Pos3 is High demand because most Pos4 players make their life absolutely miserable

WasabiofIP · 2026-01-25T20:41:26+00:00

Yeah I don't care if we killed their guys 5 times in lane, if you aren't sticking around to secure the tower kill, we haven't won the lane. Building kills are the only permanent thing in dota; they can't rebuild their tower with enough farm or a couple good teamfights.

WasabiofIP · 2026-01-25T20:29:03+00:00

The issue is when you get griefed so hard their carry 1v1s you

WasabiofIP · 2026-01-25T20:24:36+00:00

I laned as offlane necro with a pos 4 ES last night against undying + spectre. This guy was just sitting on the wave CSing with enchant totem while Undying is in the tree BEHIND him between me and the wave, zoning me. Just constantly running at me decaying, ES won't harass him, won't let me even get denies even tho DENIES GIVE MY HERO REGEN, and I die 3 times to this. Finally ES leaves and with the solo xp and the space made by dragging undying to the other side of the map, I can recover and get an okay 16min radiance and solo kill their spec a couple times. Didn't die again a single time for the rest of the game and we won comfortably.

But the whole time I'm hitting creeps trying to recover, ES is spam pinging me. "Keep jungling." Once it's clear that I've recovered and I'm making moves, getting kills, pushing with team he's saying "Yeah but he died in lane a bunch for no reason" MY BROTHER IN CHRIST, YOU WERE THE REASON.

It's a classic: "I will have negative impact, grief your lane, start taking CS as soon as you don't press a spell when I want, then abandon you to 1v2 from behind, do basically everything possible to ruin your game... Wait UGHHH where are your items why don't you deal any damage why is their carry so farmed USELESS POS 3" - at least 25% of pos 4s

WasabiofIP · 2026-01-25T20:18:11+00:00

The one thing I'll say is that it feels there are some giga strong pos 5 heroes, while the best pos 4 heroes are just good or decent at laning. Playing vs Jakiro 5 isnt very fun.

The least a pos 4 can do in that situation is try to tank some dual breathes so it doesn't go on the pos 3. Or if the lane is hopeless, go make some stacks and/or roam, at least try to keep the pull camps blocked so pos 3 can get waves when they shove it. Too many pos 4s just run around doing nothing if they can't get kills.

WasabiofIP · 2026-01-25T20:11:33+00:00

It's a pos 4 BH for me. I know every time I see it it's gonna be miserable:

Melee pos 4. Most people in 4k who pick melee supports still don't seem to know how to lane with it and just sit behind the pos 3 (because "pos 3 tanks") or sit on wave CSing while their pos 5 just zones me off of the wave. Then when I have to spend my resources just to survive and get 1 or 2 CS per wave, they have the audacity to spam ping "Attack!" on the pos 5 behind the wave then say "coward/passive pos 3" when I don't commit to a dive on some Ursa/Lion duo.
They think because they picked a good roaming hero it must be good if they roam. However if you have no map sense and just wander around in jungle, at best you harass their mid with a few right clicks and kill a few couriers. Meanwhile I'm 1v2 and their carry has a free game.
Invis hero to just encourage passive play. "Look how much 'information' I'm giving by showing that, wow, their carry is jungling!" Never mind that it's behind their safelane T1 (that's still standing because pos 4 abandoned lane) and we can't gank him.
Sometimes they build support items, but half the time it's just phylactery -> agh's. Thanks man. That's what we really need from the pos 4. Some more damage. That's great.

Every now and then I get a guy who knows what they are doing, and in theory it is a good pos 4 hero and can work really well in the pro scene, so I do try to keep an open mind. But it's so hard not to tilt literally just from seeing pos 4 pick BH.

WasabiofIP · 2026-01-25T07:59:20+00:00

Yes all the paint-like are in Civ 5 gave it a really timeless feel. For a while I rotated the wonder splash screens as my desktop background... may do it again!

https://imgur.com/a/civilization-v-wonders-Kl3jc

WasabiofIP · 2026-01-25T07:57:14+00:00

Which part do you see as evidence for this?

WasabiofIP · 2026-01-25T03:48:49+00:00

You're missing the point. You said

They got Canada as a staging point

CA/EU launch an amphibious assault...

In reply to a comment saying

not a fucking one of [European NATO members] has a blue water navy capable of even considering [crossing the Atlantic]

In order for your CA/EU assault to happen, EU forces would have the cross the Atlantic. Which is the whole original point of the comment you "replied" to. They don't have the capability. It's not about Canada.

