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IE5point5··on Dungeon Keeper stacks deck in EA's favor when it comes to Android feedback
Absolute evil genius, expect this to become the norm.

> I just wish for a Dungeon Keeper version of $5 and with no In App-Purchases

That's the problem, they wouldn't make enough money if you bought it for $5, they'd need to sell it for $15-$25 to make a decent profit. It's quite amusing how mobile game fans act like they're being really generous offering the branch of $5 (Less than a cup of coffee) to developers for hours of entertainment.

IE5point5··on Apple approves Dogecoin iOS app
Icons/UI details could use a lot of work in this. Actually the website is much better designed than the actual app.
IE5point5··on Tory Boss of Government Coding Education Initiative Can't Code
> Expecting anything less from the tories
IE5point5··on Cactus for Mac
- and the titlebar font is wrong

- and the titlebar text doesn't fade correctly when in the background

- and a 100 other inconsistencies with the rest of my OS

please developers stop rolling your own windows for no reason

IE5point5··on Cactus for Mac
Why does it look like an iOS app
IE5point5··on Put.io
Just set a number of connections in your client that the router can handle. Problem solved.
IE5point5··on Paper – stories from Facebook on the App Store
> In our push for polish we had a goal of never dropping a frame on high-end devices, and we mostly achieved that goal. The engineering complexity here is finding a way to fully utilize the multicore architecture of newer iPhones

Sorry… but all the app shows are a bunch of photos and a bit of text. Never dropping a frame on the most high end of devices isn't anything to boast about, To be honest for what it's doing it shouldn't be dropping a frame on any device in the past 3 years

IE5point5··on How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry
More like destroyed the iOS/Android market. The game industry is doing just fine.

Only the lowest common denominator has suffered