Common Situation:"Hey, they can see you right now Player 1, do you mind moving back into the bush fully?"

Player 2:"shutup and stop complaining you take this game too seriously, this is unranked."

and then you get reported and you throw your hands up in the air because half the players on this game are contrarians.

Calling out one player for treating his team as pawns in his high score strategy is also an easy way to make your whole team pissed off.

"STFU his score is 12/0/1 you are 12/12/400 he is obviously a better team player."

And then you have the LOL forums. Its a cesspool of hypocrisy and groupthink. As an experiment search for any topic a moderator started that outlines a controversial change. Find the first post that disagrees with the moderator. Then read the next ten posts. They will all defend Riot and convey varying degrees of saying the dissenting player is an idiot and rude for calling the moderator an idiot.

If you're trolling in LOL and you get put with another group of trolls do you think you care about the game? There could be some type of ven diagram that will have varying shades of grey for troll/teamplayer/cusser/asshole/nice guy/supporter/high ratio kills/deaths/low kills/deaths. It'd be a lot better than to start with a stick, find out its a bad idea and then add a weaker carrot, then dilute the stick. It just shows they are aimlessly trying to adapt their original strategy. I've played since Beta and all I've seen is a homogenization of play styles and attitudes and its not the best attitude and I'll argue to my death its a bad strategy.

Exactly, in a way. There are much smarter ways to create happy gamers instead of "We know the only right way to play LOL." The problem with Riot is they are so arrogant. Some people like to play aggressively, others don't. In most gaming communities that's okay. Not on LOL supposedly.

Use chat logs and scores/ratios to create gamer profiles. Match similar types of players together. Everyone will be happy without feeling forced to say gg after a game. What a insincere and frivolous way to measure gamer happiness.

Don't passive-aggresively ban players for a week like you're the player's parent. And at least give a reason.

All it takes is a little data analytics and leaving your neckbeard at home Riot.

I vote no.

"Alright so the budget this year is somewhat bleak. Regardless of the fact we privatized spaceflight (contrary to our projected economic model) we have no budget to conduct any space missions. We need an excuse to perpetuate our funding people! "
"How about a worthless and biased economic study that has nothing to do with space and doesn't require Federal Economic experts, you know, like the Federal Reserve, or the Treasury? "
"Genius! Just make sure you somehow game the system to be the opposite of Civilization IV's governmental hiarchy so people don't get bored and fail to realize career government work is the farthest thing from Capitalism. I want absolute monarchy, anarchy, depotism, communism, and facsism to somehow be safer than Capitalism. "

It's not the food chain or fish in general. Nor is it a necessity. It's to help the delta smelt, which isn't as important as decreasing the cost of vegetables for the poor. This does not save or hurt wetlands it's arbitrary.

Let's follow the logical conclusion then. Lower wages, less barriers to entry in employment, higher qualified prospects. :Gasp: Sooner or later this could lead to the dreaded thought that people will stop being overworked and doing the job of two.

We just had a much needed rain. To protect fish from swimming up the delta they dumped thousands of acre feet of water into the bay. I'm all for restoring wetlands but we should prioritize water for humans during droughts. The poor are the hardest hit.

Nothing is ever settled. There are axioms that can be used to conduct further science and base theories on but without constantly proving something we'll never find out if something is wrong.

People who say something is settled want the exact opposite. They don't want anyone to test their hypothesis because the findings might be different, not necessarily the opposite, but at least different from the observed original answer.

The 4.5 is throwing climate alarmists a bone. If it does rise at all it will be closer to 1.5. And again this is still a revised prediction on an estimate. Compared to real data the models have been completely false.

I wish that after their climate models were disproved time and time again they would try and find another model. That's science. But this has never been about science or the climate. Its about personal gain and subversive people's ideal society that takes away other people's rights to add to their own.

Wow you guys are really adamant that the chicken came first when it takes both environments to create government subservience. I took two seconds to lay out the two criteria that have caused this mess and I apologize for inversing the former and latter, but geese, this has happened in the past too. I get a couple people who disagree with me stating the exact same facts saying the same things.

Part of me agrees with you.
Part of me knows that both those statements are true, even if they are discouraging.

Both Android and Ubuntu are shades of closed source. They have very strong organizations behind them that are explicitly controlling the message they distribute. Mark Shuttleworth's corporate culture is one of arrogance and totalitarianism. Google has a longterm-orientated business strategy but still operates under a profit motive.

It's never troubling when these issues are highlighted the actual facts are what's troubling.

Let's take an analogy to help push my argument. While the Republican party is a big disparate tent that includes many different interest groups that agree on one random platform amongst the dozen general ones (i.e. small government, and/or state rights, and/or personal freedom vs domestic spying) pointing out internal sticking points does not instantly cause supporters to become a Progressive.
The same thing rings true of FOSS supporters. Pointing out that the largest Linux developers aren't pure FOSS doesn't make Linux users jump ship to a retarded OS like OSX.

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I know it was satire and it's actually uncommon for progressives/environmentalists to understand the other side's argument to provide such accurate satire but unfortunately I think you raised some inconvenient questions. How much was he receiving per speaking event? What is the annual revenue of this company compared to UK Berkeley ' s Taxpayer budget? Kinda makes me wonder who is the wolf?

Wrong. One of the unmentioned portions of the popular affordable care act essentially nationalized all future student loans. The issue isn't the students burdening themselves with unconscionable debt it's the government controlling both sides of the transaction. Democrats embolden teacher's unions to push expenses higher then government loans students dangerously high amounts of money. This reduces the graduates ability to progress in life and creates subservience. No wonder the government passed bills disallowing student debt in bankruptcy.

Always makes me laugh to hear the argument that extending unemployment benefits increases employment. They are contradictory, obviously.