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Do trilanes without a stun actually do anything to any sort of competent offlane hero? Doesn't sound like it.

Cut past a whole bunch of practice matches and shit that for some reason shows up on Dotabuff. I can also see that I started my first game of Dota in December 2011 and then didn't touch the game any further until April 2012. That's where it all went tumbling down. I think there is something wrong with the Dotabuff record. For some reason it shows a whole bunch of "practice games" in my history, but then stops counting bot games after that fact. I can' remember if it's because Dotabuff used to track bot games and then stopped or if it is because it is classifying those games incorrectly. EDIT: They are practice lobbies confirmed, some 1v1 middle lane against people I know in there too. Which means that I legit played ONE game in December 2011 and then I only played practice lobbies until JUNE 2012. I shit you not, half a year of practice games. Granted I didn't even play that many games in that time, apparently. I can also do a "Then & Now" thing Then Now Also that 4/24/6 Won PA game Guy, that is remarkable.

Broodmother has pretty much always been good ever since they allowed her mostly unobstructed movement over impassable terrain. I used to think that Broodmother was a bit of a cointoss, either you win your lane massively or you feed so hard that you have no chance of recovery, depending on the enemy heroes. That still holds true to an extent, but with people going 0/4/4/1 at level 9 (AKA the "No Babies" build), it evens out the cointoss. That isn't to say that the standard 4/4/1/1 build isn't still viable, but the hero has options now and it is literally impossible to lane against a 4 points Incapacitating Bite Broodmother. It is also impossible to lane against a 4 points Spawn Spiderling Broodmother who isn't an idiot.

Now, I'm not saying that the animation isn't good... Buuut... It's SHAFT and it is the Monogatari series, which is like their prized possesion in terms of making them anime bux. One can not really be surprised. I honestly think the Tsukimonogatari OP is one of their lesser great ones. I mean if you want to see SHAFT really bleed money into an OP, watch the Nisemonogatari Bee OP.

Isnt CK supposed to be based on RNG and classic board RPGs, since all his skills are based on 'dice rolls' Sort of I guess? I mean Chaos Strike's icon undoubtedly looks like a D20, that and the fact that all of his spells have an element of randomness to them. Though Icefrog has been tinkering with the actual RNG of things. Chaos Strike is PRNG now, the damage/stun on Chaos Bolt is inversed (Short stun = high damage, long stun = low damage). His skills definitely ooze of dicerolls. Speaking of Dota heroes, I am going to go ahead and compile my list of "Pick these heroes if you want to win pubs 6.83 edition" "I will win this game on my own" tier Earth Spirit Slark Broodmother 2 of us are picked every game on average tier Axe Omniknight Spirit Breaker Juggernaut Troll Warlord Faceless Void Terrorblade Jakiro Earthshaker Skywrath Mage Ogre Magi Necrophos Storm Spirit Witch Doctor Enigma Vengeful Spirit Perceived OP by pubbies, but really just mediocre tier Phantom Assassin Viper Ember Spirit I don't care about winning, girls just wanna have fun tier Everyone else I win games the moment I get my Radiance tier Spectre

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I ragequit the Call of Duty 2 singleplayer. I couldn't enjoy the British campaign because it didn't display accurate German Afrika Korps infantry tactics at all.

I don't know. I just feel CK is such a useless hero. Perhaps my perspective on the way he works is wrong, but I see no point in picking CK over any other carry in the game. As with all heroes, it is of course totally possible to completely dominate a game with Chaos Knight, but if you look back on said game, 9/10 times you could have done that with any other STR carry and probably have had an easier time doing it. His mana pool is so non-existant that you basically have to build Drums of Endurance on the hero in every game, just for that extra bit of mana. The problem with that is, with all the nerfs Drums have received over the past couple of years, the item is no-where near being as "value" as it used to be. I will concede that it has more utility on CK, because Drums passive aura and active aura applies to his illusions when they are summoned, so I guess Drums does more on CK than many other carries. He lacks any sort of ability to flash-farm reliably, which means you have to put extreme amounts of resources into making sure that his laning phase goes well. He is not like a handful of other popular carries, which either have built-in farming tools or who like to build items that accelerate farm, such as Maelstrom or Battlefury. This means, that if CK is having a bad time in lane, he will struggle a lot more throughout the game because he cannot retreat into the Jungle and get any sort of efficient farm out of it. His ultimate is a double-edged sword, because while Phantasms are by far the most powerful illusions in the game and while they are actually really strong, the cooldown on the ultimate makes it so the hero essentially makes or breaks the game with one cast of the spell. You could argue that there is similarities with other big spells, such as Ravage or Reverse Polarity, but both Tidehunter and Magnus are heroes that like to build Refresher Orb in the lategame and so their ability to blow their ultimates is a bit more relaxed, not to mention that their ultimate cooldowns are lower anyway. I also feel that Chaos Knight is a carry that pretty much needs to rush a big item, such as Heart of Tarrasque. Armlet and Manta Style are all fine and dandy, but it is my personal experience that prioritizing these smaller items on Chaos Knight, causes to the hero lack behind in a significant manner, post 30-minutes. It is my personal opinion that it is impossible to play Chaos Knight in a similar style to Sven and Wraith King. They share similarities in their primary stat, the fact that they are melee and the fact that they all have a single reliable stun. The problem is that Sven and Wraith King's other abilities, allow the heroes to be way more flexible in their gameplay style.

