I try to do this on PS4. Many indie titles are released on all platforms fairly simultaneously these days.

Sony's user experience in the store just really is horrible. It has gotten better, but its been how many years now?

Most titles don't have any screenshots or trailers or previews of any kind.

Most payment methods simply don't work.

A paypal account where you want to choose a payment source? TOUGH LUCK

A mobile payment from your telephone? NOT ON YOUR PROVIDER

Okay, fine don't take my money. I got a credit card to work once though, I saved that one.

it would be a big freaking deal if any other country started doing it

like when that guy simultaneously attacked the world power of Britain despite being under sanctions

lol, the awkward moment when you recognize the Breather used in the stock photo

What does this mean?

I'm not sure what you mean why this. I'm just a dumb metal-fabricator and machine operator, so you'll have to excuse me if I don't understand the nuances of programming lingo.

Okay, the "criminal hackers writing harmful software" are the same people making a living writing benign software.

You haven't really written anything different here.

I was hoping you'd elaborate further on what you mean by this, rather than restating the same thing in only-slightly-different words.

I'll have a stab at it. Are you implying that the people who wrote the software for the internet banking website and phone app I use are the same ones who wrote CryptoLocker?

Surely there's some sort of gradient though, right? Like is Facebook malicious software (I tend to think so and I don't use it) or is it benign?

Okay

> Are you implying that the people who wrote the software for the internet banking website and phone app I use are the same ones who wrote CryptoLocker?

Essentially I am saying that.

I still make static websites with bootstrap and jquery and host them on Amazon S3

They look great, they perform well and I make money from that big buy button connected to stripe.

But how can you look in the mirror in the morning and admit that your node_modules directory is less than 500Mb? Joke aside, if it works, it works. The simpler the better. JS is in a phase transition state currently that will get better over time, when we can finally write ES6/7 without compilation and use modules natively as well.

yeah, I put my node.js stripe processing on a heroku server for like $1. Not concerned about the node_modules size :)

> And this is how you become a contributor to high-profile projects like Docker, Akka, Spark etc, and now free to boast about it in your CV!

And get the same pay as everyone else that doesn't play any of these reindeer games, because recruiters already know how to find us and setup the interviews!

What exactly are you concerned about here, ruin? Insanity?

It is written like a generic rail against capitalism but seems to be more concerned about assets trading at a tenth of today's prices

It'll be alright

There are also physiological changes that affect this and perception of anything (and our other senses affect taste).

So really, you can just reduce it down to your age.

Good point.

> and we soon learned that there was very little correlation between what we liked and what the wine critics and the market liked

What the market "likes" isn't correlated to taste, it is correlated to scarcity.

Certain climates and variations in climate that one year, coupled with name, garner the premiums.

It isn't age or "complex nuance". Although these are one form of magic the industry relies on being perpetuated by consumers, the other is the idea that climates cannot be replicated.

Yes, it is called Railroading. The prosecutors have a prewritten story and bus you through the system.