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[sleverfunk]

I tried the sheepay's tb mid and laned against sf. I think I did decent, I was able to get few kills on him. Still lost though cause our lineup was not good enough.
I need to try again. It's kinda fun.
Moo was using it against universe and yawar and I think he won the match.

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

I tried the sheepay's tb mid and laned against sf. I think I did decent, I was able to get few kills on him. Still lost though cause our lineup was not good enough.
I need to try again. It's kinda fun.
Moo was using it against universe and yawar and I think he won the match.

Probably needs more nerfs

Spoiler

kappa

 

[Wonderboy91]

I tried the sheepay's tb mid and laned against sf. I think I did decent, I was able to get few kills on him. Still lost though cause our lineup was not good enough.
I need to try again. It's kinda fun.
Moo was using it against universe and yawar and I think he won the match.

He lost.

 

[kasane]

I DID IT BOYS. I motivated my team not to quit on me after we mercilessly threw

 

[Arksy]

Hey guys, quick question..

Does anyone know when we'll stop getting compendium challenges and being able to cash in coins for items and sets?

 

[Skinpop]

nerfing bloodstone would go a long towards nerfing both storm and lesh, maybe set a cap on storm ulti damage. I also feel lesh lightning storm bounce range and slow is too much early on.

 

[JC Sera]

nerfing bloodstone would go a long towards nerfing both storm and lesh, maybe set a cap on storm ulti damage. I also feel lesh lightning storm bounce range and slow is too much early on.

You aren't alone in those thoughts

Also Arksy I didn't know you dota'd!

 

[NormalFish]

What is the 55? Glimmer?

 

[Demoli]

Honestly, the one thing that stood out to me this TI was the ridiculous amount of stacking going around. many times mid players would lose mid badly, but still recover from insane jungle stacking, I feel icefrog might do something about that like he did post TI3

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

Honestly, the one thing that stood out to me this TI was the ridiculous amount of stacking going around. many times mid players would lose mid badly, but still recover from insane jungle stacking, I feel icefrog might do something about that like he did post TI3

Agreed, especially with Storm I didn't like this. One game Sumail got ganked 3 times in a row before 6 and he caught up in jungle like nothing ever happened. SF, Lina and Lesh can also do this but I feel like SF isn't as big a problem as the other 3.

 

[Übermatik]

Happy 82nd Birthday, Kevin!

 

[JC Sera]

What is this answer even http://pastebin.com/7YPjyZtg

maybe its secretly icefrog

edit: Survey now over the 1k mark
Reddit MMR so far:

 

[twobear]

What is this answer even http://pastebin.com/7YPjyZtg

maybe its secretly icefrog

i would put money on this being either inkls or print screen

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

There's not enough memes for it to be inkls

Not enough Dota fashion talk for it to be print

 

[J2d]

I take it Imbued Trove Carafe 2015 genuine stuff can't be sold? Anyone got a sullen hollow they want to trade if thats the case?

 

[Quesa]

Gee, I sure have been getting a lot of friend requests lately! Wonder what could have possibly made me so popular

 

[JC Sera]

Gee, I sure have been getting a lot of friend requests lately! Wonder what could have possibly made me so popular

Dragon Hook?

 

[sleverfunk]

B L O G B O Y S
http://peterpandam.blogspot.com/2015/08/post-ti5-blog.html?m=1

 

[JC Sera]

B L O G B O Y S
http://peterpandam.blogspot.com/2015/08/post-ti5-blog.html?m=1

Beat me to it

 

[LiQuid!]

When I watch Sing's strim the last 2 days I barely even pay attention to the Dota. I just watch the chat and ignore every single user that I see spam. I know this isn't a fight I can win, but it makes me feel good actually.

It's kind of surprising how few of the spammers appear to be bots. I've been ignoring lots of years-old accounts with profile pictures and everything. I'm pretty sure I've got almost all of Sing's mods ignored. Also learned you can't ignore Twitch staff.

 

[Ikuu]

When I watch Sing's strim the last 2 days I barely even pay attention to the Dota. I just watch the chat and ignore every single user that I see spam. I know this isn't a fight I can win, but it makes me feel good actually.

