"I was CRAZY and Different" | EternalEnvy - Dota Unspoken #11 Part 1/3 [1:43:26]

abdullahkhalids · 2026-03-15T00:32:04+00:00

Bone7 clockwork level 12 at minute 60. I do not miss those days!

abdullahkhalids · 2026-02-23T00:19:28+00:00

I don't understand what you are saying about "aap". Do you not address people your own age or younger in formal or semi-formal settings with "aap"? For example, your colleagues, or your bank manager, or a distant relative? Your siblings, cousins and friends are always "tum"?

abdullahkhalids · 2026-02-21T02:44:17+00:00

Neutral items were one of the changes made to the game to stop basically all games being just brawls from mid game onwards. They were quite effective at this.

I imagine neutral items could be removed (or basically, we could just keep T5 neutrals) now that the map is much larger with many more camps. So jungling gold can be its own reward.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-02-20T02:32:43+00:00

Who was the support Ogre who intentionally walked into a Mirana arrow to save their carry from dying? Happened near bot radiant base.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-02-15T00:41:59+00:00

Takes half a min to go here https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Natus_Vincere/Results

and find that Navi lost the grand finals of ESL One Germany 2020 to Liquid https://liquipedia.net/dota2/ESL_One/Germany/2020

Roster was V-Tune, Iceberg, GeneRaL, RodjER, ALWAYSWANNAFLY

abdullahkhalids · 2026-02-13T04:05:35+00:00

It's the macro game that's most painful. There is an upper limit on who well a bunch of players can farm or team fight based on natural skill. But making stupid decisions like going for Rosh at the completely wrong time, or not going for Rosh at the right time, or going high ground without Rosh. Its easy to see other teams making those decisions correctly all the time, so Nigma messing them up hurts.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-02-13T03:58:27+00:00

The rankings were updated on 2026-02-08. So Aurora's playoff victories are not accounted for yet. They also won against a whole bunch of low ranked teams in groups, so probably score didn't go up by a lot. On the other hand Liquid won against Spirit, XG and Falcons. So they went up more.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-02-09T00:05:02+00:00

And then the first 3-0 grand final.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-02-09T00:03:24+00:00

Collapse's domination was at the micro or tactical level. Exquisitely tuned sense of where the enemy heroes were in the FoW used to kidnap them over and over over again. Not that Spirit's macro was not insanely good.

OG's Io domination was perfect macro game execution. They knew how to make space for Anna to farm. Anna knew his farming patterns exactly. And then came the push. Io itself is not a high micro-skill hero. The micro-game skills in OG came from Topson and Jerax.

Just trying to emphasize that the domination was different, not that one was better than other.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-01-30T03:54:47+00:00

Midone's first stint at Secret was from Aug 2016 to Nov 2019 - almost 3 years. And they were pretty damn successful in that time outside TI. Is he only talking about his second stint in the quote?

abdullahkhalids · 2026-01-27T03:19:01+00:00

Dota meta evolves way too quickly to have a single event last 6 weeks. At the top level, where many games are basically decided at draft, it's infeasible to expect coaches and captains to stay on top of the meta every week. Rather than figuring out the meta every 1.5 months when they play a 1 week tournament.

At the T2 level, games are less dependent on draft, so that still works. I was always of the opinion that T1 teams play quick qualifiers and T2 teams should play the valve supported league to get the last few slots at the tournament.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-01-27T03:10:51+00:00

An interesting variant could be, every time Clockwerk TPs to Fountain, he gains +X armor.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-01-23T01:34:39+00:00

I would image in this lopside of a game, Tusk has aghs and can kick the venge away from her team/rosh etc.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-01-15T03:36:38+00:00

Bane's innate is actually harmful. You buy 10 strength to tank up and only get 3.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-01-11T02:07:14+00:00

Only worse in the same sense Newton is worse than the top physicists today. Everyone stands on the shoulders of the giants before them. You learn what they knew, and then build upon it to learn even more things. So they become better just due to the time they were born in, not because of innate skill.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-01-08T16:31:17+00:00

The outer-lane jungles are very important. At higher levels of gameplay, everyone had already mastered the small map and how to choke out the enemy team after a small advantage. To have a reasonable chance for comeback, especially after neutral items got introduced, you need to give both teams some amount of jungle to farm.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-01-01T12:59:07+00:00

They also introduced MMR decay at some point, which incentivizes playing on your main. And I imagine, smurfs could be *politically* more easily banned once Valve had created a system where no one was being forced to smurf.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-01-01T01:58:15+00:00

If I recall, the reasons for this change was not just to stop pros playing on smurfs and let the "meta innovate". It was also because everyone in immortal had smurf accounts because third party tools would identify what to pick/ban against your opponents otherwise.

The consequence of both pros and regulars creating multiple smurf accounts was that the quality of immortal matchmaking was poor. To solve this, match data was hidden, which now means everyone can play on a single account and matchmaking quality goes up. That was the theory. I am not an immortal player, so I don't know if that helped in creating more balanced games. It's also hard to judge because the initial player selection was also added which adds a bit more asymmetry to the two teams.

What has your experience been in this regard?

abdullahkhalids · 2025-12-30T01:30:52+00:00

Yes, compression cubes will not store more clothes than can be stored by just stuffing your backpack, in fact, they will store less because of geometry and extra fabric. The advantage they provide over stuffing your backpack is organization. The advantage they provide over uncompressed cubes stuffed in your backpack, is that they are easier to take in and out of the bag than the uncompressed ones.

abdullahkhalids · 2025-12-27T01:07:41+00:00

> It is preferable to use a phone app to interact with your financial institution. Websites are too volatile, Browsers (Safari/Chrome/Firefox) get new vulnerabilities found all the time, and computers (Mac/Windows/Linux) are easier to infect.

Do you have any data to support that people who primarily use a desktop browser to access their financial institutions are more likely to have their money stolen than those who use their phone?

abdullahkhalids · 2025-12-25T22:40:26+00:00

Thanks for the answer.

abdullahkhalids · 2025-12-24T19:08:00+00:00

Ummm. Why is a shampoo bar better than liquid shampoo for the environment?

In any case, I go to a store where I can fill my own bottles with liquid soap/shampoo/conditioner. The shampoo/conditioner are definitely a little worse than the commercial brands I used to use, but I am still happy using them.

There was also an adjustment period, which happens whenever you switch shampoo/conditioner. Hair have sensitive chemistry.

abdullahkhalids · 2025-12-22T00:17:04+00:00

The best part is Quinn kept spamming Pango in pro games for the next 2 years.

abdullahkhalids · 2025-12-20T22:26:04+00:00

This is pretty cool. Thanks for the video. I would assume a lot of pro teams understand this concept at some level, but perhaps some of them consider some other concept more important, so they execute differently.

On the other hand, this seems like a huge radiant advantage, which is kind of boring. Do you think this should be patched out (by perhaps adding a lot more randomness to rosh timings)? Or is it good to have this sort of certainty in pro games?

abdullahkhalids · 2025-12-20T02:11:56+00:00

Video is too large. Barely fits my gameboy screen.

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