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Carrying on the tradition till the end ;_;7

My mom found this, seems to be him https://www.wonews.com/blog.aspx?ID=2982 Fucking, im remembering the games he gifted me now, the generous bastard.

This is terrifying man. I can't even imagine how his family must feel. In 2012 my mother collapsed in the middle of a hallway and was rushed to the hospital. Turned out she had a heart defect and a weak heart in general (She lived, don't worry). That also turned out to be genetic and I share the same heart defect. I was told at the time that dying in my forties was a real possibility if I didn't take care of myself. It's something that lingers in the back of my consciousness at all times and in the days following those news, I was pretty down about things. I thought shit was fucking unfair actually. Today it doesn't really bother me, it only really pops back into my thoughts when I'm having a really bad day, or when something like this happens to remind me of my own mortality. Reading this thread, I initially thought it was some sort of joke in poor taste, but I've come to understand that it is genuine. I cannot claim to have been close to XYTWO, but he definitely deserved better than this. All human beings do. God rest his soul. I was upset with the prospects of dying a middle-aged man, but XYTWO died in the hospital at age 18. Talk about not fair.

[audible pain]

I never met the guy, but damn if that isn't sobering. Mortality is something I've been contemplating of late, and I've decided that it scares the hell out of me. For something like this to happen so suddenly to someone so young is stoking that internal flame once again. I guess he found out what's on the other side before any of us did. Good luck, man. I hope it's exactly what you wanted it to be.

I still think it's the right thing to do to tell is family how much he means to us.

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I'd like to say one thing about him and that's when I got here (and now too but that's irrelevant) I didn't have a thing in common with you guys. You all made me feel welcome naturally since you guys aren't dicks but he was one of few people that I got to know real well right away; maybe it was because I have tendencies to go borderline Davjo with amount of talking I do to some people but regardless, he was a great guy to talk to. He especially was a guy I had little that we had in common with but despite that he still had time to talk, a shame to hear this. copypasta from TIAM because i didn't see this thread mods delete the corresponding TIAM post thanks

Swiggity swooty I'm blinkin' for dat booty.

  Should we instead donate to this fund? The family doesn't seem to want cards, and I'm not sure if random friends on the internet would mean much to them.  

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Pre-record, upload, put on subspuf, send to family all at once.

We should reach out to the family soon, I think. I don't know how, or how we should plan it out, but it just seems like the right thing to do.

You are objectively the worst person in the world.

Evil, how the heck did you track down his roommate? Kudos for that. I barely ever spoke with XY on steam, but he was a pretty cool guy. At first I didn't like him, because he was new and I mistrust all new people here. But then after a while he wasn't so new anymore, and had settled quite nicely into our dysfunctional little nerd family. He will be missed.

I don't really post on here, like, ever, but I'm really saddened to hear of XYTWO's death. I'd wondered but never even learned why he used that as his username. My condolences to his family and friends.

If you like that genre, try some stuff from Repo! The Genetic Opera.

Is there anything to Techies other than hoping that the other team has no map awareness/gem/wards Well, they're fun, regardless of whether you win or lose, which is one of my biggest factors in favorite heroes (see 'How I Learnt to Stop Supporting and Love the Axe.') But for further discussion, there's a number of things: A gem is your Achilles' heel, but requires a 900 gold investment, and it is rarely the carry or a high-earning player who buys it, but usually a support. Gems remove your ability to place mines in plain sight, which is a shame, but there are several spots where an enemy cannot have vision without more assistance. This includes most uphill areas, the Roshan pit, and several spots in the jungles (such as the thin 'tree tunnel' in the Radiant camp near the middle tower.) However, gems are not bad, and if anything, there are two major advantages to an enemy team who buys one. Firstly, your mere presence has forced the enemy team to shell out 900 gold, which is one of Techies' strengths - his ability to starve an enemy of their economy. Secondly, if they do buy a gem, in my experience, 75% of the time, it will go on a support, and supports are usually quite squishy. Get a friend, suicide on top of them, and would you look at that? There's a free gem right here! Some would prefer it to stay in the fountain, but it's honestly more useful for your team to carry one as opposed to leaving it be (unless you have invisible-dependent teammates.) Basically the gem does counter Techies quite well, but there are usually ways around it, and the gem itself forces the enemy to make an investment and paint a big "Eat Me" sign on a support of theirs. Wards are a shorter-term solution to your mining antics, usually seen in the early game. Easy way to get around them? Play support. Think of the usual ward spots - rune spots, mid lane river bank, enemy jungle, uphill areas, etc. Don't put mines there - it's not a problem, there's a lot of space in the map to work with. Alternatively, if you feel you can't work around it (such as a rune spot overlooking Roshan and your buddy Ursa wants to go Aegis hunting soon) just deward them. Okay, Techies has enough trouble with gold in the early game to begin with, but one of two things will occur - they will ignore it, and you can mine to your heart's content - or they will deward and ward again, which requires another 350 gold from their pockets. Once again, just going out and doing things makes their wallets lighter, and is the key factor in how Techies can snowball. Map awareness is a general skill that most players will have. You can't really have tips or tricks to get around, other than not being seen. The only relevant advice I can think of is if your team isn't investing in smokes, you can buy one every now and then to get into enemy lines. I found this particularly effective in a game with an enemy jungling early on. Smoke up, run past the wards unseen, plant mines on those camps, head back out. Again, you have a win/win scenario - if they saw you, they'll usually panic and invest more gold into dewarding your mines or have to painfully remove them by hand (which takes them time and health) or they didn't and Chen is in for a nasty shock when all of his camps are empty and his Centaurs just exploded. Honestly, map awareness and detection is not the biggest problem as Techies, but it's time. In most of my games, the enemy team has been intelligent enough to just start pushing as early as possible. The sooner they start pushing, the weaker your mines are (lacking levels in remote mines or an Aghs in particular, but not having stasis traps is also a big problem) and the less effective you can be. Modus operandi is to be so elusive, so distracting, and so fucking frustrating, so that they focus on you and forget about the rest of the game. tl;dr: Enemies buying gems and wards and being clever hurts you, but their investment and focus on you is also a boon (and hurts their wallets.) Use tricks to get around it, or use it to your advantage (taking that gem off their hands, or just being fucking irritating and keeping their attention on you and not your teammates.) Teams pushing quickly and removing your map control is a bigger problem. Haven't proof read this, sorry for typos.

reading a webcomic I got linked and this gem showed up

In a sweeping act of goodwill:

that's like saying Engie counters Demom- O-oh. Right.