Recent content by sadmac

Could any of this have to do with FTC regulations on disclosure and insider trading? Many of these publishers are public, and IIUC if information is disclosed in the wrong way, and stock moves as a result, Very Bad Things(tm) happen to people.

No hat. Feed dump is ruined.

Copyright reform? Sure, where do I sign up? Doesn't make Microsoft wrong, here, though. The law is more or less instructions on how to do business in this space. As I said before, property rights are arbitrary, and we define the practice of business by defining them.

They didn't. Property law is arbitrary, and IP law has allowed for this sort of thing for decades. They're exercising their copyright. It doesn't set a legal precedent; the laws are already on the books. From another angle, you're going to end up not owning your games due to the other end of...

Getting real sick of Jim talking about corporations needing to put the consumer first. Why does it matter if a corporation is shitty to its consumers? How does it affect you? It's not like you're doing business with them, because surely you wouldn't actually pay someone to treat you this way...

RE: Op: Because a character that's a weird mute sociopath and nobody notices is bad. A character giving a tearful monologue about their lost daughter while humping a houseplant in the corner to make coins come out of it is worse.

I guess anything worth saying is worth saying verbosely, eh? "And here this part isn't in the game, and.. oh yeah this part isn't in the game either, nor is this part..." Kinda got the point after 2 minutes.

Most special protections for children in this regard come from the notion that a child isn't responsible for themselves and thus cannot consent, thus precluding a (eu)volountary exchange of labor for money. False. If their actions are profitable, then the public approves of their actions...

These practices only affect exchange with the consumer. Ethicality is a question of the exchange continuing to be voluntary (or euvoluntary if you would like a higher bar). Check the sidebar here for a good breakdown of the criteria: http://euvoluntaryexchange.blogspot.com/

A company exists to make money, and so long as you continue to give them money you are implicitly approving of anything that company does to further that goal. On-disc DLC doesn't exist because EA put it there. It exists because people continue to buy it. If it didn't succeed in making money...

The one that gets me is people calling themselves/other people African American when they're Dominican or Jamaican or otherwise dark skinned but wholly unconnected with Africa.

Those situations have to be intrinsically similar for his comparison to make sense.

Looking at the comic... did he just compare being gay to a religion? And then compare it to a gender? *headdesk*

As the thread has generally suggested, anything will do. I'll accept for a moment the premise that you're valid in your desire to preserve and articulate your manliness via beverage choice. By the way, if you get dragged to a bar, you're going to hear the phrase "let's do shots" about ten...

The main reason is there's no iterative development for games. A game is expected to have a "release" where it shows up fully featured. Other types of software can be written with minimal functionality very quickly, and then gradually build functionality and userbase at the same time. Open...