If you need to rewrite core dialogue from scratch and pull in voice actors when the games going gold you are royally boned. It doesn’t take a good writer to write a few lines for pedestrian number 6 or shopkeep number 2. That’s the only late state voice work that should be being done in the last 12 months of a AAA…

Let the lesson be learned if you aren’t going to eat fruits with vitamin C you also need to cut out all the other carbohydrates if you don’t want to get the scurvy.

The voice work should have been wrapped months if not years ago, it isn’t unusual to do 90% of your voice work before you even have much of a game at all. And all the final wrap ups and tweaks really need to be done before content can be locked for it to go into the hands of final QA/QC and get prepped for going gold.

Who I guarantee is cheaper!

A Director though is involved all the way to basically the wrap of the project. In a game there actually can be a fairly big gap between calling it on the content process and shipping the product.

To be honest it could be as simple as cost saving, after all if the content is complete why do you need to keep paying the content creators. If it is stuck in a hell of technical bugs you can see how if you were concious of the budget it would be pragmatic if you don’t have anything else for them to work on.

Heartily disagree, as someone that takes city kids out for adventures in nature half of them are terrified of anything wild, the other half think they are basically moving trees or pets.

Maybe, but trapping and growing has always been more energy efficient as opposed to hunting and they all depend on land access of course. And cycling through it while training is still expensive, I love going to the range, but it is literally burning money. There’s a good reason I still shoot .22 a fair bit, and not…

Why don’t we just let the market decide. If people weren’t okay with him being there I’m sure he would have found out pretty quick in a 100 person venue.

A coast guard cutter and some Marines in fast boats surely would have provided sufficient discouragement. Legally you can’t stop them perhaps, you can make it really difficult for them to get close and you can make their life difficult if they try i.e. inspection and boarding.

Neither of those statements are true.

Why do I need to evolve? I’m fundamentally against Slavery and Racism, that doesn’t mean I’m not also against ignorance of history. How can you learn lessons from history if you forget them.

Always feel better with facts and pointing out that comparing the US and UK in that regard isn’t entirely fair.

Is there some fact you disagree with?

Most people morals bend when it is profitable. But as in the example I gave with Germany it was more a case it wasn’t explicitly illegal at the point and general policy in the British Empire was if it was allowed in the host nation it was allowed to be exploited by the businesses of the Empire, free market at its…

To be fair the British position isn’t a sandy foundation, Britain never hid it’s role or racism in colonial past. There may be a disagreement on whether it’s something to be considered shameful or not, but it isn’t hidden.

Have you seen the price of bullets, that’s a market that’s going to collapse soon. All the worse for people not knowing that ammunition has an expiry date!

In this case it is pretty simple and no real trick, you simply need enough cash to cover you for the period it takes you to liquidate any other investments or long enough that you can tell the difference between a blip and an issue.

I don’t know about that, my main account is 2.5% and my best savings account is 1%, used to be they were about even and it was getting closer to the point where it would be better to have more cash in savings side, now though.

That is why my next big investment might actually be in land, I own property, but not the kind that you can live on.