Quoting: Mountain ManSuppose, for instance, that an employer recruits an employee and invests time and resources into training him. Then the employee says, "Thanks for the training... see ya!" Now the employer will get no return on their investment, and they'll have to start from scratch. A non-compete clause is a reasonable precaution because it offers some assurance to the employer that the new employee won't suddenly flake out on them. If the prospective employee doesn't like the terms of the contract then it's his responsibility to walk away.

There are more positive ways to inspire loyalty. You are unlikely to have very productive staff if you need clauses like these to force/blackmail them to remain in your employ. But this is beside the point as well.

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Quoting: KeyrockThat doesn't change the fact that if you sign a contract you must honor it. If you break a contract there are consequences to be suffered.

Well, that depends. Just like much of the nonsense in software EULAs, it's only binding as far as it agrees with local laws and regulations. If someone wants your firstborn in exchange for a service and you sign this contract with your blood, no court will hold you to your end of the bargain. At least in any country you'd want to live in. Ridiculous example but you get my point.

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Quoting: STiATWe'll see if it will be fixed. If it's an application bug, I'm pretty sure Feral will act.

Did you miss edddeduck's posts? They "have a patch in progress to fix the issue". So I guess it's a safe bet they'll act. :)

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Quoting: s8as8aRAM: 16 GB DDR3 1600 MHz (but, dmidecode -t 17 says Speed: 1600 MHz and Configured Clock Speed: 1333 MHz - if someone knows what this means and why it is the case, please let me know, because if it means that my RAM is running slower than it should, I don't understand why)
USB 2.0 5400 RPM HDD

Check your uefi/bios setup. Try enabling XMP if it's not already on or set the frequency manually. This seems to be pretty common, even with big brand motherboards and memory.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleSo yeah, tone it down.

Yeah, Boss, you heard the man. Remember your place and be happy with whatever trickles down to us second class citizens. Honest communication is obviously too much to ask, unless you represent more than two percent of the gaming public.

Well done, Sir (or Madam) Handle. Now you can move on and tell the next guy what they are allowed to do on their own damn site.

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Quoting: Guest

IMPORTANT! To get this to work, you will have to already have the game in your Steam library

Does this mean to get the Linux version I have to install the Windows version?

Typical!

You don't need to install the Windows version. Just have the game in your library.

I can see no reason to pay for the privilege of being a beta tester though. The game seems fun, but--as always--I'll wait until it's done and is officially released on Linux.

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Quoting: MyeulCDon't forget to also export LC_ALL=C

I'd argue that this should only be done when necessary. Game developers should learn to make use of the locale settings instead of ignoring and stumbling on them.

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Seems like something I might enjoy.

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Quoting: HalifaxIt's like they brought in the the Lifetime Channel to write the script that had to be approved by a moral majority conservative Mormon panel. I don't need my video games taking themselves soooo seriously.

It's not like I'm so predictably boring I *just* want her to be a bigger breasted shallow sex symbol like she basically was before - reinvent her in some interesting flawed way, then - but don't make her a boring Lifetime channel movie paragon of good wholesome virtues and politically correct messages.

That's big budget, hollywood-style, marketing-driven design for you. I'm sure Rhianna Pratchett is quite competent as a writer, but big business doesn't like taking risks.

Quoting: HalifaxMake her a drunken slut that can't make a good decision to save her life. Make her find out she's actually adopted trailer trash who's not actually from her British parents. Make her a trainwreck where you just can't wait to get to the next video flashback log from an old friend to find out even more screwed up stuff she's done. "Yeah! This is Sarah.... Thanks Laura, so you had to sleep with both my sister and my husband, on Valentines day - at the SAME time? If I ever see you again (etc etc)".

And now you lost me. This is the other thing I dislike in current American entertainment. Every damn action movie starts with some big baddie murdering and raping the protagonist, his/her family, the family dog and the neighbour's pet pony. And every damn protagonist f**ks up absolutely everything for the first third of the movie, using drugs/booze/whatever to cope with their trauma. But that's okay, it's not unrealistically over-dramatic; It's edgy!

So basically I agree that entertainment often takes itself too seriously and is very reluctant to break the mold, but taking notes from bad fan fiction and going overboard with the drama isn't the answer. In fact I'd say you're proposing two incompatible extremes here.

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I love me some Nelly. And so does the wife. I absolutely must buy this as soon as I can.

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