If you're verbally abusing, harassing, or making threats towards people who're speaking up about sexual harassment+assualt then you're literal scum. If you don't understand the nuances of the debate, ask questions from your peers or do some research in a constructive way.
Extremely important! If Dems don't have the majority of senators in the Senate, the Republican majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell will likely continue obstructing almost all democratic legislation. These 2 seats, if flipped, give Dems the trifecta that allows them to pass most laws
And now all eyes turn to Georgia where the most consequential Senate runoffs in modern times will take place in 59 days.
The first two years of the Biden presidency will be radically different if Democrats don't have control of the Senate.
Very sad to hear about Dunno. I met him once a few years ago at an event in Manila. He was extremely kind, humble, and clearly a very passionate Dota fan. He had incredible talent and its terrible that he's gone so early.
We want to try taking a different approach to how gameplay patches are released. Instead of big patches a couple of times a year, we'll be releasing small patches every 2 weeks on Thursdays. We'll be trying this out for about six months and then reevaluating.
ALWAYS BOTHER. In every case of a person speaking out about injustice the scum come and verbally harass them. That person reads their mentions and feels attacked and alone. This is the same line of thought as "well you can't change their behavior, just mute them".
@PurgeGamers
@dwelve_t
Don't bother Purge. There's a lot of garbage 4chan, incel, men's rights trolls out there in the world. They are just pathetic garbage
Before every match on
@ZephyrDota
Bamboe would loudly play Wrecking Ball so we were all forced to listen in the booth, for bonding, hype, whatever reason 😄. Now you all gotta listen too:
"I'm frustrated cause I can't get them out of the freaking waiting room."
A nurse at UW Health in Wisconsin on her frustration at the state of COVID-19 in the hospital: "The majority of these people are not vaccinated. I find it frustrating. I get angry."
Someone asked me about how to improve their MMR in a DM so I wrote a response. I figured I should post it publicly so the ants following me can read it too:
This is why they weren't scared of Lesh. Mage Slayer(from carry or other), plus Wraith Pact means Pipe gives everyone insane hp + survivability because of the rare way the mechanics work. Naga, normally SMASHED by aoe magic, like Lesh/Pudge Aghs, is protected, ESPECIALLY illus.
Pretty sickened by the many videos and stories of major aggression + violence coming from police(towards protesters AND journalists) across the US. What better demonstration that many don't adhere to rules? How could we ever believe that cops don't regularly, needlessly escalate?
@Lun1s_
There is literally 0 doubt in my mind that women get far more hate than male talent. Spending 1 afternoon working with them and hearing their stories makes that blatantly obvious. I can't remember ever getting rape and death threats in 10 years. They all remember many.
Valve, please give me the ability to report people while I'm doing Overwatch cases. I've done 2 cases now where the guy reported wasn't the one griefing and it feels like the true griefer is getting away with it 😨😨😨
Tiny aghs certainly broken. Goes through bkbs, range is insane, cooldown 12s. Turns Tiny into a ranged carry but without endangering the hero too much. Liquid def the better team though!
#TI9
And please, don't overwhelm the people who did speak out by asking them to explain everything to you. There is only so much emotional energy in the scene right now. It's especially limited for the people who have to also deal with the scum tweets, messages, and threats.
I hope you guys enjoyed my group stage casting. I genuinely enjoyed every game we watched and I hope that I helped you guys enjoy them more, despite some errors. Was a pleasure casting with
@BTSGoDz
as always.
Just finished my 6am-1:30pm shift at the polls. It's fun and rewarding work, I find. Gonna do an election results stream later tonight once polls are closing. Will be answering questions about the American political system and tell everyone why Republicans are bad. See you there!
Homie ass neighbor saw me hand shoveling the 3 foot high snow wall the snow plow put in my driveway and offered to snow blower it, saving me 40 mins. You can bet your ass I'm letting him enter my house during the apocalypse.
I matched with someone on a dating app who is clearly a catfish scammer and it's really fun to talk to them because I can say whatever and they have to pretend to be into it.
If you missed it in the broadcast
@SirActionSlacks
surprised
@PurgeGamers
for his Birthday. Watch the video and wish Purge a Happy Birthday.
Happy Birthday Purge!
#TI9
I had a wonderful time at
@ESLDota2
Birmingham! I think ESL is the best Tournament Organizer in DotA right now. I hope you guys enjoyed my segments+work too!
