I grew up around a zillion of those people, and I "dated" (if you could call it that, we were like 16) one of them for a while. At some point during my teens I ultimately rejected my dad's religious indoctrination, which was made easier by the fact we did not get along in any way.

That's usually how it works. Must pay to keep up. That's why the "pay to win faster" doesn't work in multiplayer. It works just fine in single player, if you don't make it too much of a hostage situation.

So... basically free to play slowly, or pay to win faster.

There's one instance in which I felt guilty about something I was about to do in Skyrim. I played through the Foresworn quest in Markarth twice, where you get imprisoned and help their king escape. The first time I killed him as he was escaping. The second time I initially vowed I wouldn't kill him. I didn't really…

Regardless, I think the military has a real chance to sway the opinion of some of the most conservative people in power. Them pushing this kind of information out into the wild could do a lot of good.

A lot will have changed then heh. My first trip to Utrecht was about 20 years ago as well, as a kid with my mom. Don't remember much from that, though.

Bijenkorf is pretty easy. You just use the regular Vredenburg exit and cross the square. There's some construction beyond that point, but by train it's pretty straight forward still. Just make sure you pay attention when getting to the station, so you don't go the wrong way. It's like a 5 min walk.

Utrecht, Netherlands. They're rebuilding the entire area around central station. Have been for like 10 years now, and will be until 2030. And then there's all the other construction going on elsewhere in town...

My city is currently Road Construction Simulator 2014.

Honestly wouldn't put this on the same level as Goat Simulator. GS was a game about hilarity, this is the comedic equivalent of a failed slow clap.

Very true, media exposure on the other hand, is a hard-fought temporal resource, and it would have gone to other things.

I've had numerous occurrences of knowing that I'm dreaming. Some of them nightmarish. The worst example was when I knew I was dreaming, I also knew that I had already woken up and was upright in bed blinking, but the dream simply wouldn't stop (kind of a reversed sleep paralysis). Until the dream finally faded, that…

Looking out for talented artists etc. is a non-argument. I love these kinds of games, and I also make games that are of a more complex nature. I don't think they collide at all, and in fact I applaud these kinds of games because they offer a very fascinating comment on what games, fun and the perception of all of this…

To be perfectly honest, I don't care if the rendering is done at 30/60, but at what framerate is the physics engine run? I remember the difference between forza 3 & 4 was enormous in part because the more granular physics time step made everything that more stable.

This reminds me of something else I heard not too long ago, and I've been looking out for it ever since. People can't just sit around and be anymore, they're always doing something. Always talking to somebody, reading something, watching something, etc.

Leading is a term over-used by companies trying to make themselves sound better. It's comparable to the GOTY tag for games.

Having a penalty for death is fine, if that's the type of experience you're going for and it's for an audience that can appreciate it (like you, apparently). Which comes first is a measure of idealism. Do you create an awesome uncompromising experience and expect an audience to appear on its own, or do you seek out an…

The wish list incentive is a very clever one from Valve. Fixing or no, people are still en-masse updating their wish lists. I never even used my wish list until this week. Valve's getting some very valuable data here, and I'm pretty much fine with that.

And yet they still trust the autopilot on an airplane, and use Google Maps to check where to go. Insane! And the "theories" those things rely on are a lot more difficult to explain to them than global warming.

Good thing Cosmos clearly explained the difference between weather and climate then :P