Was expecting this to come for Gabe Newell first. Considering how the gamer community pretty much worships him day-in day-out (I admit am one of those who like him, too).
Preorders.
What I did like about certain indie games (Minecraft, Zomboid, Terraria, Wurm Online,...) is the fact that they release an early stage demo, offer preorders and preorder benefits, and take feedback into account. This way people will preorder/buy the game if they like the demo and the potential, and you get their feedback to make sure they recieve exactly what they asked for when the game is complete.
I know this is a smal-scale plan, and I don;t think it would recoup the entire costs of an 8 milion project, but I still like this way of doing business.
I know this is kind of unrelated to TFA, but let me say something I enjoy thinking of: Decentralization is on the way.
More and more, governments and corps realize that a single entity to enforce law is nowhere near as efficient as it used to be. Having a police or a cyberpolice to track crimes and enforce whatever you thought was right used to be quite efficient. But the ease at which people communicate and exchange informations or objects now makes it nearly impossible (if not totally) to monitor what every single one does. Sure they could cross that fated line and start walking into people's privacy for no appearant reason, but they should prepare for a mob of "mah freedon of spech!!!11!".
Point is, it's now much safer to rely on people themselves (the educated kind, of course (whatever the fuck that means)) to regulate the rest. But it's putting the very existence of a government, and more generally, of a single law enforcing entity, in question. Slowly. Everytime.
“By the Way of the warrior is meant death. The Way of the warrior is death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. It means nothing more than this. It means to see things through, being resolved.” -Yukio Mishima
It's the country where the Bushido started. The country were Samurais revolted when they were offered a "peaceful living". Times change, and a tradition is doomed to disappear. But this is the country where, since the beginning of it, you weren't encouraged to die for the sake of the country or the sake of Allah, you were encouraged to embrace death because it's "the way of the warrior", and if you could do the Emperor some good with your death, then why not. Bushido is way better than any "code of honor" because it just tells people what they really are, tools for someone or something, and that they must free themselves through an honorable death. It is where other similar philosophies fail, as they just call the inner greed in men and promise them a heaven or a memorable song.
This is why I admire that fucking country. (And yes, am terribly biased)
I live in Tunisia, north of Africa, one country with a "moderate" climate.
Lately winters became a joke. When I was a kid I used to wear a bunch of shirts and a coat to feel warm in February. For the last 5 years: It barely rained at all.
Funny thing is, we still didn't have *hot* summer days yet, despite it being the season. (Heck, right now, it's cloudy and windy like fuck. If one day someone told me it would rain in the beginning of July here, I would have wished it was true.)
The Tunisian contagion finally reaching China? Somehow I feel that all these "big" countries will suffer the same fate. China may actually collapse under it's own weight if something like this continues. Heck, the Tunisian revolution started from some small village in the south of it and then spread like fire on grass. China seems to have built the same tension from class differences and the rising social needs (and of course frustration from censorship). The chinese government might be able to distribute money like the petrolium mafia-countries do, right now, to calm the angry mobs, but personally, I do expect some kind of change in China.
I would have modded him Informative too. Yes, I don't know what a Geiger Counter is. And yes, I played Half-Life and I always wondered what was the name of that thing that makes "crrk crrk" when you get close to radioactive pools.
I still have one of those old TVs with only 8 channels that you switch to and from with 8 different buttons. It also has a knob under each button to "fine-tune" the image. This TV never saw a repairman's face.
And I spent entire summers playing with the Xbox on it.
If you waited till Sony got screwed 6 times before realizing it was time to sell, you'r way too late, buddy. I guess I would have bought LT stocks on Sony around the first hack, when it became pretty cheap, and expected a rise. But honestly, right now, there is no way you can tell whether Sony will ever get up from this, or no.
Check out the best selling game for this week... Yes, an Indie game.
I used to be one of those kids who enjoy tuning their computers and upgrading RAM and graphic cards every year, but now I don't really have any reason to do that anymore. I spend my gaming time playing indie games like Terraria, Minecraft, or, recently,
AI War Of course it's not really indie games' fault for the whole race slowing down, but you know there is something wrong when you are more satisfied by games made by one or two guys than by those made by big studios. (ok, nothing particularly wrong with that, actually, but whatever)
And a couple of days before he left, the old president dropped his censorship all-together, trying to calm things down. A couple of weeks after he left, the new gouvernment back then tried to restore the censorship again, just porn sites and the likes of 4chan. They were met with a new angry mob though, and now they dropped it alltogether. Point is, I don't think that the people's mob will accept censorship again... For now....
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You can only find virtual riots on EVE.... I will miss that game...
I sure laughed. I guess you got your point, then.
"the virus that causes foot and mouth disease"
Haven't seen a better scientific nomenclature before.
mister_playboy says it..... It must be true.
Was expecting this to come for Gabe Newell first. Considering how the gamer community pretty much worships him day-in day-out (I admit am one of those who like him, too).
I spilled coffee all over the screen.
Damn that was good...
Where are mod points when you need them!
Preorders.
