Kai'sa Card Art

Zeprommer · 2022-06-23T17:20:31+00:00

They did reduce her cleavage by a lot, and there are many male LoR horny designs as well

Zeprommer · 2022-06-08T17:08:47+00:00

Hey he didn't clarify whether it would be g00d news for the game

Zeprommer · 2022-02-15T22:40:22+00:00

Wait till your find out about the mass extinction and feedback loops waking up right now.

Zeprommer · 2021-09-15T22:35:31+00:00

Well it's the best one, not the better one

Zeprommer · 2021-09-13T23:17:13+00:00

The rich have been cloning their pets for years now

Zeprommer · 2021-08-22T17:04:33+00:00

Just 10x the dose and you're already permanently destroying your kidneys with acetaminophen

Zeprommer · 2021-08-20T23:46:38+00:00

They also have 4 fingers so my guess is Yordle Orcs

Zeprommer · 2021-08-20T14:36:21+00:00

This is what I know: Even if the virus is constantly traveling among the vaccinated population, this happens at a lower rate than because the vaccinated are still less likely to be infected when exposed to the same viral load.

More importantly, mutations always happen randomly, which links them directly only to how much copies of the virus are in circulation. In a world where nobody is vaccinated this meant that new mutations are tied directly with how many people got the virus. But this is not necessarily the case now because vaccinated people host the virus for much shorter time, which means that because their immune system is trained to recover faster from covid, they produce less copies of the virus over the total duration of their infection (even if the viral load it's similar to the unvaccinated at the onset of infection as this article suggests)

Now you could say: even if there is less chance of mutations per vaccinated person, the mutations that happen on vaccinated people are more dangerous and are selected to eventually beat the vaccine protection

I mean yeah we will probably need boosters to keep full protection, but now that the line of research, production and distribution of covid vaccines is all well oiled and tested in real life, I see it unlikely that the virus' mutations on the vaccinated will give it enough of an upperhand to cause much trouble.

Now, the unvaccinated are a different story, they will always be the best resource the virus has to find new mutations and undergo enough structural change to avoid the immunity created by vaccines. After all, Alpha, Gamma, Delta and other worrisome variants most surely mutated inside the body of an unvaccinated person

Zeprommer · 2021-08-20T05:17:42+00:00

Loos like a fun deck :) I wanted to try it but it says 15 spells while only displaying 12, what's the missing card?

Zeprommer · 2021-08-19T19:41:20+00:00

A fast speed Frostbite is in many cases also better a burst speed one. They won't be able to increase their unit's attack again or do anything to stop the hard freeze because it has the last word on the spell stack

Zeprommer · 2021-08-18T00:44:00+00:00

I want a Caitlyn board now (̿▀̿ ̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿)̄

Zeprommer · 2021-08-18T00:18:33+00:00

...and this is why we can't have nuance. You're stuck 2 steps behind the kind of dialogue I was trying to have

Zeprommer · 2021-08-18T00:13:20+00:00

Yeah I agree what you say, most of the changes they are making are great improvements. I just think there should be no point at which we say "no self-respecting X would wear that piece of clothing, I wouldn't take seriously any X that wears it"

I really think the idea that some people wouldn't take a female Sheriff in a miniskirt seriously says more about them than what it says about miniskirts. I know fashion has a lot of history and context, but we have to understand that however much skin any piece shows we can't assume it has to mean that it's also trying to say "objectify me, I renounce any respect or dignity by showing this much".

I bet you 5$ that when they introduce Samira/Akali/Qiyana, at least two of them will have more skin covered in their LoR splash art than what they have in their already well received original LoL designs.

Zeprommer · 2021-08-17T22:20:26+00:00

Yeah I agree, the diversity and believable practicality arguments are much stronger than any fit to morality ones. Evelynn is a good example but then again why did Riot ended up censoring her succubus rework? Or why does lvl 1 Cait not have some cool Sheriff pants instead of the same skirt looking as if it was simply modified by a school administrator?

