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Aaaand level 60. Huh.

Those last few years flew by. It's a little crazy to think how much my life has changed over this level grind, heh.

Level 59!

Wow, only one more to go? Time's a bitch.

Level 57!

Moved from #43 to #45 since gaining level 56 (Which is also the last post I made on the forums).

Life too stronk.

Level 56! Too bad I fell short of the pre-re-redesign version though. That one was great.

In other news, dropped an experience rank down to #43. I guess life hit me like a freight train when I started my game development career. I don't even remember missing any days :(

I'm a software engineer for League of Legends, and luckily enough it's what I want to be doing!

Even if it was determined that adding an edit button would bring all sorts of great value to the forums (I personally don't think it ever has to any forum, but that's a different discussion), then it would still have to be weighed against other features that developers could be working on instead. There's a lot to be said in that point, given the current redesign and its incremental release plan. Good on NG for shelving, nay, trashing such a silly request in favor of things that are much more widely user-facing and valuable (e.g. the redesign). Apparently, the forums itself, being the tiny slice of the NG userbase it is, can't even definitively say whether this is even desired in the first place.

At 10 hours ago, Phylos wrote: I was at 35,470 exp, voted on a bunch of stuff to be sure I have more than 5 votes, checked my profile and it still says 35,470.

Checking community > rankings and setting the filter to "Deposits" to show the latest deposits seem to show that depositing exp only worked for a very short time yesterday.

I might be crazy, but I seem to have this issue as well. I was able to deposit my experience shortly after midnight EST on the day of the redesign to make sure I was good (Easy to do when you're a few hours behind on the West coast!) but I don't seem to have received any EXP after that. I don't recall exactly how much EXP I had at the moment, but I do know that the 50 EXP gap I had on the person ranked below me is now 30 EXP and I seem to be helpless :[

I liked the awesome sword I had pre-re-re-redesign, but I'll take the golden chainsaw.

Merry Christmas all!

And level 55, one of the coolest of them all in my opinion.

At 12/20/11 09:46 AM, Shmossy wrote:

Really? Could you perhaps provide some sort of proof for that? It's pretty cool if it's true.

I could, but I'm okay with you assuming I'm a liar if I don't have to give out information that would prove it. Maybe at a later time :p

Hi!

I'm actually an engineer at Riot, so I'm totally in favor of having a good LoL thread.

"Indie" might not be the best descriptor anymore, as Riot and LoL seem to have become industry giants over the past year or so. We have a crazy amount of players (That infographic is probably already out of date). Heck, we're the only non-Korean game developer to have ever become a top 10 game in Korea other than Blizzard (Which they last did 7 years ago) and we haven't even been in open beta for a week there.

Oh, and my favorite champion is Fizz. Nothing feels better than executing a good trollpole.

This topic has been done before, but I think most of you know that...

At 10/15/11 05:52 AM, Bahamut wrote:

And I'll be the first dragon to reach level six-oh wait, there's Rage. Curse him!

Relax. Number two on a site with this many people is still pretty good.

Yeah, I just appeared out of nowhere to assure you that. Deal with it.

Level 54!

New busy job and time zone change trying to work against me, but I still manage find a minute to deposit and check on how NG is doing.

At 7/27/11 06:08 PM, Rhinocerider wrote: Also, the author mentioned that AMD classed them as Entry level processors. That sort of confuses me, as the benchmarks from PassMark rate it pretty high. The ones that Rage provided however are quite lower though, so maybe that's why.

That's because it IS an entry level processor. The first picture I posted in this thread pretty much summarizes how the A8-3850 peforms with respect to everything else. There doesn't seem to be any good explanation for why it has inflated passmark scores.

At 7/27/11 05:20 PM, Rhinocerider wrote:

I looked up some benchmark results on PassMark's site, and they seem to have higher ratings for the AMD APU's there. As predicted, Intel still has the best enthusiast end processors, but the scores it gets on PassMark says that it beats out a few i7s, as well as Hex-core AMD processors. Screenshot provided below.

If you believe those charts, I have a bridge to sell you. This processor uses the same old Phenom II architecture. You seriously think that the A8-3850 performs better than the same-architecture six-core higher-clocked 1090T? Those charts are obviously inaccurate as hell. Try looking at a real review of that processor which shows that it performs on par with Intels ancient-as-hell Core2 Q6600, and, in summary, is "Pretty much an athlon II X4"

At 7/27/11 05:52 PM, KN-Productions wrote:

Arn't the 2nd gen I's based of the sandy bridge? so are you contradicting yourself? And it is not your typical integrated graphics, there is more to it then that. Just check out Newegg's interview with AMD http://www.newegg.com/Store/Category.asp x?Category=34&name=CPUs-Processors if you don't believe me.

You said all i-series processors come with graphics. How did I contradict myself by saying that's not true? I also linked you to a website that actually reviewed the performance of that processor's graphics. Having me watch an interview with AMD isn't going to change the real world performance numbers.

At 7/27/11 05:19 PM, KN-Productions wrote:

The Processor and GPU are one in the case making it very important to a score. You know GPU's can do other things then just graphics.

So you get a crappy CPU with dedicated graphics that are notably worse than a $40 graphics card. Whoopee. Look, it's great for ultra low budget/power setups, but it is not at ALL what you're trying to say it is.

Why do you think every i'series processor comes with an intel graphics chip installed? The same chips you can find in Netbooks mind you.

No they don't. Only certain low-end/mobile CPUs and most Sandy Bridge processors have them.

OP obviously has no idea what they're talking about and just likes AMD. That doesn't make spreading misinformation like this OK, though.

