Darcranium

I agree, man. Let the tots axe whoever makes over 10 million and keeps it!!

This is a silly argument, but it looks like they did the study already and the two games are basically tied for first haha

https://www.whichbingo.co.uk/news/which-gamers-are-the-smartest/

Definitely. I haven't done the study but sometimes you don't have to. Some games just have a more difficult learning curve than others. Like the average IQ of chess players is higher than that of your average checkers player. But more often I think it's a matter of lack of patience. That's why Dota games are getting shorter - to appeal to the shorter attention spans of our generation

Yes this is so obviously copium

My bad I was just looking at the prize pool from those old TI tournaments ($12 million). And my information is outdated. Suffice to say a larger audience doesn't mean a better game. In my experience, for every big pop culture phenomenon in history, there's always been a better version of it which goes underappreciated because it appeals to a smaller audience base. Most of the LoL or FPS player base is just a little bit too stupid or impatient for Dota 2, so they can't handle the two year learning curve

Yeah once you have soured on one, I can imagine it would be really hard to enjoy another, since they are so incredibly similar. Dota came first so the game and nearly every hero in league is somehow based on a Dota hero. I'll grant it's a more accessible (shorter learning curve) game which is why the player base is higher, but the reason the pro scene is so much bigger and more established in Dota is precisely because it is so meticulously balanced and rebalanced each month.

Linux: Able to play DotA... Also a win for Linux

Where should I post them?

Sounds like I have a new Scifi series to geek out about! Thank you

Cuz it's one, two, three... What are we fightin for? Don't ask me I don't give a damn! Next target is Iran!

They just do this to try and keep us from talking about a class war

Me thinks the lady doth protest too much. Did something like this happen to you or someone you know? It did indeed happen to a couple of my family members, but that doesn't make it excusable. Growing up in a military city has taught me there is no end to the amount of technical mumbo-jumbo an organization will come up with to dodge accountability for an immoral act.

They assist their grunts in this accountability-dodging too, for better compliance (so they don't go home and shoot themselves). The better part of them choose to drink themselves to death anyways because they know, deep down, that what they have done is wrong regardless of how many loopholes you try and bake in to the process.

This is why the PROCESS needs to change. We need to find some way to give them the information they need, the accountability, AND the permission to deny orders without repercussion.