As someone who's read Stephen King and is not a fan (I won't argue about it here -- I've had enough arguing with a friend of mine who's a fanatic,...
I was NOT disagreeing with anything you said. But test audiences are one of the reasons why innovative television often never makes it past the...
One other issue I should mention -- colonizer ships are expensive to maintain -- you DEFINITELY want them to be used as son as possible. They do...
I can't build colonizers fast enough for that to work effectively -- essentially, I'm trying to not have my colonies too spread out because I...
One of the great big problems with test audiences is that they tend to define your target audience rather than allowing your target audience to...
Well all I can suggest is that you look at the OTHER place where Steam's tech guys had directed me to begin with to set my language -- here it is...
OH MY GOD!!!! Thank you, Omni. Part of the reason why the problem seemed so absurd and baffling was that even with the Italian, everything about...
First let me say that this is not a MAJOR issue, and the Steam staff has been on this problem for a bit and nothing they've suggested has worked....
And yet not at all uncommon. It reminded me of the story about a movie that is near and dear to my heart, "The Big Chill". Kevin Costner, at the...
Reading Omni's comment, it came into my mind that there is an alternate definition of magic, and that is, you can label anything as magic if it...
I'd heard of On-Live before, but it never seemed like something I'd want to use. It's one of those things that makes a lot of promises, but I'm...
Regarding the exploration events -- a large percentage of those events are temporary system bonuses. The problem is that they last for anywhere...
From a literary standpoint, I tend to absolutely hate magic. The whole point of magic is to create a world where people can do things that are...
There are a lot of problems with 12 step programs that aren't isolated to 12-step programs. Part of the problem is that in most cases, there are...
Getting off of religion... I have nothing against reading books -- I read a lot myself. They can be informative, they can be comforting, they can...
They didn't always, though. The appeal (to me) of the original Elite was that it DIDN'T have much of a learning curve, at least to get started....
Depression can have several causes, and you are right in pointing out that some of those causes are medical (and I'm not just talking about being...
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I'm afraid to play Planetside... or any shooter for that matter. I just have no hand-eye coordination to play games like that. But the in-game...
Obviously, Omni, if you start out by assuming that all of your players are going to be well-behaved, everything will work just fine. But as they...
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