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Near as I can tell, it's basically the equivalent of football hooliganism/sports team obsession/etc. It's not really an artifact of playing a certain amount of DotA2 as it is just certain folk's personalities.

If HoN (or HotS, or whatever) was all that existed for an alternative to DotA 2, you'd probably see the same behavior. In this case, it's mostly focused on LoL largely just because LoL's the main competitor/largest alternative.

yo i'm actually willing to dispute that "AoS knockoff" thing

AoS was more like Alien Swarm or something than Dota, it was a co-op game with no abilities or nothing IIRC, starcraft wasn't really built for that

... putnam, DotA was called an AoS. The entire genre of maps of similar game type were called AoS maps. The original AoS was indeed somewhat different and limited by SC's map engine (iirc, the dynasty warriors stuff that preceded it was a bit closer to later AoS maps, being PvP, and there were a few SC custom maps that had the same setup but PvP -- even a few with special abilities, if hella' clumsy to activate), but the progression from it to the WC3 AoS maps including DotA, its knockoffs, and the other AoS maps is... quite clear.

The original AoS map was basically DotA without abilities (or rather, the initial "abilities" was the ability to upgrade your unit, along with whatever native special bits the unit had) or PvP, with a bit of spice up on the computer side to make things more interesting. Three lanes, large amounts of minions, win/lose condition loss of buildings, player focus on individual units (heroes)... the influence is bloody clear. Alien Swarm shares very little with the original AoS map's design principles and general style, being closer to one of the survival/arena maps.

It probably has a fanfic behind it. And if it doesn't, a fanfic inspired it at some point.

Some of it probably does, but splatoon porn is just generally pretty prolific. It's really not even that surprising, considering the game's elements.

And nah, DotA2's about as bad, community wise. DotA itself was worse, and also what basically killed one of the most prolific and impressive player content creation communities the world has seen.

it won't look good if it refuses to go on a single recess just to keep him from appointing a Justice, and there are a lot of GOP seats up for re-election in swing states this year.

It... doesn't matter if obama appoints a justice during a recess? They still have to be confirmed once the senate is back in session, if my understanding isn't entirely wrong, and we can be fairly close to assured that's not going to happen this year. Something along those lines, anyway.

Pictured above: Bauglir tempting murphy. Why baug, why. You bring the risk of horrors upon us ;_;

there's a difference between keys and The Keys, rol :V

Also no one goes to The Keys, either. Too expensive.

In a sort of conceptual, interchangeable sense.

Also, I thought that name sounded oddly familiar. Lady was also in the final episode of star trek voyager. Make of that what you will.