Sentences with phrase «by bad design»

To a certain extent, it's the nature of the beast for this type of game and it adds to the challenge... but there's a line between intentional difficulty caused by good design and accidental difficulty caused by bad design.
Stunning design = Returning visitors Great content is undermined by bad design.
Marred by bad design decisions, awfully short playtime and frustratingly easy puzzles, Yesterday is a game that starts really strong, has a great story idea, but utterly fails to hook the player.

Not exact matches

Worse than trying to please everyone are mission statements designed by committees.
They say you shouldn't judge a book by its front cover, but if you front cover is tacky and badly designed, journalists are unlikely to make it any further.
«This is not bad luck: it's astonishingly bad design reinforced by complete carelessness,» wrote forum user Massimo.
new testament falsehood lies worst than death wickedness designed to lead mankind down pebble lined volcano path to destruction by FALSEHOOD NEGATING TRUE WORD OF GOD HOLY SPIRIT OLD TESTAMENT!!
In their profoundly shallow and reductive view of world history — such as their complete and uncritical acceptance of the asinine assertions of pseudohistorian D.M. Murdock, also known as Acharya S. — Zeitgeisters presume that everything they see as bad in the world, principally money and religion, was designed by a single person or group of people and then implemented whole and complete, the way automobiles go from the drawing board to the factory floor in Detroit.
With all the evidence, religious people ought to be intelligent design (I mean god - guided evolution by this) supporters at worst, though I would hope that after some serious thoughts on the moral paradoxes induced by belief in the «divine» people would come to their senses.
First, many claims of «bad design» are not in fact supported by the evidence.
We are faced again by a question we have investigated already, that of the coincidence between God's design and man's, that of God's employment of what is bad in man to bring about what he himself wills.
The spate of bad books on philosophy and religion by prominent scientists — Dawkins» The God Delusion, Hawking and Mlodinow's The Grand Design, and Atkins» On Being, among others — is notable not only for the sophomoric philosophical and theological errors they contain but also for their sheer repetitiveness.
This was coming off of a weekend of reading about Mark Driscoll, so it may just be his particular brand that I'm responding to, but I'm amazed that some complementarians seem to believe that we should create an entire social system solely designed to keep men from feeling bad about themselves by making sure there is always someone below them on the food chain that they can rule over.
We hold to forms of worship designed centuries ago by people very different to us and ignore the massive cultural changes of the last few decades (and I'm not talking about replacing organs and songs with good theology and no tune with guitars and songs with good tunes and bad theology, either) for fear that in attracting anyone new we might alienate imaginary figures we are sure are in the congregation.
Shepard cautions people that her flour is designed to work on a 1 - to - 1 exchange with wheat flour in «normal» recipes and that substituting her blend in recipes calling for other gluten - free flours might not yield good results since many recipes compensate for the bad taste of the gluten - free flour by adding extra sugar and butter.
The rankings are designed to account for opponent strength in a way that prevents you from simply moving up when you play (and soundly defeat) a particularly bad team or moving down when you play (and get soundly defeated by) a particularly good team.
It is viewed as the benchmark for modern football stadia with it's bowl design, meaning «bad seats» are difficult to come by when purchasing your Arsenal tickets.
Good reviews praised the machine's travel - oriented design and surprisingly good sound quality while bad reviews talked about the lack of options for sounds to be played by the machine.
Firstly, aesthetically the navy material faded so it looks old and work when it's not, this happened within a couple of months, the green dot where you know to push the brake release forward rubbed off within seconds so now when others try to help me out when pushing the buggy they push the release the wrong way, needless to say the brake mechanism is now half broken, the canopy struts are awkward and don't flip up or down evenly and often pull out of their sockets, this is super annoying, the seat has a flimsy strap underneath supporting the legs, on occasion this has undone and I've found my infant in the storage section underneath hanging on by a tether, bad bad design, the viewing window on the canopy is only good on a non windy day.
... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.
It was a policy designed to right the wrongs caused by deindexing pensions in 1980, which meant that, by 2010, pensioners were significantly worse off compared with other groups.
Or, even worse, such institutions would be accused of legitimating corrupt officials by entrusting them with the very corruption initiatives designed to investigate them.
A YouGov poll commissioned by the Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba) found 54 % of respondents believe plans to remove the need for planning permission for house and building extensions would mean the quality of the design of their neighbourhood would get worse.
I'm enough of a movement veteran that these things just flowed by me at the time, but in retrospect they seem the worst sort of hectoring irrelevances designed to make the Party's candidates seem like eccentric loons.)
Though it is being explained differently, the move is seen by some watchdogs as designed only to target specific contracts and not intended to address what they say is a flawed system plagued by the appearance and risk of corruption, if not worse.
MANHATTAN — A $ 50 - a-month-rent program designed to keep families out of homeless shelters is failing because of bad management, according to a report by the city comptroller, the New York Times reported.
