The author is right, run, run away, and run away fast. Especially if no kids are involved. I've been in this situation and stayed in it too long. One day you'll look up and be down in their world. That person is unfixable and if she does get help, get on meds, or whatever, maybe she'll find someone compatible but…

She might need help, but at this point he has been victimized and honestly could use help himself. They'll be better off both getting help without each other.

Let's not dog on someone for dating someone abusive. Abusers are usually very good about hiding their true nature until it's too late.

the letter writer needs to look out for himself, because his wife obviously isn't. what they have isn't a marriage, it's a hostage situation. no need to drag evil into it!

The problem comes with how easily TSO succumbs to guilt; if he suggests getting help and she lays it on him that she's "not good enough" or that he thinks she's "crazy" and all that - which in my experience is entirely possible - then there is no helping her at all. And if she plays that card once and he caves, then…

It's her responsibility to get the help she needs. Not that of the guy she has been abusing. You probably wouldn't tell an abused woman that she needs to make sure her husband gets mental help before leaving him. Switching the genders doesn't change anything else. It's safer for him to be away from her. He can…

I think the problem isn't that its remotely similar, its almost a direct sequel similar. I mean he didn't even change the art to differentiate them. It would have helped a lot if he used a different shape for the ship, or the ui looked significantly different or the geometry in the levels wasn't almost exactly the…

I think Kenji might have the financial clout to go toe to toe with Capcom to defend himself in a way this guy doesn't. Also, Infogrames owns Atari now for basically the sole purpose of camping on their IP rights, so they're a lot more likely to be litigious about these sorts of things than Capcom is.

Well, there's two possibilities as I see it. The first: they just bullied him into submission because they can. They have the best lawyers at their disposal and litigate for years if need be. He probably can't.

The fact that this guy had access to the original source code for Tempest (because he wrote it) is the sticking point. It would be difficult(and more importantly expensive) for him to prove in court that his work on the original Tempest (which Atari owns) didn't carry over into this new game.

It looks a lot more than just 'inspired' by.

don't be that guy that insists there are "right" and "wrong" ways to hold chopsticks. every single one of my friends holds it differently. and i've been holding mine "wrong" since pretty much forever.

Developers and content creators in general need to learn that inventing, coding, or creating something when you're employed by someone else usually (unless explicitly stated in your contract) means that they own it, not you.

Put that $300 in an IRA for long term, take it with your other savings and go Money Market, CD or another quick-turnaround or just spend it on whatever you want. Home improvement is always a viable option, adding value to most peoples largest investment. Or blow it all on cocaine and hookers. Seems to somehow work for…

Because Atari can afford better lawyers.

I'm not a banker either, though I used to manage large accounts for Citicorp, but I've been fairly smart with my money. I was just showing that even in the long term, putting it in savings actually loses money, essentially due to inflation overtaking it. I never said it was a "better option" one way or the other. In…

I'd leave my family for a girl that smells like a flame-grilled beef patty.

its the abyss you fight the four(or should I say never ending spawning) kings

0.99%... bah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Um, what % is this savings account? Say the preorder is $300. At 0.99% APY (which is an extremely good rate for an account that only has $300 in it), you'd have $331.21 in the account after 10 years. And sadly with the core CPI at 1.65% (after a drop of 0.7% as of February for seasonal adjustment, decreased 0.1 over…