Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion - Page 623

On February 28 2015 07:22 eieio wrote:

yeah it's presumably from an overdose: he had a relatively widely known heroin problem D:

addiction is super shitty and makes me sad BUT all indications are that Harris would hate people mourning him and would rather they laugh and make dick jokes or something SO

On February 28 2015 07:26 Plansix wrote:

Gold bless the man, we lost a couple of the good ones this week.

On February 28 2015 07:45 Plansix wrote:
The IT Crowd is funny, but all the jokes are made unfunny by the laugh track. It is a show that would be better without it in every way.

On February 28 2015 06:52 Plansix wrote:
I guess that's acceptable. They could have fined him or something, but I guess the reddit drama is good enough.

Also, from my understanding and research, UG has a long history of being accused of cheating and bullshit pauses. That is the reason they got banned, because they finally got caught red handed. Its not mental gymnastics to see the nuance between the two. One team had a history of shady behavior and suspected cheating. The other team has a player well known for impulsive actions and lack of common sense, but is respected and has zero history of shady behavior.

On February 28 2015 07:42 crms wrote:
guys is there any modern show (still on the air, making episodes in the last 3-5 years) that uses a laugh track (fake or studio audience) that you enjoy? I seriously can't handle them anymore. The way sitcoms have advanced the laugh track is so off putting that I can't even finish an episode. The only time I can handle laugh tracks are on classic shows like Seinfeld because it was part of that era.

tl;dr is there any modern comedy that uses laugh tracks that is actually funny? I don't think so.

On February 28 2015 07:49 Sn0_Man wrote:
I don't watch modern comedy I just watch M*A*S*H

On February 28 2015 07:52 Jinxed wrote:

I tune them out anymore. Big Bang Theory's is unbearable, but I was able to look past it for How I Met Your Mother.

Still, I don't really like them and it does turn me off, even just a little.

On February 28 2015 06:52 Plansix wrote:
I guess that's acceptable. They could have fined him or something, but I guess the reddit drama is good enough.

Also, from my understanding and research, UG has a long history of being accused of cheating and bullshit pauses. That is the reason they got banned, because they finally got caught red handed. Its not mental gymnastics to see the nuance between the two. One team had a history of shady behavior and suspected cheating. The other team has a player well known for impulsive actions and lack of common sense, but is respected and has zero history of shady behavior.

On February 28 2015 07:55 PassiveAce wrote:
It kind of blows my mind that laugh tracks are still used in scripted comedy
i mean if a shows jokes have to be propped up by a laugh track then it probably shouldnt be on the air

On February 28 2015 07:48 crms wrote:

I haven't tried that one but that's kind of how i feel when I watch anything with laugh tracks. It also disrupts the flow of dialogue/joke telling because there are these awkward pause deliveries to account for the cackling. I like the more natural, free flowing dialogue where jokes just come quickly and you may miss some.

KILL ALL LAUGH TRACKS!

On February 28 2015 08:11 dismiss wrote:

Just to play devil's advocat here for a second. UG never actually gotten caught and "convicted" of doing anything, so really all this "oh but they might have maybe cheated possibly maybe before already" rhethoric is silly.
Clearly they don't want to dq a extremely popular team/player. But i guess a "long history" of "potentially malicious action" is now sound proof while they concoct, quite frankly bizarre, statements as "We do not believe that Artour viewed the stream video feed, only the stream chat. We believe this was an innocent lapse of judgement." to avoid sanctioning the Na posterchild.
It's quiet literally impossible for him to not look at the stream while chatting on twitch, assuming that he didn't access it on a phone that was set to chat only mode or via an irc client. And let's be real here, chances are 99.99% that he didn't use either of those options.
What people should take away from this is the fact that tournament organisers are still as hypocritical as they've always been and elect to act in a manner that's neither fair nor just, but rather in their best business interest. Now that's all well and good of course, unless you care about ESPORTS.

On February 28 2015 08:18 Comeh wrote:

The IT crowd is funny - its humor is independent of laugh tracks and would likely be better if they didnt have them but whatever



I thought they matched up with what was h appnening on the stream he was watching with what was happening in game.