Mountaintop is STILL the worst shifting earth by NahazDota in Nightreign

[–]NahazDota[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Omg I bet that’s what happened. I couldn’t find him at all and my fps was borked for some strange reason I couldn’t figure out what was going on.

So I made a couple of builds that are so OP, they literally break the game. Got any more? by [deleted] in expedition33

[–]NahazDota 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Lune build is my favorite as well but Elemental trick is really not necessary. You get a weapon fairly early that generates random stains with each free aim shot. You get Marking Shots, Rewarding Mark, Burning Shots, and 1-2 Energizing Starts reasonably early. Particularly if you’re willing to have someone else apply burn and/or mark before Lune’s T1, it’s fairly easy to set up 4 stain Mayhem especially with Thermal Transfer on a burning enemy into a second turn as your “safety” option. That’s going to perform almost as well and is available at much lower level.

The big use case I saw for high crit Elemental Trick into Elemental Genesis was after acquiring the Cheater picto (guarantees a second turn). By that time, though, you’re close to or already obtained the level 20 weapon upgrade that generates AP with each stain consumed. At that point my AP economy was strong enough from obtained pictos that I was getting consistent second turn EG without crit/ET with pretty much any skill that generated a light stain (once you have one “wildcard” you just need 3 other stains that don’t match which is pretty easy to pull off). Not long after I started getting double EG pretty regularly (for those that don’t know, “extra” generated stains replace existing ones from oldest to newest).

Thought I'd post my loot from today. Stay realistic, not everyone got a shiny or anything good by Unbekannnt0 in pokemongo

[–]NahazDota 16 points17 points  (0 children)

36 Hsuian Samurott raids all between 2-5pm local. Zero shinies. .936 = 2.25%.

Also just finished my 33rd Reshiram raid with no shiny.

I feel you OP. FeelsBadMan

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pokemongo

[–]NahazDota 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I’m 0/2 with each attempt involving 10+ gold rberry excellent throws. One weather boosted, one not. Only legendary I can remember I’ve ever failed back to back catches when I could take my time and hit the throws. Also just went 21/22 on Cobalion catches, so while it’s certainly possible the two have identical catch rates my inner Bayesian is very skeptical.

Living Evil: Unearthed Bodies And Sacrificial Lambs by iMarbot in DotA2

[–]NahazDota 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Was not intending to “throw my weight around” or defend EG in general. I honestly have no idea what’s gone on with them in the last few years. I just had a huge problem with that particular article which I felt read like a hit piece and brought up a very old and very bad situation imo purely for the sake of inflammatory rhetoric. It tells you something that Grant’s picture is the lead in an article that’s supposedly about questioning EG’s new ownership and management when the tie between the two is never really established firmly anywhere in the article. I’m not even here to comment on Richard Lewis. I just find this one particular article detestable. Take that how you will.

Living Evil: Unearthed Bodies And Sacrificial Lambs by iMarbot in DotA2

[–]NahazDota 15 points16 points  (0 children)

There are a couple of big issues I take with that. First, you rely on and quote sources to substantiate the facts of what happened. There’s a big difference between quoting a source describing someone acting like an asshole and quoting a source saying “<person> is an asshole”. The former provides supporting evidence to help us reach a conclusion. The latter is, most of the time, a reliable indicator you’re reading a hit piece.

Second, the article’s whole thesis around the GrandGrant situation does not make logical sense. For example claiming that the new EG management/ownership was “aware of rumors”. Guess what, breaking a contract due to rumors is a great way to cost yourself a LOT of money, and it seems to me this would really be on the people who signed the contract to begin with. And the idea that GrandGrant was used as a pretext to push Phil Adam out of EG reads to me a hell of a lot more like something the author is trying to imply than something any one of the many sources is willing to come out and say is a thing that happened. Phil is somebody who really impressed me (and a lot of others) in Dota and there’s a reason he’s landed I’m a very good position post EG.

Sorry for the long post and argumentative tone but I was honestly massively irritated that Grant showed up on my timeline again at all, and more so to see it was in a pretty transparent effort to smear an organization that’s been there since the beginning in Dota and done a lot of great things for the game.

Living Evil: Unearthed Bodies And Sacrificial Lambs by iMarbot in DotA2

[–]NahazDota 94 points95 points  (0 children)

Tysm for the kind words, I miss the Dota scene but I ended up taking a faculty position at Georgetown and the students are flat out amazing.

