It’s hard to give an exact definition, but someone playing candy crush on their phone is meaningfully different than a LoL player. Not in elitism or whatever, but for example one is a game any person might play for a bit while bored, and one is a demanding competitive immersive game. I would say a good separation is the cozy / not competitive games with competitive games, since the competitive ones are the places most people think of Gamers not being accepting.

The dems had the support of their entire base and most of the country, Republicans ending the philibuster and shoving it through anyway would have been extremely unpopular, even among their base. Everyone I knew was talking about how the Republicans were refusing to negotiate, then right after everyone was talking about how the dems folded as they always do… Even if they DID end the philibuster, it would show people democrats are finally trying every option possible like the Republicans have been doing for the last 10 years. The dems can make whatever statement they want, Republicans will enforce a police state but at least I know my representative was upset about it. Yes we got the epstein files with about 2 lines unredacted, I think most people would prefer their representatives fight for their healthcare instead.

This is also not a 1 time thing, Republicans philibuster Obama’s scotus pick, and democrats say “well that’s improper we can’t do that back.” Just about every chance they’ve had to fold they have and people are sick of it. If someone is beating a person up and I wag my finger at them, I’m not as bad as the person beating them up, but I’m sure not doing anything to stop it.

Not true actually, they could have blocked the ACA funding cuts but magically just enough dems switched to allow the wildly unpopular cuts. The Republicans didn’t shut down the government by voting no on a temporary resolution that would cut aca funding, the dems did, then said haha just kidding as soon as they got support for blocking it (???)

I mean I’m not sure what to say to that as that has not been my experience playing at either high or low level in league, and I’ve heard the same from tons of other people. If the jungler is hyper fed and your team doesn’t put wards, you are not allowed to trade or play aggressive ever, because you are essentially the team’s lifeline at that point and if you die the game will hyper snowball.

I have seen and been in the position of winning lane all game and then just perma camped so I just have to sit and farm and hope my team catches up while I soak the junglers time, and I end the game 0/0/2 or something similar and we lose, or 2/5 games if I made no mistakes I can pull back these hyper lost games, which are about 30% of league games. It’s also if 1 person messes up, that makes it so everyone else has to play MUCH more defensive, i.e. waveclear and run away, for a large portion of the game

All the time you spend walking back to lane, waiting for the next wave because you cleared the wave but you’re camped, sitting behind tower because you’re countered, sitting in gray screen because you got dove but its more optimal to get the wave and die, all of that is just pure typing time.

Compare that to hots, your team is giga trash so you’re down 2 levels. Always a camp to get, always another wave to run to, always positioning to be gotten. There is literally no moment in hots that there isn’t something to do, no matter how bad your team is or how behind you are. If you have literally nothing to do, you run around near where an enemy is to try and see when they rotate, or try to put yourself to catch the wave right as they leave. If you did that in league you are griefing unless you already fully pushed your wave, don’t have a good base timing, have high hp and mana, and know where the enemy jungler/support/top are. If you are adc and your support is bad in league you are not allowed to play. If your jungler is bad you are not allowed to play. If the enemy mid is an assassin who is fed you’re not allowed to play. None of that is true in hots (except the assassin part a little bit).

Usually 10-15 minutes, not unusual for it to go to around 20 sometimes. I haven’t seen past 25 I don’t think, that would be both teams wiping each other every fight. The objectives just push the game to a conclusion pretty quickly, since they are very low risk to start and kill towers/buildings either directly or indirectly. It’s sort of like if dragons were weaker, spawned every 3 minutes, and made a rift herald if you kill one.

I don’t think that’s true, go try heroes of the storm and it’s 10x less toxic. In hots half the time I would type something I’m pulled back into playing because there’s something always happening. In league you could sit behind your tower typing 90% of the time and it would make 0 difference to the game. Plus in league, if someone else is bad and dies, not only are you down a player but the enemy is actively stronger, and you can have 0 impact on it for the first 50% of the game.

But Trump may be willing to take a “win” on a funding deal that cuts a significant amount of what he saw as “pork,” the source continued

I’m confused as to what was left out, the rejected bill tried to increase the debt ceiling and removed funding for children’s cancer research, among other things. The only change mentioned is the removal of the debt ceiling increase. Republicans finally reducing government waste by denying children’s cancer research funding…?