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Yeah, this makes perfect sense.

gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-…
In case the sarcasm didn't come across in that Tweet...
Oh and Discord started selling games too btw. In case you missed that.
For me, THIS is the game changer that most are going to miss.

"And if you’re using Unreal Engine, Epic will cover the 5% engine royalty for sales on the Epic Games store, out of Epic’s 12%."
Since I wrote this in 2009, many have tried to beat Steam and failed miserably. Even the publishers (Ubisoft, Activation, EA etc) gave up and just use their own stores to augment Steam.

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What @TimSweeneyEpic stated is a BIG deal as well.

"We don't plan to have forums.. We intend to add tools for players to communicate with...to mitigate toxicity resulting from reviews being the only native communication mechanism."
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I just wrapped an interview over the latest Star Citizen funding fiasco which broke just before Christmas.

A bunch of these haven't aged well over the years.

Chris Roberts, 2013

imgur.com/uarM3JJ.jpg

gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-…
HIlariously, instead of, you know, profiting on 1/5th of the sales, financials now show that he was burning through more money than he was making, essentially bankrupting the project. Hence a $46M investor bailout.

cloudimperiumgames.com/uploads/691565…
It was already a foregone conclusion (I totally called it back in 2015) that the funding chart was bs.

In fact, as I wrote in my latest blog, they burned through $32M MORE than the chart showed.

imgur.com/N7zrISx.jpg

dereksmart.com/2018/12/star-c…
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The legal battle between @draginol and P&F over Star Control, took a very interesting (tip: litigating your case in public is NEVER a good idea. EVER) .

gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-…
@draginol P&F, in what I can only attribute to a serious lapse in judgment, wrote a blog (some of it is a rather dubious take on what constitutes copyright infringement) explaining their view of what is going on. It's quite the read.

dogarandkazon.com/blog/2019/1/2/…
Naturally, Brad published his response to that blog, which at this point, you have to wonder if they are actually listening to their attorneys - at all.

forums.starcontrol.com/492870/at-long…
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Just putting this here for posterity. That time when Chris Roberts again blatantly LIED to Dean over @GamesBeat

Except context to follow...

venturebeat.com/2018/12/20/sta…
@GamesBeat Aside from the fact where their financial "brochure" showed NO SUCH THING. No cash basis. No liabilities. No line item tangible expenses. No balance sheet. No audit claims.

imgur.com/LyeCvzD.jpg

cloudimperiumgames.com/blog/corporate…
Except that if you were "open" the US financials would have been made public, and then nobody would need to be doing back-of-the-napkin math.

Aside from the fact that the financials CLEARLY show that you're spending MORE than you're raising.

imgur.com/Sj7EM8K.jpg
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Makes perfect sense to me. Stone and JA go way back, RM is not really investigating this - he's been secretly investigating U1 - and JA is about to drop his final tactical nuke about HRC in time for the midterms, the culmination of his life's work.

#qanon
It matters because this will be the leak to end all leaks. I'm certain of it. This is the ultimate bombshell from JA, his final revenge against HRC and the entire Obama administration.

What will the content be? It has to be something stunning and undeniable.

#qanon
Possible:
- HRC selling SAP Programs. High treason, death penalty.
- HRC trafficking children. Fast trial, death penalty.
- HRC ordering #SethRich's murder. trial, death penalty.
- HRC sending US uranium to NK so it can nuke the world. Tribunal, death penalty.

#qanon
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oh, nice! so I had an ISO with two files in it:
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foobar.html

I extracted it to two places: ~/Downloads and ~/Documents

those two places became read-only
because of course it tried to extract . to the current directory, which it is, and applied its permissions, which were of course read-only because it's off an ISO
fun fact: taking this screenshot failed the first time, cause ~/Downloads is where my screenshotter saves images...
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45 Days Of @ElvisCostello: a twitter megathread in anticipation of the Oct 12 release date of LOOK NOW, the new LP by Elvis Costello & The Imposters

This is either a bright idea or a brilliant mistake, but this is only, this is only, this is only the beginning...
I did something similar to this 5 years ago, in anticipation of EC & @theroots' Wise Up Ghost LP, on tumblr.

(You can still find all those posts if you look, although a lot of the YouTube links etc are now dead ends. It was 40 Days Of EC then, so for 2018 I'm upping it to 45.)
Mostly I will be going chronologically from the early years right up to the present, but it feels right to start out with Costello's 2002 song, "45."

Music Video directed by @jessebdylan


(There's an alternate "diner" version I can't find anywhere online)
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Oh, I'm back and I've got a story to tell.

A story of an ordinary man locked down by the Twitter po-po.

A man denied due process. A man thrown in Twitter jail on wafer-thin charges.

Buckle up, kids. This is gonna be a bumpy ride.

"Hoarse: Uncaged" starts now.

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There I was, minding my own beeswax and doing as I do.

Ya know, checking the Twitter; reminding Babyfingers he's going to die in prison; comparing the Vice President to a greasy loofah. The usual.

Then up popped an ominous Twitter notice.

The Hoarse was on lockdown.

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"Ehrmagod, but noooees!" I said to myself "I'm not cut out for Twitter prison. Someone will slip me the jailhouse shank emoji!"

I was terrified. A whole season of "Oz" flashed before my eyes.

So, I hastily filed a desperate appeal... but then the bars slammed shut.

3/
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Shane is fangirling about meeting Rebekah and Kol, the Original vampires, and bragging about not being able to be compelled. Then Bex tells Kol to beat the location of the cure out of him. Lol. Imagine meeting your idols and they beat the shit out of you.
Back to this. "Truth or dare, Elena?"
"Dare." Damn that's brave.
"I dare you to tell Stefan the truth about Damon."
Sweetie, that's truth not dare, but I am here for this.
"Seriously?!" Caroline being there for Stefan again.
Bex is being really childish though
"Being with Damon makes me happy." HSHDFLK YES IT DOES.
"Makes you happy? Clowns make you happy Elena. Dig a little deeper."
Actually, clowns do quite the opposite of making me happy, but to each their own Rebekah. 🙈
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So, it's about time I finally did it. Join me as I play Thief: The Dark Project; I've never got further than The Sword before. Thanks to the No Spiders mod from @adurdin I hope to actually finish it this time. #ThiefTDP
I'll be playing Thief Gold. I have multiple copies of The Dark Project but they'd require me to dig through boxes to find. Thief Gold is the only one reliably available online. I am reserving the right to level skip past the Thieves Guild, though. #ThiefTDP
I'll be using the New Dark version, but sticking to a 4:3 aspect ratio. #ThiefTDP
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