Rant 294 / Save The Planet, Kill Yourself.

The aura of the Necro in DotA v6.59 seems to be much better. I swear, there were at 3 times in the last game I played when an enemy hero just dropped dead right at my feet. I was surprised when they died just at my arrival because I was preparing to spam my 1337 skills into their faces. I thought someone else had killed them but the text credited me for the kill.

What the heck? Sure feels different from the old aura, probably because the range is already 700 at level 1 while the old version was 250. So that means about 3 of my 13 kills (13/5 RAWR!) in my last game were caused by my aura skill. Woots!









Recently, I received an email from Care2 about Ethiopia's need for food aid. Apparently, an increasing number of Ethiopians are needing food that they can't get in their country. So this email is asking me to spread the news.

Right, so I'm spreading the news by mentioning it here, but that doesn't mean I totally agree that we should all donate money and food. They aren't the only people dying from hunger in the world. If anything, I'd donate food to the poor in countries with a more stable situation rather than help feed people who may someday join in the conflicts that wreck their country in the first place.

So what I'd suggest is that instead of giving them free food, provide condoms and free abortions instead. Those will work better and they can get rid of the root of their problems.








Having been spoilt by my ample supply of Stimpaks in Fallout 3, the latest expansion, Operation: Anchorage caught me totally off-guard. In the simulation of the battle to liberate Alaska from the Chinese, I have not seen a single Stimpak so far. Of course, all I've done at this point was destroy the artilleries.

That doesn't mean there wasn't anything to heal me with. At regular intervals there would be a health replenishing machine which I also assume to be safe save points. But it did get pretty hard sometimes when I kept missing their faces.

The thing is, I'm a melee weapon specialist and all they gave me for this category was a lousy Trench Knife. No flaming sword attached to a motorbike fuel tank. With the poor damage and my crap armour I had to run as fast as I could, which wasn't very fast either since I didn't put many points on Agility, towards my enemies and slash at their heads.

When I hit their heads enough, they will be "crippled" and get stunned for a while. Crippling their heads also dramatically lowers their accuracy with weapons if they survive my slashes while they were stunned. Crippled body parts also seem to receive more damage, as if the armours over these areas were broken.

Anyway, destroying the artilleries was merely the warm-up. The next stage involves 3 suicide missions, with me armed with the same damned Trench Knife as my only melee weapon. At least I also have seven of the damage-increasing meds, Psychos.

I'll also be leading a team of 4 into the mission. I could have gotten a huge robot in the team but robots use weapons that may hit me, like flamers and missile launchers.

So I recruited 2 Snipers and a normal Assault soldier together with the default special NPC sergeant. They may still accidentally hit me when I'm sating my bloodlust during my slashfests, but at least I don't burn nor lose a limb.