Is there a way to play Chaos Knight without wanting to abandon the game?

I just came here to say that the anime "Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai!" (English: "Listen to me girls, I am your father!") is up there among the worst anime I have ever seen in my entire life. I guess the title alone should have been enough to tip anyone off, but it had an okay-ish user rating and the first couple of reviews were giving it 8-9/10. Not to mention that it is a recommended watch if you enjoyed "Usagi Drop" and I loved Usagi Drop. But no. I somehow forgot that your average anime fan is a horny, drooling 15 year-old and that I can't trust user ratings on any site, ever. This show is so insulting that I am genuinely surprised that it was ever allowed to air on TV in Japan, in ANY timeslot. PnIwK! follows the daily life of a college student named Yuuta. Alright, so far so good, it's college and not high school, maybe we can avoid some of the more stereotypical tropes from school anime, seeing as we're dealing with young people here who are a bit older and a bit more aware of what it takes to enter adult life. But no. Literally one of the first things that happens, is a fat otaku student being spanked with a fan by a big-titted girl. That's not even the worst parts. Due to some circumstances, Yuuta ends up having to take care of his sister's children. Two of them are remnants from the sister's husband's last marriage and the youngest is actually his sisters child. The oldest is in high school, the middle one is in middle school and the youngest one is three years old and in kindergarten. The first episode alone contains several panty-shots of the middle school girl, not to mention a very blatant dick-sucking reference to the THREE YEAR-OLD (It has to do with a toy trumpet) and our protagonist walks in on the high school daughter undressing herself in the bathroom. True to the anime style, they both stare at each other for like 30 seconds, before the protagonist gets a nosebleed and the girl starts screaming the usual "KONO HENTAI, ECCHI!". It is also implied that the two eldest daughters have a crush on Yuuta... Their uncle... But it's OK! Because they're not actually related by blood! HAHA! Fuck Japan.

I voted Google Chrome, but if you want to be technical about it, I use Chromium.

Oh I get it. I get the joke HEY GUYS, I GOT IT, I UNDERSTOOD THE REFERENCES

Thank you Grobag! Merry Christmas boys.

18/24 Lucky Star can be quite funny, you just NEED to skip the first episode, otherwise you will spend 15 minutes of agony watching about chocolate cornets. That was the exact thing that caused me to drop the show with a fury about 1½ years ago.

18/24

Death Note is alright up until a certain point. You have to suspend your disbelief to a pretty crazy point in order to give a fuck about what is actually happening at times, but in a show with several supernatural elements in the first place, that wasn't too hard. It's a pretty fun watch if you don't take it too seriously. Then it reaches a specific episode with a specific plot twist and then the rest of the show is full fucking retard and I dropped it shortly after.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByDfJvLRX50 literal god

I swear there must be something wrong with me. When I am at home in my apartment, with Dota 2 readily available to me 24/7, not to mention a selection of good friends to stack with, I feel so apathetic about the game. I barely even want to play it, it actually kinda feels like a chore at times. The moment I leave my apartment and my computer for the Christmas holidays, I get an extreme urge to play Dota. Why is this even a thing?

I've fired off my gifts. I originally wanted to do it on the 24th and "in person", but I realized that I am really busy this Christmas and with my recipient also likely being busy for Christmas AND with timezones being a butt, it was probably for the best to just get them out there. I hope you'll enjoy them.

Confirming that I have my gifts as well, just waiting for an opportune moment to send them.

I just attempted to watch "Zankyou no Terror" or "Terror in Resonance". I write attempted, because after two whole episodes, I was fed up with ZnT. It's a shame as well, because the director is none other than Shinichiro Watanabe, who's done stuff such as Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo in the past. Regardless of what you might personally think of shows such as Bebop and Champloo, there really can't be much arguing in the aspect of them being unique. They're all about bringing different genres together in a melting pot of an anime, Bebop being mainly Blues and Sci-fi and Champloo being mainly Rap/Hip Hop and Samurai. Zankyou no Terror on the other hand, was the most bland and generic attempt at a "serious" "modern" action/mystery anime I've seen in a long time. It wades through the same tired charade of tropes, plotlines and characters, that have riddled your typical Hollywood action movie since the early 2000s. The fact that it is basically "Die Hard" from the villains perspective, sprinkled lightly with some "V for Vendetta" character backgrounds, with a bunch of troubled HIGH SCHOOL KIDS really didn't help it. Even if you just wanted some mindless action, you won't find it in Zankyou no Terror, because the show seems to think it is so clever and adds long and mostly boring conversations in between the action. The only redeeming character in the entire anime is Lisa, who unfortunately is very quickly written into a melodramatic troubled girl and that gets really old, really fast. The animation is good. That is all the positive I can say about Zankyou no Terror

