#dota2 meme

[dota2daily]

Dota 2 Pros (and LOL Pros), help me understand this meme, plz? I can feel the PING in my head these days...

[rodenka]

awkward monkey king

[rubikx107]

They look so alike , like they are the same person 🗿

[anx1oustig3r]

[verodicia]

one of mine

[keystonepublishing]

The Saga of Hermitcraft on r/Place (1 April 2022 - 4 April 2022)

On the 1st of April 2022, Reddit unveiled a white blank canvas where every user had the ability to place one colored pixel in every 5 minutes. At its height, about 4 million people participated in one of the biggest internet collaborations ever made. The ripple effects reverberated into news reports as far away as Turkey, and the final canvas represents a snapshot of the multiple communities, events, memes, and what was popular around the world at that time.

This is a documentation of the Hermitcraft mural on r/place 2022.

aka.

Remember what I said about my latest ficbind being a distraction? This is what I wanted to be distracted from.

After Reddit's API fiasco of this year and the subsequent controversial event that was r/place 2023, I decided to save as much documentation about the 2022 event as I could. Luckily, I remember how there are already a series of posts by @riacte who documented the progress of the Hermitcraft mural throughout the whole event, from beginning to end. Her blogposts form the bulk of this book (like, 95%!) and I cannot thank her enough for preserving the happenings of the block men mural.

With that said, I quickly realized that someone who's not a Hermitcraft fan - or me if I'm older - might not get the gist of who's who on the mural. The solution? Make several pages dedicated to just listing who's who on the murals! Because of the sheer number of heads, the mural was divided into several pieces for easier labeling. As a bonus, I also threw in another mural nearby which was connected enough to the Hermitcraft community.

For consistency's sake and preserving focus, I decided to not label the peeps from Dream SMP or the MCC secondary mural. Wrangling Microsoft Word to create an infographic was hard enough, let alone 3! If I inadvertently left out a few bits of extra context from this decision, mea culpa.

When it came to typesetting the entire text block, I decided to make some consistent rules. Titles denoting each day or stage of the mural are on their own pages. New sections are titled using the Bahnschrift font and colored blue, while the first paragraph has their beginning lines look Minecraft-coded and topped with a drop cap (aka. those super-large alphabets).

The names of Hermitcraft and Minecraft players in general are bolded when they first appear in the text. Afterwards, they are bolded if they are contextually important to what's being said.

Extra context would be placed in the footnotes section at the bottom of the page. This is also where I dump some background information that would be invaluable for any readers who aren't Minecraft fans, which is why the SpaceX page looked like... uh, that.

My image policy is to go with the flow; I used as many images from riacte's posts as possible, but I also added-in some of my own if more context is needed. Placing them to look smooth with the text was harder - some are small enough to not cause any problems, others are large enough to fill entire pages without any problems, but a few like the Dream SMP mural (hey there! I managed to put you in!) are too wonky to fit perfectly without leaving no empty spaces.

So in that mural's case, I placed them to the side and let the contextual text flow around it. This principle was also used for the Dota2 / Love Live images and in a few other places throughout the book. The biggest case of this are the few images that are just too wide.

Like this one.

Making double-page spreads is not the easiest thing to do in Microsoft Word, and there are a few r/place images that are too wide to fit perfectly in a single page. Confining them to one page would also mean losing all their details, so making them a double-page spread was necessary.

Didn't make it easy though, especially when there are paragraphs of text and other images that needed to be shuffled around. Mess up the double-page images, and they won't meet in the middle. Mess up the text and other pics? There goes the layout and overall flow!

In the end, making this book took a lot longer than I expected, but I am still grateful to have made this as I have now read through many posts from Tumblr, Reddit, and even Youtube - people expressing joy that they have collectively made something together. I can only hope I have made some justice to them by compiling their work and (even if a small sliver) preserving their testaments.

May this r/place be remembered.

[dianight]

Not making light of the situation, but there is a sort of parallelism that I’ve seen whenever there’s an organized effort like the one going on now (limbus company).

When a game/organization makes some controversial decision that deserves criticism (many bugs/wrong descriptions in this case) along with others that honestly the players were informed about [1](offense number changes/uptie 4) that are “detrimental” yet expected; there seems to be groups that use those kind of opportunities to pile on the company/org to push their bigotry. No swimsuit on Ishmael, a feminist on the team [2], posts that she made long ago are brought up as legitimate issues.

Like I’m not sure what the point would be here. It just keeps happening I guess.

When diablo 3 released it was a mess. Melee classes were unviable, loot was impossible to get, characters getting one shot, game being balanced around the real money auction house. All of those legitimate complaints. But I remember this one post on blizzard forums (long deleted since) where some person wrote several paragraphs highlighting these issues, adding some personal gripes eventually just ranting, and concluding, literal quote here, “y aún por encima, Tyrael es negro” [on top of everything, Tyrael is black]. As if that was important, when paladins in diablo 2 were always dark skinned.

The diablo 3 example is one of many. I’ve seen it on some games’ professional scenes (sc2, dota2, apex) and more “casual”(?) games.

It’s not about the swimsuit they say, it’s about making a woman know her place lose her job.

[1] That whole meme about project moon players not having any reading comprehension always seemed wrong to me, coming from lobcorp and then ruina, where you have to actually understand what you are reading or you’ll get destroyed. It appears somewhat true now.

[2] I’m not informed about feminism in Korea, so I’ll leave it at that. But I’ve seen claims of the illustrator being a terf or such that could very well be lies.

[mifock]

Oscillating between whether to finish the meme or finish the drawing.

Dota2 wins😁

[lasanha-do-lidl]

https://www.tumblr.com/communities/dota2-art

The Dota Community is now free to join!

I'd love for more people to join and add their art, thinkpieces/headcanons, screenshots, videos, memes, fanfiction, etc~

[dota2daily]

Bring new friends to DOTA 2 after taking a few years break...

before the game

in the game

...

[sphelon8565]

01/18/2021

Here’s another quick draw I did yesterday.

based on Troll Warlord’s thank you quote” NO, I DO NOT DO A HIGH FIVE”

Poor Lux....she’s being dragged into some kind of low....

[rodenka]

blinking phantom lancer

[dankdota-blog]

[anx1oustig3r]

i love that mireska and meepo are canonically friends this is their dynamic

also high school au stuff bc that au is the bees knees

[verodicia]

one of mine

[ensis-art]

a warmup.