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My lawyer looked up my profile online. He loved a lot of games I made.


Well don't hold back. What are the games :)


Worked on:

Operation Flashpoint

Virtual Battlespace 2

Virtual Battlespace 3

ARMA

ARMA II

Side project with Titan Vanguard/Outerra. Then left the game industry. Got married, had kids, and now divorced and getting back into larger projects.


Operation Flashpoint was one of my favourite games as a kid. It felt ground-breakingly realistic at the time.


I remember spending hours and hours in Operation Flashpoint demo as a kid. Good times :)


I found when I disconnected from the news and politic in my own country that the people around me didn't really have well developed retention of the new's they where talking about. For example, news event A occurs on day, and everyone in the office talks about A, and how it made them feel. Then news event B occurs the next day, and there doesn't seem to be any cognitive awareness how A connects to B, instead A is forgotten and everyone emotes about B.

I've had to use the analogy to people how weird it appears. It's like everyone talks about a blue cat one day, and the next day talk about a red cat. Everywhere you go everyone talks about the same colored cat's.


Probably that they consider it wouldn't generate revenue.


Give them benefit of a doubt, you have no prior knowledge of the time/pressure constraint's and organization structure at the time they wrote the code.

I would say they probably made the decision like we all do when development work, that solving this n+1 or bubble sort, or api package doesn't have time in the budget.

Getting to market sometimes is more important to managers than optimal `correct` code, when the market isn't willing to pay for the services of `correct`.


You can buy a ultra-sonic cleaner that eliminates all of the pesticides on the fruits, vegies.


That's a very bold statement to make.


Reason why I just using a 3rd party between the business and my credit card. Have no problem with a 3rd party taking a cut but standardizing the whole process through a single interface to cancel subscriptions services without needing to go through all the crap.


Sounds pretty cool - what service do you use?


privacy.com works well for this sort of thing


Anything for non-US residents?


Citibank, BofA and others let you create virtual credit card numbers off of your actual credit card. These numbers can only be used by one merchant, and you can specify the max amount they are able to charge, as well as how many months the number is valid. You can delete your virtual number any time. What does privacy.com have that is better?

https://www.cardbenefits.citi.com/Products/Virtual-Account-N...

https://www.bankofamerica.com/privacy/accounts-cards/shopsaf...


sounds the same, works with any bank account


They hold the largest reserve of USA dollars.


That's a myth. Most US debt is held by the US public - all foreign holders combined are less than 50%. China is the largest foreign holder, but only holds about 5% of US debt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_St...


Yeah, it’s not a huge percentage of US total debt, so the “China owns the US” hyperbole is a bit overblown.


> so the “China owns the US” hyperbole is a bit overblown.

It is, however, a useful lie to spread for political reasons.


But even if that 5% will be dumped onto markets, the US rate will have to possibly double


`object orientation` oh lord are you kidding?


I think it is folly to diss-regard your doctors advice.


I've found it is folly to blindly accept doctor's advice, at least for general practitioners. Second opinions and personal research are a must for anything that matters, unless you have been lucky enough to find a good doctor one and are able to stick with them. Respect for the GPs who are capable of saying 'I don't know' or 'I'll need to research this'.

Even specialists disagree, leaving you with the choice of which you trust more. They can't all be right.


> Even specialists disagree, leaving you with the choice of which you trust more. They can't all be right.

That leads to confusion and general mistrust for doctors. If skilled doctor doesn't know what he does, how can I? If I don't know better than doctor, how can I know who gives better advice? How to find that good advice?


I've had enough doctors that my viewpoint is different. They are human and can absolutely be wrong. Challenge them if you don't agree with their recommendation, a good doctor will tell you why they gave the advice, what the probable consequences are for ignoring it, and how confident they are. If your doctor reacts negatively to being challenged, find another.


Look I'm not going to bother defending a doctors point of view, but simply say that within reason seek other professional advice or a different doctor if you have concerns. Though it is concerning that you've just simply brushed off a doctors recommendations so lightly just show me that I'm not going to persuade you either way.


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