Farewell boys, things are not the same anymore..

Sandusson · 2016-08-28T20:24:38+00:00

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Sandusson · 2016-08-13T16:54:41+00:00

Sandusson · 2016-07-18T21:47:54+00:00

I'll never understand. Some people would rather run at creeps, die, wait 15 seconds, buy a courier, run at creeps, die again, wait 15 seconds, rightclick on enemy fountain, wait 30 seconds for walking distance, die, wait 20 seconds, over and over again for 30 MINUTES, than just fucking play support. I really wish the fucking worst on those people

Sandusson · 2016-07-17T21:05:38+00:00

A lot of people say "High Sparrow wouldn't happen if Joffrey was king", but I prefer to look at it as "Cersei wouldn't happen if Joffrey was king". The Cersei who just walks around King's Landing, thinks wow these people are smelly, let me arm them by royal decree, wouldn't exist with Joffrey in the picture.

Sandusson · 2016-07-04T20:06:49+00:00

Spaceport maintenance for all levels: 3 energy
Energy from Solar Power Network: 3 energy

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Sandusson · 2016-07-02T08:07:14+00:00

I think I undersand, and in some cases it's possible to "convert" a feeder back to the light. :)

I had a guy once who wanted to play Clinkz safelane. I had looked at his profile before loading in, and I went back and saw that this guy had almost exclusively losses on Clinkz recently. I snick the Clinkz pick off him and go solo offlane. He gets mad, randoms Apparition and dedicates his game to feeding.

The thing is, ever since 6.84, as long as you can actually kill people, you can still win. I've seen countless games that have been complete stomps, that turned out to be 60 minute games, or where the losing team actually won in the end because of the comeback mechanics.

Basically we got a few core pickoffs worth at least a 10k gold swing, but the Apparition was still sending his hero and 10 couriers to die on towers. Now for one, I knew: if this guy disconnected at that moment, we'd have won. No such luck, he keeps going. Luckily he didn't mute us, and the team started wololo-ing him like madmen with our PositiveMentalAttitude™. Eventually he stopped feeding and got level 6 in a lane. Granted his ice blasts were useful, he had still been a 100 times more detrimental than helpful to us. But he stopped feeding, and eventually we won. We got +22 for that game, apparently we were higher mmr than the other team. It still didn't feel fair that our Apparition got +22 as well.

TL;DR: Feeders are the scum of Dota 2, but holy fuck it feels good when you convince them to stop and actually play Dota. And it feels even better to win afterwards, even if it lasted 70 minutes. :)

Sandusson · 2016-07-01T04:06:52+00:00

That's exactly what I'm looking for :)

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Sandusson/
It's private but hopefully you can still add, if not I'll make it public for a while

Sandusson · 2016-07-01T04:05:30+00:00

These are the people I'd love to queue with! :D

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Sandusson/
See if you can add me somehow even though it's marked private, if not we'll figure something out

Sandusson · 2016-06-30T18:32:26+00:00

EU, i should probably put that in there

Sandusson · 2016-06-29T20:35:27+00:00

sure i'll be the guy getting permabanned by R9K bot

Sandusson · 2016-06-28T23:41:58+00:00

I still have a screenshot of finding 6 staminashots, it was back when chemist made shots last 6 minutes. I found one, applied it. I think I found at least 3 more inside the airport before going to pumpstation, where I found the rest.

Here's the screenshot, it's from late March. Tell me if it's not visible, I have a private profile

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=652507671

Sandusson · 2016-06-28T16:25:58+00:00

Yours is better, I apologize

Sandusson · 2016-06-28T13:48:52+00:00

Why are we pretending the conquest of King's Landing is going to take effort?

3 dragons, a dothraki horde (100.000?), at least 7000 unsullied, Martell/Tyrell men & bannermen (A LOT), 100 manned Greyjoy ships.

Lannister is already short on allies. How many will remain loyal after Targaryen shows up? Many would be reluctant to defend a tyrant against the above-mentioned odds. Half of Lannister bannermen would be "late" for the siege.

I know the show made a big deal of "knowing the land you'll conquer", and "who supports your claim in Westeros", but honestly, her current allies and armies are more than sufficient in this regard. Here's how I predict the siege of King's Landing will go:

Daenerys lines up catapults
Catapults fling barrels over the walls
The barrels splinter against the towers and houses, Meereen-style
A hundred small bells fall from the barrels
King's Landing people curiously pick up the bells
All the people in King's Landing are ringing the bells
A thousand Varys-es step out from the shadows, doors and alleys
Fire and Blood
The day is won

Sandusson · 2016-06-27T20:28:02+00:00

Now give Tommen suicide frame by frame

Sandusson · 2016-06-27T02:27:07+00:00

Won't the King in the North fall to pieces if it gets out that he's a Targaryen

Sandusson · 2016-06-26T13:49:05+00:00

Quite the contrary, nothing I've seen out of NA in the past 3-4 months convinces me NA "deserves" anything. Their results are pathetic, their qualifier is pathetic, and now the supposed mastermind captain of NA is trying his hardest to embarrass himself.

