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Comment Re:I was *not* plain wrong -- unlike some 'rebutta (Score 1) 223

I'll do a couple of follow-up posts on my blog these days to respond to some of the misconceptions and misinformation out there.

My blog never made a specific claim about Android devices containing certain code.

Please don't, you've trolled your blog more than enough already. You can try and Houdini your way out of your bull crap with "I never actually said that" like comments but it clearly read that way to just about any who read it.

Comment Loved Commander Keen (Score 1) 152

Most of the latter part of my childhood was spent playing Commander Keen, it was truly one of the best games I ever played. I adored it. That's really all I had to say, but I had to post just to say it. My Ubuntu login screen has Commander Keen as my user icon at work, I'd love to see the code released as OSS.

Comment Re:Rage for Android? (Score 1) 163

While I agree that there is no reason fighting games shouldn't be on the PC, there is clearly very little want for them, Capcom dropped the game from PCs because people just didn't buy it which had nothing at all to do with fragmentation. I still can't think of a PC developer that has complained about fragmentation and then dropped the PC to develop totally for consoles, Bungie is the only one I can think of that intended for their game to be on PC but ended up elsewhere and again, that had nothing to do with fragmentation.

Comment Re:Rage for Android? (Score 1) 163

It was EVE Online, and I agree it was pretty cool that it worked at all on a Mac or Linux but hack job or not it didn't work out of the box, I'm not even sure how you can say it wasn't working out of the box because mine, well, wasn't working out of the box. I can't even remember the last Windows game I played that didn't work out of the box, I have a feeling it was Everquest II, and that was a day one MMO release. The point being, not that I'm a Windows fan or a Mac hater (because I'm not, far far from it) but statements that "if you buy a game for Windows... it never works out of the box" and "if you buy a game for the Mac, guess what, it works out of the box" are basically, utter lies. Even if the limited number of Mac games I've played ALL work out of the box (and maybe they mostly all do), it still doesn't make "Windows games never work out of the box" true. As a matter of fact, the whole reason my gaming machine is still Windows and the rest of my life is Linux is because I can stick a DVD in the drive, install the game and be playing it without any messing. The days where I had to hack at my autoexec.bat in DOS just to get a game to start are long long ago.

Comment Re:Quality, not quantity (Score 1) 554

I'm 33 and I know full well I want to live forever, I've not even come close to doing all the things I want to do and I never will. There isn't much I wouldn't do to be given a life span that never ends, or even doubles what I will likely have (bar eating babies livers and kitten paws of course). You're right though, we are just massive sacks of crap, it honestly bothers me that we can't all just get the fuck along and work our crap out. If we'd woken up to ourselves after WW2 I have no doubt by now we'd be living on Mars, sending all our rubbish into the sun for the cost of a modern bus ticket and if this topic is anything to go by, living till we're 150. *Disclaimer, I'm probably exaggerating.

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