There’s definitely selection bias (LoL loses some number of players on its deplorable culture). But overall, they’ve been growing their userbase year over year. That’s a big reason they don’t seem to give a shit about their reputation. It doesn’t seem to cost them much.

Lots of social media and big market gaming has this problem of 4chan-ification. Costs way more to police than you can earn from policing, unless there’s state regulation (akin to the FCC) on what you’re distributing.

LoL has a peak daily player count north of 13M. Its one of the most played games in the world. There’s clearly a tolerance for intolerence in the setting - even an adoption of it, as younger players internalize the slurs as appropriate behavior. That’s why you see it everywhere. People with foul mouths aren’t attracted to LoL. The existing base (which was trained to be shit when they joined) degrades the newest members in turn.

You see the same in games like Roblox and Call of Duty. Without any meaningful admin or internal censorship, the bad actors run rampant and the new players are trained to accept (and then imitate) the miserable attitudes.

The matchmaking dynamic has ruined a lot of games and LoL is no exception. I do think folks play up the bad vibes on LoL relative to everything from Overwatch to Valorant to fucking Roblox. If you’re not going into these games with a group of local friends, you’re either going to have a bad time or you’re going to be the bad time other people experience.

Meth has a large number of useful applications. And most meth users I’ve known have been comparatively civil, soft-spoken, and fun at parties.

I love these posts because they let me find out which .world users desperately need to be added to my block list.

But unlike Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Larry Page, the good folks at .ml did nothing wrong.

If it’s an hour that ends in o’clock, there’s someone on .world screaming about the dang leftists ruining the website.

More and more people are asking it.

If it were gambling there would be a 51-49 split in returns somewhere along the way, with hundreds of hours and putting money into machines slowly eating away the money you earn, until you’re left a shriveled husk of a person with nothing to your name.

If you get into “The Big Short”, what you’ll discover is that this was effectively what the insurance on the mortgages accomplished. Buying insurance is a losing gambit (also called a hedge) wherein the underlying asset (the policy) loses money over time with the anticipation of a potential windfall at some unspecified event in the future.

What Mark Baum and Michael Burry had done was to effectively buy these insurance plans from the banks themselves, diverting the windfall from a crash into their own pockets. The banks shouldn’t have been auctioning off their insurance (for the same reason you shouldn’t try to sell your fire insurance claims on your house to your neighbor in an effort to turn a profit). But the investment was considered crazy precisely because these insurance plans only ever existed as a fig leaf for regulators and investors (even if we fail, we can’t fail, because we have insurance!) Nobody asked who was going to pay out this insurance or who was going to collect.

When I first got WC2, I discovered that my 1x CD couldn’t read from the disc fast enough for me to play it. The game would run for about five or ten minutes, then crash. I made it about half way through first campaign - 5 to 10 minutes at a time - before I was able to afford a 4x CD and play it normally.

WC3 was the pinnacle of the PC RTS gaming era imo

I’ve heard a lot of mixed opinions on the WC3 Leaders mechanic, as it focuses gameplay around farming and single points of failure (losing a leader at the wrong moment often meant losing the game)

In that light, Starcraft was the pinnacle of PC RTS gaming and WC3 was an experimental variation that branched off into an RTS variant that would eventually congeal into DOTA, the pinnacle of PC MOBA gaming.

That’s like saying “A hamburger is good, but I just can’t into bacon double cheeseburgers.”

I mean, I would say this unironically.

I’ll add that WC1 had fewer variances between factions. Orcs and Humans were almost identical. That made the game more akin to a real time digital chess than WC2, which made Orcs marginally more aggressive and Humans more defensive. I think WC2 is more fun because of the asymmetry, but that’s purely a question of taste. I’m not going to begrudge someone who has a fondness for the original.

It only really makes sense when the remaster is trash

I gotta disagree. Even when the remaster is (arguably) better than the original, there’s a lot of value in the original art assets and the more rudimentary gameplay as a historical guidestone. For the same reason you wouldn’t tear up the original Mona Lisa because we’ve got a high resolution digital copy, you don’t just scrub copies of the original version of Pong from the internet because we have Wii Tennis.

Deciding on which benches are placed in the subway?

But at some point, the library had to draw a line

It’s not the library staff making these decisions. Its inevitably the city council or the governor

If not this will have zero affect for the state actors and the US will just buy through a trading proxy at a higher cost.

I’d define that as an effect, particularly given how the US has been scrambling to insource its tech industry over the last four years. TMSC just ramped up a competitive chip fab in Arizona, for instance.

Idiotic policy on both sides.

The argument boils down to each country claiming they need additional security measures aimed at a geopolitical rival. The ramp up to war never looks smart until one side wins.

I didn’t say being publicly intoxicated, I said publicly using drugs. As in they were shooting up while kids were being taken to storytime past them on the way to the library.

We have a solution for this as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervised_injection_site

Proven highly effective for reducing crime, mitigating the need for emergency response, curtailing disease spread, and channeling addicts to rehabilitation clinics

But because it comes off as permissive and benevolent, rather than punitive and prohibitionary it remains Haram in much of the US.

In America, your local public library does more to help homeless people than anything you have probably done yourself

It’s a public service staffed with dozens of people. Of course a single person isn’t going to do more in spare time than a team of people doing the work professionally.

But that doesn’t excuse the rest of the state for tearing out local infrastructure as a means of tormenting the homeless.

“I did two good things so I have permission to do one bad thing” isn’t sounds public policy.

You’re only going to have Australian accents in porn made in Australia or with Australian actors.

I was under the impression much of the modern (Western facing) industry produced on the American West Coast and Eastern Europe where young, pretty people come cheap.

I don’t think there’s enough Australian talent porn being produced (at professional grade anyway) to justify its own category.

the local homeless around the library were either very publicly using drugs

Biggest drug dealers in America - the Sackler family - weren’t worth our time to punish. So some guy who washed out on Percocets and can only afford Fentanyl shouldn’t have a place to sit.

There was definitely a big outcry about how the library was being anti-homeless, but it was nuts because there were people on the other side still complaining about how the library always stinks because they let the homeless people in there.

In America you have two options -

1. pretend homelessness and addiction aren’t happening
2. destroy public property in a scorched earth campaign against drug use

The very idea of housing, treatment, and rehabilitation is too socialist to consider.