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We have an Android app for TrackDota (live esports matches). It will even send you a notification when your favorite teams are playing. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trackdota.tdapp

As far as a Dotabuff app... we have some big plans for a better experience on mobile. Expect to see something before TI.

hi lizzie

i lost one of my best friends and dota teammates to something similar about 2 years ago.

please don't.

if dota keeps you going than keep dotaing. but also please try and seek help. you're important and i'm willing to bet people value you more than you know.

i can't vouch for any of these services but maybe one of these can help. https://lifehacker.com/top-10-free-and-affordable-mental-health-and-counseling-1788814933

if you ever think about stopping, remember the two rules of dota. keep the winstreak going, and never end on a loss.

i hope you get better.

This gets easier the higher your MS is but be aware that this relies on positioning rng and you will be missing out on bonus hits as long as you are issuing move orders.

Edit: Investigated further thanks to u/Suijetsu, you can indeed move after you kill the first target.

gif sorry for potato quality but Gfycat servers don't like me. 2nd Axe is not in jump range. (got lucky because I moved too early) gif2

Holy fucking shit do you want tinker to fuck games

Edit : Imagine Lens + Kaya OR The suggestion above , and you get fucking this (nsfw)

That goes into your butthole each game

If anybody is having this problem on Windows, and willing to spend a little time running a diagnostic tool to help track it down, PM me. The tool we will use is called vtrace: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3059-RTXB-2672

vtrace requires some technical expertise and time to run it properly and submit a useful report. If you have both, we'd really appreciate some help understanding what this problem is. PM me and I can get you setup.

UPDATE: I sent some keys to about a dozen people. If I sent you a key, when you send in your trace, don't forgot to include who you are! I got a trace from somebody where it is pretty obvious that this tool (http://strlen.com/procrastitracker/) is activating and hogging all the CPU for seconds at a time. Alas, that person did not include their contact info, so I cannot reply to them. Whoever you are, I hope you read this post!

I don't think he reveals the details, I remember seeing an article where he mentioned sacrifice before.. I'll paste a section and the article below.

"Be prepared for sacrifice," he says. "I haven't really spoken too much about it, but esports has cost me, there's no doubt about it. Personally and financially. I had a very lovely woman in my life with my children, we were very set, very happy, she was very supportive at the time, but esports took its toll on us. I haven't been with her for 7 years. It's caused all sorts of issues with my children, with my family, so this stuff doesn't come without a price. I think I would've told myself just be prepared for the sacrifice.

from http://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/17416296/paul-redeye-chaloner

TIL 5e Finger of Death also raises a zombie after dealing damage.

>You send negative energy coursing through a creature that you can see within range, causing it searing pain. The target must make a Constitution saving throw. It takes 7d8 + 30 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

>A humanoid killed by this spell rises at the start of your next turn as a zombie that is permanently under your command, following your verbal orders to the best of its ability.

Icefrog, Lion rework when?

Laugh at your enemies who bought armour and evasion as you blast their little -25 ass. Relying too much on one type of damage is a losing strategy, you shouldn't put all your eggs in the same basket.

As Sun Tzu says in The Art of War,

>You need to diversify your bonds, nigga

The star system is basicly a checklist of how many things the hotel has, not on the quality of things. A hotel I stayed at for example had a "gym", it was a old cleaning closet with exactly 1 exercise bike and 3 dumbells with some weights. That "gym" earned the hotel an additional star.

And in Italy, if a hotel has a separate entrance for the lobby and the hotell rooms, it can never get higher than 1 star.

Tripadvisor would not let me browse by 1 star hotels, but this 2 star hotel doesn't look too bad

This is the Motherboard if anyone is interested.

Edit: This is the only thing I could find about the mousepad. All-in-all I think he made the right choice.

Here is all (or most) of the loading screens in their uncompressed 2048x1024. This was done by u/redphx. Some may need to be resized to a 16:9 aspect ratio to look right (and how you would see them as a loading screen).

If you're at work, check out www.trackdota.com - I've got live updates and streams for every match on there.

Also, I updated my Android app recently to add Twitch streams - you can also stream in audio-only mode with the screen off for the ultimate level in discreet twitch streaming!

Someone in the last thread suggested calling these Pubstomps and I think that's fucking brilliant. =)

Either way, now's the right time to get in touch with your local Barcraft and see if there's any interest among your community. Even if it ends up just being a poll with an overwhelming "not interested", do your part and give it a shot!

