How I Would Change League of Legends
I think every gamer ponders about the changes that they would put into place if they suddenly became the lead designer of a popular video game. Luckily, I’m making my own game, so I can actually make the changes I see fit, but it’s also nice to theorycraft about other games. One such game is League of Legends, which I think is fundamentally flawed for a game that is trying to be competitively viable.
Quote Find No. 44
“The most essential factor is persistence – the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.”
- James Whitcomb Riley
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Kiya (Blog Version)
(E-painting by Taniama3. Her deviantART account. Special thanks. >^..^<)
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Quote Find No. 43
Graphics Aren’t Everything
So in the last “League of Legends“ patch, a very significant update and upgrade for the game involved a graphics overhaul. Simply put, the game looks a lot more detailed and performs better with less frame rate issues. In particular, LoL players who have to run the game on lower settings would see more improvements to the visuals as well.
So why do I bring this up? Well, I have been one of those players who have had to play LoL on lower settings for the past two years. Basically, my laptop is not geared for gaming. I have always had to run LoL on super-low settings, axing out luxuries such as “shadows” for the characters and other novelties I cannot experience on my makeshift, gaming rig. 
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Random Kanji Knowledge: Shinka
Well, I finally took the plunge to change up my blog’s theme from the Redoable Lite I ran for more than a year (coincidentally, that was the blog theme my class group had for a blog project back in journalism school, but this is another story). I did not even realize that this blog theme was called “The Journalist v1.9“ until I just went ahead with the change.
I like this theme’s clean look that is brighter and more open, making it a huge contrast to the somewhat dimmer theme I had before. And merely by chance, I also like how the cougar cartoon looks like it is saying something because of the site’s tagline.
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The Grind
“League of Legends” utilizes an Elo rating system as a means of reflecting an individual player’s supposed skill level. Basically, you earn Elo points for winning a game, but you will lose points if you end up with a defeat in a match. After enough games, the rating you end up reaching is supposed to be a reflection of your actual strength as a player, but keep in mind the average player has to play literally hundreds of games before anything significant can be gauged.
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Itemize
In the upcoming “League of Legends” patch, Riot Games will be implementing a new item upgrade for the 
Chalice of Harmony item: 
Athene’s Unholy Grail.
All I can say is, it’s about time Riot has started to realize that a lot of items in the game are simply “bad” choices to purchase because of their overall effectiveness. By slowly making a lot of the crappy items more attractive choices during a standard match, LoL will have a more rounded and superior game for its player base.
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Kiya (Voice)
Many thanks to Imoristar for doing this full voice set of Kiya, The Feline of Fervor. >^..^<
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