Quoting: Creak@Keyrock: I started to play with friends (two of whom have more than 3000h) and although it's extremely difficult to follow them when I play with them, it's also extremely teaching! You're right about the skill ceiling, it's ludicrously high and (maybe it's my masochism who speaks) I tend to like it very much in the end :D

I watched the semi-final today, it was simply A-MA-ZING! That last game! WOW!!

Game 3 of the lower bracket finals was insane. Moo's presence of mind to keep ratting all while a ****ing Terror Blade was assaulting their tier 4s then their ancient and tp back, purchase refresher, and double roar... That was... DAMN! How do you keep your head in that situation? How do you not panic tp back before getting megas? How do you keep your wits about you to purchase the exact right item and roar the exact right target both times?

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About 50. I'm terrible at the game but I really love watching it. It's my favorite eSport to watch because it's such a ridiculously complicated game and has so many layers of strategy (drafting, laning setup, itemization, rotations, team fight positioning, etc.)and quite possibly the highest skill ceiling of any game ever made. It's what makes the DotA community so toxic (as with most competitive games, the community gets less toxic the higher skill level you get to, since the high skilled players understand how hard this game is). It's a ridiculously difficult game where 4 other people are depending on you to not **** up. The stress level is extraordinarily high, which makes it extremely compelling to watch and nerve-wracking to play.

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Nothing. I've been watching The International.

Before TI6 started I was playing Salt & Sanctuary. It's awesome.

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Reminder: Never Pre-Order

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Quoting: SirKatarNot sure it would be wise to pre-order when the linux specs are still TBD
Looks awesome tho!

It's never wise to pre-order.

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Oh, did you mean a different type of farming? :P

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Please don't suck

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Why are the *buntus separated into separate distros while other distros that have different spins, like Fedora and Mint, are not? It's not like Xubuntu and Lubuntu and Kubuntu have their own separate repos, they still pull packages from the same Ubuntu repos. Other than adding a different letter at the beginning of the name, they're no different than spins of any other distro. This also seems redundant given the choice of desktop environments in the survey.

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In a related story, I got the survey for the first time in about a year yesterday. It's probably just coincidence that it happened within a week of me switching distros (from Xubuntu to Fedora) for the first time in several years.

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Looks cool. I'll consider buying it when it's finished.

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