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I'd also love you to get Merlini on. That guy's rad. He's one of the few streamers who actively tries to teach while he's playing. "This is why I'm doing X, Y, or Z." Decent caster, too. I uh every time I play as her, I'm confused when she's so flatchested. And then I laugh at myself for being an awkward human being.

I did forget about Spectre! I'M SORRY. I like that they're finally making a strength-based female hero. Hah. On the other hand, I love me a dorf.

Actually I like Windrunner a lot. U: The rest are pretty boring, though.

Yeah that I can definitely agree with. League is very... all over the place in terms of style.

There are a few minor difference, I'm told, (like fixing bugs 'n' such... or making bugs!) but generally Dota 2 is updated less than a month after Dota 1. The only thing that lags is the heroes, obviously.

I mean Dota is the same thing. "Take a bunch of random fantasy shit and THROW IT ALL IN A POT. Boil, stir, presto! Dota." Ditto on the midriff/tits thing. Dota has significantly fewer female heroes, which is probably why League seems much more egregious about it. Also I guess Dota is more restrained in terms of bust-size. But plenty of cleavage to go around. Drow, Windrunner, Queen of Pain, Mirana, Vengeful (even though she's more ethereal about it), Templar Assassin, CRYSTAL MAIDEN WEARING FURS WHAT, Lina. Exceptions besides the straight-up-monster ladies: Phantom Assassin, and Luna (who makes up for it with a skin-tight leather outfit), Death Prophet? Monster-ish: Enchantress (bare midriff despite being deertaur thing), Medusa, Naga, and Broodmother (but well, dat ass, right?!). That's pretty much all of the females, I think? Yeah I just looked through the list of heroes and dumped the females in various groups. I am horrible. ):

Yeah Omni's is baller. But as I said in the DOTA 2 thread... EARTH SPIRIT. I CAN'T WAIT. Also now we have three threads across which Dota can be discussed and it makes me feel scared. U:

I'm so excited for earth spirit oh man CAN'T WAIT

Okay that's better. Or at least more interesting! readin'

Just what I want in my life. A fucking living armor buff. EHRNGNERN

I have literally no idea how you can say some of those things with a straight face. Most of it is objective comparisons which are fair, but then you throw in some weird stuff. Like Tiny being "vapid". You're the worst! But then I look at League's list of champions and am repulsed by the art style, god it's so off-putting, so what the fuck do I know. (A million leagues better than HoN, though.) believe it or not that pun was unintentional oh noooooo EDIT: I had no idea who Zac was 'cause he came out after I quit. I looked him up. He's an anthropomorphic slime. I uh well.

I like how Anthony Burch acknowledges his mistake, and then someone is like "no, you didn't make a mistake".

Rad!

I finished it earlier. You dudes mentioned going to The International! I had planned to go there, but ended up deciding to go to PAX instead, 'cause Ic an't really afford both trips. Made me sad. Ah well. The question: are you planning to do any in-depth discussion of the competitive scene? I love that shit. U:

Yeah, I was thinking about that, too. Bumpy ride is pretty accurate, heh. I'm also excited to see some positive examples! Although I think that, personally, I'd prefer the positives be interspersed with the negatives. Maybe that would defeat the purpose, though. Could come off more as a "Well, it's okay then! No worries!" Whateverrrr. Hopefully the next one won't take as long to come out. Is there a set schedule, or does she just plan to release these things as they're done?

I was like that once. I just kept going to school until I realized I didn't need to go to school anymore. Also I'm still sorta like that, but considerably less so. Hard to get motivated for Real Shit in my own free time, but I'm sort of okay with that, 'cause I work my job pretty hard. As I type this post at work. Anyway, yeah, I don't really have any advice. School just sorta forced me to wake up, mentally speaking. Although, I did have a vague goal of "wanting to make video games", which is how I chose my major (computer science). So that's a thing.

I think he would if he could. But they have soundproofed booths for people playing on the stage.

Poutine is great.

Except words were originally spelled without the u, and the English adopted the u from the French. U: or so i'm told by a british dude

Regarding random gold: I used to just play like I'd normally play, but have a couple hundred extra gold when I go into lain. Exceptions are support, 'cause I'll buy an extra pair of wards/upgrade courier. Either or. Then I just pretend I got some sick sick last HITS and buy boots a bit earlier. Now I just straight up buy boots on non-supports. That movement speed. Lately I play a lot of all random, though, so everyone gets the gold. Or random draft, where no one gets the gold.

You know, in retrospect, I think I was looking at this from the wrong angle. This is a good point that, even though it was pointed out to me earlier, I forgot. I think what I said is still true, but it doesn't really matter because that wasn't so much the point, probably. My bad! I feel like man-monsters happen quite often, as you say, but again I'm strapped for examples, 'cause I'm the worst. But, yeah, it's definitely very rarely (if ever!) dealt with by the man-monster's significant other. I don't think I've ever seen an example of that. At least, not in video games. Granted, how many video games have female leads. EDIT: Also, no worries! I didn't think you were being confrontational at all.

To put it plainly: I think it's reaching, trying to find some underlying misogynistic meaning that doesn't actually exist, just because it happens to be a female that is the out-of-control monster. Sure, they COULD be interpreted as that. If you decide to do so. If you look deep enough you can find almost any meaning in anything. I don't like it's implied that this is symbolic of some existing problem. In this specific instance, anyway. I'm not denying the possibility of it being a problem elsewhere. Seems like a stretch here, is all I'm saying. Also I'm totally aware she isn't saying it was intentional, c'mon now... At any rate, whatever, agree to disagree. U:

Haha, yeah. It's such a super common trope, too, that we've probably seen every variation of it a number of times. I always think it's kind of lame, period. Even lamer when she's A-OK at the end. No one ever actually makes it feel real. It's pure fantasy. SAVE THE GIRL. Eh. The problem I have with this is there's just a general trope of "save a person who turned into a monster by killing the monster", regardless of gender. Women-turned-monsters are more common because women are "weaker", so it makes sense. Also, women are the traditional significant other to a male protagonist. And male protagonists are the most common because women are "weaker" AND because men are the target audience. It's just a spiral of men saving women. That is to say, the entire point of this video: the damsel in distress. I can't believe it's anything more than that. To then go on and label this particular combination of damsel-in-distress trope and loved-one-turned-monster trope where the loved one is your significant other as DOMESTIC VIOLENCE seems like a really strong position to take. I don't like it. It doesn't jive.

Ah, sorta. 1) Lady is transformed, asks dude to kill her to end her suffering, dude kills her (usually half-lady form). 2) Lady is transformed, doesn't ask dude, dude kills the monster, frees her from monster form (usually full-on monster form). She lives. Those were the two separate sets I was talking about. It was when she proposed that number two had some sort of correlation with domestic violence that I kinda went ehhh. Or maybe I'm an idiot and am completely misremembering things. I'm at work now, so unfortunately don't have the time to double-check.

They're like video games but the good kind! snicker