Bottle Crow Reborn

This episode, we're all about growing up. Nick's doing upgrades on the house (?) that he owns (???), Slacks's sense of humor has evolved, and Anti-Mage is all grown up and their safelane support single parent can finally let go. Alllll the TI hats reviewed, why does anyone like Dota Underlords, Straw-Ber-Ita's glorious return, and Beef Wellington. Rejoice, Bottle Crowd: this one's for you. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Rhythms of Riftshadow Ruins in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments.

Welcome back to the stage of history. ...That's what I call these podcasts notes. Hey folks, it's been a while! But while Bottle Crow has slumbered, much has been brewing in the world of Dota. A new hero! Aghs for everyone! Dota Auto Chess... official? All this, plus Jacky's Chow, and so much more. Hey again. It's good to be here. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Rhythms of Riftshadow Ruins in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments.

Oh gosh, I'm just realizing the can I've opened. By starting having episodes be separately labeled as "Jacky's Chow" I've now permanently screwed up my episode numbering. Oh no, oh jeez. Well. Nothing else for it, I suppose. Episode 119, aka Episode 118, is here. We glean True Sight on the events of the last International, tsk tsk at the subpar New Bloom, wish Maybe a happy marriage, sigh over the loss of TorteDeLini (he's alive), and are appalled at Nick's latest food atrocity. No? Just me? Well, whatever. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Rhythms of Riftshadow Ruins in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments.

Hey hi hello! Sorry to make this weird, but you see up there how it doesn't say "Episode?" It says "Jacky's Chow?" Well, it's still an episode of Bottle Crow, you still get your Dota talk in there, but from now on, if it opens with food talk, and it's more food talk than Dota talk, we're gonna label it as an episode of Jacky's Chow! Thanks for reading my little explanation. What the eff is an elderberry? We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Rhythms of Riftshadow Ruins in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments.

[The following is an excerpt from "Chemical Disturbances Through the Ages" by Prof. M. Midas.] ...So clearly, there is a distinction between being "poisonous" and being "toxic." However, the two can also seem very similar at an initial assessment. If one takes at face value the claims of Bell Biv DeVoe's "Poison" and Brittney Spears's "Toxic," it is readily apparently that in individuals, both "poisonous" and "toxic" individuals can be recognized as being extremely attractive, perhaps irresistible, but also ultimately corrosive to the mental and spiritual wellbeing of any who endeavors to maintain a relationship with them. The gentlemen of Bell Biv DeVoe are quiet specific, claiming that a poisonous individual must have "a big butt and a smile," whereas Ms. Spears is more vague, commenting more on the addictive nature of interactions with a toxic soul... We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota frien

As your carry blames Magnus for another defeat, as boosters take MMR through immoral feat, there's a companion that will be there for you, times good and bad: Bottle Crow Reborn, with Six Dettmar and that Nick lad. Sometimes you celebrate the joys of the game, others you can't help but curse its name. Whatever your mood, or how hard you try, this episode we argue about mixing hot and cold food for like 20 minutes, and that's no lie. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Rhythms of Riftshadow Ruins in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments.

What does it mean to "steal" a spell? After all, when Rubick steals a spell, it's not like the original caster loses anything. You wouldn't steal a CAR. Don't steal a SPELL. Is that it? It's like online piracy? And in that case... is it like reposting someone else's art, or is it like torrenting a movie? Are spells copyrighted? Can you sue over spell theft, and if so, do you have to prove it's the exact same spell, or can you get in trouble for a "similar" spell that's clearly inspired by another? Anti-Mage predates Queen of Pain, can he sue her for copying Blink? Or is Blink a public domain spell? I guess I'm saying, Happy Feast of Winterveil. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Rhythms of Riftshadow Ruins in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments.

A whisper on the wind, a voice in the shadow. Love is in the air, and it carries a dagger for the unsuspecting. For The Boys? No. The Boys are dead, and there are no tears. Sometimes to make something beautiful and new, you have to tear down the old. And so say it firmly, say it with belief in its righteousness and glory: "For the Girl." It feels strange in your mouth, does it not? Fear not. You will become accustomed to it with time. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Rhythms of Riftshadow Ruins in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments.

We decided to talk about the patch real quick: just for thirty minutes. Annnnnd... we failed! It is like two hours of patch talk! We do take a break for some Jacky's Chow, though. Get ready for everything you could ever need to know about 7.20, unless you need actual useful information. Why no Enchantress buffs =( We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Rhythms of Riftshadow Ruins in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments.

