User Information - John Prezioso

nin wrote on Nov 18, 2012, 15:21:
"Launches the new era of episodic gaming."

Shame Sin couldn't get a break.

Everyone buy it again so we can get an episode 2!




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Re: Out of the Blue

Nov 18, 2012, 07:50

News Comments > Croteam on Windows 8 Issues

The union could have worked for free, and I bet Hostess still would have gone bankrupt eventually.

By the same token, everyone in the boardroom could have taken a 99.9999% pay cut and it seems likely the company would still have gone bankrupt unless something was fundamentally and drastically changed. That doesn't make the cronyism and the obscene self-serving pay increases to the corporate fat cats any less despicable, or the situation of the screwed-yet-again little guy any less sad, but that's how it seems.




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Re: Croteam on Windows 8 Issues

Nov 18, 2012, 05:56

Verno wrote on Nov 18, 2012, 02:39:
For me, there's no difference between Origin, Steam, Uplay or Windows Store. I don't mind trying free games from any of these services and very rarely do I pay full (or even half price) for the products they are selling.

There is a big difference, one is owned by the company who makes the operating system and exercises a great deal of control including deciding whether or not to even allow those aforementioned applications compete on the Windows Store in the future. Microsoft also has a lot of control over the direction the market will move in the future and this exactly because they basically forced and frontloaded their own store. A more apt comparison of "DRM game stores" would be all of those services and GFWL which largely failed because Microsoft had to compete fairly and basically wasn't interested in putting in the effort.

People who continually make this erroneous comparison must be trying to NOT see the difference. It's blatantly obvious - the comparison doesn't pass muster under even the tiniest of scrutiny.




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Re: Out of the Blue

Nov 18, 2012, 05:49

However most haven't been a mouthpiece for the worker in some time and is no better, hell often worse, than the businesses they try to vilify.

Totally agree. To reiterate, when I say "the union is not the issue in this case", I was talking the majority of its 18000 some-odd members. The "bad guys" are a select few: the corporate fat cats who put their own personal gain above the good of the employee and company (not everyone in management or even the boardroom), and the reprehensible union bosses, who, as you say, act like they speak in solidarity for the employees at large when they do nothing of the sort and mostly act in their own interests.




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Re: etc.

Nov 17, 2012, 19:10

News Comments > Star Citizen Passes $4.2MM

Sorry, didn't mean to introduce some nuance to your right-wing talking points.

SWWWWIIIIIING ... and a miss. Clearly you are not to be taken seriously when you can't even be bothered to notice the very obvious fact that I am not right wing, nor do I talk in talking points. But keep cheering for "your team" (complete with condescending snobishness - YAY!), as if this was some sort of football game. Seriously, what relevance does that insipid wall of text have to do with my point? Pathetic partisan crap as usual.

Let me highlight the relevant parts for the reading impaired:

"Other Congresses and Administrations, both Democrat and Republican in the past have been able to negotiate and compromise to pass budgets without one side having total dominion of the legislative branch."

This comment was edited on Nov 17, 2012, 19:20.




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Re: Star Citizen Passes $4.2MM

Nov 17, 2012, 16:43

This is quite impressive. The real question to my mind is how this game will sell once released. In other words, what percentage of the game's audience are already backers? Are there enough people like me - who are interested but would rather wait to buy the game when it is released - to make it successful when it is launched? Obviously 60,000 sales is nowhere near enough to make it a success that would make big publishers re-think their stance on complex space sims.




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Re: etc.

Nov 17, 2012, 16:26

Knew about the pledge but didn't know about the guy who created the pledge.
Ah well then...

I was more focused on the knuckleheads signing onto it than who drafted it. Don't get me wrong, I am staunchly against tax increases before some serious waste elimination, efficiency enhancement, and massive spending cuts in government are made, but it just seems stupid to sign a pledge that could, due to unforeseen future political realities, become impossible to adhere to. Now you are an oath-breaker AND a sellout.




