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The hell is all this?

This could be great! I've been wanting a management sim for a long while, and playing through RCT 1 & 2 again is starting to get old.

I didn't even associate this with SCP! It's been so long since I've gone through that place. Great stuff. I'll give this a shot.

Is the... was the... the old cast was mono?

He probably meant that one.

No, see, that one's old, but it's incredible.

Nooooooooo! I could be mistaken if it was just me! My general reaction to the internet:

You don't visit the official Bethesda forums do you? It's already all of that.

You've also been getting some traffic from SA's GOG thread as bunch of people have been taking advantage of the weekend sale. I used your recommendations as well for my new playthrough, so thanks for those.

This was actually what I meant. Not a drunk podcast, but a podcast about liquor, and the variations there-in. Basically Veinhandler the Podcast. (Though I suppose we already had that.) Alternatively, your favorite liquors, go.

Lesse here, in order; - Standard for Paradox games, sorry. Doubt it'll change without a new engine, and this is the new engine. - Give lands to kin with high loyalty and respect. (Opinion of you, mostly) Or people you can easily assassinate and reclaim it from. Or throw in jail and strip the titles from if they get uppity. - Were the regions that were not producing incomes bishoprics, by chance? Barring a few specific incidents/conditions, bishopric income goes to the Pope. Which is why you don't piss off the Pope. He may only have 2 provinces, but he's got a significant portion of the income of Catholic Europe in his pocket, meaning if you piss him off, gigantic mercenary companies will be your reward.

Liquor Cast needs to be a thing.

Well now I'm not going to bother with the term at all. Thanks TP.

Is that actually racism? To be clear, I'm not defending racism, but I'm pretty sure it's nationalism and people calling it racism drives me batty. Basically I'm a grammar nazi. ...Oh.

Man Rodi, why must you rollercoaster my respect for you all the time. (I say this as the man who wore Jayne's hat to a wedding, so I can't talk.)

Well, there's two sides to the UI coin, one of which requires me to insult our great lords and masters, so here we go. - Yeah, the current UI is needlessly bulky, if admittedly slick and goodlooking. If this is changed (there is no reason to believe it won't be) it will be later in the beta cycle. Valve is all about adding heroes and balancing them at Icefrogs right hand right now. Once all the heroes and mechanics are in, the work of making DotA 2 more than a remake can begin. - Sorry Sean, if it took you twenty minutes to work out the courier interface, I have nothing to say on the matter other than, what? The interface is fairly simple. There's four buttons of interest in a courier hotbar; - Retrieve Items From Stash - Return Items To Stash - Transfer Items to Hero - Speed Boost These are all relatively self-explanatory and you should be able to pick them up in a matter of a couple minutes of putzing around. Now if you had problems figuring out courier logistics, and getting used to using it when needed, then sure. Hell it took me a solid two weeks of being back in the game to return to using the courier instead of running back to base. As for the less gold problem, play Easy Mode. Less health on towers, more gold per tick and from kills/creeps. You're also a terrible person as a result, but whatever. Edit: Listening to the cast, uh. Well. I'm the "Jesus christ you incompetent fucks" guy. I'm sorry. Edit: Scrolling podcast thoughts. - I (and I imagine Twig and Nob and others) would be happy to teach any of you guys about video games. Specifically this video game. I'm unnaturally patient if you're playing a new hero/new to the game so don't worry about it. - Man, Lich. Good choice. He's basically the "Who do I play first!?" bread and butter response. He doesn't require any items to function, making him farm agnostic. While a couple bracers will help (under Upgrades, Common) they aren't necessary. You should be warding whenever possible however, as chances at low skill levels you're the only person that's not some kind of carry. Observer wards, not sentry. The most prevalent ward spots are on these hills (if this is too small I can link you a full warding guide): Because wards have a cast range, you can walk up to these hills (they're fairly raised cliffs in-game) and place them on top, giving you enormous Line of Sight. Valve also recently placed little freaky Eye of Sauron symbols on two of those spots, painted in white, in order to facilitate learning these spots. Comedy Lich build: Aghanim's Scepter, Refresher Orb, Blink Dagger Could this be your Lich line? http://www.dota2wiki.com/images/d/d6/Lich_lasthit_08.mp3 If not, here's a handy link: http://www.dota2wiki.com/wiki/Lich_responses (There is a page for every hero, if you find someones voice you really like.) Fun fact, Lich is voiced by the guy who does the Heavy, and the Demoman. - As someone in the cast comments said, Rubrick steals any spell you last cast, allowing him to cast it as well. He's pretty crazy. - Er, about DotACinema. I played against the guy, early in the beta, and he's an incredible jackass. At least one of their people is, anyway. That said, other than the category "whispers" their videos seem pretty high quality in learning the game. Go wild. - DotA 2 Wiki - Heroes Currently In DotA 2 - PlayDotA (for anything not yet in DotA 2) - Being aware of your failures make you better than 70% of people playing DotA-like games. Like I said, I'd be happy to point anything you want out. Hit me on Steam (should be in the Steam ID thread) or post a replay ID up here and I'll tell you what I can. I eagerly await the addition of Techies so I can have my gimmick multicolored midget team comp. (Sniper, Tinker, Clockwerk, Alchemist, Techies)

