-takes off eye patch- Oh...so I'm not a cool pirate with a gun, a parrot, a ship, or a plucky crew that is against the alliance and constantly runnin' from reavers.
I bought pokemon yellow, and after years of just playing that game like mad, it eventually just wore out (if I move it, it deletes the save data, which is pretty awesome, but annoying if I ever decide to put down my gameboy color after playing). Well, deciding for nostalgia purposes that I wanted to play again, I downloaded it. After some time of playing it, I decided that I liked it enough to buy a hard copy that worked, and go play me some Pokemon Stadium.
Going by the flimsy 'law' of piracy = downloading any game/music for free that could be sold for money elsewhere is evil, I should be fined a large amount (despite buying the game -twice-) for daring to download the game and steal money from Nintendo (the chances of finding a brand new Pokemon Yellow that would fork over a profit to Nintendo in any way is slim to none; most stores sell 'em used).
Piracy would also be, apparently, when you decide to give your game to a friend once you are done. They didn't pay, after all. Or how about the fact that me and my friend share the same Sims 2 copy, even though we both bought expansion packs to add on to the game (and my friend bought the Sims 2 that we share)?
Yeah, screw this -gets out 'game design for retards' book-. Get back to me in 5 years, I'll be the moron trying to sell DRM-free games for $30.
Dunno, maybe we should draw the line on PC people; considering 'racist zombies' is the new highlight of overboard freakouts over video games.
Feel good movies don't let them interact, people can only help so much before visiting hours are over, and if they can't move, they're restricted to their beds. Given that, should they spend the painful time alone just being in pain, or should they be allowed to play a game?
After all, after fighting in that very real war, they should be allowed to relax and do what they want (within reason, obviously).
And this just proves it; when we protect stupid people, they don't die off, they breed more, and we get people that actually fall for scams.
More so, they fall for a scam this bad. The spelling is poor, the requests are pathetic, and she fell for it. She was willing to ruin the life of her husband for this, too; in the small chance that she was randomly selected by people she never knew to get tons of money.
She's not some 'helpless victim', either. If someone gets raped, that is a helpless victim. If the raped one went with the rapist, despite everybody they knew telling them not to, and ruined their loved ones life just to go with the rapist in case the rapist might actually have a 'magic penis', well, then no pity for them either.
She's a spokeswoman for stupidity. After this scam has been out for years, has been highlighted by news channels, has been made into a common joke, she has no excuse for this madness. She took out everyone around her for it. If anything, I feel bad for her husband; he lost his retirement money because -she- was greedy.
She was so greedy, she failed to even realize how ridiculous it is that the FBI and Bush would be relying on her sending money to Nigerians to save the day; it doesn't even go along with the same premise of her getting money out of this!
This woman is so gullible, she probably would jump off a cliff if someone said she would just bounce off the ground like a bouncy ball, with no damage or pain.
I have; usually reads something like "Congratulations! You have won a ps3! Click here to claim it*" Or some such. Never received an e-mail stating this, but I've seen plenty of pop-ups and ads embedded in sites with this.
I breathe sarcasm.
Priorities of the people are skewed; we prefer superior killing rates to protecting the planet (or rather, stopping us from harming it).
If God's days are different from our days, why bother calling them 'days' in the first place? They could have just left out the time altogether. Furthermore, since the biblical folk lived to be 100's of years old, was that just 'their' measurement of time?
Back then life expectancy was lucky to reach even 50, so we could assume that a 300 year old was actually 50, indicating that their measurement of age was 6x that of ours. Given that assumption, each 'day' during God's work was actually 4 hours.
It also discredits why Sunday is considered the holy day. If God's time was not exact days, the 7 'days' he used to make the earth no longer hold their holy value.
If we're gonna say that the bible is indeed true (and just casually sidestep the other religions on this earth), should it have even taken God -any- measurable time? We're considering him to be an almighty, all powerful being capable of the most amazing (and horrifying) acts to man, so how could it take him any time at all to create a planet (especially considering the billions of others he created)?
And for one thing, saying that people before that 6k year cut off date aren't 'officially' human, is just trying to shape reality around your book so that book is right.
