Your comment of:

>>Demigod itself suffers from the problem of being designed with Microsoft's tools that have been focused on the Xbox, and using similar ideas. For example, running at the speed of the slowest isn't a problem when you have a homogeneous environment. PCs aren't homogeneous.

is wrong. They are using the Supreme Commander engine, which was designed for PCs in mind, and had the same issue. The problem is that SupCom and now Demigod are Peer 2 Peer, which means if one node is lagging and can't keep up, everything has to slow down to that pace or things get out of synch. RTS games in particular seem to suffer from this, with Starcraft having slow players and Warcraft 3 having "laggy" connections as well.

It has nothing to do with Xbox tools.

California does not give prisoners access to computers, so that will certainly complicate things for him.

Maybe he can sit down with a pad and paper and work on things like that, but without access to a computer I can't see this being a particularly productive turn of events for Hans and any past / future projects he'd like to work on.

Seems lots of people across the pond love to quote 1984 and make references to Big Brother about nearly every single political story about the United States.

Pot. Kettle. #000000

Are you kidding me? A guy from their country wrote 1984 over 50 years ago. They have cameras on nearly every street corner. If anything I think they are qualified to "make references to Big Brother".

Why was this modded insightful? I think you missed the point. The original poster was saying that the British ridiculing the Americans about Orwellian laws here in the U.S. is like the pot calling the kettle black: the laws in the U.K. seem to violate privacy much more than the U.S. laws do.

So yes, the English are qualified to make references to Big Brother. But people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.