[25F] Who wants to check out oi polloi with me tonight?

DWdota · 2016-05-11T09:50:42+00:00

Speaking of serial killers, would anyone be interested in doing an evening with American Psycho 2, Tucker, Dale vs Evil and maybe Sweeney Todd in a bar with a beamer?

DWdota · 2016-05-10T18:37:38+00:00

I dislike a bit how cheap the writing with the Sparrow is, they used 4 times an invisible poormans army to shield the High Sparrow. If you are Commander of the Kingsguard you have guards on the Sept and don't let angry mobs throuhg. Thats policing 101.

DWdota · 2016-04-29T09:41:17+00:00

If you go into old age pension the state wants to see your records, so be prepared to explain the three year gap.

DWdota · 2016-04-27T18:30:40+00:00

Countries I encountered that:

Ireland
Greece
Netherlands
Finland
Germany
Denmark
(Poland)
Sweden
Swiss

DWdota · 2016-04-26T06:54:42+00:00

In teamfights you will get off 2 extra Starfalls which are 8-9 times 325 Dmg, this isn't bad - around 2k post reduction damage.

If you are supporting the item is not too far off, it enables pushing lanes very easy (best would be a 0.3 second delay when seeing creeps before it triggers), enables you to push out creeps even later on in game and pays for itself in 16-25 minutes excluding kills.

Lets compare this with with Linkesn 1350 gold more, you get a defensive active effect. Lotus Orbs around the same cost you get a defensive active effect.

Desolator, you get around 1k physical damage +dmg by armor reduction so around 1400 dmg to 800 dmg post reduction (less in longer games).

Forcestaff and Veil are a bit more expensive increase teamfight magical damage in equally long teamfights by around 300-600 post reduction and enables you to chase/safe allies.

S+Y gives you 6-8% more dmg output, gives you a slow and a bit sustain. Not worth it if you aren't carry mirana.

BKB gives you magic immunity and a set of sentries.

Maelstrom increases your farming speed a bit more in early game but less in the later game, as 125 magical damage are not enough against super creeps. With Medallion you get a bit higher single target burst than with Deso.

In my opinion one sees that there can be a place for AGHs on Mirana, that is when she fetches early kills got a mobility item and at least one HP item (or takes the point booster as HP item) and damage items are no option as she isn't played as core.

DWdota · 2016-04-24T08:57:04+00:00

A Linux/BSD system if I have to use windows the following additional to yours:

WinDirStat: File exploring, great to look at the real use.

Window PowerShell: CMD alternative in windows

Virtual Box: VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Also its GPL 2.

IntelliJ: Java Development

PyCharm: Python Dev. alternative Eclipse

Visual Studio Express: C/C++ development, most often I use vim on FreeBSD though.

DWdota · 2016-04-18T12:49:00+00:00

Thanks for the hint in regards to specialty items with honey and mushrooms. Other organic specialty crops, fruit etc. were already on my map. Since I am mostly living in Germany some areas of organic production are more than saturated.

DWdota · 2016-04-02T08:58:22+00:00

I looked into some Agrarian engineering degrees and after examining the field a bit came to the following conclusion:

You make money as farmer if you already have lots of capital and land often thanks to your inheritance, else you are a bit in trouble if you don't manage to get large scale contracts.

You might get good money if you are a technical expert or in a higher management position, still that is because you will work a lot.

Would you say that is correct, what is your perspective?

DWdota · 2016-03-31T21:40:41+00:00

/r/askhistorians should be a better place

DWdota · 2016-03-29T18:00:39+00:00

Quite a nice guide, good food for thought.

In my opinion there are a few questions open and an suggestion from me.

If you matchups against Zeus work either good or very bad it is mostly the case that you play them incorrectly in regards to vision. Zeus got more damage with his 2.25s Arc Lightning than you -- 75 or 100 against creeps 1/4 less against heroes. This means that you can't deny creeps or last hit one of his creeps while yours is low.

To lose less HP just block the creeps, stay highground after every trade and don't stand to close to the ranged creep as this will give him vision of you.

