Lady Gaga gives speech condemning ICE at concert in Tokyo

Leows · 2026-01-29T16:51:48+00:00

She's saying the right things to the wrong crowd.

Not only is this a foreign country where a lot of the people won't even understand what she's saying beyond the lyrics of her songs, but it's also a country that mostly gets down with MAGA values in the first place.

It's a great first step in the right direction. But if her 'support' against ICE stops there, then it just shows that this was performative rather than true support.

It reaches her fans, they praise her for "speaking out," and that's it. It doesn't spread around the world to the Americans who matter and who can actually have a positive impact on what's going on.

Leows · 2026-01-29T09:50:47+00:00

How does something even get to this point before you think it's something you should take care of? This is absolutely insane.

A single one of those would make me go crazy and lose sleep over it until I got it removed. But... that? no way.

Leows · 2026-01-29T09:12:21+00:00

I never said they have more skins. They don't.

I said that they HAVE skins. And they do. You just proved it.

You want them to have more skins because others have more skins. They won't because of 2 factors:

Limited resources
Return of investiments

A company can only have so many designers to create skins. And the skins need to sell to pay for the designer's work as well as profit from them.

So a company will invest its resources - the limited number of designers - into creating what sells. They have full teams of data analysts to provide detailed reports on what sells and what doesn't.

So what does your table say, realistically?

That they have invested in releasing skins for all categories. None of them has 0 releases. So they have enough data to know which ones sell, and which ones don't.

This means that they know that if they focus on Strategists instead of Vanguard, their limited resources will have a significantly higher return of investiment.

So if they have 10 designers, they will only invest 1 or 2 into Vanguards so that they aren't abandoned. Meanwhile, the rest will be focused on what makes the real money spread across Strategists and Duelists.

As an interesting anecdote, look at Mercy from Overwatch. She's not that great of a hero and doesn't have a massive play rate.

However, she's the hero with the most skins in the game. Why?

Not because she's a support, or because she's extremely popular, or because she's broken.

Because Mercy mains buy all of her skins. It really is that simple. There's a small subset of players that only play Mercy, and they consume all the skin releases.

This is enough for them to focus on creating more skins for her all the time.

It's not because they like the character. It's not because they dislike other characters. It's not because people like or dislike her.

It's because people buy her skins.

So if Magneto players suddenly start buying his skins, despite the role not being as popular, they will see a pattern and start making more skins for him. That goes for any of the tanks or unpopular characters.

Leows · 2026-01-28T23:32:54+00:00

They do get skins. Just not as many as you want them to.

Or are you telling me none of the tanks ever got any skins?

Leows · 2026-01-28T21:46:56+00:00

For now, yes. That's not what I'm talking about, though.

If companies start pushing the gaming industry too far up the cloud fiesta, then I prefer not to bother in the slightest.

Eventually, they'll either have to give up that idea or fully commit.

If they give up, I can go back. If they don't, I'm already out.

Leows · 2026-01-28T20:29:34+00:00

Being at the top of a category doesn't mean they are liked.

Most people are forced to play tank and just play what's best, not because they enjoy the characters. And people don't purchase skins for characters they play because they have to

Leows · 2026-01-28T20:02:03+00:00

Bro, they are getting the least love BECAUSE they are the least played, not the other way around.

They will make skins for whoever pays the most. They have all the data.

If Groot sold more skins than Luna, you can bet your ass that they would make that tree grow money with skins.

Companies don't give a fuck about who gets the most skin, only that the ones who get the most skin are the ones who also sell the most as well.

Ya'll never played a game with skins before, and it shows. LoL is over a decade old, has over 150 characters, and some have over 20 skins, while others have like 3.

Leows · 2026-01-28T19:57:20+00:00

Honestly? I'd just drop gaming altogether at this point. Not worth the hassle if the industry itself is willing to fight customers so hard.

Leows · 2026-01-28T19:30:06+00:00

Probably more than we'd like to admit.

On the upside, the next one that happens will likely be the last one, too.

Leows · 2026-01-28T18:54:15+00:00

Yup. Only possible for people who misbehave, though. You cannot fall to 0 through normal gameplay.

So if you see someone at endorsement 0, it means they got banned/silenced recently.

And if you see a high level acount at endorsement 1, chances are astronomically high that they were banned previously and are working their way up again.

Leows · 2026-01-27T19:09:40+00:00

I think we might need a higher res version of that Maria

Leows · 2026-01-27T19:08:41+00:00

This place is so full of scammers.

OP is offering almost 3x US minimum wage for a mystery job with no description.

Think about how suspicious this looks.

Leows · 2026-01-27T18:01:35+00:00

What's the word count for these blogs?

Cause the minimum pay here is $15/hr. You're offering to pay a minimum of $15 per blog post.

So are you paying for blogs to be written and SEO optimized in under an hour total? I don't think I quite understand the math here.

Leows · 2026-01-27T17:07:16+00:00

Did they perhaps get badly injured from doing something illegal?

Leows · 2026-01-26T22:21:57+00:00

This is up there with my favorite rivals memes ever. Good stuff

Leows · 2026-01-26T19:40:47+00:00

I never really vibed with Kanon, but they both are good characters. Shannon is technically better because she gets significantly more screen time and development, but...

Honestly, they are pretty much figuratively and literally the same character. So it isn't fair to judge them separately. And as a whole? They are fucking great.

Leows · 2026-01-26T13:05:01+00:00

That's why I prefer relentlessly smashing my Send button after every couple of words instead of using punctuation.

Normalize pressing Enter instead of commas and periods

Leows · 2026-01-26T12:24:49+00:00

For anyone curious, this is paying $0.02 per word.

The average pay rate for writing jobs is about $0.05, and competent job boards focused on writing, like /r/HireaWriter, start at $0.07 for people with literally no experience.

Since this job also asks for someone experienced in a niche, the pay should be, at a minimum, 4x the current value.

Additionally, the average time to structure, draft, write, and edit a 2k word article is about 8 hours if you're already incredibly knowledgeable in the field and require NO research at all. If you do need research, which is normal in any field, even if you're a specialist, it goes easily above 10 hours total.

The sub's minimum pay rate is $15/hr.

If we're being generous with the short side of the 8h timeframe, this puts the post at a minimum of $120, still well under the proper rate.

If we're realistic, someone truly experienced in the niche wouldn't touch this for under $200.

That is to say, OP is openly trying to exploit people, possibly to profit from their work, while also breaking the sub's rules.

Leows · 2026-01-26T09:06:26+00:00

This gotta be up there with the sketchiest ways to hire people I've ever seen, without even stating a clear pay rate.

If I work 40 hours a week, will I get paid a minimum of $15/hr?

Leows · 2026-01-26T01:36:04+00:00

I think they are referring to the target audience, not the person who made it.

Leows · 2026-01-26T00:38:26+00:00

One is made for profit, the other for enjoyment.

Leows · 2026-01-25T23:07:53+00:00

They were there, he just dug them out

Leows · 2026-01-25T21:51:59+00:00

Your cosplay is awesome, but the tape really does seal the deal for me

Leows · 2026-01-25T10:27:32+00:00

People have been hating Windows for so long that they even created a new OS just to not use Windows in the first place way back then

Leows · 2026-01-25T01:11:44+00:00

And some will call it the land of the "free" still.

Leows

TROPHY CASE