If you're a woman at riot and you post a swimsuit pic you can get in trouble with HR and have to delete but then u go to the office and guys r walking around in t shirts emblazoned with bikini models and there's a policy forbidding you from complaining about specifically this 🥴
You've been afk for multiple rounds in 6 different games this week, and clicked past 5 warnings. Life happens, and that's okay, but if you aren't able to be present for the whole game you shouldn't queue for ranked. Play some norms this week, ranked will still be there after.
"everybody wants to be my enemy" is actually Singed's theme song for when riven irelia viktor warwick jinx orianna twitch vi heimerdinger and dr mundo all show up at his door mad about what he did to them
@ItsJustEmran
Nope, sorry. That wouldn't be fair to the 54 other people whose games you compromised by afking. As somebody who takes ranked seriously you want your teammates to be there and taking it seriously too, right? Take this as a lesson for the future and get back in there next week.
@ashleyloob
had a similar experience once in LA except the guy was a famous league of legends streamer and he was just talking nonstop about streaming league of legends and I think I heard like two words max out of the girl the whole time also it was a jjim place
me 50 years from now when I'm in the home with dementia: betty. betty you don't understand. pete buttigieg was eridan
the caretaker trying to change my bedsheets: that's nice ma'am
@FayeMata
on the bright side somebody responding to my spiel about making the industry better for women and poc with "I disagree" would tell me everything I need to know about the company and then some
I'm happy that Valorant has a "report" feature in closed beta. Too many online games have launched without them. How can mitigating harassment be an afterthought? If your game relies on teamwork and communication, it is literally integral to your gameplay
pouring one out for the rioters who tried to tell somebody this ain't it and got hit with "we appreciate the candid feedback, but we're committed to this direction and it's too late to make major changes" ✊😔
Okay I'm seeing a bunch of replies like "why don't they do this on League" and while I get the sentiment, I also know the people working in this space on League and I have a tremendous amount of faith in the stuff they're doing. Please be patient, they care just as much as you 🙏
though the sound "w" exists in japanese, the phoneme "wu" does not.
if you were going to write "uwu", you'd do it as "うっうー" ("u'ū") or even just "ううー" ("uū").
anyway what I'm getting at here is Maria's "uu, uu" in Umineko could just as well be romanized as "uwu, uwu"
how long until some triple-A game launches with "incredible interactive NPC AI" that turns out to be a warehouse full of people in bangladesh getting paid pennies on the hour
when I was new at Riot, I one day worked up the courage to broach the subject of mental illness-related fatigue with my manager. He laughed in my face and said "I have kids, I don't have any sympathy for you staying up late playing video games." I never brought it up again.
women on international women's day: let me post the story again of how I was fired for reporting my manager after he traded sex for workplace benefits with other female employees, in case anyone is interested
men on international women's day: oh yeah I love women ;) ;) hehheh
neil degrasse tyson could completely change how he comes off with a tiny tweak to framing. if instead of "eehhm Santa isn't real" he said "Santa will be traveling at one tenth the speed of light to deliver all the presents tonight. Now that's a fast grampy!!!!" we'd all love him
the best part of being female in games is having that one time a guy touched you inappropriately but it wasn't THAT bad and he's friends with all your friends and you don't wanna cause drama but what if he did something worse to someone else but what if it's nothing but what if
the most annoying part of web3 is the baldfaced lies spun as credulous enthusiasm.
this is already possible. games do it sometimes. they don't do it very much because it's expensive and nobody really wants it. but mike here is just excited for the possibilities of this new tech!
Ah! So here’s something people aren’t explaining: NFTs don’t have to be jpgs.
Imagine taking your favorite skin from Valorant, and using it Fortnite. And not paying extra, because you own it. Then using it in CoD, Minecraft, even Twitter, IG.
So many possibilities, no?
last week I saw a tweet that said "we're about to see bosses start deflecting organized feedback from employees by dismissing it as a 'mob' trying to 'cancel' them", and I was like "haha, that's wild", but in retrospect that was definitely the loading screen hint for this week
it's very flattering how many of you are so invested that a week break from ranked feels like the end of the world but lads I need you to remember that when you DC, even if you don't mean to, you are being that game-ruining AFK you hate to see 😔
This was my first (half) week on Project A. After working in the functioning chaos of League for the past several years it's really exciting and refreshing to move to such a planned and orderly service ecosystem, and to think about how it's going to break when we let people in...
designers thinking about making a character gay: Idk :/ does it fit her thematic? does it contribute to her story? what if it feels shoehorned?