Language and respect, messaging and leagues. And the other sort of League! It's a holiday episode, I'm keeping the description short. See you again next week! We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Rhythms of Riftshadow Ruins in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments.

This week, we uh... barely talk about Dota? Sorry? Mostly, Six and Nick are here to talk about Subterfuge, a persistent 24 hour strategy game that has tested the bonds of their friendship, and left it stronger. Yes, now their relationship is reinforced by bonds of hatred and loathing as well, so they are truly inseparable. Nick should be dead like five times over, his luck was so good, I'm so fucking mad y'all. We do, somehow, find time to talk about Dota as well. Dig in. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Rhythms of Riftshadow Ruins in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments.

This week on Bottle Crow: PPD has a new league! Treant has a new aghs! Soda, the leader of the brunch, and so much more! Quick show notes because my brain is just not there right now! Until next week! We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Rhythms of Riftshadow Ruins in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments.

I'm sorry to say it, but IceFraud and Surge are at it again. New hero ideas, items, victory conditions, skill additions... and that's just from their regular continent of North America. Then Surge heads to Australia to introduce another underappreciated Dota Little Brother, and his revolutionary ideas for the future of defending ancients. Hopefully none of their ideas ever come to pass, but who can say. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Rhythms of Riftshadow Ruins in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments.

On a slow week of Dota, we turn to unconventional means to provide an entertaining show. Oh, and I suppose some entirely conventional means as well. EE updates, the reddit's slow unraveling, a sub snafu, and a surprise guest! We got it all for you this week. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Rhythms of Riftshadow Ruins in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments.

Who likes game shows? Well... Nick does, obviously. The newest incarnation of his appreciation of them somewhat resembles Calvinball more than Jeopardy, though. Artifact explains that Dota has just been BlazBlue this whole time. EE has a new diet, and I'm not talking about him eating dirt as a position 6. Plus, an Artifact card controversy. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Rhythms of Riftshadow Ruins in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments.

You put the crow in the bottle, and you shake it all up. Dota Plus has been UPGRADED! With amazing features like... things that were in the Battle Pass! Hurray! Now for just Money a month, Valve won't take away features that cost them nothing to maintain and make the game a more pleasant experience! Happy birthday to Alohadance, and a return to German recipes to see if we can get some solid repro. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Rhythms of Riftshadow Ruins in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments. Thanks to Nick for editing this episode: the first episode of Bottle Crow since like episode 15 or something that I haven't edited!

...Two years later when the Lord’s Pitch was finally re-opened they all returned to the Ancients for their delayed final year. Grimstroke missed having an outlet for his creativity so he began to create less permanent body art using magical inks and an anti-erase spell. His friends loved it, they could indulge in sensuous and provocative tattoos that caught the eye but vanished with a simple spell before censorious teachers or parents could complain. Grimstroke knew the Battlefield of the Ancients had a lot of issues with tattoo art especially after its most recent incarnation in the Meepo Tattoo, but he wouldn’t give up the pleasure it gave him. Unfortunately when he drew Anti-Mage a beautiful unicorn curving intimately around his torso Magina was so enamoured of it he refused to vanish it before he went home to visit his parents. The resulting furious letters to Diruulth and Radinthul had Grimstroke on the receiving end of an official investigation. Magina’s parents were concerned that the body art was far

The International is behind us... and god, there's so much to talk about! Like EternalEnvy ordering McDonalds! And EternalEnvy tweeting about dad fashion! And EternalEnvy having- wait. I feel like we're forgetting something. Oh right, a new hero! Uhhh, hmm. Well, I'm sure we'll find time to say SOMETHING about that amidst our fast food musings. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Rhythms of Riftshadow Ruins in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments. Email your questions to bottlecrowreborn@gmail.com! See again next week!

A quick hit for you this time! With The International 2018 in full swing, we're taking a mid-tournament break to record an update straight from the frontlines. With upsets left and right, who's going to come out on top? ...You know, we didn't even talk about that. We're too busy being mad that Weatherman Purge isn't back, and crying at the Sheever video. Ah well. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Rhythms of Riftshadow Ruins in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments. Email your questions to bottlecrowreborn@gmail.com or colin@bottlecrow.com! See again next week!

We've cracked the code. OpenAI isn't going to rule us. They're going to usher in a new age of narrative and storytelling in esports. And then I'm assuming Dota will be bought by Vince MacMahon. ...Maybe them ruling us would be the better outcome. Valve is bad at math, we were right about Slacks, BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, and the Properties of Lunch on this week's episode. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Rhythms of Riftshadow Ruins in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments. Email your questions to bottlecrowreborn@gmail.com! See again next week!