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Yeah, they did. I'm not sure how independent they are, but they're still around roughly 50 people it seems.
I was just making the point that unless it's essentially you and a couple buddies, profit and revenue is the elephant in the room.
Or the center-piece, depending on how brutally honest management wants to be about it.
Not to shit on you in particular, but you seem to have a bit of a chip on your shoulder about other forms of software development being done.
Everyone rationalizes what they do. People working in those other industries will usually tell their version of your story: "I'm not working on some shitty game that will be forgotten in a year... I'm working on building a social revolution!!!!"
Sorry. For the most part it's all about someone's bottom line. Indie game development isn't any purer than working for startup X on Bush st. that has similar lofty goals about "making people happy."
get bigger returns for a financial firm
This is especially funny to me. If you're working for even a Mojang-sized studio, I hate to tell you but: You're definitely using technology to get bigger returns for a firm.
Sure, it's not a financial firm. Let's not pretend that the differences are all that meaningful. Instead of stock market returns, game studios just seek to maximize the return they get on game development time.
EDIT: s/Riot/Mojang. I didn't realize how large Riot has gotten.
I'll never grow tired of that.
Great. And EA will never get tired of people working themselves to death for what inevitably amounts to minimum wage given the hours worked. Guess it's win-win.
a couple instances of artillery shelling
You know it's much more than that right? Read that wikipedia page.
Just based on 10 seconds of skimming through that page: BSF shot and killed a couple of kids, in one instance BSF fire killed a 60 year-old man while he was farming.
Are you seriously giving the BSF a total free pass?
india is never the aggressor in borded encounters, this is verifiably true.
Wow, and you're accusing the americans of being brainwashed?
A 5 second google search will turn up tons of incidents where India was the aggressor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014–15_India–Pakistan_border_...
And yeah, Pakistan is obviously doing some awful stuff too. But you're not gonna convince anyone sensible that India is completely innocent.
which brainwashes citizens to conform and support foreign wars at enormous expense to human life and effort
Lol.
Not that I disagree about the americans spending too much on defense, but how can you say this with a straight face while India continually engages in a military dick-swinging contest with Pakistan?
How are things in Kashmir these days?
people there routinely download and install new applications and typically never interact with Facebook, Twitter, Gmail or Instagram via their browsers. Why should the situation be different on the desktop?
Er, because that would be really silly.
I like reading HN from time to time. I would never install an app, because I don't use it frequently enough. I definitely would never go through the pain of installing a HN app every time I wanted to read HN. I really doubt I'm alone or even abnormal in that regard.
That's the beauty of a browser: I can be reading HN in under a second when I want to, with no cluttering of my desktop just so I can read HN from time to time.