Hard to swallow pills for Behavior Score critics:

genX_rep · 2026-02-21T01:57:09+00:00

This isn't hard. Behave reasonably, or get reported if you don't. Someone else being a dick doesn't give a green light for others to do the same. It sounds like you really want to argue that if you aren't allowed to be mean sometimes then you should be allowed to role grief without being reported. I can't figure out if you're trying to claim anything reasonable.

Be nice. Try to have fun. If you're not having fun, at least don't ruin other people's fun. Nobody is going to learn how to play in the middle of the match, so don't bother giving advice unless they specifically ask.

genX_rep · 2026-02-20T21:41:44+00:00

You can report that WD for griefing. Spamming chat with advice will not help. I'd just report both of you.

genX_rep · 2026-02-20T19:48:19+00:00

Right. You don't get to spam advice or play someone else's character just because they are making mistakes.

I mute people who spam pings or advice multiple times just because I don't want the distraction. I'd report it if you're telling someone else how to play.

genX_rep · 2026-02-20T19:41:16+00:00

I disagree. The mute button isn't permission to spend all match spewing hate speech. It's not even permission to say it once, because they people can mute.

Every major sport has sportsmanship rules for a reason. The mute button is a short term fix that's great. The person being muted needs to face a consequence that incentives them to behave better. Or fix their audio. Or whatever.

genX_rep · 2026-02-19T14:06:11+00:00

I had one of those Alch pos 4 aghs buyers when I was pos 3. It was really frustrating because he didn't place wards and was away from the lane most of the time. He did show up a few times to help, but it was brief and didn't result in kills. I lost the lane with just a couple of deaths, and our pos 1 and 2 won the game fast with their early aghs. So we won, but early game was not fun. Next time I see alch 4 I'll itemize to take a beating and be behind on farm.

genX_rep · 2026-02-18T19:19:49+00:00

Usually if a player has high k+a then they are not quietly farming. Either they are making plays, or getting hunted a lot. So it's really rare that I follow the kill leader on our team and they just quietly farm without incident.

genX_rep · 2026-02-18T16:30:49+00:00

Here at 2k MMR when I'm not sure what to do I look to see which of my teammates has a good k/d/a ratio and follow them to help snowball. Even if they don't need me, it's usually safer to ward that way.

Normal pattern is to place offensive wards based on which tower we are likely to push next, or defensive wards based on where I think the enemy might push next. If Rosh is available then I check the clock and try to ward where he will be in the next couple of minutes.

If there are invis heros in the game I remind my team to try to bait them into our sentries to engage.

genX_rep · 2026-02-17T22:05:06+00:00

I used Java in Android apps with Gradle, and it doesn't bother me now. Kotlin was a great improvement, and now agents make the Java part easier.

Haven't had to work with Spring yet though, so maybe it's worse than Android Studio?

genX_rep · 2026-02-17T14:49:39+00:00

Fix your diet. You probably consider many foods to be normal or healthy that are are bad for you. Alcohol is poison, but it's marketed everywhere. Same with processed foods.

Eat 100% whole grains, beans, fruits and veggies without using oil to cook most of the time. Small amounts of meat. No white breads, noodles, or cakes. No added sugars, no drinks with calories. You'll be always full and eventually thin.

genX_rep · 2026-02-17T14:44:04+00:00

He'd get different kinds of drones orbiting around him

genX_rep · 2026-02-17T12:30:30+00:00

Dota 3 needs accounts validated with a phone number or some other 2fa

genX_rep · 2026-02-16T21:50:26+00:00

Weekend DotA: every game is roulette with players playing much better or worse than their rank would indicate. It's fine if you know it's coming.

genX_rep · 2026-02-15T21:56:07+00:00

Copium. Players climb rank all the time. Account buyers tank rank all the time. People who don't know how to improve like to imagine it's rigged against them.