EDIT: Here's a map that has links to all of the BarCraft communities: BarCrafts around the world!

Simply replied to that post stating that tickets were obtained without the use of bots. Specifying "i got it" or "my gf got it" wouldn't have made much of a difference; especially considering that immediately after replying to that I went ahead and made this post which clearly states who got them :). Plus if there are any people out there who are all like "404 gf not found". here (edit fixed link, thanks redditors :) edit 2 changed from FB link{I'm an idiot} to a picture)

Hi guys! I just recently lost my job as an illustrator so I'm trying to earn some extra pocket money to buy more battlepass levels. You might have seen some of my other doodles like Io wearing pants. I'm making those illustrations for USD$5, so if you're interested, just post here or shoot me a message! <3

You can find more of my work here: https://dribbble.com/LisalyGR

Also doable with OnTopReplica, which is super handy in other ways also.

https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica

Before I got my second display, this was basically a must-have. VLC Stream on top of my Dota 2 game to watch dota while playing dota? Yes please.

Some languages (locales) treat V and W as the same. This "feature/bug" is actually quite common.

Example

Yep they added that when they revamped (aka ruined) the twitch app, and it's complete bullshit. Since then I've been using Pocket Plays to watch Twitch on my mobile devices.

Edit: As an aside, It's no secret that Twitch's corporate structure and management is an absolute mess.

I've touted him before and I'll do it again... Lizzard is pro-level player who's genuinely funny and super-friendly to his teammates and viewers and also has a fun shtick. He's Bosnian but sometimes does a pretend Russian gag which may sound tired and cliche but trust me, he makes it work, and he also serenades his teammates with the harmonica. (Yes, he's the guy from the Synderen video).

His channel's not exactly deserted, but it really surprises me that he doesn't get more viewers than he does. https://www.twitch.tv/lizzarddota2

Nice work!

Is this your first C++/QT project?

I can give you some tips to improve the quality of your software/code:

• Make use of Clean Code (Readablity)
• Seperate UI Code from Business Code (Readability, Extensibility)
• Work with classes and interfaces (Readability, Extensibility)
• You create "huge" resource objects at runtime (e.g. QPixmap level("images/leveled.png");). Do this at application start and swap the objects in RAM when needed. (Performance)
• Use Member Variables instead of Global Variables (Readability)

789 people have been killed by GabeN's negligence.

Give summer 2012 sale; avoid more bloodshed.

What is the Overwatch?

"The Overwatch lets the CS:GO community regulate itself by allowing qualified and experienced members of the community (‘investigators‘) to review reports of disruptive behavior, determine whether those reports are valid, and apply temporary bans if appropriate."

Never in a million years would I have thought I'd see my university (DePauw) mentioned here - it's a tiny private school in the middle of bumfuck nowhere.

I took that course, it was pretty awesome. The instructor was a student who had graduated a couple of years prior. He was Grandmaster, which I think was the highest tier at that time (not sure what it is now). We would watch him analyze replays vs other pros, and then he would hold live 1v1 matches between students and then go over their replays. The required reading was The Art of War. We would also meet on weekends and play massive games of Phantom, tons of fun.

> And the first ever Valve game to come to Mobile!

HeadUp partnered with Valve on Portal Bridge Constructor. So maybe first full mobile game developed and published by Valve. But they worked on assets for BC Portal.

PSA for those who may not know, this is a submission to the Golden Ticket to TI5 contest. There's been a flurry of new content the past couple of days so I would highly recommend you check them out

Heres the screenshot of this moron(the OP) selling all his gear and buying couriers. This guy preaches about being an upstanding beta tester, all round nice guy and a wonderful team mate but truth is hes moron.

He was last pick, our team already had 3 melee, so what does he lock in? sven. He then proceeds to go 0/7, freaks out and begins to whine hysterically in all caps before selling all his items(when the game was still very winnable) and buys 10+ couriers.

You are what's wrong with the beta you autistic mongoloid.

http://tinypic.com/r/10opa12/7 http://oi52.tinypic.com/1qkajm.jpg

That's because it isn't true. It depends on whether the stats are from total players or players in the last two weeks.

If it's total players, 10% of Singaporeans don't play Dota, it's 10% of Singaporeans have tried/downloaded Dota over its lifetime.

