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They just need to outlaw the commercial production of cigarettes. I'm very anti cigarette personally, but at the end of the day, tobacco is a plant and should not be outlawed. But outlawing commercial products it makes tobacco legal and accessible to those who want it. With commercial cigarettes being less available, in guessing through either lack of convenience or lack of ability to act on an impulse, that the amount of smokers will drop.

Why can't people make what they want to make

Because it's companies who are making these games not people. They own the rights to make Star Wars games so they can and will. An indie developer can't make the game they may want to make because they don't own the rights. I think it's human nature to get angry at a company that isn't treating an IP you like with respect.

That being said I totally agree with you though, people definitely take these things so personally. All you have to do is just not buy it. It's obvious these companies make remakes because people buy them, you then have this weird situation where the community is split between enjoying and hating.

I kinda like that it's maintained and hosted by the community. Feels very much in the spirit of MC (maybe the Minecraft of 10 years ago more). Minecraft is a game that evolved through it's community sharing things/features/data/bugs so it kinda fits. That's how most people learned to play, but honestly, Mojang should be covering all bills for it even if it's a community run wiki.

I still think the episode where Sheldon eats the couch is one of the besides episodes of a TV show I've ever seen.

Ah, the racist Frankenstein's monster has worshippers everywhere

When you accuse some of racism and then proceed to judge them based on how they look it makes you look no better. Maybe be a good way to have conversation is to not make yourself look like an ass.

He held a black jogger at gunpoint because he fit the description.

How is it racist? Wouldn't it be racist if he didn't fit the description? I don't really have context on what happened, but from what you said there's nothing seemingly racist about it.

their database is built incredibly poorly (what idiot decided that different seasons of one TV show should have entirely separate listings in the database, often making it hard to find?!).

Likely this is legacy from when you would buy each season as a DVD set

I'm curious what features that Calibre was missing for reading that you are looking for specifically? I know that it's got some pretty standard features built in, though I've never used it to read, only to check files before sending to eReader.

From what I recall it has to do with encoding and how the data stored references the following frame but not previous. Still seems like some engineering could be done to solve, so it it's not as simple as "current Frame--"

I hate that Minecraft is one of the two things I even need a Microsoft Account for.

So if Microsoft published a Unity developed game on Windows, Microsoft could easily charge a $0.20 free to the unity team for installing the Unity Runtime on their OS.

Not being completely serious there. Honestly thought, did the CEO not realize if they start doing this, what's to stop another company from doing that to them. Things like mp3, where developers need to pay a license for, could then be charged in a similar fashion for each install.

The problem here. Is that they've already started working on DLCs before the game has even launched. You don't see a problem with that from a consumer standpoint?

Sort of a complicated scenario. Where do you draw the line for it being anti consumer? Say the people on the dev team who do: concept art, writing, modeling, etc. What should they be doing. At this stage most of the development going into the game is very final touches (if that) and bug squashing. I don't think it's out of line for those people to be working on future content. Seems a bit strange to hold them until the release date. It definitely is a tough line to find though, and can change depending on the context of when and how the dlc development started.

read the menu instead of looking at the advertisements

The issue is most fast food restaurants use the advertisement photos on the menu. Sorta leads the customer to believe that's what they are getting (with some tolerance).