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Reply to GalCiv III: Weekend update in GalCiv III Dev Journals LittleTinyFrogs Forums

I don't really understand what could possibly be interesting about 128 computer players. They can't have unique identities or AIs. My experience with Civ games has been that once you get a machine down that can survive your biggest threat, you can mechanically overcome one, two, twenty civilizations without changing your tactics. 128 players would work if the basic productive unit of your civ was the vassal, not the planet. I guess Europa Universalis has 128 players, but you are not e

Reply to Let's talk about the Priest in Sorcerer King LittleTinyFrogs Forums

The priest is going to be the sovereign that does the best at keeping the Doomsday counter under control Most tantalizing thing I've heard about the game so far.

Reply to Bullying for a good cause? in Gaming LittleTinyFrogs Forums

I like your framing that pull and politics are winning over merit. I'm on the side of the feminists intellectually, but when they start activating their network to shame people they're using a kind of power that's very virulent and hard to resist.

Reply to August 2014 quick status report in Star Control News LittleTinyFrogs Forums

Exploration Game Starship Battle Game Ship Customization game Planet Exploration Game Trading Game Adventure Game As a kid, the starship battle was my favorite. "Launch fighters. Launch fighters." But as an adult, every found ship was totally useless and I did everything with my main upgradeable ship. It's less than a year since I played it and all my memories are of the amazingly characterized races. The

Reply to Coming soon: PRINT your GalCiv III ship designs in Galactic Civilizations III LittleTinyFrogs Forums

Wow, is this eyecatching. Futuristic, even.

Reply to 7 things to know about Major Depressive Disorder in Health & Medicine LittleTinyFrogs Forums

I am posting in this thread so I can uncheck the "subscribe" button to see if that works. The e-mails this forum sends me have no clickable links -- not even the thread title. They're underlined and blue, but not links. I will check this thread once or twice more in case Brad can tell me anyone I can forward the email to as a bug report.

Reply to 7 things to know about Major Depressive Disorder in Health & Medicine LittleTinyFrogs Forums

@Jafo, I'm just showing my age -- there were no URL shorteners when I started on the web. However, URLs disrupt the flow of a post and text links allow you to build curiosity and context for the thing you're linking to, so I am going to continue doing them. IMO it's not an ideal world, in fact there are many things about the design of natural selection that prevent it from ever approaching an ideal world, the question is whether you are going to help others make it through

Reply to 7 things to know about Major Depressive Disorder in Health & Medicine LittleTinyFrogs Forums

Can I suggest that before you start using the acronym MDD you introduce it -- just change the first occurrence of "major depressive disorder" to "major depressive disorder (MDD)". I went through the entire post not knowing exactly what it was, and even after I decided to figure it out I couldn't Ctrl+F for the first instance. I appreciate that you didn't wait till you were all the way through your depression to talk about it some, that's <a href="http://theferrett.livejour

Reply to Star Control - Introduce yourself in Galactic Community LittleTinyFrogs Forums

I just played Star Control 2 last year and I loved it from end to end. I never figured out how to fight effectively with any of the alien ships, unfortunately, but it didn't harm my enjoyment any. I don't understand your position on the Ur-Quan. It's like buying the rights to Star Wars but saying out of respect to George Lucas, no Wookiees, Jedi, or Darth Vader. Make a game with the exact mechanics and plot of SC2 but with different skins and flavor on everything

Reply to Stardock turns 20: The five Stardocks I’ve worked at in Stardockians LittleTinyFrogs Forums

Did you ever consider stepping down and hiring a quick-money CEO to wring the gains out of Impulse, letting you focus on technical work?

Reply to Stardock at 20: My Stardock scrapbook in Stardockians LittleTinyFrogs Forums

If there was a payoff for remembering to watch for the kid, I missed it. Kinda stunned that purchasing an entire building is not your biggest purchase. I'm kinda nostalgic for that center column in the old Wall Street Journal, my parents always left a stack in the bathroom to read while you were on the can.

