I think (and hope) that the upcoming movie trilogies and tv shows will focus less (or not at all) on the Skywalker family. That said, it was made pretty clear when EP 7 was filming that the Episodic Saga movies are about the Skywalkers, so yes, it will always go back to them until that story is complete. It doesn’t…

I only have 2 questions in relation to this:

At some point character development does end as their story nears an end. At some point the larger story (what drives the characters) take precedence over any additional development

I personally just think we’re getting back to the case of “The show isn’t ending the way we want/think it should and are angry” that happens to every popular TV show.

I don’t need to know any of that. Because we know that Valve is massively profitable, with an estimated 4.3 Billion made (as a conservative figure, not taking into account DLC and microtransaction money) in 2017.

Bonus points to anyone that realizes that Andrew the Monkey is the nephew of Star Fox Villian Andross

Valve will do just fine at 12% their business model would not be under any threat.

Developers who created IP.

The whole point of Valve’s DRM is so that their exclusives can’t be bought for use outside of Steam.

Valve has a history of allowing their games to be sold on other stores (until those stores kick them off). Valve has historically been anti-exclusive.... to the point of being ridiculed for not using exclusives to sell their hardware (from Steam Machines to the upcoming Index VR).

I take issue with most of what you said. Valve is known for making their business practices as “pro-consumer” as possible, while also being a business. Much of what they do today benefits gamers of all platforms/stores as many of their newer projects are fully open source.

If you read through the interviews, the writers spoke about how they brought actual physicists in to help them with the specific Time Travel theory they decided to go with. Some of the lines in the movie come from them, they tried to be as close to accurate (relating to a theory, mind you) as possible, so the comments…

That’s the thing, it can’t be locked down in the current version of DragonRuby. That is coming later. The DevKit was built with a Win/Mac/Linux target first and consoles as secondary targets. The PC crowd likes having that kind of optional access and if Nintendo would let them, DragonRuby would leave that there for…

1. The very definition of “trojan horse” in computers is malware. The text I wrote up there came directly from an Anti-virus vendor describing a trojan horse.

I’m not being obtuse, the focal point seems to be the interpreter and all I’m saying is that the interpreter is required. Should users have access to it? Probably not, but that’s always a tricky notion. The Developers of DragonRuby have stated they want their users to be able to eval Ruby code at runtime:

I think there is a lot of confusion around what he did. The game was built with a Ruby-based game engine/dev kit called DragonRuby. That engine needs the mruby interpreter to run the game which also includes the debug console. The game itself had nothing special, the engine that ran the game is where all this is.

and I AM a ruby developer. The game wasn’t going to run without the interpreter. End of story. Regardless of what the Developer said, DragonRuby requires the Ruby interpreter.... it’s not a feature of the game, but of the engine itself. Who is responsible for reporting that to Nintendo? The Game dev, the game…

Ok:

It’s an mruby interpreter, it’s not a “hacking tool”. It allows the users to modify the game and the game only. I have the https://dragonruby.itch.io/ dev kit and play around in it on a regular basis. Games developed with it won’t work without the interpreter and what he showed users was just the usual way to access…

While I agree with you to an extent, the game was built with https://dragonruby.itch.io/ and it is a ruby based Dev Kit using mruby. It won’t run without the interpreter. All he did, as far as I can tell, is tell people how to access the engine’s dev mode (using ~).