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Shoulda been around when Insectan and I had just watched DieBuster, we basically spontaneously burst out into song for like a week.

Troll Warlord is currently very high on the "I want to annihilate pubs" list, especially because he enables other right-click cores so insanely well with Battle Trance. Who knew that having an ultimate ability that basically 100% guarantees one or more objectives after a teamfight past 20 minutes into the game would do well in pubs. Any experience laning him outside of middle? It sounds awful, but with the right support and a core in the mid lane who can do things with Battle Trance (Nevermore and Tiny come to mind) it could be neat I think. Also, Golden Barb of Skadi get.

Basically if you spam-clicked the "Add points to Compendium" button after having purchased a booster pack it would add them over and over again, so you could get double or even triple points from one pack.

Sorry about the double-post, but hey it's been over 24 hours. A couple of things 1. A new short Dota documentary has been released. It's only 20 minutes long and it's a neat watch. 2. The DAC compendium is currently bugged and you can exploit the purchased point boosters to level your compendium to level 150 to get the Genuine Radiance cosmetic for Alchemist. This was still a thing as of two hours prior to this post, which is when I did it. Not sure if it's been picked up and hotfixed yet. Some people speculate it is related to interface latency being a bit jittery with the compendium and that it might not be something that is hotfixable by Valve, but this would also mean that it is only possible to recreate with luck. 3. The LGD vs. C9 game in the DAC was fucking crazy and you should go watch it.

It's odd to be watching the Japanese DAC stream and understand just enough Japanese to realize that the commentator is wondering why the fuck foreigners who don't understand Japanese are even watching the stream, asking out loud if they're "otaku".

This is some next level fucking comedy.

I've been spending the past four days at home with my parents and in this time I've started watching the anime "Great Teacher Onizuka" (commonly abbreviated as "GTO") and I think this is an anime that deserves to be talked about. In the past I've lamented the overflow of anime that centers around school life, mainly high school. I've also complained about how anime today features excessive amount of truly unnecessary "fanservice" on many occasions of characters who are clearly being portrayed as underaged. Unfortunately this kind of thing has become the rule rather than the exception with most modern anime, which is made apparent by the popularity of shows such as "No Game No Life" and "Sword Art Online" (Among others). This is however a discussion for a different day. The point I am trying to make, is that even though these two things are hot topics for me when it comes to this medium of entertainment, Great Teacher Onizuka manages to incorporate both of them and still be positively intriguing to watch. So let's start from the beginning. GTO is an anime which originally aired on Japanese television 1999. It has since received an English dub and enjoyed airspace on western TV as well. It has even inspired a real life TV-drama adaptation. All in all GTO has done very well for itself, despite the fact that it ranks as one of the most vulgar anime I've ever seen. What's it about then? GTO is a story about none other than the man himself: Eikichi Onizuka, a Japanese delinquent and gang member of caliber. Or at least he used to be. Once renowned in the Tokyo prefecture as one of the toughest and meanest sons of bitches around town, Onizuka is now a reformed man and is looking to make his debut into the world of honest and hardworking people, by becoming a teacher. That is what he likes to tell people anyway. The truth is that he became a teacher mainly because of the (assumed) long holidays and of course his dream of marrying a high school girl in his forties. Not to mention working a job where one is surrounded by young, voluptuous and unspoiled young women. As it would turn out, Onizuka-sensei's dreams are very much just that, dreams. In the real world, being a teacher isn't as simple as it might sound and his troubled youth background makes it hard for him to be considered for any sort of teaching position. After a rough beginning, a fierce display of character and an incredible stroke of luck, Onizuka finds himself teaching at the "Holy Forest" Private School. Unfortunately for him, he's been assigned as the homeroom teacher for a middle-school class, rather than a high-school one and even more unfortunate is the fact that this class is made up of the most evil and devious kids in the entirety of Japan. Sounds like the beginning of a typical rom-com movie, right? One where the young hot-shot teacher manages to turn the notorious delinquent class into a bunch of straight A students through hard work and unconventional methods which earns him the ire of the rest of the teacher faculty but eventually it all ends well. Wrong. From the very beginning of the anime, GTO delves into some seriously heavy themes of emotional trauma which plague Japanese students in real life. Cold family environments, extreme bullying, honor, anxiety verging on the point of suicide and a general lack of understanding from the established (and aging) teacher faculty. Not to mention blackmail and abuse coming from the students, trying to twist the system and frame Onizuka in an attempt to get him removed from the school. Don't misunderstand now, the typical rom-com themes are certainly there, but they're joined by themes much more mature and real than you usually see in these kind of stories and I think that is a key point which makes GTO a truly excellent anime. I know I've painted this show in a pretty serious light just now, but it's also a lot of fun. Eikichi Onizuka is, for the lack of a better word, a retard. Once in a while he will man up and do the right thing, proving to people around him, students and teachers alike, that he is a genuine and respectable human being, only for it to immediately be juxtaposed with him doing the dumbest shit you could ever imagine. He's the loveable fool with a violent background. If things get serious he is not above getting into a fistfight and it's very obvious that he himself still has a lot of growing up to do. Not to mention the fact that he sometimes exerts what most people would call "Cruel and unusual" punishments upon his students. They deserve it though, many of these kids are rotten to the core and as a viewer I found myself smiling in satisfaction when Onizuka finally puts them in their place. GTO also has a lot of erotic themes in it. Onizuka himself is a hopeless pervert and the anime doesn't shy away from some rather questionable frames of middle-schoolers in their bloomers or miniskirts. It's not as insulting as many other anime (who will shove puffy vulvas in your face without remorse *cough cough* NGNL), but it is definitely there. It feels a bit more at home in GTO, considering the character that is Onizuka, but it still isn't something I can give the anime praise for and it is something that might turn a few people off. Then again, with the amount of vulgarity in the show in general, if you can't handle some "ecchi" themes here and there, you might as well not ever watch GTO.

