Life Outside PLT1

Ramble about a current event

Now I think this is a bit of a sensitive story, but nonetheless have been following it throughout the past year.

 For a bit of history: Cru and Chris Kahui Jr were two 3 month old boys who died on June 18th last year from abuse. Their father, Chris Kahui has been charged with their murder. In the time before his arrest, their whanau had been unwilling to communicate with the public and the police about what happened. Because ‘what happens in the family, stays in the family, bro’. Finally someone came around and Chris Kahui was arrested.

So anyway, he gets bail and waits almost a year for the trial. Now they have just finished their trial. However it wasn’t to determine his fate, it was to determine if they had arrested the right person. Kahuis trial doesn’t start until May of next year.

Now if anyone else has been following this, you might have the same feelings as me, the mother of the twins, Macsyna King, is just as guilty as he is. She is told to take the twins to the hospital immediatly as they had life threatening injuries. She goes to McDonalds for an hour instead. When told she should stay at starship because she was needed there with the twins, she replied “I don’t give a shit, I’m going. I need my sleep.” I can’t believe these people are allowed to repeatedly breed.

 Now personally, I’m glad this story is getting so much media attention. I think it has really shed new light on child abuse in New Zealand. In my opinion it’s a real shame it had to happen though. I have heard the comments of “two less kids to grow up and act like their parents” and the such, and I think that if they had survived and been left in that enviroment there is a good chance they would have grown up in a similar fashion. But two defenless children lost their lives because someone smashed their heads against something.

In conclusion to this small rant: compulsary neutraing

too much Tim Burton

OMFG! I LIEK SOOO LOVE TIM BURTON!

Boobs on Bikes

I like the part with the Christan Bookstore sign clearly visable

CN I STLL DO THSI? ROFLMAYONAISE

EAT MY SHIT!

My Desk

Purdy

(clicky 4 big)

This item is purchasable off/from a man halfway down dominion road in an interesting little shop just above Real Groovy on Auckland’s main shopping street (K’ Road Queen Street). He also sells nunchaku and various other interesting things. And drinks. Non-alcoholic ones. Upon the purchase of above pictured item I was admonished “you no use in public, you get in trouble. Use in private, ok”. Awesome.

dyslexia? its spelt asgsdfasefawetwerg.

dyslexia is the fun (with a captital G) learning disorder.

i misread some random file on my desktop: it came out as “i would like to go faster at the cost of a carrot”.  im now drinking absinthe to make me feel normal -_-

also, wisdom from the intarbutt (i quote verbatim)

“please do not take amateur chemistry advice from anonymous political radicals”

Black Dog Raincoat

Their was a busker out side the liquor store to day. I gave him some money, though I didn’t hear if he was any good or not. He just seamed like the kind of person who would need something like being good at guitar to stop from killing himself. And besides, he might of been using the money for an operation to stop him from looking so retarded.

After much thought I have decided that that is my good deed for today.

Assault

Reactionary play is for losers. You are smart, it is your job to be causing situations not reacting to them. You shouldn’t be wandering into ganks, you should be causing them.

Fear will kill you and as soon as you are afraid you have lost. Embrace it and fight to the bitter end. The major advantage the higher tier players have over the rest is primarily fear. Case in point: There is no physical difference in my ability to play chess, we are all equally capable of moving the pieces and understand the rules (well maybe not En Passant, but that’s not important), yet I know when playing some people they are afraid. They make mistakes, further compounding the situation. They lose not due to lack of ability, but because they cannot master their own emotions. They subconsciously give up, before the game has even started.

Example:

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Mathew with Morphling ( Level 12 ) blinks into the middle of three heroes ( Level 8 ) using waveform. Suppose they’re Rhasta, Clinkz and Silencer.

What do you think happens? Often I see you going “ARGH MATHEW”, splitting up and running away, in which case Mathew will probably kill Rhasta and maybe Clinkz, before escaping on low health.

Here’s what should happen: Rhasta holds Morphling. Clinkz and Silencer lay the smack down. And just before Rhasta’s hold finishes, Silence casts global silence or similar to make sure that Morphling can’t blink out. Then all three heroes cover each other to make their escape.

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Not only that, but you need to be more objective in identifying threats. The biggest threat is probably not the best player on the other team, it will probably be the second best if they have a carry hero, and you’re wasting your time nullifying their best player, but not the carry. I’ve been in a number of games where you’ve wasted time killing me, but not the person with Phantom Assassin who successfully farmed a complete item set and was a far greater threat.

Situational awareness. What you can’t see, can kill you. Wards are 200 gold. That’s four creeps. Go buy some. Put them where you can’t see, and people could come towards you from. It will make a huge difference. Wards are your friends. You love wards.

Tower defense. Kill the catapult first, it auto targets the tower and does a lot of damage. So make sure you position yourself in front of the tower so it aims for you first. Towers don’t really regen, you do. Ideally you want to kill the creeps before they even get within range of your tower, if you’ve got some sort of AoE attack that’s spammable then use it. Fighting just creeps and those supported by a hero is different. So if a hero is there, than it may be more worthwhile saving your spells to deal with the hero. Use your own judgment.

Final base defense. The barracks is rather important. Don’t let them get anywhere near it. Defend at the top of the ramp, so that their attacks tend to miss. And clear away the creeps as fast as possible. Unless you’re very certain you can beat their heroes while outside your base, then don’t wander into them from behind or the side. Go into your base via a different entrance and then go defend. Otherwise if they have enough disables you could find you entire team dead outside your own base, unable to defend.

Have a look at this replay: http://www.dota-allstars.com/replay/12916/index.html

It shows the difference that teamwork can make, not only that but it also shows the difference that a item that gives your entire team a buff makes.

LOOK AT MY FLASH STUFF CUZ IT’S NOT LIKE YOU HAVE ANYTHING BETTER TO DO