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DOTA 2 BETA 2 |OT10| Reborn

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JC Sera

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Reborn's tutorials came with some sweet upgraded resolution item icons.
really loving that butterfly
//saves these away
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Lotto

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i'm surprised they still haven't updated the MKB icon. it still has the same all black background. every other high tier item has some sort of gradient/colorful background to it. still, nice update.
 
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3 stomps in a row. The Dota gods have smiled upon me today.
 

ksan

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Is this the actual reason?
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for real, its probably one of the two main reasons
the second one is that the swedish "FCC" (not a fcc at all, but in the context it works), decided to privatize the telephone network, and then by law force them to let other companies rent/use the "telephone/fiber/etc" lines/network for a "fair" price (i.e. calculated by economic formulas).
So, we got cheap computers, and relatively cheap fast internet, i.e. fast internet for cheaper prices that the rest of the world.

infrastructure leads to a natural monopoly extremely often, but the government network didnt work either, therefore there was a middle ground solution
Sweden is often seen as a "socialist" country, in reality, we're an extremely market liberal country (much more than the US in terms of free trade, at least from what I know, and I know quite a bit), with a really extensive social safety net. In my opinion it has served us really well, left no one in poverty, but given us companies like skype/spotify/etc (risk of entrepreneurship becomes a lot of lower when the downside is that you have to live on welfare, which is still possible to live on in Sweden).
 

ksan

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oh, another additional point, this means that the previous gov. monopoly needs to compete on value added propositions (which they do very well in the mobile market, and with probably the best peering/routing network in the world, competitiors often choose inferior ww networks for a cheaper price, there is a quality diff. which makes it still fair)

after the 90s banking crisis, both sides, the left and the right, were super serious about trying pragmatic solutions, even though im a swedish rightist (which would in many ways resemble a bleeding heart liberal in the us), i acknowledge that the swedish left has very little in common with the rest of the european left (except the nordic). There is a strong tradition of pragmatism wherever you look, so to say, for the left its nothing about being less capitalist, but about more redistribution.

while many people circlejerk about sweden, very few people understand what makes the nordics unique, we really have super market-oriented solutions, but we still have the most redistribution, leading to the lowest inequality. I would guess this is what makes us happy.
The reason I think this is important in this context is that we're not the best on many esport titles in a vacuum, but we give an opportunity for everyone to flourish, or at the very least try.


also, fuck procarbine
 

ksan

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why are so many games on the steam called roguelikes with the only similarity to a real roguelike being permadeath?
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
why are so many games on the steam called roguelikes with the only similarity to a real roguelike being permadeath?

It's an indie marketing buzzword now, like "Dark Souls", "retro", "Metroidvania", "procedurally generated" and "pixel art".
 

JC Sera

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tbf the tennets of rogue like are pretty easy to fulfil
  • Permadeath
  • Procedural generation
  • Randomized monsters/enemies
  • Randomized items, which require identification
  • Being a BDSM sub to RNG and loving every moment of it
Most games labeled "rogue like" at least get the first twwo

also no more beach ball :(
 

ksan

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tbf the tennets of rouge like are pretty easy to fulfil
  • Permadeath
  • Procedural generation
  • Randomized monsters/enemies
  • Randomized items, which require identification
  • Being a BDSM sub to RNG and loving every moment of it
Most games labeled "rogue like" at least get the first twwo

also no more beach ball :(

so, dcss is enough for me?
never gonna beat it with any other combo than KoBe, just too impatient...
 

JC Sera

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so, dcss is enough for me?
never gonna beat it with any other combo than KoBe, just too impatient...
Oooo I haven't seen that one before EDIT: I CAN BE A FUCKING OCTOPUS IN THIS GAME, WHY HAVE I NEVER HEARD OF THIS BEFORE
my favourite rogue-like is red rogue
its free and works on everything
 

Anno

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So I played my first ever game of QoP today, offlane, and went 12/0/11, mostly because the other team was super squishy and had basically no lockdown. I'm curious, though, what's a good build for snowballing out of control on QoP? I went bottle/treads/orchid/BKB to be on the safe side. Should I replace the BKB with an Aghs? Maybe Deso and right click?
 

TUSR

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So I played my first ever game of QoP today, offlane, and went 12/0/11, mostly because the other team was super squishy and had basically no lockdown. I'm curious, though, what's a good build for snowballing out of control on QoP? I went bottle/treads/orchid/BKB to be on the safe side. Should I replace the BKB with an Aghs? Maybe Deso and right click?

aghs
 

ksan

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Oooo I haven't seen that one before EDIT: I CAN BE A FUCKING OCTOPUS IN THIS GAME, WHY HAVE I NEVER HEARD OF THIS BEFORE
my favourite rogue-like is red rogue
its free and works on everything

wait wtf, u havent heard about dcss?

anyway, ima check out red rogue
 

G-Unit

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I DID IT GUYS!!!

I see the light again, im at 2700mmr, I went as low as 2300...The trench I've seen is of nightmares!

Now my goal is to go back to 3000mmr (3200 was my highest)

Ive seen the light, and it is beautiful

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iamblades

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Vainglory is actually kinda fun...

Download it if your phone isn't a potato or a halobox.

It has most of the same balance issues that LoL does though(kiting being OP, the upgraded items being too slot/gold efficient meaning the game snowballs harder).

It is technically super impressive and make's riot's coders look like the incompetent fools they are, but I don't think I'll put much time into ranked matches. I could think of worse ways to spend 20 minutes though.
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
There's no moral victory to be had when you made the Pokemon equivalent of 5 bashers and a divine rapier on Troll Warlord.
 
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