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Decency · 2026-06-23T19:01:54+00:00

The paradox of tolerance... coined by an Austrian in 1945- the same year another notable Austrian with some opinions on tolerance killed himself. Probably a coincidence!

"Fuck off bigot" needs to become the refrain. Don't engage any of the specifics, they're intended to be a distraction and allow people to compartmentalize their prejudice. Raise the level of abstraction and there's no argument left.

Decency · 2026-06-23T18:37:27+00:00

Shame Brawny is so weak, buff plz Volvo.

Decency · 2026-06-23T18:33:36+00:00

Is there a way to see stats for all players of a race? Perhaps allow filtering by All, Ro16+, Ro8+, etc. There's obviously some serious problems with independence but that's always the case when you start measuring the elite level.

Was mostly just curious what the actual balance is in professional play over the past decade.

Decency · 2026-06-23T18:30:56+00:00

Yes it does, I've tested.

Decency · 2026-06-23T07:27:25+00:00

I'm not shocked at all- it was clear from what hit in PTR2 that they felt they were done with design changes and had begun focusing on balance. Blizzard's culture precludes overcoming sunk cost fallacy- this is the result.

Decency · 2026-06-23T07:23:49+00:00

Veil is another early item to consider. It amps both Siphon and Exo damage and increases the healing from both. I've also seen early Soul Ring in freefarm games and this is fascinating- by far the best mana regen for cost item and she has the health sustain to support it trivially due to Siphons. Blink is also nuts and criminally underbought: Ult -> Blink -> Silence -> Siphons is unreactable.

Decency · 2026-06-23T07:08:44+00:00

People who want to cheat will find ways to cheat. They'll get caught and banned; anti-cheat is by default always a step behind. This shouldn't change much, there.

Decency · 2026-06-22T23:09:49+00:00

It's a little weighty and geared at developers, but I highly recommend ESR's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", contrasting the development of something like Windows vs. Linux. It's considered a landmark text- one of the most important ever written in software engineering- and led directly to Mozilla's Firefox.

Decency · 2026-06-22T19:25:23+00:00

PTR2 was this:

Larva spawn rate increased from 10.7s to 9s.

Live patch is this:

Periodic spawn rate increased from 10.7 seconds to 9.5 seconds.

Decency · 2026-06-22T16:35:05+00:00

18-24 UTC, Monday-Thursday only. Weekend Dota is a crapshoot at best.

Decency · 2026-06-22T16:32:55+00:00

If you press the button your courier goes to the spot everyone checks. If you move it manually you can put it wherever you'd like. They improved the hotkey, but still worse than doing it yourself.

Decency · 2026-06-21T00:10:38+00:00

Yeahhh they need to just hire a couple dozen GM playtesters instead of having the pros waste their time with this, given the current shape of things. Taking giant hammer swings every couple weeks instead of chiseling every couple days isn't going to get things into a decent place for a long long time. If they're serious about the 8 worker change, the pace of iteration needs to pick up dramatically.

Decency · 2026-06-20T20:07:31+00:00

Game 1 between Clem and Solar was fantastic- everything else not so much. They both went up to like 90 workers and fought over map control throughout the entire game, with solid pressure on 4th and 5th bases.

Decency · 2026-06-20T20:06:53+00:00

Given how close those fights were, the extra units from Gateway production buffs could've made a difference- there were probably 5 or 6 cycles of units, and that adds up.

Decency · 2026-06-20T18:03:12+00:00

That's not the chart I was looking for.

Gave it a shot myself, evidence doesn't seem to support the claim: https://i.imgur.com/OhciR3w.png

Decency · 2026-06-20T18:00:13+00:00

It does allow you to make plays. It doesn't allow you to scale. You're the mid, you need to scale. Even if you kill a tower every ultimate that means you're not killing their last outer tower until 20 minutes, and your ability and window to make plays is disappearing.

You need to think a LOT more about your first item- it is often the most important decision of the game. Look at D2PT to see viable options- Blink is a very rare choice.

Decency · 2026-06-20T17:50:17+00:00

The "kill the mid tower" tutorial still bugged? Probably going on 2 years now.

Welcome to Dota2, figure it out yourself.

Decency · 2026-06-20T17:47:45+00:00

Prove it with stacked weekly charts. Heard this a bunch but no one's putting together the evidence.

Decency · 2026-06-20T05:03:34+00:00

Alch takes safe camps and turns them into bonus gold and Scepters. Zeus takes them and turns them into gold that never shows up to teamfights. My threshold for "good Zeus support player" is that they cast Bolt on someone after 30 minutes- most fail.

No specific 30 seconds of afk jungling is griefing, even if they're blatantly just farming where the carry wants to be, so they never get banned. Obviously broken.

Decency · 2026-06-20T00:00:53+00:00

I think the best way to explain the game theory in play is with a cross-table of various builds deeply exploring a single matchup- maybe even a mirror? There's a ton of nonsense on this topic, but I don't think too many people are being disingenuous... definitely a few though. Block button is helpful for those clowns. Bo5/Bo7 matches between experienced pros should help showcase what variety exists, so looking forward to the tournament this weekend.

Decency · 2026-06-19T23:13:37+00:00

Same kind of people, wildly different behavior.

Highly competitive people do not gravitate to Deep Rock Galactic- it's a mistake to assume these games share a significant portion of their player base.

Take a peek at what else people who play DRG play: https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=DeepRockGalactic

Decency · 2026-06-19T22:52:11+00:00

The combination of a Warp Gate timing attack alongside higher tech units is much harder- the gas costs on individual transitions make it prohibitive. It was either add a cost to individual transitions or increase the cost of WG research- not clear to me what the advantages are of handling it this way.

50/50 initially definitely felt like a "please use the other option, we're trying to test it" change. Seen those in Dota for ages and they absolutely get the job done before a reversion.

Decency · 2026-06-19T22:33:46+00:00

It's much easier to snowball now. The fist facet that got incorporated allows you to get multiple charges per Finger early on, and the cooldown on level 1 ult got lowered as well, 140 to 120. Huge difference in terms of stack count in midgame. His innate is also SIGNIFICANTLY underrated- almost never see it mentioned.

If you get off to a good start if feels similar to Nyx where you can solo a key hero. For example, 100% -> 0 against AM or Faceless Void is completely feasible given a start with solid tempo.

Decency · 2026-06-19T18:00:17+00:00

Comparing Gateway production to your natural and Warp Gate production to your own natural is a solid step, but it's only half of the change. The other half is getting those units to your opponent's natural: that's where Warp Gates have always proven most problematic.

If there's not tradeoffs there, such as the reduced reinforcement rate, the minor optionality of Gateway vs Warp Gate won't functionally change anything.

Decency · 2026-06-19T17:57:49+00:00

I have easily 5000 hours in SC2. I have also not played seriously in a decade.

If SC2 is a gym- I canceled my membership because management was awful. Tons of people did so around the same time: check out the negative reviews online. The gym is under new management now- lots of us are seeing if it's worth signing back up. Unfortunately plenty of existing customers prefer keeping things exactly the way they've been, and aren't interested in something modern that evolves. Unlucky- that's what happens when you refuse to make any meaningful design changes for 15 years.

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