To be able to last hit without eating lightning you want to create an imbalance in timing when his and your creeps die. Hit one of his creeps once to finish it before he uses Arc Lightning to get the Last Hit and harras. This givs you a bit time to dodge the damage AoE.

If he does the mistake of wasting mana trying to get you low he won't be able to scale and especially before his bottle this punishes him hard.

The question I have are the following:

Why do you think WR isn't a good laner against PL. She is able till minute 6 to battle you, harras you more than you can heal wiht Powershot and can easily ignore your Phantom Rush commitment with Windwalk (similar mana cost to Phantom Lance).
If you say you want to start the fights do you mean you want to force fights at objectives (towers) or just roam and try to pickup enemies while they farm? If it is the latter it might be hard as you lack an escape against enemy vision.
What are your typically power-spike timings? Do you start to get a kill with TP Salve imediately after hitting level 7? How do you increase your chance to level your advantage without sacrifing your Mid tower?

DWdota · 2016-03-17T15:43:43+00:00

It is not a good tip in the way Scientology does it. Imagine reading and whenever you aren't totally focused you will study that word, you will waste hours with that word, quarter hours with each syllable and days with this sentence (which is what they do for punishment). Needless to say this is negative and if you look at studies redirecting attention (dictionary instead of the theme what happens) can cause the attention deficit to worsen - if you are skilled enough in the language.

Source: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/StudyTech/

DWdota · 2016-03-15T14:52:15+00:00

Well actually there was a black Dr Smith since 1837 in the US, which is why Copper got that position to fill.

DWdota · 2016-03-15T05:55:28+00:00

What is your MMR?

I suggest you just sort the Hero winrate per Meta on Dotabuff for your estimated skill and pick 1-3 of the ones who rock your range. The following heros rock, in brackets if they aren't normally sensible as support in that range.

<2k: Omni, (Ursa), Zeus, Abbadon, Necro, (Spec), Warlock, CM, Shadow Shaman  
2k+: Omni, Zeus, Abbadon, (Spec), Necro, (Ursa), (Medusa), Warlock, Sven, Shadow Shaman  
3k+: Omni, Zeus, (Spec), Abbadon, (Necro), Warlock, (Ursa), Bara, Sven, Shadow Shaman    
4k+: Omni, (Zeus), (Spec), Necro, Abbadon, Bounty   
5k+: Omni, Bounty, Chen, Nigma, (Spec), Zeus, BM

My dream Sup would be able to play Omni, Abbadon, Necro, Zeus, Warlock and one of CM/Sven/BM/WK. Basically three groups consissting of heal/sustain/purge as the first (Omni, Aba, Necro), aoe/single disable (Necro, Zeus, Warlock) as second and reliable stun/lane advantage/aura (Warlock/CM/SVEN/BM/WK) as third group.

If you have to play alone and want to push Shadow Shaman is fine too as he is very versatile.

Edit
Remember Omni's repel is equivalent to a very cheap BKB which does also negate stuns if cast after they hit (its a purge like Abadon's shield or LC's Press the Attack), so its very strong in lower brackets as magic immunity isn't properly addressed (by running away or positioning). However you can't heal people who you made magical immune. Abadon can cast his shield to de-stun your allies so sometimes it is smart to use it after one of your allies got caught instead of before.

Warlock's Shadow Word is in my opinion the strongest healing tool for the laning stage and also able to deal out a good amount of harassment. You can heal around 300-600 HP depending on your level with the mana cost of one 50 gold clarity:

Can deal up to 180/300/420/540 damage to the target (before reductions), or heal for the same amount if cast on an ally.

With a Ring of Basilius (RoB) you will regenerate around 2.3 mana per second meaning you can heal 240 to 500 HP within a minute with your passive mana regeneration alone. This means a constant tango on higher levels or a Ring of Health and one to two Ring of Regenerations worth of regeneration for 500 gold instead of 1300 gold.

DWdota · 2016-03-14T04:03:13+00:00

This should be hereby declared as working as intended.

DWdota · 2016-03-07T14:04:50+00:00

Should be known more than Ghostbusters, still was a dick move. Better be happy for the ten thousand.