Otherwise, the numbers from the original graph here could be a break down of percentage of current players from each country over the last two weeks. This means that of all players in the last 2 weeks, Singapore makes up 1.1% of all players - that means it's ~101k players, or 1.8% of Singapore's population have played it in the past two weeks.

assuming quelling blade costs 200 gold or $25 on Amazon, 1 dollar equals 8 gold, and a bottle of water costs $6,25, which means DOTA is actually an Airport map.

Try installing f.lux, especially if you play in the dark.

... but don't play in the dark. Seriously.

Stay farther away from your monitor

Try and take 'eye breaks' every hour or so, looking away from your screen and focusing on distant objects for ~30s.

Since you mentioned using Add-Ons. Another add-on which makes surfing much more secure is NoScript/ScriptSafe.
It disables all scripts on any websites by default. It may be a pain at the beginning white listing the sites you trust but you you don't run the risk of being a "drive-by download" victim. Also you never know what the scripts on dubious sites are doing. It also lessens your CPU usage and can make browser crashes less frequent.

If you want to be a bit more anonymous on the internet get ~~Ghostery~~ .
It disables trackers. One of the biggest trackers is probably facebook. If you visit a porn site and it has a facebook like button then facebook knows you visited that site (it doesn't matter if you clicked the like button or not). Facebook uses this information and sells it to others so they can give you better advertisement but who knows what else they are planning to use that information for.

Adblock is something you guys probably already know. It disables advertisement. Be sure to disable it when watching Dota 2 streams since they earn their money through ads.

I'm sure you've probably heard about it, but if you haven't then you might want to look into Pillars of Eternity. It's an upcoming isometric RPG styled after Baldurs Gate and Icewind Dale and made by the same people.

> My guess is that the calibration system just doesn't really have a standard of measurement to identify 7k+ players, as there's so few of them they don't want to completely mess up the MMR distribution by mistakenly putting people at extremely high MMRs.

In order to fit the old to the new MMR you have to compress the current MMR values. The new system has 7 tiers of 1000 rating each. The maximum rating you can get through calibration should be 6999.

Of course you can get more rating beyond 6999, but not through calibration.

I remember in HoN there was also a rank compression between seasons at one point. I googled and found this on one their season 5 update page:

> Compression

>Another bump in the road that we ran into during Season 4 was the magnitude of the rank compression that was applied between seasons. We noticed that the compression hit players harder than we had intended.

I've made it with part of the original reincarnate sounds included. If you (or anyone else) want a version with just the sound clip only, just let me know! It will be very easy to make and just take a minute. Personally, I think this way makes it sound quite cool.

Preview here

Download here

Instructions to install:

Simply take the folders provided (sound and scripts) and place them into your dota 2 beta/dota folder.

The usual location for this is programs/steam/steamapps/common/dota 2 beta/dota

Next, go into your Steam library. Right click on Dota 2, then click properties. Under the general tab, select "set launch options".

Then enter -override_vpk.

Now you're all set and ready to go.

you can send me money through paypal instead of useless reddit gold, I will try to release more awful comics if I get donations.

edit : I now have a patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2368309

The animator & VA (RockSoftCookie) got a Patreon over here and is looking to start doing these full-time, check it out if you want to support him.

Posted in another thread (somehow deleted now), but just posting again to maybe help some guys enjoy the stream:

The video player really didn't work well for me and I had to use livestreamer. It's amazing to watch the stream in VLC/MPC HC (I can use SVP as well for 144fps) and I can heavily recommend it.

Only keep in mind that adrev isn't a thing when using it as those are completely bypassed. So if you want to support the streamer have the stream open in a muted tab on low quality. Link: https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/releases

After install you need to edit the livestreamerrc file and delete the "#" before the media player of your choice, edit the path to the media player and then restart cmd if you have it open and type in "livestreamer mlg.tv/dota best" without the " and your media player should start

The actual video quality isn't increased by much except the scaling is usually done quite well in VLC/MPC HC/video players in general but especially the cpu usage goes down a LOT because the mlg player is 100% flash. I heavily recommend livestreamer for lower end systems.

If you are experiencing audio sync problems on the main EN stream here is a solution.

Step 1, have VLC installed

Step 2, install https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/releases

Step 3, go to run, type "livestreamer.exe twitch.tv/dotastarladder_en source"

Once in VLC adjust audio delay to 400~500 by using the hotkey "K" for + and "J" for -

Enjoy the stream!

