Kripparrian Could Have Killed Hearthstone.. By Disenchanting Dupes
Our friendly neighbourhood Ben Brode was out on a stroll this evening on reddit and let us in on an interesting bit of knowledge.
Kripparrian could have killed the Hearthstone servers!
How so? Apparently when you have as many cards to disenchant as Kripp, more on that in a moment, the servers simply would not have been able to handle it. Ben Brode says they're probably okay now though since TGT, when the engineers did some fun stuff with pixies and magic.
Quote from Ben BrodeThere was a point in time (pre-TGT?) when, if he had hit the button, he would have brought down Hearthstone.Thanks to the hard work of our engineers, we are probably ok now.
fingers crossed
Why Does Kripparrian Have So Many Dupes?
Kripparrian has amassed a crazy collection of duplicate cards on his quest to a full golden collection. He doesn't want to disenchant anything until he is able to craft them all in one go, and according to his updated spreadsheet, he's actually not that far off.
Reddit user drac72 predicts he needs to open around 700 more packs to get the needed dust, which is going to run Kripp somewhere around $600. Good luck Kripp!
Find Kripp on Twitch
You can tune in to his stream over at Twitch.tv/nl_kripp.
Does "crafting all cards golden" also include wild cards?
Yeah, the spreadsheet includes Naxx and GvG.
Well, are Wild cards cards as well? If so, then yes it should include Wild cards.
All of them. Even those, which nobody will ever play.
Ha, not being much a forumite or redditor I didn't realize there were people that didn't like Kripp. Watching him and Amaz improved my arena game dramaticly. Amaz is super entertaining and has an amazing camera presence. Kripp... isn't those things. But he's still damn watchable, and once you watch him enough, he comes across like a genuinely great person.
Wow, a youtuber and streamer that makes videos that his followers want to see!
How dare he.
For some extreme in-game activities I can understand, like destroying things other people have built in creative games...Not cool. But hearthstone BM-ing... I mean come the fuck on, there isn't a single Hearthstone player who doesn't Bm occasionally at people. And from the quote, about crushing and BM-ing them, I can't help but feel you're sarcasm deaf. He along with most other of the Hearthstone streamers have heavy senses of sarcasm.
he knows he gets salty and addresses it constantly, even poking fun at himself for it. I've also yet to find a time were he was wrong about a card being played was a top deck. feel free to link me to an example, but I get the feeling you say this because a group of others who don't pay close enough attention always do, and not because you saw it yourself. But like I said, link me, I'm open to being proven wrong. But keep in mind you'll be searching specifically for times where he was wrong, introducing a blatant bias for data collected. there are far more times That I've seen him call a top deck that was actually one than than seen him be wrong. Probably because most of the time i've seen him complain about top decks farther than just saying top deck and sighing, were in top deck mode where both players are out of cards and his opponent gets big minion after big minions while he gets two drops.
Purify video - People WERE upset and I for one was curious to hear what his opinion about it was and would have been more disappointed if he didn't release a video. you're letting your bad experience of him shape the way you see everything he does. besides, basically every big streamer talked about it. perhaps money is a part of it, but WAY more because their fans cared what they had to say. If you're going to make the claim that he make that video for the sole purpose of money, you have to uphold that viewpoint for all the other streamers videos on it. Amaz, toast, Noxious, Life coach... the list goes on.
Going out and saying he's narcissistic, implying his stupidity, and egocentric, based on you tube videos he makes of a children's digital card game.... is kind of a stretch, dude. And yeah it goes both ways, because none of us can definitively say he IS a good person either with that logic, but I'm not trying to say he's a good person.
How dare he." Which was a sarcastic response to your absurd anti-Kripp screed. Your reply was "I want a cookie but I am not seeing you make one for me." How does that logically follow? You acted like you were posing an interesting hypothetical thought experiment, but it wasn't even slightly related to the post you replied to.
Runehoof was suggesting, through the use of sarcasm, that complaining about what the most popular Hearthstone streamer does in the affronted tone you adopted was amusing. Why would he change his behavior when it's resulted in him getting far and away the most subscribers/followers/viewers of all the Hearthstone streamers? Nothing you've said since was in any way an answer to that question. You vaguely gestured towards the idea that something being popular isn't necessarily moral, but nothing Kripp does is immoral, either, so that's just a red herring.
I'm Posting this here as well because I think there's a lot of points to be made about Kripp, Judgements, Purify, top-deck salt, you tube content, ect,
1: I Think the most interesting thing about the video you keep referring to is the fact that in the clip highlighted, It was actually his opponent who Bm-ed him. Then after he thought his opponent gave him the win and missed lethal shouted for joy, before immediately getting soul fired and losing. he then had a good laugh at it before saying, "This is why you BM guys, can you see my soul being crushed?" and continued laughing. Although he is endorsing the BM which is probably not the best, It's in a very lighthearted fashion; It was a joke poking fun at how excited he got that he thought he won. Most of the reasoning behind the video was the comedic value behind that situation.
