Yep, this thing is smoaking off into the sky, but I still believe this is a step in the right direction either way. I can still hope for better with Indie and DRM free, but I can live with this.
We really win more this way and it seems like all the overly negative people are in a feeding frenzy right now.
Listen up guys! This is not a bad thing, this is the time to send the other publishers a message that giving gamers options and good deals is beneficial to business. While I understand the disagreement some of you have with these games being DRM, I for one will not get angry unless HumbleBundle stops offering DRM free and Indie titles in favor of these. I am happy with them offering both and if we can encourage more, it will help generate some solid numbers that can help break the illusion of whether or not DRM is providing the businesses an advantage when they see DRM free indie games generating respectable or hopefully more income than DRM'd games.
We should applaud a company for taking a step in the right direction not lambasting them, even though it seems suspect. Companies follow the money and if they can make more money by dressing their CEO's in clown suits instead of a suit and tie then that is what is going to happen. We have the chance to show the other companies how much of a success using services like GOG.com, KickStarter.com, and HumbleBundle.com can be to their revenue stream and they will be paying attention to that more than anything! They only include DRM because they think it actually protects them, but in cases like this, it might be in our best interests to offer a little breathing room!
I found Ring Runner on Kick Starter and those guys have a stable and playable Demo out as well as trying to get it onto Steam with greenlight. For a game made by a couple of brothers they did a fantastic job so far I think. If you like top down fast action space shooters then you should at least give the demo a try and see what you think! It's like Asteroids on Serious Roids!
I have seen 'experienced' programmers do far worse that these unknown guys.
we have to protect another child on behalf of the parents not capable of using good common sense.
We need to stop making scissors of all kinds, stop the production of any toys that a small child might play with but not marketed to them, and even take kids balls away because someone might get hurt.
Stupid people doing stupid things... being going on for millenia, and every effort to stop them has failed.
One might say that you do not know your history very well.
Go look up the fall of Argentina. We are doing what they did that made them fall. Greece is the same.
You seem to have rose colored glasses when looking at foreign countries while wearing blood stained glasses looking at the US.
Unfortunately you are wrong. We sit on the shoulders of Giants, and regardless of where you go there is a tyrant with an army of stupid people working for them.
People are stupid... do they have to be? No they don't. Does this also mean that we can't build rockets and make it to the moon? Of course not. You are providing exceptions, and that is a bad use case for disproving a rule.
The question is begged.... If people are not as stupid as I claim, then why are there so many wars, despots, tyrants, and marks of destruction on our planet all throughout history? Tell me how we are not stupid? And don't use exceptions to do it!
So you imply that not voting for a red/blue is the same as not voting at all?
Not sure what you are saying.
Voting for the lesser of 2 evils is not enough to get me to vote for that person rather than an alternative candidate.
You are right, as long as beer is cheap and TV is tawdry so to speak the problem does not go away.
People are stupid and ignorant and just like a patient dying of cancer or cholesterol they would rather die than to put down that double bacon bacon extra cheesy melty burger.
Rare insight in the most obscene of places tends to reveal our true natures..
"It's in your nature to destroy yourselves"
T2
I for one actually like the idea of a game player making it into office, regardless of their political affiliation.
People seem to forget that most people running for office are too busy to be down to earth or able to understand the common person. Once you get rich and powerful reality does not hang around for long unless you make a concious effort to keep it there.
careful slinging the guano around yourself... you get dirty too.
As an independent I find that people like yourself are too busy talking trash about the other side than to notice the trash you and your side are spewing.
Everyone should go and read George Washington's farewell address, he predicted the Civil War and our current state of affairs because people like you are to busy being what you are...
Blind and Hypocritical.
Both Sides lie, and 1 side is busy fooling you!
If you voted Red or Blue then you are a part of the problem, not the solution.
is exactly what they should do. It is evident that everyone wants more control, and not in the consumers/citizens best interest.
Proof again... nothing new is under the SUN... people keep voting in or supporting, or ignoring the people causing all the problems.
If your elected official says, "We can't just do nothing!", then its time for a replacement.
I agree. Every song I play in iTunes on a PC has at least 1 random 0.1 seconds to sometimes a whole second somewhere in the track where there is a slight stutter, pause, blip, distortion, or something. I can play music on Media Player, KMPlayer, or WinAmp using the same file and this not happening. It is small and it is subtle but it still happens.
Putting it simply, your opinion about how good or bad something has been engineered has no real impact on whether or not that Creator exists. The equivalent is to say that I do not believe in the person that coded a line of script because I could make it better or because I can perceive flaws in it.
Regarding the rest, its is all supposition that you believe and I don't. I claim God as fact and you don't. Neither of us can prove the other wrong because we see the evidence and arrive at different conclusions. However, the fact that you can consider a particular object good or bad depending upon who made is is a bit intellectually dishonest. If it is crude, it is crude, whether by Creation or Evolution. Additionally your understanding of crude will change as your understanding of things change, so it only goes to show that we as humans constantly judge things with the shortest possible sight we can muster, while believing we have considered all that should be considered.
I Believe in God but I have no qualms with Science until it starts to posit unrealistic things like, Science and Christianity are at odds. The only Christians at odds with Science are the ones that have problems with their own Faith. And the only Scientists that have problems with Christians are the Pseudo Scientists.
And yet regardless of Seneca or Gibbon there are many others of equal or greater stature that nay-say them?
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
-Einstein
How many more people know of him as opposed to Seneca or Gibbon?
The point is that this is all very much everyone's own opinion. How about proving yours with your own insight rather than limping around using anothers?
You missed the point he was making. Replace it with another non-religious focused group and you will get the same dang thing.
Remember when people rioted in LA when the Lakers won?
Tell me where religion was a part of that? The Holy Church of Lakers? That is why they call them FAN(atic)S!
A better explanation would be that certain religions and groups attract specific types of people and thus are people able to be steered into bad directions through that organization. The basic problem with everything is the 'human component' sans any religious affiliation.
With your bare hands?!?
