GVIrish

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by GVIrish 13y ago
Exactly. I do think a lot of people in the game industry get abuse they don't deserve, but Phil earned a lot more abuse than average with his personality.
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by GVIrish 13y ago
The Internet has a way of returning negative behavior ten or even a hundred or a thousand fold. Phil Fish has a decently long history of negativity and insults and that's what he received back in spades. I find a lot of people who are
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by GVIrish 13y ago
The principle problem with Groupon wasn't the competition or the stock being overvalued. Groupon's main problem is that their acquisition costs were so high that they couldn't make money. Competition only became a drag on th
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by GVIrish 13y ago
It used to not be all that common. Now it is routinely being used to prevent people from uncovering the massive and pervasive spying apparatus.
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by GVIrish 13y ago
True, but how long can Nintendo stay afloat with only the strength of the Mario franchise to lean upon. 3rd party developers are giving the WiiU no love, and the WiiU doesn't have the hook to attract casual gamers the way the original
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by GVIrish 13y ago
Look at the top selling games on consoles. Grand Theft Auto, Mario games, Halo, Call of Duty, Madden. How many of those games can be done on a tablet or phone? Zero. Home console gaming currently offers gaming experiences that cannot be
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by GVIrish 13y ago
Assuming Venezuela provides Snowden with some sort of travel document to leave Russia, the next big question is, how far is the US willing to go to apprehend him? How exactly is Snowden going to get a flight plan that allows him safe passa
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by GVIrish 13y ago
Yes, but that's assuming there are people in the government with the will to deploy those weapons against the public. At best they'd only achieve pyrrhic victory.
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by GVIrish 13y ago
If anything, seeing how those guys got treated is why Snowden fled the country. I can imagine that future whistleblowers are going to seek asylum first, then blow the whistle.
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by GVIrish 13y ago
How was Microsoft's plan any better than the status quo. Having to take your physical discs somewhere is not some huge burden that will break the backs of people who want to play games at someone else's house. Fact of the matter
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by GVIrish 13y ago
1. SNES games were more expensive because they were on cartridges and manufacturing cartridges was/is far more expensive than manufacturing CDs/DVDs 2. So while someone's connection is flaky they can't play games. Users
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by GVIrish 13y ago
Look up Thomas Drake, he was an NSA leaker who exposed a very high level of waste with the Trailblazer program as well as an incestuous relationship between contractors and those who awarded the contracts.
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by GVIrish 13y ago
I would argue that even if these programs were effective in foiling some terrorist plots, that it's still not worth it. I mean, we could probably could prevent some mass shootings if we put everyone with a history of serious mental il
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by GVIrish 13y ago
I don't think anyone is trying to minimize the heinousness of child abuse. I think the point being made is that just because a particularly technique may be effective against a particular crime, doesn't mean that technique is mor
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by GVIrish 13y ago
The point he's making is that a dystopia that achieves buy-in from a large portion of the population because it delivers wealth, cleanliness, and low crime, is much more likely to persist for a LONG time than a dystopia like North Korea. Yo
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by GVIrish 13y ago
Agreed. People like Jesse Thomas usually have had ample advice on how not to be jerk and why, but they ignored it. Unfortunately I think there are a lot of people out there that think that being a raging jerk is an acceptable and even desi
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by GVIrish 13y ago
Well, they announced that games would require an install to the HDD, and Wired got a confirmation from MSFT that one would have to pay a fee to install the game to another Xbox. So now people who sell their games will have their resale val
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by GVIrish 13y ago
As of 2007 Switzerland has the 3rd highest gun ownership rate in the world, but is number 51 on the gun homicide rate list, with a gun homicide rate of .52 per 100k. Meanwhile, Mexico's gun ownership rate is one third that of Switzerland,
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by GVIrish 14y ago
Excluding Mexico is a huge disservice because Mexico actually has stricter gun laws than the US. Mexico's gun murder rate is over 3 times greater than that in the US. I feel this is instructive because with all of the guns already in priva
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by GVIrish 14y ago
Yes we should probably take action, but that doesn't mean banning guns or making tougher gun laws is necessarily the correct action. If you want to compare to other developed countries, Switzerland has a high gun ownership rate (about 45 gu
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by GVIrish 14y ago
I'm in exactly that boat. I was planning on buying the iPhone 5 but when I heard about the maps problem it stopped me cold. I depend on Google Maps now for a lot of things like finding metro stops not to mention that I also use it when tr
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by GVIrish 14y ago
The original design looks a lot like a Gantt chart, did Bret Victor "steal" that idea? Is there any indication that the folks at Hipmunk saw Victor's design in the first place? It's not like Bret Victor was the first person to put time o