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Oh yeah, how is the "Donate butter for the poor Norwegians" campaign going back in Denmark?

I've completely misunderstood what you were doing, haven't I? I'm not going to ask what you were doing last night

Looks like something that would have been released on the Amiga 20 years ago. Nicer graphics though I can at least give the demo a try.

The heathen here is lost, what is "Bastion"?

Was there a point to that? Not sure what a collection of product pages is supposed to tell. It doesn't show units sold, nor how much creativity gets killed off and fall by the wayside over a defined time period.

It's good to be the king Edit to add: Generally speaking (as in a lot of exceptions exist), the Germans sought hegemony through hard work and concerted efforts, the French thought they would have it, but not sure how to accomplish it, so they might just piggy-back it on the Germans (while sticking out their tongues and wagging them at the English). The rest wasn't really interested in ideals. Not a lot of trust amongst European countries and they tend to gang up on who is currently the "dominant" one. Nothing's really changed the last 2000 years.

A few are successful despite piracy, not because if it. Check out the link Starwars posted for indie developer opinions.

Nah, the reason they are in trouble is because a number of countries went into the treaties with different expectations. France and Germany sought "stability" and economic growth (financial imperialism) through disciplined economics. A number of Mediterranean countries saw it as an easy way to suckle at the teats of the ECB while lining their own pockets through corruption and money diversion. Scandinavia and England never trusted the entire "United Europe" concept and decided not wanting to be assimilated in the steam rolling German money machine nor the sourthern black hole where money mysteriously disappear in alarming quantities.

I'll check out those two, thanks

Purely for calibration purposes, can I ask when you were last genuinely happy about a movie? To be fair, the above two titles makes Independence Day seem like Haute Couture by comparison.

Says who? Sure as heck not the indie developers.

Subconscious fear that they will turn to cheap, mass produced mainstream console games

Played half an hour of Europa Universalis III last night. Caught myself trying to pause the Obsidian forum with the space bar... good thing annual leave is coming up in a few weeks time.

Wouldn't introducing human like AI into a system running the reserve/nation banks just make the disasters and mistakes faster and more efficient? If you on the other hand introduced one without any human traits, you end up with an Old Testament God, all rules and no mercy.

Next question is... do you need the patch? I get the impression that it breaks more than it fixes unless you have one of the few specific problems listed in the readme. Little or no content/game bugs were fixed if I remember correctly. The higher resolution movie update (released unofficially and sponsored by third party file hosting) was the only semi-official worthwhile download. Modders did a better job of supporting it than LA.

Had to look that one up on google and then imdb. Sounds like a bizarre story

Does that 'update' button actually do anything anymore?!?

@Hurlshot: Try checking out the interview, it is relatively on-topic. How piracy isn't the blessing for indie game makers that some people would like to make it out to be.

Yes, you are such a shining beacon when it comes to maturity And you're an old codger pointlessly railing against a changing world? Is it really that bad not liking people with self entitlement issues? Feel free to enlighten me why it's a good trait.

Yes, you are such a shining beacon when it comes to maturity Looks more and more like the future is going to be an either/or thing. Major titles will be available on cloud computing type schemes where you can rent access to games running centrally somewhere and on the other end of the scale indie developers that can't afford/have no interest in this kind of distribution.

Now I can't unsee this

Seems like we have come full circle with nothing new added...

She doesn't deserve vitriol and harsh language. More like removed permanently from society. Probably something involving padded walls. I work in the software industry and consider myself blessed working with stuff that only fits a particular purpose. Usually tied very closely to corporate business processes and no two businesses are the same. Nobody pirates my stuff. That doesn't mean I can't relate to the sentiments of my colleagues who works with "shrink wrapped" products. They work long hour and holidays too, but get screwed over by pirates and in addition have to suffer mocking, juvenile insults and cajoling for the crime of trying to make a living by creating something. Why exactly those who seems to enjoy monkey style poo flinging should be excempt from contempt I don't understand.

Some of us still remember Skylab

I'm ambivalent about that. I would like to see Obsidian get paid for their work on South Park, on the other hand I always resented them for clinging on to the Games Worshop rights, never (and likely not intending to) making a game that would interest me. Selfish? Sure