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If “shouted in Klingon” is redundant, then is “said in Klingon” an oxymoron?
If “shouted in Klingon” is redundant, then is “said in Klingon” an oxymoron?
Weird to segue directly from arguing that cluster munitions are illegal into claiming that the legality of weapons doesn’t matter, but okay
It’s way cuter if he’s kicking his stubby ol legs
That’s a nonsense reason to ignore community creations. New players aren’t drawn to games because of whether the community is making things; they’re drawn because there are fun things in the game, regardless of where exactly they come from. That the community was allowed to contribute is not what drew so many people to Fortnite or Minecraft. Cosmetics make a lot of money, and mods can help with player retention as people get bored of vanilla, but they still need to be drawn in by the base game. That goes for Fortnite as much as it does League.
Besides, creators aren’t generally drawn to making things for a game solely based on the tools available for doing so; they do it because they like the game. Even if that were the case, creators aren’t a big group of people, nowhere near enough to move the needle on “having enough new players.” That isn’t part of the calculus Epic did when deciding support them, and it shouldn’t be for Riot either.
Attempting to include community content doesn’t put Riot in competition with other studios any more than they already are. Again, if they don’t think their existing, massive community can make interesting content, that’s one argument for not putting resources into it, but avoiding it because they think they’d have to draw people from other studios’ communities is silly.
Wringing them dry of what?
If they don’t think their community would create items that other players want to buy, that’s a different thing. The players and creators are already invested in their game; they have a playerbase of millions. Hand picking a few community created things to resell to their customers in the same vein as Valve with CS2 and TF2, or Epic with Fortnite, doesn’t make them competitors any more than they already are.
I don’t understand. There’s no competition to be had in this space. The people who play your game are the ones who’d be generating the content; those who make stuff for Minecraft or whatever can’t be competed over because they already don’t play League.
I don’t know what alternate reality these people live in where offering their players the opportunity to contribute is some secret sauce that would put them in direct competition with other tech giants.
Yeah this seems common. I had a friend who grew up with parents who alternated between English, Portuguese, Italian, and French, and he told me he wound up not being able to speak at all until he was over 2 years old. It didn’t affect him badly later on, and he always insisted it was worth it
I have no doubt there’s more coming. They only just released tales of the empire, and rex’s story is far from over
I’m no expert either but as I understand it, the core service they are most well known for is protection against DDOS attacks. By routing traffic first to Cloudflare before sending it to the intended destination, it can try to check to make sure that whatever it’s routing isn’t coming from a botnet or whatever.
They came incredibly close to realizing that modern money is basically imaginary and made up of 1s and 0s, and instead came up with an insane story to explain it
Just as dumb? I’d argue they’re far dumber, that’s part of why they’re sociopaths who’ll do anything for a larger pile of money
Holy shit
yeah but the ncr includes regular surface dwellers too. probably the idea is more like that of the enclave in fallout 3; wipe out all the “mutants” and repopulate from there
Turns out corporations can manage long term planning when the plan reduces quality of life for customers. Crazy!
“Ruined” seems like a strong word but the yolk wasn’t supposed to break
I’m on voyager and it still takes up quite a bit of real estate. Wish there were an option for it not to open at all unless I tap it
Nope, it’s just that way by default. Drives me nuts too.
While simultaneously opposing any form of gun control so they can fight… something?
Apparently the only protest worth anything is one where you’re shooting at someone
Used to be if I found the site of a newspaper I thought I liked, I’d turn off my ad blocker to see how it goes.
I don’t even try any more. Again and again and again, every time I turn it off the page gets so cluttered that following the article becomes a chore and takes up so many resources that even scrolling slows to a crawl. Ludicrous nonsense.
I enjoy the idea that some shitass mason hated whatever king hired him, built all the stairs as quickly and poorly as possible, and then to save his ass later had to be all “oh hmm yes the stairs? That’s a feature actually” and somehow it winds up catching on