What are some tips for a low MMR player using Doom (DOTA 2)?
1. Keep using Devour as soon as it is off cooldown. It is like a built in Midas. Devour creeps with low hp for fast bonus gold.2. Use Devour preferably on neutral creeps with active skills during early to mid game On satyr,centaur,Troll camps for Purge,Stomp,Net respectively. And Wildwing’s torando for farming stacked camps. Eat carty creep to prevent cheap shots on tower.3. Don't Roam to make plays. Stay in lane or in jungle to farm continuously with an early Vlads or Tranquils. Spend little time on roaming and ganks as Doom progresses well with items.4. Donot forget to use scorched earth during team fights most of the players focus on ult rather than other skills & also keep infernal blade on Autocast.5. Get Initaiting item like Blink / shadow blade as doom’s movement speed is low and his cast animation is a bit long.6. Save Ultimate for that hero who is the reason you have picked doom a.k.a the escape or caster hero. Like Invoker, Storm spirit, Dazzle, Puck, Necrophos, Antimage, void etc.7. Use doom and try to tank the enemy damage with scorched earth as there is not much you can do after spending doom, mekansm, shivas.8. If you are playing carry or enemy has enough diables to stop you from casting doom go for Bkb.9. Watchout for the Linkens on enemy in late game which can be game breaking. Break linkens with Infernal blade.Item choices :Doom is very flexible and has lot of core items1. Go tranquils and Iron talon for farming.2. Get phase and vladimirs for semi carry or carry build. Devour Wolf for critical strike.No need to get damage items as doom’s base damage and strength gain is quite high.Kobold for movement speed. Devour wildwing for armor to negate harass during laning.3. Get Arcane + mek for utility and ganking doom.Midas is also a good choice and it wont hinder your item progression much.4. Shivas is a very good item on doom if he has Phase / blink / drums6. Refresher is very good item. Refresher + shivas is also a good combo if you have arcanes or stats.Item build is totally situational and there are lot of choices like :Vlads/Greaves ; Shivas/Assault ; Blink/shadow ; Pipe/Crimson ; Blademail/Lotus ; Radiance/Assault , Bkb , scythe , Heart etc.Watch pub games or youtube videos to learn
Is it wrong to kill a fly?
Funny you should ask this question. I used to feel bad about killing flies. I would catch them and get them out of the house without killing them. I even found one stuck in some oil on the top of a 5-story high 50,000 barrel oil tank which I rescued and tried to help get cleaned up but it died and I felt bad. Later in life I had someone challenge me to kill one because I was working on some addiction recovery issues and feeling responsible for other people's problems and he thought that killing a fly might help me break out of owning everyone else's junk. It was difficult but I did it and at this point, if I can easily just get them out peacefully, I will, but if not, the fly gets dead. And just today my 2-year old was freaking out because a fly landed on her and she thought it would hurt her.So that's my background on it. As for the morality of it, that's a tough question. That involves evaluating the value and rights the fly has against the time and effort and annoyance it takes to get it out of my house in a peaceful manner. I think ultimately, it's probably immoral to kill a fly for no good reason - even just for simple annoyance. As for neglecting my kids for 5 minutes while chasing a fly out of the house, I suspect the morality of that short time of neglect might outweigh the value of the fly's life but I'm not sure where to draw the line there. I'm ok with being a little immoral for the sake of efficiency/laziness, I guess but maybe someday I'll be more moral. And the amount of neglect I subject my kids to at the hands of my smartphone is much greater than the time I spend chasing flies.tl;dr It is immoral to kill a fly for no good reason, but the line is fuzzy to me where that reason becomes a good enough reason to kill it to enable some other greater moral good to occur. And I need to spend less time on my smartphone around my kids. :-)
Which rappers have the best complex rhyme schemes?
An interesting question.If you stare down the history of rhymes in music and relate it to the evolution of rap, a beautiful pattern unfolds.What I will do here is list some very intriguing rhymes. What you should understand is that complex rhymes are not exclusive (mostly) to rap artists. Why?Well, because an artist who chooses some very dense rhymes in one song would go easy on some others for better storytelling.Anyhow, some very noteworthy mentions are :Notorious BIG - HypnotiseIt is often said to be the “smoothest rap” song ever. See how he alternates between long and short sentences and also notice the frequency of his rhymes.His laid back delivery makes it all the more gripping. He isn't regarded as the one of the best rappers for nothing.Mos Def - RedefinitionHe hits every note within the bar with a rhyme. This feat is almost impossible to maintain. Take a look.The man hardly ever cursed and he often probed some very sensitive issues with his rhymes.Eminem - Lose yourselfArguably, one of the best rap songs of all time. Look at this complex rhyme scheme.HOLY FUCK ! He also tells a very compelling and touching stories along with these rhymes.What is very interesting is that as he enunciates he often changes the pronunciation to rhyme and that is the clever ingenuity. Let me explain.Consider your words “ whole ” and “ knows ” from the verse. Now ask anyone to enunciate and ask if they rhyme. It doesn't, does it ? And now listen to the song. And listen carefully how he drawls the syllable “ ho” in “whole” and the same way stretches “ no” in “knows”. You see how it rhymes ?Eminem in pretty much the same way rhymes “orange” with “syringe” by twisting the pronunciation. Who says orange doesn't rhyme with anything ? The song did not win the Oscar for no reason.MF DOOM - Meat GrinderEver heard of someone rhyming complete sentences together ? Here we goI really can go on and on about him but I leave it upto you to discover this artist.The lyrics dances, the music enhances and the chance is he might be the one whose rhymes are the densest. ( Just off the top off my head :) )Happy reading.