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Comment: So summing up the nonsense... (Score 1) 369

by spleendamage (#43049107) Attached to: Cliff Bleszinski: Vote With Your Dollars

I've seen a lot of comments online about microtransactions. They're a dirty word lately, it seems. Gamers are upset that publishers/developers are "nickel and diming them." They're raging at "big and evil corporations who are clueless and trying to steal their money." I'm going to come right out and say it. I'm tired of EA being seen as "the bad guy." I think it's bulls*** that EA has the 'scumbag EA' memes on Reddit and that Good Guy Valve can Do No Wrong. ... If you don't like EA, don't buy their games. If you don't like their microtransactions, don't spend money on them. It's that simple.

Cliff says it's okay to not buy DLC from companies you think are trying to screw you over, but I guess you're not allowed talk about it? And also while you're at it, please don't talk about companies you like either. It's just bad form, I suppose.

So since, as a game developer, he isn't happy with the current model: "more talking" and "less spending money", but he isn't advocating "more talking" and also "more spending money." Instead, what he wants is "less talking" and "less spending money."

Because of this, I can only assume that the "more talking" is the part impacting the business in a meaningful way.

Comment: You think the writing is bad... (Score 1) 605

by spleendamage (#42916513) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is the Bar Being Lowered At Universities?

Yeah, the writing is terrible, but you should also see the decline in art and music skills!

Most of the techies in my class can't even pick a decent blog theme, never mind compose one from scratch. They have zero sense for color matching and use of white space.

And musically, they're a bunch of absolute no-hopers. The .mp3 lists they put in their audio widgets seldom include any quality classical pieces.

Comment: This just in: Human brain replicated perfectly! (Score 2) 181

by spleendamage (#42740397) Attached to: The Human Brain Project Receives Up To $1.34 Billion
Everything was going well, the human-like computer completing math and English challenges like a champ, but then something inside changed and suddenly it decided to spend all of it's free time watching reality television, voting for the next American Idol and ordering products featured on infomercials. The death knell came when the machine already feeling a bit self-conscious after eating Big Macs and Snickers bars, noticing that it's penis length was inadequate, and wondering why no one had responded to the Match.com or eHarmony profiles posted decided that the better life could be had by simply pouring light beer and spiced rum directly onto it's CPU.

Comment: spent my $0.99 (Score 1) 157

by spleendamage (#42712617) Attached to: Jonathan Coulton Offers Some Gleeful Turnabout
Not a fan of this song in particular, but I like a lot of Coulton's other stuff. I'm glad (but not surprised) that he's found a clever, creative way to increase his profile and bring some attention to the kind of double standard the big entertainment companies employ daily... screwing artists and consumers both with impunity.

Comment: Re:Open Source Academics (Score 1) 221

by spleendamage (#36182136) Attached to: Academic Publishers Ask The Impossible In GSU Copyright Suit
I would think that Universities would also begin to realize that they are essentially the only market for these publishers to begin with. So if the majority of Universities formed some kind of academic association and said play ball or else to the publishers... Where else do the publishers have to market their wares?

Comment: Re:Floor plans... (Score 1) 502

by spleendamage (#36073264) Attached to: Bin Laden Hideout Recreated In Counter-Strike

This was such an enlightening post.

Killing a hostile foreign national refugee who has been a declared military target for the past 10 years, who is in hiding in a cooperative country is the same thing as boarding multiple civilian planes and crashing them into civilian structures.

And as far as precedent setting goes, not so much. I was also in complete approval, for example, of Golda Meir sending the Mossad to wax all the members of Black September wherever they were in the world after the killing of 11 Israeli athletes during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

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