After ~8 years away, I've made a foray back to Dota content! I'm challenging myself to answer questions I've always wanted answered. Starting with this one. If you remember me, then you'll enjoy this excessively specific analysis of Hand of Midas. youtube.com/watch?v=wYE3RUyz…

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Official betting partners for esports events are a net good. They drive betting-interested fans to legitimate websites with regulatory oversight instead of helping permeate unsafe & predatory betting outlets. TI should have had a betting partner for a decade.

When your debugger tells you "illegal array use" and crashes.

The esports investment bubble has on the verge of collapse for half a decade. Esports isn't going to die, but at some point you are going to see a BIG pullback followed by BIG reformation of the industry model. It happens in every emerging industry, but that won't make it easy.

I made a wordle-genre game for Windows and Android. I had game mechanics and wordlist help from an accomplished crossword setter. I think it's meatier than Wordle, definitely has more pondering and satisfaction. If you want to try it, it's free here: thewondercow.itch.io/hilowor…

8 years ago, I wrote my first article about Dota 2 esports, made a Reddit account, posted it and got downvoted to oblivion.

In support of the #ActiBlizzWalkout walkout, I will be putting my life on the line by asking my wife — who knows nothing about Blizzard as a company — to stop playing Hearthstone for a single day.

Our friend and colleague @rohan_esports was in a catastrophic accident. Rohan is a kind and diligent member of the esports community. His leg has been amputated among other injuries. Please spread the word and donate anything you can to help him recover: gofund.me/704067d6

In case you were wondering, you can expect to spend about $722 to get this slick #dota2 Void Spirit set, assuming you (like me) live in a state with 6% sales tax. Assuming you get 100 levels from gameplay and rewards, drop that to $656. What a deal!

My wife asked me the other day what my favorite video game is. I told her my favorite game is Dota 2. She responded, confused, "But you haven't played Dota for, like, years." Only now is she beginning to understand.

That I was able to build a successful career out of being stupidly into a Warcraft III mod proves that there's no such thing as a dumb hobby. You don't have to defend it, you don't have to hide it, you don't have to monetize it. Just go like what you like, my folks.

I remember when TongFu was eliminated from TI3 by losing to NaVi's liberal abuse of a game-breaking, unintended glitch, and the wide majority of Dota fans were like, "It's not technically against the rules so really Puppey is a genius." Dota fans sure have changed since then.

I aspire to at least once in my life reach the enthusiasm of a 90s punk ska trombone player with three notes to play.

On Jackie Chan's birthday, I want to revel in the fact that he's the only American action star who built an entire career on being badass characters who are consistently reluctant to fight & eager to talk things out.

It isn't said enough but @ADota2L is one of the best communities for Dota players of all skill level and I really hope more new players put together teams and have fun learning Dota in its best form.

A higher percentage of Americans were immigrants in the 1860s than in the 2010s. 1860s Americans stopped, disassembled, and utterly destroyed the Confederacy, so it's pretty clear which modern Americans best represent the spirit of 1860s America.

You want to know what sets Dota apart from other games? I had a dream about playing Dota last night. The catch is I haven't even had Dota installed on my computer for almost a year. This is intractably in my psyche.

This seems like a wild over-generalization in the year where gaming's biggest success is cartoon space beans drawn in MS Paint.