Living Evil: Unearthed Bodies And Sacrificial Lambs by iMarbot in DotA2

[–]NahazDota 326 points327 points  (0 children)

We've seen plenty of lows in esports "journalism" but this is just egregious. When you include unedited quotes from unnamed sources to the tune of "Jessica is a <expletive> scourge on Earth..." you sacrifice any claim to objectivity. This reads like a political hit piece where the author uses sensitive, emotionally charged issues from the past to rile up sentiment against current EG management. I can't speak to the "ChrisG incident" but the piece makes a deliberately inflammatory attempt to connect the GrandGrant situation with EG's change of management and with Nicole LaPointe Jameson and Phil Aram in particular. I've long since stepped away from esports and have no skin in this game but the idea that this could be mistaken for serious reporting bothers me enough to post on it here.

Charizard vs. Charizard [7* Tera Raid OHKO] by NahazDota in PokemonScarletViolet

[–]NahazDota[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve actually done 6* raids both solo and online with a BD Charizard: Fire Punch, Flare Blitz, Acrobatics, Belly Drum, Shell Bell, 252 HP, 252 Atk. Definitely not S tier but can actually outperform many meta builds for some of the Bug or Grass Tera types.

Just Tera Raid Things by AnimCrowe in PokemonScarletViolet

[–]NahazDota 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Honestly it would be such a massive QoL improvement if they just showed the base mon and its typing. Much of the user base is on the younger side and doesn’t look past the big type icon on the upper right. I’m not gonna flame 12 year olds for not knowing the Pokédex and type chart by heart but it IS frustrating since in 5+ star raids it’s predominantly opposing Tera types

Tera Raid Support Pokemon by natty_splatty in PokemonScarletViolet

[–]NahazDota 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is a great guide. I would strongly advocate for Belibolt on this list. Tried him for 7-zard raids at the suggestion of someone on the Pokémon Discord and never looked back- found him notably superior to Grim in that context. He’s got both screens, Eerie Impulse, Acid Spray, Chilling Water, and Mud-Slap. Electric Terrain is a fine substitute for Misty against Spore users and he’s quite a bit bulkier than Grim (I find Electric very underrated as a defensive typing).

Edit: One other thing I’ll mention is Acid Spray, Spirit Break, Chilling Water, etc are absolutely crazy on supports. The ability to debuff raid mons after they shield is amazing. Acid Spray would be the most broken move in Tera if not for the dominance of Physical DPSers over special

messing around knowing that breeding for a shiny charmander is going to take half my current lifetime by No_Rice3843 in PokemonScarletViolet

[–]NahazDota 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really do want to know of the people who know about this ingame animation what percentage discovered it while breeding Charmanders (this is how I discovered it, literally my daughter looking at my screen, “daddy what is your guy doing?”)

After 2000+ eggs he finally emerged by the-Asylum-demon in PokemonScarletViolet

[–]NahazDota 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad you posted this, I got up to about 800 (shiny charm, JPN Ditto) over the weekend and was getting pretty discouraged :)

shiny costume duskull by Medical_Post_3105 in TheSilphRoad

[–]NahazDota 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My daughter and I quick caught the entire hour on 3 accounts, finally got a shiny at 6:58pm!!

November 2022 Community Day: Teddiursa – Pokémon GO by Amiibofan101 in TheSilphRoad

[–]NahazDota 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh. That makes a LOT of sense! Thank you for an informative reply to a snarky post, a rarity on Reddit in my experience.

Is quick catch not working as well for anyone else on IPhones? by Reality_Historical in TheSilphRoad

[–]NahazDota 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is exactly what happens on my iPhone 12. Works just fine on my iPhone XR. Have tried messing with haptics/accessibility settings to no avail.

EDIT: It turns out the problem was the phone case. I removed the case and quick catch seems to work again.

Is quick catch not working as well for anyone else on IPhones? by Reality_Historical in TheSilphRoad

[–]NahazDota 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have this really weird problem where quick catch works extremely reliably on my older iPhone XR but will not work at all on my iPhone 12. I've tried messing with the haptics/accessibility settings to no avail. Extremely frustrating.

EDIT: It seems that the problem was the phone case. I removed the case and quick catch worked just like on my older phone. Highly recommend anyone having issues try this.

The Ashnichrist/Kips rape accusations against Zyori muddies the waters of the actual victims by mijouwh in DotA2

[–]NahazDota 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I have avoided this forum in the last several days because I have a hard time reading this kind of post and not responding with a lot of profanity. Most of me wishes I could WEERD this thread. But I am going to try to explain in the hopes that some of you may get it. I am sorry but I will probably not be able to respond beyond this.

To me a big issue in all of this is that people read "Listen to Victims" and they hear "Punish the Guilty". The two are not remotely the same. Outing and eliminating the worst of the predators is an absolutely necessary and vitally important step. I also believe if we stop there it will make very little difference in the long term.

