This is usually the moment when the VC says "Oh, I just notice, you'll see France." "You want to send me to France?" "No, not you, just your eyeballs. Your liver goes to Texas"
I call Bullshit on that "part of a community" bit. Tell me the name and hobby of your next door neighbor.
And now find 5 other people who can tell that. Nobody gives a shit who's living next door in large cities. You would probably only notice that someone in your apartment megacomplex died because after a few months in Summer it starts to smell funny.
I remember working for a bank controlling institution back then, and I had a conversation with one of their auditors. I asked him what bizarre rules are applied when it comes to lending money to people who have no product, no business plan and nothing at all, but say something about "internet" and getting millions. He said it's an investment. I asked "into what". He said "the future".
6 months later the whole shit came down like 18 months later two towers. Just with more damage and fallout.
We're still trying to recover from that future investment. The lesson to learn here was that you don't let idiots in ivory towers with ZERO connection to actual work run your economy. Sadly, nobody bothered to learn it.
Damn right, business would be so much easier if it wasn't for that pesky customer actually wanting some product for his money. For fuck's sake, ain't there a law that we're entitled to his money without having to provide one?
And if not, how much do you think such a law would cost?
Depends on what they find in those Facebook postings. Want to bet that I could easily find something to make your life very interesting and busy for the foreseeable future given your social media contents?
Are they? Then why keep looking for "evidence"? The whole shit reeks of the school of Cardinal Richelieu and his famous "Give me six lines written by the most honest man, and I will find something there to hang him."
Hey, racism is on the decline, ain't that great? I mean, think about it, of the last three presidents, only the black one has never been compared to some sort of monkey.
It makes sense when you have the "problem" in civilized countries that you cannot forcefully end a peaceful protest without looking like the bad guy. Or maybe you can't do it at all because people actually have a right to assemble and protest peacefully.
But if all you need is some to start rioting to get rid of the problem...
That's one of the aspects, another is that Indie games are usually way, WAY more mod-able than AAA games. Why? Because Indies usually have no interest in trying to rip you off with DLC afterwards. They lack the time to do it anyway, so why bother trying to keep people from creating addons?
Some even went out of their way to provide sensible APIs to enable mods, which led to a very rich and interesting gaming experience because you suddenly had a ton of content creators that threw enhancements and augmentations at you for free. Some go as far as sitting in an IRC channel all day answering mod and addon developer questions.
In the end you suddenly had a game that was way, way more than its original maker envisioned or could possibly have done himself. Yes, those success stories are few (KSP being one of the few, and that was done by a team that knew marketing well), but creating an open environment pretty much always led to user input and user created content. Even if all that meant was that the game eventually got a translation into Mongolian.
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Ummm... buy out MS?
Dumb and full of cum ... what other qualification does a CEO need? For everything else he needs he could buy a magic 8-ball.
This is usually the moment when the VC says "Oh, I just notice, you'll see France."
"You want to send me to France?"
"No, not you, just your eyeballs. Your liver goes to Texas"
"In fact, forget the Facebook"
Well, he stuck to his plan, you can't say he didn't...
Are you sure you wanted to reply to me? If yes, please explain 'cause I'm really confused now.
I thought being a selfish fuck is mandatory in the US? Ain't that one of the tenets of capitalism?
I call Bullshit on that "part of a community" bit. Tell me the name and hobby of your next door neighbor.
And now find 5 other people who can tell that. Nobody gives a shit who's living next door in large cities. You would probably only notice that someone in your apartment megacomplex died because after a few months in Summer it starts to smell funny.
And where exactly is the profit in having people carry over their dongles from one generation of devices to the next?
You obviously never go to hacker conferences. Let's put it that way: Using cables means you KNOW what's connected to your phone.
Now this is just silly, how do you want to make the phone thinner with that kind of requirements?
Don't give them ideas. Apple fanboys are far too used to buying overpriced low quality crap to notice.
Then I guess it's time we grow a pair and have the courage to NOT be idiots who for some odd reason think they need that bling.
Why do people buy something they don't want to impress people they don't like?
The rest of the world wants ISP all over the globe to finally block the Movie industry from interfering with our streaming.
I remember working for a bank controlling institution back then, and I had a conversation with one of their auditors. I asked him what bizarre rules are applied when it comes to lending money to people who have no product, no business plan and nothing at all, but say something about "internet" and getting millions. He said it's an investment. I asked "into what". He said "the future".
6 months later the whole shit came down like 18 months later two towers. Just with more damage and fallout.
We're still trying to recover from that future investment. The lesson to learn here was that you don't let idiots in ivory towers with ZERO connection to actual work run your economy. Sadly, nobody bothered to learn it.
Damn right, business would be so much easier if it wasn't for that pesky customer actually wanting some product for his money. For fuck's sake, ain't there a law that we're entitled to his money without having to provide one?
And if not, how much do you think such a law would cost?
Fundraising rounds are to projects what quarter reports are to business administration: A way to quickly sink them if that's all you care about.
Sorry, sorry, you're right, that makes a HUGE difference here!
In some way... or else you wouldn't bother posting something like this, right?
If this is what happened, then yes, I'm surprised, but pleasantly so.
Unfortunately I had the questionable honor to see it happen very differently, too.
Sadly, more and more it has turned into finding stuff about people who you want behind bars to make them look guilty.
Depends on what they find in those Facebook postings. Want to bet that I could easily find something to make your life very interesting and busy for the foreseeable future given your social media contents?
Are they? Then why keep looking for "evidence"? The whole shit reeks of the school of Cardinal Richelieu and his famous "Give me six lines written by the most honest man, and I will find something there to hang him."
Hey, racism is on the decline, ain't that great? I mean, think about it, of the last three presidents, only the black one has never been compared to some sort of monkey.
It makes sense when you have the "problem" in civilized countries that you cannot forcefully end a peaceful protest without looking like the bad guy. Or maybe you can't do it at all because people actually have a right to assemble and protest peacefully.
But if all you need is some to start rioting to get rid of the problem...
Oh, be careful there, you could get arrested for attacking police officers...
That's one of the aspects, another is that Indie games are usually way, WAY more mod-able than AAA games. Why? Because Indies usually have no interest in trying to rip you off with DLC afterwards. They lack the time to do it anyway, so why bother trying to keep people from creating addons?
Some even went out of their way to provide sensible APIs to enable mods, which led to a very rich and interesting gaming experience because you suddenly had a ton of content creators that threw enhancements and augmentations at you for free. Some go as far as sitting in an IRC channel all day answering mod and addon developer questions.
In the end you suddenly had a game that was way, way more than its original maker envisioned or could possibly have done himself. Yes, those success stories are few (KSP being one of the few, and that was done by a team that knew marketing well), but creating an open environment pretty much always led to user input and user created content. Even if all that meant was that the game eventually got a translation into Mongolian.