League of Legends: My thoughts on the Twisted Treeline update

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Yesterday, there was a massive update to the Twisted Treeline map on the public beta environment on League of Legends.

If you tuned in to my stream yesterday early morning, you might have seen me showing a preview of the update. The stream was about five hours long and took place over night, so I was extremely sleepy and didn’t really have much brain processing power to be able to even think about what I was doing.

Now that a day has passed and I managed to get some sleep, I took a look back at the replay of the stream last night to come up with some well-thought-out reflections and opinions about the update.

I don’t think I really mentioned this yesterday because I was still in the thrill of trying out something completely new, but my overall feelings about the update is that I strongly dislike them.

I preferred Twisted Treeline over Summoner’s Rift before the update because I felt Twisted Treeline was a more high-action and fun map while still maintaining all of the fundamentals of Summoner’s Rift. The premise of the entire game was basically the same, but it took place with fewer players on a smaller map.

If you know my history as a gamer, you know that I have pretty good micro, but terrible macro. In the sense of League of Legends, that means that I’m great at fighting, but bad at keeping track of everything going on in the game and setting goals to push to achieve victory. I liked Twisted Treeline because there were fights breaking out all the time, and that was what I liked; there were also much fewer things to worry about because you only have to keep track of three enemies and a smaller map space with fewer objectives.

Basically, the old Twisted Treeline was just like a smaller Summoner’s Rift.

I unfortunately have to say that I feel the new Twisted Treeline is closer to a combination of Dominion and Summoner’s Rift, rather than just a smaller version of Summoner’s Rift.

When Riot wanted Twisted Treeline to have tons of action all the time, they reached an optimal level with the old map. When they tried to bump this up some more with the new map, it went over the edge, and now the fighting and action is in excess. The best way for me to describe it is that it’s basically mass chaos, now. If you truly want to secure a victory on the new map, you have to fight over and defend so many things that the entire game is basically constant fighting all over the map.

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League of Legends: New Twisted Treeline map, new champion Elise, and Harrowing preview

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I streamed for almost five hours today after the new Twisted Treeline map update, the new spider champion Elise, and the Harrowing skins were released. If you missed the stream, you can watch a replay of it below:

(Embedded player not working? Try this link. http://www.twitch.tv/parkzer/b/335979221)

I posted the link to my stream on the League of Legends forums and ended up getting around 200 viewers part-way through, which I found really funny because I wasn’t even playing that well and was curious why people would want to watch me die over and over again.

If you know about my League of Legends career, you know that I main on Twisted Treeline. At first, I was extremely excited that they were updating Twisted Treeline. Unfortunately, after playing it for five hours, my opinions have changed. I will be releasing a blog post tomorrow regarding some detailed feedback about the new map, and why I don’t like it.

 

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Ordering at McDonald’s fail

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This morning, I went to McDonald’s to buy some breakfast before heading over to the psychology building on main campus to eat and get ready for class.

Normally, it would be a relatively quick and easy process – I would order my food, swipe my credit card, wait off to the side, and get my food. But today, it took a while for that relatively easy process to even get started.

The man in front of me, who was ordering a ridiculously large breakfast for having only one body, seemed like he didn’t really understand the premise of ordering at a fast food restaurant. As expected, after he was done stating his order to the cashier, he asked the customer if he wanted the food “for here or to go” – to eat inside the restaurant, or prepared so he can take it with him.

The man’s answer was, “yes.”

The cashier, assuming that the man didn’t hear him properly, asked him again, “for here or to go?”

Again, the man responds, “yes.”

At this point, the cashier looks a bit confused, looks around at the other people around him, then decides to hit the “to go” option and finish the man’s order.

Once it got to my turn, I was considering trolling the cashier and answering his question with “yes” also, but then decided that he was probably already confused enough, and I didn’t want his brains on my breakfast after his mind gets blown.

So I said I wanted my food to go.

(Good guy Adam)

 

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Adjective Fail

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I’m sure you’ve all made, or at least seen, those name acronyms where someone takes each letter of their first name and thinks of an adjective that starts with the corresponding letter that describes the person. For example:

Anopisthographic
Delitescent
Autoschediastic
Magirist

(Disclaimer: I have no idea what any of those words mean and they most likely do not actually describe me.)

When I was walking to my psychology research lab room today, I noticed that someone else with a room in our research wing named Lauren had one of these taped to her door. I read it, then noticed something strange about the words following the R – so strange, that I had to stop and take a photo of it.

Since when was “red red wine” an adjective? And since when was “wine” a valid way to describe a human?

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Overachieving tree

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I decided to take a quick photo and put up a quick blog post today to honor this overachieving tree, all the way to the right of the photo:

The rest of the trees in my apartment are as green as can be, but this particular tree in question seems to have finished going through autumn and is preparing for winter. If there’s one thing this tree hates, it’s procras­ti­na­tion.

 

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Puppiez

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I stopped by the Badger Herald office today for a meeting, and stuck around long enough to get some work done and to chat with co-workers.

While I was out in the main editorial area looking for someone, I noticed that our ArtsEtc. editor had brought a dog to the office because she was dogsitting for her boss from a different job.

Because I live in the main campus area in Madison for university, I rarely see any pets. Even if I were to see dogs, I would only see them, and don’t have many opportunities to interact with them. So, seeing this dog in the office made me quite excited.

Apparently he gets really nervous and shivers when he’s in an unfamiliar environment, but I managed to get him to eat a bit by hand-feeding him dog food, one kernel at a time.

Yes, that made me feel accomplished.

 

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