Have you even played HoN? It doesn't seem like it... or maybe just a couple Easy Mode games?

What? I'm not even sure what you're trying to say. Are you saying denying against a caster enemy is pointless because they aren't as gold dependent? If so, that's not true. While it may not hurt a caster as much as a carry, it's far from pointless.

Huh? There are numerous items that grant life stealing to ranged heroes. In fact only one of the life stealing items is melee only.

If the penalty for dying was any less than it is, dying would become a non issue and games would drag out, not ending until one team was genocide'd with long enough respawn timers to kill the base. Whereas with the current death penalties, having a strong early game can lead to a faster win. Easy Mode games are proof of this - with their increased gold and experience, dying becomes irrelevant and games drag out far far longer than regular mode, usually not ending until everyone is max level with insane items.

This is true for the first 5~10 minutes of the game, but by then teams start grouping up and fighting each other to push towers. Then again, Easy Mode players tend to sit in their lanes for 45 minutes until they're max level and geared out before they'll actually do anything, so maybe that's what you experienced.

If you like League of Legends better, that's all well and good, but you seem to be talking about HoN without any actual idea what you're talking about.

No worries, I've adopted a "it's who I am, I don't care what you think about me" attitude toward it.

Haters gonna hate, and such

I've always had trouble with math, not so much understanding it but actually doing it. It got worse over the years, not just with harder math, but any math. Eventually I could tell I was actually having anxiety attacks when asked simple math questions. Now days these anxiety attacks are actually bad enough to trigger my flight-or-fight response. It's overwhelming and hard to describe, but if I don't focus entirely on calming down, it feels like I will 'lose control'. At this point the problem makes itself worse - I can be asked something I KNOW how to solve but I end up having to concentrate so hard on self control that I can't even take time to think about the problem I was asked. Not being able to think about the problem means I can't answer it, which makes the anxiety worse, which makes it even more impossible to stop and think about the math itself.

It's been pretty crippling, both socially and in work. I do everything I can to avoid situations that will be problematic. I simply stone wall anyone who tosses math at me, shutting down with simple 'no's and 'I can't's, leading them to assume I'm unintelligent and/or uneducated - an assumption I let them have because it's easier than trying to explain what's really going on.

I've never encountered anyone who even remotely understood, so I thought it was just me having an odd, unfortunate personality quirk. I mean nerds and anxiety go hand in hand right?

Maybe I'm not alone...

I've never really felt the need to scrutinize an experience and boil down its dollars to hours-of-enjoyment ratio. You can of course - there are a lot of factors you could take into account - but generally speaking I find if I enjoyed the game, it was worth the cost.

If you find yourself questioning whether or not the game was worth it, it probably wasn't.

*SPOILER*

As mediocre as the movie was, I couldn't help but smile when Arnold shows up as a fresh T-800, looking like he just stepped off the set of the original film. Granted while there are only brief shots of his face - the rest of the scenes using typical hide-a-stunt-double camera angles - it was still a really cool scene in my opinion.

But as far as doing something more elaborate like a new Bond film starring a 'young' Sean Connery? I don't think the tech is there yet. The uncanny valley is really hard to get out of. Sure a still shot can be rendered to look flawless, but as soon as they start talking it just feels terribly uncomfortable.

The results were super cluttered. But I kept using it for about a week and suddenly I noticed the results weren't cluttered anymore. They were narrowed down to the sites I visit all the time, with the added feature of being able to type in something arbitrary if needed.

I never really used bookmarks, I was always one of those guys that just hit one letter in the address bar. At first the Awesome Bar was terrible for that style of browsing, but after it learned my habits, I really can't imagine browsing without it.