I don't know if anyone remembers, but a couple of weeks ago I made a post in this thread, stating that I had been watching a ton of shoujo anime recently and that I was really enjoying Revolutionary Girl Utena. Well, I've finished it now. I actually finished it a while ago, but I didn't really post about it. I was a having a hard time collecting my thoughts on that anime. As per usual though, whenever I watch something which I thoroughly enjoy, I like to impose my opinions onto others by posting an essay on the anime in question in this thread (See: Legend of the Galactic Heroes or Hajime no Ippo, among others), because this is the only real outlet I have for these kind of things. I guess I could go join an anime forum somewhere, but I don't actually like people and you guys have acceptable taste. So I'll post my stuff here in hopes that someone might just pick up Utena, because it is 100% worth watching. ********************************************************************************************************************************** I guess I'll start by explaining why I ended up watching Utena in the first place, because if you judge this anime by looks and by whatever short synopsis you can find on various anime sites, it probably won't look or sound appealing at all. Revolutionary Girl Utena is a "Shoujo" (The opposite of "Shounen", it is aimed at younger girls) anime, which originally aired in 1997. It is an anime that has caused a lot of discussion between anime fans, because there is no clear-cut way of interpreting this anime. It released around the same time as giants such as Neon Genesis Evangelion and just like NGE, it is riddled with symbolism and it is a lot more layered than you might think at a first glance... Though it doesn't quite reach the same level of insanity which is the end of the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, so don't worry about that. It is one of those anime that is regarded by many older anime fans as a cult classic. This was the biggest reason I ended up watching Revolutionary Girl Utena, because my previous experience with older "cult classics" in anime, has shown me that I tend to genuinely enjoy those shows. A lot. Gunbuster, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Future Boy Conan, Neon Genesis Evangelion etc. That and also because Shoujo is one of the anime genres I am the least experienced with... Which I suppose is understandable, considering I am a dude. The only Shoujo I can remember watching prior to Utena, was "Kuragehime" or "Princess Jellyfish", which was alright. Enter Revolutionary Girl Utena, an anime that is presented initially a little bit like a fairy tale. In very picture book-esque manner, we are told the story of a young princess who lost her parents. As she was crying over their graves, she was approached by a prince on his white horse. The prince wipes away the young princess' tears and says to her: "Little one, who bears alone such a deep sorrow. Never lose that strength and nobility, even when you grow up. I give you this to remember this day. We will meet again. This ring will lead you to me." He proceeds to put a rose-signet ring on the girls finger and rides off into the distance. Perhaps that ring was an engagement ring? We don't know, but whatever the case, the princess was so greatly inspired by the prince, that she vowed to become a prince herself. But was that really such a good idea? Fast forward to the present time, we are introduced to the high school student "Utena Tenjou", who quite clearly is the princess from the fairy tale introduction. She is in an argument with a teacher at her high school, because she is wearing a boys uniform, she wanted to become a prince, remember? Utena is a tomboy by all respects. Dresses in boys clothing, is captain of the basketball team and in general is a very strong-willed (and not very feminine) person. She goes about her high school life as any regular student would, except she is waiting. She has been waiting for a long time. Waiting to finally be reunited with the prince who gave her the rose-signet ring all those years ago. One day, she notices a girl tending to flowers in the school's garden. This girl is being abused both verbally and physically by the captain of the Kendo team and a member of the student council, Kyouichi Saionji. As Saionji backhands the girl, Utena rushes to her aid, scolding Saionji for his behaviour and daring him to go any further. Saionji calls Utena out on her audacity, claiming that "The Rose Bride" was his to do with as he pleased and that she shouldn't get between them. It is at this point Utena notices, that Saionji is also wearing a rose-signet ring. She asks him about it and he seems equally surprised that she is wearing one and leaves in a hurry. Utena is left to introduce herself to the other girl, named Anthy Himemiya (Note: "Hime" means "Princess" in Japanese) or "The Rose Bride" as Saionji had called her. She is a very quiet, introverted and kind-hearted girl. Utena cannot for the love of her figure out why Saionji was acting the way he was towards Himemiya, especially considering that Saionji is a person admired by many girls on campus, both because of his dashing looks and swordsmanship. Later that same day, a private love-letter is posted on the school bulletin board for all to see. The love-letter was anonymous and directed towards Saionji, who obviously deemed it silly and meaningless and decided to humiliate whoever sent it by making it public. As many students gather around the letter to read and laugh at the wish-washy love