Recent content by PlaidHatter

Don't kid yourself. That's the goal of every company. If you're not making money, there is literally no reason to stay in business. Valve wants your money just as badly as EA or any other company.

My bad. Finally emigrated from some really angry message boards for good (where this sort of generalization is practically cited by ignoramuses), so I'm still trying to dial it back. Didn't mean to twist the knife that wasn't there to begin with. Again, my apologies.

To say the Cold War was all about "international dick-waving" is like calling World War I a spitting contest. It's a ridiculous generalization propogated by laziness and ignorance; encouraging the metaphor really is a great disservice to understanding the events of the conflict so that future...

You, sir/madame, are pulling false, random information out your butt. Extraterrestrial life was never a goal with Voyager, so the systems they shut down would have been unable to "detect life" in the first place. The data it collects is considerably more complicated and dull compared to what...

Hey! Watson from the show here. @Starik20X6: Yeah, I kinda get what you mean. I acted for a year as a marshal for my college's DartTag Saturdays. It was a lot of fun, but there were certainly times I wished I wasn't that year. Gotta coordinate with the school so no one calls the cops...

I don't know if they're saying it *is* the sole cause. It looks like they're just showing that there's a significant correlation, which by no means says that it's the only thing that desensitizes kids.

Bull crap. There is just as much unique "experience" to driving any number of cars, reading any number of books, using any number of computers, or utilizing any of the examples you mention in your post. If you want me to elaborate on a particular example, please ask; there's far too much to...

The problem is that any detail we add from this point will be practically imperceivable for the relative memory cost on your computer, the resolution of a TV or monitor, and the fiscal cost to develop said graphics. The more you fine tune your graphics, fewer systems will be able to run your...

Great start! First off, your actual characters in the shot are pretty well drawn. You have a good start to a style, and that style will improve as you practice more. Your zombie crowd is much better drawn than the bloke in the laundromat. The way the guy in the blue shirt is leaning...

Just because they have lots of money doesn't mean they can make tons of games. Honestly, the limiting factors are time and manpower. Remember that even the top programmers and designers like to do things other than make games (like eat, sleep, have families, and go on vacations) all of which...

No one's "forcing" anyone to shut down. The simple fact of the matter is that they're a toxic asset to Actiblizz. A common misconception is that if someone makes a bad game, they don't make money. It's not just that they don't make money, they lose money. In other words, it was costing...

Both companies have copied each other on many occasions. The first Warcraft game was supposed to be a Warhammer RTS. GW backed out, and Blizzard was left with an orphaned game, which they adopted to make "Warcraft: Orcs & Humans." With the success of 40k, the logical step for new IP for...

From what I've heard (and I'm in the same boat as you), the military has remained fairly neutral, letting the people do their thing. Then again, there are mixed reports, and I'm sure some soldiers ended up taking sides. It's just not quite enough to tilt them either way. If someone has a...

That's kind of a disgustingly cynical generalization considering the only thing they're revealed to the public is a name and that it will be an online game (as many others have pointed out, MMO is not the same as MMORPG). "Titan" is frustratingly generic to begin with, considering it doesn't...

I don't care for them, personally. The whole thing seems to have a very "emperor's new clothes" feel to it, as if it's trying to justify a lack of content. My major problem is the idea that silent protagonists are the "ideal" protagonist. To me, that's like saying the "ideal" book should be...