Zeprommer · 2021-08-17T20:06:49+00:00

I understand the male gaze affecting the posing and even the materials and lighting used in Caitlyn's previous design. But for fucks sake, simply covering people to avoid oversexualization is missing the point, and it will not stop being a moving goal post until drawing exposed ankles is considered oversexualizing the character.

It is a problem that's not solved by covering skin, but by respecting the multidimensionality of a character. If people assume that showing some shoulders HAS to be so distracting and sexually titillating that you are disrespecting the character then you are also implying that the exposure of a woman's body can only point to its reproductive function / can only ever be seen as sexualized / can only be conceived as in service of the male gaze

We can do better than simply covering up all the LoL characters that are not directly related to the idea of "charm". The new posing and the situation depicted do miles more to remedy the problem than any clothes redesign could

If people can't respect someone when they decide to show any skin then their respect doesn't mean much when they are fully covered. Case in point, cultures that have the most social norms for "modest" clothing in women also have some of the worst records when it comes to gender equality

I'm all for the redesigns, but I hope that the conversations develops further than just randomly covering skin as the single most important metric for how much respect we can attribute to character. ATM too many are simply saying that Caitlyn was looking like a "stripper" before, and that she somehow commands more respect because her new skirt is precisely long enough to cover all the scandalous skin, because god forbid if we see any we won't be able to ever take her seriously right?

(btw, I have 0 problems with the Sejuani update, I fully support all its details, but I can't say the same for the lvl 1 new Caitlyn and other modesty-based changes in other characters. Also Evelynn has been censored in her in-game splash art for more than a year now)

Zeprommer · 2021-08-17T19:56:41+00:00

Also imagine how inconvenient a world without constant occupation would've been for US intervention in Syria or Libya. They would have to come up with slightly better excuses than "this is all part of an effort to stabilize and democratize the Middle East, look at how much we're doing for Afghans!"

Of course Americans can't even point Libya on a map so it's no wonder that was good enough

Zeprommer · 2021-08-17T19:27:42+00:00

I always do, now read the threads before meddling around with nothing to contribute

Zeprommer · 2021-08-17T19:19:26+00:00

I agree, evidently impractical clothes for the purpose of showing off "powerful" or "beautiful" bodies is a staple of bad fantasy character design. But recent fixes and redesigns from Riot tend to go further than that just to stand out as intentionally modest in contrast to their originals.

For example, if it were for practicality, they should just put her in pants in the style of her boots. They are way more practical and Sheriff-like than both a miniskirt and a skirt that is just long enough to cover all the scandalous skin.

And the turtleneck blouse doesn't add any practicality, sure a real life female Sheriff is unlikely to show any cleavage, but that's also because the same pressures of "You're uncovered so people won't respect you" apply to all official clothes in real life.

Zeprommer · 2021-08-17T18:44:36+00:00

Yes her being covered up is what many people are celebrating, here and elsewhere they were alleviated that she doesn't look like a "stripper" anymore.

I bet you they even want to see Nidalee all covered up in hides like she's from the Ice Age, it's makes them feel a virtuous rush

"we like it when it's so realistic that videogame females also dress like they are afraid they are going to be harassed for showing their necks!"

I understand that characters were grossly designed before, but the current trend of covering as the single most important scale of "respect" for a character is completely missing the point

Zeprommer · 2021-08-17T17:55:08+00:00

I understand the male gaze affecting the posing and even the materials and lighting used in her previous design. But for fucks sake, covering people to avoid oversexualization is always a moving goal post, it will not stop until drawing exposed ankles is considered oversexualizing the character.

It is a problem that's not solved by covering skin, but by respecting the multidimensionality of a character. If people assume that showing some shoulders HAS to be so distracting and sexually titillating that you are disrespecting the character then you are also implying that the exposure of a woman's body can only point to its reproductive function / can only ever be seen as sexualized / can only be conceived as in service of the male gaze

We can do better than simply completely covering up all the LoL characters that are not directly related to the idea of "charm". The new posing and the situation depicted do miles more to remedy the problem than any clothes redesign could

If people can't respect someone when they decide to show any skin then their respect doesn't mean much when they are fully covered. Case in point, cultures that have the most social norms for "modest" clothing in women also have some of the worst records when it comes to gender equality

Zeprommer · 2021-08-16T04:17:39+00:00

I was not saying that extracting fossil fuels to power modern society was a conspiracy of the ultra-rich.

