Really cool editing, I especially liked the Clockwerk bit. Maybe it's just me, but the intro felt a bit long, I usually just jump straight to the plays.

I know they discussed it a little bit, but what does everyone think about hero replacements? Wisp and KotL are unreplaceable and Tiny could replace CK but what about puck or clock? Would a Nyx work in the line-up? I'm always so excited to see innovative line-ups in the pro scene.

I'll definitely be on. I've played all of 10 minutes, so expect some big throws.

For those that haven't seen it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvTgE4HU2h0. Definitely worth throwing some money at.

Yo mama so ugly when she was born, her parents tried to repick.

Yay! I'm from Australia, so hopefully we can get some games going =) Good luck and have fun.

Hi

I've watched countless pro games over the last few years (started dota back in '08 but stopped playing for a long time, just watched Luminous casts) and I've always been interested in casting, but in the past I wasn't good enough at the game to understand what players are doing. I was just wondering if anyone here casts or is going to cast a game in the near future (maybe some Doobs league?) and if I could co-cast. I find that a lot of casters miss things because one simply can't watch all the lanes at once, and maybe I could be that extra eye

Just throwing the idea out there, if anyone is interested post here and we could talk about it.

Thanks

There have been quite a few in-depth guides posted on Reddit, however there aren't guides for every hero.

http://www.marriland.com/
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.serebii.net/index2.shtml

These are the sites I've used. Marriland is really good for walkthroughs (he does video commentary, funny guy). Bulbapedia is like a general wiki for pokemon related stuff. Serebii is pretty much a big pokedex. I'm surprised there are living people that haven't played Pokemon haha. Best game in the series in my opinion is yellow but they're all pretty fun. Catch any pokemon you want, it doesn't matter too much what you have in your party unless you want to play competitively. Hope this helps =)

I'm totally up for this! That's also 3pm for me, I'm guessing steve you're in Sydney/Melbourne? Unfortunately since I only have vodka, I may not survive this game. Oh well.

In a drunken haze I went and bought my first key to one of them new chests. Got a fucking set of wards. Fuck this game, I'm going to LoL.

/stillmildlydrunkenrant

The only reason I bought a key was because I haven't spent much money on Dota (only have one pennant) so I thought Valve deserved some cash. Just another poor uni student haha. On a similar note, what's everyone's thoughts on tournament tickets? I'm thinking of getting the G-1 league since the qualifiers have been pretty fun to watch, not sure if it's worth it though.

Welcome! Optimistic people are awesome and I'm sure you'll fit in =)

I dun get it =(

In most of the games I've seen gyro (and on occasion other carries), he picks up shadowblade after RoQ, Drums. But since gyro generally doesn't gank or teamfight until he has at least BKB and/or Manta i don't really see the use of a shadowblade. It doesn't help farming that much, and if the enemy team wanted to gank, they'd have dust/sentries so invisibility isn't a guaranteed escape. What am I missing here?

Thanks that pretty much sums up everything I wanted to know =)

There's a group called Dota is Hard in the dota 2 channel list. Lots of nice people are hosting games all the time on Australian servers. Join the channel and hopefully play some games =)

Can't afford airfare, I'll see if I can swim over.

I've played a few a games throughout the week but I've been facing issues with skill levels. i.e. most of the players are much better than me, but no one really says anything until the game starts. Still been fun though.

This is my terrible attempt:
To friends and fellow Dota players,
Read my post about why I live in ultra squid!
You know me well but, right now I’m in Japan, Japan also known as Japon, land of the rising sun, by the way spending time here has been really fun, I’ve only left the USA and the fish asshole two weeks.
On the other hand my return to the ‘land of freedom’ is approaching soon, this Saturday, the 1st of June.
I’m changing rides at Toronto, I’m worried about my plans to celebrate my birthday with Djlenny, I’ll take photos of the fierce and sexy lenny! Of course I will masturbate to the photos to my heart’s content, it’s a fun souvenir.
On Sunday I will upload the photos, and since I am back, I plan to play Dota unless there’s kotl/pl.
Out of all of you, who is celebrating my return? In the afternoon I’ll share the photo of the souvenir story.

I will count this towards studying for my exam tomorrow.