THE PiNNACLE OF DiGiTAL SPORTS
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Final score:
[spoiler]Team XBOCT: 1 tower
Team rOtk: 110 kills[/spoiler]Three players picked heroes banned from competitive play, [spoiler]and one player picked a hero that is not in the game yet.[/spoiler]
When that happened, there was a huge [spoiler]explosion[/spoiler]. In the stadium.
The star player finished the game with a score of [spoiler]0 kills[/spoiler].
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That link played music so I hit apple-left.
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That link played music so I hit apple-left.
If the music wasn't this, then they fail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OzWIFX8M-Y
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If by "music" you mean "a Ukrainian man introducing his team" then you'd be right.
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I mean an "ominous" oboe or double bass. My tolerance for unexpected sounds ends after about 2 seconds.
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It's too bad the timer started at "3 seconds until game", then, or you would have been able to watch that video.
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Everyone on that stage -and- in the crowd wanted her to just shut up and let them play.
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That's the strangest keyboard shortcut for "mute" I've ever seen.
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So which of these games should I be watching? Is it "null vs null"?
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Is it angry mutated sea bass?
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I don't know what was going on yesterday, but I was in a sportsbar and someone was playing futbol wearing jerseys that read "Xbox". Anyone know what was up with that?
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I was in a sportsbar and someone was playing futbol wearing jerseys that read "Xbox"
That seems like it would be problematic due to tables and other patrons getting in the way.
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They were playing in a bar? You have huge sportsbars.
Xbox sponsors the Seattle Sounders FC.
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That's the strangest keyboard shortcut for "mute" I've ever seen.
I don't want to mute the system. I typically already have music or Netflix playing. The video was about twice as loud.
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I was a stupid joke, but you bring a good point about already being playing something.
Wait, no you don't. Why would you play two different media at the same time?
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I wouldn't. And that's why I closed the web page playing media I wasn't interested in watching or listening to.
Here is the sequence of events:
- I play music
- Ben posts a link
- I click a link
- It plays video unexpectedly
- I hit back
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Ok. I personally expected a video before clicking the link, because the URL contains the word "watch", but I don't blame you for not noticing such a small detail.
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[spoiler][/spoiler]
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What did Discourse do to the colors in my screenshot?
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Blurred them?
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Side-by-side comparison:
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Are they supposed to look different?
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Am I going crazy, or does the smoke on the left side look really bad on the left but not on the right?
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Note: you are trying to show that discourse does something to screw up an image by posting a side by side between screwy and original. You then put the comparison on the thing that supposedly screws stuff up. Do you not see where problems could be introduced in your demonstration?
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Also, it doesn't blur the image until it fully loads. Nice.
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On windows, the windows mixer allows you to mute individual tabs on chrome which might be playing sound, or mute chrome on a whole. Does mac not support this?
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I need to port the style I had in Chrome/Stylebot to Firefox to deal with that blurry shit.
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I think the spoiler is what messed it up. Hence, no spoiler on the comparison.
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Not as far as I know. But I haven't kept up with OS X features in a few years. I'll look into it later.
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They look identical to me, on this screen. Whatever is going on, it's more likely an issue with rendering or entirely imaginary than a DC
misfeature. This time.If you really want to look for nit-picky differences in the images, use a comparison tool. Subtract one image from the other and see if the result contains any information. (If DC converted it to JPG, it should have minor differences. Otherwise, not.)
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Maybe if I post a screenshot that isn't scaled down as much, you can see it:
Here's the original image:
Here's what Discourse shows with its spoilers:
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OK, by zooming in to 200% on that zoom-in, I can see that there's been a smoothing step. Subtle though.
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Maybe all my monitors are set up wrong, but the smoke on the left seems to be 8-bit in the Discourse version. It's the opposite of smooth.
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Reducing colours to save on teh bandwidths.
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The thing is, Discourse didn't download my image. They managed to mess up the colors using CSS and SVG filters.
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Sorry, @ben_lubar, this time it's Google's fault. As per spec:
"A value of zero disables the effect of the given filter primitive (i.e., the result is the filter input image)."
And yep, the filter is being disabled by:
<feGaussianBlur id="gaussian-1" stdDeviation="0"></feGaussianBlur>
IE seems to get it fine, Chrome screws it up.
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I think this is mostly just your browser, you were complaining about a 240p youtube video the other day...
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Do you not see where problems could be introduced in your demonstration?
I think of this when TV manufacturers advertise on TV
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I think of this when TV manufacturers advertise on TV
And especially this comment:
@Furor Teutonicus said:
if you can see a T.V advert on your current T.V that is good enough to make you wish to buy the advertised product, then it is good enough not to need the new one.
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Exactly my thoughts when I saw the TV advertisements for those four colour screens. The ads for audio products also amuse me. "Listen to this awesome bass and supreme clarity you can have if you buy our speakers."
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Three players picked heroes banned from competitive play, and one player picked a hero that is not in the game yet.
That's pretty awesome. Did they have stated reasons other than dumbassery?
Years ago when I played Ultima Online someone figured out that the daggers newbies get, when coupled with deadly poison obtained from an alt, could be used in groups against max-level players to devastating effect.
So you'd have people trying to go into a dungeon only to be met just inside the entrance, where monsters don't normally spawn, by half a dozen people in newbie clothes and poisoned daggers, who would manage to kill you.
Because Origin was a bunch of pricks they didn't make much effort to stamp out griefing.
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They probably picked them so they could play those heroes in a semi-competitive setting. Otherwise they'd be restricted to playing them in unranked practice matches against random people. In the case of the hero that wasn't in the game yet (Techies) it was a promotion for the latest update.
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Years ago when I played Ultima Online someone figured out that the daggers newbies get, when coupled with deadly poison obtained from an alt, could be used in groups against max-level players to devastating effect.
So you'd have people trying to go into a dungeon only to be met just inside the entrance, where monsters don't normally spawn, by half a dozen people in newbie clothes and poisoned daggers, who would manage to kill you.
Because Origin was a bunch of pricks they didn't make much effort to stamp out griefing.
Why didn't you just find a way to take their hand and slap it right back into their own face? (I really don't get what it is about people and 'griefers' in a sandbox-style game; part of the point of the game is that there's pretty much always some countermeasure to whatever the other guy is trying to pull on you.)
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That's the thing--there really wasn't a countermeasure, except maybe having a legion of non-newb alts waiting at the dungeon entrance to gank the newb-alt death squads. Who wants to take time out from gaming for that?
In some ways, UO was like this place: it seems like half the server population was griefers. And Origin really didn't care as long as people kept paying them. It's been about 15 years so I don't remember enough about the details of how it worked except it was an exploit of mechanics, and that Origin didn't make any effort for a really long time to close it--and in fact, their eventual solution was basically to twin each server and make one of the twins be non-PVP, but that was probably a year later. IIRC until that point there were essentially no non-pvp servers.