The reason why Science and Faith are often considered incompatible, is because Science has to work to find answers to questions posed by man, while faith has pre-made answers and questions that we have to shape reality around.
That's why you can often find an extremist of faith trying to shape the constitution to fit how they interpreted the bible; because even though it is considered absolute truth, no one appears to have the same truth coming from the bible.
True, and I ain't a hippie by a long shot, but it kills me that military advancement is always considered more important then environmental impact. Yeah it's a couple whales, who cares so long as our military is more stream lined.
I'm not pro-animal; I'm just anti-human superiority complex. For all we know, killing off all the whales could result in their food overpopulating, and so on and so forth. Of course, we won't know until we try, so let's go ahead and try so we can see just what kind of impact it would have.
Buuut if we're gonna go down the route of importance of lives, I would guess that deciding that the lives of these sailors, who are trained to kill people, are more important than the people we are training them to kill (whichever people they may be when the politicians sign the bill and write the check).
War is as pointless as the people that push for it. I'd say, you can't be pro-life if you are pro-war; war kills people, and as soon as you sign your life away or support it, you are saying that murdering people is important enough that you are willing to do whatever it takes to do it (and don't get me wrong, if someone shoots us, we should shoot right back, but it's a shame that us 'advanced humans' can't even manage to live on different continents without wanting to kill each other).
Yup, it's far more important that we get to work on improving our killing capabilities; who cares if it may or may not harm the environment, let's just wait and see 50 years down the road if any whale species get closer to extinction then they already are.
Just be confident that we'll be able to shoot at the next third world country that bugs us (or has a resource we might like), we'll be able to catch their submarines first! Well...if, y'know, anybody we war with ever uses subs again.
Let's see...my Nintendo 64 Hexen has an M for mature rating, due to extreme gore and violence (also known as giant red squares falling away from 16-bit monsters as you blast them with magical attacks).
This same rating was slapped on GTA, and that same rating sat on Splinter Cell as well (a game where shooting someone in the head sometimes doesn't even kill the guy, and there is absolutely no blood, even when you cut a dudes throat on the third game).
They can slap those ratings on all day; kids are still gonna play them. Parents will give it a cursory glance, some cashiers don't even bother with an ID check when they sell a kid a game.
If you play a video game and get transformed into a violent, horrible person that then purchases an axe and steel toed boots so you can go slaughter people, chances are the video game was not the cause.
Of course, in a country of scape goats, video games are an easy way to pass the buck. Couldn't be the 24 hour news networks, that often times spend hours on the wanton slaughter of civilians in war, shootings, rape trials, and robberies. Couldn't possibly be that war is almost celebrated by our government as a 'tactic' to mend the economy (or ruin it if you can't finish it up fast). Couldn't possibly be because the parents of these kids don't seem to notice any subtle changes in their kid (such as no friends, suicidal tendencies, gun purchasing, shooting lessons, and books on resurrection). Couldn't possibly be the fault of parents or politicians. Nope, it has to be the video games that billions of people play; just like owning a car means that you drink and drive, and owning a gun means that you murder people regularly...oh wait.
And so, now that we have found out they have fixed prices, we can all feel free to sit with thumbs up our asses about the jacked prices we had to pay to feed companies that agree to pay a fine that is higher than the average amount of money 5 families make in a lifetime.
And $50 says the CEO's won't be taking a dip in their salaries to compensate for the fine; nope, chances are they'll lay off some people and give pay cuts out to everyone that just does their job without trying to find a way to make a quick buck.
Just what I needed: 40 million NEW search results to sift through; I already have to deal with the first 5 pages being useful, followed by 60 pages of, let's say 'pokemon glitch' that is really someone's blog that has 500 words slapped on the bottom (nothing quite as useful as finding out a website that came up on the search says at the very bottom of the blog 'boobs anal pokemon glitch asians etc'
We may all live on the same planet, but we're not all allowed to receive the same information:D Yay for not all humans being equal according to where we were born and raised!
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My friend finally, finally convinced me to get a Facebook account; even though the info on my yahoo! e-mail account was completely false, and the information I entered into Facebook was also false, it took my fake name and info, and matched me up with my highschool buddies.
