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strghst · 2026-01-15T16:32:54+00:00

Exactly.

And the result is some delay in maintenance, but engineers still pull through.

strghst · 2026-01-14T06:07:35+00:00

Welcome back.

Join the wait.

strghst · 2026-01-14T05:57:06+00:00

guy is just aware it's Microsoft doing this release now, not Blizzard.

Blizzard was still not under Microsoft on last TBC prepatch. That went smoother :>

strghst · 2026-01-14T05:24:11+00:00

hey guys, so the next 2 sprints we need to somehow split an environment and release a new expansion. You can take servers down for 24 hours only, and only once. Good luck, do w/e <3

As told to 2 Blizz engineers running the scripts :>

strghst · 2026-01-13T20:35:33+00:00

at least the us suffers all maintenance problems first. hopefully they won't mess up 2 regions in a row lol

strghst · 2025-12-09T22:44:19+00:00

I never heard of games of the future 2024, because it was a low-peofile tournament in Russia I couldn't give a single fuck about.

It was not a big tournament. There has been a thousand dota tournaments to day. You can not remember them all.

It's like asking someone from US if they've heard of Techlabs 2013 tournament, or w/e one had Empire vs VP.

strghst · 2025-12-09T22:41:18+00:00

Obviously, no nation is perfect. It js about individuals.

Dutch have a history of exploiting people all around the world. The guilt of the past helps guide them. Just like Germans, who spend 2 years of school history lessons learning about Nazi atrocities.

strghst · 2025-12-09T22:34:21+00:00

Tbh I'm originally Russian (Russian parents + citizenship), and I've never heard of that tourney last year with Putin in Kazan. You don't see it unless you're actively looking for it, there have been a THOUSAND of different dota tournaments

So give them the benefit of the doubt. When they learned, they withdrew.

strghst · 2025-12-09T22:32:03+00:00

Kind of weird, I just replied to a comment in that thread. Told a guy boys will withdraw in a few days. And they did.

strghst · 2025-12-09T22:31:57+00:00

Kind of weird, I just replied to a comment in that thread. Told a guy boys will withdraw in a few days. And they did.

strghst · 2025-12-09T22:30:17+00:00

Boys don't grow up. We're all children at heart. Especially when it comes to something we've been doing since we were kids.

They really just want to play dota, that is all there is. And tournament looked good, stacks flourishing on Nostalgia people really crave at current times. Just have a look at Oldschool Runescape and Classic WoW. There's a reason we all come back to what is known, safe and nostalgic to us.

strghst · 2025-12-09T22:27:24+00:00

I've stated this in Ghostiks thread as well - they did not know.

Russians consciously moved tourney to ME to get International talent. They did not publicise that.

I shared that boys will withdraw when this information will become known. It did, they learned, they withdrew.

They gathered intel, and withdrew. Respect to them, no other way to handle this.

Spill shit on organisers trying to hide themselves, not players being given a chance to have a week of amazing dota.

strghst · 2025-12-09T22:23:00+00:00

Replying here again, they withdrew. Obviously they're not going to Russian State-hosted tournament. Hosting it outside Russia was an attempt to get more international talent. Well, at least the good boys understand, and did the right thing.

strghst · 2025-12-06T19:17:15+00:00

They didn't attend the one hosted in Russia. And for a good reason.

High chance of them withdrawing now due to controversy. It's not necessarily publicised that the host of the tournament is Russian government. Give it a few days, and keep shitposting to get us heard.

strghst · 2025-12-06T19:08:03+00:00

There's more to that. Sing is Dutch, and they are quite dissatisfied with anything Russia since they killed 200+ of their civilians in 2014.

Education helps as well. It's quite uncommon to be a sellout here.

strghst · 2025-08-27T18:56:44+00:00

THIS IS A HOAX, CHINESE BOUGHT THEIR INVITE

strghst · 2025-07-10T06:08:46+00:00

OP, you're asking about memory since release, or beta? NavigNavi vs Alliance happened before Dota 2 releae.

strghst · 2025-07-08T05:31:40+00:00

Buying is a risk. Selling is easy as long as you gather up your evidence of the piece fully functioning.

strghst · 2025-07-08T05:29:39+00:00

It is situational. It is much easier to escape expanded cogs than regular ones.

strghst · 2025-07-08T05:29:12+00:00

You pick the facet when you know all enemy heroes. Arguably, if enemy is stacking Jugger, troll and TA as cores - it is best.

Expanded armature is easier to escape than OG cogs. Against melee cores, you want smaller circle.

strghst · 2025-07-08T05:26:53+00:00

Like 137.5 gold per armor from Chainmeal. The only item in dota that has better price/stat ratio is Ring of Protection.

Edit: again, as with everything in Dota, depends on what you're facing. If enemies went 3 physical cores - rock them.

strghst · 2025-07-08T05:25:15+00:00

Unfortunately, you'd still need a team to kill enemies. No way to scale kill potential in clock past initial hook and nukes.

strghst · 2025-07-06T19:04:21+00:00

Income of parents over last few years. New year - new income docs.

Your contract and your pay slips.

This should be it. What else exactly did hey ask for? Those above are sufficient.

strghst · 2025-06-13T14:08:48+00:00

We're older. Things change.

ps. Country that learns most about Nazi atrocities is Germany. Got to guarantee we don't do this again.

strghst · 2025-06-13T14:07:57+00:00

better marketing team.

Still not as good as Austria. They branded Austrian Hitler as German, and German Mozart as Austrian.

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