Find me some studies showing video game violence cause damage or costs that make them in the slightest way similar to smoking and I'll accept that as relevant. It is entirely different to tax something that causes significant costs for the public (healthcare) vs something old people don't like
I don't smoke. I hate the smell of smoke. But it bothers me that the government can tell you "No, sorry, no one's allowed to smoke in the restaurant you own and operate".
There's a major difference between legislating morality for the sake of morality and appealing to certain demographics and actually taxing things that directly or indirectly cost public money
@BenBrocka That argument doesn't really work well. If they believe that violent video games really leads to school shootings, then indeed violent video games directly or indirectly cost public money.
@fredley if I own a restaurant, EVERYONE owns it? What?
@Sterno It's more of a workplace safety issue than anything else. Why should restaurant workers have to inhale as much secondhand smoke as a two-pack-a-day smoker, just as a hazard of their job?
@Sterno There's tons of research linking smoking and second hand smoking to major health problems. There's minor, extremely conflicting research on the effects of violent video games
@Sterno Your medic programs are the biggest chunk of your federal spending if I'm not mistaken. Doing what you can to reduce that spending by preventing problems to begin with simply makes sense.
And all video game violence research generally measure short term effects and measure things like "they wrote a slightly more violent short story", not actual violence
I want to say welcome to Arqade but you have been here twice as long as I have, so I'll say welcome back.
I have a few things I want to address in this post and I'm not confident they're going to be popular with any particular group of people on either side of the current argument.
Let's sta...
@badp yes but rather than just looking like the community is going "meh, don't care, too localised" I feel it is better to explain to said user that (a) we were probably wrong, it's not too localised and we have multiple things we do when handling other games that allow time limited questions, and (b) it's still not a good question regardless
If your answer is "At the time of this writing, it's Zerg; at the time of your reading, check [here](blah)" at the end of the day I don't even see the need to go back to it every now and again
Is there a Day9 for league of legends?
I have tried to engage the users who voted to close in comments with no success.
I have always been a huge advocate of these sites, however this type of behavior makes me want to delete my account.
I don't want to support a community where you can't even...
if we're currently having a "traffic crisis", losing more users by provoking arguments like this over using the wrong closure reason is not a good way to handle it
I have made a bad mistake and I think Im stuck.
I did not notice that i need floater corpses for the interceptor upgrades.
I sold all corpses on grey market and then only heavy floaters starter appearing.
Funny thing is that the game requires floater corpses and not heavy floater corpses (i mea...
@kalina I don't know why we closed the question; I don't know Starcraft 2; what I do know is that people like @OrigamiRobot and @LessPop_MoreFizz think before they VTC
When I was at the point where she says goodbye to the Songbird for the last time (I don't want to spoil it but if I say "Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink" you'll know what bit I'm on about) I was actually starting to think the game was leading to Booker being the Songbird, just bec...
Of course after editing all that, I see that it's basically not an answer. It's basically "I thought the songbird would be X, but it wasn't X. But wouldn't it have been cool if it was X?"
@kalina The difference is that questions like this require constant attention to keep up to date. When minecraft gets updated, there is a new version and patch notes. There is no analogous system for game metas.
If your answer is "At the time of this writing, it's Zerg; at the time of your reading, check [here](blah)" at the end of the day I don't even see the need to go back to it every now and again
I have read statements from blizzard talking about how they monitor the w/l ratio of every race matchup in starcraft at all levels.
I don't think they have these stats for professional gaming tournaments.
Does anyone know which race has the highest w/l ratio in professional gaming as of HOTS ?
Most competitive games are updated and change over time. I play starcraft and I almost never ask questions here, because the rules make for a toxic environment. My questions get downvoted because I don't care about strategies from 6 months ago. I want information based around the current state of...
@FEichinger No, it doesn't. I'm not talking about NC at all. NC basically means "subjective". If you'd like, I can direct you to my numerous complaints about close reasons being misleadingly named.
I'm pretty sure the way it works around here is you throw a dart at the list of close reasons for a question you don't like, and then justify why the one you hit applies.
> We expect answers to be supported by facts, references, or specific expertise, but this question will likely solicit debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion.
Stack exchange frowns on answers containing only a link, even if it's to relevant information, because:
It requires extra effort from the reader
It is vulnerable to link rot
The stated goal of Stack Exchange is to host content, not just link to it
A common approach to these answers is to leav...
@LessPop_MoreFizz Feel free to ignore the other twenty times when I said you certainly had good reason to VTC as you did, I just didn't (and don't) know what it was.
Community consensus is pretty much it's okay as long as you put some context with it. In this case, that context might just be "This changes over a time as the game changes blah blah blah but if you look here it tracks the play statistics so you can see at any given point which race is ahead blah blah blah now my link has context and I'm cool"
@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm not sure he definitively said that, I think most of those words were in the sentence but that there were a few more that means it didn't mean what you're interpreting it as
@kalina I don't know why we closed the question; I don't know Starcraft 2; what I do know is that people like @OrigamiRobot and @LessPop_MoreFizz think before they VTC
Anyways, the reason i voted as I did is because the SCII metagame is heavily changable and subject to a variety of fads or balance changes. Asking for specific win-rates is specifically asking for a snapshot-in-time of something that is 1)heavily changable, and 2) more importantly, has no real meaning outside of a more concrete context. The question just isn't useful in any way that we are able to meaningfully address it, IMO.
:For other angelic hierarchies, see Hierarchy of angels.
The most influential Christian angelic hierarchy was that put forward by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in the 4th or 5th century in his book De Coelesti Hierarchia (On the Celestial Hierarchy). During the Middle Ages, many schemes were proposed, some drawing on and expanding on Pseudo-Dionysius, others suggesting completely different classifications. According to medieval Christian theologians, the angels are organized into several orders, or "Angelic Choirs".
Pseudo-Dionysius (On the Celestial Hierarchy) and Thomas Aquinas (Su...
I suppose you could adorn it with warnings about the dataset it's using and what portion of "competitive gaming" is being tracked and "this is the top players not the top factions" and whatnot
@badp I think that it is not a link that's likely to go anywhere, but I also think that as a link goes, it's not particularly meaningful without a lot more context than is being provided. And more to the point, I don't whose only purpose is to solicit a link that shows up in the top 5 of any reasonably formulated google search is a particularly great reason to try to save what is, at the end of the day, a crappy question that ought to be downvoted at a bare minimum.
@SaintWacko I tried out a venom mage this morning just to mix things up a bit. I learned wights are immune to poison. Since nothing is immune to being smashed in the face with a mace, I'm going to switch back next game :P