Nowadays, most people just click through the ToS before even bothering to skim through it. I play Goonzu rather regularly, and every time the developers take something from the gamers, the gamers freak out. However, the ToS tells them they own nothing, and that the developers can take anything away at any time for any reason (or no reason at all); and they all signed and agreed to this!
As society gets lazier (and therefore, dumber), we lose interest in protecting our own rights. We don't have a single problem with putting our credit card information up on the internet, even though our virus scanners and anti spyware programs pop up with varying infections, some minor tracking cookies, others major. After that, we have to maneuver around to find college sites that aren't fake so we don't end up plastering our SSN onto an evil site.
Not that it surprises me; we're at a point where we claim moral superiority over other countries, yet the mere idea of same sex marriage tears us apart. We're so close to turning into Pikmin that I don't even -want- to see what the next step is in removing rights and stripping us of our unique identity.
I had three construction related toys when I was just a little bit younger: Legos, K'nex, and 1 set of Mega Blox.
The K'nex were unrivaled in their ability to bruise the tips of my fingers with frustrating 'square peg in round hole' construction, but at the same time the motorization made it extremely fun.
The Legos always snapped together, and even though most of my legos came from sets, I was able to piece together just about anything from it (for the longest amount of time, I had a black Arwing).
The one Mega Blox set I had, was pretty fun. The parts took a bit longer to snap in, but it worked fine. Until, however, I tried to use the parts with Legos. They were slightly bigger and clunkier, and they didn't snap in as well. In fact, I had a few pieces break, and the figurines had a higher probability of their limbs just popping off.
It's kind of like trying to play Doom on Windows XP; if you don't have jDoom, it works, but it's a little like pulling teeth at points.
http://www.xkcd.com/488/ Steal it, and you're a criminal. Get the DRM locked media, something happens with technology that makes you have to try and remove the DRM lock just to use what you bought, and you're a criminal too.
Piracy will be way more popular now that every company is scrambling to DRM-lock their products (sort of like the Sony 'rootkit' happy fun time, companies have decided when we pay for something, they can stick whatever they want in their product and let us sort out the mess leftover).
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I bought pokemon yellow, and after years of just playing that game like mad, it eventually just wore out (if I move it, it deletes the save data, which is pretty awesome, but annoying if I ever decide to put down my gameboy color after playing). Well, deciding for nostalgia purposes that I wanted to play again, I downloaded it. After some time of playing it, I decided that I liked it enough to buy a hard copy that worked, and go play me some Pokemon Stadium.
Going by the flimsy 'law' of piracy = downloading any game/music for free that could be sold for money elsewhere is evil, I should be fined a large amount (despite buying the game -twice-) for daring to download the game and steal money from Nintendo (the chances of finding a brand new Pokemon Yellow that would fork over a profit to Nintendo in any way is slim to none; most stores sell 'em used).
Piracy would also be, apparently, when you decide to give your game to a friend once you are done. They didn't pay, after all. Or how about the fact that me and my friend share the same Sims 2 copy, even though we both bought expansion packs to add on to the game (and my friend bought the Sims 2 that we share)?
Yeah, screw this -gets out 'game design for retards' book-. Get back to me in 5 years, I'll be the moron trying to sell DRM-free games for $30.
Dunno, maybe we should draw the line on PC people; considering 'racist zombies' is the new highlight of overboard freakouts over video games.
Feel good movies don't let them interact, people can only help so much before visiting hours are over, and if they can't move, they're restricted to their beds. Given that, should they spend the painful time alone just being in pain, or should they be allowed to play a game?
After all, after fighting in that very real war, they should be allowed to relax and do what they want (within reason, obviously).
Your user base? Sad thing is, a large portion of people have an ego when they have no reason to have one.
And this just proves it; when we protect stupid people, they don't die off, they breed more, and we get people that actually fall for scams.
More so, they fall for a scam this bad. The spelling is poor, the requests are pathetic, and she fell for it. She was willing to ruin the life of her husband for this, too; in the small chance that she was randomly selected by people she never knew to get tons of money.
She's not some 'helpless victim', either. If someone gets raped, that is a helpless victim. If the raped one went with the rapist, despite everybody they knew telling them not to, and ruined their loved ones life just to go with the rapist in case the rapist might actually have a 'magic penis', well, then no pity for them either.
