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Here is the changelog for Dota 6.59 by Icefrog. Happy playing!

CHANGELOG

• Some performance improvements
• You can no longer attack items you do not own if they are in the fountain area

• Fixed some rare memory corruption bugs that could cause random abilities/items to malfunction or result in a fatal error

• Added a new subtle cooldown effect to make it a little clearer when spells are in cooldown and when they finish. This is mainly for long cooldown spells where it is sometimes difficult to tell. More work will be done in this area soon, but it needs a bit more time to make sure that anything extra is not visually intrusive. (PGRu-Unexpect3D)

• Reworked Enigma’s Conversion (see details below)

• Fixed a bug with Towers AI not defending heroes properly

• Reduced Ironwood Branch cost from 57 to 53 gold

• Increased Blademail duration from 4 to 5 seconds

• Improved Chaos Knight’s cast point

• Added a new experimental mode -er (-ExperimentalRunes, see details below)

• Improved Surge duration from 2/3.5/5/6.5 to 3/4.5/6/7.5 seconds

• Decreased Wrath of Nature manacost from 200/380/610 to 150/175/200

• Improved Antimage’s Strength by 2 points

• Increased model size of hexed units a bit

• Increased Curse of the Silent AOE and reduced cooldown slightly

• Decreased Powershot cooldown from 12 to 9 seconds

• Decreased Lightning Storm cooldown from 7 to 6 seconds

• Fixed Acid Spray from affecting Tombstone Zombies

• Spectral Dagger no longer gives vision

• Rebalanced Necrolyte’s Heartstopper from 250/500/750/1000 AOE with 1% drain to 700/800/900/1000 AOE with 0.5/0.75/1/1.25% drain

• Increased Fury Swipes buff duration from 3 to 5 seconds

• Fixed an issue with unit selection when respawning with Aegis while controlling other units

• When a player leaves, the state of his inventory is now recorded in the replay for easier parsing (Same 8_# actions)

• Improved Eidolons magic resistance a bit

• Fixed some minor technical issues with Mask of Madness

• Fixed scoreboard player names when a player switches with a leaver

• Switch no longer works when only 1 person agrees in a 1v1 situation

• Fixed Zombies continuing to spawn when the game is over

• Fixed Eidolon Acquire range and reduced collision size a bit

• Fixed -switch with frozen leaver heroes

• Abaddon now uses the Death Knight model instead of the Evil Arthas one (practically the same, but commonly requested)

• You now have vision over the area you cast Blackhole in (260562)

• Fixed Aegis dropping when using -switch

• Ball Lightning now gives a proper error message when casting without the required mana

• Fixed allied hero visibility when using -switch in -ah mode

• When players swap heroes, the new player/heroid data for replay parsers are updated

• Changed the model on Eidolons and adjusted the scales a bit

• Fixed some issues with Blackhole’s silence mechanism when applied to magic immune units

• Fixed some bugs when using -switch with Meepo

Demonic Conversion:
=====================
Splits any non-hero unit into three Eidolons, killing the targeted unit.
Eidolon’s can duplicate themselves once whenever they attack 6 times.

Lesser Eidolon/Eidolon/Greater Eidolon/Dire Eidolon (Same as before)

Cooldown: 35
Manacost: 170

Notes: It cannot target Level 5+ Neutral Creeps

Experimental Runes
====================
This temporary mode changes the rune system to a more experimental one. I will be changing how -er works from version to version to try out different ideas. I don’t plan on any one version of the new runes to replace the current system directly, so do not panic Well Instead, it will be used as something to create discussion, spark ideas, find flaws and playtest different concepts over time.

How -er works for this version: Runes spawn simultaneously on both sides at 3 minute intervals (instead of 2). Again I have no plans to make this permanant.

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Here is the changelog for Dota 6.59b by Icefrog. Happy playing!

Dota 6.59b CHANGELOG

• Fixed various memory glitches from recent optimizations that sometimes resulted in abilities/items malfunctioning

Aside from that, let me share to you what are the changes for Dota 6.59 map.

