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The fact that your using VB tells me that you havn't gave much thought to other platforms. A game must run on many different platforms to become sucessfull, hence you want to be able to sell it to as many different people as possible. If you don't need 3D and,or other things that require a lot of performance, you could write the code in Java, host the game on a server, then sell memberships to that web site to those who wish to play the game. The advantages of this is that you get your multiplayer built in with the server, and the code only needs to be wrote once because it'll run on many different machines. Depending on the games's requirements, it might even be able to run on tablets and smart phones too! The Java code will target anything that has internet access and a java virtual machine. If however you do need performance, the reasons to use C++ are so many, that this post could not handle them all! But one good reason is that the life Visual Basic is at the whim of a company with a madman in charge. At any given point in time, Microsoft could discontinue support for VB rather it's with DOT NET OR NOT. You'd be stuck with perhaps thousands of lines of useless code that would only compile and run on an OLD version of Windows. Since Microsoft is coming out with a new one every two to three years, that is how long long you'd have before your entire investment had dropped dead. C/C++ on the other hand will live much longer than ANY proprietary programming language! It has over 40 years of success under its belt thus far, and is continuing onward. But this isn't about the merits of one language versus another. It is about making the right choices before committing so much time and effort on a project that may become very successfull, if only those right choices are made 
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Hello, Good Evening, Welcome and Goodbye.
Sir David Frost[^] croaks it on luxury liner.
If you are gonna go, that is the best way.
Although "Who would die on a ship like this?"
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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The trouble is Dave, when you point to Wiki and say "he's dead"... 
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And to add insult to injury, linky no worky!
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Perhaps Dave intended that Sir David had some of King David's Geschmack[^] 
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If money is your hope for independence, you cannot reach it.
Being loved gives you strength,
while loving gives you courage.
modified 2-Sep-13 1:54am.
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BBC: David Frost passes away[^]
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For those who don't know who he is. He was one of the most influential people in media in the 60s and 70s. The Frost report held up a mirror to the establishment and gave rise to a whole generation of comedy. More impressively, he managed to get Nixon to admit to his crimes.
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DF: "Good morning, Mr. Nixon, I'm David Frost"
DN: "Good morning, Mr. Frost, I'm innocent."
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This is not the week, it's not 
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"I'll go and see what they need; The rest of you start coding." The fat man in the picture says.
Picture[^]
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“I will have to let one of you go, we are thin on budget. Will one of you follow me, please” says the fat man
I remain joe!
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[^] "Lumbricus rubellus contain very high protein content approximately 76%. This concentration is higher than mammal meat (65%) or fish (50%)." ... "In addition to protein-rich (50-72%), earthworms also contains several amino acids ... such as arginine (10.7%), tryptophan (4.4%) and tytosin (2.25%).
Surely, it unnecessary to elucidate the possible advantages of earth-worms over flies, but, since this is the Lounge, it would be exceptional not to do that, so:
1. no faint buzzing audible in the house coming from the larvae ranch.
2. for the prudish: less copulation (by flies) occurring in the house.
3. more space in the ground than in the kitchen.
4. earthworms perform valuable functions of aerating the soil (I assure you I have no prejudice against flies, per se).
5. direct-to-burger-patty for earth-worms much easier than larvae prep (?)
6. no problem of removal of chitinous residue of dead flies, and their (stinking ?) corpses ?
On the downside of earth-worms vs. flies: the use of either potassium permanganate, or high-voltage electricity, to force the worms to surface for harvesting [^], may be a real negative. I am opposed to use of potassium p., and consider it a weapon-of-mass-destruction, whose use is ecocide.
Of course, in many parts of the world eating insects is a cultural tradition; it's even on the increase in places like Bangkok among social classes, and nationalities, that would typically not eat such fare: [^].
I am, however, uninformed about earth-worm culinary practices, at present, or in history.
yours, Bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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And here I thought you were a fan of the classics[^].
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 Oh Gosh, PiebaldC, did you never read the formerly suppressed pronographic poetry of that degenerate late Roman epicure and aesthete, Lumbricus, for possession of which the Holy Inquisition sent thousands to the rack, the gibbet, and then to the stake, or to the auto-da-fé, in the western world ?
Linnaeus was, it is rumored, a big fan of Lumbricus' work, though perhaps he was not persecuted because people assumed anyone who spent so much time messing with peas must be harmless.
Who do you think Genus Lumbricus, and its Family, Lumbricidae, is named for: and, why do you think his notoriously polyamorous wife, Clitellata [^], is the now the name of the Class from which genus Lumbricus inherits ?
Scholars disagree violently whether the Subclass, Oligochaeta, or the Order, Haplotaxida, which descend from class Clitellata, also have a darker, sexual meaning, or are associated with some form of chthonic cult, and its oral tradition, demonized by the hegemony of the Christian Church in Europe, along with so many other folk-traditions, or esoteric traditions.
At the last international conference of ASSES, Association of Semiotic Scholars for Ephemeral Semantics, there was that terrible incident where thirteen members of the now persecuted international Feminist organization, FEMEN [^], founded in the Ukraine, marched into a colloquium on Lumbricus wearing next-to-nothings, their mainly-bared bodies covered in painted mantras like: "Stop Deconstruction;" and, "Don't touch Clitellata," and, then, spray-painted black the smart-phones of everyone who tried to photograph them.
Speaking as a poet, myself, I find Lumbricus pathetic, needlessly obtuse, and just a wallower in exotic language for the sake of érotisme, unredeemed by metaphysical passion. A pale shadow of the immortal Ovid, or Sextus Propertius.
yours, Bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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BillWoodruff wrote: auto-da-fé
"? What's the auto-da-fé?" -- Mel Brooks
You make Vogon poetry[^] sound entertaining.
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Fantastic Bill. This is why I like to sit in the lounge.
(Although after the notoriously polyamorous bit I was a bit disappointed with the FEMEN clicky.)
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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What about bearded seal meat, according to here[^] it is 82.6g protein per 100g meat sounds better than eating beasties...
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 DaveAuld wrote: bearded seal meat
Wow ! Bring it on. My only question is: do you have to shave them first, or is the beard tenderized by cooking ... assuming you cook the meat. If eaten raw, is the beard hard to swallow ?
thanks, Bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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BillWoodruff wrote: do you have to shave them first
Depends if you don't mind coughing up hair balls!
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Are they related to bearded clams?
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I've eaten a raw earth worm once, it wasn't very pleasant. Strangely rough on the outside, squishy on the inside, and annoyingly wiggly even after light chewing. Tastes more like mud than like meat.
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harold aptroot wrote: Tastes more like mud than like meat.
Besides the culinary account (  ), what I take from this is...you also eat mud... 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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