VG Defense of the Ancient (DOTA)

What comes to your mind when you here DOTA? Dota is an online and local computer game that is very popular to the youth for so long years now. The developer of Dota known as IceFrog. Dota became popular in the Philippines during the year 2003. It became well-known particularly to male elementary and high school students that can ruin their lives, future and even their relationships. In fact I have a friend broke up with her boyfriend because of this game, because in this game every player spend their time minimum of 1hour and her boyfriend is always late in their date because of playing DOTA. Many male youth became addicted to this game for some reasons. Because it involves social factor in a sense that you can fight with your friends. You can play it by 5vs5, 4vs4, 3vs3 and as long each team has a minimum of 1 player, but they say that in playing this game the more player the merrier. The objective of this game is to defend and destroy the ancient of each team. Dota consist of two teams, the SENTINEL and SCOURGE, for sentinel they must destroy the scourges ancient or vise versa. As the game start you must pick a hero or character that you will control the rest of the game. The characters or heroes can be strength type, agility type and intelligence type. You must level up your hero and gain money by killing another hero, creeps, or neutrals. The faster the farming the stronger your hero. Farming means gaining money. Here are some of DOTA terms: PUSH, DEF, GG, AFK, B, G and etc. PUSH means attack, DEF means defend, GG means good game but for some boys this just an expression, AFK means away from keyboard, B means back and G means go/game. Dota is just a game created by human. This is just a past time for many male students and some girls, but you must study first before anything else so you will have a better future and you can be proud of it. Because our life is like a computer game where in every stage it became harder and harder.

FYI: Positive Effects of Playing Dota or video games

When we are playing video games like dota, it gives our brain a real workout. In many video games, the skills required to win involve abstract and high level thinking. These skills are not even taught at school. Some of the mental skills trained by video games include: o o o Following instructions Problem solving and logic Hand-eye coordination, fine motor and spatial skills.