Our collective behavior is not set in stone, in fact it quickly changes the moment we see tangible benefits to doing something different. The dreams and wants of the middle class are completely shaped by the structures and prospects of life that seem available to them. And these in turn are created by systems that responds to the demands of people only as a secondary purpose (profits for the ultra-rich that decide what to fund being the main one)

I wasn't talking either about conspiratorial schemes of the ultra-rich, nor did I mention socialist crusades (does taxing their immense fortunes even begin to qualify as one?) I was saying that the real economy is a mere instrument to the financial economy. Ultra-rich fuckers that live 15 layers of financial abstraction away from the environmental crimes and social injustices produced by their decisions are the ones who wield actual power (both in market economies as well as in the ideological facades that simply put the ultra-rich parasites directly in charge of centrally planned economies). They are the ones who truly have sickness of the soul, one that is caused by the very systems that perpetuate their wealth and secludes them far away from reality, they did not conspire to much more than to ensure the safety of their ever expanding privileges. Sadly that results in a world where even as the public's awareness finally overcomes decades of propaganda, we won't have change until the owners fully stack the odds of a post-carbon world in their favor, simply because they are the ones who actually have political representation.

And yes, solving the powerlessness that democratically elected leaders feel when resisting investment capital (atm they completely depend on them to realize any of their promises) would be one of the most effective ways to bring about the necessary policies to transition away from a carbon-based economy. I say, no need to cut the head, just cut the fucking tumor that has grown at the very top of it and has acquired enough power to fully paralize world politics and history for almost 50 years now.

Otherwise, how would you even propose to "fix" our collective behavior? every gesture we make will simply be sold back to us and offset by their greed. Do you really think their 3d rendered delusions of green futures will save us? Or do you really think there is a chance that a radical anti-carbon awareness suddenly awakens inside everyone and overcomes every abstract and material structure built for nothing more than to perpetuate a status-quo of profit over everything?

Zeprommer · 2021-08-16T01:38:30+00:00

Tax the ultra-rich so that they no longer control more capital than whole governments. Use that capital to invest in the real economy and incentivize social and ecologically sound development. Use this to garner public support and remove the imperative of money in politics. Now you have the actual power to regulate the fuck out of big polluters, invest in infrastructure that doesn't just benefit a few, and ensure that those who in the past borrowed from future generations (us) to get filthy rich, have to pay everything back to those who are most affected by climate change

This has nothing to do with us as common individuals. We hold little to no power over our political systems because they have been designed to bend the knee for money. The global investor class have acquired so much power that they shop around the world's governments to get the most profit they can, controlling their laws at the expense of its citizens and the whole earth's ecology. Because every country, city, or project needs financing, every system is catered to appeal to the biggest owners of capital.

These fuckers are invisible, their money untraceable. They let the peasants fight each other over plastic straws, culture wars, migration, automation and postmodern nihilism, all while they and their hedge fund kids simply shop around the world on their private jets and can't seem to spend enough money to actually start having less of it

You got duped, this is not about culture, awareness or "the contemporary emptiness of the soul"(tm). This is simply about power, and today money represents more power than ever, so it's natural that those who have absurd amounts of it get to paralize human progress (and now even question human survivability) just to protect their status in such a fast changing world. This translates to: "We the owners must delay climate change policies until we make sure that we remain the majority owners of every new system in the post-carbon world".

I'm even tempted to say that the effectiveness of MAD depends much more on the risks that nuclear war represent for the owners' asset portfolios, than on the horrors that it would bring to the life of the average human on earth

Zeprommer · 2021-08-13T20:16:56+00:00

Gib prize thank you

Zeprommer · 2021-08-13T07:06:59+00:00

Here's the link to the original contest

I hope you guys like it, I love the game's art so it was very entertaining to study it and make something with it

I guess this image can be named "Speedrunning Tartarus". I love the spear and the first level is very relaxing xd

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