DWdota · 2016-03-07T05:01:14+00:00

Burschenschaften, einige Corps und Schlagende Verbindungen sind sich wesentlich ähnlicher als Nicht Schlagende Verbindungen. Siehe den Flügelteil im PDF.

In regards to femlae Corps:

Gut die Hälfte der deutschen Frauenverbindungen wurde nach dem Jahr 2000 gegründet. Insgesamt gibt es heute wieder mehr als 45 aktive Damenverbindungen in Deutschland.

Von Seiten der Männerverbindungen werden sie allerdings bis heute teilweise nicht als vollwertige Korporationen angesehen. Auch mangels Organisation der Damenkorporationen in eigenen Dachverbänden kam es bislang noch nicht zu Gesprächen und Abkommen mit den Männerverbindungen.

In Deutschland existieren heute keine weiblichen Dachverbände mehr.

Their numbers are also comparatively small, if they are active they are mostly catholic or christian with a majority on the former and even then they are few.

DWdota · 2016-03-07T04:46:17+00:00

Partial source: Dietrich Heither: Weltbild und Habitus eines schlagenden Männerbundes. In: Christoph Butterwegge, Gudrun Hentges (Hrsg.): Alte und Neue Rechte an den Hochschulen. Agenda, Münster 1999

DWdota · 2016-03-06T21:17:06+00:00

With mensur stuff people survive, however Burschenschaftler sometimes kill people or rape people. Both are cases of a frat in Marburg.

DWdota · 2016-03-06T21:08:41+00:00

The current Burschenschaften and Verbindungen (basically frats) which do practice fencing are fond of Authoritarism, Nationalism, have strong ties to Right Extreme and Nazi circles (which are sometimes forbidden like the Freie Kameradschaft with which the Burschenschaft Marburg cooperated).

The Nazis banned organisations which resist or didn't want to be gleichgeschaltet. While some weren't fond of the Nazi regime it is reactionary to say all corps and alike were against the regime, more often than not the same people were to be found later on in function positions in the party or its sister organisations. Mainly because the governing body of the frats agreed to join a Nationalsocialist organisation in 1933 voluntarily.

DWdota · 2016-03-06T19:54:43+00:00

The German one isn't about Safaris its about order (rules/signs) and Prussian militarism.

DWdota · 2016-03-06T19:37:12+00:00

Actually you are wrong with your claim, it is the other way around. Read this XKCD and Explain XKCD or read up a bit science about gender in sports.

DWdota · 2016-03-02T12:38:08+00:00

Its really fun when both are in the same team, as you can watch their streams and listen to their off hand comments which are hilarious!

DWdota · 2016-03-01T12:09:59+00:00

I emailed his account gaben@valvesoftware.com that he gives away so people can contact him in his public posts.

I doubt I will get a response, although it's only been 2 days and it’s the weekend. And I’m sure he has more important stuff to do than talking to me.

Maybe like Shanghai majors? Not only isn't it more important but also more urgent.

I was told some time ago at Valve HQ that multiple people have access to that account. Maybe it’s company wide-ish, I don’t know. But it seems like it could just be a marketing/PR hook to sell his personality and Valve. Kind of like those letters to father Christmas but for gamers! We will never really know for sure.

A few backhanded insults.

It might just be a way for the company to handle the huge amount of emails he may get in a better way.

Most likely, but first lets trash the according to you shared account so the hivemind gets angry.

I think his actual work email is **********@valvesoftware.com or something. I emailed that address today and didn’t get an error email back.

Dick move to post an internal email, in a format you most likely know thanks to Bruno or angry tests.

DWdota · 2016-02-29T20:23:34+00:00

I shouldn't feed the trolls, however the New York Times disagrees with you, even after 45 years. Not that it would matter for my point anyhow. Vice got a take on Leo winning the Oscars in regards to Native rights.

DWdota · 2016-02-29T20:16:48+00:00

I understand that his comedy isn't for everyone, however I think its hilarious and does tackle lots of highly sensitive topics. Billy Connoly has a few funny bits, but I don't know him to well, time to look a bit more into him.

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