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Giant Gopher
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Drumline
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11y ago
$3.3 million was about the amount Double Fine raised from Kickstarter for Broken Age. They then went on to commit a few million of their own funds. So, if you're trying to calibrate expectations in terms of quality versus funding you s
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They are directly comparable as they both measure preventable deaths. If some types of death weigh more heavily on society than others, if there is some sort of X factor to be considered then how do we determine what it is? Should we say de
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11y ago
I respect the general thrust of your position in that we as a society must evaluate things like death on all axes including social impact. But until thing like social impact become less nebulous and more quantifiable I will continue to base
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> You're right though that smoking shouldn't be top. Everbody dies of something but we can't save all old people from old age diseases forever. The CDC disagrees. If you click through the last link in the post above they l
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> Murder is rare, but it has a very high impact on society and the surrounding people. How do you know? What metrics are you using to form this opinion? Or are you using the same gut impression that the article alludes to and the GP spec