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TheBaronOfNA
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Stumbled on a Dan Ryckert Bingo Card from his GI days. A year old, but still surprisingly relevant
http://www.gameinformer.com/blogs/m...yckert-bingo-replay-39-s-new-best-friend.aspx
That sounds about right...
AuthenticM
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I see. I guess that's why the name "Rekreational" was chosen. It's apt.
A Sentient Keyboard
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The international is the biggest dota tournament, basically dota's world cup. It happened last month.
The rektreational is a casual tournament by/for people in the game industry, and Brad's team is playing right now! http://www.giantbomb.com/chat/
EDIT: If you dont know what you're looking at, Brad's team (with the cheeky name League of Legends) is the team with the red healthbars. The need to destroy the enemy base in the bottom left while protecting their's in the top right. It's a best of 3, they lost the first round but Crispy is dragging them kicking and screaming to victory this round.
Brad is playing as Luna, a lady that rides on a lion and summons purple beams from the sky. Crispy is playing as Shadow Fiend, some ungodly looking spiky black thing.
A Sentient Keyboard
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Yeah, it's a combination of 'the international', 'recreational' and 'rekt'.
stump sock
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I mean, yes. But maybe appropriately so, considering the subject matter.
AuthenticM
Member
Oh wow. The name is "Rektreational". How fucking dumb. "Rekreational" is way better.
SatelliteOfLove
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Does that make Brad Shoemaker Dave Corzine?
davidsaurus
Member
Whoosh.
Keyser Soze
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BREAD DID SOMETHING IMPORTANT
A Sentient Keyboard
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Crispy got taken out and it looked like it was game over for LoL, but then Brad said fuck no and went ham on the enemy team.
adamantypants
Member
I don't know what happening but I'm hyped
Keyser Soze
Member
WOW BARD
Just got internet access in my BEQ since getting out of Boot Camp. Catching up on the recent podcasts and E3 coverage.
Also, I guess the Dan Ryckert hire was true. And Jason Oestreicher join too. That's cool.
Anyway, what's the must watch/listen stuff I missed over the past two months?
Also, I guess the Dan Ryckert hire was true. And Jason Oestreicher join too. That's cool.
Anyway, what's the must watch/listen stuff I missed over the past two months?
AuthenticM
Member
I know. It sounds terrible.
But...people are getting rekt.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I just realised: I have no idea how Dota works.
Keyser Soze
Member
"If Bread dies, Bread is dead"
A Sentient Keyboard
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To be fair, it's somewhat common in dota to die and not be dead, i.e. come back to life immediately, especially in the lategame.
Keyser Soze
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I would really love to be there
We should really go and visit
Barkerville's the perfect round trip
Barkerville
Where the werewolves live
Go to Barkerville
Many things to see there
Barkerville
A place I'd love to live
Lovely Barkerville
It's the perfect three day weekend
Dracula
He's in Barkerville
Or is that Alucard?
Dracula or Alucard
Say it backwards (mind is blown!)♪
Double elimination.
Rektreational is a little on-the-nose for my tastes. Incorporating flavour of the year internet slang into your event name is ill-advised, when it's my advice that's being offered.
In a few years it'll be as bad as if it was called Teh Pwnternational, or the DOTA 1337le League.
In a few years it'll be as bad as if it was called Teh Pwnternational, or the DOTA 1337le League.
A Sentient Keyboard
Member
I'm gonna gank you.
Keep that shade to yourself, thanks.
Keyser Soze
Member
I can kinda understand late-game DOTA, but early game is still a mystery to me
Keyser Soze
Member
GG
A Sentient Keyboard
Member
It's the exact opposite for me. Early game I can kinda judge the strength of my enemies and follow what's happening in the small ganks/teamfights, but lategame teamfights are just clouds of particle effects where people drop like flies for unknown reasons to me.
It's all about getting xp and gold while denying it to the other team.
Haha, no.
Incandenza
Banned
why do ppl catch feelings over slang?
I mean, Dota unapologetically has "pwn" and "ownage" built into the game. It's already too late to save it. Might as well go all the way.
Still better than the fucking billboards in Watch Dogs
Yeah, same here.
It's kinda odd how the entire Daily Dota team hasn't learned much from Crispy in terms of basic gameplay. I mean don't get me wrong, none of them are bad by any means but it's just unbelievable how big of a skill difference there is between Crispy and the rest of the gang even after two years of playing Dota 2.
Brad and Matt are very bad if you take their overall playtime into account. They're not "This is my first match, lol!" bad, sure, rather "I'm 50 hours in, I think I'm slowly getting a grasp on the basics" bad. I don't think this can be salvaged. Brad's situational awareness seems almost non-existent at times, that's the killer. He knows a thousand hours worth of Dota about the game, but he can't execute it.
EDIT: I don't mean to say that he should just stop playing the game or anything like that. He's enjoying himself and that's all that matters.
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