Mass Deduction (née scrapking)'s discussions

How do you figure? Win8 can be customised to be less metro-like. My understanding is the next versionof Microsoft Office isn't Metro-ish at all. Read more

I'm kind of looking forward to Win8, though I'm a fan of the Metro UI because of Windows Phone 7. I think my next tablet might be a Win8 tablet, it'll be nice to run the same software on tablet, phone, and PC. Read more

I was blown away to discover that in recent iterations of MacOS that Apple reversed the scroll direction of the scroll nub on the mouse, to replicate the feel of doing a swipe on a touch screen. Read more

I haven't played a Zelda game, any Zelda game, ever. But I was so impressed with the thoughtfulness, completeness, and quality presentation of your comment I had to promote it on those merits alone. :) Read more

Unless he plans on selling it through side-loading, the iPhone version at least will be DRM protected, wouldn't it? Read more

I'm negotiating the e-book rights to a story franchise that's important to me from my childhood. To get it I'll have to pay a 5-figure licencing fee, and an on-going royalty. I might just do it, just so I can release books in that world personally, and in conjunction with other authors. Read more

Lots, going by the numbers (360 sales have more than doubled original Xbox sales, and PS3 sales are a fraction of PS2 sales). Anecdotal observation on Kotaku supports it too, FWIW. Read more

Oh. Interesting. And yes, that is kind of cool. :) Read more

Well, historically the original agnostics did not know whether there was anything spiritual to adhere to in the world, but were sure that if there was that it was not the Christian god. But I don't think that necessarily accurately describes most modern day agnostics. Read more

I'm currently reading through the second book in The Hunger Games series (I bought the trilogy on Kobo for about $11.50 for all three, after a 35% discount code they sent me in email). I'm enjoying it, but I'm doing so despite the writing. Read more

"The console-based film games business is rapidly disappearing," he claims. "The game quality has fallen for years, and consumers have come to realize this, resulting in a collapse of the console-movie-games market." Read more

I'm a 38 year old man and I'm currently reading, and enjoying, the Hunger Games. I'm also in the second book (at the midpoint). I don't give a rat's ass whether it's supposedly for men/women/dogs/martians, a good book's a good book. Read more

I regret to admit that in my youth I pirated M.U.L.E. for the Commodore 64. :( I would go back in time and un-do that if I could, as well as other breaches of copyright. I was a kid, and I didn't have an example to the contrary (my Mum and Dad, to my chagrin, copied VHS movies then and torrent movies now). I've… Read more

Even as a long-time fan of Bunten, I was surprised to learn about the regret for the sexual reassignment surgery. I'm also surprised to see friends referring to Bunten as "him", perhaps emboldened to do so by that regret. Read more

Any article covering M.U.L.E. benefits from showing its cover art, IMO. Which was somewhere between frightening and amazing.

I still own a TurboExpress portable, with (increasingly useless) TV tuner (but not yet useless, in Canada they haven't fully turned off analogue TV yet). Unbelievable for its time.

I wonder why they waited until this far into the PS3's life to release this game? Seems like it would have been a perfect fit for late 2007, or sometime in 2008, when the PS3 could have really used a game that connected with their classic fan base (many of whcih had moved on to the Xbox 360). Read more

I'm surprised to see the return of blue (positive) and red (negative) text, after all that talk about why it was important to get rid of it. I guess the gigantic "YES" is seen as the counter balance in the case where you have a few significant blue points and a long list of minor red points? Read more

In a sense, atheism is a religion. After all, you have faith (it's just faith in that there's nothing to have faith in). Now agnosticism, that would be interesting in Civ. Read more

Didn't seem like an argument for me (for example, I gave you mad props for being aware of your reaction to the e-books in Skyrim). It's simply a difference of experience and opinion, from what I can tell. Thanks for the discussion. :) Read more