What I did like about certain indie games (Minecraft, Zomboid, Terraria, Wurm Online,...) is the fact that they release an early stage demo, offer preorders and preorder benefits, and take feedback into account. This way people will preorder/buy the game if they like the demo and the potential, and you get their feedback to make sure they recieve exactly what they asked for when the game is complete.
I know this is a smal-scale plan, and I don;t think it would recoup the entire costs of an 8 milion project, but I still like this way of doing business.
For once the summary is good enough. We can't complain.
I know this is kind of unrelated to TFA, but let me say something I enjoy thinking of: Decentralization is on the way.
More and more, governments and corps realize that a single entity to enforce law is nowhere near as efficient as it used to be.
Having a police or a cyberpolice to track crimes and enforce whatever you thought was right used to be quite efficient. But the ease at which people communicate and exchange informations or objects now makes it nearly impossible (if not totally) to monitor what every single one does. Sure they could cross that fated line and start walking into people's privacy for no appearant reason, but they should prepare for a mob of "mah freedon of spech!!!11!".
Point is, it's now much safer to rely on people themselves (the educated kind, of course (whatever the fuck that means)) to regulate the rest. But it's putting the very existence of a government, and more generally, of a single law enforcing entity, in question. Slowly. Everytime.
Feels good to believe in Anarchy.
This is more humilating to Sony than to Nintendo.
Nintendo will get away with it unharmed, they have actually proven that people's data is "secure".
Sony on the other hand....
“By the Way of the warrior is meant death. The Way of the warrior is death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. It means nothing more than this. It means to see things through, being resolved.” -Yukio Mishima
It's the country where the Bushido started. The country were Samurais revolted when they were offered a "peaceful living". Times change, and a tradition is doomed to disappear. But this is the country where, since the beginning of it, you weren't encouraged to die for the sake of the country or the sake of Allah, you were encouraged to embrace death because it's "the way of the warrior", and if you could do the Emperor some good with your death, then why not.
Bushido is way better than any "code of honor" because it just tells people what they really are, tools for someone or something, and that they must free themselves through an honorable death. It is where other similar philosophies fail, as they just call the inner greed in men and promise them a heaven or a memorable song.
This is why I admire that fucking country. (And yes, am terribly biased)
I like you.
Also, it's Kotick, the guy who wants to start a revolution in the video games industry by taking away creativity.
Am an RPG person anyway, so I only get assfucked by Obsidian and Bethesda, you n00bs!
I live in Tunisia, north of Africa, one country with a "moderate" climate.
Lately winters became a joke. When I was a kid I used to wear a bunch of shirts and a coat to feel warm in February. For the last 5 years: It barely rained at all.
Funny thing is, we still didn't have *hot* summer days yet, despite it being the season. (Heck, right now, it's cloudy and windy like fuck. If one day someone told me it would rain in the beginning of July here, I would have wished it was true.)
The Tunisian contagion finally reaching China?
Somehow I feel that all these "big" countries will suffer the same fate. China may actually collapse under it's own weight if something like this continues. Heck, the Tunisian revolution started from some small village in the south of it and then spread like fire on grass. China seems to have built the same tension from class differences and the rising social needs (and of course frustration from censorship).
The chinese government might be able to distribute money like the petrolium mafia-countries do, right now, to calm the angry mobs, but personally, I do expect some kind of change in China.
I would have modded him Informative too.
Yes, I don't know what a Geiger Counter is.
And yes, I played Half-Life and I always wondered what was the name of that thing that makes "crrk crrk" when you get close to radioactive pools.
I still have one of those old TVs with only 8 channels that you switch to and from with 8 different buttons. It also has a knob under each button to "fine-tune" the image. This TV never saw a repairman's face.
And I spent entire summers playing with the Xbox on it.
If you waited till Sony got screwed 6 times before realizing it was time to sell, you'r way too late, buddy.
I guess I would have bought LT stocks on Sony around the first hack, when it became pretty cheap, and expected a rise. But honestly, right now, there is no way you can tell whether Sony will ever get up from this, or no.
Check out the best selling game for this week... Yes, an Indie game.
I used to be one of those kids who enjoy tuning their computers and upgrading RAM and graphic cards every year, but now I don't really have any reason to do that anymore. I spend my gaming time playing indie games like Terraria, Minecraft, or, recently, AI War
Of course it's not really indie games' fault for the whole race slowing down, but you know there is something wrong when you are more satisfied by games made by one or two guys than by those made by big studios. (ok, nothing particularly wrong with that, actually, but whatever)
Ask for it to be taken down legally!
And a couple of days before he left, the old president dropped his censorship all-together, trying to calm things down.
A couple of weeks after he left, the new gouvernment back then tried to restore the censorship again, just porn sites and the likes of 4chan. They were met with a new angry mob though, and now they dropped it alltogether.
Point is, I don't think that the people's mob will accept censorship again... For now....
Artificial clouds, and next, the machines take over the plant... I see a pattern.
Taking bets, when to see the first riots "A la Tunisia" starting?
Please, live up to it, Duke...
While dictators are much happier now. Now that's just one domain to block.