A baby Skittle

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Tropical Melon Berry Skittle

I was going to keep it as a pet, but someone ate it while I was away from the desk…

 

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I got myself a free Azir

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For the past week or so, every time I went on the League of Legends subreddit, I saw people discussing the pool party event thing, where if the community collects enough points, they get free stuff.

One of the posts talked about how, at this rate, it was impossible for the community to reach the grand prize, and they would barely even earn the first few prizes. Of course, this fellow failed to realize that the point of this event is to make people play more in order to get the rewards, not to just give them out at the rate the community is already playing.

Somehow, the community managed to reach the reward of everyone getting a free mystery champion.

I’ve been playing League of Legends for a pretty long time – I think I started sometime around 2012. In that time, I managed to collect a lot of champions. But, unfortunately, I don’t play quite enough to be able to unlock all the champions worth 6,300 IP.

With this mystery champion gift reward thing coming around, I wanted to make sure that I got the most value out of it as possible. I was stockpiling a bit of IP because I wasn’t really interested in buying more champions at the moment, but I decided that now was the time to spend.

There were two low-cost champions that I did not buy until this point.

One of them is Poppy. I hate Poppy. I hate how she looks, I hate what she is, I hate how she’s played, I hate her abilities, I hate her skins, and I pretty much hate everything there is to hate about Poppy.

The other is Taric. He is just too fabulous for me, and it’s irritating.

But, I decided to set aside my grudges and think realistically. What if Riot decides to gift me Poppy or Taric? Not only would that forcefully put into my possession a champion I dislike, but it would also es­sen­tial­ly waste my free champion mystery gift. So, I went ahead and spent 1,800 IP on Poppy and Taric.

Then, I went on to buying as many 4,800 IP champions as I could, effectively lowering the possibility that I get a gift of less value. I bought a few before my stockpile ran dry.

Today, I signed in to discover that my mystery gift was…

Azir Mystery Gift

Azir.

I’m pretty satisfied.

 

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BATTLEFIELD OF ETERNITY IS AWESOME

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The Battlefield of Eternity was released today as part of the Heroes of the Storm Eternal Conflict patch, and it’s amazing.

Back in June, the official Blizzard Heroes of the Storm account tweeted concept art for the Battlefield of Eternity, which I promptly favorited.

Source: https://twitter.com/BlizzHeroes/status/607286408617664512

After the patch got released today, I quickly queued up for a game and was lucky enough to get Battlefield of Eternity as my first map in my first game.

As it was loading up, I took a screenshot of the loading screen:

Heroes of the Storm Battlefield of Eternity Loading Screen

I also took a screenshot of the Immortal fight in the center of the map, when they clashed with each other during relocation.

Heroes of the Storm Battlefield of Eternity Immortals

I play on minimum graphics settings because I have a laptop with a mobility graphics processor, overall not designed for high-intensity gaming. I also prefer to keep my FPS as high as possible, particularly when I’m streaming and a lot of my processing power is being put towards that.

Even then, the map still looked nice, and met my expectation of satisfaction. I can’t wait to see it being played at maximum quality on professional/full-time streamers’ broadcasts who have high-end computers.

 

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Glacier Cherry … and Muddy Glacier Cherry

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Same drink, same flavor, same package … but the left one seemed to be taken from a muddy glacier

 

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I watched both Paul Blart: Mall Cop movies today

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Paul Blart: Mall Cop has always been some kind of meme on the Internet. I never really understood it because I had never seen the movies, so I decided to change that today.

I often saw references to Paul Blart in the comments of reddit posts, where it would be set up as if some­body was telling an anecdote. Then, the story would take an unexpected turn, something unrealistic would happen, then a reference to Paul Blart: Mall Cop would be made.

After watching the movies today, I sort of understand why Paul Blart is used as a meme.

To put it simply, the Paul Blart: Mall Cop movies are so stupid, unrealistic, and facepalm-inducing that they’re somewhat funny.

The main idea of the storyline is that there is an overweight man named Paul Blart who is a mall cop. He rides around on a Segway making sure that everyone in the mall is safe.

Paul is very dedicated to his job, and tries his best. Unfortunately for him, mall cops don’t really get the credit they deserve, and the mall’s security department is short of both status/reputation and resources. When he tries to make something right, he is often met with laughs.

In the first movie, Paul is on duty on Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) when a hostage situation erupts, putting the lives of his crush and his daughter at risk. In the second movie, Paul is at a security convention where he discovers that a bunch of criminals are trying to steal art from a hotel.

The way the story unfolds is very silly, and anything remotely close to it would never actually happen. The movie sort of gives Paul the “invincible” persona, where he can do anything, and the bad guys are unable to just shoot him and move on with their plans.

There were some pretty decently funny parts, though, and if you accept it as a movie intended to be dumb and cheesy and watch it in that context, then I’m sure at least some people will enjoy it.

 

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My third game back to League of Legends ranked solo queue

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In order to stay relevant as an entertainer in League of Legends, I decided to play a few ranked games to keep up with the game and see how it’s evolved in the months during which I haven’t really played the game seriously.

It would be fantastic if I could continue being a caster without ever playing the game, but unfortunately, doing so leaves me in the dark in a lot of areas, so it’s critical that I continue to play the game first-hand to collect personal experience.

I am proud to announce that the game is just the same as it used to be before I quit to move on to Heroes of the Storm.

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Compared to this, playing Heroes of the Storm is like gliding through the heavens while cuddling a cloud.

Edit: As a disclaimer, I’m all for a triple marksman team composition (even though it would probably not do too well against a dive composition like the one the enemy team had).

I love innovation, and would like to see Urgot in a solo lane and Ashe as support being thrown in by Kalista’s Fate’s Call, only to crowd control them even further with a point-blank guaranteed Enchanted Crystal Arrow.

What I’m pointing out in this post is the attitude that our Ashe brought into the game, as you can see by her chat messages and summoner spells.

 

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