Charles Tart, a psychologist at the University of California at Davis, who did the first major study of out - of - body experiences in 1969, and Raymond Moody... designed experiments of questionable rigor and made matters worse by ignoring the peer - review process and publishing their results in best - selling books.»
The French designer rose to pop hero status in the 1980s on a tidal wave of glossy magazine articles about the bad boy of design who flunked college, roared around Paris on his motorcycle, locked himself away for weeks to concentrate on generating his prolific outpouring of drawings, and tormented manufacturers by tweeking designs at the very last minute.
That said, the fallacy that our design is perfect has recently been matched by an equally fallacious mirror - image notion: that flaws in our genetic heritage are absolutely bad and must be completely discarded.
A Web filled with pages designed by people using Taylor's book and its instructions on using transparent colours, horizontal rules and scanned - in images wouldn't be too bad at all.
It's just not the healthy food for a female, but a balanced and well - designed workout calendar backed by Physical and spiritual healing methods, that are becoming must in a today's environment which is full of Stress, bad food habit, changed lifestyle and financial worries.
Wellies by Hunter, Handcrafted design, Waterproof finish, Rain, do your worst, Adjustable strap, Hunter branding, Round toe, Chunky sole.
The Tubular Doom Sock Primeknit sneakers were inspired by car tires with a futuristic design that reminds us of Kanye's cool collaboration, but you don't have to pay a fortune on eBay or be part of the Kardashian clan to score these bad boys.
APP SCOUT — Feb 8 — The new dating platform «Crush or Flush» (voted one of the top 10 worst app names by PC Magazine) was designed for mobile phones and offered as a free trial by IceBreaker, Inc..
By outlining these bad logo designs I hope to raise awareness of how important it is to have a strong brand
The combat is stupidly easy and as badly designed as MC Hammer's trousers - timing kill moves or complex combos together is rendered fun - free, as you're held by the hand all the way through by giant yellow «Y» icons that flash over an enemy when he's ripe for a kill move.
An over-scaled purple people eater and disaster of silly - looking CGI character design, voiced with a pleasingly incongruous sensitivity by Brolin — this big bad guy from outer space jumps around dimensions gathering magic space rocks to fit into a hilarious tin glove that will grant him infinite powers once the collection is complete.
It's nowhere near as much fun as the previous games in the series, and it's hampered by bad level design and boring gameplay.
Emily, the feature length debut from director Ryan Graves, takes a tiny - by - design story and earnestly goes deep, exploring the destructive impulses, badly timed stabs at nobility, and increasingly mixed signals of a couple on the brink.
This movie, scripted by William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy and directed, with meticulous regard for the elements and action, by Iceland - born filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur, is a detailed and realistic depiction of climbers — of various experiences — facing the worst possible conditions, at heights and climates that seem designed to shut a human body down.
Girls makes up for its lack of eye - catching period production design (a la Mad Men) or garish angles and filters (here's looking at you Breaking Bad) with that rarest sign of visual acuity: a classically good eye for clean and simple photography, particularly evident in episodes directed by Lena Dunham herself.
Either by bad luck or design, I was only able to unlock a few of these special items 20 or so hours into the game.
As the issue of sexism in gaming reared its ugly — yet sadly relevant — head yet again, Kojima decided to make matters worse by stating plainly that he ordered designers to make Quiet «more erotic» and that she was designed to sell action figures and «make you want to do cosplay».
The much lauded action sequences were actually poorly designed and executed made even worse by handheld cameras.
By accident or by design, today's films premiering at Cannes, whether in competition, in the «A Certain Regard» section, or in special screenings out of competition, revolved around relationships, good, bad, or worsBy accident or by design, today's films premiering at Cannes, whether in competition, in the «A Certain Regard» section, or in special screenings out of competition, revolved around relationships, good, bad, or worsby design, today's films premiering at Cannes, whether in competition, in the «A Certain Regard» section, or in special screenings out of competition, revolved around relationships, good, bad, or worse.
That's not necessarily a bad thing though, as Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer double downs on the concept by introducing a host of brand new additions that make designing a home in Animal Crossing better than ever before.
It's not bad, or broken, but it's definitely designed with ease of access in mind — meaning, PlayStation All - Stars: Battle Royale may leave hardcore fighting fans a less than satiated by the depth or complexity of the combat.
The problem with seeing the film with all of its visual information restored is that it highlights the ways that an intricate set design can be undermined by genuinely bad, static direction.
In the world of 2049, there are now two kinds of replicants, in addition to people: the old, rogue versions, and a newer, more subservient variety designed by a godlike industrialist (Jared Leto), who refers to his products, tellingly, as good and bad «angels.»
Tom Atwood, chairman of the schools sponsor Atwood Academies, said: «The people of Bexhill and more particularly the children of Bexhill have in recent years been let down badly by an ill thought out building design and worse a dreadful implementation of the new build.
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