The idea of legal representation is to ESTABLISH THE TRUTH
Outside of third world commie countries like France, most civilised nations operate an adversarial rather than inquisitorial legal system. Truth has nothing to do with it. What's the packet loss like to your planet?
Well, I'll just go ahead and call cognitive dissonance on that. Marketdroids are so detached from reality that reading any significance into what appears in a press release speaks more to your prejudices than to the quality of the product that they're marketing.
I'm sure you could (but won't) Google up a couple of examples of ads for suckfest games that boast of 3rd party engine use, but that does not constitute a compelling argument for a significant trend.
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Or it might not.
I get your point that using a 3rd party engine would seem to limit your creativity: you wouldn't want to use an engine designed for a FPS to write Battleship Frisbee Cookoff Challenge.
However, if you're intending to create a game that's even remotely within a common genre, then using a 3rd party engine frees you up to concentrate on producing a unique experience. You can blow 20 man years just to catch up with the last generation of Quake, or you can start with a working, tested engine and concentrate your resources on adding just the new functionality and tools that you need.
Why, yes, I'm speaking from experience (of doing it the wrong way). Thanks for asking!
Look, it's not all about maximising profit. When you've got a game that's going to be so much better than the competition that it would simply blow them out of the market and take all the available money, you have to ask yourself: is this really what I want to do? Is that the sort of person I want to be?
These publishers might have to buy slightly smaller yachts, but at least some other guys will get to order little yachts as well. There's no point in having the biggest yacht at the club if there's nobody else there to lord it over.
And that's how a Big Lie gets believed: someone makes a plausible sounding claim in a confident, dismissive manner, and nobody calls them on their bullshit. You, Sir, are Called.
the [US] sure as HELL won't extradite a US citizen to another country to have a confession tortured out of them unless they have been accused of terrorism
The "Pew Research Center" canvassed the membership of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The AAAS publishes the Science journal which has a distinctly liberal bias.
Note carefully: I'm not saying that's a bad thing. However, it means that the sample is biased. I'm actually surprised that as many as 6% of respondents identified themselves as Republicans.
I think we've stumbled into some sort of cult meeting. Their religion seems to be based around building really unreliable truck sized telephonic devices out of garbage cans and tin foil, and then yelling "CAN YOU HEAR ME? I CAN HEAR YOU!" at each other at 3am.
Don't make any sudden movements and just back... slowly... away.
US & Europe to China: "Get at least as clean as us or we stop trading with you."
Heh, good one. Do you see these words on the screen? Where was that screen made? Before you type your reply, flip your keyboard over and find the "Made in China" sticker.
Where the hell did you get that 3% figure??? Last time I checked, it was more about 40% for combustion engines.
But how much of that energy is used to move the driver, as opposed to hauling the vehicle itself around?
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For the record, I have never used VLC and had no idea if there was a problem with the volume control. I just gambled that there was. How astonished I am not to find that there is.
I know, it was great when Kerry kicked his ass in 2004, and even better when all of Uncle Dick's friends who ran his administration totally weren't recruited to run the next one as well and the Democrats didn't cave like a bunch of pussies every time a Republican Senator so much as sneezed. Wasn't that all amazing?
50 points for Gryffindor! Still, I when the law is against you, and the facts - on the balance of probability - are against you, then all you've got left is to throw a hissy fit.
That's very reassuring. When (not if) a major metropolitan area gets nuked by some cult nutjobs, remind me to look you up and put you on the cleanup crew, then relocate you to - what did you say? - 300 metres from the centre of the blast.
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Outside of third world commie countries like France, most civilised nations operate an adversarial rather than inquisitorial legal system. Truth has nothing to do with it. What's the packet loss like to your planet?
Well, I'll just go ahead and call cognitive dissonance on that. Marketdroids are so detached from reality that reading any significance into what appears in a press release speaks more to your prejudices than to the quality of the product that they're marketing.
I'm sure you could (but won't) Google up a couple of examples of ads for suckfest games that boast of 3rd party engine use, but that does not constitute a compelling argument for a significant trend.
Or it might not.
I get your point that using a 3rd party engine would seem to limit your creativity: you wouldn't want to use an engine designed for a FPS to write Battleship Frisbee Cookoff Challenge.
However, if you're intending to create a game that's even remotely within a common genre, then using a 3rd party engine frees you up to concentrate on producing a unique experience. You can blow 20 man years just to catch up with the last generation of Quake, or you can start with a working, tested engine and concentrate your resources on adding just the new functionality and tools that you need.
Why, yes, I'm speaking from experience (of doing it the wrong way). Thanks for asking!
Uh... what's so innovative about swiping someone else's gameplay and name?
Oh, it's in 2D? It might be cross platform? Yeah, been done.
Super. Now, will it increase sales?
Look, it's not all about maximising profit. When you've got a game that's going to be so much better than the competition that it would simply blow them out of the market and take all the available money, you have to ask yourself: is this really what I want to do? Is that the sort of person I want to be?
These publishers might have to buy slightly smaller yachts, but at least some other guys will get to order little yachts as well. There's no point in having the biggest yacht at the club if there's nobody else there to lord it over.
ORLY? You should let NASA borrow your telescope then, because they don't have one strong enough.
And that's how a Big Lie gets believed: someone makes a plausible sounding claim in a confident, dismissive manner, and nobody calls them on their bullshit. You, Sir, are Called.
I'm sorry, but my hero, Hitler, demands that I continue scoring points.
Fixed that for you.
There, fixed that for you.
"Forgo revenue"? I think you may be using RIAA-maths there.
The "Pew Research Center" canvassed the membership of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The AAAS publishes the Science journal which has a distinctly liberal bias.
Note carefully: I'm not saying that's a bad thing. However, it means that the sample is biased. I'm actually surprised that as many as 6% of respondents identified themselves as Republicans.
Well, great. I guess since you didn't have any problems, nobody else did.
If we're extrapolating, my copy didn't even have to be authenticated once, but I've got GameCopyWorld to thank for that, not EA.
What's the grind like once you hit level 30?
Do you seriously think that North Korea has any significant systems exposed on public networks?
You could probably deface their Wikipedia entry, though. Go hog wild.
The only thing a cellphone can do is say the cellphone is/was in the area*.
*Probably. Assuming the IMEI / ESN haven't been cloned.
Don't make any sudden movements and just back... slowly... away.
Heh, good one. Do you see these words on the screen? Where was that screen made? Before you type your reply, flip your keyboard over and find the "Made in China" sticker.
But how much of that energy is used to move the driver, as opposed to hauling the vehicle itself around?
For the record, I have never used VLC and had no idea if there was a problem with the volume control. I just gambled that there was. How astonished I am not to find that there is.
I know, it was great when Kerry kicked his ass in 2004, and even better when all of Uncle Dick's friends who ran his administration totally weren't recruited to run the next one as well and the Democrats didn't cave like a bunch of pussies every time a Republican Senator so much as sneezed. Wasn't that all amazing?
50 points for Gryffindor! Still, I when the law is against you, and the facts - on the balance of probability - are against you, then all you've got left is to throw a hissy fit.
Has anyone fixed the volume control yet, or is that too trivial to bother with?
Who is it that you imagine would benefit from reporting vulnerabilities in Opera?
That's very reassuring. When (not if) a major metropolitan area gets nuked by some cult nutjobs, remind me to look you up and put you on the cleanup crew, then relocate you to - what did you say? - 300 metres from the centre of the blast.