Dota 6.59 CHANGELOG

• Some performance improvements
• You can no longer attack items you do not own if they are in the fountain area

• Fixed some rare memory corruption bugs that could cause random abilities/items to malfunction or result in a fatal error

• Added a new subtle cooldown effect to make it a little clearer when spells are in cooldown and when they finish. This is mainly for long cooldown spells where it is sometimes difficult to tell. More work will be done in this area soon, but it needs a bit more time to make sure that anything extra is not visually intrusive. (PGRu-Unexpect3D)

• Reworked Enigma’s Conversion (see details below)

• Fixed a bug with Towers AI not defending heroes properly

• Reduced Ironwood Branch cost from 57 to 53 gold

• Increased Blademail duration from 4 to 5 seconds

• Improved Chaos Knight’s cast point

• Added a new experimental mode -er (-ExperimentalRunes, see details below)

• Improved Surge duration from 2/3.5/5/6.5 to 3/4.5/6/7.5 seconds

• Decreased Wrath of Nature manacost from 200/380/610 to 150/175/200

• Improved Antimage’s Strength by 2 points

• Increased model size of hexed units a bit

• Increased Curse of the Silent AOE and reduced cooldown slightly

• Decreased Powershot cooldown from 12 to 9 seconds

• Decreased Lightning Storm cooldown from 7 to 6 seconds

• Fixed Acid Spray from affecting Tombstone Zombies

• Spectral Dagger no longer gives vision

• Rebalanced Necrolyte’s Heartstopper from 250/500/750/1000 AOE with 1% drain to 700/800/900/1000 AOE with 0.5/0.75/1/1.25% drain

• Increased Fury Swipes buff duration from 3 to 5 seconds

• Fixed an issue with unit selection when respawning with Aegis while controlling other units

• When a player leaves, the state of his inventory is now recorded in the replay for easier parsing (Same 8_# actions)

• Improved Eidolons magic resistance a bit

• Fixed some minor technical issues with Mask of Madness

• Fixed scoreboard player names when a player switches with a leaver

• Switch no longer works when only 1 person agrees in a 1v1 situation

• Fixed Zombies continuing to spawn when the game is over

• Fixed Eidolon Acquire range and reduced collision size a bit

• Fixed -switch with frozen leaver heroes

• Abaddon now uses the Death Knight model instead of the Evil Arthas one (practically the same, but commonly requested)

• You now have vision over the area you cast Blackhole in (260562)

• Fixed Aegis dropping when using -switch

• Ball Lightning now gives a proper error message when casting without the required mana

• Fixed allied hero visibility when using -switch in -ah mode

• When players swap heroes, the new player/heroid data for replay parsers are updated

• Changed the model on Eidolons and adjusted the scales a bit

• Fixed some issues with Blackhole’s silence mechanism when applied to magic immune units

• Fixed some bugs when using -switch with Meepo

Demonic Conversion:
=====================
Splits any non-hero unit into three Eidolons, killing the targeted unit.
Eidolon’s can duplicate themselves once whenever they attack 6 times.

Lesser Eidolon/Eidolon/Greater Eidolon/Dire Eidolon (Same as before)

Cooldown: 35
Manacost: 170

Notes: It cannot target Level 5+ Neutral Creeps

Experimental Runes
====================
This temporary mode changes the rune system to a more experimental one. I will be changing how -er works from version to version to try out different ideas. I don’t plan on any one version of the new runes to replace the current system directly, so do not panic Well Instead, it will be used as something to create discussion, spark ideas, find flaws and playtest different concepts over time.

How -er works for this version: Runes spawn simultaneously on both sides at 3 minute intervals (instead of 2). Again I have no plans to make this permanant.

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Here is the changelog for Dota 6.59 by Icefrog. Happy playing!

CHANGELOG

• Some performance improvements
• You can no longer attack items you do not own if they are in the fountain area

• Fixed some rare memory corruption bugs that could cause random abilities/items to malfunction or result in a fatal error

• Added a new subtle cooldown effect to make it a little clearer when spells are in cooldown and when they finish. This is mainly for long cooldown spells where it is sometimes difficult to tell. More work will be done in this area soon, but it needs a bit more time to make sure that anything extra is not visually intrusive. (PGRu-Unexpect3D)

• Reworked Enigma’s Conversion (see details below)

• Fixed a bug with Towers AI not defending heroes properly

• Reduced Ironwood Branch cost from 57 to 53 gold

• Increased Blademail duration from 4 to 5 seconds

• Improved Chaos Knight’s cast point

• Added a new experimental mode -er (-ExperimentalRunes, see details below)

