You seem to be forgetting Fatal1ty. He was a pretty big competitive gamer celebrity.
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Here's the thing: in the realm of competitive gaming... esports if you insist, why has there been what seems to be a radical swing to MOBAs?
It seems that the popularity of RTS is waning and the time of FPS has come and gone, but MOBAs are huuuge now.
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I just can't get into them, I'm not really interested. If the "popular" game genre in competitive gaming was one I played, I'd support it and probably have a favorite player/team... but that's not the case.
My first major online game was indeed a MOBA, and I do enjoy watching professionals play. Should any game from the community take over and the players rise to earn respect from people outside of the community, I will support that game fully, MOBA, FPS, RTS, or any other genre. But unfortunately, most people think like garlog, but hey, what can I do.
I find it ridiculous that people sit down for three hours to watch men stop-and-go across a football field every Sunday. Watching people play video games is even more boring.
To each their own, my man. One man's trash is another man's treasure. I love watching pro league of legends because it is 1) very informative 2) helps understand different strategies I can try in my own play 3) I find it very entertaining. I can't explain why, but that's how it is.
Scientists didn't make water flow on Mars, they just found what's probably water that seems to maybe flow somehow.
It's an exiting discovery, not any sort of big achievement.
No, that's what makes it an exiting discovery. If I only though of the now I would think "It's just fucking water, who gives a shit? There's plenty of that here, and we already know there's ice on Mars, so it's not that unrealistic to find water somewhere."
I know right! Doctors save peples lives scientists find out lots of important things and no one bats an eye. A footballer kicksva ball and everyone loves him
As someone who aspires to go into the scientific field (either pharmacy or stem cell research), I feel like science deserves more funding as well. A lot of steps forward into the future could have been taken if science was as funded as the American troops
I completely agree. I only took it from a movie I watched a while back about Ben and Jerry and it compared our military budget to other budgets using Oreos.... That Oreo stack was pretty damn tall. But I definitely agree with a movie budget being a better idea
Also, I would suggest stem cell research over pharmacy; it has a lot more potential for growth and meaningful discoveries. Look at induced pluripotent stem cells. With scientific and clinical research, we have the potential to make the world better, bit by bit. Or we could release yet another movie that is more or less just like a dozen other ones that will be released that year to give people two hours of entertainment. Give them FS (which is free and more than two hours of fun) and put that money in the labs.
I adore the idea of stem cells and I've always fancied doing something with biology. I know that there's some controversy about it, but the concept and massive potential of them are absolutely thrilling
There is mainly controversy because people equate stem cell research with embryonic stem cell research and presume that babies are being killed. Not all stem cells are embryonic stem cells, not all embryonic stem cell extraction harms the embryo (even if it did, abortions within the first trimester are legal, so why not use the stem cells from these?), and not all scientists are mad scientists. Induced pluripotent stem cells are adult cells that have been reverted back into a pluripotent stem cell form in a laboratory. There should be no ethical issue involved from a scientist taking a skin cell and using chemicals to transform it back into a cell with amazing potential. In short, the science and medical literacy in this country is appalling, and this is a major contributing factor as to why science has no funding.
I do know that you can also get embryonic stem cells from the umbilical cord or from the leftovers from in vitro fertilization. Why not use those that will be wasted to get stem cells? Or harvest stem cells from you when you're a baby so you can use them later on? I wish I had that done just because it would be so good for me in the future
Well, my point is that it is not necessary to use embryonic stem cells anymore. We can get the same benefits and more from induced pluripotent stem cells, without the ethical dilemma. Obviously wikipedia isn't a scholarly source, but it is a decent overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell
I know about it, I just learned about it in anatomy class. It's remarkable that we can basically reduce cells with assigned roles, like muscular or epithelial cells, to the most basic form of a cell with massive potential
There are a lot of similarities between cancer cells and stem cells. I have often wondered if introducing the reprogramming factors to cancer cells has any therapeutically beneficial effect. This would probably only work on certain cancer subtypes, since conditions like supernumerary centrosomes will always promote overactive cell cycle progression, and thus oncogenesis. Or it might just make the cancer worse by making them pluripotent stem cells, which metastasize, emulate any tissue type at attachment e.g. mesenchymal-epithelial transition, generate new tumors of this new tissue type, and essentially make it impossible to properly diagnose and treat.
In fact, in nor the Korea and other places, they are highly revered
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Here's the thing: in the realm of competitive gaming... esports if you insist, why has there been what seems to be a radical swing to MOBAs?
It seems that the popularity of RTS is waning and the time of FPS has come and gone, but MOBAs are huuuge now.
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I just can't get into them, I'm not really interested. If the "popular" game genre in competitive gaming was one I played, I'd support it and probably have a favorite player/team... but that's not the case.
Professional gaming, however, is a joke I am incapable of taking seriously.
Fair enough.
It's an exiting discovery, not any sort of big achievement.
If you think of the future and what this discovery could mean you'll see it is really an amazing achievement.
This is how i feel about this topic everytime.
F*cking ridiculous