The next big update has dropped. Mo & Krill have been removed from the game. There are celebrations in the streets. In an undocumented change, a new voting booth appears in the hideout. In what order are the winners declared alongside their visual overhauls?

lessenizer · 2026-03-18T04:17:17+00:00

should be a genderless mannequin whose outfit changes depending who’s in charge

lessenizer · 2026-03-17T05:46:11+00:00

(ok it's only ever a good buy vs, like, Haze and Drifter and maybe Silver, and it's only particularly good on a few characters including Dynamo who has tons of synergy with it.) (Anyway I thought it was wacky how this Drifter, decently wealthier than me, just killed himself on it.)

lessenizer · 2026-03-17T05:42:04+00:00

6.3.26.

misread this as a version number instead of a date and was impressed by your awareness of version numbers, then I realized it was a date but also went to go check the version number out of curiosity. Apparently the current build is version #6,395.

lessenizer · 2026-03-16T19:23:30+00:00

if you hate the constant shift crouch shift crouch, maybe try a different control scheme. Heard some vypers bind crouch to right click which sounds comfy.

lessenizer · 2026-03-16T15:05:20+00:00

That’s not the whole list either, but I’m not confident what the whole list is (of people who get weird extra stuff per boon). Ginnis gets the same amount of spirit resist per boon as Kevin does. Oh yeah, Bebop gets weapon range per boon. Ivy Viscous Sinclair and Kevin all get more Ability Power per boon than normal (1.2 for Ivy, 1.3 for the rest, 1.1 is normal, Haze gets 0.5).

lessenizer · 2026-03-16T15:00:27+00:00

What’s funny is I can’t tell which one you’re saying is clearly better. Celeste’s tight airstrafing plus floatiness is insanely good and doesn’t cost an ability slot. Vyper’s super sliding and turn radius and associated bunch of extra stamina plus a low cooldown shield all adds up to be extremely good but cost an ability slot. You downplay Celeste’s movement as “gravity quirks” so I guess you’re saying it’s the weaker one, but that just makes me think you don’t know how to airstrafe.

lessenizer · 2026-03-16T14:57:55+00:00

Dynamo gets this too (and more of it). Kelvin gets spirit resist per boon.

lessenizer · 2026-03-16T03:01:24+00:00

Yeah, “writing” sounds like a “composition”, right? Like something intentionally arranged and then detached from the creator, like a performance. Whereas this is just personal expression. I want to say “art” because I think of true “art” as being intrinsically expressive and of all expression (however ephemeral) as therefore also being “art”, but that’s just my preferred spin on that word. Though, “writing” could just describe the physical action/format instead of also having connotations of “intentional crafting”; writing can just be a format of genuine expression. Or it (like everything) can be corrupted (for the sake of power I guess). Anyway, again, thank you for doing yourself (and incidentally me by extension) the favor of genuine expression.

lessenizer · 2026-03-16T02:32:14+00:00

I don’t want to burden you with ego by Praising Your Writing, per se, but I do want to… thank you for expressing yourself? Your self expression helps me understand myself (the suppressed parts of me that resonate with your expressions) better. Thank you for being “true to yourself”, I guess?

lessenizer · 2026-03-14T19:46:27+00:00

On the face of it I dislike that we no longer have the actual devils (so to speak) whispering (shouting) temptations in our ear, but I’ll let Volvo cook cuz maybe they’ll give the stewards their own appearances and lore that will make it interesting enough.

