lunalicrichard

I am in absolute shock right now .....

35 years old is not when you're supposed to die .....

To all his family and his new wife , all the best in the time to come . Please know we are with you in this dark hour in spirit and share your pain ....

Rayn was an absolute light in this world , a light of kindness and good hearted nature ..

We will miss him ...

Normally , i would say : "get your lazy ass out of your parents house and get a job ! " , but not this time !

You seem like you really want to do it another way ,but you are not able too , due to your accident and helping others . And that's a good thing . So as long as you're not mooching of your parents wallet , just because you are to to lazy to take care of yourself , it is no problem and you should not care what other people think . Wich is a rule i apply in most of my life , by the way .

Since you are trying to get a degree, you should concentrate on that as much as posible , so you don't take up more time then neccesary .

So ,keep your head up and get that paper !

Oh man , that must really hurt to get a mail like that . Not even a personal note . Not a thank you for your work and time . Nothing ..... No mention of the fact that you even exist for the management .

And i loved the demo . but then i don't play much rpg and don't know what's the standard in the genre apart from Skyrim . witch i haven't played yet .

Trials and bloodforge are the one's i 'll go for . Bur i have to say ; the line up for arcade games is getting weaker it seems ,by the year . For instance : the launching of destination arcade . That was a great app for all your arcade games and it was realy good organised . But the app was cancelled for one reason or the other and now we have the U.I as it is . Wich for the arcade bit , is a lot less organised and a lot more hasle .

The Arcade has lost it's momentum a long time ago and Microsoft does not seem to want a solid Arcade / Indie scene on the 360 world wide.

The problem is not to tip or not to tip , but in the way America treats thier workforce in general . All jobs should make at least minimum wage . And the minimum should be at least 7 or 8 dollars an hour . or say a thousend dollars a month . Or at very least 800$ .

It should be enough to pay for food,living and other normal basic living costs . I live in a countruy where we don't tip automaticly because every job pay's enough . Or better it alway's was the case here , now slowly we are going to the American way more and more and i hate it ! Not because i hate America or Americans ,but how America treats people .

Now we are cutting cost's of the workforce more and more and more and more people work under the minimum wage . Mostly illegal wortkers in cleaning jobs . That is fact , not racism .

the worst thing for Americans was/is that there are no unions of workers anymore . Like they had in the 20's and 30's of the last century . if the work you do pay's enough for you to have a family on and raise your kids , that is good for you,your comunity and your country . And if the parants aren't toal fuck ups then you have invested in the future of the country in a good way .

a wise person once said ; Look at how we treat the worst of our country , that is the measure of what kind of people we are .

Or something along those line's ....

The pricing aspect of older games on psp / ps3 is an ongoing battle between consumers and Sony in this case . Sony doesn't seem to grasp that consumers will alway's go for the cheaper option , and i don't mean the free option !

I like to think that i'm not all that different to the regular consumer world wide . And i will never pay more for something ,if i can get it cheaper elsewhere . Unless i have no choice in the matter .

So for Sony to be pricing games or content higher then retail or online , will always result in no or very few sales !

And that will always hurt new product's . It seems to me that Sony is incapable of learning from the past or present .

I think the Sony board is split between the lawyers and old men who have no idea how the young people see media and how the media has changed since the ps1 / 2 day's .

And of course greed has a lot to do with the decision's .

@RsistncE said:

@YoThatLimp: This doesn't mean that they won't (or don't). And besides, last I checked, Iran has been releasing all (except for those that don't get publicized) spies even though they sentence them to death. Again, the point is that the US still does worse shit worldwide than the vast majority of countries. The sheer number of bodies and the amount of the blood on US hands is staggering. There's no killing machine out there like the US military.

@Meowshi: Actual media sources (not gaming sites) along with all Iranian sources (including the state) are reporting that he is being charged for being a CIA spy. Until today none even mentioned anything about video games. Stop being silly.

Also what media coverage are you talking about exactly? The only real problem with Iran (and I would say it's a big one) is their religious law and the excessively harsh penalties laid out for things like sexual behaviour, which is completely ludicrous. Yet the reality is that the US is also heavily influenced by a evangelical movement, one that guaranteed George W. Bush coming to power, ultimately resulting in the Iraq war and the deaths of over 100,000 people. You can claim that you "don't get it" all you want, but policy is policy and a result is a result. The reality is that if you knowingly drop a bomb on a house full of innocent people to kill your enemy, you are guilty of murder. Or do governments get a pass on the basic codes and morals and decency that govern everyone else?

Also: I have close friends who have been to Iran for backpacking trips and vacation. Everything they talked about and showed me (video, pictures etc.) pretty much showed off a really nice country with modern, liberal cities, with most of the backwards thinking individuals (supporters of religious law etc.) living outside of those modern urban centres. Hey wait...that sounds a lot like the US!

You are right . What staggers me is that they now arrest game developers , and not even a well known one at that !

The dutch news said nothing about him being a game developer, they said " journalist " and that he was there to see his family. And as far as i know this man didn't even speak out much against Iran , so what do they gain by con-damming this man to death ? They made small headline's in the world , but sadly for him, he's not on the A list of people that America care's for . He's small fry at best . I hope the U.S will do as much as they can to get him home .The more because he served

as a marine and he deserve's to be brought home ! But even if he didn't serve and would be a bum in the U.S. ,they still should do whatever they can to bring him home . No matter what ! And even more if he was in contact with the government !

But for now we can only hope that he will come out alive and well and lend you're support !

This is already out in europe ! for several weeks now .

my only hope is that sony will support the hell out of this psp !!!!!  they dropped the ball on the first psp and the psp go . and it's a shame because the psp is an awesome handheld with lot's of potential .

"No party chat is kiiiind of a dealbreaker. "