RedEye9 wrote on Mar 17, 2021, 10:46:
Seyfarth anagrams to She farty.
Very telling indeed.
RedEye9 wrote on Mar 17, 2021, 10:31:
The law firms maxim is beginning to make more sense:
"Hire us, we are as smarmy as they come. Your desired outcome is our only goal."
RedEye9 wrote on Mar 16, 2021, 19:57:
I’m glad their investigation found that they had done nothing wrong.
NKD wrote on Mar 16, 2021, 20:27:
I love investigating myself, I always come out innocent!
WaltC wrote on Jan 13, 2021, 20:08:
Twitter is a sewer, comparatively. AMZN is dead wrong about this. The country is getting very tired of stupid censors waging war against freedom of speech. Let them all move to China if they want to surrender their rights so badly. The Chinese will be happy to take theirs away.
Sepharo wrote on Jun 2, 2020, 18:47:
You guys are talking about something that actually came with this update...
This news post doesn't have the details but mentions the new game mode "Spike Rush"
heroin wrote on Jun 2, 2020, 14:18:
I agree, they have this super polished game, with these nice super short rounds but then you have to play 12 rounds each side, 24 rounds! (Edit: first to win 13 rounds, so could be 25 rounds). Ends up requiring a lot of concentration over a long stretch of time. Seems like 3 or 4 rounds each side, max, would do the trick. It is quite fun though.
Beamer wrote on Apr 27, 2020, 11:37:
I, uh... went Sacred Coil first. Is it that different than others? I've only done like 3 missions since that choice, so I'm barely in.
Edit - just read. Apparently the boss battle is impossible unless something gets glitched or you get insanely lucky (which may be the same thing.)
Looks like I'm starting over.
Verno wrote on Apr 27, 2020, 11:13:
If you mean XCOM2, the saves are seeded at mission start so you can't savescum. Statistically it often feels like you're missing a disproportionate number of high percentage shots but I could never detect any form AI "cheats" when I was screwing around in the game files for modding purposes. It is frustrating to miss a 83% shot then a 92% shot but statistically speaking it will happen.
Beamer wrote on Apr 14, 2020, 09:06:Yifes wrote on Apr 14, 2020, 07:43:ColoradoHoudini wrote on Apr 13, 2020, 21:42:
Who owns Riot?
Parent company- Tencent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent
Tencent = China
I really dont want to have a piece of root level chinese software on my PC.
And who owns Tencent? Their largest shareholder is Prosus, which is Dutch. So Tencent = Dutch? That's not how multinational conglomerates work.
And "Riot Games, Inc. is an American video game developer, publisher, and esports tournament organizer based in West Los Angeles, California."
If you think Riot Games = China then you are an incredibly naive and ignorant person.
There's a big difference between a parent company and a largest shareholder.
I don't think anything is being reported back to the Chinese, but as a parent company, Tencent can force Riot to do whatever they want. They can fire anyone that does not listen. They have full, absolute control.
That is generally not true for largest shareholders. Prosus has 2 seats on their board, and no one in management. They can be outvoted on anything Tencent chooses. With only 31% of the company, their share is significant but their voice is listened to, not obeyed.
Muscular Beaver wrote on Apr 14, 2020, 00:03:Yifes wrote on Apr 13, 2020, 19:56:I know from first hand experience that stupidity can be at least as bad as maliciousness.
The software is not from China. The software is made by Americans in the USA. There is a huge difference between this and Wechat.
This is a good case of "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." Riot has often been incompetent in the past, but I don't think it has ever been malicious. You'd think that having the most popular game in the world, with hundreds of millions of monthly players, they would be under pretty heavy scrutiny over the last decade.
ColoradoHoudini wrote on Apr 13, 2020, 21:42:
Who owns Riot?
Parent company- Tencent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent
Tencent = China
I really dont want to have a piece of root level chinese software on my PC.
ColoradoHoudini wrote on Apr 13, 2020, 19:21:
On a piece of software running on Level 0.... from China.. not remotely acceptable. Then after you uninstall the game, it's still there.
jdreyer wrote on Apr 13, 2020, 18:31:
Riot has gobs of cash, I'm sure they're paying streamers. That's usually how it works.
What is the local take on the game? I don't see the draw, but I see a LOT of the top streamers are playing it. (Also seems to be pulling from PUBG and other games)
Do yall think the developer is paying the streamers?
Some of them I don't see playing the game and they aren't all that excited while they are playing.....
I don't see this game hanging around.
Bhruic wrote on Feb 20, 2020, 20:56:RedEye9 wrote on Feb 20, 2020, 20:27:
What's the developer payday if purchased on GOG .
$15,000,000 million dollars to host a file. I'm in the wrong business.
Yeah. "Host a file". That's all steam does. /s