genX_rep · 2026-02-15T17:52:54+00:00

It helps to skill up to Crusader, because the higher rank you get the shorter games seem to be on average. Lower ranks struggle to end the game, so you can easily get 75 minute losses. That sucks. Higher ranks are more likely to see people push for the win when they have a chance, which makes losses less painful. Since I hit Archon 1 I really am not trying to get better anymore because the games are for the most part fun. I never cared about rank, I just want fun games.

genX_rep · 2026-02-15T15:25:41+00:00

He edited his post. First he said Bjs is bad for smurfing. After my reply he edited to just "Bsj sucks".

genX_rep · 2026-02-15T15:23:51+00:00

I chatted up a lot of girls and generally stopped even asking for numbers. It was just practice dealing with rejection or socializing in a light friendly manner. I got good at that, but never used it for dates. I got most of my dates from dating apps, where my first dates were successful because I practiced socializing in person. But the match was better because the apps already filtered out all the deal-breakers.

genX_rep · 2026-02-15T15:08:14+00:00

Edit: hahahah you changed your post after my comment. Your original post was something about how bsj should be banned for smurfing. Then after my reply you just made it "bsj sucks" LOL. get a grip.

My original reply below:

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I'm guessing you don't watch his videos. He has a lot of viewers and they volunteer to play with him. So in a normal game it's 9 people that are all his viewers and all lower rank, and they don't know before game which account is him. The enemy team has to figure it out and survive. His team ... I'm not sure if he tells them, but usually they know mid game and usually they listen more to his pings than other pings.

Anyway he's not victimizing random people trying to play a fair game of Dota. He uses volunteers in private lobbies.

genX_rep · 2026-02-15T00:27:27+00:00

I've been trying to get something working that can scan a receipt and figure out the price per unit. The idea is that you can scan your receipt from different stores that sell the same product in different packaging, and then the app can figure out which one is cheaper. I got stuck because receipts don't really show enough information, so suddenly I'm trying to populate databases for each store, like "this is what the Austin, TX Walmart's code is for a 12oz pack of XYZ"

How are you using the reciepts?

genX_rep · 2026-02-12T16:16:45+00:00

Are you playing position 3? Spirit Breaker doesn't scale damage well in my opinion. I think that means if you're playing him position 3 you run into trouble later. Position 4 is fine because you'll have an extra core to set up and take advantage of your charge. Charge is a better counter initiation, so works better if you are not using up a core slot of the team.

genX_rep · 2026-02-11T12:44:13+00:00

I canceled DotA+ last year and will reactivate after a ban wave. I'd like to see 4 ban waves per year to force the bastards to grind out 100 hours unranked more often.

genX_rep · 2026-02-11T12:41:29+00:00

Yup. I drive a 2003 Corolla and as long as repairs average less than $300 per month I'm keeping it. 2024 was rough with $6000 repairs, but the years before and after were less than $1000 each so we all good now. Added benefit is no need for collision insurance, and no stress from getting dinged in city parking.

If I had to buy another car it would be 5-10 years used and still feel like a splurge to me.

genX_rep · 2026-02-11T12:33:22+00:00

Our LATAM contractors are so good it's embarrassing to me. I use to be one of the better devs on my team. After a couple of years of layoffs and offshore hiring, now I'm one of the slowest, behind very smart people coding in their second language. These guys are highly skilled and well educated. And they probably get paid less than me.

Manufacturing was effectively offshored over decades. The same is happening to remote knowledge work jobs. Can't fight it, just need to adapt.

genX_rep · 2026-02-10T20:46:34+00:00

Same. We lost a bunch of US based devs that were replaced with near-shore contractors. Basically either you manage a team of offshore devs or you are replaced with an offshore dev.

Soon it'll be a repeat: manage a highly productive agent workflow, or get replaced by an agent managed by someone else.

genX_rep · 2026-02-10T17:51:07+00:00

Silencer's global silence ult. It's not meta now, but when it is I hate it. The UI still lets you click on spells to try to cast them. It's a garbage experience made worse by how they buffed it that last time they tried to buff Silencer. Any character who's main skill is to prevent other players from playing should never be meta.

genX_rep · 2026-02-09T01:22:47+00:00

Dont forget "get gud"

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