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Well that's an unfortunate location for a Dota player

how about the chinese dota server ?

how to know our location ?

On the plus side... your contributions and posts/blogs to this site have been great!

Keep up the good work.

@Flop how about using a map

^rolf, poor kawaii, i cant even play at 140 ms lol

Best I've had is US East @ 80 ping and is very rare. Typically I float between 180~210 myself and live in Kansas City so supposedly right in the middle between both servers in US. I can't change ISP's since Time Warner Cable has a nut stranglehold on Kansas city in my neighborhood at least. DSL is poo also so not an option.

I am waiting with baited breath for Google Fiber in my neighborhood..... hoping it will be this summer they will finally install fiber in my neighborhood.

I'm right near EU East server but still I play on EUW. EUW is way higher leveled compared to EU East.

I live in NA E, but can play EUW or NA W as well. :( Sorry your net sucks.

200 ping is totally fine

if you play NP only

That purple hammer looks so gay ;d

^ Notices gay things. Must be gay!

I got great ping toward any of the servers ( ranging from 14 to Europe servers to 120 on USA servers ) but on the other hand i got trash pc, so i play on mostly 25 fps. So chill, at least you got good pc :D

I guess you dont have access to perfectworld servers.

Thx for kind words. Can't wait for the montaging team to come)

And while I am waiting (and while I have no inspiration for writing more blogs, since I don't play dota as much), I might share some of the last changes in my life - most of you know that I have moved from Ukraine back to Kazakhstan - my country of origin. But as 22 y.o. Male I couldn't possibly stay at my parents house for long, hence after 10 days of extremely tasty food and care from my awesome mother, I've moved out and rented a rather cheap flat (~$300/month).

It is simply superb. It has 80's USSR style and remained rather authentic. I really feel like I need to share some pictures.

2 Front Doors. Really old. Very wow.

Bedroom Door. Covered in wallpaper to prevent people from seeing huge holes in it)

Bedroom Door. Close-Up.

Bedroom is overall ok. A bit barren. No curtains, but 7th floor makes up for it.

Disregard the Winnie Pooh sheets. They are mine from 10-12 years ago. The only bed sheets I was allowed to take from home))

Highlight of the whole Flat - Bathroom!

Awesome murial. Great picture. Very wow indeed. Except...

Seriously... What sick bastard would actually go through the trouble of drawing arm pit hair?... sigh... I claim that to be one of the big reasons USSR has lost Cold War to the US...

I bet the guy drawing it was as high as this little fish:

And while we are in the bathroom... Look at my sink. My sink is amazing:

It seriously left me a bit baffled, without a pipe and whatnot, until:

Your typical USSR kitchen from 1980's. That's where people would gather to drink and discuss politics, while making long term plans of completely screwing with the foreign Dota 2 servers:



And of course my newly-created very-Kitsch fridge:

My current "workstation":

and some extra gear:

As always: thx for reading)

I thought the hands on the fridge were blood stains from the previous person..

@sano

loled your answer make me looks really stupid looololz

@Hot.Salza - it is actually blueberry jam that was left in the Fridge since the previous renter (god knows when). I managed to spill quite a lot of it inside the fridge, and decided to have some fun while cleaning)

Wowzers I have to admit that looks kinda rough there Kawaii! Damn!

P.S. Winnie the pooh sheets gotta go. You will never bag any ladies with those man. If you do she may think you're ready for kids watch out! XD

We should make a post that people post their apartments.

A few snipets of yourself but no sign of your socks that are supposed to be kawai. Dissappointed

Hey Kawaii how is Kazakhstan ? And its too hot there ?

God i really hate it when someone made a painting like that in the bathroom

Looks like someone bought Dota2's genuine battlefury

There used to be a japanese/korean server, where is it now?
I tried to point my mouse into the japanese map in dota2 and it says SEA Asia, wtf

Im supposedly getting upgraded to fibre :D ....in June ;-;
until then im stuck with my 0.8mb connection ;-;

^That sucks dude

With fiber, you will see the world :-D

Got my fiber broadband. It certainly helped the pings, but I am still experiencing quite a lot of spikes, which I find annoying.

The weather is fine. It was -34 C (-29.2 F) when I arrived, but got a bit better with -24 C (-11.2 F) c last couple of days.

HAHA!! To Russia you go :)

-34 C lmao... you're like 70 degrees below Brazil

I have 40 ping to Stockholm and about 100 to both EU West and East, but i keep getting very annoying lag spikes which often make my performance way worse than it should be. Which is very sad, as in the place i used to live in, the max internet speed was 512kbps, yet, despite the higher ping, the overall quality of the internet was higher!

At least you could find a flat for yourself. I'm too anxious to live in a dorm, but it costs only 2500 per month, meanwhile a lot of flats charge 1000 or more per day...Just how'd you find one that's so cheap and has internet at the same time?

Why is Stockholm listed as Russia? I knew we were open too people but thats little too much :D

He probably paid the internet separately,
There is no way antique flat provide fibre optic internet as facility.

how should i read that map for some reason it points on russia over and over

-34 C ? ROLF, i cant stand one day at that weather, -10 C its already too much for me.

I ping ~120 to USW, and I found out most people get 50-70 ping and it's definitely a noticeable difference.

My country is rather cheap overall. E.g. living in UK needed around £200=$350 monthly for food/bills. In Ukraine I was ok living on $250. Here I will only spend ~$200 on food in a month. And that includes occasional "going out" when I am too lazy to cook.

I pay for the internet separately. it was just installed today. But overall an optic fibre connection with a stable 30-40 Mbps Download speed for ~$24.75 a month is not too bad. And the installation was free for some reason (had to sign that I am willing to be their customer for at least 6 months though)

- 34 C is not too bad - my country is really dry, so it isnt as bad as -34 C would be felt somewhere in the UK.

Like, when I feel lazy, but really want/need to get to the shop ~100m away, I usually just put on a sweater/boots and go out in shorts. Feels good)

@Deadshot -lol'd at your comment. I guess the main problem, is that the "Russian" servers really don't provide much advantage to Russian players - they usually have higher ping on them, compared to EUW. You can look at my ping tables - you can see that the ping to EUW are the lowest, by at least 10-11ms, compared to Russia.

We need a petition from the community to get servers somewhere around here:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.011402,82.9640955,11z

That would
a) Solve the problem of Russian-speaking population on English-Speaking servers.
b) Allow a HUGE (HUUUUGE) playerbase in central Russia/Kazakhstan/Mongolia etc. etc. etc. have <100ms ping.

Just saying...

I would sign the petition and invest money in that server over in russia idea. I would expect an ROI though :O

I'm from Canada, Ontario and still got 35ms ping on European servers >_>
The servers I do get 100+ ping is Russia but for pubs I have that option there just cause I dont want to wait too long for a game (I've got north america + europe + russian servers in preference, dont like south americans =/ ).

@Shelleg3s The problem with us(south america) is that we don't have a spanish server, brazil server is so laggie and we don't speak Portuguese. So we play in na server :/