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Re: Out of the Blue

Nov 17, 2012, 15:10

I am vehemently anti-union because of some really ugly personal history with them, but Cutter is right that the union is not the issue in this case. These people have been asked to take cut after cut - how they continue to eek out a living is beyond me. I try to understand both sides of any issue, and taken at face value it is not too hard to believe that the company's side that revenue is way down causing some tough cuts to be made. That said, the employees are not the bad guys for being tired of having to work for less and less while the cost of everything keeps going up.




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Re: Out of the Blue

Nov 17, 2012, 14:57

In our conspiracy theory-obsessed society it's impossible for me to know what to believe and what is so much poppycock. But let's say for argument's sake the birthers are right and there has been a vast conspiracy to hide the truth of Obama's forgeign birth. My question is What does it matter? The guy has been president for 4 years and will be for 4 more. Nothing is going to come of this now - it's a moot point. Had someone had enough evidence to convince a judge (and the inevitable appeals court) to block Obama's candidacy, that would have been when it would have mattered - during the 2008 presidential campaign. No one successfully presented such evidence (presumably because none existed) effectively putting the whole issue to bed. Why continue to harp on it? The issue is over and done with and bringing it up now just makes those who do look like fringe loons.




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News Comments > On Sale

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Re: On Sale

Nov 17, 2012, 14:48

Techie714 © wrote on Nov 17, 2012, 13:06:
I really love that you guys post a bunch of additional deals on these posts. Thanks!

Ditto.

Syndicate is on sale for 10 bucks on greenmangaming. Despite it not living up to its pedigree, is it worth $10 for singleplayer?




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Re: etc.

Nov 17, 2012, 14:44

News Comments > Croteam on Windows 8 Issues

I didn't discredit your opinion entirely. I said it was hard to lend any weight to you not refuting RollingThundr's comments on responsibility and budgets when you were not aware of a pledge stating "no compromise" signed by the majority of Republicans.

For the record I didn't say I was unaware of the "pledge" - I was. I found it symbolic and meaningless and basically a non-issue. "Read my lips - no new taxes!" ring a bell? I didn't know who specifically this Norquist character was. When I looked into it, it started sounding like the same boogeyman crap the right is always pitching about billionaire leftist George Soros. Like I said, not interested.




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Re: Croteam on Windows 8 Issues

Nov 17, 2012, 14:40

One cannot release a tiled UI application by any other means, but only through Windows Store!

How many times have I heard this would not be the case by people here pitching Windows 8 as the greatest thing since sliced bread? No way in hell I'm buying Windows 8, or any other Windows OS ever if this is where they are headed. Time to start learning Linux.




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Re: etc.

Nov 17, 2012, 14:33

Sepharo wrote on Nov 17, 2012, 14:29:
Prez wrote on Nov 17, 2012, 14:27:
RollinThundr wrote on Nov 17, 2012, 13:19:
When you're talking about the blame game, all I've heard for the past 4 years is how the entire global economy melt down is all Bush's fault and the last 2 years how it's all congress' fault. I have not once seen a single democrat take any ounce of responsibility. And that is flat out dishonest. You have a democratic president and senate who have yet to manage to pass a budget for the past 4 years and all I hear from your side is that it's the GOP or Bush's fault.

Disagree all you want with Rolling Thunder because he's a conservative (a rare thing indeed on these boards it seems lately) but I find it hard to refute anything he said here.

It's hard to lend any weight to this Prez when you didn't know about Norquist and his pledge. That's what's prevented compromise.

Yeah on the left it's all Norquist, and on the right it's all George Soros. But that's right - discredit my opinion entirely because I didn't know or care to know anything about one of your boogeymen. I'm not much into boogeymen myself. Anyway despite what you guys claim the Republicans have stated that they are willing to close loopholes on top of reducing entitlements (I thought grand poohbah overlord Norquist forbade this!), but now that's not good enough either. Talk about moving the goalposts. Like I said, political discussions are all pointless. At least politicians and their spindoctors are paid to spin and spew rhetoric. What's everyone else's excuse?




