General Discussion - Page 859

On August 19 2012 10:20 NB wrote:

i dont think we are talking about the same football.... The fact that the dominating audience of real sport is getting old and out dated as the new generation growing up under the influential of computing and internet would make something like computer games much more acceptable. Think about it this way: 100 years ago if you ask people if they ever dream of landing on the moon, you must be a lunatic while now, traveling to space is commercially available. As the society growing throw time, a lot of revolution will change the way we look at "modern" culture and right now is the period of computing technology over taking traditional physical activities.

Have you ever wonder why your parents or your grand parents want you to do sports? In my case its simply bc my dad fought in a war and the process of him growing up as a person is full with the definition of "dominant physically = dominant in society". Things have changed for the past 50 years or even just for the past decade. Instead of physical health, the needs for mental health is now raised as almost equal since the war period is now over. In a society, you are now more likely to be judged by your "intelligent" proven through out your education more than your physical well-being. Suddenly, real sports is no longer a dominant way to prove that you are 'alpha as fuck' inside a circle of people but money is a bigger variable. If you looks through most of the modern survey, women's criteria for their other half is more likely to be how success he is but how healthy and buff he look.

ALL OF THESE ARE CHANGING which will ultimately change what we are looking at the current ways to compete irl. People are now want a tool so that they could show how good they are at 'thinking' rather than 'working out' and video games just happen to fit into the right slot.

Fuck i spent too much time on this shit... most of these are what i told the guy who is doing his psychology graduate essay that i knew last year.

On August 19 2012 11:45 Kipsate wrote:
good as third item after EB+BKB or EB+Something survivable(manta is sometimes even enough)

its really slot efficient but not that much cost efficient.

On August 19 2012 11:45 Kipsate wrote:
good as third item after EB+BKB or EB+Something survivable(manta is sometimes even enough)

its really slot efficient but not that much cost efficient.

On August 19 2012 12:26 Astarwulf wrote:

Is the old morph really so out of style? the linkens or manta first style hardcarry farmalot style
It's still so strong

On August 19 2012 12:50 Nilrem wrote:


Yeah, at least from what I have seen and known from original dota. Morphling has changed quite a bit over the years, especially due to the buffs like to morph ability itself. Manta I do not see anymore, but linkens still gets used. Especially whe you are going against a lot of single target spells. Getting ethereal blade is nice and all but getting the eagle is annoying at times. Since you dont get any benefit from it for a while.

On August 19 2012 13:21 Xinder wrote:
I need to stop doing MM at night. Holy fuck the terribads come out.

On August 19 2012 13:33 NB wrote:

pretty sure you should all avoid weekend dota.... horrible casual noobs flood up the match making system by partying up cause a lot of imbalance team. My weekly routine is sun night -> friday morning win 90%, friday afternoon -> sunday evening lose 90%....

On August 19 2012 13:52 Xinder wrote:


I'm starting to notice the pattern. I can get above my 50% win/loss during the week. But i tank it to sub 50% when I play on the weekend.

On August 19 2012 14:36 Cool Cat wrote:

You might be confusing causation with correlation here.