designers thinking about making a character sexualized: so her lore is she's a demon lich? ofc her titties should be out. make them big
Software engineer
@SNazerine
is on a tech team who works to ensure
#LeagueofLegends
will still be running a decade from now. She loves playing bagpipes...the really loud ones. Lydia is excited to connect with other women in tech at
#GHC19
!
shoutout to the person who muted "shesh", "sheesh", "sheeesh", "sheeeesh", "sheeeeesh", "sheeeeeesh", etc. making great use of the feature. enjoy your gun buddy
I've been doing this on the dl on discord for a bit so I figure I'll open it up here: want a fistbump gun buddy? send me a video of a bug I haven't seen before. can be in the client, in game, whatever. must be your footage, on the current patch, and complete enough to reproduce.
remember how raw "it's over, I have the high ground" was? like sure it was goofy but also obi-wan had the hard read on him. he said "don't mash here, I'm gonna meaty" and anakin mashed and obi meatied and just gave him the hecking food processor. imagine getting bodied that hard
@virtualjess
yeah, it can happen if someone reports it to HR. HR clarified to me today that they have an exception to the sexual content policy for if someone is wearing something "inappropriate" on campus, unclear to me if you can still get in trouble for pics on your socials
it's important to give yourself blocks of at least two uninterrupted hours for tasks. that way you have 1 hour to wrangle your mind into concentrating on the task, 30 minutes to do the entire thing in a frantic rush, and then another 30 minutes to decompress from the ordeal
left a job that was draining me more than I realized and am now getting paid to do the exact thing I broke my parents' screentime rules to do for fun when I was 13
Game developers! 🎮 👋 It's time. Tell me at least one thing you did that you are proud of this year. Everything is valid, no matter how big or small. Something you learned, a job you found, a smart fix, a promotion, an award, a realisation, you closing a JIRA ticket on time...
"please support my art by turning on notifications for my tweets!!" babygirl I love you but if you want me to do that you are going to have to stop livetweeting korean boyband dating simulator 54 😭
all right guys I'm in the valorant discord with my dms open so you can ping me if there's bugs or live issues, not so you can ask me to watch porn with you on video 🥴
I'm actually so proud of the detection framework we built for valorant, it makes it so easy to add new behaviors I just nullified an entire afk farming strategy while eating my lunch
league forcing you to use the wrong summoner spells -and runes- for your first 10-15 games is so mystifying... the game is already so hard to learn why are we preventing new players from even having the ability to play correctly from the start 😭
@WyattSalazar
It's not about "if you get robo legs, are you still a human" it's about "what do we do when the AI we put in our gun is as much a person as we are"
at least we know andrew tate will still have friends, I'm sure g2 carlos won't let the human trafficking conviction get in the way of their deep intellectual connection
my
#1
criticism of elden ring is that it expects me to keep godric, godfrey, godwyn, and godefroy straight. my
#2
criticism of elden ring is that it expects me to keep malenia, maleigh, milena, miquella, and marika straight also
@blaustoise
my crackpot theory is that it has to do with gendered stereotypes in western gaming culture
all of NA's most hated champs are cutesy, "girly" stuff like zoe, yuumi, lux, etc
I think their presence makes a lot of guys slightly uncomfortable and losing to them stings extra hard
in the meantime, if somebody's doing something non-comms related in your game--griefing, throwing, whatever--and you don't see an indicator on the end of game screen that we caught it, let us know. we're actively working on building new detections and improving the ones we have.
the system that tracks those kinds of behaviors doesn't interact with instant feedback reports due to some technical baggage, so while we sort that out we wanted to ensure players can see what the game is already detecting. ultimate goal is to have feedback reports for these, too
every ff14 player: wow the server split sucks all my friends are gone. how could you do this yoshi p
emet selch: you think this compares to MY suffering?
to the people asking if they can opt out of recording: yes, you can! you are free to not speak in voice. this is currently the best/only option for women who want to avoid sexual harassment in the game. Hope this helps :)
"hey where should we put this sign about disability inclusion"
"uhhh how about in the middle of the only safe path for wheelchairs in this crowded parking lot"
this is the kind of thing you come up with when you can't imagine a workforce that isn't comprised of 20something white guys with nothing going on in their lives aside from getting hired by a big tech firm that mass-hires new grads to make up for its attrition problem
yellow paint, the NPCs in gow telling you how to solve every puzzle, aloy constantly narrating where to go, etc are all symptoms of designing games to not confuse people in a 30 minute focus test rather than to be fun when played in full