Gold

TL;DR: I'm old but Gold.

I've been playing League for over nine years now, and the dream always was to be above average. It's not a big dream, but there you go.

When we still had ELO, that meant being above 1200 (I never was). As soon as we had the ranked system, I wanted to be Gold. That's where the shiny borders are. That's where you get skins. That's where you can tell people you're actually kinda decent at this game.

The problem always was that I suck. My already non-existent mechanical skills managed to deteriorate even further after I hit 40. I also can't play every day, since my family and my job come first. And there's always too much happening on the screen for me to follow. I regularly confuse my own character with one of my teammates. I'm incapable of outplaying anyone.

So what I do is play braindead champions in the toplane, disable chat, ward as much as possible, bash towers whenever I can, and let the young folk carry me.

This afternoon it finally happened. I goofed

I wonder if he got banned for inting since its gold elo and people tend to report even if you end the game as 0/5/8 etc you know what I mean. also 0/17/0 in 15mins is alot and enough for 14 day ban.

EDIT: The player actually got banned for inting https://www.reddit.com/user/BearOsama/comments/gzhmtw/only_one_game_listed_below/

https://preview.redd.it/9rb817h97r351.png?width=540&format=png&auto=webp&s=e3aeea37b9adba69ff99c02c3c80de2620cde8c9

I’m still disappointed.

Edit: I never realised Reddit had so many geologists. Also yes, quicksand! Hello Brollin!

I don’t know what riot has done to the MMR system but the fact that these types of players can have such absurd win rates and still be playing against their own rank is beyond me. This guy literally plays just to ruin games and take elo away from people who are trying to climb to plat.

This is the op.gg for those interested:

https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=BIG+EGO+GLONK

Riot seriously needs to look into ways of combatting smurfs because every game from gold-plat is riddled with them to the point that my buddy and I will get one every 1-3 games. Sometimes we win but often we don’t and it completely ruins the dynamic of climbing at lower ranks.

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He got this guitar for his undergrad present from his parents over 12 years ago and I feel horrible. He is being very sweet about it but I am absolutely horrified. Is this an easy fix for a luthier? I plan to call around tomorrow to get prices but I feel anxious that this can't even be fixed.

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EDIT: Since a lot of people are asking what I was doing with the guitar when it fell. . .it's on a stand without straps around the neck. It got bumped into and fell. I was not physically handling the guitar.

EDIT #2: Thanks for all of the information, tips and kind words! You guys are a kick ass subreddit! Really helpful and nice people! Good little community you have here! I can't believe how many responses I've gotten!

China refuses to acknowledge Ty won.

I'm gonna start off by saying, I know not everyone will agree with me but hear me out. Yesterday, the moment Ultimate Guaranteed SBC came out, there were a good chunk of people packing Sancho, a great card worth well over 500k, as it turns out EA screwed up the percentages of packing him in contrast to others players and withdrew the SBC for a couple of minutes, rightly so! Now after re-releasing it the drop rates were evidently nerfed, I watched some streamers yesterday and saw Oblak pop up like 3 times in a row, Carvajal, Trent and Henderson were also popping up more than the initial release, so it's obvious this is the pack that EA meant to give out in the first place. Now in my case, which is obviously biased, I couldn't do it during the initial release, when they were giving out Sanchos left, right and centre, and when I logged in and was putting my squad together they took it down, fine. Anyways, ended up packing Carvajal, and I really coulda used a Sancho, lol.

After they addre

Davy Jones alone is an achievement in technical cinema. His character design is flawless. I have yet to see the likes of him represented in the same way - and while a couple films come close, ILM's VFX in Dead Man’s Chest have proven to be timeless. There is not one point in the film where my suspension of disbelief was compromised.

I was dead-convinced Davy Jones was real - like genuinely real-real. I could have sworn it was some sort of combination between animatronics/makeup and masks, but the fact that his character is 100% completely computer generated speaks volumes to the incredible craftsmanship of the animators and artists who worked on this film. Bill Nighy's performance is amazing, too. Truly groundbreaking in all his tentacle porn glory.

I think there's also something to be said about the cinematography. This film is extremely well-shot. Gore Verbinski's camerawork is off-the-charts incredible. I really appreciate the colour grading and distinct use of film grain in

This recent post made by u/Covidgoblinx shows that there is a serious problem on the bossing highscores.

https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/h8riay/1425_of_current_barrows_kc_front_page_has_been/

Every single boss highscore is filled with obvious RWT'ers/ bots that have been farming these bosses over and over.

At this point this has become a serious problem. Not just Barrows, almost every top boss kc highscore is filled with obvious bots/ gold farmers. TOB, check. Cox? check. Zalcano? don't even get me started. To be fair, jagex should just do a check every now and then to ban these obvious gold farmers/bots but ever since the highscores came out, nothing has been done.

As a legit player who attempted to get to the top page of a bossing highscore it's just impossible and feels so demotivating, knowing that those people have been sellng gold for so long. Those gold

A close friend of mine asked me if I would dm for her and her boyfriend. The boy friend always dms and would like to play for once. I'm happy to do so, they bring in a third. I invite another close friend of mine who knows the girlfriend, as they are good friends but also the pc's are Bulgarian and they are quite literally the only Bulgarian's I know. The campaign was in English but I was more than happy to let them discuss what they wanted to do out of character in Bulgarian.

So I homebrew my own 5e setting but everything else is standard 5e. The party completes their first big job and they level up to 2nd. I give them each 100 gold and keys for a house to stay in for the duration of the campaign, I wanted to show the generosity of their employer. The employer says they have a few days before she'll contact them again with a new job.

The next in game day the boyfriend wants to go shopping and says he wants to buy a +1 magic shield and would he be able to find one. I tell him that h

I mean I get the bot hate, but this sub just seems to give gold buyers the slap on the wrist. I mean we know its more cost-effective to buy gold but doesn't make it good. Gold buyers also ruin the economy just like botters, so I don't know why this sub turns a blind eye to them.

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