Comments on: The Sunday Papers

By: Jetsetlemming

Jetsetlemming — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:26:02 +0000

From that Capcom interview:

BB: While on the topic of Steam, do you see a possibility in releasing classic Capcom titles such as Resident Evil 1-3, Mega Man Legends 1+2, etc. via their service? And if not Steam, perhaps GOG.com or other outlets?

CS: No plans at this time. It seems like a brainlessly easy thing to do but there are other considerations like outstanding licensing agreements for voice overwork, musical scores, middleware or other components that could have lapsed. Titles need to be recleared legally, new contracts struck in some cases. On top of that there’s support costs for games that were never made to run on Vista or Windows 7 that we need to consider.

As titles are created today, obviously these issues are taken into consideration. But 10 years ago, unfortunately, that wasn’t the case.

That’s pretty damn confusing, seeing as they’re reselling RE1, 2, and 3 all the goddamn time on console releases. They just released RE: Director’s Cut AGAIN, this time on the PSN store for $10.

By: Dolphan

Dolphan — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:31:08 +0000

Academics tend not to have stupidly high salaries – outside of professorships, which aren’t exactly growing on trees, they don’t have high salaries in any sense. And they do a completely different job from journalists.

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:44:04 +0000

Well, using salary.com, it informs me that an American assistant economics professor earns $66k (£40k equivalent). That’s not to be sneezed at, but when you consider what people with equivalent skills in industry would be earning…

And yeah, it is a separate issue that bad bankers earn more than good nurses, say. I suspect that it’s more to do with the proximity to the flow of money (possibly to avoid corruption, or maybe just because banks can afford to pay high salaries and hospital trusts can’t).

By: Catastrophe

Catastrophe — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:20:03 +0000

I wonder if the Professor who wrote in regards to “Journalists deserve low pay” appreciates the irony that he (no doubt on some stupidly high salary) makes most of his money from writing in a similar fashion to journalists.

By: Wedge

Wedge — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:10:41 +0000

Capcom’s stance on crossplatform play is disappointing to say the least. Though I wonder how much of that is Microsoft wanting to totally abandon that and never allow it to happen again. Good to hear new stuff will be coming out on Steam at least…

By: Dolphan

Dolphan — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:58:54 +0000

I like the funny codes the tree gives you. And there’s something compulsive about growing it.

By: Cian

Cian — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:58:40 +0000

Stu has won my eternal respect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPxPyEr1q6k

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:31:51 +0000

Yeah, I do need to check out garlic more. So far I tend to just cover all lanes, which is often expensive (although if you use the tree’s stellar advice of using two rows of sunflowers, it’s not so much of a problem. If you use double-sunflowers, especially in survival mode where you can expand quite a bit, then it becomes quite difficult to click fast enough to collect all the glorious sunshine.

By: Radiant

Radiant — Mon, 25 May 2009 13:28:01 +0000

Pretty much.
I stopped growing it when, after 10K spent on it, a tiny leaf grew out of it and it told me to build 2 rows of sunflowers, something I had been doing since the first level.
But I think I found the perfect plant set up involving gloomshrooms and garlic.
Night or day [with the coffee bean] they’re pretty much unstoppable.

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:59:25 +0000

What does the tree of wisdom say? Tallnuts can stop pogo zombies?

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:57:56 +0000

I’m glad someone is pointing out that most journos these days don’t really earn what they claim to. I’m sure many do a good job and deserve a decent wage, but most of them nothing spectacular, and few of them should get what the really excellent ones get. And a fair few of them frankly deserve to be paid in large concrete slabs and swimming pools.

There was a programme a while back about the general state of Odessa, politically and socially, for the inhabitants rather than the tourists, and it came across as basically a gangster-controlled shithole, corrupt to the core and utterly, utterly miserable. The handful of people who managed to sneak in some genuine journalism exposing corruption, murder and general crapness between the necessary propaganda had all been beaten, threatened and had relatives and spouses abducted and murdered by the politicians, councillors and gangsters they wrote about. And some of them kept on doing it, despite knowing full well that they would end up murdered as their colleagues had been.

That is, frankly, the holy grail of journalism, and virtually no journo in London will get my sympathy complaining about their wage while people like that are earning practically negative pay.

By: Dolphan

Dolphan — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:35:03 +0000

Well, you get money by watering and growing them (although that doesn’t get much return on the marigolds). You can also sell them back, which can make quite a bit of cash on the ones you pick up in survival etc if you grow them to full and then sell them. For the sleeping ones you need to buy the night-time garden, which I can’t afford because I’ve been spending all my money on tree of wisdom food.