Hell, just sounds like you're bored of life, time to go and learn something new or save up and try some mad capitalist venture I'd say you're pretty damn lucky if your in a position to be bored right now with the way things are.

Study economic history like I did, then you'll have an understanding of how the world really works still probably going to be unemployed though lol but seriously Bitcoin is an emerging market you should get a skillset for, as long as you get a skillset people will pay for you'll do fine.

No I'm just saying they're man-hating feminist psycho's actually, that's not right either, they're not even really feminist, they just hate men, so really they're just self-righteous sexists, I think calling these people feminists is giving them far more credit than they deserve.

lol Randomcloud for the record it should be pretty obvious that I'm for actual women's rights ( not the phony bullshit ktttn and their like make up ), but the problem is that there are people like ktttn who hijack all the pressure groups out there ( not just women's rights groups ) and don't actually talk about equal rights but special treatment and that's where you toe the line of actually wanting to be treated equal and just using mob tactics to get what they want under the guise of equal rights.

For instance, here in the UK we do actually have a real problem with unions, I used to respect them because like with women's groups they fought for equal rights, but now I see teachers who do a shitty job of educating children ( I know because I was in that system ) and actually having the balls to complain about their pensions. I think it's all a load of bullshit really and people should be ashamed of themselves rather than trying to lecture the people who argue with them about how much better they are than the other lot which is all these arguments amount to in the end.

Yep, sounds about right, we're getting people running around in the UK trying to claim we're in a recovery right now, I even heard David Cameron claiming it in a news item, I think the correct term for what we're in now is the infamous dead cat bounce.

Sure, they will, until a loaf of bread costs $10000000

Sometimes it does that but I haven't had any problems recently, try double checking other sites just to see if it's not just you.

Edit: LOL I just experienced the slowdown you mentioned just as I finished posting, nice I know what you mean now, yes I got it a bit too.

I don't know about the Bitcoins but I've certainly heard regularly about exchanges in particular having their funds seized or their bank accounts frozen, Bitcoin is an interesting predicament at the moment. On the one hand, governments know it's valuable and if they started taking it for themselves they could make shit tons of money, on the other hand this would mean they would end up unofficially acknowledging its value as a currency ( Even if they didn't say anything, they would have considered it valuable enough to steal ) so all we can do is just wait and see what happens. If they do end up taking Bitcoin they'll most likely risk angering their central bank masters and putting their paper money at risk so it will be awhile yet before we see anything at least openly happen.

It's either a horse photoshopped or a dog on its hind legs, I'm going with a dog on its hind legs.

Oh I remember that guy I saw him on The Daily Show.

Yeah, but the point is they replaced one game they created for no reason with another entirely different game, when they could have just kept the original game for those who enjoyed that and had a standalone version for people who wanted the collectables etc. but nope, intelligence and forethought doesn't seem to be something the games industry is capable of these days.

The problem with the free to play option is that I have found it is an extremely short sighted method of making money from games, I think that the game developers who choose these options are more interested in making some cash quickly rather than a game people can still play 10 years on and have just as much fun as they did before. I have also found from doing research that when it comes to DLC content as well the games that adopt this kind of thing tend to die faster depending on how desperate the games company is to churn out the content to force people to pay for it. Why do you think for instance there are so many Call of Duty games coming out? While they certainly make money from it you can tell they're getting desperate for new ideas and even if you get a lot of people buying it in the long run they won't be playing it even after a year if the gameplay isn't any good.

There's also the moral side of it which is extremely annoying to find in computer games of all things, yes. I could probably make money with cash items but I don't think I'd ever really want the kind of customers who'd just piss away their money in order to one up their friends, adding to that, most item shops I have seen are essentially in game cheats that you pay for. I find it pathetic that to use these kind of business models and when I think about them I always come back to Shogun 2 Total War where they made you pay for fucking blood in an already supposedly violent computer game.

As a gamer I just couldn't take that, worst still is if you take the route that Valve took with Team Fortress 2 where they ruined a really well balanced game that people were enjoying ( Seriously I was actually fairly impressed by it when it first came out because it was one of the first rock/paper/scissors game I've seen that had some intelligent design for it ) and then turn in into some shitty free to play game about hats and item crafting. So not only did they end up ruining the original game for people who wanted to play that, developers who pull this type of thing usually end up making a crappy experience for the new players they catered for as well because the features are usually rushed in or poorly thought out.

I really could rant about the pay to win business models ( which is what they really are ) for pages and pages just trust me when I say I've had a long thought about it, the only time I could ever consider pay to win is if maybe as an experiment to see properly which one would last the longest because I bet in the end the normal game would still be played because it would be a lot better balanced etc. adspace is also not a very good idea I don't think because it's a very shaky form of income and you basically live on the whim of the marketing people of the various companies rather than the people you actually want to design games for.

LMAO Leave the naming to me, I'll come up with something The game needs to come first though.

It's going to be extremely difficult for a U.S citizen outside the U.S to open a bank, I've seen other banks as well that have stopped dealing with the U.S because of the regulations involved with doing business there. I can only recommend Bitcoin really or getting citizenship some place else if you can afford that because any privacy minded banks are avoiding the U.S like the plague.

I'm not even going to take my smug Englishman approach here because I'm thinking about renouncing my citizenship when I can afford it and moving country because shits going down in the UK as you guys have seen.

LOL thanks for the ideas guys, that may well be a game to make even if it will piss off ASIC companies I don't think we can name it Miners, please because then it might cause some copyright issues but I'll see if I can come up with something else, I'll start focusing now on at least getting the game mechanics running and see what happens.

What's interesting for me is they always, always model the female characters better or do the artwork for them better which shows you how male dominated this industry is >_> Yeah, some people just have girls on their avatars for something to look at lolz I just play it safe and assume everyone out there is a guy.

I'm someone who is learning to set gemstones/make silver jewellery for a living and I can assure you I can't read the fucking things either the majority of the time, the only ones I've been able to read clearly are the ones that are properly space out and just numbers.

So I'm slowly beginning to experiment with buttons now in my SFML programming experiments and have long since been able to write text onto the screen along with getting proper statistics up that change depending on what key you press. I've been thinking about what game I want to make and I thought the best thing I could do was actually ask the people who might buy it which would probably be best to focus on, I already have plenty of ideas of what to try and I've listed four genres that I think I'd be able to do with enough effort. The management one may be a bit more complicated and take longer but the coding would roughly be the same, it would be just a matter of scale.

Let me know and it may well decide which type of game I'll release first.

If it wasn't open source then I would have been suspicious as well but when I saw it all in action and the websites that were popping up and how much it scared the media I was getting an Anarchist boner I think Trongersoll is right, people, including us have undergone some serious social engineering and Bitcoin is something that completely tears the neo-keynesian ideology we were taught in school to pieces.

It's a bit like when you see religious people get proved wrong with scientific fact.

I think most people who know anything about cryptocurrencies would agree that any cryptocoin made by a government would be pretty much like your average pre-mined coin except worse because they'd obviously take measures that would allow them to freeze peoples' clients and dictate where they can spend their money etc.