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Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


Schnorkles posted:


Is Nahaz as much of a goober as he seems?

Yes, extremely

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Its Rinaldo
Aug 13, 2010

CODS BINCH

The REAL Goobusters posted:

Team secret will get top 3 this year

I too believe they could podium at the Canada Cup

Radical
Apr 6, 2011

only the fiercest of competitors can survive the canada cup

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.
I am expecting one (1) techies and/or necrolyte pick in The International 6.

Qmass
Jun 3, 2003

Schnorkles posted:

Thank you, I have made a note of this.

Is Nahaz as much of a goober as he seems?
Hes a professor of economics so 100% yes.

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Qmass posted:

Hes a professor of economics so 100% yes.

And he doesnt like unions so he can gently caress off

botany
Apr 27, 2013

by Lowtax

TheRat posted:

And he doesnt like unions so he can gently caress off

wait really? i take back everything positive ive ever said about nahaz

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

botany posted:

wait really? i take back everything positive ive ever said about nahaz

He had some pissy comment when people were talking about making a players union where he said he thought the word union was really problematic and they should call it something else.

Up Circle
Apr 3, 2008

Cabbit posted:

I cannot take serious any team with Jacky "Eternal Envy" "Bone 7 Give Me Strength" "I BECOME CLOWN NINE" "LMAO" Mao as a villain. He immediately turns Darth Vader into Dark Helmet.

haha lol

Majuju
Dec 30, 2006

I had a beer with Stephen Miller once and now I like him.
it's not that he dislikes unions necessarily, it's that he's an insufferable pedant

https://twitter.com/NahazDota/status/703200517984555008

botany
Apr 27, 2013

by Lowtax

Majuju posted:

it's not that he dislikes unions necessarily, it's that he's an insufferable pedant

https://twitter.com/NahazDota/status/703200517984555008

okay thats actually completely harmless, phew

edit: of course how you get "he doesnt like unions" from that is beyond me but goons will be goons

gangnam reference
Dec 26, 2010

shut up idiot shut up idiot shut up idiot shut up idiot

Defiant Sally
May 6, 2004


Focus your Orochi.
Ehome are winning the wildcard right?

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

botany posted:

edit: of course how you get "he doesnt like unions" from that is beyond me but goons will be goons

I only saw this.
https://twitter.com/NahazDota/status/703194486441164801

Majuju
Dec 30, 2006

I had a beer with Stephen Miller once and now I like him.
never mind that what redeye is mentioning here probably would be the to-the-T definition of a labour union, a group of talent organized to collectively protect their interests in things like employment standards, working conditions, wages, contracts, etc.

Radical
Apr 6, 2011


:smuggo:

botany
Apr 27, 2013

by Lowtax

Defiant Sally posted:

Ehome are winning the wildcard right?

ye

TheRat posted:

I only saw this.

yeah thats not helping you lol

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

botany posted:

ye


yeah thats not helping you lol

He's either an insufferable twat for disliking unions or an insufferable twat for arguing weird semantics. Either way you interpret it, he's an insufferable twat.

Bardeh
Dec 2, 2004

Fun Shoe
How does Nahaz have so much time to stink up DOTA streams if he's a professor. Isn't that the kind of job where you're busy a lot with grading and planning and lecturing?

Radical
Apr 6, 2011

nahaz isnt even the most insufferable canadian economics professor ive ever met

botany
Apr 27, 2013

by Lowtax

Bardeh posted:

How does Nahaz have so much time to stink up DOTA streams if he's a professor. Isn't that the kind of job where you're busy a lot with grading and planning and lecturing?

depends on the specifics of his contract really

Meat Recital
Mar 26, 2009

by zen death robot
Vici Gaming posted on Facebook that Yang still doesn't have his visa. He has a final interview on August 1st. The rest of the team is already in Seattle.

The REAL Goobusters
Apr 25, 2008

Defiant Sally posted:

Ehome are winning the wildcard right?

All I know is that col will definitely not win unless they pull some crazy poo poo out

Schnorkles
Apr 30, 2015

It's a little bit juvenile, but it's simple and it's timeless.

We let it be known that Schnorkles, for a snack, eats tiny pieces of shit.

