Goronmon

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by Goronmon 14y ago
>Those people are overpaying for the service, and that makes them more money than opening up HBO Go would. You and HBO are assuming that the number of people who would join HBO Go without a cable subscription isn't going to be greater t
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by Goronmon 14y ago
You misrepresent what happened severely. Whatever you need to tell yourself in order to maintain the level of anger you desire. Nothing I saw from EA seemed out of the ordinary for a company trying to sell the game they made. Unless you e
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by Goronmon 14y ago
Looks like your getting downvoted, but I do agree with you. While it's the nice thing to do in this case for the owners of Reddit to apologize, I'm not sure what meaning it really has, or should have. They don't have control over the people
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by Goronmon 14y ago
There's just so many new things to care about that it's impossible to not move on from old news. Especially when it's just about a game. I'm sure gamers will keep the Sim City fiasco in the back of their minds and pirate later games publis
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by Goronmon 14y ago
I don't carry a wallet. For the past four years I've been carrying just a money clip with cash, ID, and one credit card. That's splitting hairs a bit isn't it? You are still using an object that serves the same purpose that a wallet does.
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by Goronmon 14y ago
If you don't need to kill/keep captive animals for food to live healthily, why do it? Because it tastes good. Just like every other type of food we eat that isn't a requirement for living healthily.
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by Goronmon 14y ago
I'm not agreeing with anything Adria did, but the issue of being labeled as the "tattletale" probably plays a big part in most women's reluctance to report real harassment. But there is a big difference between mentioning something to som
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by Goronmon 14y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416908
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by Goronmon 14y ago
Yup, I've had a similar conversation. Basically came down to some variation on "I don't ask for a lot (she doesn't), but I want the diamond ring."
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by Goronmon 14y ago
I find it shocking that there are people that think that a woman wanting financial security makes that woman a 'gold-digger'.
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by Goronmon 14y ago
Yep. in my view, if the product is already profitable at a lower segment, and they manage to sell it to the pros for a higher price, then the company is making undeserved money, rightly so, bears the anger of their customers when found out
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by Goronmon 14y ago
A year ago RPS did an interview where they talked about how the simulation was going to be done. “It’s not like each Sim has a specific job that’s his, and a specific house that’s his,” says lead designer Stone Librande, like this knowledg
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by Goronmon 14y ago
There is no cure for MS, so if the video does make that claim, it's pretty ridiculous. It's the equivalent of saying you could cure cancer with diet.
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by Goronmon 14y ago
RPS already knew this is how it worked prior to release. http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1a7tat/simcitys_sims_...
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by Goronmon 14y ago
The main difference is that Steam's DRM, if it requires an online connection, only requires it in order to start the game up. Once you are in-game, you aren't booted from the game if you lose your connection while playing. That isn't the ca
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by Goronmon 14y ago
Four hours of commuting a day just to do something that could have been done on Skype, WebEx, or Google Hangouts always raises my morale... Then don't live two hours a way from work.
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by Goronmon 14y ago
It's also interesting in that even taking such a 'mundane' topic such as the sale of eggs, there can be widely diverging opinions and practices around how they are handled. Now compare eggs to something more complex and broader in scope lik
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by Goronmon 14y ago
Yeah, that line made no sense. If my smartphone is a "first class reading device" and my 3rd gen Kindle is a better reading device, then what class is the Kindle in?
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by Goronmon 14y ago
The dawning horror for the console vendors is that the change is already happening around them and on every iPhone, iPad, Samsung, Android, etc device. These already have digital-only distribution. These already have very high-quality GPU'
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by Goronmon 14y ago
Having tried a few games in this category, I generally realized about ten minutes after installation I didn't download a game, I downloaded a money funnel. The snarky response to this would be to stop downloading bad games. There are plen
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How Crytek hired the ex-Vigil team based on one meeting(venturebeat.com)
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by Goronmon 14y ago
The strange thing to me when it comes to game development on Linux is that whenever the topic comes up, the discussion never seems to focus on whether Linux is a good platform for game development, it's always that Linux is the easiest answ
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by Goronmon 14y ago
I'd argue these are the main points of his blog posts. Or at least the ones he emphasized. Active placebos are designed to mimic the side-effects of drugs under study. So for example, if a new drug is known (or thought by the drug company)
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by Goronmon 14y ago
FarmVille is a game with hundreds of thousands of concurrent users, with a constraint to make as much money as possible and keep current users coming back, and with fierce competition. Sounds more like a casino than game development to me
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by Goronmon 14y ago
That doesn't seem like a sensible comparison considering how much the gameplay of EvE differs from the typical MMO. The "typical" MMO doesn't even try to handle large populations. The use of separate servers, population caps and login que
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by Goronmon 14y ago
I have no idea whether more recent games have solved these problems. Most games solve this problem with completely separate servers and population caps. I know in Guild Wars 2 they actually stop displaying players past a certain number to
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by Goronmon 14y ago
Users know best what is best for them, period. No need to second guess. I disagree, there are plenty of examples were groups of users will make poor decisions about how they would like things to work. Gaming and security are two things th
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by Goronmon 14y ago
What if you are a building something like a game where you want to use some form of micro-transaction model?
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by Goronmon 14y ago
The problem with boyfriend/girlfriend is that it seems strange to use the same term for a relationship in high school that lasts two months as you would for a relationship later on where you live with a person for years.
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by Goronmon 14y ago
"Gambling is illegal where it is illegal" is a bit of a tautology don't you think? Unless you are saying gambling is never legal anywhere, in which case you are wrong.

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