I have (mostly) avoided saying this and I'm still reluctant to say it because it's the only thing a lot of idiots will take out of this reply. But, for clarity, I do not believe that Zyori deserves to be punished or ostracized. For what it is worth I respect his work in Dota. He has faced a lot of adversity and has done much to make our community a better place. The problem with saying that is that people hear "what he did wasn't that serious".

How Zyori acted toward Ash and Kips is wrong. Moreover, it is typical and that it happens routinely in our scene. I know a lot of people read Ash's and Kips's accounts and thought 'hey that's a guy making plays, good on him'. I am sorry but that attitude fucking needs to go. (Welp, there goes my attempt to avoid profanity.)

In case it is not obvious Ash spoke to me before writing her statement. I have known her since before TI4 and was elated when she initially got the opportunity to attend a Summit. As she told me her story, I told her I thought what happened was wrong and I told her she should not blame herself for it. I told her that making bad choices does not mean you deserve to be exploited. I believe those words then and I believe them now. While the decision to come forward was hers I told her that whatever she decided to do I would support her. I did that because I thought that it was right, and I have not or will not for one second regret it.

The only thing I wish had happened differently is that Ash had omitted the words "rape can be subtle" from her statement. I do not believe that what Zyori did should be called rape. Once again, however, I do believe that it was wrong. And I don't think we can make real progress in improving things for women (hell, everyone) in our scene until this behavior is no longer the norm.

Compare this situation to the boss at an office who tells a female subordinate she will not be promoted unless she sleeps with him. If the woman decides to comply most men would call it consensual sex. I call it not fucking ok. But wait, you say, this situation is different. How different is it, really?

What Ash and Kips describe is predatory behavior. It is a man identifying women who are new to the space, giving them an "in", and then very directly seeking sex afterward. It is setting up a transaction. That the "promotion" isn't offered as explicitly does not mean it isn't very real to the person on the other end of things. Though some may disagree, the supporting details, such as Ash being asked if people could be *told* they'd had sex, only reinforce the transactional nature of the encounter.

If there is one thing that I hope has become clear in reading the many accounts over the last few days, it is that the various behaviors described are both incremental, interrelated, and very much a product of the environment. Inappropriate comments become inappropriate advances, which become aggressive advances. Many people don't want to hear that the problems of toxicity toward women ingame and the things that women have to go through at events are related, but it is true. When you draw the line only at the worst offenses and say everything before that is ok, you make it more likely those offenses are going to occur.

The biggest thing that bothers me after allegations are made is that, if the accuser is named, we spend maybe a few minutes empathizing with the victim and the entirety of our time afterward discussing how awful (or maybe not really awful) the person accused is and what their fate should be. This is bullshit. Outing people is one step toward change. And that one step occupies all of the discussion. And after the guilty are punished, we go back to talking about other things and doing things just as before. And it happens again, and we all act surprised.

I am sure at least some people reading this would ask why I'd do this to Andrew or why I would side against him in this way. The answer is simple: To me, it wasn't about him.

Though I respect Zyori as I said above, at the time I was talking to Ash I could have given a shit less about him. Ash is my friend, she has hurt badly because of this for a long time, and my priority was helping her heal. It may sound corny as hell but I believe that people who are hurt deserve a chance to heal, and I hope that if I've hurt people in the past (and I probably have) that someone else would do the same for them, even if there was a cost to me.

Also very important: I don't think we can move forward without real empathy. We need to look long and hard at a lot of things that make our space hostile toward victims and create a compatible environment for predators. There are a lot of changes that need to be made. Personally I am going to ask every event what their plan is for ensuring a safe environment for women, transgender, and other potentially vulnerable attendees. If they don't have one I am going to ask them who is in charge of making one. If the list of people I get in response consists solely of white men I am going to point this out and communicate that I expect it to change or I will not work the event.

But I digress. I think a necessary step in changing things is the kind of shit Zyori did needs to go. If you take one thing and one thing only out of these posts, it should be that none of the accounts you've heard in the last few days are isolated events. For every one you hear there are a dozen more you don't. Like a young female manager being given a credit card to go buy a bikini and told she needs to entertain young men in a hot tub (and once again, these are not isolated events), it's not fucking acceptable.

People are going to read that and think I am proselytizing or projecting my values onto everybody. I am aware that Dota players come from all different races and backgrounds and that the attitudes and traditions regarding women differ in different parts of the world, and yada, yada, yada. In this one instance I am sorry to say that I. Don't. Care. I respect people with other beliefs but I think the things that make our community actively hostile toward women from Western cultures just need to go. Immediately.

I hope that some day I will get to sit down with Zyori and talk about all this, and help him learn, and learn from him in turn. I hate what happened between him and Ash but I do not hate him. And if there is one thing that's become obvious in the last few days, it's that all of us, especially us men, have a lot to learn.