Ah, yes, HoN.

I did like the game and played a decent amount (wasn't very good though) and the game could get super toxic.

It also had some very enjoyable games with lots of productive and funny communication even over voice. But it could also be a cesspool more often than not.

Good times

I agree, though as I said, it was a game of two extremes. I have some very enjoyable memories of that game.

Even the developers were remarkably toxic.

Funny enough, it wasn't so much the actual developers in the technical sense (those were fine people we far as I can tell, ElementUser for example always seemed quite nice), but Maliken himself was really bad. Haha

It's also funny that the person I replied to implied that league and HoN were on the same level of toxicity. League is a baby's game compared to HoN in that regard. What added to this was the fact that voice chat was not recorded, so any abuse over voice would never be punished.

Also you could upload your own picture for earlier in-game currency which yielded some... interesting results. The forums are gone now, but if I remember someone complained they reported someone with a nickname like "AdolfCritler" and Hitler's picture as their profile picture. The official answer was that this was on as long as he wasn't presented in a good way or something (which was hard, given the 12 character limit for user names).

Oh and for the longest time, S2 was fine with smurfing as long as they got paid in the process (so-called subaccounts). Multiple accounts per real user were not allowed under their ToS, but for the equivalent of $30, you got a second account that was linked to your main and shared all the cosmetics, but none of your friends, clan... or rating :) a ban against any account would affect all accounts though.

They were on sale once (which I used to buy one) and then never again because they knew and admitted it was mainly used for smurfing. Though if I remember correctly, this for rectified at one point, like a new sub would get your average MMR over all accounts as its starting rating, though I'm not sure whether in HoN or any other of their MOBAs (Strife and Reborn).

However, despite being an absolute circus, I always held S2 Games in high regard because all their games (until and including Strife) had Linux native clients from very early on. Savage, their first game, had a Linux native release on its launch day. In twothousand-fucking-three! And I tried HoN and Savage 2 close to release, they worked flawlessly.

Not playing that AI cashgrab slopfest Reborn though

Yup I also associate excessive emoji use with boomers (though some millenials are also over 40)

I use it on PC because it's easily accessible on my layout (Shift+Comma)

On the other hand, men on average live shorter, and we just go "well it's just risky behavior and physical labor I guess 🤷‍♂️" and they're aren't any task forces for that either, truth is we as a society don't care enough about these issues regardless of sex

Well, not really. Twitter was his own private property that he bought with borrowed money secured against his Tesla shares. xAI on the other hand is financed by investors whose money he used to bail himself out at a price he made up himself since Twitter is no longer publicly traded. So this is, in my opinion, misuse of investor funds; the picture would be true if xAI used how own money to do this, but no.

On one hand,I think this is serious fraud. On the other, my understanding for anyone investing into his companies is very limited, there are so many red flags on so many levels.

This is just silly. I recently saw Las Vegas hotels doing something similar though to a much lesser extent where it's called "resort fees". Should be illegal but it doesn't affect me since I'm not traveling to the US

One should note that the stock is still up $50 per share up from its IPO price ($135 vs $185 or about 37%). Also the Cursor option was fully outlined before the IPO so it shouldn't surprise anyone.

Not that I don't think all of this is dumb, it's just another hype / gambling stock without much substance led by Elon who got his Twitter buyout.

No crying in the casino

First mistake was to not specify a sheet size

Ich als arbeitender Mensch kann sagen: mein Gerechtigkeitsgefühl ist verletzt, wenn Schlupflöcher im Erbrecht existieren und ausgenutzt werden; wenn die Kosten für notwendige Sozialleistungen nur auf die Arbeitenden fällt (Krankenversicherung); wenn die Einkommensschere an der Spitze und an darunter auseinanderläuft; wenn erlaubt wird, das Wohnraum dazu dient, erhebliches passives Einkommen zu generieren; wenn große Unternehmen Steuerschlupflöcher ausnutzen und dann die Steuerprüfer abgebaut werden; wenn durch Unternehmen vom Staat gestohlenes Geld nicht zurückgefordert wird; aber ganz besonders verletzt ist es, wenn man mich für so dumm hält und mich gegen die Schwächsten ausspielen will.

Aber gut, ich hab die ja auch nicht gewählt (und bin zumindest momentan auch nicht von direkten Sozialleistungen abhängig), aber ich habe laut am Telefon gelacht, als meine Tante meinte, sie würde die SPD als Gegengewicht zur CDU in einer Koalition wählen.

50%?

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

These are absolutely disastrous numbers. This is worse than I would expect from illegally sources parts.

MASTER SLAVE AUTO (auto never works)

But yeah fuck flat IDE cables. I don't miss old computers a single bit

"My mum taught me how to treat a woman" is either dumb or creepy

Approaching and treating others like human beings regardless of their sex and gender? Too much to ask?

People should be angry and upset about this. Similar to the story some weeks ago where residents of a small Texan town (seemingly rightfully at first) complained about the noise pollution of a Bitcoin mining farm. Turns out they all voted Republican. It's always "we'll deregulate and bring business" just that the modern businesses they bring are a net negative for the area except for the politicians and the companies. Is almost like these regulations were there for a reason.

Both Bitcoin and AI are stupid VC money that only matters in a very small bubble, and they're not business in a traditional sense. They just leech resources at their compute centers to make the people who own them and live far away rich. I pity all this who didn't vote for this kind of bullshit. The rest, enjoy your shorter showers and everything else! But remember, it's the Dems who want to dictate stuff like water usage. Not in my free country! Oh, the water is gone because a greedy Corp stole it? That's fine, one day it's my turn to be rich.

Nobody loses it, people are just mocking companies out of touch with reality.

A game that I can't play releases? Who gives a fuck? I have hundreds of other games to play

What a terrible day to be able to read

Because necromancy is a forbidden art

Nah, they should rather build statues for people like the guy who shot the healthcare CEO, which Luigi did not do

• ammo loaded
• cocked
• not locked

That's not how I'd store a gun…