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Devs show Steam love as Pitchford defends his criticism {Joystiq}
Oct 20th 2009 8:37PM There's a difference between trusting Valve personally and trusting Valve from a business standpoint. It's easy to get confused by that concept and even easier to get that concept confused when someone who knows it inherently tries to explain it to someone who doesn't know it at all.
To sum it up simply. you can trust that as long as nothing ever changes about Valve, that you will never have to worry about that business model being abused.
If it was me trusting another individual, that would be perfect. An individual can easily maintain specific things that are integral to their identity, and if anything does change, it will usually be apparent to those that know them well.
That is not true for a corporation. By definition, there will be people who come and go and get promoted or demoted, hired, fired, transferred, etc. A corporation will ALWAYS change, and often not in ways that are immediately obvious. If you have a good strong leader with a clear vision, those changes are often for the better, but no leader is infallible, nor can even the best leader have absolute control over all aspects of a company.
So practically by definition, you CANNOT trust that nothing will EVER change about Valve.
Devs show Steam love as Pitchford defends his criticism {Joystiq}
Oct 20th 2009 8:25PM where are the politics? I remember the original statement, and he never at any point stated that he didn't like anything that Valve was doing.
He simply stated that there is a conflict of interest in Steam being run directly by Valve when it is responsible for distributing the digital software of companies that are in direct or indirect competition with Valve. AND IT IS.
Valve may be handling things appropriately, and there may not even be the slightest intention of Valve ever doing anything inappropriate, but you can't just take that for granted when money and jobs are on the line.
Think about it this way: Look what happened to Disney when Walt Disney died. Same thing can happen when Gabe inevitably dies. (fat jokes aside, he is not at a healthy weight, and that is going to do him in eventually) Hate to break it to people, but 90% of the time, when the primary founder/figurehead of a company dies, the magic goes with it and it's a struggle for that company to even retain any of what made it special to begin with.
HSN teaches valuable lesson about Wii accessory safety {Joystiq}
Oct 19th 2009 1:20AM actually, there is a double fail to his explanation. not only does the sensor bar not do the actual sensing, but the ir cameras are not at all used to track the motion used in the tennis game. That particular action is tracked by the accelerometers.
there's also the fact that he used the word "need" to describe the level of importance the various attachments have to your playing experience, but it's not like he gets to decide what crappy products he has to push so blatant bullshit is understandable.
Mice run through Quake, Princeton neuroscientists scan their brains for traces of evil (video) {Engadget}
Oct 15th 2009 10:43AM yes they are
OpenMoko branches out with new $99 WikiReader device {Engadget}
Oct 13th 2009 3:02PM Morgan Freeman
Queen, Elite Beat Agents and Phoenix Wright make for a great combo {Joystiq}
Oct 3rd 2009 8:45AM It looks great, but I wish they had a DS homebrew version.
Left 4 Dead 2 boycotters flown to Valve; boycotters boycot original boycotters {Joystiq}
Sep 10th 2009 9:41PM I'm going to put my point of view in this, whether anyone cares or not.
Of course it's an issue if he's fat, and no, it should not be freaking encouraged. It's one thing to be overweight, it's an entirely different matter to be as overweight as he is. It's NOT HEALTHY.
The ones who like his games should be riding him the hardest on this fact. You think everything is going to go on completely unchanged when he dies of a massive myocardial infarction?
Seriously, he's got the money, start spending some of it on diet versions of whatever the heck he eats and a gym membership or something. Give his pep speeches while working on a treadmill or something.
100 years ago it might have been a sign of wealth to be fat, because people couldn't afford to eat PERIOD. Once mcdonalds opened, being fat just became a sign that you don't know how to shop for healthy food. Being PHYSICALLY FIT is a sign of wealth now because it means you have enough money to eat HEALTHY.
Joyswag: Metroid Prime Trilogy [update] {Joystiq Nintendo}
Sep 6th 2009 7:47AM it says this can be entered once a day so I guess I can enter again. hrmm... well, In that case i'll point out that MP2 had better multiplayer. I hope the trilogy includes the multiplayer games.
Video: Electric folding YikeBike looks slightly ridiculous, totally practical {Engadget}
Sep 3rd 2009 12:52PM Actually, no. It might be really easy to have the thing knocked out from under you, but without any handlebars in front of you and your feet only resting on those little nubby things, it would basically be like jumping off a swing. It stops, you keep going, your feet touch the ground(and remember, from the position that you're on the "yike" with, your feet are in front of you and already bent) and then you just walk, maybe stumble a bit if you're totally off guard, and maybe trip into a roll if you're particularly clumsy.
People can "eat it" on pretty much anything that moves while you are in an upright position. Bikes, Rollerskates, Skateboards, go to youtube and you should be able to find at least a dozen different videos of people taking a spill while riding a segway.
It would be kind nice if there was an alternate power method you could use. Actually, rather than pedals for your feet, it would probably work better if you could pump the handles similar to a motion you would use to propel a wheelchair. Even then, if it runs out of power, you just pick it up and start walking.
As for the looks you'll get while riding it(I too noticed how instead of having the actors put on thoughtful looks, they had them put on "Oh, what a marvelous idea!" which ended up looking like "oh, what a laughable person he is") all you really need to do is have the right attitude while riding the thing.
It is too pricey though.
Wii Internet Channel now free, with updated Flash [update] {Joystiq}
Sep 3rd 2009 8:09AM Come on, guys. The most important part of this update was totally ignored.
With the internet channel updating to flash3.1lite, that means that Rose&Camellia is now playable on the Wii!
http://nigoro.jp/game/rosecamellia/rosecamellia.php
