Who wants ads, right? There are ways to make ads invisible to us in the Anno Domini 2024 (crap, did I just out myself as a time traveler?), like browser extensions or just developing a numbness to them in general, but what happens when you really want to browse some retro ads from the old days?
It’s simple, you click the Read more link and you enjoy them. I hope I don’t have to mention that you can click on an image to get a higher resolution one, right?
Somebody asked me if I’m still playing World of Warcraft (kinda, just not at max-level) and if my opinion on Blizzard and their flagship game, World of Warcraft, changed in 2023, considering a new expansion just launched few months ago.
Well, it’s not good; actually, it’s a “What killed the fireman?"-sort of situation where there’s a lot of shit happening all at once and it’s hard to discern exactly what’s going wrong; you have the Business side and you have the Game-itself side.
Blizzard is not doing well at all, it’s obvious that there’s an extreme Rotating Door syndrome when it comes to employees, not to mention they’re in California, so price of living and everything else is ungodly high. The company has money but it’s in investments, not in an actual bank account with a comedic pile of bills that they just horde up and sit on. Good ol’ Bobby Kotick also pulled no punches with slashing costs, Blizzard’s Customer Service Department is basically nonexistent and virtually all tickets are now handled by a Kenyan worker in a warehouse somewhere. Public perception is also extremely poor, with lawsuits and cubicle crawls and most of the actual leadership jumping overboard lest they get wrapped up in the Cosby Suite.
I grew up without a father figure. My father wasn’t someone I aspired to be. People talk about how dangerous absence of a father figure can be. Your mind wonders way too freely without a father figure. This is why men came up with the ultimate father figure, god. Growing up without a father figure either makes you or breaks you. It gives you a sense of helplessness. You are totally alone in the world and there isn’t any guidance you can look up to. You don’t know what kind of life you should live, what kind of behavior you must have.
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And there are some dangers of father figures. The fact that you are nothing but a shadow of your dad. You are nothing but a copycat. You cannot truly face with reality in presence of a father figure. You cannot come up with your own identity. You do what your father tells you and avoid being a man he doesn’t want you to be. No parent truly want their kids to grow up. Especially control freaks. They don’t want you to take risks and endanger your life. They don’t want you to fly away. They want to keep you under control all the time. Father figure is the ultimate authority. In presence of a control freak, you cannot truly grow up. You end up being an extremely incapable human being.
metamorphosis
As promised, we wanted to update you on the status of last week’s cyber attack. Over the weekend, our analysis confirmed source code for League, TFT, and a legacy anticheat platform were exfiltrated by the attackers. Riot Games
Because Vice “reporters” are retards and totally not worth of even linking to their 10k words shitty “article” about the fact that Riot Games’ League of Legends source code got leaked (confirmed by Riot), here is more info about it:
As you know, League of Legends source code has been stolen, confirmed by Riot Games.
I'm starting auction for the source code, at starting $1,000,000.
**INCLUDES PACKMAN (USERMODE ANTI-CHEAT FOR LEAGUE OF LEGENDS & VALORANT) **
** ALSO INCLUDES DEMACIA & XIGNCODE **
Current Offer: $1,000,000
Telegram: @ArkaT_001
News Article: https://www.pcgamer.com/riot-says-it-wont-pay-ransom-after-league-of-legends-source-code-stolen-by-hackers/
Twitter post by Riot: https://twitter.com/riotgames/status/1617900234734198787
Min bid increment 10k
Yes, this is plain and simple, I don’t have to write 10k words about nothing because I’m not paid 5 cents-a-word like the Vice “reporters” are. Fuck you.
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