Dramatic emoblog. Nah but srsly feels a bit weird since I've played this game for so long now. Made the blog because I am gonna do a give-away of my inventory. Probably worth at most like 10euro, so nothing special really. Maybe just link a decent song and I will chose whoever wins idk. Don't have any better ideas.
Taishi, played like 800 games together Bustybaboon / Mjae / DTB played like 1500 games together if we count HoN
Rest of Team Skrill3x / Druid eSports
Everyone who has played my nonranked Captains Draft plebstack. Was really fun, best gamemode for sure. Dire Side Best Side~ Extra mention to Yakcyll and ELq for being part of it for a long time.
Leloup the LPCL savior after Eywa- randomly disappeared. Firebolt the TLIH savior. (Used to have a pretty good stream too) Both also honorable members of the Swedestack.
Everyone who I have played with / faced in TLIH. (Special mention to all of you TLIHers who remember how Blazecasting used to cast our games for practice : P)
Also fuck when people used to ban Storm and Brew first phase when there was 3 bans..
Shoutout to the heroes )) Brewmaster/Storm Spirit/Hellbringer/Electrician the only heroes I could maintain 70% winrate
Madman for being first Rampage Lich for being first beyond Godlike
Finally, end how we started with a shoutout to Skrillex, the Mozart of our time.
I can say for certain that I probably would not have enjoyed this game half as much as I do without the time I've played with you. Even through some of the dumb things I actually had a lot of fun every time I would queue with either you and the swedes or you and the original disaster boys. You taught me a lot about the game, and are one of the reasons why I actually enjoy the support position. Going to be a bit difficult knowing without our pretty awesome unranked CD games with your crazy/stupid/awesome drafts.
Honestly it sucks, but games grow old. I know that one pretty well, though I really wish that I could have worked a bit harder and gotten a little bit better. I still feel like I'm so damn bad at this game right now. Ah well, just have to work hard I suppose.
Anyways, take care and stay in touch at the very least. Even if you don't play Dota it's still nice to keep in touch.
Knowing how "retirements" go in Dota I have a feeling somewhere this will be temporary, but that's just me. Thanks for all the great games and your patience at dealing with my ultra plebiness. May your next chapter in life be as passionate and fun as Dota was for you.
(Thanks for the Lion immortal wand, I shall drain mana in your name)
I hope this is Aprils fool sensei....anyway i ll never forget the summer of 2013 when we playing together everyday like addicts, i ll miss you and thanks for everything.
I think dota is fun when people start playing for fun instead of being try hard. I am a huge fan of sing's approach in pubs when he stacks with Tucker bangfish akroma and co. Of course you need like minded friends for it to work.
Well, I'm going to put two in. The first, is because i think it's a beautiful piece of music, and i think its emblematic of life being cyclic and things start and stop. If one thing ends another will sprout up in its place. And the second one is just because quitting Dota is sad, and Elliot smith always seemed to me to make pretty sad music.
On March 30 2015 16:40 DucK- wrote: I think dota is fun when people start playing for fun instead of being try hard. I am a huge fan of sing's approach in pubs when he stacks with Tucker bangfish akroma and co. Of course you need like minded friends for it to work.
It's not about Dota being boring. I've played Dota on and off for like 7-8 years now when I was starting to get a bit tired of it. If it was about "if I don't find it fun atm" I would probably come back in some weeks/months yes.
The issue is that I can see how it's affecting my mental health really bad and that I need to quit for my own good. For some reason Dota always comes too high up on my priorities.
Like I'm studying a University programme I find really fun and what I want to be doing. Yet I only breeze through it and don't take the time to become good at it.
I'm going to Korea next year and yet I rather sit in a 30min DDoS pause than studying the language.
Call it addiction if you want, at this point it probably is, which is why I need to quit.
Between playing Dota 1 / HoN / Dota 2 (just taking the average of 35min games+5min queue) + Browsing Dota related forums + Watching streams I've spent around ~220 days (as in 220*24 hours) on Dota. Think it's more than enough and it's time to move on.
Spare/Free time is still time of your life. Even if you find yourself having the time to play. it's still using your time.