At 7/24/11 06:05 PM, LulzCal wrote: AMD is the way to go. You will save a hell of a lot of money, and as the guy above said AMD Phenom x6 will be a very future proof option and cheaper than many of the high end Intel x4 CPUs.

At 7/24/11 05:51 PM, bgraybr wrote: Get an AMD processor instead. They're the same quality and a lot cheaper. You could probably get a new 6-core AMD CPU for the price of that Intel quad core. A lot of people are die-hard Intel fanboys but I can assure you that AMD is a good choice.

People like this who are saying AMD is better have no idea what they're talking about. AMD is so behind the game right now that it's embarrassing. It's not even a question of who is a fanboy of who, but more of a "Why the hell has AMD been standing still for the past several years" sort of thing. In other words, evidently you guys don't really keep up with hardware much because AMD sucks ass right now if you're looking to build a new computer. It's gotten so silly that even Intel's quad cores completely destroy AMD's six cores, even in multithreaded tasks like 3D rendering. Don't take my word for it, there's plenty of evidence online.

Chart on the left: Gaming benchmark for L4D2, starting from the top. All the blue bars are Intel processors, with the first AMD processor (green) showing up in 21st place with the Phemon X4 980 black edition.

Chart on the right: A more multithreaded benchmark, with AMD showing up in 19th place with the Phenom II X6 1100T. It's behind a bunch of 4-cores despite having 6.

Those two processors are among AMD's best offerings. Here's to hoping that AMD's bulldozer architecture brings some actual competition to the market. Normally I wouldn't post something so verbose like this, but you guys actually had the poor OP looking in to AMD processors on a $1500 budget and it just had to stop.

I've made stuff with 'em before.

Okay. Evidently I'm speaking for myself here, but I'm still trying to figure out why the hell I'm suddenly hearing about this book on every forum and website I frequent. We're talking about places whose users, usually geeks, gamers, and dweebs who usually don't touch books to begin with, are completely drooling over it. It feels like I missed some sort of giant worldwide memo here. Is it just because there's a fancy TV series for them? If this is book five, how come I didn't see drooling and discussions for the first four books?

More importantly, are the dragons in these books awesome and epic? Or stupid beasts that get killed with some tiny dude with a sword? Or, even worse, one of those books that put "dragons" in the title to sound awesome when they hardly have anything to do with the story? Help me out here...

Happy Birthday! Here's a cake that would probably be too cool for either of us to eat.

I'm still the original dragon loving mod ;)

I wouldn't mind playing some casual games with NG folks. I'm currently in the process of receiving an offer from Riot Games and will be working on LoL as a platform engineer soon. I haven't had time to play much and probably suck (I'm only level 9 and have never played versus human opponents), but it would be nice to get some more time in before I'm surrounded by people who play the game constantly.

With my new 15.00 voting power, I have entered the highest echelon of voting power goodness! Success!

Okay, I don't know what exact EXP amount one needs to actually pass 15, but if NG tells me my votes are worth that much, it's good enough for me!

It appears that OP is an alt of the user that submitted this game.

You're still a bunch of assholes for downvoting what could have been an innocent author's game. Anybody who didn't like somebody's submission could easily use you idiots to try and wreck their score. Let's just call it a day now.

PNGs are good for images with a limited color palette like line art, various web design elements, etc. Like you said, they can also support having alpha (indexed or in its own channel). JPEGs are good for images with a lot of gradated/varied colors like photographs, paintings, etc. You can't just say one is superior to the other. Try saving a photograph as a PNG-8 and see how shitty it looks. Then try saving it as a PNG-24 and see how huge the filesize is. Then you'll see a good example of where a JPEG should be used.

Yeah, I'm sure there are many cases where people save an image as a JPEG when it'd be better off as a different format. Probably because it's so ubiquitous (i.e. I've seen old people call all digital images JPEGs). I'm also sure that people sometimes set the compression quality a lot lower than they need to, but that's their own fault. Still, for things like various artworks, a JPEG with the highest quality settings is indistinguishable from a lossless PNG (except maybe at the pixel level) and is often a fraction of the filesize. Also, many browsers and software libraries out there don't seem to fully support PNGs with alpha channels.

Also, if you're an artist, releasing only compressed JPEGs of your work may increase the strength of your ownership if you're the only one capable of producing an uncompressed version of the image (For printing purposes, merchandising, etc). So yeah. There's a few reasons that people use JPEGs.

At 6/17/11 09:17 PM, amplefied wrote:

At 6/17/11 08:24 PM, liljim wrote: Buy an SSD. Defragmenting it will make it cry, so don't do it. AND you will never need to defragment an SSD and it'll be faster than the crap you're used to.

The bad news is that SSDs are smaller drives than your regular drives.

That's why you RAID0 a bunch of them together! (With proper backup of course)

There really isn't that much of a speed gain because the OS sucks that way

Spoken like a person who has never used one.

Politics forum, please.

At 5/21/11 02:59 PM, Lorkas wrote: To hate "tweening" is pretty retarded. It's just a function. It's like saying "Dude you used a paintbrush for this painting wtf man"

Pretty much this. Not to mention it's a tool that's used, in some incarnation, in pretty much every piece of media nowadays. Chances are if you're not doing it frame by frame, you're "tweening" it. Keyframes in 3D animation, gradually changing one value (like opacity) to another, simple animations, etc. Might as well hate on people who use computers altogether. Any tool has potential for misuse.

And yeah I thought this was about the age group too. Probably because something like this would really belong in the animation forum.

Awesome pictures, thanks for sharing.