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[Teneb]

I stopped pretending video games were out to get me a long time ago but I can see how you'd come to think they were.

I check my team's profiles before I start a game.  If anti-mage or void are in their featured hero box, I kind of write the game off.  Hasn't failed me so far.

I'm still having my league/dota conundrum.  ON one hand my philosophy is I'm gonna have a shitty time sometimes either way, may as well have it in a better game.  League's boring.  Unless jungler trolls my lane (fucking god damn udyr giving akali doublebuff and first blood then bitching at me for getting zoned go fuck the devil in hell) I'm pretty much guaranteed to stomp said lane every time with no challenge, even against hard counters. 

But then strangely enough for all their lack of crunchy man fight skills, league players seem to have the fundamentals like warding and supporting down.  That's not say they're any good at it, pretty much every game of league I play is decided, win or loss, by one team's bot lane feeding, but still.  Dota, I've basically accepted that if I don't buy literally everything no one will.  I usually end up having to buy the flying courier even if I'm playing a carry.

It might just because you are still in the low levels. I have no illusions I am somehow high (am level 9, I think. Not sure, am in this mad dash to get to 13 so I can go ranked with friends), but at where I am right now, you can be pretty sure the support will at least buy and upgrade the courier. Every now and then someone wards too. Dust of appearance is still an arcane concept, however.

Also, that Sniper was either intentionally feeding that Ursa or he's just... I'm going to opt for the intentional feeding. If it tells you anything, he's the kind of Sniper that goes for Shadow Blade as an escape tool and as a first item.

Or maybe, you know, it was one of his first matches as a sniper. There is really no way to know without mind-reading.

Unless you look at their profile and see that they've played most of their matches as Sniper.

Then I have no plausible explanation at the moment.

[Cthulhu]

He probably just sucks.  Even at high levels a lot of people just plain suck at the game.  It's the kind of game you can go a long way being really shitty and not realize it (because everyone else is just a bit shittier)

[The Scout]

Hell, I guess I'll join in too.  Here's me too.

[Putnam]

Oh, right, links.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/putnamehere3145

[Teneb]

Why Not

[highzealot]

Might as well

[Wysthric]

He probably just sucks.  Even at high levels a lot of people just plain suck at the game.  It's the kind of game you can go a long way being really shitty and not realize it (because everyone else is just a bit shittier)

As far as I know, there's no rules against playing Dota while drunk, incredibly tired, angry, or otherwise distracted. If any of these things happen, your performance may drop temporarily.

[Karkov]

I know this is a complete non-sequitur, but were any of you playing when we had the silly Diretide things?  Where we forced Valve to give us a game mode by harassing a poor car company?  I was suddenly reminded of it for no real good rhyme nor reason.  DotA has such a weird community, ya know?

つ ◕_◕ ༽つ VOLVO GIFF DIRETIDE つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

[Chaos Armor]

Here goes...

[Edit: Fixed Link]

[Cthulhu]

I remember Diretide.  I remember when people thought filling every slot on their Greevil eggs would give them a rare greevil.

[Frumple]

... someone refresh my memory. Wasn't valve or whoever working on pushing out custom map functionality for DotA 2? If my memory's not broked and they were, any news on how that's coming along?

[Putnam]

d2modd.in

Also, Valve is I guess sorat working on it maybe.

[etgfrog]

Sure, I'll play with others, don't mind me if I have some horrible luck. Me

[hermes]

Here I am.  Maybe there should be a group made?  *dodges responsibility*

So I played Venomancer in All Pick quite a bit and won maybe 7 games out of 8.  Went back to random and started losing again.  I really can't tell if it's the team or me... probably both since one player is only 1/5 of the team.  But playing a char I like I can tell I'm contributing to the team effort, going with random chars really feels horrible now.  Guess I have to learn to play them too.

edit - can't believe the random crap I've bought for this game already.  Should be illegal.

[Putnam]

I think a guild (yeah, Dota has guilds, who knew?) would be better for that. What should it be called?