(Part 3) Best products from r/DotA2

I use the Turtle Beach PX22. Super comfortable when wearing for a long time, great sound, great mic quality, and works with my PS3 as well. Also, pretty damn cheap as far as Turtle Beach goes.

http://www.amazon.com/Turtle-Amplified-Universal-Headset-Playstation-3/dp/B00E5UHSYW

Yeah anything at i5 or higher should be fine. You dont even need 8 GB of ram either, I had a old system that has 4 GB of DDR3 and I can smoothly stream on it. The link above is like the best can you for 600.

http://www.amazon.com/HP-15-ay011nr-Full-HD-Generation-Windows/dp/B01CGGOZOM/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1463150374&sr=1-2&refinements=p_n_operating_system_browse-bin%3A12035945011%7C12566246011%7C5945862011%7C5945861011%7C2232492011%7C562222011%7C2232496011%7C2232493011%7C2232495011%7C2232494011%7C5945864011

This one is also good, for your price range. Hope I helped! (:

Haha no worries, I'm not super fat actually I'm just really unfit. I just got a treadmill and started Couch-to-5k.

http://www.shaolintiger.com/category/fitness/couch-to-5k-fitness/

My body type scan already rates me as 'heavily muscled'.

I tried the slow carb diet before, but it didn't really work out for me. But yah I've cut out sugary drinks, snacking etc and am trying to eat better. Just want to get into generally better shape.

Resistance training is great of course, I've read http://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/wiki/faq and http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/wiki/faq

I even bought he most recommended book - http://www.amazon.com/Starting-Strength-3rd-Mark-Rippetoe/dp/0982522738

So yah, getting there :)

Win 3 matchmaking games (any game mode, ranked or unranked) with at least 1k hero healing in each game

After getting all 3 of your wins, tweet @ZephyrDota with #NixeusChallenge and link to your DotaBuff. You have 48 hours to complete this challenge. One random challenger will win a pair of Nixeus Earphones.

***

EDIT: Congrats to @DiscWW for winning our Least Played NixeusChallenge

I use Turtle Beach X12's. They were originally for my Xbox, but they work perfect on my Computer. Mic and sound quality is fantastic. I bought mine for about £40 over a year ago. Still work perfectly.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/X12-Xbox-360-Headset-EU/dp/B005EQE0YM

I've recently realised I'm weird - I use index finger for LMB, middle for middle click/mousewheel and ring finger for right click. Couple that with some very wide hands and I#ve really struggled to find a comfortable mouse, but the Logitech G600 has done perfectly - I've shifted the right click further right (ie from next to the scroll wheel to further right onto the extra mouse button which is meant to help with macros/dpi shifting) and then assigned the old one to middle click, so I've got a massive button for click dragging around the map with. I played WC3 DotA and never had a problem with screen edge panning, but in Dota 2 I think the middle click drag I picked up from Supreme Commander comes through - it's so much more economical in most cases.

Its more expensive, but I use a really nice USB mic(Snowball Blue, about $70), attached to a desk clamp and swiveling bendy gooseneck clamp (~$12 for both of those).

The mic itself is probably out of most peoples price ranges, I just splurged because I was doing a lot more streaming at the time, and just in general like having high quality equipment that will last, but I'm sure you can find cheaper mics that would work in a similar setup. The mount stuff is what I really like, you can just move the mic right infront of your face instead of having it just sitting on your desk picking up so much more ambient noise.

Gooseneck

Desk clamp

Even if you just take a normal desktop boom mic and electrical tape it to that, I'd still recommend that setup.

Wow...thanks no words I can think of so instead I'll throw in some advice from your thread about your SLI issues a few days back.

I'm gonna assume you got two HD 7950's since you don't specify in your thread. As you can see if you follow the link each card pushes as much pixels as a GTX 660ti which is 27% more powerful than the [GTX 750ti] (http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=GeForce+GTX+750+Ti).

As such your going to get much more bang for your dollar buying a new Motherboard over GPU's and as such I agree with the guy who commented on your post. His choice of motherboard was also outstanding, Asus are quickly becoming my new favorites for motherboards and the model he choose has fantastic value/feature ratio for the Asus Z97-A.

For 140 dollars it will give you much more performance and upgrade room that buying a single GPU powerful enough to compete with SLI.

It's quite faschinating from an anthropological perspective. Our society values degrees over actual knowledge so much. One of the more worrying consequences of this is in Wall Street.

When they hire, they only hire the Smartest^^TM people from the smartest^^TM collages (Harvard, Yale etc). The people that are pulled into the system don't necessarily have to have degrees or an actual valuable education, just having entered the right bachelor program is enough.

These peoples are then rewarded on how well they act within the cultural system of Wall Street. If they conform and manages to do some decent work they survive, and are labeled as fucking geniuses by Wall Street and a society that worship Wall Street.