DDOS? You must be kidding. You sure you didn't just forget to pay the hosting fees?

I'm currently watching the most disgusting thing in Vici Gaming vs LGD. VG have a Slark combined with a WD and Wisp + a Juggernaut. Slark passive + Healing Ward + Voodoo Restoration + Tether = 400hp/s on the Slark. That's fucking insane. Literally quadruple fountain healing, if not more.

Right so, a while ago I asked people to suggest me an anime to watch and I'd do it regardless of how shit it might be and see it through to the end. Gigolo suggested "Koi Kaze", Guy suggested "Gugure! Kokkuri-san", Moby sort of kinda suggested "Soul Eater" I think? Finally, Paero suggested "Free!" Here are the problems. I can't find any decent subs to watch for Koi Kaze. If anyone has some that are actually decent, please let me know. I watched the first three episodes of Gugure! Kokkuri-san with some other people and... It wasn't my thing. I know I said I'd watch it through regardless of how shitty the recommendation might be... Buuuuuuut... Yeah. Soul Eater is a bit too long for me to dedicate. I'll probably watch it someday, but I won't promise to watch through a 50-episode long anime. That leaves me with... Free!... Fuck. Seriously, does anyone have worthwhile subs for Koi Kaze?

Tobias "Shanghai" Wulff - Aarhus, Denmark Also where do I donate?

I seem to recall a case here in the Fatherland about five or so years ago, where some newly baked parents wanted to name their daughter "Rhododendron" as in the plant. I wish I was kidding. Can't really say I'm surprised about Nutella though. I've heard of kids being named "Niravana" after the band "Nirvana" and more extreme cases probably exist.

I fully support this and I will echo what Cactus said earlier in the thread: Please don't make it long-winded and needlessly emotional. Short and concise while still getting the sentiment through will be for the best.