Don't want this to become some life lesson for people because you are all in charge of your own life. But if you find yourself sitting through 30min of DDoS pauses then at least think about how you are using your time. If you think it's worth it then sure go ahead.
Play/enjoy the game, it's a fun game. For me personally it ends here, I need to change my life and lifestyle for my own good.
I know how you feel bro (and tehehehe on those storm bans haahah and ya i remember blaze casted some of our tlih games back then). I would say it is still ok to play from time to time, it is basically the same once you started a proper full time job as well, you cant play as often as you want as being a student.
Best of luck! I personally think that farming real life gold is so much enjoyable than playing dota(2) now. The meta and matching systems made dota2 a very different game from dota1.
On March 30 2015 16:40 DucK- wrote: I think dota is fun when people start playing for fun instead of being try hard. I am a huge fan of sing's approach in pubs when he stacks with Tucker bangfish akroma and co. Of course you need like minded friends for it to work.
It's not about Dota being boring. I've played Dota on and off for like 7-8 years now when I was starting to get a bit tired of it. If it was about "if I don't find it fun atm" I would probably come back in some weeks/months yes.
The issue is that I can see how it's affecting my mental health really bad and that I need to quit for my own good. For some reason Dota always comes too high up on my priorities.
Like I'm studying a University programme I find really fun and what I want to be doing. Yet I only breeze through it and don't take the time to become good at it.
I'm going to Korea next year and yet I rather sit in a 30min DDoS pause than studying the language.
Call it addiction if you want, at this point it probably is, which is why I need to quit.
Between playing Dota 1 / HoN / Dota 2 (just taking the average of 35min games+5min queue) + Browsing Dota related forums + Watching streams I've spent around ~220 days (as in 220*24 hours) on Dota. Think it's more than enough and it's time to move on.
Spare/Free time is still time of your life. Even if you find yourself having the time to play. it's still using your time.
Don't want this to become some life lesson for people because you are all in charge of your own life. But if you find yourself sitting through 30min of DDoS pauses then at least think about how you are using your time. If you think it's worth it then sure go ahead.
Play/enjoy the game, it's a fun game. For me personally it ends here, I need to change my life and lifestyle for my own good.
I see. I think you made a right decision and I'm supportive of it. Until you have the will and can find the balance between gaming and real life, I think its good that you stay away from the game. The first step to curbing an addiction is always to recognise that you're addicted. All the best to you!
On March 30 2015 16:40 DucK- wrote: I think dota is fun when people start playing for fun instead of being try hard. I am a huge fan of sing's approach in pubs when he stacks with Tucker bangfish akroma and co. Of course you need like minded friends for it to work.
It's not about Dota being boring. I've played Dota on and off for like 7-8 years now when I was starting to get a bit tired of it. If it was about "if I don't find it fun atm" I would probably come back in some weeks/months yes.
The issue is that I can see how it's affecting my mental health really bad and that I need to quit for my own good. For some reason Dota always comes too high up on my priorities.
Like I'm studying a University programme I find really fun and what I want to be doing. Yet I only breeze through it and don't take the time to become good at it.
I'm going to Korea next year and yet I rather sit in a 30min DDoS pause than studying the language.
Call it addiction if you want, at this point it probably is, which is why I need to quit.
Between playing Dota 1 / HoN / Dota 2 (just taking the average of 35min games+5min queue) + Browsing Dota related forums + Watching streams I've spent around ~220 days (as in 220*24 hours) on Dota. Think it's more than enough and it's time to move on.
Spare/Free time is still time of your life. Even if you find yourself having the time to play. it's still using your time.
Don't want this to become some life lesson for people because you are all in charge of your own life. But if you find yourself sitting through 30min of DDoS pauses then at least think about how you are using your time. If you think it's worth it then sure go ahead.
Play/enjoy the game, it's a fun game. For me personally it ends here, I need to change my life and lifestyle for my own good.
Not gonna tell you or anyone else what to do, but whenever I've had similar feelings about my own situation I always remind myself:
You dont live to be able to work, you work to be able to live.
And then I go back to whatever "useless" activity I'm doing feeling much better.
