On the Throne Room map, I noticed that as the boss advanced, he would push Slice N Dice Blockades back slowly as he advanced forward. The towers would remain active but just get pushed backward, eventually ending up in a little clump on the other side of the crystals.
Are there any other ways t...
@GnomeSlice Yes, but the principles of supply and demand are taught in a required class in high schools in the part of the US I'm from.
Wait, I said 60%... I forgot whom I quoted that from, but that number seems a bit... low.
What was Netflix's old price? $9.99 for Streaming + one DVD? And now it's $15.98 for both?
That sounds right, because that would be rounded to a 60% increase. If I was wrong, and it was $8.99 before, that would be a 77.8% increase.
But anyway, before I got off topic, there's a sweet spot between supply and demand that rakes in the most profit. They may not have been at it before, but price changes sent their current point rocketing toward the lower end of the demand line.
> I feel bad for Netflix. They're between a rock and a hard place. The content providers want more money and eventually want to cut out the middleman. The users balk when the price is raised, even though unlimited streaming and DVDs for a month still cost less than a decent meal. And every decision they make (like Qwikster, which was likely done so they didn't have to pay content providers a fee for users who weren't streaming) is bashed and mocked.
The profit maximization point for the company is when the marginal cost curve... hang on, isn't the marginal cost of supplying each new customer very small for digital streaming?
I am trying to install fallout 3 in windows 7 and the installation wizard is fully filled with funny characters, i dont know what they say, i am not able to start the game because of this. They are filled with question marks and some shapes. This happens in win 7 professional.
Also i just kept ...
@Mana Qwisker was more likely an attempt to appease Netflix shareholders by offloading the decreasing revenue from their DVD mailing service onto a separate entity. :P
@GnomeSlice Fake some AO by darkening the concave joints, in the texture or as vertex painting. This should already improve it and hide some of the unnatural look of it.
@TimStone Classical as in classical microecons. The assumption is always that the price level at which the firm makes the maximum profit is where the marginal cost curve meets the marginal revenue curve
The problem is that the marginal cost, the additional cost of producing one more unit of the good, in the case of information is near zero, since digital information can be duplicated for 'free'
@GnomeSlice To be frank, it doesn't look very reflective to me (highly reflective surfaces on black background equal to a rather black picture ...), and as such a touch of fake AO should help it looking better.
In my first play-through of Magus Quarters, I accidentally placed two towers on either side of a chest spawn, a bit too close.
I found that I could not open the chest as a result. Fortunately, selling the towers (iirc I had to sell both) allowed me to open it.
Is it possible for a poorly-pla...
I understand there's a bug where I can't join friends' ranked (Trendynet) games unless I am also logged into Trendynet. This is not that.
After logging in, when I try to join a friend's game (shift+tab --> friends --> click the down arrow next to the friend's name --> Join Game), nothing happen...
At one time, I saw someone reply to a question about key combinations with an answer that used markdown to actually show the key combinations on little key graphics.
I'm trying to duplicate that effect on my answer to this question:
In Payday: The Heist, how do you change which upgrade tree you&...
I just defeated the lava golem by combining Serious Damage and Serious Bomb. That felt cheap, but in my previous attempts this battle seemed otherwise simply impossible, as the health bar of the golem didn't seem interested into nudging one bit.
Even just the serious bomb alone isn't enough: it ...
I'm making a door with piston sliding sideways that reacts to pressure plates.
As the pressure plates are sending the current to redstone at a very low level, I need to raise it somehow, and this leads to awkward stairs of redstone.
So I'm wondering whether there are better ways of sending the...
I've never played Diablo 2 all the way through before, so I decided to install it on a netbook and start playing it. I'm not an expert when it comes to action role playing games. I've only played Diablo, Diablo 2, and Torchlight for short periods of time. I only expect to be able to put in 3-4 h...
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There are so many better options that thingadongdongthing.
Gotta love Valve. The items I got as extra items for spending $20 or more in the Mann Co. Store are tradeable now, but items made by crafting them are not.
On the Throne Room map, I noticed that as the boss advanced, he would push Slice N Dice Blockades back slowly as he advanced forward. The towers would remain active but just get pushed backward, eventually ending up in a little clump on the other side of the crystals.
Are there any other ways t...
I am trying to install fallout 3 in windows 7 and the installation wizard is fully filled with funny characters, i dont know what they say, i am not able to start the game because of this. They are filled with question marks and some shapes. This happens in win 7 professional.
Also i just kept ...
In my first play-through of Magus Quarters, I accidentally placed two towers on either side of a chest spawn, a bit too close.
I found that I could not open the chest as a result. Fortunately, selling the towers (iirc I had to sell both) allowed me to open it.
Is it possible for a poorly-pla...
I understand there's a bug where I can't join friends' ranked (Trendynet) games unless I am also logged into Trendynet. This is not that.
After logging in, when I try to join a friend's game (shift+tab --> friends --> click the down arrow next to the friend's name --> Join Game), nothing happen...
I'm making a door with piston sliding sideways that reacts to pressure plates.
As the pressure plates are sending the current to redstone at a very low level, I need to raise it somehow, and this leads to awkward stairs of redstone.
So I'm wondering whether there are better ways of sending the...
