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Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


gangnam reference posted:

cyborgmatt called me stupid for saying it was bad

congrats on your moment of fame

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JollyPubJerk
Nov 10, 2009

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
it isn't intuitive enough, valve isn't exactly known at getting anything right the first (few) time(s). they just copied the game.

a witch
Jan 12, 2017

What happened to wings? Why did they get renamed?

Superrodan
Nov 27, 2007

a witch posted:

What happened to wings? Why did they get renamed?

According to random gossip on reddit (so I cannot judge accuracy) their owner wasn't paying a League of Legends team or their owner got scammed by some League team and couldn't pay them anymore.

The REAL Goobusters
Apr 25, 2008
This wings drama is actually so hosed up. They definitely squandered that TI6 money for sure

Quincy Smallvoice
Mar 18, 2006

Bitches leave
is there a real source/writeup on this?

Ragingsheep
Nov 7, 2009

The REAL Goobusters posted:

This wings drama is actually so hosed up. They definitely squandered that TI6 money for sure

http://www.liquiddota.com/forum/dota-2-general/521446-wings-media-officer-it-has-come-to-this


Quincy Smallvoice posted:

is there a real source/writeup on this?

It's mostly just rumours and talk atm but the players are still playing together, just not under the Wings banner anymore.

Ambivalent
Oct 14, 2006

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/136607040

Skip to 1h13m for the game start. boboka, the greatest dota player to ever live, takes over a losing game and crushes VG's will to live using treant.

funmanguy
Apr 20, 2006

What time is it?

gangnam reference posted:

cyborgmatt called me stupid for saying it was bad

Even a broken clock, etc, etc

afeelgoodpoop
Oct 14, 2014

by FactsAreUseless

Ambivalent posted:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/136607040

Skip to 1h13m for the game start. boboka, the greatest dota player to ever live, takes over a losing game and crushes VG's will to live using treant.

they gg'd before losing any racks lol

Craptacular!
Jul 9, 2001

Fuck the DH
90 minute Chinese 4p1 games lived again in the third round of IG Vitality vs IG Original Recipe.

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
Split push Treant is the greatest thing I've ever seen.

By contrast, Burning Venge is by far the worst.

Majuju
Dec 30, 2006

I had a beer with Stephen Miller once and now I like him.
syndereN has been officially kicked from NiP, replaced by iNsania (no idea who this is)

e: ahh formerly of Prodota, cool

Majuju fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Apr 20, 2017

Looke
Aug 2, 2013

Synderen is a cool guy, and his streams are good

ILL Machina
Mar 25, 2004

:italy: Glory to Italia! :italy:

Ayy!! This text is-a the color of marinara! Ohhhh!! Dat's amore!!

Majuju posted:

syndereN has been officially kicked from NiP, replaced by iNsania (no idea who this is)

e: ahh formerly of Prodota, cool

It felt pretty official when he started the A-Z-A (a.k.a. Inverted Penis) Challenge with fellow disgraced former pro-dota figurehead Sunsfan of Dota Cinnamon.

It's been ok so far and I heart them both.

ILL Machina fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Apr 20, 2017

Majuju
Dec 30, 2006

I had a beer with Stephen Miller once and now I like him.
I feel like synd could probably make a lot of hay as a coach, it's worked for bulba so far

ILL Machina
Mar 25, 2004

:italy: Glory to Italia! :italy:

Ayy!! This text is-a the color of marinara! Ohhhh!! Dat's amore!!

Majuju posted:

I feel like synd could probably make a lot of hay as a coach, it's worked for bulba so far

How much do coaches make, anyway? His post suggests he'll play again after he casts Kiev. I figure he'd go back to casting before coaching for the camera time, if anything.

ILL Machina fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Apr 20, 2017

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

and?
https://medium.com/datdota/simkiev-552fa8fbd002 datdota "simulated Kiev Major" article. I know some of y'all will like this

ILL Machina
Mar 25, 2004

:italy: Glory to Italia! :italy:

Ayy!! This text is-a the color of marinara! Ohhhh!! Dat's amore!!

emdash posted:

https://medium.com/datdota/simkiev-552fa8fbd002 datdota "simulated Kiev Major" article. I know some of y'all will like this

As always, it's worth saying that past performance for a given team name means very little, especially with small sample sizes and variable rosters, but they have very little else to use with that kind of model. They base everything off those numbers, but it's a nice little Monte Carlo primer.

