(Part 2) Best products from r/heroesofthestorm

The original Diablo 2 could stand a few modernizations (graphics being foremost) but by no means would I call it a bad game. It still stands strong even by modern standards as very good game design.

It would be very difficult to pick out any significant flaws with it and the liklihood that any significant flaws you pick out of it would also apply to Diablo 3 and other ARPG's is very high.

> na i didnt think most players where in defense of diablo 3

You must have forgotten the #$%^ storm that happened at the release of that game. You couldn't say a single negative thing about it without being massively dogpiled. Regardless of whether it was a forum or on youtube or on a review or in game. Just utterly and massively annihilated by a sheer mass of game supporters who ironically said the same concerns months later lol.

Oh and here, go and read a few reviews:

http://www.amazon.com/Diablo-III-PC-Mac/product-reviews/B00178630A/ref=cm_cr_dp_see_all_summary?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=byRankDescending

Yeah, I'm sure it's all nostalgia sarcasm. I'm not going to argue you further than this though, because if I wanted to smash something against a wall I'd be testing car crashes....not posting on the internet.

Going into the Mid-Season Brawl, a general question: Sam Walker has a book called The Captain Class, which says that the common thread among dominant, athletic sports teams that consistently win championships is the captain of the team -- not the superstar of the team, not the coach of the team, but the player that is the leader of the team in a social dimension. Walker found that the captain was the most important variable in these teams' success.

Do you see this in play at all in e-sports, and specifically in the Heroes community? Granted, the comparison may not be perfect as many teams are already handicapped by not having a coach (as all athletic sports teams do).

Honest feedback:

• Working on the [candice] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadence_(music) ) of your voice would greatly help your casting. I had a hard time understanding you at times.
  
  
• Your mastery of English needs some work. In your title, you didn't capitalize the first word in the sentence, there are two unneeded commas, and 'if feedbacks' makes no sense. I cannot tell if this is a lack of attention to details or just honest mistakes. In any communications art, knowing the correct word usage and grammar are essential.
  
  
• Whatever your native language is, there are some great materials on learning English for non-native English speakers to help correct common problems. This would help in life as well as casting.
  
  
• For voice work, you can try [Carol Fleming's Sound of Your Voice] (https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Your-Voice-Carol-Fleming/dp/0743551796)
  
  

You can look into a device called a "Power Line Adapter". Its a device that will run your wired connection through the power line in your apartment. I seem to max out on 40Mb/s on mine, but I am not sure of the exact speeds I purchased as I cant check since i'm at work. Since it is not just an ethernet cord, it can be moved around the house, and it plugs into any power outlet that you have.

I imagine latency is your biggest issue you are facing, but to be honest I don't have a big issue with these impacting my ping time at all. Its something to look into.

Quick Edit: http://amzn.to/1YU7IqU Here is a link to the one I own. It comes in a few varieties if you need something specific with it. Hope it helps!

I always love it when people craft this kind of awesome stuff, great job!

Tip from me, voidprisons are on sale atm: https://www.amazon.com/StrombergBrand-Classic-Umbrella-Automatic-Carrying/dp/B00GXETOMM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1500039658&sr=8-3&keywords=green+umbrella

For me it was wrist alignment. Try to get your wrists level, keeping your chair the same height or very close is usually best.

Some people like a foam bar that you rest your palms on ex: https://www.amazon.com/Belkin-WaveRest-Wrist-Keyboards-F8E263-BLK/dp/B00004Z5RA

I also use a wrist brace to help keep my wrist straight when my symptoms are bad.

I would/tend to sleep on my hands and it amplified this problem, my doctor recommended the wrist braces they work well.

Yes, you can have a 40" 4K and need to move your head to look all over the screen, or a 30" and have a bunch of things out of your vision that you need to shift your focus over to look at.

Monitors are all personal preference. I have a 29" Ultrawide and I sometimes miss things on the sides of the screens.. specifically the minimap and health panel in HotS. I sit 2' away for reference.

Very surprised Blizzard even supported 21:9 in HotS, considering their past, and current history, regarding 21:9 monitors. (aka "they're cheating".. even in a PvE game like D3)

If you want extremely fast response times, you get a 16:9 TN panel. If you want great FoV and solid colors, you get a 21:9 IPS panel. Gaming 21:9 monitors are quite expensive though.. even ASUS' new 240Hz 16:9 monitor is under half the price of the X34 or ASUS' equivelent.

For me personally, I'll never go back to 16:9. It's a completely inferior aspect ratio.. as it was back before it very sadly took over 16:10.

I'm going to assume that you wrote this article because you're genuinely interested in the psychology of videogames, and not because you read the Bartle Test wikipedia page and decided to write an article full of academic buzzwords. If you're going to use phrases like "the four classic gamer psychological classifications cited in Bartle's taxonomy," you need to make sure you're interpreting that taxonomy correctly.