drivel written in it, Utena notices her only true friend at the school, Shinohara Wakaba, standing near the crowd, at the verge of tears. Utena puts two and two together and decides that Saionji has gone too far. She marches towards the Kendo dojo and brazenly sparks a confrontation. Saionji tells her to meet him in the arena behind the school after classes and tells her that "her ring will grant her entry". Unfazed at the idea of having to duel the Kendo captain, Utena marches towards the arena after her classes and using her signet to unlock a vast door, she enters an arena which seems otherworldly. Spiralling endlessly into the sky, she climbs a staircase. At the top, she finds a circular arena, balancing at what can only be described as the top of the world. Even further above this arena, an upside-down castle floats in the sky, casting bright lights down onto the area. She is greeted by Saionji and none other than Anthy Himemiya, though she is dressed differently. Instead of the usual school uniform, she is wearing a regal looking red dress. Utena questions Himemiya's presence, but the girl seems different from before. As the duel commences, Saionji utters the words which will be echoed countless times throughout this anime: "Give me the power to revolutionize the world!" and with that, he draws a sword from Himemiya's chest... Yes, her chest. Utena herself had brought a Kendo practice sword and with that, the duel begins. As you can imagine, a wooden practice sword doesn't hold up very well against cold steel and the Kendo sword is quickly shattered, leaving Utena to dodge and weave the strikes from Saionji. I should probably mention at this point, that they were never actually aiming to kill each other, but rather to strike a rose which the Rose Bride had placed on their chests before the duel. Whoever lost their rose first, lost the duel. Just as things seemed at their worst, Utena is infused by a power emanating from the castle in the sky above. "The Power of Dios" (Dios = God in Spanish, if I am not mistaken) courses through her and with this miracle she is able to defeat Saionji, knocking the rose from his chest. Off in the distance, other members of the student council observe the duel, intrigued by this new addition to the equation. Utena learns that upon defeating Saionji, she now holds the engagement to the Rose Bride and that Anthy Himemiya is now effectively hers to command. Not that she really wanted it. This is the beginning of an insane tale of love, betrayal, growing up and shattering the image the world might have of you. What I just described to you, are the first couple of episodes of Revolutionary Girl Utena. As the series continues, it gets weirder and weirder, as more and more dots are connected in the plot. New players enter the stage, terrible secrets are unveiled and subtle symbolism hints at the truth throughout the entire anime, but you most likely won't be able to put it together until you have seen the ending and my god, what an ending. Probably one of the most brutal, yet satisfying endings I have ever seen in an anime. I cried, I'll admit it. Revolutionary Girl Utena is indeed a Shoujo, with a gratuitous amount of "bishounen" characters, not to mention very girly subplots, but the series finale is definitely not for kids, I can tell you that much right now and I don't feel any less of a man for having watched this show. Revolutionary Girl Utena is not a total dance on roses (hehe). I cannot give it full points, as it unfortunately falls flat with a few filler-esque episodes. They're not mindless fanservice or contrived sideplots, but the episodes serve no real purpose to further the main story, and because these episodes sidetrack the excellent main story, they become extremely tiring to watch. Not to mention the fact that there are quite a few recap episodes. Out of the series 39 episodes, I'd say roughly 8 of them could be completely cut, which is not exactly great. I suppose to some people, the art might be off-putting as well, I know I was having a hard time with it initially. I will also go ahead right now and say that Revolutionary Girl Utena is corny. Really corny. You know, "90s corny". It gets better as the story progresses and gets more serious, but man, the first episode especially really got to me. I know I described it in detail above, but I only really talked about the serious things. I didn't mention the corny song that plays as Utena ascends the staircase in the arena (I've come to love that song now) and I didn't mention the great one-liners uttered by some of the characters such as "Oh baby, light my fire!" in broken English. It was actually so bad, that I initially dropped Utena after the first episode. I just couldn't take it seriously. After reading other people's thoughts on it though, I decided to give it a real chance and controlled myself as I watched the beginning part... and lo and behold, it turned out to be fucking amazing, especially the last 10 episodes. 9/10, would recommend if you want to watch something that isn't braindead moe. Thank you for reading through my essay, I can't wait to receive my grade.

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Io No longer requires turning to perform any actions Riki Blink Strike max charges increased from 3/4/5 to 4/5/6 Blink Strike bonus damage from 50/70/90 to 40/70/100 Sniper Shrapnel no longer does damage to buildings Shrapnel now has 3 charges with a 40 second replenish time [?] Shrapnel mana cost reduced from 120 to 50 Shrapnel duration increased from 9 to 10 Techies Added to Captain's Mode [?]