Protip; Use this for other channels aswell, just replace the URL.

Great show, really enjoy listening...BUT ONLY the shows where he has guests, Toffees solo is rather irrelevant for me since i already follow the scene alot.

The episodes with guests are somewhat unstructured and pretty long but ususally very interesting because you get to know things about "Behind the Scene" people like the teams' managers or journalists/content creators!

He also got a patreon with all relevant information, go check it out!

/u/purgegamers

You messed up on the math for CK.

Its a 10%, not 11% chance to crit. It turns out it changes your average damage increase from 20.0% (2.00 * 0.10) to 17.5% (1.75 * 0.10). So a loss of 2.5%, however if you look at armor values, it adds up that this change helps him when enemies have armor values between about ~~-26~~ -16 and about 188.

If you want to see a graph of it here shows the exact values.

Red line = 6.85 damage, Blue line = 6.84 damage, Black line = default damage, X = armor values, Y = percent modifier, black dotted line = 6.85 damage - 6.84 damage, C = crit level.

edit: this assumes you keep the minus armor on them.

Given that this got a little more attention than the others, I hope that no one minds that I link the artist's patreon; https://www.patreon.com/herostime?ty=h

She's currently under a contract on only 30 heroes, and I'd love to see these awesome comics continued. We're currently at 17.

Many people follow the scene & watch the stream but they don't play the game (just a like soccer in China, many fans but very few players), cause they are old schools from War3 Dota and now are at/close to the age of 30, so they're occupied by work and family affairs and don't have much time to play. Me one of them:).

Actually China only possesses around 10% of the total Dota population around the world according to https://monosnap.com/file/IiNX0MH9vm8m4l4PsGIwynDhjtvYEU

Also, the Chinese fans tend to comment more than Western fans in social media..that's another topic..

highjacking top comment for this:

download match ID 2120729833 replay

go to 8:07 ingame time, free camera, Bot lane.

DK turns on Dragon Form. Try to hover over the heromodel to highlight it. You will realise that the highlight will often not appear or disappear, making DK unclickable.

I tried to take some screenshots, but it always removes the cursor ...

It looks like the hitbox is way infront of the model

Edit: After restarting Dota the hitboxes are set back to normal. Is this some kind of bug that is connected to something else?

Edit2: I figuered out how to fuck the hitbox up: Use DragonKnight in Herodemo, skill him to 16 and use ult (this step might not be necessary), leave Herodemo. Watch the replay and the hitbox will be way off. This might also happen, if you play a game with or against a DK and in the next game it might be fucked up!

Edit3: Nevermind. It worked twice, now it doesn't anymore. This shit is inconsistent

Edit4: Made a video. Sorry for shitty quality (recorded with phone, sent via mail -> goodbye quality) https://sendvid.com/0czy82rk

Edit 5: https://sendvid.com/zy5jmtda (dont mind my child in the background ;) )

Try using Noobly it's a social media app for people to find others to play with.

It helped me to find people for EUW.

Link is for Android devices, don't know if it exists for iOS.

Hi there, for those who don't know yet - the author of these comics has been comissioned for only 30 comics. Source for this is on her Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/herostime?ty=h

Which can be linked from her earlier Lycan's time comic: http://xofks12.deviantart.com/art/Lycan-s-time-562593527

As of writing, she only has $49 dollars a month out of the required $500 a month. Please support this great artist, and also for more comics!

(gib visage time pl0x)

She really makes quality work, yet I am baffled as to why she barely gets any support in her Patreon page.

She's slated to end after 30 or so heroes. If you want to see the entire roster get their own comic then I encourage all the generous people to support her work so she can have enough funds to keep going. Right now, there are only 4 patrons, and that's very far from her goal.

EDIT: Link to her patron for those want to help her - https://www.patreon.com/herostime?ty=h

There's always a bug you didn't foresee. Valve Broke The Computer Thingie is a very wide class of things. Sure, you could foresee coordinator downtime, but could you expect it to misreport the status of matches that you were actively trying to automatically track?