To that end, it's important to point out that you have a fundamental misunderstanding of Bartle's framework, as he presented it. It was developed for the sole purpose of studying MUD/MMO communities, and any attempt to apply the framework to other game genres is essentially meaningless. Bartle's Achievers want to be in rich, immersive worlds with lots of goals to accomplish, to the exclusion of all else; they have little interest in interacting with others, unless it's to compare achievements while resting in town. Explorers are interested in interacting with the world in a constant pursuit of a sense of wonder, to the exclusion of all else; worrying about the minutiae of points or achievements is a worthless occupation, because it defies the very open-endedness that makes a world live and breathe. Socializers are interested in finding out about other people and getting to know them, to the exclusion of all else; they are interested in scaling social hierarchies and establishing friendships and contacts, and are only interested in achievements or exploration as a means to that end. Killers are interested in demonstrating their superiority over fellow humans, to the exclusion of all else; they prefer head-on competition (PVP), as opposed to indirect competition, such as comparing achievements.

It's easy to see how this framework can make sense while studying MMO communities, but it's less clear when trying to stretch it across other genres. There is no complex social network in HotS for Socializers to navigate, or a giant, immersive world for Explorers. Buying skins does not make someone an Achiever.

If these archetype descriptions sound different from the results page you'll see after taking the multiple-choice "Bartle Test" somewhere online, that's because they probably are: Bartle published his original framework in 1996, and the test was put together by two MUD gamers in 1999. You shouldn't put too much stock in it, for the same reason you'd be wary of Buzzfeed trying to interpret a scholarly article.

Now, all that being said, Bartle's framework is mostly regarded as nonsense now, even by Bartle himself, who in 2004 tried to rework his framework to include eight player types rather than four. Even in the new 2004 model, there are significant problems: for example, while it seems intuitive that members of raiding guilds are both Achievers and Socializers, these two types are at opposite ends of Bartle's models, which then raises concern as to whether or not the model is therefore meaningful in the first place (1) (2) (3) (4) (5).

TLDR: If you're really interested in writing an article about "the psychology of HotS" that uses academic terminology, you need to do a lot more research. If that's not what you're trying to do, then there's really no reason to dig up pseudoscience in trying to argue that HotS is superior to other MOBAs.

I agree with the changing your mindset part...in fact, I'd highly recommend a book I just finished titled, appropriately, "Mindset". It talks about failure fixation, learning to focus on improvement, and some tips for shifting mindsets. Basically it covers this exact topic and has some good science behind it that I think helps sell the ideas to skeptics.

https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0345472322

If you can spare the cash, get a Razer Naga. It's easy to play any hero one handed.

https://www.amazon.com/Razer-Naga-Chroma-Gaming-Mouse/dp/B01798WKTY

https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Nighthawk-AC1750-Smart-Router/dp/B00R2AZLD2/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_147_bs_t_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=Y8Z5AQZ1G1ZMDKGJJQ7V is the router I'd recommend. Netgears AC routers tend to have less dropped routing tables and overall more stable wifi. Still well within your budget and if you get the R6300v2 instead its only like 70-80 bucks and just as reliable. If you want added stability you could flash it with DD-WRT and there are many guides explaining how to do that.

Here's the headset I use. I love it:

http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Surround-Gaming-Headset-Technology/dp/B00CQ35C1Q/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1463762787&sr=8-4&keywords=logitech+headset


This one from Logitech is nice and in your price range:

http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-G230-Stereo-Gaming-Headset/dp/B00BFOEY4I/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1463762787&sr=8-2&keywords=logitech+headset

I'm sorry that I do researches and read books.

Btw. I would suggest following Book: Illidan: World of Warcraft. If you do reading, you will love this book and will be impressed about the lore of Illidan!

I haven't orders just yet but it's a 10x6 drawing surface if I recall correctly. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B010LHRFM2/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479223852&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=graphics+tablet&dpPl=1&dpID=411W-0dfSwL&ref=plSrch this us the one I'm aiming for. It has really great reviews.

Well clearly they didn't keep polishing it even though it was still being used. Because of that, with gradual use, it started to get more and more scuffed.

Someone tweet this at D-Bro and the game should be good until Season 1 starts.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000J00X2G?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00

Actually on sale right now for 69% LOL. I highly recommend them, they didn't affect my play at all besides maybe the first few games with them.

> I'd suggest heading to an electronics store and trying some demo units.

You can also order a switch tester from Amazon for about 16 bucks and some change:

https://www.amazon.com/WASD-6-Key-Cherry-Switch-Tester/dp/B00AZQKCD4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1509565909&sr=8-2

and

https://www.amazon.com/Akwox-Cherry-Switch-keyboard-Sampler/dp/B01GZHU1EG/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1509565909&sr=8-3

You can buy extenders that run through the house's power lines. They're called "powerline adapters". I use them in my house with my roommates where I can't have a giant UTP cable from the switch to my machine.

Here's an example:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AWRUICG?keywords=powerline%20adapter&psc=1&qid=1457025049&ref_=sr_1_1&s=electronics&sr=1-1-spons