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They've got FIST CAMS, people. SCENES THAT ARE SHOT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF GOKU'S FISTS.

This movie is going to be so awesome. It's going to out-camp Flash Gordon. It's going to make the Mario Brothers movie look sane. I'm going opening day.

I mean it's sort of a shame that they're ruining a movie based on Dragonball, rather than Dragonball Z, since Dragonball actually had plenty to work with in terms of making a charming, entertaining movie that was true to the source material. But still. Fist cams.

author=Karsuman link=topic=3297.msg66175#msg66175 date=1236804970

author=Shadowtext link=topic=3297.msg66173#msg66173 date=1236804747

author=WIP link=topic=3297.msg66166#msg66166 date=1236802572
I feel no pity on house flippers. I hate them.

You mean the people who buy fixer-uppers, live in them for a while and fix them up, then sell them at profit? Because that doesn't strike me as particularly dishonest or unsavory.

Raises cost of living of neighborhoods to unreasonable levels. One of the primary causes for the housing industry's crash.

Gentrification is going to happen to any community pretty much inevitably as a byproduct of the modern lifestyle. At some point it's going to be one big city stretching from coast to coast, with vertical farms providing our food and electricity being beamed down to us from solar power plants in points of perpetual sunlight on the moon.

Also, the singularity.

If you're going to be releasing your game as free (as in beer), you may as well release it as free (as in speech). In which case, people should be able to do anything they want to with any part of it. I think that creative freedom for the entire community is more important than issues of who gets credited.

I mean the simple fact is that without some personal effort into customizing any resources that you get for your game, they're not going to fit your game anyway. So even using other people's stuff as anything more than a model or inspiration already comes with the built-in punishment of being half-assed.

I'm well aware that this is like Cybercommunism or something, though, so I don't expect everyone to agree with me.

author=harmonic link=topic=3297.msg65756#msg65756 date=1236618379
The most successful investor in history and richest man in the world would like to chime in.

http://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-explains-how-the-bailout-is-crushing-healthy-companies-2009-3

Pfft. Like I'm going to take financial advice from the guy who wrote "Math Suks."

author=harmonic link=topic=3297.msg65620#msg65620 date=1236548362
Look at the history of American recessions. This one is still not quite as bad as the 1982 recession.

However, Americans saved over 10% of their income in 1982. Today, it's pathetically low. That's one disadvantage we have of getting out. One single bright spot is that oil and commodity prices have come down significantly, which helps us and hurts many nations that are unfriendly to us at the moment, Russia being the most noteworthy.

The important thing to realize is that the economy will not continue to sink until it hits zero and we're all poor. We will get out, it's a matter of a time.

I do not, however, believe that printing and borrowing trillions of dollars and pouring them down the fucking toilet is going to help. That's called keynesian economics, an economy theory founded on the ideal of infinite growth and deficit spending. Just so you know, kids, the government's money is YOUR money. No such thing as a free lunch.

Yeah, what idiot would think ending a recession through deficit spending was a workable idea?