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As a developer, everything about this worries me. It sounds eerily similar to mobile development’s race to the bottom and we all know how that ended: A glutted market full of often low-quality experiences churned out by imitator studios. I’m fine with offering low cost enjoyable gaming experiences, but I worry about

To be fair, you don’t ask that games are clearly labelled as steam exclusive which, for many, is the default.

Yeah, but the worst firestorm to throw at a newly-minted PhD is a 200 person gen-ed, even with teaching assistants. My first time I failed so badly at it that I wondered if I shouldn’t give all the students “As.”

I don’t know about the OP, but If I have a student in my class do something as disrespectful to the educational process and their fellow students as vape in a closed space with unconsenting parties and then refuse to leave until campus police is involved you’re damned right I’m going to feel some glee. Someone wasn’t

I’m ambivalent about this. We both know that a variety of professors are not only inadequate instructors, but (to be blunt) may actively harm the motivation of students to pursue their subject through either their attitude or their inability to impart passion. In a perfect world, every tenured professor and PhD would

I dunno, my RMP has always been nice, but then again I’m upfront that my workload is intense and I’m lucky enough to teach classes that are not gen. req. so the people stepping in my classes know that what I’m teaching applies to them.

So is quality. That doesn’t stop me from saying something is bad.

And that advice might be less problematic in less densely populated countries... but the estimate for a 9mm fired from an average sized pistol at a 45 degree angle is ~1.4 miles and Memphis has a population per capita of 270 people per square mile. It is not absurd to tell people not to fire warning shots considering

Nope. I’m a gay PoC male who came from poverty, transient housing, and an abusive childhood and “it’s just an animal” isn’t even vaguely how I feel. Look, people are shitty and life isn’t fair and nobody should have to suffer the way that parts of my life have made me. Empathy is not a finite resource. Spending it on

That’s a ridiculous reduction. Context matters.

Erm no... they’d be rejecting her for falsification of documents and while I’m sure there’s some desperate lawyer out there who would be willing to try to convince them otherwise, the moment they submitted falsified, certified documents to a federal program everything else became incidental. After all, they get to

If you’re an 18 year old who was kicked out of home for your sexuality, but haven’t been able to fully emancipate yourself from your well-off parents? Sorry kiddo, no meaningful financial aid for you until you turn 24.

Nope. Ignoring the stupidity of shit people when putting them in power is how we got Trump. We’ve been celebrating shit people for about as long as someone’s had the time to look up from their fields, see a guy slip on a banana peel and chuckle. Let’s not overgeneralize.

Is this really, honestly, that hard to understand?

Procedurally generated games is a terrible title because procedural generation is used almost everywhere in the field. It also excludes some pretty pivotal aspects of a roguelike design, such as the idea of casual death/restarting and complex, often intentionally underexplained, interlocking systems that become more

Lite vs Like - Does the act of death require you to begin the next run with no in-game advantages or consequences from previous runs?

MS, Sony, Apple, Google and Nintendo all offer digital services that allow you to buy and download software. They are all part of the software industry. They all take the same cut of 30%. Therefore, 30% is the industry standard cut for digital software downloads.

Valve, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony do not belong to the same industry. At best, they belong to the same sector. An industry can be reasonably defined either by competing interests in products or by competing interests in customers for those products. Each operates as a relatively closed ecosystem so

So whether a given developer finds value in them is less important than whether a consumer finds value in them, and consumers have spoken loud and clear that they do.

Fair point. As valid as that is, I would counter that since they have been operating as a defacto monopoly for digitally-released PC games for over a decade and have been confronted with the 30% cut and chosen to defend it multiple times over the last five years, at this point it is the industry standard for PC video