As a Python coder in my work life, I kinda wanna to know what he was trying to sell by calling the sim "a 10⁶ iteration Python loop".

ILL Machina fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Apr 20, 2017

resistentialism
Aug 13, 2007

http://blog.dota2.com/2017/04/matchmaking-update/

dota2 posted:

LINKED PHONE NUMBER

SOLO QUEUE

PARTY CHANGES

MATCHMAKING BEHAVIOR

REGIONAL CHANGES


Lots of stuff? Need a phone number to play ranked dotes and solo queue is back.

botany
Apr 27, 2013

by Lowtax
gonna be honest, not super psyched about the phone number thing

Martian Manfucker
Dec 27, 2012

misandry is real

botany posted:

gonna be honest, not super psyched about the phone number thing

yeah, guess I'm done with ranked

Kild
Apr 24, 2010

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Martian Manfucker posted:

yeah, guess I'm done with ranked

Why?

IncendiaC
Sep 25, 2011

botany posted:

gonna be honest, not super psyched about the phone number thing

Genuinely curious, why? Never played CSGO (which has the same system) but unless I'm missing something, there's no reason not to link a phone number unless you just simply don't have one.

The REAL Goobusters
Apr 25, 2008
i am so down with this phone number thing

IncendiaC posted:

Genuinely curious, why? Never played CSGO (which has the same system) but unless I'm missing something, there's no reason not to link a phone number unless you just simply don't have one.

lol they can't smurf anymore

The REAL Goobusters fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Apr 20, 2017

Craptacular!
Jul 9, 2001

Fuck the DH
PPD will still gently caress up your games:

The REAL Goobusters
Apr 25, 2008
Free kevin gates

GOOD TIMES ON METH
Mar 17, 2006

Fun Shoe
Those are all super good changes

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
I might have to start playing ranked now

Martian Manfucker
Dec 27, 2012

misandry is real

i don't wanna give my phone number to the dota 2 team, mostly

JollyPubJerk
Nov 10, 2009

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
so I can go buy a $10 burner phone, register a smurf, and poof, everyone's misery is not even an issue for my smurfs anymore..

intelligence has never been Valve's strong suit

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


JollyPubJerk posted:

so I can go buy a $10 burner phone, register a smurf, and poof, everyone's misery is not even an issue for my smurfs anymore..

intelligence has never been Valve's strong suit

Nobody thinks it will stop smurfing. The point is to add more resistance to make it more of a hassle. It'll cut down on it a lot, especially with bots.

a witch
Jan 12, 2017

JollyPubJerk posted:

so I can go buy a $10 burner phone, register a smurf, and poof, everyone's misery is not even an issue for my smurfs anymore..

intelligence has never been Valve's strong suit

You pay $10 for access to low mmr ranked dota, and you think you're the smart one in this situation?

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

JollyPubJerk posted:

so I can go buy a $10 burner phone, register a smurf, and poof, everyone's misery is not even an issue for my smurfs anymore..

intelligence has never been Valve's strong suit

$10 is a good filter for keeping the bulk of the dregs out.

source: https://www.somethingawful.com

of course, some chaff gets in, still - like the guy im quoting.

defeat matchmaking filter with this one weird trick from voice.google.com, if you're so mentally ill you need to pwn the heads of 9999 2k small sons to get a boner or whatever

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

a witch posted:

You pay $10 for access to low mmr ranked dota, and you think you're the smart one in this situation?

lol

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

and?
what's the deal with the fantasy cards this season

can you not just buy them?

Ragingsheep
Nov 7, 2009
You haven't been able to buy individual ones for a while. Only the packs.

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

and?

Ragingsheep posted:

You haven't been able to buy individual ones for a while. Only the packs.

yeah that's what I'm confused about. I see only this

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a witch
Jan 12, 2017

You can buy them from the card page in the compendium, but not the store tab.

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