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"someone's getting fed" cracked me up, good stuff. One of the better once of the last while IMHO
 
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Weaver said:
lol why is Erin playing with a castle and space ship like an 8 year old?
Because the castle at least is Lego and Lego is fun for all ages. I don't care what it says on the box. All. Ages.
If you leave someone alone in a room with a box full of Lego and they don't start playing with it then they are clearly a lizard-person from the Earth's core that hasn't quite mastered the art of living amongst us
 

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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comicsandcosplay/comics/critical-miss/12146-Dora-2-but-with-dogs
The link says Dora 2 but with dogs, is this intentional?
 

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Well I'd rather have a dog barking at me than screeds of cusswords and insults when I get ganked. I always felt that the majority of DOTA pros aren't human anyway.
 

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GreyNicor said:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comicsandcosplay/comics/critical-miss/12146-Dora-2-but-with-dogs
The link says Dora 2 but with dogs, is this intentional?
I was wondering this my self... I thought they might make a reference to dora the explorer where Erin kills the little girl by sicking dogs on her. I think I got my hopes too high....
 

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Unfortunately, Air Bud is now a senator from Kentucky because there wasn't any rule saying dogs couldn't be senators. He's probably actually on the anti-gaming side of things.

Me55enger said:
I can get behind this. The amount of bitches I find in my bracket makes me wonder whether Darwin made it all up.

EDIT: I have not heard this song in years.
Darwin was dead on. Unfortunately, adaptation doesn't necessarily make you smarter. In fact, I have this hypothesis that the gene responsible for offensive dumbasses on the internet is the same one that is responsible for excessive fertility.

Skeleon said:
MMR? To me, that means measles, mumps, rubella and is usually a reference to that combined vaccine. I'm guessing it means something else for Dota, though.
Matchmaking Rank, according to teh googul. All I could think of was the MMR vaccine, too.
 

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Matchmaking Rating. Basically an e-peen extension and matches you with similarly ranked players online.
 

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RaikuFA said:
Question, why do we allow people to harass/berate others in online games? You'd think after that whole crackdown in LoL and the whole OMD dev going full retard we'd think we learned our lesson.
The answer is simple... because it can be done with a little work, some research, and a little bit of general testing... Basically, since it isn't directly costing them money, companies will put minimal effort (and money) into fixing a problem that doesn't visibly effect their bottom line.

Some companies do actually "police" their chats. Dota, for example, give you the ability to report players for communication abuse, ability abuse, and/or intentional feeding. It cuts down on a lot of the problems by throwing these players into penalty brackets until they play 2 games to completion. You can also be muted so no one can hear or see anything you do (this can be done ingame, or by the Dota Devs if you have been repeatedly flagged for communication abuse). It's not perfect, but it's sooooo much better then CoD, and other FPS games where a bunch of 12-year-olds scream at you.

Oh, also, nearly 1500 hours into this game, won over 600 matches, and im at the 3.5k mmr bracket.... even i see people who play as if they lacked opposable thumbs. Im in the 90-ith percentile (which doesn't say much... i'm sitting at where most dota 2 players reside).

For those of you wondering, the MMR hump most people talk about is the lower 3.5k bracket. It's at this point where most players have sufficient mechanical knowledge, but lack the individual expertise and polish that will carry them above the hump. Here, most often, players will pick a hero or heros they will play constantly. They get good enough with that one hero to get over the hump, because the big thing people lack at this point is efficiency. Playing that one hero lets them see where they can improve, not only in last hits, but in: movement and decision-making, laning choices, item builds, skill builds, understanding limits and limitations, seeing the game from a bigger prospective, and understanding mistakes as they happen(as opposed to seeing them only in hindsight). This expertise is then applied to all other heros, making you a better player in general.
 

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lucky_sharm said:
What's with the gigantic anime eyes?
It's a recent shift in the art style. I personally don't mind it, but a lot of the old Critical Miss fans miss the old art style. I can see the appeal in both,tbh.

As for this... yeah, I swear, some people don't grasp exactly how MOBAs work. ... At all. Like, they probably don't know you don't move with WASD (SMITE DOESN'T COUNT).
 

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Lunar Templar said:
I feel like I'm missing half the joke as I have no idea what MMR means ...
According to the internet it's "Matchmaking Rating". What gets called "Elo" in other games.
 

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Lvl 64 Klutz said:
Ah, the MOBA - the genre where you either play by a bunch of arbitrary rules veteran players have made up, or you're apparently terrible.
-I swear i always win with Khartus jungle
-Shut up im not playing with you n00b
*leaves the game at minute 4*
 

RaikuFA

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animeh1star1a said:
RaikuFA said:
Question, why do we allow people to harass/berate others in online games? You'd think after that whole crackdown in LoL and the whole OMD dev going full retard we'd think we learned our lesson.
The answer is simple... because it can be done with a little work, some research, and a little bit of general testing... Basically, since it isn't directly costing them money, companies will put minimal effort (and money) into fixing a problem that doesn't visibly effect their bottom line.

Some companies do actually "police" their chats. Dota, for example, give you the ability to report players for communication abuse, ability abuse, and/or intentional feeding. It cuts down on a lot of the problems by throwing these players into penalty brackets until they play 2 games to completion. You can also be muted so no one can hear or see anything you do (this can be done ingame, or by the Dota Devs if you have been repeatedly flagged for communication abuse). It's not perfect, but it's sooooo much better then CoD, and other FPS games where a bunch of 12-year-olds scream at you.

Oh, also, nearly 1500 hours into this game, won over 600 matches, and im at the 3.5k mmr bracket.... even i see people who play as if they lacked opposable thumbs. Im in the 90-ith percentile (which doesn't say much... i'm sitting at where most dota 2 players reside).

For those of you wondering, the MMR hump most people talk about is the lower 3.5k bracket. It's at this point where most players have sufficient mechanical knowledge, but lack the individual expertise and polish that will carry them above the hump. Here, most often, players will pick a hero or heros they will play constantly. They get good enough with that one hero to get over the hump, because the big thing people lack at this point is efficiency. Playing that one hero lets them see where they can improve, not only in last hits, but in: movement and decision-making, laning choices, item builds, skill builds, understanding limits and limitations, seeing the game from a bigger prospective, and understanding mistakes as they happen(as opposed to seeing them only in hindsight). This expertise is then applied to all other heros, making you a better player in general.
Yeah, well tell that to Riot, who wanted to put me under review with their tribunal for "unsportsmanlike conduct and feeding" because I hit muteall and ignored someone who claimed mid or something apparently. Also kept dying alot.