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I"m surprised no one has brought up having a roommate when buying a house. Obviously you can"t factor that into being able to afford a place, but if you find a place that you could afford on your own and then also get a roommate, you can save a lot of money. I posted a few pages back about a...

Looks like I got it worked out with my friend, we"re doing a 6mo lease to give me time to find a house and then he"ll probably move in there as well. Unfortunately, I got back the specifics on the house I was looking at (the one I referenced above) and it was indeed too good to be true...

Washington state, and thanks for the responses. As for number 4, ya, we we"ve been planning on renting together and if I decide to go the house buying direction instead, his lease ends way too early for him to move in, especially with a short sale. Basically, I"d be saying with 1.5 weeks left on...

So I"m kind of suddenly looking at houses in my area and a week ago I would have never even considered it. Basically, I"ve been looking to rent a place with a friend for the last month. It"s coming down to the wire now (his lease is up at the end of the month) for finding a place that meets all...

It"s probably not a good sign that I actually knew who that was without looking.

Ban him or not, at least restrict him from the thread and move the last 8 pages or so to the Rickshaw. Edit - I"d say it"s pretty fucking sad the mods have let it go one this long. Fucking JayReb gets (deservedly) banned from the MMA thread for temper tantrums many orders of magnitude less...

That would be crazy. Curt is like a living god in Mass, but he"s also pretty conservative. I want to see how that plays out, do it Curt.

In my experience, most MMO betas still have that sort of filter, it"s just generally not as structured. Usually, the devs will keep track of the beta players who do a good job of bug reporting and are always trying out the new content or pushing the envelope. A dialogue will then open up between...

Is that the case, or is it that most companies aren"t willing to spend the money to hire enough community folks? I imagine it can be difficult getting execs to sign off on more staff when the community section often doesn"t produce easily tangible results. If you really can"t find enough...

Guild Wars, and to a lesser extent, the original Everquest, have a very rudimentary system of "deck building." I agree though, I"d like to see that system expanded upon.

I doubt they are going to do something that drastic. That"s a huge risk/tiny reward mechanic. It could ruin the game for 90% of the player base at its worst, and maybe add 10% more players at its best. Would not be a wise decision IMO. That said, I love CCG"s. Having one built into the game...

I think the point is that a) some companies aren"t compensating for huge amounts of overtime (EA was sued over this), and b) too much crunch time leads to developer burnout (which is extremely high in the games industry) and poor product quality.

Well, one of the major points is that most developers are salaried and don"t get paid for anything past 40 hours a week. Working a shitload of overtime is one thing; working a shitload of overtime and not getting compensated for it is something completely different.

Hey Curt, somewhat off-topic, but as an executive/owner of a game development company, I"m interested what your opinion is on this: Play This Thing! | Game Reviews | Free Games | Independent Games | Game Culture There"s been a lot of back-and-forth going on for the last few days in the...

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