Yeah. Exactly this. As the game becomes more refined, and the average knowledge increases, it makes sense for games to get longer. DotA games were *also* often pretty short back when battle.net people would leave after first blood or losing a tower.

I think some esports are a lot more transparent - I think CSGO for instance is a lot more readable. Fighting Games are often pretty readable, though it is hard to appreciate the craft unless you know how to play the game.

I’ve played both DotA and FGs in tournaments, and watched both EVO and the International this year, and it’s just different things for different folks. EVO was really great, and TI5 was probably the best TI yet, but they’re different experiences entirely. And Good Dota is an entirely separate set of buttons in my…

I think you’re being way too simplistic in your explanation here of the interaction between economics, class and race in America. Racism keeps black Americans poor, like you said, but poverty and economics also fuel racism to degree I think can’t be discounted. Not just directly, but also indirectly, through the…

Hold up, it was a good play, but if it was in a normal game in any other tournament, it would be just that: ‘good’. It is important because it was on the biggest stage, for the most money, but on the merits of the play itself, not even the best play that week.

It’s useless, Kotaku is so far up Riot’s ass.

Even before Reborn, Dota has and has had an incredibly robust local lobby setup that allowed you to do all sorts of stuff with cheat/console commands like spawning waves, resetting abilities etc.

Oh, I should have scrolled down, because you’re just talking bullshit at this point. Grinding and paying to win? Don’t complain that you don’t understand something if you won’t even take a minimal effort learn.

I’ve played DotA for 7 years and incalculable hours, and I’ve never played the same game twice, and I’m still getting better. What more do I need to say? Why do people play any other game.

I’ve played DotA for 7 years and incalculable hours, and I’ve never played the same game twice, and I’m still getting better. What more do I need to say? Why do people play any other game.

Good heavens, I have had some really awkward ‘I think we really have something together’ conversations, but that might be the best.

“Why do I have to ‘read’ you?” Because if we are as unsubtle and direct as we need to be to get the point across, then we’re a bitch, a whore, a cunt, etc.

What a shit post you’ve made.

I wanted playable Naga since before Burning Crusade. That was, what, ten+ years ago? I was a wee stupid child and posted furiously on the Blizzard forums about how badly I wanted cool nagas, and everyone was like ‘but how will they ride mounts, or use boots!!’ I don’t care, shut up?

You don’t actually know what you’re talking about. We have no details about hereditary customs of the culture. Can you explain to me if they employ agnatic or cognatic primogeniture? No, you can’t. You have no reason to believe that if he were a she, and if the character was a princess instead of a prince, that the…

Man, The International can’t even get one post and this story gets posted twice in two days!

Unopular answer: because affluent white dudes don’t need abortions, but sometimes they want to get gay married.

In addition to what others have mentioned, she has done producing and directing on some movies. I watched John Wick of all things the other night and saw her as a producer.

She was sentenced at 28. I’m going to guess there’s been a trial in the years between, who knows. Not entirely sure how the court system works there.

That’s... That’s not how the Fifth Amendment works...