I think it’s safe to say that the UK crowd here at
@ESL
has been the best Dota crowd this season. I couldn’t help but feel the energy and happiness to be there!
I played 13 ranked solo queue games last night with all roles selected and got Hard Support 12 times and Soft Support 1 time. I guess I have to manually turn it off once in a while. I don't really see how valve solves this 'problem' in a way that isn't way more convoluted.
Someone tried to use my credit card to buy runescape points or something like that. Who would spend money on that? Btw I just bought 14 collectors cache chests but I got the warlock set so totally worth 👍🏻
After Dems won the Senate yesterday it feels greedy to ask for any more pipe dreams, but if literally anyone receives consequences for today that'd be great.
Unfortunately not surprised the major got cancelled. Omicron commonly produces breakthrough infections against vaccinated + boosted people(but still heavily protects against severe cases+death).
But Valve should really give teams some of their $250k prize contribution, minimum.
I played board games w/ the homies till 1 am, on way home got pulled over going 72 in a 55. Showed the cop my cool board games, talked shit about monopoly, and apologized for absentmindedly speeding and he let me off w/ warning. 😌
Going to be doing an American election newbie stream on my twitch channel tonight. Will be taking about the election, explaining why things are the way they are and watching some of the results come in later tonight. Starting at 6pm EST. Bring your questions! Also go vote 🌝
Have found it hard not to express how excited I am to work TI the last month 😅 really excited to see+work with everyone and really happy for all the first time talent!
If you're a procrastinator like me, you're much more likely to vote tomorrow on Super Tuesday if you look up your polling place today before you go to vote tomorrow. *whisper* also I think Bernie Sanders is much better than Joe Biden
Sat near a guy at the airport. Complete silence for 15 mins. Then out of nowhere "yep, thanks guys". Dude was on a zoom call he didn't need to be there for
I've been enjoying the
@WePlay_Esports
major so much! Amazing Dota, so many close matches, great talent etc. Downside is my days productivity gets nuked though 😅
I had such a genuinely nice time in Germany+Sweden while doing work for ESL. Got to see all my esports friends for the first time since Covid. I didn't realize how much I missed everyone till I got there, but it was a very memorable 2 weeks ☺️
Another long day in the books but genuinely had SO MUCH FUN on broadcast today. Really feeling thankful and happy I have this job and get to work with so many smart and funny people 😊
I THINK teams are high fiving there to give vision indicators. For example: "if enemy sees me high fiving outside of normal vision range, then I know they have a ward, then I can possibly deward"
Very pleased with Valve's blog. Apology, explanation, a good solution considering the circumstances(Omicron), and the last chance Wild Card tournament sounds fucking cool! I hope it sticks around in future TI's (though they explicitly said it wouldn't)
I would be upset about the neighbor's children upstairs who heavily stomp while they run around at 9:40 pm but it sounds like they're having a great time, good for them
so they picked strong heroes that fulfill these pillars of their drafting and then it kept games simpler for these top tier players while other teams were trying to figure out the meta. Tundra knew it was lifesteal + damage mitigation.
It’s amazing how normal it starts feeling to watch TI caliber games for 2 weeks straight then arriving home to remember your regular life with your dog and other work responsibilities. Feels like im meeting up again with an old friend.
Hey dota peeps do you like Ability Draft? You should sign up for my 64 team tournament coming up next Saturday with a $2400 prize pool. We're running it on
@FACEIT
, US East Servers, $1000 for first place. We're broadcasting NA timezone on
@moonduckTV
You know at least when I could click my little bird app icon I had some plausible deniability. Now every time I see the X icon and consider clicking it, I get reminded that a billionaire bought my fav social media platform and continues to change it in ways that make me mad.
This is a pleasant surprise 😊. Am forever grateful for my career and success. I feel very lucky that I get to tell everyone what I think about an amazing video game for a living. Here's to many more 🥂
Just one of those crazy 5 minute teamfights fighting for inches and when the echo slam came in, that feeling of ‘oh, they can actually win now’ pops into reality.
@virtuspro
last 3 paragraphs are garbage. You were offered to make a statement about Ukraine, you declined. They offered you play without jerseys, you declined. You instead chose to make an out of touch statement conflating actual war with this 'witch hunt'. Let the players play w/o jerseys
In hindsight, it was a mistake to strain my voice yelling "NO" at my dog while she quickly ate dog poop the day that I need to talk for 6-12 hrs. I shoulda just let her have that one.