2: Well the compilations of salt are made, largely because he knows people enjoy watching those situations where he does get overly salty and generally acknowledges that in the preamble of those videos. And my comments were less in attempts to defend his irritation and saltiness, and more just saying that when he calls something a top-deck, it generally is a top-deck and not just some random card. I usually pay pretty close attention to when he does because I try to catch him out on it myself. But yes, he overdoes the salt on top-decks sometimes and definitely doesn't recognize when he top-decks extremely lucky nearly as much as when his opponent does.
3: People did overreact to the card in saying that its the worst card ever, and people are definitely pretty stupid, but I kind of stand with the meaning behind the reaction. The more intelligible people who were upset said they were less upset over the card, and more because of what it symbolized: Blizzard being very out of touch with its own player base, since people had been screaming their faces off for good priest cards for more than a little while at that point, and what they got was Priest of the feast which was largely underrated at the time, and the other two cards which were fairly terrible. They saved the priest cards and really put them in a spotlight since they were in the last set shown to the public (I believe) and they lifted the curtain to reveal...Purify.. It's a card that should exist, and be in the game, but even Blizzard admitted it was the wrong card to release at the time, and they should have pushed it back to a later set in favor of a card that would assist priest's competitive viability right then since they were in such a trash heap of a spot. (aka players who hit legend every season with priest couldn't do it because the decks available were so bad/ out of meta)
4: I won't really respond to this because it's not like its going to accomplish anything. I highly doubt either of us are qualified to assess whether he is a narcissistic person accurately, and doubt even more so that even if we were we could determine it through videos he puts onto you tube.
And I get what you mean with how one's name is attached to their personality. The judgments we have are going to be based off of the persona he shows us to judge. His "Kripparian" persona is developed in a strange way, but I know that we have to take much of what he says with a grain of salt.... Because he sure does add in the rest for us! ba dum Tsh.
His videos are, at the end of the day a significant source of income for him and he has to tailor what he talks about, how he acts and the titles of the videos in such a way that it gets attention and views. Because that means money for him. Every youtuber has to do it nowadays to retain viewers. while we COULD compare this to big businessmen stepping up and over people the better themselves and their business, I'm not sure how fair of a comparison that is since he's not pushing anybody lower to get higher. Some internet kids feelings might get hurt because he says something controversial, but really, that doesn't matter, largely because that same internet kid will be crying about something completely different the next day. and the next.
Look, you make some good points, but the reason you don't come off as super popular with your opinions is largely because you kind of attack your audience while making the points. The people that would be responding to your comment are going to mostly be Kripp fans, but then you pretty heavily imply that his fans are dumb for liking him. Or that he's making those people stupider. I mean if you take out some of the passive aggressiveness that we're ALL prone to indulge in because we're human, your comments could be very well received.
Calling him a narcissistic ass hat is just going to rally fanboys against you. And some always will, but if you're sensible enough with your argument I think it's strong enough to pull a lot of people to your side, if you act a little bit less radical about it. If you just claim he's not a good person and make the same argument and I probably would've been pulled by your reasoning. Claim he's a narcissistic ass hat and you lose around 90% of the people who were with you because you're taking it to an extreme. You'll never convince anybody of anything if while making your argument you accuse them of being a fanboy, stupid, mindless, ect.
Kripp has been "lying repeatedly" - what are you talking about? This is all such a load of nonsense. Nothing he has done or even COULD do in a YouTube video about Hearthstone is immoral. You need to get over yourself in a major way.
The short answer is yes beer's vegan but not all beer is vegan. Kripparrian will let you know what he drinks.
Yeah it comes down to the process - I think the filtration process to be specific.
Most beers that are clear use cow hoof (finings) that cause the yeast to sink to the bottom. If a beer is vegan it won't use finings, which is actually quite common. Doesn't really change the taste either, just makes your beer look less murky.
Been watching Kripp since he beat Hardcore Inferno in Diablo III, hands down my favorite streamer.
Yeap. He's just great. And he provides real quality content.
Favorite streamer, hands down. Critics be damned, I'd like to buy the guy a beer one day.
...Is beer vegan?
Kripp doesn't drink
I personally don't care for his stream. He annoys me almost as much as Sodapoppin does.
The only HS streamer i really like to watch is Trump. He does a good job explaining his moves and what not to help the rest of us get better at our game.
Kripp just rubs me the wrong way and always seems to BM his opponents from what i've seen. But to each their own.