UH'S PROFILE

I'm just trying to help you jerks >:c

There's definitely a way to be honest, helpful, yet straight up to newbies to keep them encouraged.

Indubitably, I don't* believe in pulling punches when it comes to critique but honest negative feedback is usually blunt enough, and let's face it, a lot of well-meaning people have a hard enough time stomaching blunt but sincere critique without the one giving it being an asshole. Going out of your way to tack a bunch of unprovoked dickishness onto your feedback really just reads to me as "this game is flawed and I have a small penis"

I've only been around for a few months so I can't comment on the history/trends of this community but I will say that in spite of my newbie status, having no experience with RM and never ever planning to make a game in it, I was (at least I think) very warmly welcomed here and have made meaningful contacts. I don't even have a game profile for my project but just from pal-ing around on the boards and IRC there are a bunch of people with whom I exchange meaningful feedback and opinions of each others' projects. Basically I can get what I want from RMN just by engaging myself in the community even on the most superficial level and it has nothing to do with what the site can/can't do or even really how much spam and jackassery happens on the forums, but the fact that most people here are cool and know their games. It's kind of a "RMN is what you make of it" thing and I can only imagine that anyone who expects to sign up and passively/automatically experience everything the site has to offer through in-built features like reviews and gamepages and comments will be sorely disappointed and get jaded and snippy pretty darn quick.

Wait, aren't businesses refraining from hiring people in the US due to the large overhead in costs, such as their health insurance?

i haven't specifically looked into it but i think if you examined the trend over the last few years you would find hiring overhead hasn't really gone up so much as revenue has gone down

i used to use skydrive until someone tipped me off to Dropbox

https://www.dropbox.com/tour

i prefer it, you might too :p

i like it v:)v