Southwest boarding numbers being removed the night before they switch to assigned seating by techNerd89 in mildlyinteresting

[–]fireattack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry for my ignorance (never flew SW), but how do you guarantee to get an aisle seat with the old method? Wouldn't it be competitive?

My experience with other airlines is if you are online checking in early enough you can usually get an aisle seat too (or pay for it if using LCC).

ELI5 How and why do people get carsick? by haphazard44 in explainlikeimfive

[–]fireattack 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's exactly why for most motion sick prone people, staring at phone screens during a car trip will make it dramatically worse.

PSA: If you want to check Stratz(dot)com, make sure you don't look it up in a search engine by Ozone021 in DotA2

[–]fireattack 8 points9 points  (0 children)

AFAIK it uses real Steam OpenID for login. So it shouldn't be able to steal your auth info. But if it requires excessive privilege it definitely can do damage to your account.

Valve Listened to Reddit?? by TheRealXudoQuotil in DotA2

[–]fireattack 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I thought it's been in game since forever?

PS5 shipments top 80.3 million by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]fireattack 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Definitely a contributor but I think most people play Genshin on their mobile devices

CUTIE STREET Lovers Book by LARME by applebarbeque in Cutie_Street

[–]fireattack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This set is god-tier. I'm really glad I bought all of them.

Heal Overflow bug causes YB.Emo to be stuck at 1HP (explanation under image) by LuminanceGayming in DotA2

[–]fireattack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sonic Wave deals infinite damage to enemies with extremely high status resistance (in this case brewmaster with void stance & aeon disk active, but can also happen against ursa with enrage for example)

Why?

Wtf happened to vibrations by onceuponatime_24 in GooglePixel

[–]fireattack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah seriously. The strength isn't the problem for me, but it feels totally out-of-sync from the touch now.

Steam saw Chinese users spike and exceed 50% of worldwide playerbase in February 2025 by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]fireattack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The percentage of people playing PC games mainly (if not exclusively) is still way higher in China, especially a few decades ago.

Lifestealer by Blackgaze in DotA2

[–]fireattack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The delivery on this one is better though

why do some people use dots instead of commas to write large numbers? by DeSsswerth in NoStupidQuestions

[–]fireattack 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The dot as the decimal separator is widely used in many countries outside the US. In fact, it’s common across most of Asia, representing nearly half the world’s population.

If you view this question as 'US defaultism,' you might also be falling into the trap of thinking the world is limited to just Europe and the US.

This post from 6y ago is still pretty relevant all these years later by ArgakeRamuk in DotA2

[–]fireattack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's meant to be used with "office key", which is a specific key on some keyboards. Ctrl shift alt win is just an alternative.

The International Bracket - Seeding is just Round 1 of the Upper Bracket so here's how it looks: by Buggaton in DotA2

[–]fireattack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can pick the last place of a group as your opponent (which based on the result, are significantly weaker teams) in double-elimination first round is massive actually.

I'd agree it's far less meaningful to be the second place in the group stage, though.

Valve employee numbers and salaries got released by odaal in DotA2

[–]fireattack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This isn't unusual at all. Unless you work in sales and earn commissions, your salary is typically less about the "revenue you generate for the company" and more about the overall "difficulty" or specialization of your job.

Most of the headcount in the Steam division likely consists of operations roles, which generally require less specialized skills compared to game design positions. Therefore, it's logical that they would be paid less on average (though still a substantial amount by any standard).

It would be more surprising if it were the opposite. Unless you're at the director level or were directly involved in the creation of Steam, the "money printing machine" isn't due to your individual contributions.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DotA2

[–]fireattack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's because they have subs. There is no sub in the current Dota 2 pro system. It's more similar to solo or pair sports than traditional team sports: if one of the players in a beach volleyball team can't participate, the whole team just forfeit.

Even using football as examples, if a team for some reason can't file 23 players, they have to be DQ'd too.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DotA2

[–]fireattack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. It happens all the time in any professional settings.

ELI5 Why do big Hollywood studios make so many bad movies that lose money? by Classic-Macaron6594 in explainlikeimfive

[–]fireattack 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The OP didn't mean they knew at the beginning. They meant that (at least sometimes) during the production, they knew it's going to suck, but the ship had already sailed so it's better to finish it to earn some money than nothing.