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Re: etc.

Nov 17, 2012, 14:27

RollinThundr wrote on Nov 17, 2012, 13:19:
When you're talking about the blame game, all I've heard for the past 4 years is how the entire global economy melt down is all Bush's fault and the last 2 years how it's all congress' fault. I have not once seen a single democrat take any ounce of responsibility. And that is flat out dishonest. You have a democratic president and senate who have yet to manage to pass a budget for the past 4 years and all I hear from your side is that it's the GOP or Bush's fault.

Disagree all you want with Rolling Thunder because he's a conservative (a rare thing indeed on these boards it seems lately) but I find it hard to refute anything he said here. Other Congresses and Administrations, both Democrat and Republican in the past have been able to negotiate and compromise to pass budgets without one side having total dominion of the legislative branch.




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Re: Out of the Blue

Nov 17, 2012, 14:25

Drakes cakes are best. I can eat a box of Yankee Doodles in one sitting.




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Re: etc.

Nov 17, 2012, 06:40

News Comments > Black Ops II's $500MM Launch

It's just astounding to me that everyone is so obsessed with politics and agendas that EVERYTHING is the Republican's, the conservatives, the tea-partiers fault. Jesus tap-dancing Christ, they can't be blamed for everything. What is truly amazing is that the people here I know to be intelligent, rational, and insightful are some of the ones being so caught up in their political obsession and misplaced rage that they sound no smarter, logical, or rational than the clueless rednecks that live near me that wear "Buck Ofama" tee-shirts and sit in the McDonalds for hours blaming all the world's problem on "kids today" and liberals.

There's no doubt the Republicans deserved to get their asses handed to them because they are floundering, rudderless, and out of touch. But somehow they are still capable of masterfully orchestrating society's downfall. And according to the prevailing (and hopelessly clueless) mentality of Democrat sycophants the poor Democrats - those noble, altruistic champions who care oh-so-much about everyone had no hand in anything. Oh no, they were obstructed. They were undermined. If only they controlled everything life would be a bowl of frickin' cherries and society would be a utopia. Never mind that they have been unsuccessful in doing anything either despite being the majority party for much of the 20th century - NO blame is to be attributed to them. Oh no - we all know with 100% certainty that they are all gods among men who have all the answers and the purest of intentions. Never mind the failed social programs that offer almost no help to the needy and instead breed a cycle of dependency that robs people of their dignity (if they can even successfully wade through the miles of red tape beauracracy to get it at all) were largely their doing.

I've always believed that all logic and reason goes out the window when talking religion and politics, but this shit is still so beyond the pale it's passed right through laughable and directly into pathetic. It seems even adults believe in boogeymen after all.

This comment was edited on Nov 17, 2012, 06:48.




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Re: Black Ops II's $500MM Launch

Nov 16, 2012, 20:35

They are less intelligent.

So very wrong.




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Re: etc.

Nov 16, 2012, 13:50

News Comments > Morning Legal Briefs

It bothers me when I see the companies in my little town that make so much money its ridiculous yet they pay peanuts. As it is, it's hard for me to get too bent out of shape over the admittedly terrible service at fast food joints and Walmart checkout lines when I know how little these people are being paid. I don't expect someone to get rich off of working at a place like McDonalds but it's hard, honest work, and if they paid their employees a decent wage maybe they could get a higher quality employee that is more motivated to serve the customer better, which in turn leads to happier customers and more business, which means the company makes more money. Theoretically anyway.




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Re: Morning Legal Briefs

Nov 16, 2012, 13:31

News Comments > Black Ops II's $500MM Launch

If Amazon is selling tho French people then I would suppose (not knowing the tax laws there) that they would be required to collect sales tax and pay it to the provinces (regions?) where they reside. I would like to know on what basis France is making the claim against Google though.

EDIT: Re-reading that I see I basically wrote exactly what Creston said.




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Re: Black Ops II's $500MM Launch

Nov 16, 2012, 13:20