White supremacy and qanon popularity/growth on social media has been a big topic. That's basically what every news article on facebook has been about for years now.

Faruko

Chile34173 Posts

October 15 2020 00:37 GMT

#206944

Social Media is breeding ground for extremist

Faruko

Chile34173 Posts

October 15 2020 12:33 GMT

#206945

I'm drinking tea and watching the crown.

rabidch

United States20289 Posts

October 16 2020 04:02 GMT

#206946

On October 15 2020 02:16 PassiveAce wrote:

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White supremacy and qanon popularity/growth on social media has been a big topic. That's basically what every news article on facebook has been about for years now.

Engagement to the maximum!

Nevuk

United States16280 Posts

October 16 2020 04:17 GMT

#206947

Engagement, a metric defined by our engineers, strangely values the same things our CEOs do! Isn't it crazy? Well, aside from over valuing articles on how frequently blinking needs to be done. I know Mark would never need those!
- Some guy at facebook, probably.

Erasme

Bahamas15899 Posts

October 16 2020 11:45 GMT

#206948

On October 15 2020 21:33 Faruko wrote:
I'm drinking tea and watching the crown.

spoiler alert, she doesn't die

Faruko

Chile34173 Posts

October 16 2020 13:08 GMT

#206949

On October 16 2020 20:45 Erasme wrote:

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spoiler alert, she doesn't die

inb4 your comment does

harodihg

Japan1344 Posts

October 16 2020 15:42 GMT

#206950

Fall Guys but you can play in browser through Facebook and can go back and screenshot/clip moments that were outrageous and post on your wall, and when you die you're placed in some nearby stands where you can react with various emoticons such as the 'smiley face' or the 'cheering face' and discuss how riveting the match has been through a Facebook chat.

eieio

United States14512 Posts

October 16 2020 19:41 GMT

#206951

I know the writing's been on the wall and that folks have probs already seen it but:

man! RIP. Had a whole lot of fun in the early days of SC2.

teddyoojo

Germany22369 Posts

October 16 2020 19:57 GMT

#206952

sad im still watching almost the entire GSL seasons

cecek

Czech Republic18921 Posts

October 16 2020 22:15 GMT

#206953

RIP SC2.

Do you guys think Europe absolutely shitting the bed in terms of handling the pandemic is gonna help Trump in the elections? Right now, EU has more new cases/million people than USA.

CorsairHero

Canada9491 Posts

October 16 2020 22:28 GMT

#206954

Nevuk

United States16280 Posts

October 16 2020 22:29 GMT

#206955

Not really. The US has an insane death count, and he just got COVID. If people had been saying "Look at france, they handled it perfectly" for the last 7 months then it might matter, but it's more been "the US had the worst response of any first world country", which still remains true. The truth is the average american voter has issues finding europe on a map and doesn't really care about it.
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PhoenixVoid

Canada32754 Posts

October 16 2020 22:55 GMT

#206956

As much as I grew tired of SC2 and lost sight of it years ago, you can't forget the imprint it left on the foundation of modern esports by pioneering the kind of tournament streaming and POV player streams we see everywhere now. Twitch was founded because Justin Kan wanted to see SC2 tourneys, and being able to view IdrA or TLO stream their ladder games was really cool and fresh for the time. A decent bunch of the people we see from Dota and LoL - or esports in general - can usually trace the start of their interest and careers from SC2 and/or BW.

SC2 isn't dead yet, but it was an inevitable fate for a genre that's basically on life support and being owned a company that is increasingly transitioning to a different business model.

PassiveAce

United States18076 Posts

October 17 2020 00:33 GMT

#206957

Kind of incredible the impact its had. I bet it's the last even somewhat popular RTS we see for a loooooooong time.

I wonder how people feel about the "final" state of balance. I have no idea what the game is even like now really.

TheEmulator

28102 Posts

October 17 2020 00:43 GMT

#206958

I couldn't imagine todays youth learning a game like broodwar. Also I'm curious where the age cut off point is for people that remember the sc2 days lol. I feel like we're all boomers at this point

PassiveAce

United States18076 Posts

October 17 2020 00:59 GMT

#206959

Feeling older every day

Kids these days... With their newfangled fortnites and fallguys... *Angrily waves walking stick*

eieio

United States14512 Posts

October 17 2020 04:13 GMT

#206960

Sometimes still wonder what would have happened if Blizz had handled SC2 differently - like is there a world where it doesn't drop off in popularity / takes off in Korea and ESPORTS is all different.

But idk, honestly loved Wings (as a player and a viewer) despite its flaws.

I'll always remember the Haypro Bonjovi MLG run.

(...and staying up to watch GSL, and watching qxc's insane streams, and SOTG, and hitting masters, and...)