10. Addition of 'good alien' who helps the poor humans escape.
9. Movie being remade as a comeback vehicle for Kate Capshaw
8. Additional 30 minute epilogue containing interminable scenes of humanity and the aliens co-existing in the far future
7. What? No Tom Hanks?
6. Grover's Mill insufficiently multicultural, so location will be moved to San Francisco.
5. Aliens killed by sneaking oxygen tank aboard spaceship and shooting it with a rifle.
4. Main characters will be ethnically-diverse adolescents that are smarter than all the adults. (Note: unknown whether Tom will play an adult or child)
3. Aliens will be cute, furry, and ever-so-marketable.
2. Changes 'War' to 'Misunderstanding' so as to not upset children.
1. Complete abandonment of subtlety, moral ambiguity, or any semblance of creativity
Actually, because he ended up supporting some issues that pissed off his regular employer, it ended up costing him his job.
You can make as many enemies in public office as friends.
Pols are ALWAYS paid more than they are worth, and always make far more than the people they represent.
Bullshit. My father was on the city council of our town for several years, and until the last year, was unpaid for the service. Even when a ballot initiative passed to make it a paid position, it paid less than $20k a year. Despite that, he spent 30 or 40 hours a week meeting with constituents, reading memos and reports, attending council meetings, budget meetings, pension board meetings, planning board meetings...
There are people who serve in public office because they want to make things better. Not everyone is just in it for themselves.
The problem isn't the developers, the problem is the customers. You have two choices. You try to make a game you think would be fun and entertaining to play, and hope that lots of other people will too, or you can listen to all the crybabies screaming about nerfs and see-saw the game back and forth on a weekly basis.
Half the people that make MMORPGs such a pain are the ones who play 3 accounts 20 hours a day, exploit every bug, min-max every character, and then bitch like crazy when developers close loopholes and try to maintain some sense of fair play. The other half are the so-called 'casual gamers' that think they should be able to play 2 hours a week and enjoy the same level of success as the power-gamers. You can't satisfy these two extremes. Any systems the developers put in place to make it friendly to the casual gamers will be exploited to death and back by the power gamers. And if they put in insanely hard content for the power-gamers, the casual crowd won't play it, and won't buy the expansions for it.
I've picked up almost every MMORPG since UO on the day they came out, and played them for weeks or months until I got bored or my friends quit, and the situation has been the same on every one.
Best piece of advice I can give anyone thinking of playing one of these games is to stay the hell away from the discussion boards. Play the game if you find it fun, quit if you don't. But don't listen (and don't contribute) to all the bitching and moaning from people who seem the think the developers should cater the game to them.
It would be a couple minor (or major) tweaks every time Microsoft decided they were going to yank their chain again.
You'd think people would realize by now that trying to compete with Microsoft where they are allowed to change the specs mid-stream is battle that's lost before it's started.
I read about thisnew hole, and I go into the SUS server to approve the update so it gets pushed out to the clients, and it's listed as a 'Security Update'. Fine. But along with that is update 833407, labeled 'Critical Update' that "updates the bookshelf font included in some Microsoft products. The font has been found to contain unacceptable symbols."
So an exploit that allows you to root any Windows server out there takes 6 months to fix, but damn, get an unacceptable symbol in your font and they're right on it.
I did this (solo anyway) a couple of years ago. Got jerked around by an asshole VP one time too many, and said screw it. I decided to quit, slept like a baby that night, and put my 2 weeks notice in the next day.
Took me almost a year to find another job that paid as well doing what I was good at, but it was still worth it.
Be aware of the risks and costs, especially if you have a family to support. But don't ever let someone take advantage of you just because you are afraid of not being able to find a job.
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10. Addition of 'good alien' who helps the poor humans escape.
9. Movie being remade as a comeback vehicle for Kate Capshaw
8. Additional 30 minute epilogue containing interminable scenes of humanity and the aliens co-existing in the far future
7. What? No Tom Hanks?
6. Grover's Mill insufficiently multicultural, so location will be moved to San Francisco.
5. Aliens killed by sneaking oxygen tank aboard spaceship and shooting it with a rifle.
4. Main characters will be ethnically-diverse adolescents that are smarter than all the adults. (Note: unknown whether Tom will play an adult or child)
3. Aliens will be cute, furry, and ever-so-marketable.
2. Changes 'War' to 'Misunderstanding' so as to not upset children.
1. Complete abandonment of subtlety, moral ambiguity, or any semblance of creativity
Actually, because he ended up supporting some issues that pissed off his regular employer, it ended up costing him his job. You can make as many enemies in public office as friends.
The problem isn't the developers, the problem is the customers. You have two choices. You try to make a game you think would be fun and entertaining to play, and hope that lots of other people will too, or you can listen to all the crybabies screaming about nerfs and see-saw the game back and forth on a weekly basis.
Half the people that make MMORPGs such a pain are the ones who play 3 accounts 20 hours a day, exploit every bug, min-max every character, and then bitch like crazy when developers close loopholes and try to maintain some sense of fair play. The other half are the so-called 'casual gamers' that think they should be able to play 2 hours a week and enjoy the same level of success as the power-gamers. You can't satisfy these two extremes. Any systems the developers put in place to make it friendly to the casual gamers will be exploited to death and back by the power gamers. And if they put in insanely hard content for the power-gamers, the casual crowd won't play it, and won't buy the expansions for it.
I've picked up almost every MMORPG since UO on the day they came out, and played them for weeks or months until I got bored or my friends quit, and the situation has been the same on every one. Best piece of advice I can give anyone thinking of playing one of these games is to stay the hell away from the discussion boards. Play the game if you find it fun, quit if you don't. But don't listen (and don't contribute) to all the bitching and moaning from people who seem the think the developers should cater the game to them.
It would be a couple minor (or major) tweaks every time Microsoft decided they were going to yank their chain again. You'd think people would realize by now that trying to compete with Microsoft where they are allowed to change the specs mid-stream is battle that's lost before it's started.
I read about thisnew hole, and I go into the SUS server to approve the update so it gets pushed out to the clients, and it's listed as a 'Security Update'. Fine. But along with that is update 833407, labeled 'Critical Update' that "updates the bookshelf font included in some Microsoft products. The font has been found to contain unacceptable symbols." So an exploit that allows you to root any Windows server out there takes 6 months to fix, but damn, get an unacceptable symbol in your font and they're right on it.
that the site containing the article tried to cookie me a half-dozen times before loading the first page?
I did this (solo anyway) a couple of years ago. Got jerked around by an asshole VP one time too many, and said screw it. I decided to quit, slept like a baby that night, and put my 2 weeks notice in the next day. Took me almost a year to find another job that paid as well doing what I was good at, but it was still worth it. Be aware of the risks and costs, especially if you have a family to support. But don't ever let someone take advantage of you just because you are afraid of not being able to find a job.