It's crazy that the booths cost $200k, like how is it even possible they cost THAT much!
The Sound Proof Booths of Silence
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#102Aging myself here... I played a ton of DOTA on the WarCraft3 engine... probably when I should have been studying for engineering finals.
What amazed me about the game, and probably why it is so addictively fun to play is you always have two competing things gripping for your attention. On one hand, resource farming _demands_ incredible attention to detail (obtaining the last shot on creeps for a kill, ergo a gold reward). Then on the other hand, you must also be planning your character's build, monitoring minimap, monitoring others' builds, and most especially watching missing enemy players. It's hard to do all of the things effectively... one has to make the farming aspect of the game second nature and remove the distraction to be a good player. (Which I never was)
I don't have the luxury of spare time to play long DOTA games anymore, and largely I've replaced it with building things and outdoor sports (MTB racing, Gravel Racing, climbing) but I still look fondly at those times and the IRL and online friend group I had.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not for people who’ve never played MOBAs.
The term predates moba, it's early RTS, early MMO stuff, around late '90s, early 2000s.
My memory of this long ago is fuzzy, but I believe the word itself is originally from LA gang subculture and was spread more broadly via gangsta rap in the late '80s/early '90s or so (cf. the trend of people spelling certain words with "ck" changed to "cc", which was a feature of Crips tagging). The earliest documented use I could find referred to someone selling fake drugs, but I seem to recall that as it spread it turned into a generic placeholder for just about any offense from petty theft to cold-blooded murder.
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#105It was definitely an interesting article but the first sentence of the article proper really grabbed me. The weird thing to me about the world is you can have an event that literally millions of people watch around the world, and if you had asked me “what’s the International” five minutes ago I wouldn’t have had any idea, and I’m a very online person! I play video games, even, and at one point played DOTA2! The inter…
That's strange, The International is a very well known esport event, the biggest in it's hayday, it's certainly dropped off, but at one point there wasn't a way to open Steam without seeing details about the International. While I agree with your premise, The International was heavily advertised on Steam products. Which is the biggest gaming store. Outside of that, there was minimal but anyone who watched esports saw…
I'm too used to ignore irrelevant ads so I've never noticed it on Steam.
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#106Valve seems like such a blank check company, able to jump onto projects and apply so much effort to things thanks to their resources
Would love to see more about what they’re doing and how they’re organized recently (an updated employee handbook?)
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dota players play/watch Dota. Similar thing also applies to country strike players. At least this is the experience in my circle of friends. Got a couple friends who have pretty much only played Dota (or CS) for the last 15+ years and have 0 interest in even trying any other game. There is also the crowd (including me) who play video games in general but these are very clearly different groups. So this is like saying…
Most football fans I know watch other sports, often basketball. If for no other reason than the season is fairly short. Dora is insular in large part because it’s always available.
I think it also has a lot to do with it being much easier to actually play the sport/game.
When the pros are not playing you can just play yourself. With football/etc playing the game in a proper competitive setup is quite the hassle. In Dota or CS you just get 4 of your friends and press a button and in 2 to 3 minutes you are playing.
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#108Must be super boring to not hear the crowd, perhaps why I found watching dota esport to be super boring
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#109I don’t really get esports or regular sports for that matter, but this seems like overkill? How much of an advantage could they really get from someone yelling at them in the audience? With a decent audience they are rarely going to hear anything other than a din anyway. Doesn’t seem like much more of an advantage than people yelling things at baseball players? Seems like it could just be part of the calculation of t…
Enough to give pause. In StarCraft there was a trap set and a fan favorite was about to walk right into it. The audience went wild. And then he stopped all units, and retreated. When interviewed he said he'd stopped because the audience went wild when they shouldn't have. (They cleared the stadium for the next match) Baseball isn't a game of hidden knowledge. The audience mood can give away details about the other te…
I did some more digging and found this post
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#110Well, according to many complaints over time, the answer is "not very well".
Oh, well, 12th time the charm