 

[sleverfunk]

Beat me to it

Seems like aui is a kind of player who whines that can really bring morale down.
Gotta agree with ppd here.

 

[LiQuid!]

ppd's blog so good. Silence all the haters and dumb busybodies. All the stuff going on behind the scenes that we never see, yet somehow every idiot with a reddit account feels entitled to have an opinion about how professional teams should operate.

 

[Monochromaticx]

When I watch Sing's strim the last 2 days I barely even pay attention to the Dota. I just watch the chat and ignore every single user that I see spam. I know this isn't a fight I can win, but it makes me feel good actually.

It's kind of surprising how few of the spammers appear to be bots. I've been ignoring lots of years-old accounts with profile pictures and everything. I'm pretty sure I've got almost all of Sing's mods ignored. Also learned you can't ignore Twitch staff.

wut
click the arrow to hide chat and be done with it then.

 

[LiQuid!]

wut
click the arrow to hide chat and be done with it then.

I don't want to hide the chat. I want to cleanse the chat. Please don't judge me. Someone has to stop the resurrection of Hitler. If not me, then who?

 

[StrongArmSteady]

wow he just called Aui cancerous...lol

 

[sleverfunk]

So was EE right giving the boot to avoid aui's toxicity?

Spoiler

Kappa

 

[Jezbollah]

B L O G B O Y S
http://peterpandam.blogspot.com/2015/08/post-ti5-blog.html?m=1

PogFuckingChamp

 

[Servbot #42]

B L O G B O Y S
http://peterpandam.blogspot.com/2015/08/post-ti5-blog.html?m=1

More DOTA DRAMA

Let's also talk about the WB finals before we move on where Aui turned into the most cancerous player aside from CWM I had ever seen with an 18 MILLION DOLLAR TOURNAMENT LEFT TO PLAY. Honestly show some composure and don't whine on your teammates. We lost, learn from it and move on we've both played enough tournies to know how these things work. We literally went though the same exact thing at DAC. (A cancerous WB Rout from Vici into a following sweep through the lb and the finals) you learn more about yourself from losing and if you can't keep your composure at TI you're useless to me. Our strategy going into the final day was ppd talk more and aui talk less.

The international is by far the most stressful and most difficult tournament to win. It truly defines the kind of a player you are and it took me a TI to realize I no longer wanted to team with Aui.

That's brutal, i don't usually see this kind of takedown a lot. But then again i only follow dota hearthstone, anyway Aui got rekt

 

[Quesa]

Still a ppd stan AMA

 

[Imp the Dimp]

I'm shocking people are surprised at this. We're talking about a million dollar winning captain here. Why would a player who has proven time and time again just how smart he is and how good his decision are, arbitrarily throw someone out and risk ruining his reputation?

All those point make perfect sense (assuming they are true) and frankly, if you get kicked off your team twice within like 4 or 5 months, I'm afraid it's you.

 

[inkls]

There's not enough memes for it to be inkls

Not enough Dota fashion talk for it to be print

B L O G B O Y S
http://peterpandam.blogspot.com/2015/08/post-ti5-blog.html?m=1

dang

 

[LiQuid!]

A couple of the guys I play Dota with sound like Aui types. They're nice guys and know what they're doing (for our skill level) but they can't take any type of losing and start flaming each other and our pub teammates so hard for the most minor of mistakes when they're no better. It's really annoying to play with them more often than not but I keep going back to them out of routine. If I were trying to win the 2k MMR International they'd get the boot tho, no question.

 

[twobear]

'If you can't keep your composure you're useless to me.'

Define 'useless' in a way that doesn't involve winning the tournament and taking home $1 million pls.

 

[Shuggananas]

two free bans but he's useless yo

 

[Aeriscloud]

Hey guys, quick question..

Does anyone know when we'll stop getting compendium challenges and being able to cash in coins for items and sets?

Can anyone answer this?

 

[Quesa]

Can anyone answer this?

Can't you do that now?

 

[twobear]

I still think ppd is a cunt. "I found him difficult to work with" is all he needed to say. Calling him 'useless' after he helped your team win the biggest tournament in the world and rival captains have said that just the threat of him picking heroes is enough to make other people change their strategies is 'not even the best drummer in the Beatles' levels of shitlordery.

