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Reply to Global Warming - A Comedy of Errors in Politics JoeUser Forums

There are also some people reporting health problems with the CFL ones (when the normal ones were fine), but of course they've been ignored as well. It'd be so much better for a small unit tax to be imposed on the normal lightbulbs (and/or subsidy for the more energy efficient ones) to adjust for the perceived increased damage to the environment from greater electricity consumption (or better yet, a tax on the electricity) meaning people can still get them if they really want them, than to ba

Reply to We the Corporation in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] Go back and pull up the numbers- except for the odd once-in a blue moon good ol' fashioned underdog win, history has already proven my point for me- the most well financed candidate usually wins. [/quote] Even assuming you're correct about the most well financed candidate usually winning, that doesn't by itself prove your point: A well organised candidate with a well planned election would, all else equal, be expected to raise more money. They'd also be expected to hav

Reply to We the Corporation in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] the determination was made that corporations can spend unlimited amounts of money to support political candidates in their run for office. The fallacy of this should be obvious to a five year old. The most profitable and powerful corporations on the planet can now buy the politician of their choice and pretty much guarantee that they'll get into office. There's a direct correlation between a candidate's campaign coffers and how well they do in an election. [/quote] <

Reply to Command and Conquer 4 in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Doesn't sound like the sort of thing I'd enjoy, I like the resource side of games. Seems like all the ones that had any resource management are being changed though - supcom is to have a simplified economy, C&C is to have no economy (if I've read the OP correctly), DoW2 had no economy...

Reply to Global Warming - A Comedy of Errors in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] it seems the media pundits at FOX have boiled it down to the ultra simple (and rather ridiculous) pro or con debate [/quote] Hardly. It seems that if you are sceptical about anything to do with man-made global warming you're firmly in the crazy deniers camp. So for example if you think that the effects might not be as great as made out, or that we might not be as big a contributing factor as made out, etc., you get treated as some idiotic extremist who doesn't think

Reply to Pretty pleased about Steam in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

What? oh, right...they're both good! I just hope that the increase in market share of online distribution means the non-sale prices will finally start to come down a bit - atm I find it ridiculous that it costs more for me to buy a game online (when not on sale)+download it than it usually does to buy the retail version.

Reply to Pretty pleased about Steam in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="37" id="2527380"]Okay, let's say I make a FPS. How should I make it marketable to female gamers?[/quote] Maybe that's your mistake right there. Why are you assuming that the FPS will be as attractive to female gamers as to men? to go for the overused stereotype, with films men (are seen to) like the action ones with lots of shooting+violence, while women (are seen to) like the romance ones with relationships and little/no violence. So in game term

Reply to Manmade Climate Global Warming is not a Scientific Theory in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] If global warming melts too much ice, we will have to do something about regardless of whether we caused global warming or not. [/quote] Yes, but the problem is if everyone agrees that a significant cause of the warming is down to emissions and takes very costly measures to reduce these when in reality they don't have any effect then we will not only have done nothing to deal with global warming, but will also have reduced our ability to do anything about it either. Far better

Reply to Manmade Climate Global Warming is not a Scientific Theory in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] Both CRU (East Anglia) and the Met have also denied releasing their data under a similar law in the UK (so poorly written that no prosecution seems likely) [/quote] Just to add to this, it's worth noting that they acted illegally and wrongfully withheld the information. Of course they can't face prosecuation because they just have to avoid charges for 6 months from when they committed the crime (which isn't hard when no-one will know whether they've committed the crime in the

Reply to Ubisoft is dropping PC DRM but.... in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] I get conflicting reports about this on various forums. If the DLC phones home to check legitmacy, and there is no server to verify, it doesnt' really matter if its already intalled, it won't work. [/quote] With DA:O I always thought I had to be logged in (/online) with DLC for it to work. This is because I'd frequently be prevented from loading a saved game and get the message that I had to be logged in because my saved game had DLC in. However after being told that you could

Reply to Brad’s 10 best games of the decade in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] Casual games don't do anything but pollute the industry. Making crappy games that appeal to a large audience doesn't do anything but expose more stupid people to videogames. [/quote] That means they're a good thing. The more people "exposed" to videogames, and the larger the audience, the more money there is in videogames, which means companies can make more money producing videogames, in turn leading more companies to produce games/existing companies to produce more, and be a

Reply to Ubisoft is dropping PC DRM but.... in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

I find myself struggling to believe the Q&A: [quote] What if Ubisoft decides not run these online services in the future? Will my game stop working? Ubisoft is committed to being a forerunner in providing new exciting online service. If any service is stopped, we will create a patch for the game so that the core game play will not be affected. [/quote] As if they're going to release patches for (theoretically) a hundred games when they're about

Reply to Ubisoft is dropping PC DRM but.... in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

