers sprinkled in there), the reigns of development were passed on to Icefrog, who did all the actual balance work, making the game what it is today over the course of half a decade.

Guinsoo went on to Riot and Icefrog went on to Valve. Neither was the original creator. One of them, however, has the notoriety for taking other people's ideas.

At the time it was released, it was the only modern MOBA, correct, although Dota followed shortly thereafter (and was known to be in deep development before League was released). HoN also followed between League and Dota, having also been in development during that time period. It's not like it was the only one being worked on - it was just the first to release.

let's just agree to all forget that period in time during overwatch's beta where fov was locked

LoL stole from DotA without question.

not the genre, sure. and the concept of abilities (at least if they're really generic) can't be copied.

but when heroes are 100% identical, not just in all of their abilities but in their personalities too, there's no excuse.

THE LEGEND OF THE SPORT

edit: doesnt fully work, will update

edit: mostly works. only things that dont work are the killfeed and scoreboard but i'm having a crazy amount of trouble with those, I think the game is actually overriding them on its own. but all chat, killcams, targetids, etc work.

i'm on it

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http://puu.sh/reYsP/8b7ccbb2eb.png

oh shit

http://puu.sh/reXwC/dff0e0e712.png

i seriously like that engineer skin

make him lose a nerd star with shitposting

oh I think I just realized what it might be

sv_allow_point_servercommand always

try putting that in your autoexec before the map load command

I kind of find it not okay that star was streaming at the same time as toth

like I kind of get it, he's a streamer now, but the fact that his fanbase isn't supporting it this year (mostly because they don't know because he didn't tell them) is kind of a big blow

we raised $75k as of the end of today's stream, but that also factors in the roughly ~30k from pre-stream donations, so really only about $45k was brought in during the stream, and I don't know if that trend will continue for days 2 and 3. hopefully it'll pick up because it's the weekend but I really don't know.

In fact the only youtuber to call out ToTH was Dane... Star, Jerma, and Muselk didn't bring any attention to it like they did last year, and it's really hurting. Which is a shame because so much goes into organizing this thing, and this year it's the biggest and most elaborate it's ever been. I really wish they'd give it a shout out so that it can pay off.

edit: this was posted before jerma showed up on cam today

i wasn't being serious

A good rule of thumb is finding anything with SeaSonic as an OEM. While they sell their own parts (which are always good values) sometimes you can find rebrands (like Antec or Corsair) that still use Seasonic internally, for cheaper.

Just go to this website, click the desired brand name at the top, and look at the listed OEM of each PSU model.

There are other good power supply OEMs besides SeaSonic but not all of them are universally good, and Seasonic is prolific enough and generally cheap enough that looking for them is an easy rule of thumb.

@Setsul if you know of any better PSU OEM databases I'd love to know. The Who's Who In Power Supplies articles haven't been updated for years, and while going for old models listed there isn't a big problem, there are plenty of new models with no easy information available, on top of the fact that OEMs sometimes change.

i heard through the grapevine that smesi was forking yahud...