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- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 1 day ago:
So just shy of 10 years ago me and the dudes were playing a lot of Dota 2, we had played since early Beta. At this point in time the game was still young and hip so the ratio of casuals to sweaty mlg was much more forgiving, which was great because it put me and the dudes in the upper bracket especially when combined with shenanigans, nowadays we’d probably only be in the top 60 percentile at best.
Very few people knew about this or utilized it but you could put your level into stats instead of an ability, so I would find weird builds to focus on only 1 skill and stats. We discovered this build called Sand King Jesus where you could use a character called Sand King to sit, invisible, in sand storm AoE DoT effect on the lane and just never leave but the tradeoff was the inability to move without cancelling, items focusing on regen and armor items as well as utilizing another little known mechanic where you buy 2 stout shields: they used to have a 50% chance to reduce damage by 20 (almost all damage a creep can do) and it would run that 50% check for each individual shield. At the time there was an exploit where if you move, cancelling the Sandstorm ability, but recast it before the particle effect dissipated… Uh Oh! The particle stays put but the Sand King and the AoE radius both moved. That made him not immune to non-targeted stuns or hooks but it did make him extremely hard to hit with them. It also made it difficult to avoid the DoT if you couldn’t see where it was. Now there is an immortal, invisible, constantly damaging enemy on the lane, but sure you can still buy wards or keep firing shots in the dark until something hits: but Sand King has another ability called Burrowstrike. Burrowstrike is suppose to be used to instantly travel in a straight line towards enemies and stun them momentarily. But instead, you can burrowstrike away from enemies and then cast Sand Storm as soon as it comes off cooldown. All of this culminates in “Sand King Jesus” because much like the mythical Jesus it would take forever to try and kill him and often still fail.
Now this is silly at best but the true greatest gamer high for me was this one match where I used this strategy to dominate middle lane, cutting off the creep waves with a well placed sandstorm to both take out an early tower as my creeps poured in damaging either the enemy mid or the tower, chipping away, and I get all of the last hits uncontested, started roaming and ganking with the boys, and buying up hearts, assault cuirrass, vladmir’s offering, refresher orb and for added AoE DoT a Radiance, and I became so tankie and my team had me covered on healing and providing DPS that I was able to enter the enemy fountain and sandstorm in there for another 10 or 15 minutes before we had even taken down any towers before barracks. We were all laughing so hard at these real human beings on the enemy team reduced to NPCs unable to leave their own fountain and unable to do anything about it.
Awhile later they completely reworked the character.
- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 2 days ago:
My prediction is that AI will be responsible for 0 net jobs lost but simultaneously responsible for many companies going under.
- Comment on Simpler times? 5 days ago:
NGL I’ve had to fight off some thirsty ladies before, it’s disgusting when they just can’t take a hint.
- Comment on I wonder what game they're trying to play 5 days ago:
They could use a PC and the Nefarious SCP Driver kit in the calibration settings, but since controllers vibration motors aren’t made to be running on full for extendes periods of time they will probably burn up.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 1 week ago:
Who could have seen this coming from the company whose CEO gifted Trump a literal gold plaque in celebration of his reelection?
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 1 week ago:
Makes sense, never met somebody actually mad about it.
- Comment on James should have used his money 1 week ago:
Top of the totem pole.
- Comment on James should have used his money 1 week ago:
I thought most Pokémon were vastly physically superior to humans or something.
- Comment on facebook ai 2 weeks ago:
Good work, Denver.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 2 weeks ago:
There is already a rail south into California.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 2 weeks ago:
It’s kind of weird too because logistically the northern boarder is the easiest place to expand rails: big flat great planes region, with both of the two largest rivers for ferrying in supplies, followed by a bypass around the bulk of the rocky mountains into Oregon or Washington State.
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 3 weeks ago:
I just have a hard time picturing things being so different from when I left academia only a couple of years ago. Everybody still had pen and paper notebooks
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 3 weeks ago:
TBF it took awhile to work out vacuum chamber technology, and some people did throw some spherical stuff off the tower of pisa at one point.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 3 weeks ago:
Bros are living in a fantasy, site was broken wide open years ago.
- Comment on Get up, soldier 4 weeks ago:
Thanks Chadwick Boseman, I love you
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 4 weeks ago:
It would explain how Trump had that tweet ready so quickly.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 4 weeks ago:
TBF the laws in the USA are wack enough that the weapon might not fall under the definition of deadly weapon and therefore firearms related crime.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 4 weeks ago:
What was the theory before? Crime of passion, gun and run?
Like he just had a “say what again” moment to that bullshit Kirk was saying on stage?
- Comment on Aged like milk 4 weeks ago:
Aged like fine wine you mean
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 4 weeks ago:
Sigmund Freud’s work proved humans are very very very very easy on a large sample size to mislead.
Theres even a phrase “you are not immune to propaganda.”
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 4 weeks ago:
The Chinese have sort of lost their credibility on Politics and History, this last century.
I’m actually less inclined to listen to anything associated with them.
The only proverb I wanna hear out of China is “of the 36 stratagems, fleeing is best.”
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 5 weeks ago:
People who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The USA has been in a constant power struggle between monied interests and liberty since the founding days. The same party has been in control of China since before Mao was starving millions of people. A lot of european countries are literally still monarchies.
This is the normal.
- Comment on Metal genres 5 weeks ago:
Check out “Rare and Obscure Metal Archives” sometime, very nice
- Comment on [fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t really call them lemmites, haven’t seen anybody else do so either, I think Lemmings has such a cool ring to it, very cute animals that travel in groups.
As for Piefed users if it’s competing with something that cute then my vote is Piefolk.
- Comment on Left-handed sep funnel anyone? 5 weeks ago:
Reminds me of the study that proved the four distinct klein flask orientations after realizing the 4th was the inverted topology of the third.
- Comment on Llama 5 weeks ago:
American Quarter Horse © Scott Smudsky
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 1 month ago:
Would have been the smart move for business, too.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 1 month ago:
TBF Taco Bell and other large chains can afford to be their own distributors and not have to pay interest on financing their vehicle fleets (although they might do that anyways if their accountants decide the interest rate is lower than the RoR of investing the cost of the vehicle minus down payment).
A food truck guy pays interest on his truck, and they pay whatever distrubutors and vendors charge for supplies.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 1 month ago:
Does not matter, all useless.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 1 month ago:
We’re talking about different things. This article is about Language Models. The discussion is about Language Model.
If you ask a language model via prompt to organize patterns you will get slop that small children would recognize is wrong. It’s garbage.