DotA

Why guys who play DOTA make the best life partners

1. Single-hearted devotion: He is willing to invest a lot of time and effort in pursuing the hobby he loves. In the future, he will be a successful career-minded professional who puts his heart and soul into what he does. Besides, a devoted man is an attractive man. The next time he is concentrating on a DOTA game, take a good look at him, and you may find him attractive in ways you never did notice before.
2. Indomitable spirit: Every DOTA-er starts from being a newb. Every DOTA player inevitably goes through the long and painful process of feeding and farming only a Boots of Speed and 2 Wraith Bands (not bracers coz too expensive) at 30mins. If he doesn’t have a never-say-die-attitude, he would have given up long ago. So, every DOTA player possess strong will and fighting spirit. And such a man, is of course, more reliable and can be depended upon.
3. Gentlemanly: A DOTA player is gentlemanly. Even when he gets thrashed badly, he will still say GG (good game) to the opponent at the end of the game. At the most, just try again another day.
4. Extraordinary patience: DOTA cultivates patience. The opponent might be owning 10 minutes into the game, but a good DOTA player will persevere on and wait patiently for a chance to turn the tables. He will hang on tightly and continue to farm, gank (and sometimes KS if given the opportunity), until he gets the chance to wipe out the opponent team and make the winning push. Similarly in life, you can be sure that he will not PP (pull plug) but will hold your hand and endure the hardships together.
5. Extremely durable punchbag: Every DOTA-er would surely have been at the mercy of imba magic spells before, those that would make anyone pee in their pants, like Reverse Polarity+ Black hole, a Lion+Lina lane etc, or a Blink+Echo Slam when you are Broodmother pushing with a thousand spiderlings around you. So you can be sure that he makes a good punchbag when you need one, especially on those bad days.
6. Attentive and sensitive: A good DOTA player an observant one. One of the basic skills of DOTA is to be observant of your surroundings, of every move your opponent makes or is planning to make. Therefore, when he is spending time with you, he will be very sensitive to your feelings. Every frown or smile will not pass by unnoticed. He will lend a listening ear when you are troubled, his shoulder will be there when you need to cry (or are just feeling tired). He will offer words of comfort when you are feeling down. Can you find anyone better?
7. Lightning reflexes: Another basic requirement of DOTA is to have fast reflexes. Slowpokes are doomed to die in DOTA, because by the time you find the hotkey for Voodoo, you would have been killed by Invoker’s Tornado+Chaos Meteor, possibly followed up by Cold Snap. You don’t need to be as agile as Jet Li to get by in life, but there is no harm in having a partner who can react quickly to real-life situations.
8. IT-savvy: A DOTA player is more knowledgeable about computers and the net than the average guy. Any DOTA player would be able to talk, at some length, about graphic cards, CPU, mice, keyboards, bandwidth speeds etc. In this day and age, it can be embarassing if your partner is computer-illiterate. With a DOTA player as a spouse, you can be sure that all your kids will grow up to be tech-savvy, capable individuals.
9. Remarkable mental strength: Constant psychological pressure during DOTA is a norm. You never know when a Nerubian Assasin will pop out from nowhere, annihilating you within seconds. You can never be sure if a Pudge+CM is lying in wait at the secret shop. Hence, you can be assured that the DOTA player will not crumble easily in the face of real-life pressures, because he is so accustomed to handling such circumstances and the hours of DOTA has increased his mental endurance.
10. Effective planner: If you fail to plan in DOTA, you plan to fail. Rush headlong into a teamfight without planning and you will be waiting for respawn next. A good DOTA player is adept at planning, calculating risks and making judgements. To initiate a gank or not, how to position your character is but some of the many decisions you have to make throughout the game. Thus, the pro DOTA player is a careful and meticulous one. He will plan a party on your birthday, and plan a surprise for your anniversary.
11. Reliable breadwinner: Money makes the world go round. Farming for gold is of utmost importance in DOTA. Without items, your imba skills at micro/macro management cannot guarantee victory. The long and arduous process of farming for gold (especially reaching that elusive 3800 for a Relic) requires a lot of skill and technique. Hence, rest assured that a pro DOTA-er will always bring home the bacon, and lots of it. The husband earns for you to spend. What more can you ask for?
12. Faithful partner: DOTA players are loyal lovers. They are able to resist the flaming hot Lina or that sexy Rylai, and mercilessly send them back to where they came from (fountain), despite their charming looks. DOTA players will not be tempted so easily.
13. Team and community spirit: -Good- DOTA players are self-sacrificing. They always put themselves before others. They have good teamwork, and are willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good. They don’t mind letting the team’s main DPS hero get the kill. This kind of person is not self-centred, and will place the family or society above self.

Not all DOTA players may display all the points listed above, but that’s only because you haven’t discovered these attributes yet. Look a little harder, and give yourselves a little more time. You will not regret it.

