WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW?

I thought that movie was awesome despite some critics.

author=Liberty
Honestly, I'm with Lockez on this one... HOWEVER! I fully expect games that do this to fail and don't believe it will become a way of life. And by fail I mean that companies will get too greedy and people will just not play those games. They won't make the cash they want so they'll have to find another way or just move on to something else. I see maybe a handful of these kinds of games actually working but it'll soon fade out.

See, I know a lot of people who played the Facebook games and ones like Candy Crush and the like, but how many games on this kind of platform can you name that made it big, in comparison to games outside of it that made it big? Not quite as many, I'm afraid, and while a small handful of games might make it the hundreds that don't will 'prove' it to be a bad business model for any who don't have a great, addictive game.

I'd say it is a rather short-sighted model. Because it is just a way of making money faster, without necessarily improving their games
(which is why so many are upset. We've had similar games without this mechanics, without this plot and they worked just fine. Getting new ones that are no better, if worse, but want extra money seems unjustified).

Now, there's nothing wrong with companies getting their money. But to squeeze out as much as possible will ultimately make them lose their followers and fans. And once you realize how this system works, many will abandon it. I don't find this a clever model at all.

Whether that will be enough to harm them, who knows. It's nothing personal for me, either. And I don't see any problem with finding it a bad business model - and still not investing personally in the topic. Why would I need to find it okay to not cry or rage over it? Strange.
But that's just my last few cents. Let's leave it at that.

...

Just realised that 1000th was broken, and I wasn't there. Hell, that happened almost a week ago.

To think that I started this challenge too... *sniffle* *sob*

SLEEEP SLEEEEEEP SLEEEEEEP GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

I am wondering if I will ever finish a video game again before I die. Which hopefully won't be any time soon if you were wondering. But still. Seems real doubtful.

Clarification: Making one. Not playing one.

author=Ratty524
GRS: The RC cola in the background makes it so much better.

And the Spuds McKenzie cookie jar...

I drove by Kenton, Ohio the other day.

Watching all these Unity tutorials has really reminded me how much I prefer written tutorials with the occasional picture or gif. With written tutorials, I can read things at my own pace, skip over things I already know, and don't have to pause and back up the video every time someone wants to talk to me or some other noise distracts me. I also have a bad tendency of letting my thoughts wander, usually on what all I could use a particular function/script/whatev for, and then accidently ignore the guy talking for like a whole minute and then have to back up the video.

At least these vids are decent, though. Yeah, sometimes they dwell on basic or repetitive things and then gloss over more complex and important details, but at least the guys talk legibly, have planned out what it is they're going to say, aren't constantly breathing into their mic, and don't have any obnoxious verbal tics or lip-smacking habits or anything else like that. GAWD I have wanted to strangle some people I've listened to in video tuts.

It's kinda weird watching these and at least somewhat seriously thinking about 3D dev now, though. Not that long ago I would have never even considered it an option (partly because my computer couldn't run anything 3D related), but here I am putzing around with this and Blender like I stand a snowball's chance in hell of actually pulling something off. I'm not sure if I'm doing this because I'm just interested in learning new things, or if I'm just looking for an excuse to put off other projects like the lazy bastard that I am.

Piano, I'll pay that one.

author=Corfaisus
I chuckled, then Googled "guffawed", found this and snickered.

I guess it didn't quite receive the intended reaction, then.