I'm probably living a pretty sad life in many people's eyes, yet I feel extremely certain I'm happier than a lot of those people are. Because I'm truly doing whatever (the fuck) I want to.
If you watch Dota enough to sit through 30min DDoS pauses, dont pretend you dont enjoy it or that its bad. Embrace it instead.
Spare/Free time is still time of your life. Even if you find yourself having the time to play. it's still using your time.
You dont live to be able to work, you work to be able to live.
Sometimes you need to quit something you really like cool turkey to get focused on other things. Eight years is a long time to be invested in anything and your life changes a lot in that time frame. I was single and living in a once bedroom apartment back then when you started in Dota.
And Dota isn’t going anyplace. It will be here when if/when you want to come back and you will still be skilled at it. And the people will be there too. You’re not losing anything by focusing on other things, only gaining. This game will be as insane, stupid and filled with dumb heroes an interactions if you come back in 6 months or a year.
The only sad part about this is that we here at team liquid won’t get to play with you, but it doesn’t mean forever. So its sad we won’t see you for awhile, but I’m not really convinced this is goodbye. So I’ll just say good luck and thanks for all the fish.
I'll give you my shaker items cause can't argue with tswizzle
On March 30 2015 17:03 Sassback wrote: Well, I'm going to put two in. The first, is because i think it's a beautiful piece of music, and i think its emblematic of life being cyclic and things start and stop. If one thing ends another will sprout up in its place. And the second one is just because quitting Dota is sad, and Elliot smith always seemed to me to make pretty sad music.
Yeah that Elliot Smith song was good, will give the rest of what I have. gz
On March 30 2015 08:53 bluegarfield wrote: emo nemo wello
Life is like an RPG, and Dota is a minigame inside that RPG. You got highscore achievement, time to move on to next minigame.
I have quit Dota for short periods of time on and off. I always end up doing something else non-constructive with the time (book, anime...), so being addicted to Dota isn't my issue. More like not wanting to do the stuff that would be good long term. Like right now I should be studying French, I just can't make myself do it.
Well, you have to quit once you realize that you spend all of your time playing this game and don't get much from it. Sadly dota is an addiction that can affect your mental health pretty badly. Few moths back I decided to sell all my items (15€ for 3k hours of "work" is pretty terrible rate) and quit. Now I have to say that it was a brilliant idea.
For me dota has been almost a lifelong hobby (age 13 => 22), and for some reason i like to play a couple of games every now and then to keep my skills up and have fun. It's really hard to justify playing but all I know is I don't wanna let go. Best of luck to you anyways!
Wish you all the best in reaching the goals you have set for yourself, but don't try to overdo it. Going forward in life and working hard is important, but so is trying to enjoying everyday life.
Anyways thanks for everything. Can't ask for better people to play with.
summer 2013 tlih was a great time. You were always one of the people I enjoyed playing with, glhf irl
your situation also feels very familiar. Dota is always there and it's the easy way to kill some time instead of practicing a language, coding a personal project, reading a paper...
My only comment is that I find myself playing much less when "better" options are readily accessible (i.e. when i'm studying abroad - enjoy korea btw ^^). This also makes me question how good of a choice dota is to begin with.
Didn't play with you but kinda knew you through mutual friends, you contributed a lot and seem like a good guy with a level head. You'll be good going forward.
Hopefully you wont ever read this. Its not easy. One of the biggest steps is of course taking the decision to stop playing. What you need to focus on to be successful in this transition is not only to not playing the game. It is to changing your every day habits and creating new ones. As you said you spent time reading about and watching dota as well. Do not do this either even if it is less time spent on dota it can lead you back to your previously unhealthy every day habits. It kind of is like a heroin addict drinking beer, seems harmless at first but when you go from the beer to vodka we can all imagine what happens next.
Even such a small thing as checking the latest competitive result an activity using less time then a couple of minute everyday can be bad as it will keep dota in your head. One of the reasons dota is hard to quit is because most of us are still trying to figure out new ways to win even when we are not actively playing. Another reason why its hard to quit is the social part its fun to play with friends and making new friends. Try finding other activities where you can do just that.