TheMightyEthan

Well at the moment it's way far into the anarchy zone, so it's somewhat academic.

The democracy system takes commands over a 5 second window, and then executes the most common command. Even with that system it's doubtful they'll be able to coordinate enough to finish the safari zone.

Last I heard they're not past Safari Zone yet, and a lot of people are speculating that getting past it will be functionally impossible.

Weak money is good for exporters and bad for importers, strong money is bad for exporters and good for importers. So companies like Sony and Nintendo make money when the yen is weak, and lose money when the yen is strong. For example, say Sony sells $1 billion worth of shit in the US: if the yen is weak, say 100 yen per dollar, that $1 billion translates into 100 billion yen, but if the yen is strong, say 75 yen per dollar, it only translates into 75 billion yen. Because their business is based in Japan and based on the yen they primarily care about how much yen they make, so they want the yen to be weaker. Importers are the opposite, because if you're buying stuff from outside of Japan a strong yen means you can buy more things per yen, so they're effectively cheaper for you. The reason the $=£=€ thing is bullshit is because it has nothing to do with the strength of the economies. The base value of the currency is completely arbitrary, the only thing the economy affects is changes in the relative values. Like say Scotland secedes from the UK and starts making their own currency: they could say that the base unit of their currency, 1 Scot, is worth $10 right now. That doesn't mean their economy is good, it just means that's the value they picked. After that starting point the value of the Scot will fluctuate based on the relative strengths of the economies. So now say their economy crashes and they have rampant inflation, and now 1 Scot is only worth $3: it's still worth a hell of a lot more than $1, even though their economy is down the toilet, so setting digital prices at $1 = 1 Scot would be completely ridiculous. The same is true with the £ and €: each is worth more than the dollar but it has nothing to do with the relative strengths of the economies.

Yeah, a big part of their design philosophy is that everyone will get to call in Titans, no matter if they're doing well or not. And they want the Titans to respawn quickly enough that you're not afraid to lose yours.

Yeah, the sets are insane, but even the buckets of assorted bricks?

Digital goods should be the same price across regions (barring actual additional expenses). So something that costs $10 in the US should cost $10 in the UK. The problem is companies like to just change the symbol in front of the prices, so something that costs $10 in the US costs £ in the UK, which means it actually costs $16.70 in the UK. That's bullshit. The people who should be "paying for it" as you say are the people whose currency is worth less (so the US in this example). If a British company is selling stuff for £10 in the UK and then they expand their sales to the US they'd be retarded to just charge $10 for it, because they'd be losing $6.70 on every US sale. The only reason companies pretend $=£=€ is because they want to be able to price gouge without it being just super obvious at a glance.

Do your parents hate you?

Ah, I just saw on his wikipedia page that he was listed as director for that.

I've always read that Xbox makes MS money, and that "source" for the $2 billion per year losses is just some analyst saying "Based on absolutely nothing, we believe this to be the case."

He also directed Thor: The Dark World, so he can probably handle it.

1 £ is significantly more money than 1 €, or 1 $, (atm £1.00 ~= €1.21 ~= $1.67) so when stores set their prices for £ = € or £ = $ it actually means he's paying more than what he should be. That would be what he's complaining about. *Edit* - And all other things being equal I'll buy direct from the dev, but I'm certainly not going to pay more to do so (or at least not significantly more, I'll pay a couple percent more).

Yeah, I've got Chrome set to open to all the sites I normally visit.

Yeah, the show is really heavily based around all the little things and how their consequences interact, so at the beginning it takes a while to set up the things before they really start causing their ripples.

Yeah, I pretty much spent all my time in the level creator building ridiculous vehicles rather than levels.

I think Zoe's actress fits the character. I totally agree whoever cast it deserves an award. Why don't they give Oscars for best casting?

Yeah, just watched the first episode of Season 2 and let me say: Holy shit! I also really liked the very end of the episode (really really minor spoiler): Definitely off to a very strong start. I can't wait to watch the rest.

I doubt anywhere near all of them care, but I'm sure there's a good number who do.

Oh. It's a cover shooter. *Edit* - Here's a new actual trailer:

Back to the antivirus: I'm with dean, use Microsoft Security Essentials.

My favorites are the Psycho one and Alien.

You mean like Call of Duty Ghosts?

Yeah, I got lastpass after there was the Sony hack and another one in quick succession, causing me to have to change all my passwords twice in less than a month. I didn't actually have them all be identical, but they were similar enough that I wasn't comfortable keeping them.

I didn't mean physically build, I just meant acquire/provide/whatever. Have in some fashion.