Heavenfall

Heavenfall

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Reply to What Would You Like to See in WindowBlinds for Windows 7? in Personal Computing Demigod Forums

I always liked that windows and taskbar were completely remoddable so they didn't look the same. It wasn't just colour, it was different shapes. I would like the option to move the start menu button and the clock and the systray around, although I guess that could be modded to a stale state, and a variable state should be done by MS. Windows 7 has new stuff for setting up multimonitor setups, I would like an option to have different backgrounds on those monitors. &nbsp

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Reply to Do you really want Steam to be your only option? Are you sure? in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

[quote]i disagree that competition is ALWAYS good. it is GENERALLY good. y'know when it's NOT good? when it's VHS vs. betamax. when it's HD-DVD vs. BLU-RAY. you expressed confusion over the issue of standards but in certain very clear cases, the sentiment is clear. in some cases, choice is less about benefit to the consumer and more a pissing match between industry players and actually an IRRITATION to consumers. i'm not sure th

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Reply to Do you really want Steam to be your only option? Are you sure? in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

Black markets (not the same as piracy, although piracy is a form of a black market where information is traded for information in the Scene) benefits customers because they sell products without permission to a lower price, thus counter-acting the negative impacts of monopolistic companies choking the supply. Here are a couple of examples of monopolies benefiting customers: 1) An old Swedish (government) company owned the copper lines, limiting ADSL products to certain compani

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Reply to Do you really want Steam to be your only option? Are you sure? in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

Monopolies can have SOME benefits. But they only apply when the monopolistic company is transparent. Any profit-maximizing monopolistic company (supplier) is always bad for the customer and the producers because monopolistic companies operate by choking the supply to the market in order to increase prices and thus profits. Either way, monopolies don't work (black markets / contenders always emerge), and it certainly could never function in this online age where the monopolistic compan

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Reply to Do you really want Steam to be your only option? Are you sure? in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

[quote who="dmantione" reply="5" id="2055556"] Quoting Heavenfall, reply 1That's because they're not dominant at this point in time. That's not my conclusion. If digital downloads would be a separate market, Valve is a dominant player it. Quoting Heavenfall, reply 1Some people want them to be, and we've explained why that is a bad idea for everyone except steam. That it is a bad idea is an open door, monopolies are well known to be bad for everyone. I'm summing up the sit

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Reply to Impulse: Phase 3 Preview in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

It's almost hard to grasp the idea that impulse has only been around for a year. Certain other services have remained largely the same for much longer periods of time. Leaps and bounds.

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Reply to Caption Contest in Everything Else Demigod Forums

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate."

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Reply to IKEA Has Some Cool Stuff in Personal Computing Demigod Forums

Maybe it's different in other countries, but in Sweden you don't have to go through the entire store. There are shortcuts, although not well marked in the store, they do appear on the maps. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2142/2266410321_8c0e039f5c.jpg?v=0

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Reply to IKEA Has Some Cool Stuff in Personal Computing Demigod Forums

I love going to IKEA for finding ideas. But frankly, a lot of the stuff isn't that cheap for its quality. Supposedly, they make an extreme amount of profit from people walking through the entire store picking up "small" stuff like icecube-makers for the freezer or a plushie that is also the lid of a boiling can or that floor lamp for $15. Stuff that you absolutely don't need but will buy nevertheless because it's so damn cheap and who cares? Well, those items have like a 500% to 1000% profit

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Reply to Venting on the Current Beta State in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]Did you also tell people that during Beta 1? Will you also tell people the exact same thing during Beta 3? Why should we not have some sort of expectations for Beta 2. This is not last September, the game is "supposed" to be released in a few short months so people expect that a combination program from 2 of the most respectable and accomplished game developers could produce a far more stable Beta 2 release. There is no point to get defensive on their behalf... this is their business a

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Reply to IKEA Has Some Cool Stuff in Personal Computing Demigod Forums

I would say it's because it's mostly the same as the food you get anywhere else in the western countries. There is "some" local food, like herring and tuna we probably eat more than others. And there's the falukorv and the swedish meatballs of course.

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