33 karma · joined December 14, 2012
The difference in skill between the ex-pro, or even several of the just very talented players and the rest of us is immense.
The trivia helps, knowing counter items and the like helps but at high level play all sorts of things become very important. For example positioning of your unit(s), to either miss a spell being cast or to physically block the person you are trying to kill makes the difference between a major win or complete loss of a fight. Or your ability to farm, last hitting creeps, stacking/jungling and maximizing your gold per second.
So yes at low level Dota is all about the trivia. I'm a better player then a random new player because I know the characters, their abilities and the items. But at the end of the day despite putting in hundreds of hours I pale in comparison to a Excellent player because I don't have the reflexes, or the split second analytical mind. In addition, and most importantly, I've not put in the hours upon hours of purposeful practice that a pro dota player has.
Dota is a skill based game.
Except not everyone is running a top of the line desktop in a first world country. Even in a first world country you have people on older laptops, slower internet, or even metered internet.
Minimizing the size of your app is still a worthy goal. Maybe not to the level pushed in the article.
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and then '4@a' to run it on all the lines. In a simple case like this is it a bit more complicated than something like multiword editing but I've used this technique in cases that are far more complex then what from my understanding, multiline editing can handle.
For example I turned a spreadsheet of data into a complicated dhcpd.conf file using a couple macros.
Second and far more importantly your use of "Big Buck Bunny" is in violation of its copyright. While "Big Buck Bunny" is Creative Commons you either have to provide attribution or show the video in its entirety including its credits.