they couldn't even find the G-Spot, after all!

That is some good information,
but my assertion had nothing to do with his ability to make games,
but rather, the "pitch" them; i.e. to get financing for games which he wanted to make, but were non-mainstream.

If he had successfully pitched something, and then taught others the secret, then it would make more sense to me to say that the academy would fix that problem.

I pitched [...]. But [..] I was told "no, that won't work."

So, after failing to get his pitches into reality, he plans to open an "Academy" and teach other people how to fail, just like him?

I really don't see how he is solving any problems in the commercial world. This seems more like "those who can't, teach".

Of course, since he can't actually get people to finance his games, teaching will likely give him something else to do with his time, at a personal profit, I suppose. Good for him but, again, what does it do for everyone else?

... I mean, what next, "walking is not intuitive?"

Humans have to learn most things which we take for granted,
it really is important to give children under seven a good, well-rounded exposure,
possibly even including wrestling wild boar
(jk about the boar).

This isn't Tetris.... Tetra, meaning four, is the basis of that name... the blocks in Tetris are made up of four cells. However, in this game, they are either one cell or two cells. So at most I would call it Binary Block Game or something like that.

Amazing accomplishment, nonetheless.

...not even the ones who got on by accident,
thinking it is just a normal coaster.

Yes, a lot of business users are forced to use a Microsoft OS...

That's what I meant by business reasons. Their apps only run on Windows, or are bespoke, inefficiently written apps that require multiple cores just to run acceptably, and due to office politics, they insist on using them, and other things that happen in business which don't enable progress but yet occur in the "real" world.

Also, sorry, I more meant to say Blu-ray ripping and transcoding to h.264/mp4 and stuff, but then, you know, I got lazy.

you are both right.

Flash ( which runs within firefox) can cause this behaviour, and it can make Celerons and such unresponsive. Single cores with hperthreading and AMD based machines seem less affected. Must be a flash/windows quirk.

Even ctrl-alt-del may fail to cause a response in a timely manner, if a process "explodes".

However, mutiple cores are really more useful for transcoding and other "geeky" stuff. As more people rip their DVDs to save them from teh scratches of their kids or the clumsiness of their friends , or just common wear and tear, those cores will keep being more important.

Of course, they are business reasons for using them, too....

bicycle , dumb phone = cheap , old tech
car, smart phone = more expensive, newer tech

That's the basis of my analogy.

And sarcasm.

I understood that from the time I saw C# syntax, and more when I had to deal with the modern version of "dllhell" at work much more recently.

Somehow, people who want to create more work in the general case tend to win out... verbosity seems to rule over pragmatism... and C++, as a superset of C, gives you the option to be terse.

That being said, they are political reasons why .NET was doomed to fail, but just like politicians, it continues to get support by the masses.

Yea,

and I secure my car by having a bicycle, instead.

Sure, I get wet when it rains, but I'm a so much safer.

140. XKCD can explain everything. explain it or it goes.

http://rulesoftheinternet.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

You might be able to do the job, but you lack confidence...

We might be able to do the job, but we lack details and motivation.

So, hire a more experienced consultant to help you out.

Or just think some more about it, and enjoy learning by doing.