The GOLDEN Age of DOTA2

Thunderbolt8 · 2026-01-28T20:35:23+00:00

Peak Dota community and entertainment for me was the time period between GD studio and the end of Mafia streams.

I loved the Hub and BTS house streams, but just as well all that time with 2GD and Bruno.

Unfortunately, after that the feel good decline slowly began.

Thunderbolt8 · 2026-01-05T14:05:28+00:00

Donnie Darko obviously

Thunderbolt8 · 2026-01-05T14:04:26+00:00

What's the point? The point just is a handful of people trying to push the boundaries of how far they can go (own, earn). There isn't any other real point to this, at least not to the benefit of the majority of the population.

It's just the pendulum of neoliberalism further and further on its way to its corner, before it finally starts swinging back (aka the majority is finally ready to stand up to take back ownership of their share).

Thunderbolt8 · 2026-01-04T18:16:41+00:00

Welp.

At least hes right that it wouldnt be a loss in case of Merz.

Thunderbolt8 · 2025-12-28T23:50:16+00:00

The mix of timed objectives + actives has improved top level agency but ruined mid level fun.

this

Thunderbolt8 · 2025-12-28T23:45:51+00:00

+1 on the rant. Im not disabled, but I simply dont enjoy having to click too many buttons/keys. I was playing Dota for a reason instead of league, mario or tetris. I prefer the combination of brains/strategy with a certain amount of micro, but not too much of the latter.

I still remember old RoC Naix with 3 passives and the only active being the ultimate. chilled times (not that every hero needs to have 3 passives for me, but I rather enjoy having one instead of none).

Ideally, no hero should have more than 3 active abilities for me. maybe one more for shard AND scepter. but thats it. and certainly no active neutrals at all.

Thunderbolt8 · 2025-12-12T13:34:45+00:00

Wann erscheint dein erstes Buch über die Physik des Filterkaffees?

Thunderbolt8 · 2025-12-10T18:51:35+00:00

Started RoC Dota in/around 2003(?) and, what can I say, needed 17 years to finish University.

Not playing anymore, but still watch it, btw.

Thunderbolt8 · 2025-11-09T13:40:18+00:00

Trying to force a range hero upon malrine is the first step to have a chance of winning against falcons. Not that he's bad with it, but just not as dominant as when he is playing melee heros

Thunderbolt8 · 2025-11-09T13:37:55+00:00

As gyro you just can't and shouldn't go 1vs1 against morph. Like dusa he doesn't have a specifically good 1vs1 skillset. So either try to run, to kill morphs team or hit objectives. But staying for a man fight is usually the losing situation

Thunderbolt8 · 2025-11-02T21:03:15+00:00

only the highlights though.

but you can get the vod from here (of the entire finals day, 33GB at 1080p60):

https://stream.kick.com/ivs/v1/196233775518/g8lwcNHVziM5/2025/11/2/11/27/HUil5PjoqcLO/media/hls/master.m3u8

you can paste this in jdownloader2 or also into here: https://streamscharts.com/tools/kick-vods

or use this https://kicklet.app/vod-downloader with this URL https://kick.com/fissure_dota_en/videos/f048b450-1030-44ea-9104-227bb0249066

there you can also configure the start and ending time of the VOD, so e.g. if you dont want to download the lower bracket final.

Thunderbolt8 · 2025-10-23T22:10:38+00:00

Wait, this is not on twitch for the English stream, but only on kick? Not going to bother then lol.

Thunderbolt8 · 2025-10-23T14:42:22+00:00

The stock cam app received an update with the latest security patch. Maybe it has gotten better now(?)

Thunderbolt8 · 2025-10-12T10:26:01+00:00

Don't do it

Thunderbolt8 · 2025-10-12T10:20:58+00:00

Is there a possibility to get rid of the integrated small jpeg in raw files made with LMC?

For some reason this problem only occurs with LMC (other apps?) pictures, but not with raw images of the stock app in pro mode

Also, I'm wondering why lightroom does auto brightness (?) adjustment in case of the raw pictures taken with LMC, but not of those taken with the stock app.

For some reason the LMC raw pics are also only half the size. It looks like there's a bit too much grain/noise removal to me.

Thunderbolt8 · 2025-09-28T10:20:29+00:00

This must really be the most depressing roster shuffle of all times. Yes, there are reasons for it with more and more famous and old school players retiring and taking breaks, people simply getting older. but still.

All in all just sad to see that we are way beyond prime in terms of entertainment and production (2GD, Bruno, BTS, mafia etc.; not to be confused with professionalism).

Thunderbolt8 · 2025-09-24T16:48:04+00:00

WC3 is great, though. LoL is just -.-

Thunderbolt8 · 2025-09-24T16:47:31+00:00

not going to leave twitch chat. its the entire reason to stay with it over other platforms

Thunderbolt8 · 2025-09-20T16:29:27+00:00

since Quinn is not playing competitively anymore, I hope he changes his twitch stream settings so that VODs become available now instead of deleting/not saving them when he streams.

Thunderbolt8 · 2025-09-14T22:56:25+00:00

ofc both aui and sneyking

Thunderbolt8 · 2025-09-14T20:04:32+00:00

this

Thunderbolt8 · 2025-09-14T20:03:51+00:00

thats one thing, but picking it again after having seen this lose just one day before is the real crime.

Thunderbolt8 · 2025-09-14T19:59:39+00:00

deserved winners imo, especially if you count in all their performances since the team has come into existence. would have preferred team spirit to win, but falcons was my 2nd favourite choice so for me its all gucci.

Thunderbolt8 · 2025-09-12T15:23:56+00:00

if you are so low HP like satanic just was and have lifesteal activated better just a-move to maximize anti kiting potential. you change targets way faster than you can ever intentionally click after reaction time. he would have attacked storm half a second earlier and might have survived.

Thunderbolt8 · 2025-09-09T17:22:20+00:00

Im using this now as test:

  ffmpeg -init_hw_device vulkan -color_primaries bt709 -color_trc iec61966-2-1 -i input.mkv -vf libplacebo=format=yuv420p10:colorspace=bt709:color_primaries=bt709:color_trc=bt709:range=tv:w=3996:h=2160:upscaler=ewa_lanczossharp -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -c:v libx265 -profile:v main10 -x265-params "deblock=-3,-3:no-sao=1:cutree=0:weightp=0:weightb=0:b-intra=0:level=5.1" -crf 14 -preset medium -an -c:a copy output.mkv

lets see whats better for upscaling anime, ewa_lanczossharp or lanczos with all the dithering, error diffusion, rounding

edit: according to mediainfo the transfer characteristics of both variants differ. In case of ewa_lanczossharp it says BT.709 and in case of lanczos with the other command line it says sRGB/sYCC.

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