When asked if he was sure that Albion couldn’t be copyrighted due to its historical context, he replied: “I don’t know if I’m honest, I don’t really know… I hope so. I mean you would think that the responsible person I should be, I would’ve spent the last six months in lawyers’ offices…”
Bold strategy, Cotton.
I had to look it up. It was called Guardian of Atlas and Sean left the company right after the beta launched and then the game got cancelled. My guess as to why it went poorly is just that it was inexperienced devs making a game at a time when SC2 was still actually relatively popular. There was no space in the already tiny genre of RTS.
Now that Blizzard has essentially abandoned StarCraft, it might be possible for some folks to carve some of that tiny market away.
Day9 did consult on the design of an RTS like ten years ago and it didn’t amount to anything.
Showing all the balls by immediately coming out to say no to Medicare for All, yes to the border wall, and yes to genocide.
This is the shit you like to see? Or is it perhaps that you believe in nothing and care only about aesthetics?
Mt. Moran. Grand Tetons National Park in Wyoming.
Because game devs have to pay their rent.
If they go off to form their own studio, they probably have to take out a business loan to pay themselves for the time being. Interest rates are high right now, and rent and food are both expensive. It’s a huge gamble to make a game and put it out on the assumption you’ll be able to pay back 6%+ interest on whatever you took out. Games are not a reliable money maker. Especially from new studios.
Even if you get some sort of deal with a publisher to fund your first endeavor, there will still be strings attached to that, and publishers are pretty tight with the purse strings right now.
Which means really the only viable option, assuming you’re not already independently wealthy, is that you have to work another job to work on the game in the meantime, which means it will take even longer to come out.
It’s an opinion piece. This isn’t reporting. It says “Commentary” up at the top of the article.
I think you can “trust” when someone tells you that their opinion is actually their opinion. That’s the only question of “trust” here.
There’s an op-ed in the NYT right now titled At the Met Gala, Celebrities Are Nearly Nude. Are We Not Aroused? Do you trust that?
That’s not what capitalism means, dawg.
It’s a top down problem. The universities didn’t invent it. For years, candidates have campaigned on “lrn2code” so much so that we make fun of it here. They weren’t saying that to bring new perspectives or art to the discipline. They were saying it because tech jobs have basically become the only path to the middle class. Small wonder, then that enrollment situations are what they are.
I graduated from UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering with a CS degree right as the recession hit. Even then, I could see the demographics of my classmates trending away from your typical nerds who just like being on the computer into guys who were just after a paycheck.
Point being, like everything, this is a systemic issue. Give people one path out and they’ll take it. The US economy is basically just giant business conglomerates and tech companies. Myopic capitalism has led us to this.
Everyone should read The Jakarta Method. The history of the Suharto regime is barely ever discussed in the West, but it was probably the most brutal and murderous American-supported dictatorship excepting maybe Pol Pot.
It’s pretty much just called “questions”, and the shouts are typically not questions either.
that’s not what OP alleged
This is exactly how Prime Minster’s Questions work in the UK.
I expect that Americans know nothing about other countries, but I thought maybe you’d know something about at least the UK.
It’s complicated by the fact that SK has some of the highest patient to doctor ratios in the developed world. They sorely need more doctors, especially as their population continues to age.
An ideal solution, in my mind, would have been to offer the doctors pay increases alongside the increased admissions. As it is now, to the doctors, the increased admissions can’t seem to be anything other than downward pressure on wages.
However, right wing governments rarely give any concessions to organized labor, regardless of the consequences, which I fear in this case may be quite dire, as the strikes were highly concentrated, especially in Seoul.
Oh I must have missed the press release where he announced much higher tariffs for all cars, including ICE ones, manufactured on the other side of the Pacific.
Killing the planet so you can be ready for war.
God bless America.
Excuse the overdramatization, but it feels a lot like Frodo going to the Grey Havens. They did something great and now their reward is to disappear forever and be well taken care of.