Eh, it's a little nostalgic, but intellectually simplifying and, for lack of a better phrase, "hurrying" games is definitely part of the work, even with indie games today. I miss turn based strategy games that depend on reflection and planning, for example. That's not to say they don't exist, but they're place in the market has diminished.
Diablo was nethack with fancy graphics(and a lack of absurd combinations of effects). That's what made it succeed. People like roguelikes(i.e. randomly generated worlds, permadeath, and RPG-like advancement), that's been borne out again and again recently. Many don't like text interfaces.
Oh no, they have a clue, but their clue is that more marketing=more money. Better game = not much more money. The real problem we have today is that the "games industry" has gotten into the same degree of consumeristic manipulation as other industries.
Also, video games used to target a more intellectual audience, because there was a time when you had to be seriously interested in computers to play most games.
Yes, and the big problem is that a better, more testable #1 hasn't come along. We're stuck with dark matter at #2 until the variances seen can have another plausible explanation.
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To be fair, I think a lot of us have been getting increasingly dissatisfied with google. I don't like Microsoft, especially since windows 8, and its "we know better than the user" attitude, so I'd rather find another party, but Google has been less and less appealing as a source for anything for years now.
Yes, but EM radiation doesn't respect state borders. It doesn't matter how hard you wish for the theory to work, the practice demands a broader scope. It's part of why broadcasts were one of the first things the EU started regulating when Europe started economically uniting.
Being opposed to censorship because "public airwaves" is a weak concept is fine. Thinking you can just ditch the structure because your political philosophy says you can is, well, silly.
Hey, maybe with Dell going private, all the quarterly-earnings-seeking cost-cutting will go away. Maybe they'll not have support that causes tooth pain and manufacture custom computers of some basic quality again.
I was, personally, drawing a distinction between "radical as libertarianism is compared to the status quo" and "radical for a libertarian." With the former being semantically sufficient with just "libertarian" and the latter requiring the modifier for "radical libertarian." But it's always a bad sign when I'm intentionally arguing semantics.
There's nothing particularly radical about that. The underlying philosophy of libertarianism is one such that all incorrect decisions come from a lack of freedom(usually caused by the government). Now, I'm not saying that no libertarians add a dose of moderating pragmatism to their perspectives, just that the core philosophy there has is defined by that very principle.
No, it wouldn't. Drought is defined by abnormal lack of water. it can still have catastrophic consequences for say, cattle ranchers, whose business models depend on a very specific distribution of desert flora(really).
I can't actually recall the last time I was actually enthusiastic about a Firefox release. Nowadays it seems like a chore that rewards my expenditure of effort with features I will never use.
I mean... I get that mature software doesn't necessarily deliver awe-inspiring features all the time, but in that case, why is it news?
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Eh, it's a little nostalgic, but intellectually simplifying and, for lack of a better phrase, "hurrying" games is definitely part of the work, even with indie games today. I miss turn based strategy games that depend on reflection and planning, for example. That's not to say they don't exist, but they're place in the market has diminished.
Yes, because we certainly don't have games targeting adolescent male power fantasies anymore.
That's totally the underrepresented demographic here.
Eh, I personally love dwarf fortress, and still sometimes play nethack or angband. But that has little bearing on popular tastes.
Diablo was nethack with fancy graphics(and a lack of absurd combinations of effects). That's what made it succeed. People like roguelikes(i.e. randomly generated worlds, permadeath, and RPG-like advancement), that's been borne out again and again recently. Many don't like text interfaces.
Oh no, they have a clue, but their clue is that more marketing=more money. Better game = not much more money. The real problem we have today is that the "games industry" has gotten into the same degree of consumeristic manipulation as other industries.
Also, video games used to target a more intellectual audience, because there was a time when you had to be seriously interested in computers to play most games.
So, you demand I open my mind to "workable alternatives" then, whoops they don't exist because you're an idiot?
Surprise.
Yes, and the big problem is that a better, more testable #1 hasn't come along. We're stuck with dark matter at #2 until the variances seen can have another plausible explanation.
Drop bing, go DuckDuckGo.
To be fair, I think a lot of us have been getting increasingly dissatisfied with google. I don't like Microsoft, especially since windows 8, and its "we know better than the user" attitude, so I'd rather find another party, but Google has been less and less appealing as a source for anything for years now.
What alternatives have you proposed. You just kinda said "smaller government" then pretended that was enough. It's a lame excuse for an argument.
Yes, but EM radiation doesn't respect state borders. It doesn't matter how hard you wish for the theory to work, the practice demands a broader scope. It's part of why broadcasts were one of the first things the EU started regulating when Europe started economically uniting.
Being opposed to censorship because "public airwaves" is a weak concept is fine. Thinking you can just ditch the structure because your political philosophy says you can is, well, silly.
And you think regulating radio interference could be done at a state level without massive consequences?
Yes, your next one will be delivered sometime between 2-8PM next Wednesday, please be at your house that entire time.
Hey, maybe with Dell going private, all the quarterly-earnings-seeking cost-cutting will go away. Maybe they'll not have support that causes tooth pain and manufacture custom computers of some basic quality again.
Also maybe they'll make that pig-jet I designed.
You're just being a square.
I was, personally, drawing a distinction between "radical as libertarianism is compared to the status quo" and "radical for a libertarian." With the former being semantically sufficient with just "libertarian" and the latter requiring the modifier for "radical libertarian." But it's always a bad sign when I'm intentionally arguing semantics.
There's nothing particularly radical about that. The underlying philosophy of libertarianism is one such that all incorrect decisions come from a lack of freedom(usually caused by the government). Now, I'm not saying that no libertarians add a dose of moderating pragmatism to their perspectives, just that the core philosophy there has is defined by that very principle.
I'm convinced. I'll give up my career as a computer programmer now, and go use my bare hands for subsistence farming now. Sorry, I was wrong.
If you don't turn off "phishing protection" it's absolutely true.
Chrome sends every site you visit to google. Firefox sends google searches(naturally) and awesome bar searches to google.
No, it was hyperbole, chill.
Yep, let's give in and give all our data to google. They clearly deserve it for writing a web browser.
No, it wouldn't. Drought is defined by abnormal lack of water. it can still have catastrophic consequences for say, cattle ranchers, whose business models depend on a very specific distribution of desert flora(really).
To be fair, when the pentagon retires a ship, it ends up at the bottom of the ocean.
I can't actually recall the last time I was actually enthusiastic about a Firefox release. Nowadays it seems like a chore that rewards my expenditure of effort with features I will never use.
I mean... I get that mature software doesn't necessarily deliver awe-inspiring features all the time, but in that case, why is it news?