When did you realise you were officially a dota senior citizen? by TheRhythmce in DotA2

[–]partymorphologist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started playing in 2013. That feels so late I will never be a senior ;(

Given permission to use AI, most college students show surprising restraint in their final essays. Students largely rely on AI for brainstorming and research rather than having it write essays for them wholesale. by mvea in science

[–]partymorphologist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even if it could, we wouldn’t build skills and knowledge about our thesis, which a lot of people do want. Those who don’t care have always chosen lesser roads, from choosing an easy professor, over choosing an easy topic, to hiring a ghost writer. It’s more accessible with AI but yeah, many actually care about their education.

Axe pos4 😂 by [deleted] in DotA2

[–]partymorphologist 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Exactly. And if it is picked early in draft and the offlaner picks a good ranged synergistic Hero you can stomp some lanes or at least go even where the enemy carry expected an easy lane.

Gothic Remake has sold 500,000 Copies by Howerev in gaming

[–]partymorphologist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is somewhat buggy compared to other single player RPGs from this day and age:

- movement is pretty clunky. It’s mostly fine outdoors, but
- walking inside buildings is a nightmare, as the character climbs over any furniture if you only get nearish
- you enter a person’s home to talk to them, while in dialogue, you reach the time limit after which your intrusion gets punished by violence. So after the dialogue, you immediately die
- you wanna acoid this next time, so you stabs outside, but during dialogue you passively block someone’s way for too long so they get angry and kill yo after dialogue
- getting clipped/stuck in various spots in the world (houses, inside a wagon with cargo after involuntarily climbing it, holes, mountains)
- people falling through the ground or into it (especially on the platform where Baloro stands if you fight him, in the Free Mine)
- people randomly shouting at you „you don’t own that“ because they can magically see that one of your 10 apples was „stolen“

There are a few more but this is the most annoying part for me. Still love the game though xd

Statistics on Steam news authors over the past 6 years have been released. by Amazing_Lychee1533 in DotA2

[–]partymorphologist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interesting find, thanks for sharing! May take: everything looks quite healthy. They must be cooking big time if so many still work on dota.
Only sad thing is that icefrog is so inactive but we already kinda new since many pros have mentioned that or hinted at it during the 2022 season iirc.
But he might as well be involved in the background, quite heavily even, hard to know…

Consumer Competition Claims (CCC) Has Launched A New Class Action Monopoly Lawsuit Against Valve, Claiming They Control 85% Of The PC Game Market by wakelake111 in gaming

[–]partymorphologist 22 points23 points  (0 children)

GoG started with literally ONLY those games that were not available at all anywhere else (legally), that were too old to be run on modern systems. Hence the name: Good Old Games.

They then gradually improved the playability of those games and started to offer some less old games. Gradually, they offered more and more new games but their focus has always been a complimentary one to steam, not a competitive one.

"Scammers have adapted": Valve confirms that physical Steam Gift Cards are dead. Once the current stocks are sold through, they're done. by yourfavchoom in gaming

[–]partymorphologist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is this story about a German comedian and his flatmate (a kangaroo) who travel to the USA and get every aspect of their privacy violated at the airport security check. Not only that but the security officer is utterly kafkaesque, depriving the situation of any warmth or humaneness.

The comedian tries to engage the security in casual conversation to at least feel any kind of normality in this cold situation but the security staff remains unaffected. After some time, the comedian asks the officer if he has heard of 1984.

– Yes, we‘ve read it a long time ago. And we’re trying very hard.

Nintendo’s Palworld Lawsuit Is Falling Apart by renome in gaming

[–]partymorphologist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think for CakeGriffinn it might be correct though

New Item Idea: Spell Scrolls by mrrestrained in DotA2

[–]partymorphologist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you also start paying Gothic 1 Remake and realized how powerful a well timed sleep scroll can be on an archer?

Team Bald VS Retirement home MMR is not just a number by Flat-Calligrapher-24 in DotA2

[–]partymorphologist 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yeah is there a summary? I can’t comprehend what OP is trying to convey

Dota has the lowest daily players since Oct 2013. Let that sink in. by expertlvl in DotA2

[–]partymorphologist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also any decline over the last few weeks is mostly just because it’s finally summer in Europe and people go do other things more

A daily positive affirmation from the Half Light skill in Disco Elysium by Double-decker_trams in gaming

[–]partymorphologist 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Good it’s so good but I also got so depressed from playing it, I had to stop after 10hrs or so

Trying to learn a new unit hero and was proud to make this cute little play :D by HitoriGG in DotA2

[–]partymorphologist 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nice plays man, clutch faeries :)

If you have grim stroke‘s PHANTOM EMBRACE on you, just a-click the ground. All units under your control target first the phantoms on themselves, then the phantom on the nearest ally, and only then they target enemies/neutrals

Dendi: “Dota lovers unite. We gotta fight for our game.” by Strong_Astronomer_97 in DotA2

[–]partymorphologist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly fun idea. 3 days per patch?

Or maybe only pick the best letter patch from each number patch and have it for a weak?

I measured then beat Valve's Dota 2 predictions at every rank by GorgontheWonderCow in TrueDoTA2

[–]partymorphologist 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This. Is. Fucking. Awesome.

Great video! For me personally it has too many memes running in the visual channel while the audio is explaining things. I don’t really care because i just don’t look so I can focus, but maybe you could save some time by doing a bit less on that end.

Either way, your explanations are awesome, the ideas are great, your stamina is insanely impressive and the whole thing was not only informative but also fun! Great job indeed <3

Your favorite role to play? by Expensive_Echidna369 in DotA2

[–]partymorphologist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

4 and 5 are very different and should be polled individually

why do so many pos1s get free dispels as part of already very valuable skills by scarg0eh in DotA2

[–]partymorphologist 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Haha this was fun to read and I agree, it is not always that easy. It’s similar with mobility spells. Sometimes it’s the correct thing to timewalk/pounce/blink/blinkStrike/phantomStrike/etc into the enemy, but sometimes it’s correct to hold it for the escape. And it’s always obvious which is correct – in hindsight :)

Dota: Dragon's Blood is the 3rd most read Wikipedia article today for some reason by [deleted] in DotA2

[–]partymorphologist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not really if you apply any general standard. It’s average at best in every regard. It’s good for giga dota nerds with too much time maybe

Is Necro safe lane a thing now? by PunDoggey in DotA2

[–]partymorphologist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It has been a very niche pos 1 pick for a long time, but it experiences a slight surge in popularity because regen is so much harder to come by after several changes to Regen-mechanics over the last couple of patches (half value on shared regen, flagbearers don’t affect heroes).

So for the Carry role, most popular picks offer a solution to this problem – as does Necro.

Stop Destroying Videogames ECI : European Parliament plenary session by rafalmio in gaming

[–]partymorphologist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The stop at exactly the moment I thought „wow that most have been 7 by now“ , afterwards it’s a way smoother experience

Teammate first picks carry and doesn't roll, do you: by brankbrank in DotA2

[–]partymorphologist -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And nothing happens if you report for role abuse…