• Improved Surge duration from 2/3.5/5/6.5 to 3/4.5/6/7.5 seconds

• Decreased Wrath of Nature manacost from 200/380/610 to 150/175/200

• Improved Antimage’s Strength by 2 points

• Increased model size of hexed units a bit

• Increased Curse of the Silent AOE and reduced cooldown slightly

• Decreased Powershot cooldown from 12 to 9 seconds

• Decreased Lightning Storm cooldown from 7 to 6 seconds

• Fixed Acid Spray from affecting Tombstone Zombies

• Spectral Dagger no longer gives vision

• Rebalanced Necrolyte’s Heartstopper from 250/500/750/1000 AOE with 1% drain to 700/800/900/1000 AOE with 0.5/0.75/1/1.25% drain

• Increased Fury Swipes buff duration from 3 to 5 seconds

• Fixed an issue with unit selection when respawning with Aegis while controlling other units

• When a player leaves, the state of his inventory is now recorded in the replay for easier parsing (Same 8_# actions)

• Improved Eidolons magic resistance a bit

• Fixed some minor technical issues with Mask of Madness

• Fixed scoreboard player names when a player switches with a leaver

• Switch no longer works when only 1 person agrees in a 1v1 situation

• Fixed Zombies continuing to spawn when the game is over

• Fixed Eidolon Acquire range and reduced collision size a bit

• Fixed -switch with frozen leaver heroes

• Abaddon now uses the Death Knight model instead of the Evil Arthas one (practically the same, but commonly requested)

• You now have vision over the area you cast Blackhole in (260562)

• Fixed Aegis dropping when using -switch

• Ball Lightning now gives a proper error message when casting without the required mana

• Fixed allied hero visibility when using -switch in -ah mode

• When players swap heroes, the new player/heroid data for replay parsers are updated

• Changed the model on Eidolons and adjusted the scales a bit

• Fixed some issues with Blackhole’s silence mechanism when applied to magic immune units

• Fixed some bugs when using -switch with Meepo

Demonic Conversion:
=====================
Splits any non-hero unit into three Eidolons, killing the targeted unit.
Eidolon’s can duplicate themselves once whenever they attack 6 times.

Lesser Eidolon/Eidolon/Greater Eidolon/Dire Eidolon (Same as before)

Cooldown: 35
Manacost: 170

Notes: It cannot target Level 5+ Neutral Creeps

Experimental Runes
====================
This temporary mode changes the rune system to a more experimental one. I will be changing how -er works from version to version to try out different ideas. I don’t plan on any one version of the new runes to replace the current system directly, so do not panic Well Instead, it will be used as something to create discussion, spark ideas, find flaws and playtest different concepts over time.

How -er works for this version: Runes spawn simultaneously on both sides at 3 minute intervals (instead of 2). Again I have no plans to make this permanant.

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Japan doesn’t adhere to American standards on Valentine’s Day. In Japan, Valentine’s Day consists of two parts: Giri chocolate and White Valentine’s Day.

Feel free to read the full article below:

The Valentine’s Day in the United States is where the man is supposed to present chocolate or something more, and both men and women exchange gifts.

From the perspective of Americans or non-Japanese people, it may take some time to believe the story of Japanese Valentine’s Day, and it may take a bit more time to accept the strangeness.

On Valentine’s Day in Japan, women are supposed to give a chocolate to men. Women presumably present a chocolate to her boyfriend, husband or someone she likes. More often than not, females use the holiday to confess their feelings by giving that someone special chocolate with the occasional love letter.

The chocolate that women give to her boyfriend, husband, or future boyfriend is mostly made by her. This is so-called “real chocolate”. Women enjoy making their original chocolate for their “honey.” Meanwhile, Japanese Valentine’s Day also has “fake chocolate”. It is chocolate that women give to men because of some sort of social obligation. This type of chocolate isn’t special or hand-made and usually is superficial. This type of chocolate is called “Giri chocolate” in Japanese. An instance in which you’d give “Giri” chocolate is if a female worker gives a chocolate to a male co-worker or her boss. It could be for her subordinates and it could be her male friends, even if she does not imply anything special by this action. Besides, as long as the chocolate is Giri chocolate, women can give it even though he has a girlfriend or husband.