The longer consequences of it is that Wall Street builds a competence-pool that's not necessarily smart, just able to conform to a system that in-itself isn't always too smart or well designed to created educated people.

Because if Wall Street was so smart, why are we entering recessions every 10th year, and why are we destroying the planet for short-term profits? Why are Wall Street driving bubbles that they know are bubbles?

They believe that loyalty to the wall street system is smartness, because people at Wall Street are "fucking smart".

TLDR: Listen to Liquidated

I had a Creative Fatal1ty Mark II that I liked, but I tripped over the wire and broke the connections.

I replaced it with a Razer Carcharias that I absolutely love. The earpieces are a breathable foam that doesn't make my head sweat slightly like the Fatal1ty sometimes did. It's about $80 new, but I got it for about $55 refurbished on Amazon. It's nothing fancy, but it's great for the price.

EDIT: It's not USB if that is a big deal for you. I didn't want USB anyway.

you can, but you're right it's just a hassle. before i got my anova i used to use a lobster pot and a candy thermometer and just tinker with the flame until it maintained a certain temperature.

i'm sure there are tons of videos online about doing sous vide without any special equipment.

it does take about twice as long to get to the meat to desired temperature without the water-circulation, however.

by the way anyone interested the anova sous vide thingy is great and costs way less than gaben's

This guy gets it. Games are a steady productivity drip that help you feel more in control/accomplished compared to what real life usually offers. The first step out of a cycle of suffering is to see that you are in one, which it sounds like you are doing. Engage your problems, make improvements, and keep trying. Feel free to PM me as well.

For related reading, try Reality is Broken and The Art of Learning. The latter, in particular, helps cultivate the perspective that makes success in other things as interesting as games can be.

http://www.amazon.com/MSI-GE70-Apache-Pro-012-17-3-Inch/dp/B00IMTQ5I2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1406136463&sr=8-1&keywords=msi+ge70

My personal recommendation, though it's well under your price range. With gaming laptops there's a spectrum between high powered desktop replacements (huge and bulky) and compact laptops that also play games. I feel like the laptop I linked strikes a good balance and sits on the price to performance sweet spot.


Edit

http://www.amazon.com/MSI-GT70-DOMINATORPRO-890-9S7-1763A2-890-17-3-Inch/dp/B00IMTQ7MQ/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1406137553&sr=8-4&keywords=msi+gt70

the GT70 if you don't mind a huge laptop and you insist on spending more money. This is close to the best money can buy without dishing out 50% more for a name brand like Alienware. As you can see I'm a MSI fanboy :D

If you are looking to spend 100 dollars, you will not get quality regardless of what you choose.

If i 100% needed best bang for buck for both mic and headphones, I'd buy this combo:

http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Microphones-Snowflake-USB-Microphone/dp/B0012AUHXW/

http://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-HD-429-Headphones-Black/dp/B0065VKQ34/

If you don't care about the microphone, buy the cheapest ass desk mic you can find (probably about 15-20 dollars) and spend some more on the headphones, but they will still not be good headphones even if you add in another 20 bucks.

Personally I run a Blue Yeti which is practically the best USB mic money can buy, with Audio Technica M50:s. The headphones are monitor ones, which means they have very little sound bias (this can be good or bad, if you do even the slightest sound production like I do, you want monitor phones and they work great for gaming and listening to music too so it's not a problem for me that I can't squeeze more bass out for example).

It's great to hear you were able to do that. I recently read a part of Fun Inc in school library (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fun-Inc-Centurys-serious-business/dp/0753519852), and he raised a really great point; one of the indicators of good game is basically how addictive it is. I wonder if some game devs make their MMOs really addictive on purpose.

This is really a Who Moved My Cheese moment.

The E-blade + Dagon combo was great, but there are plenty others. Yeah, farming ancient stacks was great, but there are other mechanisms for farming.

Maybe Midas Tinker will become a thing? Maybe, instead of beefing up magical/item damage, people will go pure DPS on him? His base attack would look pretty sweet w/ a Desolator or Skadi projectile.

Point is, there are plenty of people who will throw their arms up in the air and say "change is scary and I'm going home." There are others who get creative and will find ways of making him viable, potentially even improving on the previous incarnation.

meh, confidence is good for your play as well, so take it all in stride. can't play at the level you need to if you don't think you have the ability to do so and set high expectations

just don't forget that you're not special to matchmaking, you're just an mmr value, same as everyone else. that mmr value gets sorted into games, and if you are deserving of vastly more mmr, you'll find those games easy. it's extremely common to make big conclusions from misleading, selective or anecdotal data.

it's not specific to DotA, though:

http://www.amazon.ca/The-Drunkards-Walk-Randomness-Rules/dp/0307275175

leads to dunning kruger perceptions of skill.

> Do you (or anyone) know where I could find quality information of that type (the more detailed and accurate, the better) ?

Behold the 8000 MMR Guidebook for Fitness.

tl;dr Learn to squat.