"Your female parental unit!" 

...with a god damn cold. it's so annoying! 

http://color.method.ac/

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I got 9.3, Spirit 8.4, raptore 7.2 

8.9 

 

I think I could do better if i tried harder lol 

On tablet.

I'd probably get a bad score anyway. All my family are colorblind, even my sister. But not me, not completely, at least. 

Tried hard, maybe take off my shutter glasses. 

A friend on facebook found this... Crazy!

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?234849-Uprising-in-Ukraine-%28Photos-and-Videos%29 

 

Amazing pics. Thanks for sharing! 

I didn't know they were really shooting at each other now. I thought it was mostly rocks and molotov cocktails vs. rubber bullets and tear gas. 

Our government here in Canada is pretty shitty but compared to what's out there it looks positively saintly. I hope they can find a reasonable way to solve their differences. It blatantly sucks that the world has to be divided into "spheres of influence," and yes I've heard all the cynical objections to THAT cynical objection. 

All those shots are impressive... and scary. This one particularly: http://i.imgur.com/4MTFVE2.jpg
It is difficult to make the difference in between a rave party and a revolution.. though... 

By the shots of guys with historical reenactment weapons and the like. 

What the hell, George Broussard is a dick. http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/02/03/editorial-why-games-should-enter-the-public-domain/ 

Of course he would say that, since between Duke3D and Duke4E he hasn't made any other games to receive profits from. 

3D Realms was struggling mightily to get Quake II to render the open desert around Las Vegas.

The failure of DNF can be blamed on vis and bsp formats? 

 

I've never been a fan of anyone with the last name of Broussard since high school in the 70's (yes I'm an old fart so get the fuck off of my lawn you god damned punks).

But yes, the article has a good point, I'm completely against stealing software as long as it's still being sold and supported by the people who made it. Once they stop doing BOTH then as far as I'm concerned they have relinquished the rights to it after a couple of years and even then if after 26 years (or whatever) it should probably go into the public arena anyway as long as there is no profit involved.

Nobody should (for example) ever profit from singing or playing "Happy birthday to you" on someones birthday. That ship has sailed. If however someone uses that song to promote a business in a commercial then the business has some responsibility to pay the owner of the rights to the creator of that song.

The creator should take some pride just in being "That guy" who made something iconic and take that as payment in and of itself once a reasonable period of time has passed.

I was a part of fighting the Cold War, underwater and all of that, I don't ask for any credit for doing that now even though it was important at the time. It's in the past and that's it. Should I ask for a cut of every submarine movie or game ever made? Of course not. 

The thing is that companies have fooled themselves into think ideas have monetary worth as a standalone, physical object.

It's complete nonsense, but they still spend money supporting it and actively acquire old IPs as property - then re-release them rebranded and looking a bit more modern, carefully removing all the idiosyncrasies from the original product that don't tie in with their marketing plan and corporate goals.

And it's a completely valid business plan.

I read the hobbit when I was a kid. I've no desire at all to see the films. Will probably dig the book out some time to read it again though. 

To those of you who enjoyed the Hobbit of course...