Take a breath, and write a blameless postmortem - it's not your fault, it's not your admin's fault, it's not Valve's fault, it's a situation that happened only because a chain of events, each of which individually should not have happened, any one of which could have stopped the accident had they gone differently, instead went in a direction that caused the accident. Blame blinds you to opportunity: what would have made these aligned mistakes less likely? What can you (as a programmer, as an individual, and as an organization that isn't Valve) do to make this alignment of mistakes less likely? What other layers could have prevented this alignment of mistakes from mattering? What similar alignments of circumstances are lurking nearby, now that you're looking at this as an entire system that collapsed, not mistakes that people should be taken to task for? No sense in going after the people involved -- after all, of everybody in the company, you folks are the ones least likely to make the same specific error again.

https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/site-reliability-engineering/9781491929117/ch15.html is worth a read here. Maybe it's a new process for y'all, maybe it's something you do as a software engineer but it's new to the admins, maybe you just need a reminder that even when Reddit is mad it's still real that blameless postmortems are the way to go -- if it's new, there's no better time for a first time.

Definitely follow up on this. I've had people not want to rent to me, or cancel within a week of arrival, but that gave me time to find another option. Canceling on you after meeting you with you is just ridiculous.

https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/990/i-m-a-host--what-penalties-apply-if-i-need-to-cancel-a-reservation

Automated review. If you cancel before the day of check-in, an automated review will be posted to your listing's profile indicating that you canceled one of your reservations. These reviews can't be removed, but you can always write a public response to clarify why you needed to cancel.

Guest review. If you cancel on the day of check-in or later, guests can leave a public review on your listing’s profile.

Unavailable/blocked calendar. Your calendar will stay blocked and you won't be able to accept another reservation for the same dates of the canceled reservation.

Loss of eligibility for Superhost status. You won't be eligible to earn Superhost status for one year after your most recent cancellation.

Account suspension. If you cancel 3 or more reservations within a year, we may deactivate your listing.

yep, owner still arrested, Dmitriy Smilianets aka Dima Smeliy. New manager is "nirvana_sf". Vigoss, TROH, blowyourbrain, AxMo, +1 probably new roster.

Here's the real reason. There's no server hosts in SEA that Valve works with yet.

Explanation: I worked at a large company that used a lot of computing. It was actually cheaper to use cloud host services by Amazon, since they do a great job at it. Thus we didn't need to keep physical servers and can scale up or down with ease. So places that have Amazon servers usually have dota servers at their location, since it's pretty easy to set up.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/

Philippines does not have a AWS (Amazon Web Services) location. Japan and Aussie does. Valve needs to start hunting for server hosts in Philippines.

Seems like you're being sarcastic, but that's a huge accomplishment. It wasn't until the last few years that AI could beat humans at Go and it's still a continuing challenge for games like starcraft

Very cool developments, I want to play against these bots myself, volvo pls.

Flair status!? haha

Nothing yet, but I'm in the process of figuring out Patreon. One of the rewards will be to finish the Luna song for those wondering! https://www.patreon.com/haveluckgoodfun?ty=h

Thanks everyone :D

They updated the DLC list of dota an hour ago: https://steamdb.info/app/570/history/

And they just updated the DLC info, looks like it is being able to be released very soon: https://steamdb.info/app/401530/history/

^(Also Valve guys don't care about labor day, I guess)

Second for Merlini.

If he dies or messes up, he talks a lot about what he could have done differently or what happened that lead to it. He really is (in my opinion) the calmest and most informative streamer out there.

https://www.twitch.tv/merlinidota

You're thinking of the Classic Tsundere. The Modern Tsundere is exactly that.

&quot;A variation of the tsundere personality type which has the tsundere character switch between hostile and lovestruck personalities often, which is in contrast to the classic tsundere type where the change is gradual and permanent.&quot;

>Cancelling the next shangai major will only lead to DotA losing the country with most players.

Russia has more Dota players than China

Skype is objectively shitty. Between IP leaking (which caused so many tournament delaying DDoS attacks), bad call quality and latency as compared to mumble, a client that uses far more resources than a voip program should, the constant auto-updating, the monitoring of both your voip chats and email chats(see http://www.zdnet.com/article/is-microsoft-reading-your-skype-instant-messages/). I could go on.

Yes, people can do whatever, you can prefer whatever you want, but don't be surprised when people question you preferring something that is so bad. If you said you preferred to run windows98 or AOL dialup you'd get the same kind of reply.

Which one? AdBlock plus or the regular AdBlock? There's a setting in AdBlock plus that shows "Acceptable ads" that can be turned off any time.

