As I said last Thursday,
Tuesday and Thursday aregoing to have shorter (250 - 500 word)
informal, barely revised articles. It may be about games, writings,
politics or something else entirely.
Today it's about watching Dota on
YouTube.
If you're looking for the best way to
learn from a semi-pro the player to watch is Purge. His videos,
titled Purge
Plays... are understood to be instructive to new and
experienced players alike. His analysis has made him a valuable part
of the Dota community, and earned him invitations to analyze premier
professional tournaments.
Following the Dota scene is difficult
because games are about fifty minutes long, and most tournaments use
best of three series. Noobfromua
is an convenient YouTube channel because it allows you to watch only
the best parts of the game. No one wants to observe the carrys
farming their jungle. Noobfromua excellently reviews each game and
cuts out anything which isn't a great play or a teamfight.
But, if you're looking for horrendous
and hilarious plays made by everday players there's no better place
to look than Dotacinema's
Fails of the Week or
Dota Watafak. Yet they are very different experiences.
Dotacinema's fails of the week series was originally hosted by
SUNSfan and Reaves. They have a series of clips of players messing
up, and they comment on the failures. While it is a video about
players failing in a video game, they approached it as something
worthy of effort. The rapport they establish between the two of them
develops and improve over time. Unfortunately, after over one
hundred episodes, Reaves left the series and SUNSfan brought on
SirActionSlacks as his replacement. In a combination of poor casting
and a lack of effectiveness between the two casters the series has
suffered. Perhaps the worst mistake of all is their constant
criticism of the choice of clips. They downplay their work, as if
it's no good. It's not serious, but by telling the audience the
clips aren't worth watching, they'll come to believe you.
Dota Watafak is a channel,
with the same idea, but there's no casters. Instead it uses musical
cues, graphical editing, and memes to deliver the punchline. The
cues are childish, grating, and whatever else one expects from memes,
but the clips are still good 170 or so episodes in.
A final recommendation is the deranged
and disturbed Pyrion
Flax.
That's it. Poem tomorrow.
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