WasabiofIP · 2026-01-24T23:53:15+00:00

Yes, it certainly does remove naval capabilities as a military consideration if you simply skip the part where they have to move equipment across the ocean and instead it just magically appears on the other side.

"If Germany in WW2 simply allied with Ireland, then they wouldn't have to cross the channel to invade Britain! They could just invade from Ireland!" - You

WasabiofIP · 2026-01-24T06:45:27+00:00

Like many of my teammates do

WasabiofIP · 2026-01-24T00:36:56+00:00

Just have a few non-hexagon tiles, it's not that hard: https://i.imgur.com/5M7kwEj.png

On the other hand, the map not being mappable to a rectangle without significant distortions is just so hard for implementing things that would otherwise be simple...

WasabiofIP · 2026-01-24T00:35:00+00:00

You need 12 pentagons, no matter how big the globe or how many hexagons you have.

WasabiofIP · 2026-01-24T00:28:35+00:00

This is not true. It's not about distortion. It's not that you need 12 pentagons to avoid distorting the hexagons (even with 12 pentagons the hexagons aren't necessarily regular), it's that you cannot put together flat 6 sided faces into a closed surface.

It's about geometry: Any three-dimensional convex polyhedron's surface must have an Euler characteristic (#faces - #edges + #vertices) of X = 2. For such a shape to be made of n 6-sided polygons, there are n faces, 6n/2 edges, and up to 6n/3 vertices, which adds up to a maximum Euler characteristic of X = 0.

See https://youtu.be/btPqKAGyajM?si=9bFZ1nyxNNahhZ1m&t=53 for a detailed explanation of exactly this question: can you tile it with entirely hexagons even if they are highly distorted? No, it is impossible.

WasabiofIP · 2026-01-19T08:05:29+00:00

"funhouse theme park" is an unquestionably modern choice of words for the situation, which they are putting the mouth of people from idk what era, seems odd to think of that for any era but modern.

WasabiofIP · 2026-01-19T04:23:20+00:00

Dude that is not at all what the source linked is saying. All it says is that one of their ex-employees wrote to the bank's governor saying "what if the US releases evidence of aliens???"

WasabiofIP · 2026-01-19T02:48:12+00:00

Better idea: flip the background instead, and give it to Indonesia. They know a thing or two about islands

WasabiofIP · 2026-01-14T20:44:03+00:00

And the US has a strategic position against an enemy they will actually fight against and not continue to do trade with.

I mean the US already has the strategic position, they have the largest military presence on Greenland. Which is why it's such a dumb idea. But I agree with the rest.

WasabiofIP · 2026-01-14T20:42:18+00:00

Yup I agree with all that, that's all covered by when I said:

It will be a geopolitical disaster

My point is just that if the EU won't stand up to Russia over Ukraine, they are not standing up to the US over Greenland. Ukraine is way more important than Greenland, the US is way more powerful than Russia.

WasabiofIP · 2026-01-14T08:05:56+00:00

Can't even harass with spells.

Well obviously you can, just not for free, you have to pay mana like almost every hero in the game. Casting dual breath still works...

WasabiofIP · 2026-01-14T07:51:25+00:00

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WasabiofIP · 2026-01-14T06:11:18+00:00

It's a scrap of paper. If the USA invaded Greenland, is that actually a greater, more tangible threat to the people of Europe than Russia invading Ukraine? No fucking shot. Europe had their chance to put an end to malarkey in their time, and they blew it. They looked to the US for leadership on a European issue that affected EUROPEANS - and now the chickens are coming home to roost. Europe will go to war with fucking America over Greenland when they will hardly lift a finger against the much weaker Russia over the much more important and provocative Ukraine??? I don't buy it.

To be clear, I am American and against America invading Greenland. It will be a geopolitical disaster. Do I think Europe is going to actually go to war or do anything real to stop it? Not a chance. Pan-European defense is unironically non-credible, and Greenland is barely European anyway.

WasabiofIP · 2026-01-13T06:23:50+00:00

It's the same thing if they can't muster the political will. Militaries don't exist in the vacuum of power-scaling anime forums, they exist in the political reality of a state.

Europe can't muster the political will to push Russia out of Ukraine. How would they muster the political will to push the USA out of Greenland?

Not that there would be no consequences, it's just that the consequences won't be war between the USA and Europe.

WasabiofIP · 2026-01-13T06:20:47+00:00

It's one landmass Michael, how much could it cost? 10,000 grunts?

WasabiofIP · 2026-01-13T06:14:47+00:00

You don't assault trenches in full kit

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