I bit the bullet and started playing Dota 2. And I am genuinely enjoying the game.
The learning curve is more accurately defined as a learning wall slightly leaning towards you, slick with the blood and sweat of a thousand fat nerds beating eachother to death with ice blast snipers and hard carry gold farming.
Luckily, I have a group of really cool teachers, and I have, I think, 4 wins and 1 loss! Also, the community so far has been surprisingly lovely, except for a few cuntmonkeys. Most players I've met have been helpful. I've mostly been using Chaos Knight, but so far I've enjoyed Ancient Apparition (long range multikill ice blasts all day) and Sven.
Also, fuck Invoker.
If any of you losers want to play with me and have the honor of losing because of my inexperience, my steam username is ragnathorn.