You're picturing it and you're talking about it. That's a win in my book.
what I'm getting from this is that someone should give nahaz a swirlie and probably take his lunch money

botany
Apr 27, 2013

by Lowtax

Schnorkles posted:

what I'm getting from this is that someone should give nahaz a swirlie and probably take his lunch money

im sure he'll give you his lunch money when you serve him food in the fast food restaurant you're forced to work at because of your disgusting anti-intellectual attitude :boom:

Internet Kraken
Apr 24, 2010

slightly amused

klaphark posted:

Envy will win a ti

Envy being the eternal underachiever of Dota is the one constant though.

EorayMel posted:

I am expecting one (1) techies and/or necrolyte pick in The International 6.

Did Techies ever get buffed after that patch that completely gutted them?

botany
Apr 27, 2013

by Lowtax

Internet Kraken posted:

Did Techies ever get buffed after that patch that completely gutted them?

no theyre still poo poo

Its Rinaldo
Aug 13, 2010

CODS BINCH
I still remember Aui laughing his head off after mind loving teams with his techies at TI5

drunken officeparty
Aug 23, 2006

What did they do to nerf techies

Internet Kraken
Apr 24, 2010

slightly amused

drunken officeparty posted:

What did they do to nerf techies

I think it was this patch;

quote:

-Land Mines​, Stasis Trap​ and Remote Mines
No longer trigger when getting destroyed.
Can now be targeted by and destroyed with Quelling Blade and Battle Fury icon
Now have a 10 gold bounty.
-Land Mines
No longer has a max limit of 20 mines.
Are no longer phased.
No longer block neutral creep camps.
Reduced damage from 300/375/450/525 to 150/190/225/260.
Reduced mana cost from 125/150/175/205 to 60/75/85/100.
Reduced cooldown from 19/16/13/10 to 9/8/7/5.
-Stasis Trap
Trap​s no longer block neutral creep camps.

Basically reduced the damage on land mines while also preventing them from being stacked on top of each other. So Techies can no longer create a huge stack of mines on one point that instantly kill most heroes. Also melee heroes can kill the mines with QB/Battlefury so its not impossible for them to clear out a Techies minefield. So its way harder for Techies to actually do anything now and its not like the average player was amazing with him before anyways.

Ragingsheep
Nov 7, 2009

Internet Kraken posted:

Envy being the eternal underachiever of Dota is the one constant though.

Envy has actually won a Valve event though. Rtz on the other hand...

drunken officeparty
Aug 23, 2006

Internet Kraken posted:

I think it was this patch;


Basically reduced the damage on land mines while also preventing them from being stacked on top of each other. So Techies can no longer create a huge stack of mines on one point that instantly kill most heroes. Also melee heroes can kill the mines with QB/Battlefury so its not impossible for them to clear out a Techies minefield. So its way harder for Techies to actually do anything now and its not like the average player was amazing with him before anyways.

What patch was this because gosh drat that is a nerf into the ground

Meat Recital
Mar 26, 2009

by zen death robot

drunken officeparty posted:

What patch was this because gosh drat that is a nerf into the ground

6.85. No changes since then either.

Note than you can still stack mines, just not as tightly as before.

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy

Schnorkles posted:

I don't watch much dota but I'll be spending all of the ti in a hotel/cubicle on an onsite and will be bored out of my mind so I will be watching this one. Please tell me things I should know tia.

Watch the Purge noob stream if it is up. It's pretty much the best english casting you will find.

Majuju
Dec 30, 2006

I had a beer with Stephen Miller once and now I like him.
2GD's arena shooter is up on Kickstarter.

botany
Apr 27, 2013

by Lowtax

Majuju posted:

2GD's arena shooter is up on Kickstarter.

not dota related, reported and unfollowed

Meat Recital
Mar 26, 2009

by zen death robot

Majuju posted:

2GD's arena shooter is up on Kickstarter.

Didn't he already release his arena shooter? Reflex or something?

God bless 2GD and his zany casting, but no one gives a gently caress about arena shooters anymore.

No Safe Word
Feb 26, 2005

Majuju posted:

2GD's arena shooter is up on Kickstarter.

the "play with Sheever" rewards level is already gone and only Bruno has any other takers (1 of 2)

Ragingsheep
Nov 7, 2009

No Safe Word posted:

the "play with Sheever" rewards level is already gone and only Bruno has any other takers (1 of 2)

Draskyl's reward tier has 9000 slots free.

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Luna Was Here
Mar 21, 2013

Lipstick Apathy

Meat Recital posted:

Didn't he already release his arena shooter? Reflex or something?

Nope, that was someone else, this one is all GD Studio

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