Subconscious association is an interesting phenomenon: what we tend to think of ancillary to the central point of a given reminiscence informs us of a lot more than the initial memory. The degree to which we hold relationships between the inanimate and our animate interactions with the world, and the targets to which these affective … [Read more…]
Fads come and go: there’s no doubt that in all fields, what is fashionable comes and goes, with a wide variety of factors making their way into the determination of what is currently in vogue. DOTA is no exception to this, with the way in which the game changes in the iterative, evolutionary manner it … [Read more…]
It’s a good thing to have one’s taste’s challenged. Where such challenges occur around things that one is passionate about, the reconciliation of any potential cognitive dissonance with the points that are being made by any given person can be a difficult task: it takes a fair amount of humility and introspection to be able … [Read more…]
There’s a point at which one should probably admit to their vices, and in the last six months or so DOTA2 has probably become one of mine. Four-hundred and seventy-three games (not including games that are not logged statistically due to abandonment of one of the other nine players before the end of a game) … [Read more…]