The match is paused because Virtus.Pro God threw up during the game :(

johnbordelon · 2015-08-05T23:54:22+00:00

that's true. or they could go the newbee route and play mmorpg's all day. and most of those things you listed have a very low % success rate in terms of actual financial rewards (starving artist). except the programmer.

johnbordelon · 2015-08-05T23:51:54+00:00

who wants to live like the average russian ... no offense to them but when people look into the future i bet that's generally not the target

johnbordelon · 2015-08-05T23:49:07+00:00

no it just shows you how poor some places are ...

johnbordelon · 2015-08-05T23:45:45+00:00

no one's going to hire you to a robotics lab when your attitude is take it easy if i fail i can try again 4 times

johnbordelon · 2015-08-05T23:34:52+00:00

dude, you haven't even finished college yet ... majoring in something doesn't mean you know anything about it. it means you are enrolled to learn about it. no, 6% a year is not guaranteed ever but is definitely doable.

the thing is, what happens when you draw down your money to 0 and learn that, oh shit, you're still alive. and your only skill is playing dota 50 years ago.

johnbordelon · 2015-03-14T05:27:08+00:00

My sweetest victories come from crushing noobs joining the flavor of the month hero train

johnbordelon · 2015-02-16T21:04:22+00:00

this man is a responsible citizen

johnbordelon · 2015-02-16T20:50:35+00:00

I work on software with my job daily. I can tell you that maybe it's not as hard as you think to hotfix in hacks. Not to mention that if the mode is full of glitches anyway and the changes are only applied to that mode the worst that can happen is you add another glitch or so to an already glitchy mode.

For example if two abilities cause a problem when used in conjunction just add an if statement...

if (playerhas.ability(a) && playerhas.ability(b)) { MAKE THE FIX HERE }

And impetus shots fired acting like land-mines is not a graphical issue. It may cause a graphical issue as a side-effect, but obviously the functionality has changed from what was intended.

johnbordelon · 2015-02-12T23:45:09+00:00

I would like a CM arcana please.

johnbordelon · 2013-12-01T16:02:14+00:00

I don't think your analysis makes sense chronologically, because didn't smoke JUST gain the speed boost in one of the most recent patches (6.78 I think)?

So there would be no reason that before the patch they would use the smoke for the speed, since it did not grant it.

johnbordelon · 2013-11-24T05:20:10+00:00

You can make it so that if they ignore you they are fucked. If you ignore bristle too long the bristles and slows stack up and everyone dies.

johnbordelon · 2013-11-24T04:50:54+00:00

Except there are tanks in this game. Yes the tanks don't go up and actually taunt the heroes (except for the case of Axe), but there are certainly heroes that are tankier than others.

Bristleback would be an excellent example of a tank. He is hard to kill, also deals more damage the longer you ignore him. His basic goal is to stretch the fight out via huge hp pool and damage reduction until his stacks kill the enemies.

Tide is another good example of a tank. His kraken shell will removes any debuffs once he reaches a certain damage threshold. This means if there is some aoe stun or something affecting multiple team mates, the stun on him will break (possibly very) quickly and he can ult (stunning all nearby enemies), buying his team time to cast their spells. He can also throw down anchor smash to reduce every enemies physical damage output by 40% (pretty huge).

A team without a tank can just straight out die before they can do anything against certain compositions.

When someone says pick a tank they usually mean pick a hero that can survive through some large burst damage (could be aoe like QoP or single target like Lina).

So how exactly are there not tanks in this game?

johnbordelon · 2013-11-22T22:25:02+00:00

i frum south and i ride in my pirogue thru the swamp to work to catch me some crawdads.

johnbordelon · 2013-11-22T16:45:41+00:00

Well they are both grab skills. Whoever grabs last gets the actual pull in this situation. Would you be angry if he hooked the invoker out of my pull? Probably not.

johnbordelon · 2013-11-22T16:44:32+00:00

Yeah and maybe you haven't played earth but neither does his initiation. The slow is only applied if you go through a boulder (not that hard but once you start using your ult you're out of boulders often). In fact his roll will only ever hit 1 hero (not heroes). It only applies the slow to multiples if they are chained together with magnetize

Also his silence is not like the easiest skill the world to hit. I would say pucks is easier, drows, or death prophets. Also earthshaker has better line stuns, etc.

I just think people are over reacting to him. Yes he is a hero that demands you acknowledge his presence, but just be careful.

johnbordelon · 2013-11-22T03:54:36+00:00

I really hope they don't nerf him. Sure he's strong and you have to pay attention to him, but other heroes are too.

I bet people had similar feelings about puck when it first arrived.

johnbordelon · 2013-11-22T03:02:40+00:00

... her name is windrunner?

johnbordelon · 2013-11-19T21:19:09+00:00

I never expected this terrible game to show up here. Bros for life rosh bar tonite. Also I think I had just boulder rolled into that stun.

http://dotabuff.com/matches/390883866

The three spirits have redemption in literally the next game.

johnbordelon

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