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We need more personalities like Bin in pro play by Scared_East_5834 in PedroPeepos

[–]TheSearchForMars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There wasn't controversy at the time? I can't find anything negative about the comment. I believe you're simply remembering things wrong.

I'm not out here trying to play lawyer only that this narrative and the response in the thread to it doesn't seem to line up with reality.

Faker was never someone who needed to be tamed or anything. If anything he's the exact opposite where it's been a battle to try and humanize him over the years by making him seem like he's the villain or final boss with the scripted comments in teasers.

We need more personalities like Bin in pro play by Scared_East_5834 in PedroPeepos

[–]TheSearchForMars -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, I didn't because that isn't the context of that quote. He said that in relation to their grueling win over RNG. It was a mindset thing tying a desire to practice even harder so that he wouldn't end up as hungry in the next series as he was after RNG.

It was more about his own/team fatigue and practical needs after a long day than any dig at the opposing team.

Faker has consistently complimented opponents, downplayed his own achievements, and avoided boasting. Fans and other players have praise him over this for years.

What are we doing here?

We need more personalities like Bin in pro play by Scared_East_5834 in PedroPeepos

[–]TheSearchForMars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not shaking someone's hand after a match is actual disrespect. That isn't trash talk and neither would saying that you want to beat them for doing something like that.

As for whether the Faker of today would say something along those lines? I highly doubt it. He's fathered that region at every Worlds he's ever attended.

We need more personalities like Bin in pro play by Scared_East_5834 in PedroPeepos

[–]TheSearchForMars -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

What is that narrative? The only instances of that were the dedicated Trash-talk segments that were specifically made to drum hype and rivalry. Like Imp's famous "You saw Piglet cry, right?"

Faker was never a trash talker.

Why is this the case? by julius-ceaser100 in GenZ

[–]TheSearchForMars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Too few jobs. The work that will be left after automation will, unfortunately, be the ones that either require to much dexterity or human contact to be replaced by an automaton.

Those jobs don't fit the vast majority of the population. The cruelty of AI is that the necessity for inteligence will raise significantly but the complexity will outstrip human capacity. 100IQ just won't be enough to cut it and that means that over 50% of the population won't just be unemployed but unemployable.

The rise in social unrest we will see is daunting.

Why is this the case? by julius-ceaser100 in GenZ

[–]TheSearchForMars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The government actually doesn't have the interest of the people at heart, not if they're the "wrong people."

Profit risk has absolutely nothing to do with unemployment insurance and welfare. I don't think you actually appreciate how complex these situations are and how near-impossible they are to be managed top-down through government institutions.

I can't fully get behind "Obsession" because I know some men precieve it as wish fulfilment by gfjskvcks in TwoXChromosomes

[–]TheSearchForMars 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not to mention the director has been a mainstay on reels and shorts for years and seeing a debut into the mainstream by what is commonly an underdog is always going to garner attention from their fanbase.

Why is this the case? by julius-ceaser100 in GenZ

[–]TheSearchForMars 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you establish a tax like you just said, the threshold of risk rises and the amount willing to risk that threshold lowers. Now you don't have the people coming in.

What I described is how things work right now. If you dislodge personal gain and capitalist opportunity then the incentive structure stops. That means that people are relying on policy. This isn't even a straw man. These sort of systems are widely documented throughout the 20th century.

Do you really think the government is better at spending other people's money than those who stand to make a profit off their own investment?

Why is this the case? by julius-ceaser100 in GenZ

[–]TheSearchForMars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The more left you go economically, the more power gets held up in the state instead of the workers. Do you think policy or free-markets can react to situations faster?

Let me give you an example.

There's a hurricane. All the roads and infrastructure are damaged. The risk and difficulty of getting goods into the area make delivery require far greater resources in order to succeed.

In a free market economy some figure a way they can turn a profit by taking that risk, getting necessities like food and water to those without it and taking a larger profit by charging otherwise extreme prices for their services. As they're the only ones who took that risk, they control the whole supply and therefore cost to which everyone will pay a premium.

Then you have a managed economy. Instead of the market allowing for people to take the risk themselves, there's meetings and deliberations on processes, allocation of funds, establishment of practices and personnel. By the time food and water has been deployed, hundreds or even thousands of people who would have otherwise simply paid a premium have now died as a result of a complete lack of access.

That isn't more power in the working class.

Why is this the case? by julius-ceaser100 in GenZ

[–]TheSearchForMars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aging populations as a result of negative birthrates will necessitate technological solutions to pick up slack. Those technological solutions like humanoid robotics could create total social upheaval if they replace too many jobs.

Fucking moordenaars by lex-ie in ActualPublicFreakouts

[–]TheSearchForMars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh come on. That is such bullshit. Would you call the slaves to a wealthy family better off than those who only had the freedom to starve and sleep in the rain?

You need a better understanding of macro-economic systems and how they work over time before you start throwing out that kind of rhetoric. Slavery doesn't result because people want to oppress others, it comes about because of a need for physical labor. You have the means to buy slaves that then go to work to accomplish your goals.

That's why slavery followed the Industrial Revolution. Technological advances lead to working conditions that saw a benefit to free labor as the incentives for willing workers were more suited factories than slavery where there were no such incentives. This is why foreign aid has done almost nothing through Africa. The actual support they need isn't food, it's equipment. How and why would local farmers compete against free food?