Can you please tell your friend that he is fucking bad from me. Reading that dialogue made me genuinely angry because he sounds like 90% of the Dota 2 playerbase AKA unable to fathom that other skillbuilds exist or can be developed as the game changes, stuck in the world of cookie-cutter pro player imitation bullshit. Half a year ago? Yeah, the max crit + stats Mask of Madness Juggernaut build was probably bad, but you know what? Juggernaut's BAT got reduced and his base Agility was increased by like 30%. Any idiot could probably put 2 and 2 together and realize that with a 35% crit chance, going attack speed with a high base Agility on AN AGILITY HERO would probably be really strong. Hope he has fun in 3k bracket.

I've come to the sudden and terrifying realization that I've spent the past five hours of my morning playing Huniepop.

what a fucking casual LMFAO wHo cAREAS HAHA Xd please no cyka pasta coperino pasterino liquidino throwerino Kappa Keepo

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.

I've now taken to reading the Lucky Star 4-koma manga after experiencing symptoms of withdrawal and a gradually increasing anger over the fact that no second season of the Lucky Star TV anime exists. The good news: The manga is a lot longer than the TV series and unless I'm gravely misaken it is still being produced to this date, so there's plenty of content. The bad news: The manga eventually starts following different characters. This angers me further. On another note, I haven't slept in 20 hours. EDIT: I have now finished the Lucky Star manga.

I'm here to speak with you about a very important issue that we in the Dota2 community face everyday, memes. Memes are infiltrating our ranked queues. Memes are infiltrating our in-houses. Memes are raping our mothers and killing our fathers. The World Health Organization has traced the source to a subset of extremely toxic streamers. This group of streamers is led by the one called SirActionSlacks. If you ever come in contact with SirActionSlacks, please do a 360 and moonwalk away from his stream. Unfollow and unsubscribe. If you do this, we may still have a chance. I dream of a future where Dota2 is played in parks and playgrounds, in office and student lounges, and even in the bedroom, completely free of memes. Please support our cause.

You might experience what I did, which was an inability to put the show down. Like I said in my long blog post about LotGH, it starts out pretty slow, but following the first season climax I was hooked. It's really good if you can get past the initial episodes (Which aren't bad mind you, just not as good as the rest of the show). Speaking of things that are really good: "Seirei no Moribito". This anime is basically my wet dream. It's got all the qualities of a good Samurai story, but without all the clichés that follow, because it's not actually a Samurai story. It follows a female warrior named "Balsa" whose past is a mystery to the viewer. All you're told in the initial episodes is that she "once took the lives of eight dear people" and she now works as a bodyguard for hire in an attempt to find atonement. She will not rest until she herself has saved the lives of eight people. This anime has a number of things that really sells it though, besides the "Wandering warrior haunted by ghosts of the past" trope. Animation. It is fucking gorgeous looking. It's made by Production I.G. so it is not too big of a surprise that it looks good, but this TV anime has better quality than many animated films. Setting. Even though it might look like we're on planet earth somewhere in Asia, we're not. This world has two moons and the culture that surrounds Balsa is a mishmash of Chinese and Japanese squished together to form something unique. World building. I can't really explain this very well but there is something about the world of Seirei no Moribito that just makes so much sense. It's not an anime that spends literally entire episodes on exposition (See: Fate/Zero) but instead just makes it feel natural by the sheer detail put into the world that surrounds our heroine. It feels realistic, even though the show includes supernatural elements. You'd probably have to watch it to experience what I mean. NO FUCKING FANSERVICE. NO DUMB LOLI DEMIGODS. NO STUPID "EMBARASSING" MOMENTS. NO "KONO HENTAI, ECCHI, BAKA"... So far anyway. The truth of the matter is that I've only seen the first four episodes (4/26) of Seirei no Moribito, but with the way things are currently looking I will be very very very very very surprised if I find any of the stereotypical clichés that permeate Otaku culture in this anime TL;DR: If you like medieval/martial arts/fantasy/samurai themed stuff, give Seirei no Moribito a try. I can almost guarantee you will like it.