College students can usually get anything made by microsoft completely free of charge through msdn.

I read up on that some time ago wondering the same, and that's more or less what I got from it. The difference is apparantly not that significant though. C++ would be more suited for complex programmes/games as it seems like there's more opportunity for finetuning and optimizing performance, partially something about memory allocation that you can do in C++... You really need to know what you're doing to actually benefit from that however.

As a disclaimer though, I'm not quite savvy enough to understand the specifics.
However, in general the more user friendly and generalized stuff gets the less efficient it becomes due to the extra layers added on top helping to simplify things or make them more easily comprehensible for humans. C++ is apparantly not as much like that as C# and would thus be more efficient.

It's pretty vague for me too; if anyone knows more about it or can explain it better I'd be interested in it as well.

Hey guys let's all shoot M249s.

Entry can be found here.
Protip: be over 18.

And what's the money that it'll be a flash game?

So nobody here knows anything about Crusader Kings II?
Great....mumble mumble

I absolutely love games like that. I just will not pirate it out of love and respect for Paradox.

Until then, there is little to discuss on the matter.

C++ is as about as fast as you can get and allows you to do anything that you want, but comes with the drawback of allowing you to do everything you think you want but actually really don't want to do at all.
C++ has no safety nets. You can break your own program in far more and far trickier ways than you can using C#, which also means the language in general is more complicated.

C# is slower because it is a language built on top of another language, it will never have the same maximum potential as C++ and is also less versatile.
It makes up for this by being a lot more programmer friendly, especially when using Visual Studio.
C# is basically Microsoft's language of choice (they made it) and Visual Studio is expressly designed to make programming in C# as easy as possible, and it's a notable occasion where Microsoft has done its job properly (read up on Intellisense it is wonderful).
And C# also links right into XNA which is Microsoft's "build a game" API that will allow you to run your games on PC and Xbox and does a lot of boring things like graphics for you, which is always handy.

tl;dr
C++ is faster but harder and more "dangerous"
C# has a lower maximum potential but isn't going to allow you to do really stupid things by accident

Thanks for the info metal chao.

I'll just stay in C#, since I won't be using too much RAM/CPU and I don't want to ♥♥♥♥ things up from the beginning.

Just beat the Darkness 2.

I haven't played a game with that good of a story line in a long time.

Saturday night again.
♥♥♥♥ Bleach, I hate the show, and the obnoxious openings.

And dayum what satisfying shotguns. I totally second that.

Adam Adamowicz has died.

Damn. He was a great artist. You can see his work in both Fallout 3 and Skyrim.

Yeah, he made a ton of amazing drawings/sketches, I'm genuinely sad that he's gone. For what it's worth though he left behind an awesome legacy in the art and styles of FO3 and Skyrim.

So who's the biggest brony on this forum?

Amazigh.

Bring me to him!