She's a spokeswoman for stupidity. After this scam has been out for years, has been highlighted by news channels, has been made into a common joke, she has no excuse for this madness. She took out everyone around her for it. If anything, I feel bad for her husband; he lost his retirement money because -she- was greedy.
She was so greedy, she failed to even realize how ridiculous it is that the FBI and Bush would be relying on her sending money to Nigerians to save the day; it doesn't even go along with the same premise of her getting money out of this!
This woman is so gullible, she probably would jump off a cliff if someone said she would just bounce off the ground like a bouncy ball, with no damage or pain.
I've never seen such an ad.
I have; usually reads something like "Congratulations! You have won a ps3! Click here to claim it*" Or some such. Never received an e-mail stating this, but I've seen plenty of pop-ups and ads embedded in sites with this.
I breathe sarcasm. Priorities of the people are skewed; we prefer superior killing rates to protecting the planet (or rather, stopping us from harming it).
If God's days are different from our days, why bother calling them 'days' in the first place? They could have just left out the time altogether. Furthermore, since the biblical folk lived to be 100's of years old, was that just 'their' measurement of time?
Back then life expectancy was lucky to reach even 50, so we could assume that a 300 year old was actually 50, indicating that their measurement of age was 6x that of ours. Given that assumption, each 'day' during God's work was actually 4 hours.
It also discredits why Sunday is considered the holy day. If God's time was not exact days, the 7 'days' he used to make the earth no longer hold their holy value.
If we're gonna say that the bible is indeed true (and just casually sidestep the other religions on this earth), should it have even taken God -any- measurable time? We're considering him to be an almighty, all powerful being capable of the most amazing (and horrifying) acts to man, so how could it take him any time at all to create a planet (especially considering the billions of others he created)?
And for one thing, saying that people before that 6k year cut off date aren't 'officially' human, is just trying to shape reality around your book so that book is right.
The reason why Science and Faith are often considered incompatible, is because Science has to work to find answers to questions posed by man, while faith has pre-made answers and questions that we have to shape reality around.
That's why you can often find an extremist of faith trying to shape the constitution to fit how they interpreted the bible; because even though it is considered absolute truth, no one appears to have the same truth coming from the bible.
In a lifetime, genius, in a lifetime.
True, and I ain't a hippie by a long shot, but it kills me that military advancement is always considered more important then environmental impact. Yeah it's a couple whales, who cares so long as our military is more stream lined.
I'm not pro-animal; I'm just anti-human superiority complex. For all we know, killing off all the whales could result in their food overpopulating, and so on and so forth. Of course, we won't know until we try, so let's go ahead and try so we can see just what kind of impact it would have.
Buuut if we're gonna go down the route of importance of lives, I would guess that deciding that the lives of these sailors, who are trained to kill people, are more important than the people we are training them to kill (whichever people they may be when the politicians sign the bill and write the check).
War is as pointless as the people that push for it. I'd say, you can't be pro-life if you are pro-war; war kills people, and as soon as you sign your life away or support it, you are saying that murdering people is important enough that you are willing to do whatever it takes to do it (and don't get me wrong, if someone shoots us, we should shoot right back, but it's a shame that us 'advanced humans' can't even manage to live on different continents without wanting to kill each other).
Yup, it's far more important that we get to work on improving our killing capabilities; who cares if it may or may not harm the environment, let's just wait and see 50 years down the road if any whale species get closer to extinction then they already are.
Just be confident that we'll be able to shoot at the next third world country that bugs us (or has a resource we might like), we'll be able to catch their submarines first! Well...if, y'know, anybody we war with ever uses subs again.
Let's see...my Nintendo 64 Hexen has an M for mature rating, due to extreme gore and violence (also known as giant red squares falling away from 16-bit monsters as you blast them with magical attacks).
This same rating was slapped on GTA, and that same rating sat on Splinter Cell as well (a game where shooting someone in the head sometimes doesn't even kill the guy, and there is absolutely no blood, even when you cut a dudes throat on the third game).
They can slap those ratings on all day; kids are still gonna play them. Parents will give it a cursory glance, some cashiers don't even bother with an ID check when they sell a kid a game.