 

[inkls]

'If you can't keep your composure you're useless to me.'

Define 'useless' in a way that doesn't involve winning the tournament and taking home $1 million pls.

Just because you win TI, doesn't mean you're flawless. Otherwise winning teams wouldn't have reshuffled or they would have won TI multiple times.

 

[yarden24]

B L O G B O Y S
http://peterpandam.blogspot.com/2015/08/post-ti5-blog.html?m=1

man this makes me like PPD less then I did before, I have no problem with them kicking whoever the hell they want, and for whatever reason as well, but whats the point of the later half of that blog post just shitting on AUI, you could have said there was friction in the team and it was affecting everyone's enjoyment, and that would have been it.

but he decides to just shit on AUI instead.

and he does this in order to prove what? just because he is pissed he is being painted as the bad guy on fucking Reddit.

what a jackass.

 

[One Punch-Man]

'If you can't keep your composure you're useless to me.'

Define 'useless' in a way that doesn't involve winning the tournament and taking home $1 million pls.

Were you inside the booth and heard their communication? No I didn't think so.

 

[Shuggananas]

leddit is srs bsnss ok ?

 

[twobear]

Were you inside the booth and heard their communication? No I didn't think so.

Okay but that's not useless, it's creating a stressful environment. Aui was part of the five man team that won TI, there's no way you can call him useless to the team with a straight face unless you believe they could have won if they'd just played with four players.

It's just character assassination and its gross.

 

[Quesa]

man this makes me like PPD less then I did before, I have no problem with them kicking whoever the hell they want, and for whatever reason as well, but whats the point of the later half of that blog post just shitting on AUI, you could have said there was friction in the team and it was affecting everyone's enjoyment, and that would have been it.

but he decides to just shit on AUI instead.

and he does this in order to prove what? just because he is pissed he is being painted as the bad guy on fucking Reddit.

what a jackass.

ppl talkin shit on ppd > people dislike EG > less merch bro

gotta protect that brand. Eyes on the prize

 

[Imp the Dimp]

Okay but that's not useless, it's creating a stressful environment. Aui was part of the five man team that won TI, there's no way you can call him useless to the team with a straight face unless you believe they could have won if they'd just played with four players.

It's just character assassination and its gross.

It's unnecessarily harsh for sure and inaccurate when he was part of the TI winning team. Regardless, Aui's kicking seems reasonable.

 

[bbd23]

My boy peter just telling it like it is.

Yawar on eg would have been fun. Damn

 

[twobear]

It's unnecessarily harsh for sure and inaccurate when he was part of the TI winning team. Regardless, Aui's kicking seems reasonable.

Sure. If he was bad for team morale then kicking him is probably for the best. But saying you resent the drama and then turning around and basically assassinating someone's character is insanely hypocritical to say the least.

 

[Arksy]

You aren't alone in those thoughts

Also Arksy I didn't know you dota'd!

Ugh. My addiction has been discovered. HIDE! DISAPPEAR! *Throws smoke bomb*

 

[Imp the Dimp]

Sure. If he was bad for team morale then kicking him is probably for the best. But saying you resent the drama and then turning around and basically assassinating someone's character is insanely hypocritical to say the least.

None of these guys made particularly socially experienced impressions which added to the drama Reddit enjoyed. I wish these guys had actual PR representatives to speak for them. Calling someone cancerous is obviously unacceptable but I won't question his decisions just based on what I've seen and what I've read from PPD so far.

 

[Nymerio]

A couple of the guys I play Dota with sound like Aui types. They're nice guys and know what they're doing (for our skill level) but they can't take any type of losing and start flaming each other and our pub teammates so hard for the most minor of mistakes when they're no better. It's really annoying to play with them more often than not but I keep going back to them out of routine. If I were trying to win the 2k MMR International they'd get the boot tho, no question.

Reminds me of one of my friends I play dota with. He's the nicest guy but he has like zero social skills within the game. He's someone who can whine for a gank at minute 3 when he died in lane because he was over aggressive, starts arguing with people instead of ignoring them, etc.