Weird to segue directly from arguing that cluster munitions are illegal into claiming that the legality of weapons doesn't matter, but okay
"Meat substitutes," ie impossible burgers and vegan cheese, are more expensive. There's a complex process and decades of trial and error that have gone into trying to replicate specific flavors. But "things in place of meat," like tofu or beans (dried beans especially), are often cheaper.
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.
Didn't mean to imply they hadn't been doing anything, that's why I used the word "frame." There are all kinds of videos of that robot trying to do backflips and the hydraulics busting in the process or other issues which would necessitate internal upgrades. Just thought it was strange that each iteration shown up to 2016 was of a different model, then we get 6 in a row of essentially the same one.
I'm pretty sure everything from 2016-onwards is the same frame with the same capabilities, just different videos showing off how versatile it is. They actually retired that frame this year, this is the new one: https://bostondynamics.com/blog/electric-new-era-for-atlas/
depends on who theyre fucking
“Free speech wins again!” Jordan posted on X on Friday, calling the Observatory part of a “censorship regime.”
Politician bullies an independent academic research team into silence and crows about how that's a win for free speech. Jesus fucking christ.
Two weeks doesn't seem like all that long before forgetting that some food was toxic lol
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
Has begun? Didn't it happen like a year or two ago, resulting in Valve tweeting about solutions coming "soon" and then predictably doing nothing?
I know he's a liar. But lying about those things can't resonate with his supporters the way this could. This was almost a core campaign slogan, it's a downright meme. A denial that he supported it ought to be a much more obvious lie than the others
This is a new tier of cognitive dissonance, even for Trump. I mean he literally got crowds chanting "lock her up!" Hopefully this is the icing on the cake of his felony convictions and gets a few more people to break out of the cult.
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.
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