Yantelope V2

So I bought Game Dev Story off a ten cent sale and got instantly addicted to it and since then I've been playing pretty much all their games on android and they are so addicting. I find myself just playing them for hours. Anyone else got stuck on these games? World Cruise Story in particular had me hooked for quite a while.

http://www.forbes.co...vidual-mandate/ Just because Heritage supported it doesn't mean they were right. In their own words: If citations to policy papers were subject to the same rules as legal citations, then the Heritage position quoted by the Department of Justice would have a red flag indicating it had been reversed. . . . Heritage has stopped supporting any insurance mandate. Heritage policy experts never supported an unqualified mandate like that in the PPACA [ObamaCare]. Their prior support for a qualified mandate was limited to catastrophic coverage (true insurance that is precisely what the PPACA forbids), coupled with tax relief for all families and other reforms that are conspicuously absent from the PPACA. Since then, a growing body of research has provided a strong basis to conclude that any government insurance mandate is not only unnecessary, but is a bad policy option. Moreover, Heritage’s legal scholars have been consistent in explaining that the type of mandate in the PPACA is unconstitutional." Obama supports redistribution of wealth which is the whole basis of socialism. It's the whole basis of the death tax and his taxes on the wealthy. Just because they're called "taxes" doesn't make them any less socialistic in their ideals. He's pretty clear on his support for redistribution. Again, I am not opposed to regulation. I am opposed to redistribution and unnecessary governmental control of the markets.

I mean, I know that Mega64 video is in jest but I can't help but feel depressed when E3 consists of "oh yay, more Kinect shovelware and facebook integration... whoopy...."

I'm really having a hard time getting excited about Halo for the first time. Same goes for the new Black Ops.

Why does it feel like so many of the new advancements in gaming are just new ways to wring more cash out of gamers?

I want to see Newsweek put a picture of Cheny with a rainbow halo on the cover. That'd be the day.

I'm sure by now everyone has seen this. Pretty piss poor journalism. Way to take the high road newsweek.

@dean, Pubdog makes me think of this:

The more I thought about it the less I really believe that most or all politicians are disingenuous. I can think of many politicians on either side who are completely fine being exactly who they are. Again, Bush always acted like a cowboy Texan and that's kind of how I think he really was. He still goes to baseball games even though he's not president because that was actually something he liked doing. Ted Kennedy never seemed to be trying to be something he's not. I hated what he was but I didn't feel like he was fake. So yeah, I don't think all politicians are disingenuous. I think there are a lot of politicians on both sides who are. It might have been 50/50. Anyway, I typically don't like anyone who is fake. Obama is not charming to me. He comes off as arrogant, fake and calculating. I don't know if anyone has actually seen him be himself save for some of those old leaked videos of his college days. I will also say that he's got way more backbone than I thought he did. He's been a steadfast leftist socialist from day one and I really thought he'd care more about polls than he actually does. He has morals and he sticks to them like glue. The posturing is always surface level. He pretends to like certain things as long as they're good for PR and if they ever go bad he dumps them but his values remain the same no matter how miserably they fail or how low his polls go.

I used to think people would say "we won't show this" and surprise everyone by showing it but I don't actually recall that ever happening.

I do agree that it's dumb to dismiss valid criticism by saying "other people do it too!". My comment was mostly a joke. I was taking a stab at politics in general. That said, I don't really think of this as a huge deal. It is my belief that all politicians - or at least all successful ones - censor their opinions and aren't completely honest. Obama choosing to not speak out about homosexual marriage until the most strategically sound moment to do so, feels like such a harmless thing in comparison to other deceptive behavior politicians get caught at. While I'd have had more respect for him speaking out about this sooner, that he does so at all gives him bonus points in my book in comparison to most politicians who are either against or stay silent. In addition, I must point out that I distinctly remember you quite seriously doing exactly what you're now complaining about, just a few pages back. Hmm, ignorance and fear? Global warming: fear Keynesian economics: ignorance Obamacare: based in ignorance sold by fear A bit hypocritical, is it not? Well, this is only slightly different in that Obama was actually a direct accusation on a person whereas saying "the right uses fear and ignorance" is more of a broad sweeping statement. I was only making the point that the left does the same and not trying to defend the right if they do use fear and ignorance (which I don't believe they do or at least not to the extent the left does). So I yield that I did something similar but I don't think it's apples to apples. If Goh! had said "the right sold the Bush tax cuts with fear and ignorance" I would perhaps have tried to rebut that with something more concrete. Anywho, yes, I understand why people are cynical in general when it comes to politics and I myself am a bit of a cynic. I just think there are some genuine politicians. If people would tell me "I agree with Obama but he's a politician" that would be more palatable to me but it seems like people genuinely like him which bugs me because as I said, he seems so fake and that bothers me.

I don't agree almost every politician does it. Maybe it only seems that way to democrats who only pay attention to their own politicians.

I'm not saying it's a problem only Obama has. I am saying it's not a problem every politician has. Obama postures so much I'm amazed he hasn't thrown his back out yet. Mr. Southside boy who doesn't even know what stadium his favorite baseball team plays in. Also, "everyone is disingenuous" is not a rebuttal to the fact that Obama is disingenuous. You might have thought Bush a moron or a liar or whatever but at least he didn't put on Jay Z and pretend to dance to it to appeal to the black crowd. Obama will pretty much pretend to do or say whatever he wants to appeal to anyone. Sure lots of people do it on both sides of the aisle and I hate it when anyone does it on either side of the aisle. So anyway, I'm glad we all agree, Obama is disingenuous. Why do so many people on the left think that saying "everyone does that" makes it so much better when defending all the liars and losers in their party? Shouldn't your response to pick people and the left who aren't liars and fakers?

Believe it or not, not every politician waffles like John Kerry. I don't believe he ever changed his mind.

This is one of those things that I really can't stand about Obama. He's so disingenuous about a lot of things.

Honestly, the only thing I found shocking was that he wasn't already in support of gay marriage. I guess I somehow missed that in the last election.

I remember that Bridge Collapse because I used to work for URS and they did the structural assessment for it before it collapsed and they ended up getting sued for a ton of money. http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2010/08/i-35_w_bridge_c.php

So the phrase "war on ....." is now getting almost as tired as adding the suffix "gate" to any scandal.

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/05/09/call-of-duty-elite-reaches-10-million-users-2-million-paid-subs/ So their subscriptions are on the rise. Whoopedy do. Subscriptions are sold only by the year so until November the only thing they can possibly do is rise. Lets see what happens when all the people like me who bought the Hardened Edition of MW3 don't renew.

I don't think it matters what the game is because I think they negotiate the contracts for stocking all of activisions games so I think it's something to the effect of "we'll let you stock Diablo III but you also have to stock our shovelware too". As part of that deal of getting as many retailers to stock as much of their product as possible to make it available to as many people as possible they agree to not offer it cheaper or earlier themselves. I could be wrong though. I'm still all for the free market but this is probably the best business move for Activision. Edit: It might be like how a car dealer can't sell only Toyota Prius's. If they want to be a Toyota dealer they have to stock all of Toyota's vehicles.

Well, I don't know the business so I'm not sure exactly why it is but I think there are certain contracts and deals for distribution that Activision may have with retail distributors and as part of agreeing to stock their product and sell it Activision may be agreeing not to undercut them. You could sell for more profit and earlier on your site but if you're limiting your distribution that way you could only be undercutting your self in terms of total sales if retailers don't want to stock your product anymore if you're undercutting them. TN should chime in here, he may be able to provide a better explanation.