Nathan Gibson’s Comments

• Oct 19th, 2012 @ 9:31am

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  on Hollywood Accounting: How A $19 Million Movie Makes $150 Million... And Still Isn't Profitable
  The words of Freakazoid ring true - always ask for a percentage of the gross, not the net. Funny how certain truths got slipped into some of those old cartoons, like Scrooge McDuck giving economic lessons on Scarcity.
• Aug 29th, 2012 @ 9:49am

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  on US Chamber Of Commerce Launches Ad Campaign For Son Of SOPA
  It's missing "For the children." Won't anybody think of the children?
• Aug 16th, 2012 @ 7:29pm

  Honestly?

  on Part Of Being More Open And Human Is Actually Holding Conversations With Fans
  As a gamer, I can be a needy prat, wanting to know things that I don't need to know. I don't blame many of them for not talking to us - a lot of us are jerks, even when we get what we want.
  
  Overall, PR could be handled a bit better, but there's always room for improvement. I'm more interested in whether or not the games are worth buying than anything else.
• Aug 16th, 2012 @ 2:47pm

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  on Where Fan Fiction Stands On Copyright: A Legal Primer
  Porn is a big issue. Rule 34 can get quite disturbing, especially for authors who see characters that are practically their own children put in situations by fans that the author would never put them in.
• Aug 16th, 2012 @ 8:49am

  Re: One concern

  on Where Fan Fiction Stands On Copyright: A Legal Primer
  Wow, a link tag somehow got my comment borked (that I should have been signed in for).
  
  Basically, it would have been nice if the article went into a bit more detail about the Derivative Works clause of US copyright law and how it affects fan works.
• Aug 7th, 2012 @ 2:09am

  Tricky...

  on Game Developers Concerned About A Potentially Closed Windows 8
  It's slightly more nuanced.
  
  Windows RT is the ARM version of Windows 8 and the version that is locked up. The x86/x64 version isn't. On the x86/x64 side, Steam is going to get some hefty competition for once in the digital gaming marketplace (there are others, but they aren't as big) and are initially (although I doubt permenantly) locked out of the ARM version.
• Jul 30th, 2012 @ 5:35pm

  Expanding on modding

  on Modding Video Games Is Good For The Original Game Creators And Future Game Developers
  Bethesda Softworks has a long history of allowing mods for their Elder Scrolls series - heck, some mods still drive the occassional sale of TES3: Morrowind.
  
  With TES5: Skyrim, they've worked with Steam to expand mod support by being the first game using Steam's new Mod repository, Steam Workshop. Things are still a bit bumpy, but it has turned out to be popular. I, personally, haven't used it much, but I see the appeal.
  
  It's easy to be reluctent to support mods, though, when for every mod that fits nicely into the game world there are 20 mods of various fetishes, anime characters, nudity (which has caused media flak and changes in ESRB ratings), etc.
• Jun 27th, 2012 @ 10:38am

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  on In Round Two, Apple Succeeds In Getting Samsung Tablet Banned In The US
  A box with round corners is not unique design.
• Jun 12th, 2012 @ 4:15pm

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  on What Kind Of Professor Patents A Way To Make It More Expensive & More Difficult For Students To Learn?
  And my response is "Horseshyte." At best, he's trying to force specific academic changes that cannot be forced upon people. At worst, he's trying to gain a cut of those expensive textbook fees, which would only drive the price up further and drive more students and professors to alternative solutions.
  
  Unless his goal is to further drive students and professors to alternative solutions by making the normal solution even more expensive - becoming the villain to allow others to be the hero. In that case, well played, sir - but I doubt this is the reason for his actions.