Edit: From my understanding everyone is freaking out about the Acceptable Ads program that has been there for a long time now.

Here's some info on what Acceptable Ads means, what the criteria is for ads so be whitelisted and how to opt out.

ThumperLovesValve had seen somewhere that it might be so that they make it permanent in the future, but that's not the case at the moment and for now we got no source on this.

Netflix is the world's largest consumer of bandwidth. According to a Sandvine report (linking through Techcrunch to avoid PDF) netflix and other "real-time entertainment" (youtube, other flash video players) generally takes up 50% of internet traffic.

alternative: fix the fucking api – its still broke and if it were fixed people would actually be able to do this kind of stuff without valve's help

https://medibang.com/book/5u2105051137236990020434095/view/

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Direct link to view the comic! Well done, /u/lui5-breakfast-1022 !

Alibaba Group Holding has $12 billions in revenue in 2015, and net income of less than $4 billions. That's TINY when compared to the big boys on the world market.

Have you ever even read an Alibaba financial statement?

I've read an article on CNET regarding the building of a new submarine cable for the people of SEA. It will come online in 2015, or something. I'll search for it.

Edit: This and This

Am I going to be the only one to point out that since updating to the new twitter layout Puppey's twitter has always looked like this?

Here is the old twitter layout for reference:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140317112940/https://twitter.com/CLEMENTINATOR

Notice his name is on a blank black background which is what the current page was converted into.

Literally nothing has changed.

Hey, I used your image to make it a little bit less pixely, I hope that's ok. I also got something, not sure if this is what you're looking for, OP:

http://postimage.org/gallery/ums7e2e/281abc16/

The background is by zy0rg from Deviantart, D2 logo is from google images, not sure who made it.

http://siterank.today/siteinfo/newmeta.pro

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/newmeta.pro

Take a look at the site metrics for newmeta.pro

Started in January 2017 with very poor readership. Of course you are going to have major problems. You need to have regular viewers and content for people to take you seriously.

If anybody doesn't know, the anime series (Slayers) where she's from makes fun of her flat chest a number of times and it's a source of anxiety/anger for her.

Try using livestreamer. These glorious 60fps streams now only take 20% of my CPU instead of 70!

Edit: dailymotion bug was fixed

https://livestreamer-builds.s3.amazonaws.com/livestreamer-v1.7.5-101-g664ab49-win32.zip

https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/issues/348

A Mobile App that informs you whenever there is an upcoming Dota2 Update from https://steamdb.info/app/570/

People can also comment patches and post patchnotes. Maybe with an Upvote/Downvote System to prevent trollposts.

Warlock speaks a vastly different language. There's actually an Ozhkavosh dictionary made by the Valve devs, though it's a little out of date.

I had created an updated version for D2Mag when that was still happening, but I can't find the link at the moment.

Edit: Here's the link to the magazine. The article I wrote was made after Terrorblade was added to the game, and I don't think there have been any other additions that make it out of date. Of note is the fact that Legion Commander also speaks Ozhkavosh when equipped with the Arcana.

99% of what you said is good advice but PLEASE don't use Ghostery; if you leave the box checked for "send anonymous usage statistics" then they sell your data on which ads you block to advertising companies. Even if you do uncheck that box I've still been soured by that revelation and now use , a much better extension that respects your freedoms.

I posted almost exactly this same thing in a previous thread asking what people do, but I make mobile apps (including games) for a living. I made a small Christmas/Winter themed snowball throwing game if anyone wants to check it out here for Android or here for iOS. It's free without ads, and the VR mode is optional, you can play it on any device. I'd love for people to give it a shot.

As for whether this is a game for "man-children", I'm curious what games your girlfriend thinks aren't for man-children. By definition, games are something we play, and playfulness is associated with children generally.

It does. Blue light in the evenings fucks with your circadian rhythms so your brain thinks its still midday/afternoon.

https://justgetflux.com/

^ this helps somewhat. It automatically makes your screen slowly fade to orange over the course of 3-4 hours once the sun sets. Less blue light, less circadian fuckery.

Just in case you are right and downvotes because the replay is unavailable. Went and registered at dropbox, uploaded that replay, and here it is

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6uh5l0zcp800vxi/84519096.dem

Put it into steam/steamapps/common/dota 2 beta/dota/replays/

And find it through the Watch Tab. It's really short game, only 24 minutes, but it is worth watching, why you never give up as Lycan.