[Source: http://jeremysng.wordpress.com]

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The above, is, of course, absolute rubbish. Just a random bit of fun.

I remember back when I used to play DotA. Oh yes, it is definitely time for reminiscing, because in the 4 years I have not played, the game has changed so much it now seems like a completely different game to me. Some major changes are the layout of the map itself, the position of the taverns (Not to mention the many, many new heroes) and even the gold-earning system itself. You now get 1 gold each second that passes, which, i guess, helps out the weaker players. All they have to do, is try not to die.

I was also confused that the shops have all changed, too. Not only that, the items themselves. I wanted to make a Guinsoo’s Scythe of Vyse, but now, it no longer requires Eul’s Scepter of divinity. You know, the cyclone thingy.

It used to be so fun, when enemies think they almost have you, you let them get close, then send them whirling up into the sky, puzzling them for a second or two before they realize they’re spinning around comically. Or, you could be ganked by 2 lesser heroes, you send one whirling up as you work on the other, then kill ‘em both when the flying one comes back down. This was an epic item on the way to your Guinsoo’s.

So the other day i tried to make a Guinsoo, and I got myself an Eul’s, then I realized that Eul’s was no longer part of the recipe. (HORRORS)

It’s taken 3 days to more or less get the feel or kill/denying back, although I can’t seem to do it properly, probably owing to my keyboard being flat, causing me to press ‘caps lock’ many times while I was trying to press ‘A’, which kinda sucked. I never actually had a gaming keyboard, but a flat keyboard is hardly different from playing with a laptop.

DotA just brings back memories of my secondary school days. Of Clan SEX. (Sylph Endar Xanax, you perv.) How we used to play pubbies, and there’d be 6 of us, and we’d bully the Clan leader’s younger cousin by sending him over to the public team, because he feeds anyway. But sometimes he’d get a nice hero and start killing off our team members instead which was pretty funny.

The first hero I ever used was Razor – Lightning Revenant. It was at Dex’s place at about sec 2 or sec 3, and my next birthday,  He, together with Joel Peh, bought me a Battle Chest, shocking me speechless. Hey, it was expensive for a kid!

So then started the era of playing DotA together every single night and the matches would be the hot topic the next day in school. We were the dominant clan in school, really. I think there were other clans, but we overshadowed all of them, except for my ‘twin ‘, Joshua Cheng, who was part of Clan destiny-.  Thinking about it, it really was funny. One of the reasons people respected him was because there would be whisperings in hushed undertones about him being a ‘DotA God’. When you’re a kid, being good in something every else is doing really puts you high on the ladder.

I remember that I could not use any melee hero for nuts, and till this day, I can’t fathom why. There really isn’t any big difference between a melee hero and a ranged one, except perhaps you get denied more and get harassed more at the beginning. In fact, Melee heroes generally become stronger late game than ranged heroes. But I suppose this is one remarkable quirk of me reflected in my sport as well – Canoeing. My stroke for K1 and K2 is worlds apart. I know – we videotaped it. As a  year 1 junior, my K2 with Kok Wei was strong enough to bust our way into the finals during POL-ITEs. In fact, my K2 has never NOT made it into the finals of any event. TP has won the Gold for K4 twice, and both times, I was on it.

So you would think that I am a pretty strong rower in my own right….but you’d be wrong.

In THEORY, there should not be a discrepancy in fitness or technique. But I simply cannot row a single seater. A K1. For a time, I was the fastest K1 rower in my first year, because I learnt the fastest. But then everybody else caught up, and I seemed to be stuck at this wall – until I moved over to K2. Now, as a third year, some of my juniors’ K1s are faster than me. I have no reasonable explanation for this.

And its so funny how my clanmates used to complain when we’d AllRandom (-ar) and I’d get a melee hero. At the beginning, everyone questioned why I couldn’t use them, but in the end they all gave up and simply swapped heroes with me, which suited me just fine. Besides, I’m rather nasty when I harass, myself.  (especially in a 5v5, when not every wants to spend money on regenerative items at the start)

Besides DotA we also played games like FFERPG (Final Fantasy Epic RPG) where you had to type in -load followed by this really long code to ‘load’ your character, and type -save in order to get this code, which you had to record down somewhere.

There was also Anime Wars, ooh that was fun.

Uther Party…. a series of really, really fun minigames.

Tower Defence…

Wintermaul Wars…

Funny how I’m only remembering all this now. They really marked my secondary school years.

I stopped playing DotA because of the “O” levels. I told myself, hey, you need to study. And somehow, miraculously, I obeyed. So i studied. After ‘O’s, I realized that not playing DotA meant that I had a lot more free time, so I went to work and stuff and eventually I quit altogether.

Recently though (Actually, 3 days ago) my curiosity got the better of me, so I went and tried playing again. Now I’m addicted.

Oh…. No….