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Now I suppose you could argue that the gamer is not forced to use this feature and that it's simply a matter of choice, but as a developer and a designer it feels like a very patch-work solution to a much larger problem.
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The former is a patch-work solution, the latter requires planning.
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The bad news though, is that the patch-work economy is hard.
Susan Mernit: The Patchwork Economy, or Are You Canning Vegetables Yet? 2009
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Current Turkish constitution is a patch-work of laws based upon a defective foundation installed by the 1980 junta.
Never Mind the Ban, Turkish Leader Stars on YouTube - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Here is a lovely gift that my mother got for me: She knows a lady who is an expert at embroidery and patch-work, so my mother did a little collaborative project with her.
Archive 2007-06-01 Nupur 2007
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To bring together all the voices in the choir, the many textured, rainbow colored, patch-work quilt that is America and provide a vehicle to literally sing our stories together, like strands in the quilt.
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Current Turkish constitution is a patch-work of laws based upon a defective foundation installed by the 1980 junta.
Never Mind the Ban, Turkish Leader Stars on YouTube - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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It is time that we repair, rebuild and renew the basics in our country rather than relying on band-aid fixes and patch-work solutions.
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But within that patch-work quilt of take-ups will be an inherent elegance that comes with MLW…
What do you buy when you buy a newspaper? « BuzzMachine 2008
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The cell usually contained a lamp of bronze or, in the lower dens, of clay, a pallet or cot of some sort, over which was spread a blanket or patch-work quilt, this latter being sometimes employed as a curtain, Petronius, chap 7.
Satyricon 2007
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