My biggest issue, which that article hopelessly failed to realise, isn't the problem of me not having access to the internet (although that is still an issue), but of the company not having access to the internet, that is, of the servers going down. If this actually happens (the DRM, that is) there's no way I'm going to buy their games again unless I can get them ridiculously cheap, because I want to know I can play my game even if the company goes under the day after I've bough

Reply to The true face of DRM in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Looks like I made a mistake with DA:Origins - I'd frequently got an error message when trying to load a saved game saying I had to be logged in as it used DLC (and so assumed it meant just that), but it seems I only get this message when I'm actually online+logged in, and it lets me play fine offline. [quote] @ aeortar: di

Reply to Follow the MONEY - Skeptics and Deniers in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] 4: $3 billion by Richard Branson (4) [/quote] Big difference between receiving money from 'big oil' and a businessman - the first makes the reliability more questionable all else equal, since big oil would have a clear vested interest in discrediting the global warming theory, while no such obvious direct interest exists for a businessman (not to say there isn't, but it's far less obvious if there is). Often the issue isn't so much the money, but where it's come from.<

Reply to 3D on any T.V. and for games? Game Devs take a look! in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

The feature I'd like to see most is probably the first one (and it looks amazing) - the second one seems harder to achieve and more impressive, but I just don't see it fitting into games that easily.

Reply to The true face of DRM in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Where I live unless there is some special exception made just for games, the EULA contained in a box is void - I make the contract to purchase the game at point of sale, and anything made subsequent to that in respect of "past consideration" (my purchase) is null and void and so shouldn't be enforceable. The problem is I just can't see people bothering to take a game company to court in an expensive action over a game that doesn't cost that much. It still makes my blood boil whenever I see th

Reply to Steam Powered Supcom 2 in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

The resource system was good and made a nice change from your typical RTS. Sure it could've been improved a bit (with a boost to the storage system, in particular power storage), but I'd much rather that than seeing it become like every other RTS out there. I might still buy supcom 2, especially if it gets good reviews and is at a low price, but so far almost everything I've heard has been negative - worse (sounding) economy, more restrictive looking maps, forces you to use steam (not

Reply to Dawn of War (The first lot) in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

I prefer DoW1 to DoW2 myself, although both are good. For DoW1 the Tau are my favourites (with space marines coming in second and necrons third) - I like being able to mass long ranged units and kill most of the enemy before they can get a shot off. Necrons meanwhile are fun as a complete change of style, and a very powerful commander. My least favourite are the imperial guard - their core infantry units are really weak, a pain to micromanage, and lose strength

Reply to "The people calling for Rush Limbaugh to die are the same people who ask to control your healthcare." in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] As the Stimulus spending has shown – the best predictor of who will get government money is whether they agree with those spending it. [/quote] Another possible explanation (don't know if it's correct or not though) - the allocation of money may have been influenced by whether the area was urban/it's population density, and since republicans tend to

Reply to Hammer Them in Politics JoeUser Forums

How would a 90% tax make stockholders more interested in the salaries paid to the managers of the company they own? If anything it'd do the opposite - they'd need far more shares for the savings achieved by keeping a closer eye on the salaries to be worth the effort with a 90% tax than without it, meaning the problem would actually be worse, before you even consider the standard negative impacts of a 90% tax

Reply to Digital Distribution market share in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="45" id="2469027"] Quoting ZehDon, reply 44I certainly understand your point, but looking at the Digital Distribution services currently dividing up the market, how would you suggest they change themselves to better suit their female demographic than the stereotypical, and not very realistic, 'Hello Kitty' skins and The Sims content? Right, it's comments like these that show just how sexist the gaming community can be. You think all women who pl

Reply to Climategate deepens in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] Worldwide, companies are licking their lips at the prospect of new contracts and sales of green tech [/quote] The size of the green tech industry is far smaller than the 'non-green' industry though. There are far more losers than winners if human activity doesn't have a significant impact on global warming. This should also mean that politicians can have far greater kickback opportunities from opposing climate change than supporting it, since the 'non-green' industry will hav

Reply to Climategate deepens in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] To wage a battle against this administration one would need just a little media support...Second, have you seen what this administration does to sectors of the economy that disagree with its policies? [/quote] Given this is a global issue that has been going on for many years it's not specific to any one administration or even country. For example say the current US administration is powerful enough to make it next to impossible to mount a credible fight against it on the issu

Reply to Climategate deepens in Politics JoeUser Forums

What I don't get is that if what the first linked article says is true, then why haven't we heard more about it? To elabourate, there are far more losers from reducing carbon emissions than there are winners, and so there will be lots of companies with loads of money for whom it would be in their best interest to increase awareness about such points, if true. They would also be able to put pressure on policy makers and have influence in various other circles. Not just the obvious candidates,