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I need social hobbies.

What counts? Th'town you're in's kinda' dead (well, barring the standard north florida stuff) outside the primary vacation times (and then no one sane wants to be anywhere near it ), but I know th'capital has some interesting stuff off and on, if y'can make the trip.

Wait, wait. PC's on the other side of my place, so it's a two hour drive for yeh t'reach the capital. Hrm. Damn. Actually, outside of PC itself there's a bit of a deadzone around the place, far as I can remember. Maybe check and see if the college is doing anything interesting? Plays, concerts, so forth, so on. Guessing the standard stuff doesn't quite appeal, at least. If it's just get drunk and party there's plenty of that in and around th'joint... even moreso if you can stand bigots.

So...he has a +50% (!) Amplify Damage (both magic and physical), a Purge that goes through BKB, a spell that creates two illusions of a target (so which scales with it) and cas be used either to disable an enemy or to save a teammate, and his shadow poison which can be used for a lot of things including checking Rosh safely. You look at that and you conclude "Most useless hero late game"? Really?

Pretty sure th'last bit was actually tongue-in-check

Going by the question marks, fellow was probably running into a lot of folks of questionable english fluency who were dissing hard on SD.

But what comite would decide who qualifies as "a local badass?"

The Committee of Calculating Kickass.

Much later E: Actually, the "Committee Officiating the Calculation of Kickass" would probably would better, to continue the theme.

The better question is why in the world do people use the first names of the heroes mixed with the real hero names. It's confusing and the first names have to be dug out of the lore for those who don't know them.

It's... pretty obvious that people have defaulted to referring to the various heroes by whichever part of their name/title combination is easier to remember, shorter, or easier to turn into an acronym. I'm not going to call th'Earthshaker "Raigor Stonehoof", y'know? Too long, too meaningless; earthshaker's faster, more mundane, and (most importantly) more representative of what the guy does. Frankly th'guy's name sounds kinda' like some throwaway NPC mook.

I'm also not going to call Sven "Rogue Knight", or Huskar "Sacred Warrior". Their names are much shorter and their titles don't really say shit about what they do -- they're incredibly generic class names that don't really give a feel for the hero itself (so you can just as well refer to their names, y'ken?). Etc., so forth, so on. The varying sorts of reasoning applies to, well, all of them. There's not a consistent referral pattern because th'folks making DotA didn't do a very good job of having the stuff they call the heroes lend itself well to such.

Here's at least one source. The google search that found it was "did nadar have a ticket debate" sans quotes, and throws up a number of other sources regarding the incident.

Here's what wikipedia cites as the source for Nadar being turned away. And here's the wiki page itself.

I don't know who you are Knuth, but if you are alive and I ever meet you I am buying you a Guinness.

This guy? Still kicking, though getting on there.

If you were really shooting for it, you could probably buy up one of those online coupons or somthin' and e-mail it to the guy, iffin y'couldn't reach wherever he's at in person.

That... really depends on the family, Kaij. Just. Let's leave it at that, maybe?