And calling someone 'colored' just means that they have a color!! GOD!!!!!!!

'It is only used for the launcher so who cares about that'

Yeah, but none of it meant anything barely anyone knew how it worked and if you lost is was like 'well, that sure is a map.'

Well, there's no real leveling system, but I do get what you mean - if you play less, you learn less and you might end up 'behind' in skill.

If you hover your mouse over 'Intelligence' in the character stats, it does tell you exactly what Intelligence does for your hero (increases maximum mana, increases mana regeneration rate, and for heroes that have their primary attribute as Intelligence, it increases their attack damage).

Well, I mean, he has Viper Strike, an ability he casts. His only other ability that you can even 'use' is Poison Attack and it uses his attack animation because it is an orb attack/attack modifier. It does have a unique projectile though. So my point is that he only has one ability with a distinctive animation, o if…

I mean, there's no simple way to do it. Mobas, and DotA in particular has one of the biggest learning curves in gaming that I can think of right now. I started playing 7 (8 maybe?) years ago, so it was a bit easier for me because when it was a Warcraft 3 map, nobody cared and everyone was bad and the game was still…

Intelligence works completely different from Ability Power though. Like, entirely differently. There is no equivalent to Ability Power in DotA (something I'm pretty happy for.)

....Viper only has one ability that he actually casts, so, you're doing pretty good there.

Of course, it doesn't help that there's a quote floating around by Eiji Aonuma about the character shown in the reveal trailer. "No one explicitly said that that was Link," Aonuma vaguely teased in an interview with Venture Beat. It's given rise to another theory: perhaps the person we see in the trailer isn't Link,…

And how about Hitler? I mean, such passion he had! You go, Adolf, you do you!

I still can't believe Dota 1 had the playerbase it did in Eastern Europe, SEA and China, being one of the largest games on the planet, and Blizzard never thought 'hey, maybe we should do something more with this.'

It's funny because Warcraft 3's most successful custom map is now a Valve product.

I was sort of annoyed that DA:I had such ridiculously exaggerated animations walking animations in the preview I saw from them (why do female adventurers in Thedas walk like Jessica Rabbit?) , but I guess it is better than this.

Right, plus you already have studios and animation staff and stuff, it isn't like you have to build another studio, seek out and hire another team, and have them start from scratch. This '2 is 2 times as much as 1, so it doubles the cost' thing sort of ignores that so much of the legwork is stuff they already had to…

Yeah, not like the Shinawatras at all!!!

SUNSfan is a longtime personality and caster in the moba community (he was with HoN before DotA iirc) and both he and Sajedene work for Dota Cinema, which is a proper business. People watching the stream contacted Neil and other folks with Dota Cinema, who had contact info.

Taking the black population to task, while speaking to the black population or a diverse audience is a little bit more in good faith than going to O'Reilly. Going to a predominantly white audience (and in the case of Fox News, a white audience that already angles a certain way on social issues), and taking the black…

I'll agree that there are many of the same biases in place but I'll disagree that the current-and-coming environment is the same. From my personal experience in newspaper (not as a writer, admittedly and not specific to sports), I think Whitlock's career path is increasingly atypical and the coming generation will…

Really loved this piece, probably my favorite thing I've read on Deadspin in awhile. Sort of a useless comment but I don't have any real critique. I do web stuff for one of the papers mentioned in the article and one of my former co-workers is someone you spoke to for this, so that helped!