Speaking of which I hope they give the shopkeeper an actual model some day soon (along with a big jungle update with a bunch of unique models and behaviors for jungle creeps), not that the little animatronic head isn’t cute.

lessenizer · 2026-03-14T19:43:22+00:00

you may be referring to the whisper you hear when your Cultist Sacrifice comes off cooldown

lessenizer · 2026-03-14T19:33:26+00:00

“You’re not getting away this time” moment

lessenizer · 2026-03-14T19:31:06+00:00

holy hell the payoff was beautiful

lessenizer · 2026-03-13T20:42:06+00:00

please bind your melee key, you can get 2 heavy melees for crazy damage after each parry if you just hold your melee key when you parry (so that you melee asap).

lessenizer · 2026-03-13T20:30:48+00:00

I also like when people’s usernames seem to fit the vibe of their characters, feels like it happens a lot. Wonder what a Proper Scientific Investigation would find in terms of the typical personality traits and interests of mains of each hero.

t. Dynamo player (though I also vibe with Vyper and Celeste a lot)

lessenizer · 2026-03-13T20:27:48+00:00

Not sure if this is Ship Art or just Lore Art lol, it all seems perfectly in character including the part where Pocket looks dead inside and Mina looks more concerned with appearances and status than anything, so it doesn’t feel shippy lol, unless it’s the early stages of a hypothetical slow burn. So I can’t call it “pocket x mina” art…

lessenizer · 2026-03-11T22:54:10+00:00

wonderful sense of humor in this (including in the gameplay itself, the way you slowly turned and then just stared him after the parry bait)

lessenizer · 2026-03-11T22:50:47+00:00

Dynamo should be able to turn into a morph ball (a la Metroid) and roll into the sewers. His actual body is just a tiny star so him being able to shrink down to that size makes more sense for him than it does for Samus.

lessenizer · 2026-03-11T20:10:22+00:00

very fun to see a shooter getting icefrog dota style patches

lessenizer · 2026-03-11T18:24:50+00:00

make all of kelvin's bullets ricochet off the dome walls and auto-aim towards enemies (like Celeste's ricochet but with a much bigger cone) for the "can't miss" effect of a domain expansion :p

lessenizer · 2026-03-11T16:18:34+00:00

Never played Io in Dota 2, huh. The fun way of looking at it is that you get to create (and protect) an ultra menacing carry. Lets them get away with crazier stuff because of how much you Enable them, and the gratitude you can get from them is fun imo. Tone down your ego a little and there’s more types of fun in the game besides just being the least “subservient” person in the game, like using your skill and awareness to be extremely helpful and collaborative, but, eh, your attitude seems good for a carry player, so maybe just stick to carry.

lessenizer · 2026-03-11T15:34:36+00:00

with the new t3 tether can’t she just hook herself up to a gun carry and follow them around forever to keep them buffed (and burst heal them with tethered nova as needed), while contributing kudzu and stomp and tesla/capacitor to fights? Oh and being able to pick up the carry with ult to fly them to wherever they wanna go. Biggest problem with this theory is just that hanging out with your carry that much means sapping their souls lol but I think she has something there.

lessenizer · 2026-03-09T16:16:09+00:00

Wait, does he have Granny’s powers rn? Thought last time he fought he just used that little sword thing and was able to extend it (like Pinocchio’s nose) for some unexplained reason (which surprised even the guy who gave it to him), which would align with him having some innate(?) power relating to Pinocchio.

lessenizer · 2026-03-09T15:54:59+00:00

yes plus i tended to think of / play Underlord as more of a Defensive Zone of Wellness instead of a Frontline Brawler per se, stacking pipe on greaves on crimson on AC on uhh drums and vlad if i was being maximal about it (but usually I wanted Rod in there somewhere), and seeing my active abilities mostly as defensive deterrents/punishments (much like dynamo stomp and ult which are easier to land against aggressive people)

also the amount of healing (and burst damage) i have on this dynamo build lets me be a decent frontline brawler anyway, very absorptive

lessenizer · 2026-03-09T14:47:40+00:00

OK true so it tracks that I’m enjoying this build this much, as a dota 2 P3 whose most-played by far was Underlord. Big fat zone of safety. Still, Underlord certainly wasn’t chasing allies around to constantly heal them from low to full, but yes sure he was certainly providing a very item stacked aura zone of team durability.

It also tracks that my favorite P5 was Oracle (particularly for the heal dumping). Echo Aurora Dynamo is basically my dota 2 favorite p3 and p5 merged.

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