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You know what I'm talking about, these bad boys right here:
Play Video HARPY GAMING BOIZZZZZ!!

THATTT'S RIGHT. This small creep camp will MESS. YOU. UP. They hit for like a million damage every 0.00002 seconds and you can't fight them, you can't run, they won't stop because I'm pretty sure they have U N L I M I T E D M A N A. It's like HO HO HA HA crossed with Mario.

You better pray to Gaben that the enemy Chen/ Enchantress doesn't find one of these furry balls of hate at :30 because your lane will be

IN CONCLUSION, you better get your terrible afk jungler to GET YOU ONE because it's like guaranteed ez mid ez life gg=get good n00bz.

That is all.

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So basically this is a discussion that arose from a recent game of mine;

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1617732682 (Try to ignore the fact I did really badly in mid, if you choose to watch the game that is)

And in this game, our Tusk was very insitent on us fighting pretty frequently. Like he's always be going 'group and push mid' or insiting we chase as 5, or going in when one of us was ganked and killed.

And the issue was... after a while, I was pretty confident this was always the worse descision he could be making for us. Like, something like 20 or 30 minutes in, I got ganked by 5 due to an error of mine (I knew they had wards in the jungle, I just throught I could get a couple of creeps and get out), and then rather than having us split push mid and top and force them either back or get a trade, he insists that everyone else group up and go into fight them 4v5.

And he did this later on, saying we should go for a fight in our midlane woods with our WD out, when I was pretty s…
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Silencer is another hero that faces the dilemma of role confusion. Half of the players think silencer is a support whereas the other half think silencer is a carry. In my opinion, silencer is a carry. I have played over 200 matches with silencer and it works best as a carry.
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Another short one. I can promise that the next few will most certainly be longer.

Scene Three

Even when you're gone I
Find that I'm still searching my mind
In my deepest dreams I
Dream that I may someday find you.
-Terathiel, 'Everything I've Known'

A dark-robed figure sat in the solitary throne, his face a shadow. The messenger sweated, anticipating his command.

"Speak," the bitter voice of the master grated.

"The rumours are true, my lord. From our sources within Nightsilver, and reports of our own, it is determined that, yes, the legions of the Dead God are rising."

A barely perceptible shift from the enthroned figure. "Must we fight?" he rumbled, tapping the blade leaning on his throne. "Can we fight?"

The messenger's eyes drifted to Demon Edge, and back to its wielder. "I do not think we have a choice, my lord. We are situated far too close to the Narrow Maze to simply sit out the storm, so to speak."

"I have seen death. It takes us all, in the end. Some sooner than others…
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Hi :D I'm a South African Dota player, and I would like to find some fun people to play with :P, but I would also like to know if you have any pros, or cons, or complaints and stuff about your server xD. My current MMR is quite low and I'm ashamed >_< and I mostly just play pubbies.
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This one's a bit shorter. Oh, and for anyone wondering, I'll be putting a few lines from a poem, song, speech etc at the beginning of most of these chapters, to give you a vague idea of what to expect. INTERTEXTUALITY

Scene Two

I am too pure for you or anyone.
Your body
Hurts me as the world hurts God.
-Sylvia Plath, 'Fever 103'

"I do not want to."

"You must."

"Magic kills."

"Yet it also brings life."

Tentatively, Rylai stretched out her hand. It was shaking. As she watched it, that long-forgotten caress of cold tickled her palm, and the air crystallised into tiny icicles that danced.

Then she remembered, the blood and the horror, His cruelty and His laughter.

The ice disappeared.

"Leave me alone!" she screamed, covering her face with her hands to try and tear away the vision.

Auroth frowned. It had been two years, and Rylai's scars were still raw. Inwardly, she cursed the Psychomancer who had caused this, murdered the Crystal Maiden's companions in cold blood before letting…
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One mans quest to boost his winrate.

Essentially I felt like sharing my current in DOTA goal. Because I'm not willing to do my calibration matches as of quite yet (I'm getting there, I just still feel like waiting a bit longer before I enter the murky waters of ranked), I felt like I should have a DOTA goal I would be aiming towards.

And when I was looking at my dotabuff (Shameless plug; http://www.dotabuff.com/players/96149094), I looked at my win percentage (Relatively small number of games, but hey), and so I decided upon it. I will try to both reach and maintain a 60% winrate from now till I start playing ranked, because I like the feel of the nice round number.

Now, it's very similar to the idea of hitting a certain MMR I'll admit, but it'll do the same things. Encourage me to continually get better and better ect ect ect.

So yeah, goal is set. Progress of the first day... Sad because I dropped .02 of a percent due to a poorly timed Lion pick making me go 1-1, but hey that's …
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I didn't want to do this.

Actually, let me rephrase that. I *really* didn't want to do this. Especially considering I'm about to enter into my HSC Trials, last thing I should be doing is getting bogged down in another drawn-out story.

But I did. Like a ******.

So this is set post-events in Outside the Cycle with a different focus and cast members. It's got an... interesting opening. Warning for the squeamish.

The Waning World: Act One

Accursed Reunion

Scene One
Nightsilver burned.

Flames leapt from the glittering branches to crackle ominously in the sky, the orange tongues a startling contrast to the deep blue of the night. Around, indistinct forms ran, desperately trying to extinguish the flames.
*
An underground cell, the only light coming from a smouldering torch, almost burnt out, set in an alcove high in the wall. Within the cell, one man sits, hunched over, yet his stance is still defiant.
*
Buckets of water are being passed around; sections of the blaze are extinguished, b…
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So, I've been messing with bots recently (during which I may or may not have been drunk) and I decided to try something that had no valid reason to exist: A right-click Pudge build. Now, this might be a troll build, but it is one that could fool a scrub like me into thinking it is a super secret Illuminati-Tier build that will let me win TI6.

Now I've tried couple different routes but the one that I found to be the most "feasible" looks something like this:



And you will want to eat this as soon as possible

Yes, you're reading that right, and granted I have not tried this in a pub yet since I don't feel like getting reported (again) but I feel if I were actually a skilled player who could land hooks on a target that isn't stunned, hex'd or beyond point blank range, I could make it work.

So an overview of these items.

Boots of Travel is pretty straight forward as it gives Pudge 100 extra move speed and get around the…
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Both life and Dota put up a lot of resistance to me playing this match.

On the life spectrum: I've been busy working on my grandparents' new apartment, and have spent more time away from my computer than I like to. Between spackling, sanding, painting and what have you I've been a busy beaver. And tired. Very tired. It's been a while since I slept this well.

Nobody cares, talk about Dota.

Thank you, voice of reality. ;_; On the Dota spectrum, when I finally set aside time to do this match, there were a LOT of hiccups. The first time I loaded into a game one of our teammates just sat in fountain until he received an abandon. Thankfully, Valve detected poor network conditions and the match wasn't scored or this would be a very, VERY short and somewhat angry blog post. After that, people failed to load into my game not once, but TWICE. I finally decided to take a break, play some Sunless Sea (amazing, by the way, you should ALL PLAY THIS), and then return to matchmaking, and I…
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