Yes there are two packages. One for 32bit users and one for 64bit. 64bit isn't compatible with the 32bit systems hence the separate package.

https://steamdb.info/depot/373302/

https://steamdb.info/depot/373303/

ShareX master race. No built-in hosting so you upload to whatever hosting site you want (i.e. imgur) and you can even record videos.

Absolutely right - there were campaigns during Korea and Vietnam to do this and it's persisted in today's culture. Some of the ignorant commentors that think these stereotypes come up because people are 'petite' 'or effeminate' are clueless. I can specifically recall a chapter of a book where they discuss this.

edit: I believe it was this one but not 100% sure - there were a few really interesting books on this and there might've been another that I can't remember that was purely focused on American influence in body image.

Because, y'know, if you let them get away with that kind of behavior, then people will think you condone it.

I remember, back when I played League of Legends, RIOT started banning several pro players for life. This was somewhere after the summer of 2012.

Check this: http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/01/24/league-of-legends-fiercest-pro-purge-yet-two-players-issued-with-lifetime-bans/

And this: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/riot-bans-professional-league-of-legends-player-christian-iwilldominate-rivera/1100-6401080/

I might not like their game much anymore, but at least they care.

Meanwhile, Valve's VAC and banning system is as old as Steam is and it's pretty much not up to a modern way of making sure people who harass get banned persistently.

• Sticky Napalm (among other spells, of course) gives vision.
• Terrorblade has enough time to use manta style twice during a level 4 metamorphosis.
• You can activate some invisibility skills (such as Shadow Walk) during your TP/other channels.
• You can target with Death Ward.
• You can still be denied under a level 1 Venomous Gale.
• Dropping items that provide mana before regenerating a fixed amount of mana leads to greater absolute mana regen (once items are picked back up). Most commonly used for bottle/soul ring/arcanes/magic stick/magic wand. Same applies with HP.
• Giving a bottle to a teammate that has immediately TP'd from the fountain will refill the bottle.
• You need to be within 500 units of a lane creep to aggro it.
• Gyrocopter's Call Down provides vision; this is useful for getting a little more out of your Flak Cannon attacks in the jungle.
• Gyrocopter's Rocket Barrage and Enigma's Demonic Conversion apply to siege creeps.
• The minus armor from Desolator and Assault Cuirass applies to buildings as well.
• If you're on the same team as OD, you can see an orange circle expanding from the center to the outside of his Astral Imprisonment. A level 4 Astral ends once the orange circle reaches the outer circle.
• You can squeeze in a right click during Shadow Walk's fade time. The right click gets the bonus damage.
• You can bring enemy heroes closer to your team during Reverse Polarity by first turning towards your team (because your opponents end up in front of Magnus).
• You can get some decent, free HP regen by buying a ring of health and then selling it before the full refund timer expires. Repeat this for some easy regen in side lanes.

I still hold a grudge when IGN featured that damn article about how LOL is better than DOTA. http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/01/25/why-i-prefer-league-of-legends-over-dota-2

so I'm still holding my hope on this stream. You will get my upvote when I see the site as something more credible again.

try using Open Broadcaster Software and then googling some settings. it's a much better program IMO and it's free with no watermarks. it's mainly used for streaming though so us it however you want.

these illustrations have been around a few times. i already checked my library and if i can find the source but sadly i dont save "fanart". there are just too much interpretations of the same designs, thats why i save concepts only. ye i know, would be helpful now....

edit: found him https://www.behance.net/artofmine

Just copy all of Wretched Hag's (hon qop port) abilities: http://www.heroesofnewerth.com/heroes/view/104#hero.

The current level of shadow strike effect as default on her ulti. Better attack animation too.

Currently my only success with qop has been in the offlane with shadow strike at lvl 2/3 and constantly spamming it to get some proper harass going. I don't bother with her ulti till lvl11 though.

Edit: ty to /u/Eikill below

Edit 2: another thing, I believe dota2 applies DoT spells per second as opposed to HoN's constant application. Is this common for all dot abilities? Part of the reason Hag is so much stronger is slow and disables are much stronger in HoN.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.valvesoftware.android.steam.community

APK also available directly if you don't have access to the store

http://media.steampowered.com/apps/steam-android/steam-2.1.4.apk

This is not wrong. The root etymology is Greek αἰγίς but Aegis the word itself first appears in Latin.