If you play a video game and get transformed into a violent, horrible person that then purchases an axe and steel toed boots so you can go slaughter people, chances are the video game was not the cause.
Of course, in a country of scape goats, video games are an easy way to pass the buck. Couldn't be the 24 hour news networks, that often times spend hours on the wanton slaughter of civilians in war, shootings, rape trials, and robberies. Couldn't possibly be that war is almost celebrated by our government as a 'tactic' to mend the economy (or ruin it if you can't finish it up fast). Couldn't possibly be because the parents of these kids don't seem to notice any subtle changes in their kid (such as no friends, suicidal tendencies, gun purchasing, shooting lessons, and books on resurrection). Couldn't possibly be the fault of parents or politicians. Nope, it has to be the video games that billions of people play; just like owning a car means that you drink and drive, and owning a gun means that you murder people regularly...oh wait.
And so, now that we have found out they have fixed prices, we can all feel free to sit with thumbs up our asses about the jacked prices we had to pay to feed companies that agree to pay a fine that is higher than the average amount of money 5 families make in a lifetime.
And $50 says the CEO's won't be taking a dip in their salaries to compensate for the fine; nope, chances are they'll lay off some people and give pay cuts out to everyone that just does their job without trying to find a way to make a quick buck.
Just what I needed: 40 million NEW search results to sift through; I already have to deal with the first 5 pages being useful, followed by 60 pages of, let's say 'pokemon glitch' that is really someone's blog that has 500 words slapped on the bottom (nothing quite as useful as finding out a website that came up on the search says at the very bottom of the blog 'boobs anal pokemon glitch asians etc'
Good news is I can finally PAY to be annoyed.
We may all live on the same planet, but we're not all allowed to receive the same information :D Yay for not all humans being equal according to where we were born and raised!
My friend finally, finally convinced me to get a Facebook account; even though the info on my yahoo! e-mail account was completely false, and the information I entered into Facebook was also false, it took my fake name and info, and matched me up with my highschool buddies.
Nowadays, most people just click through the ToS before even bothering to skim through it. I play Goonzu rather regularly, and every time the developers take something from the gamers, the gamers freak out. However, the ToS tells them they own nothing, and that the developers can take anything away at any time for any reason (or no reason at all); and they all signed and agreed to this!
As society gets lazier (and therefore, dumber), we lose interest in protecting our own rights. We don't have a single problem with putting our credit card information up on the internet, even though our virus scanners and anti spyware programs pop up with varying infections, some minor tracking cookies, others major. After that, we have to maneuver around to find college sites that aren't fake so we don't end up plastering our SSN onto an evil site.
Not that it surprises me; we're at a point where we claim moral superiority over other countries, yet the mere idea of same sex marriage tears us apart. We're so close to turning into Pikmin that I don't even -want- to see what the next step is in removing rights and stripping us of our unique identity.
Well at least they're fixing things...eventually...
Guess they just keep trying and trying until we have no idea what it is anymore.
Wonder how many decades it'll be until Vista is fixed.
I had three construction related toys when I was just a little bit younger: Legos, K'nex, and 1 set of Mega Blox.
The K'nex were unrivaled in their ability to bruise the tips of my fingers with frustrating 'square peg in round hole' construction, but at the same time the motorization made it extremely fun.
The Legos always snapped together, and even though most of my legos came from sets, I was able to piece together just about anything from it (for the longest amount of time, I had a black Arwing).
The one Mega Blox set I had, was pretty fun. The parts took a bit longer to snap in, but it worked fine. Until, however, I tried to use the parts with Legos. They were slightly bigger and clunkier, and they didn't snap in as well. In fact, I had a few pieces break, and the figurines had a higher probability of their limbs just popping off.
It's kind of like trying to play Doom on Windows XP; if you don't have jDoom, it works, but it's a little like pulling teeth at points.
http://www.xkcd.com/488/
Steal it, and you're a criminal. Get the DRM locked media, something happens with technology that makes you have to try and remove the DRM lock just to use what you bought, and you're a criminal too.
Piracy will be way more popular now that every company is scrambling to DRM-lock their products (sort of like the Sony 'rootkit' happy fun time, companies have decided when we pay for something, they can stick whatever they want in their product and let us sort out the mess leftover).