Balance will always be imperfect. Heros are changed to be stronger/weaker every patch. I would imagine its the same for Dota?
At any given time, you will always have X heros for every roll that are way better than the rest.
New heros aren't always overpowered. Most of the heros that are changed with every new patch are pretty old.

I mean sure as a player I find it frustrating that I have to bank up on IP, but I understand Riot's view as well.
Honestly if all you can buy in Dota is cosmetics, then I really don't understand how they are making money. (but then TF2 pops in to mind, so I guess there really are enough people that care about that stuff)

I think your term "soft pay to win" nails it. I don't like just "pay to win".

Yeah I inferred that, but obviously Valve makes money from dota. So what can money buy you in-game?

I'm playing on EUW, add ItsTrath. (Probably nothing will come out of this post but here is for hoping)

Well you don't need to have the "latest hero". There are plenty of hero that you can get after 3-5 games.
Sure it is annoying that you don't have a hero you want, but that is why this business model works.

How does it work in Dota? I'm sure people pay for something similar, no?

In any event, League certainly isn't the first to come up with this model, where it isn't pay to win but it isn't nothing either.

I don't see how this could have any effect on music copyright.
What, is iTunes gonna supply Twitch info with what music your listening to while streaming? Then use a different program to listen to music.

Video/Audio data is pretty much limited to the metadata supplied with it, and even if they did have some advanced audio recognizing thing like Youtube, I doubt they would be able to go through all the videos/data they have.

Twitch wants to start having metadata for its videos so you know what is in them.
So if you would search "Call of duty 5vs5 sniper" you would get 5vs5 games from sniper POV.

It seems to be mostly talk, and even if it were to happen, it would only be directly with game developers at first. (Apparently Twitch has some agreement with Xbox One devs? so potentially you could have Xbox One game videos with metadata).

The next step after that would be to have PC stream apps (like OBS and xSplit) to either allow users to manually enter metadata or PC game devs would integrate with these apps and supply them the data automatically?

TL;DR of TL;DR
Just some talk about a possible future feature

look at the address bar and just cut off the tf.tv part of it.
maybe this will work http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/24/how-twitch-is-using-metadata-to-change-video-on-the-web/

Thanks a lot guys, some great stuff here.

Yesterday I "discovered" 2 sick DnB tracks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7azOBkAg2rA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q77LWPmAp4k

I would love some more of these type of DnB's.
Good pace, unique-ish sound, good feel/flow.

Thanks in advance and sorry for creating another one of these threads.

Upload the whole thing to stream highlights

How did this start? this is genius and I'm laughing so hard :D

EDIT:
Reddit post - http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/1gqhqi/thepledge_vs_mrslin_in_a_sleepoff_mge_showmatch/

EDIT 2:
Somebody else did a reddit post before me and it has some upvotes so upvote this instead/as well:
http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/1gqgrn/pledge_vs_slin_in_sleep_mge_dont_miss_it/

OMG yes they are using G and I'm using N.
I'm in the middle of a game but if this is the fix you are a legend!
Fingers crossed!

I did it, nothing has changed.

What should I be doing in QoS?

Whenever somebody else uses the internet from another device(browsing, watching youtube, streaming music), the internet is slow for everybody else and games are unplayable.

For example, if I am playing TF2 and then a family member starts watching a youtube video, the game will become unplayable for me, ping goes crazy on net graph.
However, if I am playing TF2 and I run a youtube video in the background, it is unnoticeable. So to be clear, the problem is not the internet bandwidth (15MB down 1MB up), its about "using" the router. (I don't really know how to describe)

If I'm playing TF2, browsing gets slower for everybody else. (even though it is only KB/s).
If I watch youtube/stream, browsing gets SUPER slow for everybody else, and pages might even not load.
Obviously, the same is true vice-verca.

The router is an Edimax BR-6524N.
I ping <1ms to it.

When there aren't more than two people using the internet at the same time, everything is stable.

Is this how things are supposed to be on Wi-Fi? Would getting a new router solve the problem?

Just chooose, you can thank Garm3m later http://www.sdx-gaming.eu/?file_id=336

Maybe they finally fixed the G400 cable.