Everything posted by Malcador
- Migrants tread
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Boko Haram and the kidnpping of the school girls
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/13/world/africa/nigerias-fight-against-boko-haram-gets-help-from-south-african-mercenaries.html?ref=world&_r=0 http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2015/03/nigeria-foreign-mercenaries-boko-haram-150313122039403.html Not a surprise really that mercenaries are involved.
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Journalism and bias in the gaming industry.
It does, though I suppose the scum posting stuff in PE forums isn't quite comparable to something like the IGDA. But what's the harm in talking about them ? Hurting the IDGA's feelings or something ?
- On the subject of BS jobs
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Journalism and bias in the gaming industry.
Not really malicious though, they think they're doing good with these 'guidelines'. Any time you write suggestions on how others are to do things you are trying to influence them from the outside, right ?
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On the subject of BS jobs
Well, one could argue "art" is an essential (artsies gotta eat somewhow), people need entertainment and so on, much like services like transit, sanitation, power, etc. A BS job would be one not actually producing something or providing a service. Is interesting to see the dependent jobs resulting for any given obviously essential job, too.
- White People: What They Say in Public vs Behind Closed Doors
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
It runs smooth for me on my ancient 560ti, chugs when I zoom down with less of the hideous blurring (Tilt or something, they call it). http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?843300-The-Newly-Crowned-King-of-City-Builders-Shatters-Paradox-Sales-Records! Also Cities sold 250k (with pre-orders) on the first day.
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Journalism and bias in the gaming industry.
Yep, rather common throughout this whole affair too. Still not sure what they are pushing is as simple as localization though, but oh well.
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Journalism and bias in the gaming industry.
True, but considering the source of all this, it's also quite possible that you're primed to see things that simply aren't there. My field being medicine, it's quite obviously not Well, hence suspicion rather than knowing - the lack of a guarantee is implicit, right ?
- White People: What They Say in Public vs Behind Closed Doors
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Journalism and bias in the gaming industry.
This is a rich comment, but I guess it will work well to avoid the mods here. Considering the source of all this, suspecting them of having a point they are beating around the bush of, doesn't require much familiarity with the jargon on display here - which isn't really anything from your field, it's a document for developers, or some excuse for these days (Visual Programming, yay..) Also, related to IGDA and reading anything by Derek Smart is worth a laugh - http://pastebin.com/3vmdTvHK
- The Weird, Random, and Interesting things that Fit Nowhere Else Thread..
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
Hm, that's a shame. I suppose they didn't have an alternative, at least back then (UE4 being free is an option now).
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Journalism and bias in the gaming industry.
Ah, back to being a **** again, what a shock. The field in question is development right - this is a document for technically minded people. And if your English skills are so poor or perhaps you are just too dumb to pick it up, the teasing of Humanities fields is just that, teasing. While STEM is more useful to me, humanities people never fail to get upset and angsty over mocking their majors, so it's pretty good return.
- On the subject of BS jobs
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Journalism and bias in the gaming industry.
But not really, they are still to be seen as issues (though the advice to prioritize based on effectiveness it seems odd to be advice for developers beyond first year, heh). The approach they are pushing, considering the definition of the problem can be fairly loose these days, is the issue though, not every specific implementation - as the former would be the place to examine anyway. When reading things from these types sometimes a lot of things can be masked, in my experience.
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Journalism and bias in the gaming industry.
Seems a bit more than that though - it is 'beyond' localization, after all. Evaluation of the game's assumptions and choices implies some rather larger changes. It is really 'cultural sensitivity' as for some reason people REALLY get into their games to the point they are offended by everything. Ah, this is why I always though mandating CS students to waste time in Humanities courses was a bad idea.
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
Started playing it. Unity is still the worst engine ever. Still lagging terribly ?
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt [2015]
http://www.gamepressure.com/e.asp?ID=51 This part is causing some conniptions.
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
Beats me, I guess lots of lossless audio and textures so that the buttons off to the side in the ****pit are super realistic.
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/comment/4591962/#Comment_4591962 Star Citizen is going to have a big HD footprint, I suppose it's not too outlandish considering the bloated installs Rockstar delivers.
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What you did today
Chelsea lose! Always fun to see that.
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
https://twitter.com/RedThreadGames/status/575715596488347648 Funny to read it, though I suppose that's if you can solve all the puzzles beforehand.
- Obama's Iran talks