Reply to The Amazing Walt Disney in Everything Else LittleTinyFrogs Forums

But to my eyes, Cinderella is way better animated than Snow White. It's the fluidity, mainly -- compare the birds flying around Cinderella's dress to just about any scene from Snow White . And in Snow White, it seems like the animated things are separate from the background in an annoying way. Animating technology must have trumped effort.

Reply to How to get Metro apps in a window on your desktop in Personal Computing LittleTinyFrogs Forums

Hey, now I can play Solitaire and listen to music at the same time! A program that let you create your own start tiles would be cool. I tried and you need like four versions of the image in a .ico file and access to a folder that even an Administrator doesn't have permission to.

Reply to Eternal September and the devolution of human discourse in Internet Stardock Forums

Brad, I apologize for my link to Reddit, for some reason I felt like trying to wound you by making you sound butthurt. Your post doesn't really support that reading, and you don't need more people piling on. Sorry.

Reply to Eternal September and the devolution of human discourse in Internet Stardock Forums

I believe the context for this post is that people are being rude to Brad on Reddit . Although it could be any number of forums.

Reply to The lights go out: What happens if the grid goes down? in Everything Else Stardock Forums

The degree of lawlessness and chaos will be exponentially proportional to its extent. To think otherwise is to have a blind, naive/misguided faith in Human Nature.... Believing that human nature is worse than it is is just as ignorant. I think Draginol's wrong to assume there would be violence just because people are starving. If you look at actual, real-world cases of mass famine and civilization destruction via bombs, people do not go feral and do som

Reply to What makes people work? in Blogging Stardock Forums

What makes you work is the feeling it gives you more prestige and status. This is the reason raising your taxes makes you feel like working less even though you don't need the money the taxes are taking. Makes you feel like your effort isn't esteemed.

Reply to A little less AI pain in FE Sneak Peeks Stardock Forums

If losing your sovereign means losing the game, the sovereign is too important. Players will reload any save where they lose him and will never lose.

Reply to 5 cold hard realities about owning a business in Business Stardock Forums

Point #1 seems weird to me, because money is easy to pile up and you can get it from anywhere, but work is hard. When I can contribute time or money, I always choose money. Perhaps it's different on business scale -- some angel who can contribute $10 million to your venture is worth more than most any worker.

Reply to The never ending quest to find meaning in Life Journals Stardock Forums

I don’t know the exact date when I reached the point where I didn’t “have” to work anymore. It was something like 2006 or 2007. That was around the same time you started using Celexa . I was thinking maybe Celexa made you satisfied with your life so that you readjusted your feelings of "I have to work" and started thinking "I'm doing OK." OTOH, I just

Reply to Mouse gestures in Gmail in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I don't have a link that says "Settings"-- I had to click a tiny blue flower in the upper right-hand corner of Gmail. Just thought I'd clarify that crazy obscure design decision for anyone else having trouble.

Reply to The natives may not be friendly in Elemental Dev Journals JoeUser Forums

It's kind of like running for President. When you win everyone says you had the best communications strategy, are a great orator, et cetera... the exact same behavior and you lose, you "didn't connect with the American people." When your games were flying high, I looked at your company like IronKaiser; I said, "Wow, there's a company that really knows how to connect and be open with its fans to get feedback. They really get the Internet and they're gonna profit from

Reply to People are inherently good in Personal Relationships Stardock Forums

Watch your back, KFC. You know too much. :)

Reply to Monitoring your home power usage with TED in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Wow, you cut your energy use from 300 to 100 kwh/day just from the pool? My math from the chart was somehow very, very wrong -- is that chart logarithmic or something? It seems like even if the pool were on 100% of the time you would only have saved 50% of your kwh by turning it off! FWIW, I live in an efficiency apartment in Wisconsin and I used 17 kwh/day last month. If you got that enormous house down to 100 kwh/day that is actually amazing -- your house i

Reply to People are inherently good in Personal Relationships Stardock Forums

But people didn't evolve "good" -- they evolved "look good to others, and act good when it has a better payoff than acting bad." And they evolved it in a very un-internet like context. It's like trusting people to fish you out of a swimming pool with a long pole; they might be good people, but their visual system was not designed to calculate distances in the distorted context of an air-water barrier, and the pole will poke you in the head. Or,by trying to be good, we end u