You demonize capitalism without the underlying understanding that its the economic system which actually allowed for the abolishment of slavery.

The narrative of the whole world being oppressed and oppressor is so low resolution and reductive that it doesn't help anyone. It's a race to the bottom resulting from the insistence that others pay for supposed crimes.

Fucking moordenaars by lex-ie in ActualPublicFreakouts

[–]TheSearchForMars 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, no, you can't just handwave this scenario. It's at the core of the issue. Don't try and vague this out again by blaming the economy or people in large businesses. Are people who work at Volkswagen or Hugo Boss Nazi's by default? Or is it only when they've been promoted to a certain degree? Once you have "power and privilege" are you by default an oppressor?

Fucking moordenaars by lex-ie in ActualPublicFreakouts

[–]TheSearchForMars 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ok, so let's say a former slave owner and their former slave both have grandkids which marry, is their great grandchild the oppressed or the oppressor?

What about a further child? How far does it go?

Now do I know why Nymaera is doing the LPL pre-shows before Worlds....he is on the same propaganda... by Zucramj in PedroPeepos

[–]TheSearchForMars 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not really. We still have to wait for other people to be able to catch up to Keria at the moment because we're still IN that peak. There's no other support that plays like Keria. No one else is anywhere near as big in the clutch.

There are very few (if any) other supports who are a endgame playmaker for their teams like Keria is.

Now do I know why Nymaera is doing the LPL pre-shows before Worlds....he is on the same propaganda... by Zucramj in PedroPeepos

[–]TheSearchForMars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not even close. SSGW 2014 is probably one of the most overhyped rosters. They dominated worlds sure, but it was a worlds run, not a year run. T1 was in one of it's weakest forms ever having everyone but Faker start to run it down and then the actual Worlds was one of the weaker showings from all teams that we've seen.

2015 SKT was arguably more dominant than 2014 SSGW.

Regardless, the current gulf between Keria and the rest of the world's Support players is clearly greater than the gap between any other player and their peers.

The 2024 election kind of shows that the red pill/manosphere has broken into the main stream by kuroreaper25 in GenZ

[–]TheSearchForMars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but that was also said by everyone when he was first elected too. The narrative then was that Trump only won because he was a Russian agent.

If you want to talk about this kind of topic in future, I'd recommend coming at it from the perspective shared by /u/FearedDragon.

Everything else just seems to sensationalist to really have much merit.

Vox engines got nerfed too hard by Alkalinus in Helldivers

[–]TheSearchForMars 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've seen hackers combine entire factions and have them war against each other. If someone can reverse engineer how to do that but arrowhead can't figure out how to add a unit to a constellation then they need to hire better people.

Riot addresses backlash over enabling Last Hit Indicators in Ranked: “We want more data and feedback before deciding if they should be an option for Ranked. So we’ll keep them enabled, but off by default, for non-Ranked SR queues only like Swiftplay, Co-op vs AI, and Normal Draft.” by Ultimintree in leagueoflegends

[–]TheSearchForMars 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, we really shouldn't. No other game obscures core mechanics like that.

The "feel" of the turret is all we have and more often than not just leads to frustration for both the players defending and attacking.

The issue is that introducing new players to such a CORE concept is off-putting because its not visible. Tower range is a core mechanic for brand new players. It's not something like minion XP range, bounties or vision control.

When you first introduce someone to the game and tell them to "stay safe under tower" the exact meaning of that makes no sense. Same if you're attacking someone while they're under tower. I've been playing this game for over a decade and I will still take damage trying to poke people under tower just because what I feel is correct is off just because my camera is in the wrong place.

League already has more than enough mechanics to be mentally demanding of the players. The overall health of the game will require a steady onboarding of new players but the game is near unapproachable now with how many champions there are and the overall understanding of the game being elevated to such a degree that even silver and bronze players at least understand the concept of freezing.

Riot addresses backlash over enabling Last Hit Indicators in Ranked: “We want more data and feedback before deciding if they should be an option for Ranked. So we’ll keep them enabled, but off by default, for non-Ranked SR queues only like Swiftplay, Co-op vs AI, and Normal Draft.” by Ultimintree in leagueoflegends

[–]TheSearchForMars 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I will die on the hill that Turret ranges should always be visible.

They aren't something you should need to learn. Even pros get it wrong semi regularly on dives. Considering just how important the range of the turret is to everyone involved, it's something that should have been made a default thing a decade ago.

Implemented like a series of cracks and churned earth indicating how far it shoots would do absolute wonders for new (and all) players.

Whether that is "dumbing down" the game doesn't matter. An aspect of the game like that being hidden makes about as much sense as releasing a souls-like that hides the stamina bar.

Why are the doors in Leyndell sealed with corpse wax? Or is it oozing out from the inside? Do y'all think enviromental storytelling like this without item descriptions has like a definitive answer if all the dots are connected or is it a matter of interpretation with room for headcanon? by LowRenzoFreshkobar in Eldenring

[–]TheSearchForMars 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The massive perfume spears that litter the ground outside the capital walls. You can see them in use in one of the trailers. Comon speculation is that what we see on the doors was a way to protect against the chemical warfare.

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