This is because Revive Karthus is a terrible build. The best Karthus build I ever found was; - Boots 3 - The rod that builds stats over time, I've forgotten the name - Warmogs - If you have the money and time for some reason, Hat It's depressing how well it works. Note: The reason I say, if you have the money, is if you have significant money you're either A. Killstealing, or B. Carrying with Karthus. Both of these situations indicate someone, somewhere in your game, is functionally retarded. Which team that/those people is on is largely dissatisfactory in either case.

Yeah I'm just messing around. That said, if that were a self-portrait, I would be in no way surprised. This frightens me a little.

Fuck the Dutch, in that case. Also Rodi, I demand you send me a weekly stipend of waffles. Finally, Subbes, how can you possibly hate Clarkson. What on earth is wrong with you dear woman.

Also this bullshit. High-profile "pro" tournament in LoL this week? You better believe the meta-game is going to jump all over the place for the next couple of days while people copy the exact builds used from the winning games. What horseshit. I should really try and contain all this vitriol about LoL, but going back to DotA has just blown the doors off LoL for me. I feel like an asshole for calling it "babies first DotA" but I mean really, godsdamn. Admittedly, the ratio of interesting people I've met in LoL vs DotA is pretty crazy, but we'll see where that goes from launch.

What, you can't envision Toblix getting banned? I do it every time he posts, and then realize I couldn't live with myself if it happened. The 'blix is dead, long live the 'blix.

Praise baby jesus. She's had that coming for years. Shame I'll never play it again.

Bullshit, they haven't touched her in forty patches. (...Have they her touched in the last two months?) @Gwardinen: Most of your assumptions are correct. I will still never believe the "you shouldn't be killing your own units" argument but whatever. My recommendation on the carry front would be wait until the game actually launches, or at least until the addition of RD, or Random Draft. Random Draft picks 22 heroes from the entire pool, and allows you to pick from them in an order similar to Captains Mode. 1-2-2-1-2 or whatever. The biggest problem with the DotA 2 beta currently is that a sort of picking Cold War occurs every time you play AP. Because you can wait until several seconds after the game has started to lock in a hero, people just wait to see what the enemy team picks and the counter-picks everything the enemy chooses. It's bullshit, and it's tiresome, and if you don't want to see carries wrecking entire teams because the other team was completely outpicked, don't play DotA 2 right now. The idea that LoL doesn't have carries is amusing. (What I'm saying is Ability Power is stupid. Annnnyway!)

Su-...support Akali?

That's the argument I have to give every other game it seems, when playing with new people. Everyone in DotA is crazy powerful compared to kill times and damage ratios in LoL. The reason Tiny (the stone guy that throws people) can two shot you is because that's all he does. And if he doesn't buy items at level 2, he doesn't even have enough mana for that combo. Admittedly, people can spiral out of control in both games, but you can come back from a 5, 7 or even 10 losses in DotA. Rare as that may be. Something that people typically deride "professional" LoL for is that you can tell who's going to win a professional game about ten minutes in. People like Akali, and Garren, and anyone who manages to fill a Maijai's (whoever made that item should be fired) are unstoppable for the rest of the 15 minutes it'll require for you to surrender. Another big problem with DotA 2 in its current state is that a lot of hard carries are in (Anti-Mage, Weaver, Faceless Void to name the biggest) and a lot of their counters aren't. AMs biggest counter in Obsidianutworld Destroyer got added last week. And there's an easy counter to anyone: hard CC. DotA is a lot more lethal than LoL, but because everyone is crazy lethal, it all balances out. But picks do matter a lot more in DotA than LoL, and getting flatly out-picked will end the game before it starts more often than not.