I also have a problem with that as a metric. I'm not convinced that the amount of triggers used actually mean anything. It all depends on what a "role-playing game" meant to these kids and what goals were actually being attempted. If all you wanted, perhaps as a first step, was a character that talked to other characters, why would you use any other trigger?

Wrong. The definition says 'advocacy'. Just because someone does not advocate it, does not necessarily mean they disagree with it.

Also, there is feminism the word and then there is feminism the movement. That Henry James quote pretty much sums up the feminist movement. Even people who have considered themselves feminists before are dropping the label because of how ugly the feminist movement behaves.

It would be disingenuous to use the term primarily for women regardless of the distribution.

Yes, they would totally not make any money off of this... well except from the rich people who are actually willing to pay for this exact thing. Sounds to me like they have a valid business strategy already. If something else comes out of it, then that's a bonus.

Most games are created to make money. People see what is selling and they just cobble together some crap to try and make some easy money. There are people who do it out of love, but those are definitely few and far between.

All you need to do is pay some guy (maybe a kid from high school because this shit is not rocket science) ONCE and it would be substantially better than not configuring anything at all.

Yes, putting his projects under GPL was not legal in the first place because it linked to non-GPL code, but he knows this. What he's trying to do is get the server code to be GPL'd to validate his license and until then he wants to stop the use of his code.

What I want to know is what happens to code that uses an invalid license and then is distributed. Does it default to an implied copyright the same way works released without licenses do? Or is that nullified when a license is chosen? What the hell happens exactly and what does it mean for third-party software that rely on that code?

Curious. How is that a meme? Other than to refer to the actual Quinn controversy, I have never seen the term Quinnspiracy used in any noticeable capacity.

There are games that want to push the limits of PC hardware and have all the fancy bells and whistles and if that's what you want, then those are the games you should get, but why do you expect every game to be that way? Why is it wrong to optimize for the lowest common denominator to, say, reach a wider audience? Not everything needs to be at the cutting edge. Just making the game fun is a worthwhile goal in itself.

Generally speaking, all instances of a given product from a manufacturer should not be significantly different in quality. Otherwise the value is not consistent and it would be unfair to price it all the same.

Well, the list price is the same no matter what platform. I think console gamers might get butthurt if they spent the same amount of money and on another platform the game looks a lot better. There is something to be said about delivering a somewhat consistent experience across different platforms. Getting that extra quality through a DLC doesn't seem all that unreasonable.

I think you mean this thread is filled with experienced software developers that, all the time, thoroughly go through multiple case scenarios and determine which ones are necessary. This is shit you intuitively know if you work with any kind of software (game or not).

Of all the companies that I've applied to (and I've applied to a lot), none really seemed to care about any work I've done. I have an application that has a couple hundred regular users (which I'd like to think is pretty damn good as far as obscure open source projects go) that I've been maintaining for the past year but this has not improved my prospects at all. I've also learned various technologies and started projects around them but all of it seems like an exercise in futility. The gross generalization that all you need is to have decent code samples to get a job seems like complete bullshit to me.

This happens everywhere. Not just games. If you get so used to doing things in a certain way, thinking outside that box becomes more difficult.

I have to agree. No matter how much of an asshole view a person has, they should be able to act on their belief within the law without being condemned for it. The thing that really gets me is that they took it to his employer. If you have a political problem, fight that problem on the political stage. Don't bring that crap to the workplace!