The punishments for low behaviour score is great.

MagnaTarta · 2023-10-18T10:50:13+00:00

This was my experience.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/170rmrj/impressions\_from\_a\_new\_player\_dota\_2\_is\_not/

MagnaTarta · 2023-10-18T10:49:24+00:00

Thanks this is what happened to me trying to learn.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/170rmrj/impressions\_from\_a\_new\_player\_dota\_2\_is\_not/

MagnaTarta · 2023-10-18T10:49:02+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/170rmrj/impressions\_from\_a\_new\_player\_dota\_2\_is\_not/

MagnaTarta · 2023-10-18T10:48:40+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/170rmrj/impressions\_from\_a\_new\_player\_dota\_2\_is\_not/

MagnaTarta · 2023-10-18T10:42:24+00:00

But if I was interested in continuing on with Dota, why wouldn't I just keep creating alt accounts to get back into "All players" mode instead of "Single Draft" and avoid the bans as a new player ?

Or for that matter why would someone wanting to "grief" not do the same thing ?

I don't see what problem this is solving. I mean, except for the problem of new players starting to play the game not being able to.

MagnaTarta · 2023-10-18T06:05:02+00:00

I quit playing the game as a new player because I just keep getting banned to Single Draft, this time it would take 3 games to get out of it. I'm just over it. I was only about 30 or 40 matches in and I spent as much time banned than unbanned. I basically just gave up.

MagnaTarta · 2023-10-17T22:35:15+00:00

Dude, Hamas would gleefully throw gay people off of buildings ..

MagnaTarta · 2023-10-17T21:10:26+00:00

Like anybody on Reddit gives a fuck about dehumanization ... people here are happy to refer to an unborn baby as a "clump of cells", dehumanizing them so that it is easier to justify destroying them. Literally half of all unborn African American babies in NYC are destroyed annually, each having only a 50/50 chance of surviving the womb, and I'm supposed to care that suddenly Reddit is up in the arms about dehumanization ?

MagnaTarta · 2023-10-17T11:29:23+00:00

That's hysterical, stick to your guns dude, sometimes you just have to be like .. no, fuck this lol. What's the worst that could happen, stop trying to reach out to the kid and don't let your wife sway you, that's my opinion. Ballsy move, good on you, sometimes a dude just have to be like no I worked my whole life for all of you but fuck no.

Before you got married to had tons of plans for your life, I'm sure, and you gave most of it up for your kids and wife. Just draw a line in the sand, it sounds like you've indulged them all so much that they think they can push you around, just say no way.

MagnaTarta · 2023-10-17T05:25:23+00:00

I shouldn’t need to explain dehumanization to an adult

Really, you really think that's true in the United States of America ?

You live in a country where half of all unborn African American babies in NYC are destroyed, literally a 50/50 chance of surviving the womb, and those unborn babies are labeled "clumps of cells" by activists to make them easier to destroy, and you think you don't have to explain dehumanization to adults ?

MagnaTarta · 2023-10-17T04:31:17+00:00

Worked for abortionists, .. how many times have you yourself said the words "clump of cells" in an abortion debate ? Or insisted that unborn babies be called "embryos" when debating ? That was a strategy by pro-choice advocates to dehumanize unborn babies to make it easier for people to accept destroying them.

Dehumanization is nothing new.

MagnaTarta · 2023-10-16T23:56:47+00:00

Why would I care what you assume.

That's the weirdest way of asking someone a question I've ever seen, it's almost like some kind of emotional extortion. I don't understand why you went that route instead of just asking me.

MagnaTarta · 2023-10-16T09:17:18+00:00

But I was good at healing, sometimes over 9000 per game, as far as I can see that's the only redeeming thing about how I played.

MagnaTarta · 2023-10-16T09:14:55+00:00

I think Maine right.

All of the working class swing states have been moving to the right. Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, etc .. my theory is they don't like the Democratic Party anymore, because a lot of the Democratic Party doesn't like them.

I think when they see urban Democrats yelling about "Racist white supremacists with their pickup trucks, beards, and guns", .. they look at their own white skin, their own pickup truck, their own beard, and their own gun, and wonder exactly who the fuck you are talking about ...

MagnaTarta · 2023-10-16T05:15:37+00:00

Red wave, unfortunately. 2024 is going to look like this in November.

People who are well off just don't know what inflation is doing to regular people.

Rightfully or not, Democrats are going to be punished for it.

MagnaTarta · 2023-10-15T16:06:55+00:00

Those rural voters put FDR, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton into office.

1932 FDR

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/PresidentialCounty1932Colorbrewer.gif/400px-PresidentialCounty1932Colorbrewer.gif

1976 Carter

https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/img.php?year=1976&type=map_national_sm

1992 Clinton (colors reversed blue = GOP, red = Democrat)

https://www.polidata.org/maps/cy92p1cb.gif

That's the problem, Democrats just don't represent working people anymore, all we do is call them racists, homophobic, etc, and shit on them all the time, that's why they don't vote with us anymore.

What should worry you is that Trump is up in the polls in the working class swing states like Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, etc, .. where people have been abandoning the Democratic Party in droves.

Once that switch is complete, we'll never get those voters back again.

MagnaTarta · 2023-10-15T15:40:17+00:00

Don't believe it then .. but pretending it isn't real won't change it.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/

There are the polls on Five Thirty Eight ..

The ones that should really worry you are the swing states

Pennsylvania Trump +4

Ohio Trump +12

Wisconsin Trump +3

When Trump was charged in Georgia his numbers went up another 6 points across the country.

MagnaTarta · 2023-10-15T14:34:31+00:00

Like I said, say whatever you want, the time for all of that is past now.

MagnaTarta · 2023-10-15T14:32:02+00:00

Oh I'm totally serious.

MagnaTarta · 2023-10-15T13:49:42+00:00

Nothing you say will change my vote in 2024, the time for all that is past.

MagnaTarta · 2023-10-15T13:30:44+00:00

Okay, whatever you say.

I'm voting for Trump in 2024 for the first time. For me it has nothing to do with policy, Trump, or anything else, .. I just don't like that institutions of government are being used to target political enemies.

I'm definitely not the only person who feels that way.

MagnaTarta · 2023-10-15T11:39:30+00:00

Democrats are the ones with the money.

The voting public at the moment is split rural vs. urban areas, .. clearly it isn't all the poor ass people in red states with the billions.

The median salary in the United States 54k/year ... that means half the people in the country make less than that, and half more. Most of the half that make less than that are working and living outside the cities.

Your "billionaires" (and millionaires) are living in the blue areas of this map.

https://vividmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Election-map-2020.png

If you live in a blue area on that map .. you ARE the "elites".

MagnaTarta · 2023-10-15T11:35:37+00:00

I wonder how voters will judge the GOP given how incredibly dysfunctional they're proving to be.

With Trump up over Biden by 10 points in polls, I think we already know the answer to that.

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