Except HON was free for over a year, during which time users had full access to the game. The $30 fee was for access to the game after its “official” release in early 2010, but by that point LOL was already the dominant MOBA.

There’s also no pay to win. You pay for more options sooner

That’s… literally pay to win? Paying real money to skip a grind is the definition of pay to win.

until you rank in the top 1% of players, any character will have an equal chance of winning.

I don’t have to be a LOL pro to know that not every champion is balanced equally. And even if the game was perfectly balanced, every individual player’s playstyle will be more suited to certain characters than others.

There’s a certain irony to your earlier statement about players not wanting to pay for a game “they don’t know they’ll enjoy”, and then in the very next paragraph advocate for a format where players have to either grind countless hours in game or pay real money for each new champion.

HON mentioned o7

Great game at its peak, and had a much more unique art style than LOL’s generic knights and hot girls.

Unfortunate it lost out to LOL because LOL went with the freemium model where you could play for free, but had to buy champions. HON was a one-time $30 payment and you get all current and future heroes forever.

Of course gamers would choose the instant gratification option of “free” immediately despite it being literally pay-to-win, instead of the cheaper longterm value option where everyone starts on the same level.

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For those who are slow like me

DXY measures the US dollar against every other currency. So if the US dollar in isolation had a bunch of inflation (e.g. because the US government printed a ton of money), then that would be reflected in DXY.

But if every major currency printed a ton of money at the same time, then DXY would not change because it’s only relative to other currencies.

So it doesn’t calculate inflation directly, but it’s generally correlated with it.

SPY is up 3% YTD while DXY (which measures the value of a dollar) is down 9% YTD. If you own shares of SPY, then you hold them in dollars, so the real change in value of your stock is [share price] x 1.03 x 0.91, which translates to being down over 6%.

BUT not only is your investment value down, if you live in the US you presumably get paid in dollars as well. Which means you’ve gotten a 9% pay cut since the start of the year.

And the other guy is way too thin to be Trump

honestly respect for my compatriots creating OC

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Chess is thousands of years old, but many popular variants like Fischer random or blitz are recent developments. Even auto chess is technically inspired by chess and now has millions of active players.

Despite borrowing principles from the original chess (which itself has changed quite a bit since inception) each of these games is substantially different from one another. You can call them recycled ideas, but I would just call it innovation.

People have said the same thing about music forever. Chess, which is just 16 pieces on an 8x8 board, famously has more possible game sequences than their are atoms in the universe. And modern video games have infinitely more variables than just 16 pieces constrained to 64 tiles.

It definitely tracks that this same post in Reddit is overwhelmed with people supporting OpenAI on the matter.

The state of current YT where you can search for literally anything and will get 3 semi-related results followed by an infinite scroll of completely unrelated political rage rabbit hole content. Their algorithm is so chalked.

Realistically what is the worst thing China is doing with your private data? Selling it? If you’re not a Chinese National, at least you don’t fall under their jurisdiction.

If you’re a U.S. citizen, with all the tech oligarchs cozying up to the current administration, I’d be a lot more concerned with Facebook/Twitter/Etc collecting your data.

Lukewarm take: mods had valid grievances, but were dumb as fuck to unilaterally make a major decision without even consulting the community beforehand, which is definitely worse imo.

It reminds me of so many subreddits where overactive mods decide they know what’s best for their subreddit and impose rules that would never pass a basic yes/no poll, demonstrating they don’t actually care about the community. Mods are supposed to be janitors (not an insult, just statement of fact), but too often act with the presumed arrogance of “leaders”.

Edit to add: this is what the mods should have done:

1. Make a stickied thread with examples of users being banned or comments being removed unjustly
2. Ask users if the above justifies moving to a new host, and if so ask which one

It’s that simple

I stg every time UFO Reddit gets worked up, it ultimately has the most mundane explanation which everyone forgets as soon as the next thing comes up.

Republicans love to forget that as governor, Reagan was very pro gun control when black people started arming themselves.

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Just wait until the adults are people who grew up with the YouTube algorithm

Tbf those rich people were simultaneously waging literal war (like with guns and everything) against their workers.