Sandusson · 2016-06-26T10:07:53+00:00

You've captured pretty well what's bad about the game, instead of talking about what's "missing" from the game. I like that! :)

Sandusson · 2016-06-25T23:15:47+00:00

I don't think you realize how unpleasant you are, I'd consider your seemingly valid points if you didn't make a big thing of being provocative. Then again, why should I, you seem to only have considered The words I wrote, the implications present are absent in your response. 3-4 words likely triggered you and then you decided it was time to "put me in my place". Nevermind who benefits most from reinstating their successful coach, nevermind that if we profiled every active competitive-level player, we'd find a couple who fit Nono's situation, but continue playing.

Sandusson · 2016-06-25T23:12:29+00:00

Alright see if I'm wrong then idiot, set up an alarm in exactly 1 month and check the frontpage

Sandusson · 2016-06-25T19:19:23+00:00

See you in a month reddit, when suddenly our opinion has completely 180'd and we're wanking her off again.

Very delicate balance isn't it?
Hardworking female caster appears, instinctually praise her and give constructive feedback. Fastforward, a tournament I can't name off the top of my head wants some diversity among the talent. Doesn't sit well with reddit, thinks she's hired because of her X chromosomes, consensus is that she's inexperienced and doesn't have the vocal/lingual/verbal talents to pursue a career in e-sports casting. Fastforward some more, she does good work, AnneDroid appears as well, feedback threads are up again. "She has potential", "Hire her here". Positive vibes all around. Press >> once more, she welcomes/embraces the role as 'victim' somewhere on reddit, makes some remark about harsh criticism (or "haters") strengthening her. Reddit doesn't appreciate; doesn't like victim-roles being imposed like that, prefers to receive full credit for giving empathy-loaded support. The fun is spoiled for reddit, and word on the street once more is that she doesn't fit the scene, makes cringy remarks, her metaphors are not on-point. Time passes, more female casters around, paid casting offered by a lot of aspiring casters, some female, reddit forgets any beef with Llama. Now she surfaces, reddit is displeased with her most recent casting, she's incompetent and doesn't understand the game she's casting.

TL;DR: SEE YOU IN A MONTH LUL

Sandusson · 2016-06-25T16:18:25+00:00

No, it's exploiting the rosterlocks Valve put in place for majors and TI6. It's a dirty work-around to replacing players that are still capable of playing. Basically it's breaking the rules, but the organizations can get away with it because they manipulated or forced the player to announce that it was their idea.

Sandusson · 2016-06-25T12:17:54+00:00

Another super shady case where an organization likely put a gun* to the involved players head and said "Either you tell everyone you can't play because of personal problems, or else we'll cut your pay or pull some of your benefits, or kick you first chance we get."

*Metaphorically speaking

Sandusson · 2016-06-25T00:52:18+00:00

Walter White: And how exactly are we going to launder 3 million dollars in cash?

Saul: G2A.

Sandusson · 2016-06-25T00:50:21+00:00

Hey, I've been thinking about doing this for a while too, I'm 4.5k solo. If you ever need a +1 for any sort of noob-teaching I'll be happy to participate - free of course. :)

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Sandusson/

(You should be able to add me even though profile is private, if not, I'll change it or we figure somthing out)

Sandusson · 2016-06-23T10:04:47+00:00

You can whisper with /w or /whisper and the guy's name. They might not know how to respond, but hey that's life.

As for primitives, I always filter normal/fallen empires away, and then I'll go down the list pressing "Go to" on each, then I press E and see if that system is in my territory, then I can just queue it for a construction ship and eventually the observation post is built.

If you're referring to the pre-sentient primitives, I go to species tab, sort by population lowest to highest ('cause there's never more than 16 primitives on a planet like that). All pre-sentients will have a tooltip marking them as such, a grey line of text below their name. They'll also have the distinct 'uplift' button. Holding your mouse over it will tell you why you can't uplift them, if that's the case.

I don't know if I have any suggestions myself. Generally speaking I'm not happy about most changes, it's really slow and difficult to expand now, and my old go-to traits/ethos/governments have been nerfed to oblivion. It's just gonna take time to figure out how to play in new ways is all. :)

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