Since Giri chocolate does not contain any special feeling, the chocolate won’t be hand-made. Usually they go to a convenience store or a mall and pick up a bunch of cheap chocolate.

You might wonder why women continue to give Giri chocolates. I actually interviewed some female students and asked why they gave Giri chocolate.

The most common reason for a Giri chocolate was to keep a good relationship with him. Even though men know it is a Giri chocolate, which does not have any special feeling behind it, psychologically, it makes men happy anyways and women know that. So, by presenting Giri chocolates, women think that it helps the relationship. Especially, once you started to work, keeping a good relationship with your boss or co-workers will be important.

Another reason for Giri-chocolate is just to have fun. Women who do not have anybody to give their hand-made chocolates to can enjoy the holiday by giving Giri chocolate to whoever she wants. However, it does not mean that all of single women are obsessed with giving Giri chocolate. Some could care less and don’t do anything.

Some men in Japanese culture will compete over how many chocolates they get, and the number of chocolate indicates his popularity or prestige. As a matter of fact, it is no doubt that some men will get more than hundred of boxes of chocolates in a day from women. A typical example is that a hundreds of thousands of female fans will all send famous actors their Giri chocolates. It sounds ridiculous, but, that’s what’s happening in Japan every February 14th. How strange it is.

Interestingly, this Giri chocolate culture has been rampant and really common in Japan.

After the Valentine’s Day is over, so-called “White Day” (White Valentine Day) follows on March 14. On this day, men give something back to women who gave them chocolate the month before. To put in another way, Valentine’s Day is when women give something, mostly chocolate while the White Day is when men give back a present in return. What’s happening in the White Day is that, for example, a man would take his girlfriend, wife or somebody special to a restaurant, and after that, he presents her with something. Typically, the presents for White Valentine’s Day are mash marrows or candies. But these gifts are considered old fashioned. Usually the gift will be something more expensive than the chocolate she gave. It could be jewelry or a brand bag. But, it cannot be generalized. It all depends on the person. A bunch of flowers works! A teddy bear works!

According to a Japanese article, the origin of White Day is related to snack companies in Japan. When Valentine’s Day became popular in Japan in the 60s, snack companies in Japan started the campaign and advertisement saying that March 14 is the day that men might want to give back something for women. Then, snack companies advertised cookies, mash marrow and candy as the item for March 14. In the 80s, the holiday was campaigned throughout Japan. The name of “White” comes from the fact that the sugar for candies that snacks companies made was white and later on it was declared as White Day.

The importance of White Day will be that how much love or respect men can show to her. That’s the most important thing for men. Men can feel how much she loves him or how much respect she gives him from her hand-made chocolate, which may take her hours to get it done. In return, men try to show love or respect to women by giving something that makes her happy. This give-and-take takes place on Feb 14 and March 14 between men and women.

With respect to men who received a hundred of Giri chocolates from his female co-workers, friends or whoever, men probably do not give back anything, though some people may do. And women who gave Giri chocolates do not really expect them to give back something. It seems that this is how Giri chocolate relations works between them.

These are two most weird things happening in February and March 14.

To sum it up, the White Day was made because of snack companies and organizations’ ambitions to sell more products to consumers, and it was a strategy to increase the sales of snacks. Notwithstanding the origin, most men and women enjoy the White Day. The White Day has been pervasive as one of the Japanese culture. However, the current trend for White Day is more to give something expensive like jewelry whereas traditional items such as cookies, mash marrows and candies have been fading little by little. Considering the phenomena, snack companies may need to bring about a new strategy to heat up White Day with cookies or candies again before March 14 can change to be called Silver Day.

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2) Valentine Chocolates

A sweet truth …

In the recipe of love, chocolate would be a classic ingredient with no substitute whatsoever.

It can be white or dark chocolate.

Its blissful taste with the smooth melt-in-your-mouth sensation will make anyone swoon for more.

And so, nothing says “I love you” more than with a box of luscious chocolates.

But do away with those tinfoil-wrapped chocolate nuggets displayed in supermarket shelves for commercial consumption.

Treat your beloved to something extra special,
Let them get a taste of how chocolate really is -“the food of the gods…in-love.”

I listed some websites that you can different ideas on what kind of chocolates you would give to your love ones.

• Top 10 Valentines Day Chocolates by Susan Breslow Sardone
• Valentine’s Day Chocolate Gifts by The Chocolate Vault

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