BlemboTheThird

I mean, it's Valve. But it will be funny when #saveTF2 happens for the third time next year, and Valve does their now-yearly ban wave again and everyone repeats wondering if the problem is solved.

I enjoy the idea that some shitass mason hated whatever king hired him, built all the stairs as quickly and poorly as possible, and then to save his ass later had to be all "oh hmm yes the stairs? That's a feature actually" and somehow it winds up catching on

If "shouted in Klingon" is redundant, then is "said in Klingon" an oxymoron?

Weird to segue directly from arguing that cluster munitions are illegal into claiming that the legality of weapons doesn't matter, but okay

It's way cuter if he's kicking his stubby ol legs

"Meat substitutes," ie impossible burgers and vegan cheese, are more expensive. There's a complex process and decades of trial and error that have gone into trying to replicate specific flavors. But "things in place of meat," like tofu or beans (dried beans especially), are often cheaper.

That's a nonsense reason to ignore community creations. New players aren't drawn to games because of whether the community is making things; they're drawn because there are fun things in the game, regardless of where exactly they come from. That the community was allowed to contribute is not what drew so many people to Fortnite or Minecraft. Cosmetics make a lot of money, and mods can help with player retention as people get bored of vanilla, but they still need to be drawn in by the base game. That goes for Fortnite as much as it does League.

Besides, creators aren't generally drawn to making things for a game solely based on the tools available for doing so; they do it because they like the game. Even if that were the case, creators aren't a big group of people, nowhere near enough to move the needle on "having enough new players." That isn't part of the calculus Epic did when deciding support them, and it shouldn't be for Riot either.

Attempting to include community content doesn't put Riot in competition with other studios any more than they already are. Again, if they don't think their existing, massive community can make interesting content, that's one argument for not putting resources into it, but avoiding it because they think they'd have to draw people from other studios' communities is silly.

Wringing them dry of what?

If they don't think their community would create items that other players want to buy, that's a different thing. The players and creators are already invested in their game; they have a playerbase of millions. Hand picking a few community created things to resell to their customers in the same vein as Valve with CS2 and TF2, or Epic with Fortnite, doesn't make them competitors any more than they already are.

I don't understand. There's no competition to be had in this space. The people who play your game are the ones who'd be generating the content; those who make stuff for Minecraft or whatever can't be competed over because they already don't play League.

I don't know what alternate reality these people live in where offering their players the opportunity to contribute is some secret sauce that would put them in direct competition with other tech giants.

I thought the magic potion was to give you an abortion if you cheated

Didn't mean to imply they hadn't been doing anything, that's why I used the word "frame." There are all kinds of videos of that robot trying to do backflips and the hydraulics busting in the process or other issues which would necessitate internal upgrades. Just thought it was strange that each iteration shown up to 2016 was of a different model, then we get 6 in a row of essentially the same one.

I'm pretty sure everything from 2016-onwards is the same frame with the same capabilities, just different videos showing off how versatile it is. They actually retired that frame this year, this is the new one: https://bostondynamics.com/blog/electric-new-era-for-atlas/