Ni Hao.

daily ange <3

guess im really on life or death with my career options huh

personally it just feels like tumblr and its not rly my kind of thing but maaybe this time ppl actually bother moving + bluesky itself actually capitalizing on it

when your majority of fanbase/viewers are casuals with 10+ years old outdated knowledge base its not exactly healthy - but for how complex and old the game is it could:
've been worse

its just interesting to gradually grow and become *that* kind of person personally. i still try to keep up tho

i think the game always had a lot of boomer playerbase (see: oldheads on TI1-3 video comments and how many outdated builds/callouts are on below 3k or even 4k) and its part of the reason why the constant knowledge/complexity creep is alarming imo

but nowadays i like to think the constant drastic changes are funny chaotic evil decisions to make the game more interesting than smth to be pissy about even if its still a questionable move business wise LOL

yea definitely but with bigger map dewarding is abit harder so u dont have to worry as much as long as you're not putting them on rly obvious spots unless u have a good reason to (lategame siege etc)

given they've done a great job at mitigating them by softening the blow on other aspects (laning is imo easier now, longer tp cooldown makes map rotation prediction easier, etc)

supporting has been made more accessible/impactful for the past few years too, and tbh as a pos 1 i also think its good

i play rly sporadically since 2019 (the game took a direction i'm still not a fan of - too much knowledge creep with how many things they're adding since 7.00 making it hard for infrequent players to keep up) but i think it's been more or less the same with the avg playerbase being abit better

even crazier if u contextualize how the "closed beta" were so easy to get into with everyone and their mother sharing beta access keys (partially to unlock f2p steam accounts too) so the game were pretty much already public since 2011

also if u consider the og wc3 mod its been going on for longer

Zafang

i raised him for base skill but never used him tbh maybe i should but projekt red/ethan/tin man usually takes priority on specialist if im broke

even if it actually died thats still 18 years of being *the* game though.... i can only think of CS being comparable with that kind of longevity (even in somewhat less healthy way)

dota players are either ur typical braindead soccer fan equivalent or actually gifted ppl with very little if at all in-between so your comment checks out

but once u get the general grasp of the macro of the game it *is* relatively predictable - it becomes a puzzle of gauging both teams' power spikes and execution (which a lot of ppl do mess up since there's a lot of things happening in teamfight)