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Isania and the rest of Alliance are pretty entertaining group when they were casting. Also funny, after the Forward organization died the team was picked up by Newbee to play at TI. Pretty funny to see a big chinese org pickup an NA team to represent them at the chinese TI.

I do wonder whether the lack of time zone events has started to lose dota north american audiences. Aside from TIs the last major NA event was Boston in 2016. To me it does make sense to hold TI in other countries, but it does seem a mistake not to ensure another event occurred here in the DPC...

For me on the east coast of NA Chinese tournaments are precisely opposite my schedule, games start at 10-11 PM and run over night. And if I recall correctly the Chinese government mandates that the entire country is a single timezone so regardless of where in the country its held I assume its...

I feel like the silence mechanic may be too strong given that some heroes are entirely reliant on spells to do damage. The disarm could be similar but primordial synergy seems far less common than a couple humans in a lineup. I've won with 9 warriors, 6 mages and 9 assassins. The mages was the...

The loot buff that adds +30% damage per unique demon is pretty godly, stack all the demons with an anti-mage (for the double demon hunter bonus) and they shred anything with pure damage. Add dedalus for pretty ridiculous damage. Also, whats up with Bloodseeker, that hero does insane damage with...

Apparently League is building one also?

On the Moonduck podcast yesterday they thought that meant he was under contract to Liquid and that they would sell the contract.

It looks pretty soft, I wonder if its been done to support mobile?

So Matu out of Liquid. Seems odd to me, Miracle has missed a couple(?) tournaments and the ones he's been at he's been entirely irrelevant.

I thought that before the GDC announcement, but it got me thinking - wouldn't it be nice to not have to repeatedly buy a noisy box to put in my living room, or a noisy box with expensive hardware under my desk? Obviously predicated streaming services working well but if they do make it and have...

Ah interesting, apparently they didn't mention Intel by name in the broadcast but the closed captioning specified it. I feel discriminated against :)

I think the disappointing part is the subscription fee for full quality. Personally I expected the games to cost roughly what they do on consoles or Steam, but that Google would stream it out of their slice of the pie. To me I find the "founders" stage puzzling, people willing to spend money to...

I think that people feel less strongly about it when the company produced the content (or paid for its production) have exclusive rights. The long term examples are the Origin, uplay and Blizzard launchers, many people have been mildly annoyed because they don't like the extra bullshit but we...

Its definitely a high margin business, though some gaming headsets seem to get good reviews. Rtings started covering headphones a while ago definitely the go to place since they actually do objective testing as opposed to the subjective BS which plagues in the industry.

Its been a while but I think they cover the idea in the books. I recall a passage where a mage is startled by something another mage (possibly Quick Ben) is doing and says something like I i should know that mage, thats the sort of power that gets noticed. The non-ascendant mages perpetually...

Stephenson is the kind of author who jerks off to how awesome he thinks his characters and philosophies are.

I'd forgotten how much I loath capitalist.

Next gen patches are here and are ready to have their way with your data cap :p In all seriousness, the ever increasing size of games, digital purchase, and massive day-1 patches may already eclipse the bandwidth required for an h265 stream of AAA games. I wonder a little bit of the wisdom of...

This popped up on Giant Bomb's feed. Some random footage of old EverQuest shit followed by some random Fan Faire interviews with players. The video should start at the fan faire.

Yea, I've been on Nexus since the 4, if the Nexus 6P I own didn't have battery issues I probably wouldn't be looking to upgrade. The Pixel 3 devices were the obvious answer but all reports system stability is a complete shit-show this generation and I wanted to avoid the stupidity of USB...

The internet suggests otherwise. Far from it, the user should have the choice in what software they use. Dude, I'm a software developer. The phone spams notifications about enabling random Samsung crapware, enabling McAffee, shows popups on each video about enabling a video mode (leaving...

I'm Canadian, had bought it directly unlocked so no carrier shit. For me it was the quantity of samsung trash, the extent they sleazed it into the OS and made it difficult to not use (e.g. camera hard linked to the samsung gallery app), then topped it off with repeated notifications/popups about...

Speaking as someone who doesn't particularly like Apple, the best deal in tablets at the moment are the 9.7 ipads as you can often find them on sale - https://www.costco.com/6th-Gen-Apple-iPad-A10-Fusion-Chip-32GB---Silver.product.100411493.html

I had ordered an S10 it arrived yesterday, took me under a couple hours to decide to return it. The in screen fingerprint reader is trash, it should never have been shipped. And as someone who'd never had a Samsung phone before the infestation of crapware is mind boggling, I'd heard about it but...

Even if those features aren't important to you, Valve has generally shown itself to be favourable to consumers (e.g. refunds) and generally respectful of privacy while Epic through both exclusives and its data slurping has not. Its also generally annoying to have to manage multiple stores...

China is back apparently

Apparently Sanderson wrote a novella for Magic the Gathering which you can get for free from the MTG site.

Both are used to cleanup system resources, sounds the same to me.

Finalize is roughly equivalent to a deconstructor, I think the main difference is that it isn't called until the object is GC'd, though I haven't had to write C++ in a decade.

Yep, but I think that is a distinct issue. I feel like the battery information on earlier versions of Android was more complete and wondered if I could still see that. I was waffling on that last sale also though I think I'd go standard 3 for no notch and the XL has had more probelms. Howver I...

Anyone have suggestions for tracking down battery life issues on Android? I have a Nexus 6p where the battery life is quite poor, but it can be down to 20% by mid-day but under settings the handful of applications show only 1-2% each for 15% or so total. One thing I've wondered is whether the...

I'm sure they didn't want Discless being referred to as Dickless

The problem I've been having with the game after being 650 for some time is that the game loop is: grind -> loot -> repeat. Back in EverQuest and traditional MMOs the loop is: new content -> loot -> repeat. It feels like loot without without purpose, particularly with the limitations on...

For me I find Arsenic Bite-4B the best weapon for trash in Destiny. I think the issue with Vow is the missing Rampage & exploding heads which allows you to one shot most creeps with Arsenic.

Still an exclusive though. Release on both, let people choose whether the extra cost is worth it to them.

You could tie accounts to a cellular number and require SMS verification. Unfortunately when games are f2p cheaters can always just make another account, they can still get a burner but at a certain point its a hassle for most cheaters.

That guy has a lot of views for someone without a personality.

Its not like China has internment camps for minorities or anything.

The old ladies voice is too fucked up to be on TV, honestly I want to mute it anytime shes around. Its like she swallowed a frog and is using it to talk with. Maybe I'm conflating memories from Altered Carbon but I don't remember old rich people on earth being that aging that poorly in the books.

Odd, I havne't had issues with mine. Usually complaints tend to be poeple using wifi.