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That video is super long and confusing for something that is sort of simple. Only a single critical strike can occur ('proc') on any attack, and the chances of the crits occuring are independent; so if you have two daedaluses, the chances of NOT critting are (1-.25)^2 = 0.5625, and the chances of cr...

If you're trying to learn, reddit's /r/learndota2 is a really good place to ask questions and the wiki section is a reasonable collection of guides and advice. I'm always happy to play with people who can communicate in English and are reasonably willing to try to win, so I'd also be happy to join a...

PMS > Phase > HotD > Basher (or BKB then basher) means you can fight like mad. I don't know the game well enough to fully understand that statement. This is a suggested order of purchasing items - get PMS then Phase then etc. Poor Man's Shield (PMS) is a early defensive item that also gives a bit o...

The end of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens, a novel about a world where the bible is pretty much literally true and the end times are upon the Earth, put it a thousand times better than I ever could; "That's not good advice," said Crowley. "That's not good advice at all. ...

Yes. If you find bloodseeker ganking early is a problem, try carrying TP scrolls - he can't break the channeling alone, and at lower tiers people tend not to save spells to break channeling later on. In the midgame and in fights, kiting him works like kiting other melee heros - you can use a combina...

It's apparantly by Neil Cicierega, a guy Internet Famous mostly for musical accomplishments e.g. the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, and more recently the mashup albums Mouth Sounds and Mouth Silence.

Episode 1 of Yuri Kuma Arashi report: This has the potential to be another Utena. Since Ikuhara is directing it, I fully expect it to be so. Not a huge fan of the OP sequence but otherwise I strongly like it so far. If anything, the summary is understating how batshit this is.

What I'm saying is that if there hadn't been the whole misogyny accusations thing or something similar to seize on, then what would have happened is probably a bunch of the censorship -> everyone condemns the censorship -> the side that argues against GG doesn't exist in nearly the numbers and size ...

Re: the Toturi thing: I looked it up out of morbid curiousity and apparently according to a random l5r wiki after Torturi died he came back from the dead then died again in 1158, maybe permanently this time? Ginawa reached Toturi's hand and pulled him through to the Empire as the Oblivion's Gate was...

I think fundamental and inherent to Gamersgate that it inherently is sustained by the fact that it highlights a number of legitamately problematic behaviours in games journalism, and simultaneously has such a major sexist element. Fundamentally, earlier issues got nowhere near the screen time and at...

From back in October: ...wait, they're taking the Mike Mearls approach? Has Cameron not seen the kind of failure that marketing produces? Cameron is caught between a rock and a hard place. He can't run on his achievements, because his government has been such a disaster that he is in the running wit...

Is it a good idea to begin with, emulating Hotline Miami? For what it's worth, the big elements that made HM work for me as a great game were: 1. The soundtrack 2. The aesthetics (camera, bizzare insanity) 3. The twitch-based gameplay where combats happened in frantic seconds, every instant posed b...

you should have plenty of non-christian vampires, possibly including "I went out and made myself a vampire, damnit. Oops. Ok, maybe there were some unintended consequences..." (that could be the new Tremere paradigm, since they aren't the sole magicians). This bit of discussion reminds me...

I find thread necros very irritating in some contexts and fine in others. One subforum I frequent has people posting their writing and others discussing it comprise the entire purpose of each thread - so when you see a thread necro, you know that either a) the thread's original poster has posted mor...

name_here wrote:Watched Kara No Kyoukai 5 today.

Paradox Spiral is fucking amazing, and by itself totally justifies watching KnK. It was the best part of the series by a huge margin. Well, that and the soundtrack in general, which is amazing throughout.

Ore, Twintails ni Narimasu sounds incredibly shitty in concept, but somehow it's two episodes have each made me pretty much fall over laughing. I was not expecting this to be watchable.

So, I just watched the second episode of Ufotable's Unlimited Blade Works. I played the VN some time ago, so the plot is already familiar to me. That said, the animation and overall quality on display is amazing so far - every time Ufotable has ever had a fight scene it's always blown me away, and t...

I wrote back in May that: There's a lot of things which are legendarily bad and obscure for Dota that I think are quite real complaints about how the game work. These include, but are definitely not limited to: ... - Damage types is a stupid mechanic, and the difference between physical/magical/pure...

No. It is absolutely outside the realm of possibility for anything to ever break a otp message. It is literally impossible to break. Not 'it's very hard' or 'we don't think you'll ever have enough processing power to do it,' it's literally fucking mathematically impossible to break the code. There ...

I think that's pretty much what Frank was saying about shutting down a key province - almost all nations have cap-only stuff that's worth shutting down, with relatively few exceptions, and building unrest with those sort of guys in a capital makes some sense. It's possibly more expensive/difficult t...

I think the logic, such as it is, behind having an insufficient-to-live-on-wage as a minimum wage is that there are many jobs done by e.g. teenagers with living expenses that are expected to still be heavily subsidized by other people; also, some jobs are expected to earn additional funding via e.g....

Wheel of Time starts out with cool female characters, but by book 6 or so, there's 10 or more Aes Sedai, and they're all the same fucking person . I think the rot sets in before the end of book 1, to be quite honest. Though it does admittedly get a lot worse as the series progresses. While there ar...

OK, there is an entire web serial novel that is good source material for supers games called Worm . I strongly recommend reading the original work (it's great) but because it is long, I will summarise a few things from it - It's protagonist is Taylor Hebert, a teenager who gets the superpower of tot...

I only played D2 in later versions, after the expansion pack came out. It's interesting to hear that it was apparantly much different at some point, so much so that some people were actually threatened by things that didn't instakill them - town portal use basically made anything not instantly letha...

1. Most times that I won at a new boss fight in Devil May Cry (1/3/4). It's so overwhelming and seemingly-bullshit, but with enough practice and skill you can eventually beat them and then go from there to making it look easy. Similar to a lesser extent with some parts of Bayonetta. These games are ...