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Both are fun, but I insist that Dota is the better esport.   Riot's method of balance bothers me insanely because when you have 118 champions, the single worst thing to do is to *have them all be the same*. Riot will balance OP champs by nerfing strengths and specialities, and that means every champ is brought in line with each other in that every champ is far too similar.   Icefrog's way of balancing is to instead widen a hero's weaknesses, creating just as much counterplay while keeping all 112 (107 since Icefrog isn't really balancing the heroes that have yet to be ported) heroes perfectly distinct. When you have 112/107 different play styles (and actually much more because Heroes, despite being specialists, are better than Champions at fulfilling different roles) , every single game is different. There is a bigger emphasis on strategy and less on reflex, because there simply cannot be a broad singular tactic to win.   I am also really not liking the idea of a skill-based sport require tons of time or money. Anything less and you will be at a disadvantage before your abilities as a player and as a team are even considered.

My logic was that if you wanted to be banned, that means you didn't want to visit the site.   If you didn't want to visit, you could just... not visit.     This one came under a fair amount of discussion and will probably change by the time the next guy literally wants to be banned.

At this point, if Valve ever releases HL3, ever, it will undoubtedly be met with dissapointment.   It could be the very best game to ever exist, but Valve fans will be expecting more and more.

I'm not going to this Anime Boston, but my brother is.     yeee

   

How are we going to manage this with the region swapping? Most of us would have to practically drop everything and start a new collection, or use the stock decks which sounds not fun at all.     But still:   Rammite #1819 Best Worst Paladin NA

My experience so far with Anime Boston:     I went 2011 as my first convention and well it was uh interesting

It's a callback to the original Civ-basically, Gandhi's aggressiveness was set at 1 normally.  However, adopting Freedom puts your aggressiveness back 2.  This caused a bug where he'd go into the negatives and then the computer would put him at 12 to compensate, resulting in the hyper-aggro nuke-crazy guy we all know and love (Because you usually got your ideology around the time you got nukes).  Firaxis basically just keeps that in now as a joke.   Imma nitpick - It didn't set nukes to 12 to compensate, the problem was a bit overflow: -1 didn't fit back then, so the data value for gandhi's nukes looped around to 127.   It's 12 nowadays because civ abilities will vary every game, -/+2. It's 12 so that it will always be 10 or above.

I'm not gonna lie, I teared up when hyhy started talking about his girlfriend. Anyone watching Free To Play as their first real look into competitive Dota wouldn't get it as much as we did, but knowing who won, who walked away with a million dollars, who got their dreams crushed into powder... that hurt. Also, the entirety of Dendi's backstory about his father.    It's powerful stuff. I was holding out on one line that I hoped they said, and I was hoping Jeremy Lin was gonna say it but he never did:   "It's not a game. You can't think of Dota as a game. Once you start thinking of Dota as a sport, then all the pieces start to come together."

Also, said angry parents would insist that education is useless.

It'd make of some really fun shit if you shot an engineer near his sentry.

http://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/dota2.gamepedia.com/6/60/Shadow_demon_laugh_05.mp3 Warning to headphone users

If Nintendo and Valve ever teamed up, gaming would be entirely revolutionized. We might not even recognize pre-Nintenvalve games as games anymore.

Binary you are doing god's work

Also, Stunfisk to Electric

I did a quick trip to /r/aww no purge the not-cute       And this imgur gallery of an owl http://imgur.com/a/uLRdq

You really can't forget the sight of a person haphazardly flinging chicks, not long after squirting poop out of them as if they were water guns.   It was magical.

I want it soo badly :C     But not as much as the dress to be blue/black. Why can't it swap at will? Spoiler   Post 3 of 15

I think I remember that! Dirty Jobs, a TV documentary sorta thing about gross jobs.   It's Chick Sexing, where a worker picks up a baby chicken, squeezes it to force it to poop, and then looks in the arse to determine it's gender. That gif is the sorting thingy for either the male or female chicks.

I'm going to see if I can't sum up the impending arguments.   Stop it, anti-vaxxers! You're spreading Measles! Measles was spreading anyway and to prove it, here is an extremely shady study. But aren't you worried about getting Measles? No, because our bodies are strong enough since we don't stab ourselves with viruses on purpose. But what about newborns? Their immune systems aren't strong enough for vaccinations anyway, and will die from all the Measles you have. WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL AMERICA

Guys, favorite champs for each role?   Top: Garen Jungle: Amumu/Fiddle Mid: Leblanc Support: Blitz/Leona ADC: Twitch

http://store.steampowered.com/app/235580/     BNW 75% off

ALEX YOU'RE BACK for like a second   come back :C       I mostly play support and simply don't get pentakills. A few months ago, I got a quadrakill as Leona and felt pretty fucking awesome, though.

One thing I always see in Ranked is people INSTANTLY banning Kass. I get that he's scary and no one wants to let him go through, but the pick/ban is its own game of poker. People that instaban Kass first gimp themselves because he was gonna be banned anyway, and they waste a ban on Kass as opposed to Shyv or Fizz or Vi or whatever.   Whenever its my team that's first ban, I freak out and tell the leader to ban Kass last, and 90% of the time, the enemy freaks and bans Kass anyway. Force the enemy to ban Kass and you suddenly can react better with your own bans.   also, Bronze 5 NA fuck yeah ;_;

I still play tons of League with my brother and his friends, but as of the last weekend, they are leaning more towards Dota.   I'm not all that impressed with the balance changes, especially since they can't get Kassadin or Kha'Zix right, but League remains fun. Vel'Koz is a welcome addition and isn't as OP as most newborn champs are, before that first balance change to them.