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I'm sorry, but I can't educate you on all of this. Like I said, I would advise you look into more formal educational material. The only - and last - thing I'll mention on that point in particular is that:

• There are an awful lot of things that are illegal that probably should not be that fall under crimes.
• Most people who commit crime do not commit crime because they want to commit crime.
• The police do not stop crime. The police apprehend suspects before a community panel. You do not stop crime by increasing police (in fact, there is some evidence that an increased police presence correlates with increased crime rates). You decrease crime by reducing the reason for people to want to commit crime.

There are so many talented and intelligent people who are not rewarded by capitalism in practice. If the goal of the reward is to encourage innovation, perhaps a better way to encourage innovation would be to ensure that people have their meets met so that they are free to innovate and not have to worry about where their next rent payment will come from?

This is without considering that it would probably me more humane to structure society around keeping people healthy and happy and enjoying the fullness of their life, rather than making sure we extract the most value (usually for shareholders) from people.

Unless you are someone who is fervently right-libertarian and believes that governments in the world right now are all corrupt, we already live in a world which relies on people being honest and moral. The profit incentive can guide certain things, but most of the worlds infrastructure exists not because of the profit incentive but because it was required.

And this is without getting into the fact that you do not need to be honest or moral for people to collaborate in order to further their shared interests. People need to eat, drink, be housed etc. Funnily enough, those last three things aren't even necessarily provided for in some governments, so it's hard to see how "communism won't work because we can't trust people!" is a valid argument when basic necessities aren't met when not practicing communism due to what appears to be greed.

We all trust that politicians won't abuse their power, but they do. If you want a world in which you cannot trust anyone, ...

If you're looking for a place for political theory then r/lol isn't it, but I'll' give it a crack.

Your problem is coming from the perspective of looking at the world through the way it exists currently, and the idea that the world needs to continue existing in that way. That is, we have money, states, etc, now, so therefore any version of communism would necessarily need to include money and states.

However how is capital judged? Are people going to be removed from ancestral homes or simply recieve no wealth in return when redistribution occurs.

Capital is simply private (not to be confused with personal) property and money. If a state ceased to exist, there is no one to enforce laws against private property - that's what the police do. Current money probably loses m...

Communism is the idea of a flat society with goods distributed based on need rather than on capital. It is a stateless ideology. "Equality" in communism is more closely related to equality in terms of capital - Wealth disparities, essentially.

"Communism means state run" doesn't really match up with what the political theory posits. one of the central tenets of communism is 'The withering away of the state' - the idea that the state does not need to exist in an actualised communist world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withering_away_of_the_state.

Noxus has no desire for the state to wither away; it is an expansionist military empire, primarily attempting to obtain arable land. They demand loyalty to the state from their subjects. It is an empire with a military dictatorshi...

Viego is literally a monarch

Sylas is closer to anarchist than communist IMO, references to Marx notwithstanding. not that the two are mutually exclusive.

Of the roster, Sylas is definitely the closest. Anarchism is all about dismantling unjust hierarchies and taking direct action - it's hard to argue that Sylas' killing of Jarvan III isn't propaganda of the deed.

Caedrel is a champion

Today is a good day.

The obvious example would be a protocol used across multiple games/platforms for handling things like avatars and props or whatever.

This already exists in VRChat. No NFTs required! Sharing assets across games and platforms is a very difficult technical issue that is a problem down to engines, legal issues, game balance issues, visual issues, stylistic issues... We can already share assets cross-platform as long as the engine is the same (see: TFT).

Note that this is such a difficult problem that even games with the same IP, like Wild Rift, do not use the same assets as in League of Legends.

Sharing assets across games is difficult, and the main challenges there are ensuring that the assets are portable between the two games (this is a very big hurdle) in terms of how they are serialized/deserialized, and that they actually fit the game they are in. For example, it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to have the Ja...

This is specifically why I did not name who I was comparing Drakos to; I've already said my piece on Shinoda's take.

As someone who plays a significant amount of VR, I can tell you that VR does not make NFTs any less useless than they already are. There is nothing specific about VR that makes it better suited to NFTs. The only thing NFTs do is allow for a place for everyone to agree on who owns what, and we already have multiple ways of achieving this with tech today, and this isn't more or less useful in VR games.

It is true that it is technically possible for this to work in games, just like it is technically possible for all games to be a clone of the same game, but that's not a desirable outcome for anyone

NFTs are, IMO, not something that Riot could just 'implement with all of our games', nor do I have personally have any desire to see Riot do this.

Sharing assets across games is a complicated problem, and the only things NFTs do in this space are:

1. Provide a speculative investment bubble (current environmental concerns aside)
2. Provide a vehicle for determining who has a digital license to which asset.

Frankly, #1 provides no value to players, and #2 is something we have already solved in literally all of our games and we did not need NFTs to do it, and solving it across game properties would be as simple as using an existing protocol like OAuth2, none of which requires NFTs.

Also, Riot has already put Jinx in Fortnite, and that didn't require NFTs either.

NFTs are a money grab by any studio willing to implement them, plain and simple.

embracing cringe one day and banger music the next. get you an esports league that can do both

I am getting wild LP vibes from Drakos' rapping in this song, it's so good

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Most Riot employees including myself are probably free to live and work in the united states for a period of 90 days due to the ESTA program without a formal visa, but if you want to stay beyond 90 days and work, one needs an actual visa and that's what we're talking about here. You would almost certainly be able to attend/run an event in that 90 day period, so most of the time, you don't need a visa.

There are certain contingencies for large international businesses. For example, if one wanted to transfer an employee from Acme inc, Dublin to Acme inc, San Francisco, and one could demonstrate that employee had specialised knowledge that would be very difficult to hire for, one could file for an L-1b visa. If Acme inc was a very large business, it might have what's called an "L-1 blanket", which is where the US government recognises that the business needs to have it easier to move employees between countries.

However, L-1 blanket or not, unless you have an urgent ne...

• You are only able to file for a visa in an embassy of a country in which you are a resident (not a legal resident, but have a permanent basis). This is especially true for non-immigrant visas (most of them), as you must demonstrate that you intend to return to your previous country and not overstay it.
• Most countries, including South Korea, only have a single embassy for a given country
• You are explicitly discouraged from "window-shopping", and the embassy staff do not like it
• In general you cannot view what appointments are available without first filing for your petition, which costs around $190 (non-refundable) each time
• You are not able to file for a petition in another embassy without first cancelling the previous one - this means you have to pay $190, then cancel and pay that again in order to compare the slots of two different embassies.

For me, I had the option of filing in either the Irish or London embassies as I li...

The problem is you need to get an appointment at the embassy or consulate through the US website. This year at my local consulate the next free date is in April. After that, it's in August, and then October. And I do mean date - as in, one singular date, with one appointment free at 8am, per month.

As someone going through the US visa process right now I can tell you that it is very difficult to get a US visa, even with all the resources these orgs will have.

I filed for my visa at the embassy in December of 2021 and the earliest appointment date was August of 2022. Luckily, I managed to get this revised to February 2022, but that was entirely down to luck.

This is primary due to COVID - Visas are much faster to process in normal times