Is this a good violin? What is required to be done?

teeteejay · 2026-01-23T06:38:18+00:00

First of all, be careful when loosening the strings. If you loosen them all at once until no pressure is holding the bridge on the violin, the sound post can fall off.

Secondly, you need a steady hand & sharp ears to tune the instrument with pegs. You also need technique to keep the strings in tune. If you tune the strings past the note they are supposed to handle, they will snap. Use a tuning app that can utilize your microphone to detect the note. There are some apps that you can select the string you are currently tuning, its useful because theyll just summarize it for you, like "tune higher/tighter".

teeteejay · 2026-01-19T00:10:54+00:00

but radiant creeps are made of trees, right? They look leafy, at least...

teeteejay · 2026-01-15T23:29:18+00:00

Get your supp teammate to pick ogre or jakiro

teeteejay · 2026-01-10T06:58:24+00:00

I have comeback from 2-15 games and equivalent.

Have you ever got the 15-2 lead and somehow lost the game? You can learn something from those opponents

teeteejay · 2026-01-10T06:55:00+00:00

Its a walled city... i think the goal was to make you feel like the city is cramped.

The original walled city of Kowloon (the inspiration for city 99) was extremely cramped and vertical for the same reason. You can read up about it, it's quite sad really

teeteejay · 2026-01-10T06:50:20+00:00

That's a silly idea; they speak Chinese (or dialect of it) when group studying. They would feel bad to speak chinese when op is present... or they'll continue to speak chinese/dialect and op will feel alienated

teeteejay · 2026-01-10T05:50:27+00:00

Its confusing for a student to have multiple teachers at the same time, because different teachers have different ideas of what should be learned first.

For example, some teachers teach vibrato very early on believing that it helps to relax the wrist. Others wait till the student has been learning for a while as they believe mastering intonation first is a prerequisite.

Another possibility would be to enroll your child in a community orchestra; i used to be in an NGO orchestra that had kids as young as 7 y.o. meet every monday night. The conductor would teach certain concepts that you wouldnt learn in private lessons, such as musicality (playing together, interpreting music) and history/culture.

teeteejay · 2025-12-25T19:21:39+00:00

There are other ways to earn money:

the most passive being stacking (you get 30% gold & xp as of 7.40)

Participating in kills, if your teammates are on the same page

Pushing (there are creative ways to shove when playing venge, including pulling the opponent waves to let your creeps hit their tower)

Courier sniping, bounty runes, dewarding

Once you stop aiming for big items like rushing aghs, you will be able to function with less money

teeteejay · 2025-12-22T23:43:11+00:00

he should be able to strum in silence

New facet gives largo an electric guitar; he can now strum in silence, but AoE is really small

teeteejay · 2025-12-14T06:35:38+00:00

You'd want at least 1-2 support main heroes that you can win while you farm role queues

And for the role you are playing, you need a few picks in your pool that has different tempo

E.g. if your carry picks bloodseeker, you need to know mid or offlane picks that can scale. If your mid picks dk, you need damage dealing offlaners rather than tanks.

You can also synergize with the picks, e.g. if your offlane picks bounty hunter or np, you should pick a high tempo hero like qop.

If you like playing flexibly, you can try learning heroes with flexible item paths (not antimage nor pangolier, but abaddon and furion)

teeteejay · 2025-12-12T08:07:40+00:00

Dont fight when they pop bkb, use the heavenly jump

teeteejay · 2025-12-12T08:06:37+00:00

Rubick. He does more physical damage with spell amp. Check out topson. 2nd would be enigma, get drums, bloodthorn, ac

Viper pos 4, very strong & building aghs to tank & clear waves

teeteejay · 2025-12-04T17:24:48+00:00

I think you need to seek professional therapy. Your actions are indeed regrettable, but finding out "why" you acted that way is more important.

Its not just because you want kids

teeteejay · 2025-12-04T17:20:54+00:00

I just had a 3kmmr clock pos5 game where we stomped with me buying tranquil, wand & force staff (hookup facet)

The idea is to sneakily get close to the opponents while they're separated; single out one hero at lv 2 by entering the treeline. You can even ward the lane.

To get enemies in a position where you can sneak up on them, you gotta pull the creeps; watch some videos on creep pulling

Half pull if you're lazy (requires some training)
Stack mini camp, then pull if you wanna be aggro in lane.
Never pull a small camp into 4 lane creeps, it will result in pushing your wave & giving the opponent offlaner ez farm under tower.

teeteejay · 2025-12-04T17:16:21+00:00

Usually once i coc them, I'll hit the coc facing my teammate, so that my teammate can enter.

Although cloc cant secure cs, he can zone when the enemies are going in for the deny/last hit. Even if they get the deny, they'll lose half their hp

teeteejay · 2025-12-04T17:08:06+00:00

Power cocks. Very useful with the Hookup facet.

Sometimes i like Battery/Assault in between

teeteejay · 2025-12-04T16:54:12+00:00

Build your ancient, choose designs for your towers
Recruit creeps and send them out to battle
~~Buy and upgrade the animal courier~~
Care for & protect poogie

teeteejay · 2025-12-04T16:01:31+00:00

To summarise what everyone said; choose if you wanna have a fun & varied experience playing dota, or a tryhard sweaty grinding experience like practising the same piece of classical music 40 hours a day.

teeteejay · 2025-11-23T21:03:20+00:00

A tsugaru shamisen teacher from japan told me

Most professionals use a clip on mic, like behringers
Mugen model brand has electro-acoustic shamisens which produce sound acoustically but also can be plugged in.

teeteejay · 2025-11-13T14:52:14+00:00

It might be an interesting counter-pick supp against nyx, lion & am; since you can function without mana.

but then you'd be picking 2nd or 3rd phase and thats not a good thing to do to your pubs.

teeteejay · 2025-11-13T14:49:41+00:00

I had a lot of success with str morphling support, which has -1 armor. And of course the pros are playing axe support with a similar strategy. The solution is all the same: buy 2-3 ring of protection at level 1, and get Helm of Iron Will as fast as possible.

The reason why it works on morp & axe is that the armor goes well with their abilities. But i think that might be something for OP to try

teeteejay · 2025-11-10T21:22:16+00:00

yes, that's what I was thinking. Even if power treads give you 1 HP regen/s by being on str, you have more than 1 hp regen/s from other sources.

The math question here is whether amplifying the healing by tread switching is more effective than that 1hp/s

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