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Not a big deal. In the books, you really grow to despise the Mountain because you see a lot of first/second hand accounts of what he was doing in the riverlands during the war. Particularly when Arya was watching him at Harrenhal. In the show he's gotten so little screen time and has switched...

The biggest mistake of the episode was having Shae come at Tyrion with the knife and Tyrion killing her in self defense. I'm really not even sure what they were trying to do with that scene. Unlike the books, show-Shae is for the most part portrayed her as genuinely loving Tyrion. She refused...

With the amount of characters and plot lines going on, even major characters like Tyrion only have around 40 minutes of total screen time in a season. It's unrealistic to expect relatively minor characters like Mance to get a lot of development time. You're going to get broad strokes and major...

Most people under-estimate the damage shadow poison can put out. The damage ramps up exponentially as you add stacks up to 5, doubling each time. If you can manage to get 3 stacks on someone, you can disrupt them, add another stack while they are banished and then a fifth when they try to run...

I've seen like 1 or 2 good Meepo players in close to 2000 games. I'd just tell anyone giving you a hard time to can it and go back to right clicking with Skeleton King. Try out different things and go with what works for you. Ignore the pub noise.

This thread just reminds me how much I dislike a well played TA. She is basically an invulnerable killing machine.

I always look at items from the perspective of "what can this let me do that I couldn't do before." Blink dagger gives most heroes the ability to chase, farm and move around the map faster, escape, and position yourself in ways you otherwise couldn't. It's an extremely versatile and powerful...

Cersei unraveling is the best part of book 4. And I don't really see the show slowing down in season 5. When you're reading through like 2000 pages of book, sure it can get tedious. But by compressing everything down to less than 10 hours of television, its pretty much packed full of action...

CK's biggest problem as a late game carry is he has nothing to help him farm faster. Most of the other heroes like AM, Void, PL, Tiny, Spec, Sven, etc. all have spells or items to let them flash farm multiple areas quickly after 30 minutes, while CK is still stuck to clubbing creeps one by one...

Certainly seems more like a "catch them up with buffs" patch rather than a "knock them down with nerfs." Lots of underplayed heros got some pretty substantial buffs. Abaddon - Turns him into a true tank. I could see him as a counter to deathball or AOE strats. A 35% damage shield on your...

The pubstar "advice" of going mid/carry every game and ignoring your teammates seems to be getting a lot of air time these days. To be honest, I think it has a lot to do with these MMR "experiments" where high level players hop on a low level account and crush their way back to the top on these...

Plus exp bonuses are flat and don't scale with increased experience modifiers. Not sure if that's intended, but that's the way it works.

Also got the Jade Courier. Sold it on the market because I like my hot dog more.

Good drafts and bad drafts have a few thing you want to look at: (1) The skills of the people involved. Wisp might be a terrorist in the hands of a professional player, but no one I know can play him well, so if I drafted him in my stack that would be a bad move. Even if a hero or combo is...

PL is in (he took juxtapose himself, so I don't know how it would work on another hero), I haven't seen a Meepo yet, though. Luna's ult does no damage without Lucent Beam, so be careful of that.

I had a game with Fury Swipes, Overpower, Lina's Passive,and Dazzle's Ult. I was Lina. Tears were shed by the other team.

Carry ogre!

A lot of it depends on the flow of the game. If you crush all your lanes, you can usually proceed to push down all the towers one by one and then break high ground with nothing but pings. Not a whole lot of communication is necessary in those kinds of games. But if its close game with high...

Captains draft/mode in the 4000s is great if you are comfortable on a lot of heroes. There are vastly more English speakers (since the whole reason foreigners queue on US servers is they don't want to wait) and you can usually trust the captain to at least pick a lineup that has some thought...

Well they certainly don't when they are just sitting in their camps. But if you go to pull and then the courier walks through, I've seen them kill it. Maybe it was a bug when it happened to me, because I remember being pretty surprised about it.

Does that still work? I could have sworn aggroed neutrals killed couriers.

It's pretty aximoatic that you should always carry a TP, but actual usage is something almost everyone can get better at. Look at using them as an escape. It's really, really easy to get panicked and die uselessly during a gank or a team fight, but if you work on keeping your focus you can...

I've also found that plain patience pays big dividends. If you are too eager to hear the gold sound or make up lost ground you will start throwing out last hits way earlier than you should. Just consciously be aware of that bias and put your focus on getting the last hit, not the gold.

The biggest problem a lot of carries have is not taking advantage of the space created by their team. The most frustrating thing in the world of DotA is when you crush a game on an aggressive early game hero like Axe, end up creating a ton of space for your carry, but still end up losing because...

Just the names of roles have a big impact on how people play. Back when I started playing in WC3, the meta-game at the pub level was considerably less developed than it is now, so we just defined heroes as "early game" and "late game." Of course, that led to a lot of "I can't waste my money on...

I thought he was supposed to go away after the world failed to end. What happened to that?

Pretty sure only Tusk can snowball. AA can iceball, but that's not really the same thing.

If you take Arizona on the road this week, then you still have Houston at home against Jacksonville available next week. Houston has also lost 7 in a row, so it would be nice to see them actually get a recent win before you bet the season on them.

What kind of taco would trade away two of the best fantasy players this year for an injury risk and a mediocre streak player? It's no wonder you are 8-2.

I like a lot of the changes. - Nerfs to buybacks and kill streaks are going to help encourage comebacks. If someone goes Godlike and you kill him, you're looking at 1400+ gold for the last hitter, plus assist gold. More passive income will also help out a team that is boxed in, though I...

You probably weren't using the cheesy build, then, or you started after it was nerfed.

The bosses were actually easier than the elite packs, particularly for Wizards since they couldn't be killed by high damage hits, only a bunch of fast low damage pricks.

IIRC people were able to glitch themselves into Act 4, corpse dive to Diablo, and then use that cheesy invulnerable wizard build to kill him. They didn't really "beat" it in the normal sense of the word, and what they did certainly had nothing to do with the auction house. In fact, one of the...

The auction house is pretty much incompatible with a game in which normal players can hope to accomplish anything substantial. If everyone uses the auction house, you have to tune the game around what is available there. But what is available there will always far surpass what is available in...

Both are on the wrong side of a split in carries, but Ivory might be closer to the half-and-half mark. Then again, the Jets will be playing from behind, which will limit his looks, and he did nothing week 1 to inspire any confidence that he will do anything, even if he gets the ball (not the...

Thomas for Alfred Morris is a no-brainer. A first round running back for even the best tight end is an unfair exchange, though. It would be vetoed in my league.

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Richardson, easily. Colston won't get too many looks by Brees with Revis covering him. Opinions on my Flex: Eddie Lacy (WSH), Hakeem Nicks (DEN), Cecil Shorts (OAK), or Julius Thomas (NYG)?

Not even a question. The difference between DeAngelo Williams/James Jones and Vincent Jackson is waaaaay bigger than the difference between Arian Foster and Steven Jackson. He is the Bucs number one option and a huge deep threat thatwillget weekly catches and scores throughout the year...

I'm not a big fan of players on bad teams. The second or third option on one of the best passing teams in the league will still have a lot more chances to score than the first option on a bad team that's starting out the year with an undrafted QB. Week-to-week, there's essentially no upside...