Would say so on that as well. There are plenty of lazy and/or incompetent developers, you can see it in their "work".

Certainly not getting my hopes up on that. You can say whatever you want when the game's being developed. Doesn't mean a thing if there isn't the quality on release day to back it up.

People can thank Steam for that one. They've been letting people use their storefront to rip customers off for years, too busy counting the money to actually quality check any of it. And of course, thanks to that Steam is largely seen as a joke when it comes to keeping bad games, or broken games, or fragments of games that people are charging others to play, out.

Yes, the decent independents have to contend with both the "triple AAA" companies, and the scumbags who are using the indie title as a way to shield themselves from the responsibility of making really, really bad games.
Well, you're not. Not by a long shot. So there. ;P

(Now idly wondering how an owl smiles...)

HOLY...I should probably look into finally uninstalling some of the games I've beat, I'm down to 30 gigs of free hard drive space. Yeah...I'll totally get to it today...which totally isn't what I said when I was at 40 gigs and 60 gigs and...well you get the idea of what I totally did NOT do..heh...heh...heh...uh oh.

Good moaning.

I think I overdid it today, I woke up barely before 11.
But I also went to sleep at half past three, so one thing balances the other...

Whatevs... Roight!! 'ello 'ello, 'ello! Wot's all dis goin' on 'ere den?!

Like that :-p

Death from too much guilt :-p

That only works on Mormons... we were talking about vampires :) ... As far as I know, there are not so many Mormon vampires....

I've been once to California.
And with the power of hindsight I gotta say, obvious differences aside, I found it eerily familiar. Climate and language wise.
Well back in the 90's it wasn't so much due to lack of optimization as the fact that Intel kept adding these new things to the processors making them capable of handling complex calculations they couldn't before. But back then it was more about the processor than anything else. RAM wasn't that much of an issue.

Nowadays it's mostly about having an overblown cpu, with a rocket up its ass and ten arms with a mop on each one with which to clean up the mess from the leaky programming.

Give it until March. You'll get around to it. (Or, ya know, you'll do what I've done and completely run out of space. One of the two.)

Twilight was written by a Mormon... that's why none of the Vampires have sex before marriage :-)
(Not joking)

But what if they are exposed to garlic for too long? And a giant bible could be fatal, like dropping an anvil on someones head. No need to be scared of lady vampires, it is the male ones you need to be careful of. :-)

*big silly hug*


That is true. Even AAA developers now are so lazy, releasing such broken messes despite the money they have backing the development. But at least we still get a nice gem now and then.

I was looking at the release thread for one of the in development games and it seems they have been vague many times about their game being fully released. Someone posted that their kickstarter estimated the delivery of a completed game on November 2014. Then the last news update on their website said it was coming to Steam March 17th. I do wonder how long this game will stay on early access. I have seen people say that some games have been on early access for over 8 years. I also wonder which of these in development games will be the first to just take the moment and run. Also, one of the games here is early access, but sells DLC to test early features - is that not what early access is for anyway?

Yes, let's blame Steam :-). But I know what you mean, people now have a bad opinion of indie developers, or early access and things due to some underhanded developers screwing them over. I tend to think that if Steam keeps letting horrible games on Steam, games that have made no effort or that are just clones or asset flips, then finding good games will become so hard and it could be that developers stop trying due to the amount of crapware.

:-| ...
Now all is clear...

Good afternoon.

Congratulations on getting through your exams in one piece. =)

I see you haven't been on the rental service in a couple days. Whenever you feel like it, I left a congratulatory gift for you. I hope you enjoy it.

... I don't know about the long-term effects of garlic exposure... I'll have a look. It's part of my job. :)
I'll try to find a repellent that only works on male vampires, then :)
**big silly hug back**

...
I have to leave for the moment... get things done here...
Behave ! :)
And have a nice day
**Big hugs all around**

The scary thing is that I know you're not.
And I thought catholics had the monopoly on religious guilt.
I wouldn't know, I've been raised in blissful ignorance of catholic dogma. And if you think that's strange due to location, you ain't seen nuthin' yet.
Oh dear I tremble with expectation, knees shaking like a 12 year old overweight redneck girl watching a Justin Bieber videoclip. And some fear too. Or as someone I knew would say, "got my knickers twisted up in a bunch!"
Let's see what horror lurks beyond the doorway.

Your job? I knew it, you are an Owl Vampire hunter. Or.... are you a vampire Owl trying to just protect yourself? o_O

http://www.kidsfashionsbylinda.com/images/owlhalloweenvampire2.jpg

Have a lovely day at work. I hope things will not be too stressful for you. Take care, lovely Owl.

*big Vampire hug*

You evil monsters... >:-|

*big silly hug*