Source: Wiktionary, Etymology Online

According to my Google-Fu, you're going to have to take this file and put it in your "\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\dota 2 beta\dota\cfg" folder. Make sure the file is called "autoexec" (without quotations) or it won't work.

http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?p0=234&amp;iso=20140826T15&amp;year=2014&amp;month=8&amp;day=26&amp;hour=15&amp;min=0&amp;sec=0&amp;msg=Time%20until%20OP%20deletes%20his%20account&amp;csz=1

ResidentSleeper

NotLikeThis NotLikeThis <((( Mau5 )))> NotLikeThis WutFace NotLikeThis

edit: i will never regret getting global twitch emote extension for chrome: https://gyazo.com/56e7a0760f5008f6b3cdbad5bfe4dfba

HoN has a 1 lane map too, but i think it's far superior to LoL's as it actually has a jungle and interesting routes aorund it which are more similar to the actual map.

I would love a similar dota map

http://www.heroesofnewerth.com/images/maps/02.jpg

Download Streamlink here: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/releases/tag/1.1.1

Install it, and now you can pipe flash/html5 stream sources directly into whatever video player you like MPC/VLC/POTPlayer etc.

Problem is that you need to use the command line interface to hook up the right URL from the stream and os on.

So here is a portable GUI developed alongside it:

Streamlink GUI: https://streamlink.github.io/streamlink-twitch-gui/

Just scroll down and there is no install just run it from the folder you have extracted after download.

I've used it for 3 years or so now, before it was called "livestreamer". Pretty legit and good updates!

http://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/dota2.gamepedia.com/3/35/Keyart_tusk.jpeg

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2mfarlk&amp;s=6#.VL5mGkfF-2E

you need to vertically flip it, but some say its the author of the wallpaper who wrote that.

I found his loophole.

Seattle has PDT not PST

The difference between the two

http://game-icons.net/

For any custom game creators, there's a whole website of free-to-use, easily-customizable icons for games. A really popular roguelike, ToME 4 incorporates them for basically everything. With some uniform colours for ability trees (green for support, red for damage, etc.) and maybe some gradient shading for style, you can convey a lot of information.

Might be too basic for items, though.

Hi there, kindly reupload the picture with printscreen or snipping tool so others can see it better.

edit: typos

Of course! I did this in photoshop. I use images from unsplash and in-game images to make things. * Instagram * Oracle Image (In-game screenshot) * Eclipse Background

The video player really didn't work well for me and I had to use livestreamer. It's amazing to watch the stream in VLC/MPC HC (I can use SVP as well for 144fps) and I can heavily recommend it.

Only keep in mind that adrev isn't a thing when using it as those are completely bypassed. So if you want to support the streamer have the stream open in a muted tab on low quality.

Link: https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/releases

After install you need to edit the livestreamerrc file and delete the "#" before the media player of your choice, edit the path to the media player and then restart cmd if you have it open and type in "livestreamer mlg.tv/dota best" without " and your media player should start

Protip:

...\Steam\steamapps\common\dota 2 beta\game\dota\sounds\ui\stingers\match_ready_no_focus.wav

Open with Audacity: http://www.audacityteam.org/

Effect dropdown > Amplify > drag slider to negative as necessary.

Export/save.

“We are extremely pleased at the industry’s rapid execution on the Vulkan API initiative. Due to Vulkan’s cross platform availability, high performance and healthy open source ecosystem, we expect to see rapid uptake by software developers, far exceeding the adoption of similar APIs which are limited to specific operating systems.”

Gabe Newell

Co-founder and managing director, Valve

https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/

Adblock Plus has the "acceptable ads" feature (which can be fully disabled, but is on by default) that lets some ads they deem acceptable through.

you can view the creator's reasonings here and make a decision for yourself on whether this feature is acceptable, but many people who hate ads of all kind and/or feels that the system can be abused hates this and has switched to other adblockers. I personally switched to uBlock Origin because it's much lighter on resources.

This

The rest of the album.

I think its a black bar belonking to a king.

IIRC, this item name is a reference to the Phantasy Star video game. IN that game there also is a Monkey King Bar (the bar of the monkey king) and the BKB is a black version of that item.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/516243-phantasy-star-online-episode-i-and-ii/49565783