I annoy the guys at GameStop, they have a real motivation to push used on you, they have a higher profit margin. "Would you like to get it used? You save three dollars!" Uhmm, no, give me the new one. "But you save three whole bucks!" Yeah, but I have to peel the price tag off of the cart and it's going to have that sticky shit all over it and all I get is the cart. For three bucks more I get the box, a clean cart with a warranty and no saves on it, and the original clam shell case the game should be in.
That always seems to disappoint them. Fortunately I've found lots of non-GameStop local game shops that are a lot better to deal with.
I've bought tons of media and not gotten to it until much later. I've been working my way through all the Final Fantasy games in order. I finished Final Fantasy IV three days ago, I went to retrieve my copy of V, which I know I bought in anticipation of getting there. I couldn't find it. I realized I must have lost it in Hurricane Ike - that was in in 08, that's some for sight lost. I've bought DVDs and finally gotten a chance to watch them a year later, I do the same with books. Its a lack of time. Internet stuff like this I can do when I have a few minutes here or there.
Based on your use of commas where Americans would use periods and your trailing instead of leading dollar sign I'm assuming you're European. Since you say you feel entitled I strongly suspect so. I really don't like the entitlement mindset. If we want these people to keep making games, movies, and music we need to make sure they profited some how. I've had people argue that I'm just as bad as a pirate because I buy used, but I disagree, I'm paying attention to the first sale doctrine. The license follows the media. The content creator profited somewhere on my copy. If everyone had an entitlement mindset nothing would get done. The proof is in what happens with areas with large amounts of people who have entitlement mindsets, no work gets done, but lots people bitch about what they don't have. I'm looking at both France and New Orleans here.
Then you have people like me who use tons of pirate utils but stay legal. I rip every PSX and UMD game I own and put them on my MS Pro-Duo cards in my hacked PSP. Not one of the PSX or PSP games is pirated. I buy CDs and rip them, it's actually cheaper than buying downloads for.99 each, especially if you go the still legal used route. I even rip my own kids DVDs to put them on her netbook. Really, you don't want kids handling optical media if you can avoid it. I consider "Digital Copy" a joke. All DVD's are their own "Digital Copy". If they didn't make those things expire I might take them seriously.
Yeah, on one occasion one of the sellers was listed as being in New England, and the game was new in box, sometimes retailers have leftovers or one turns up. I get a package from Hong Kong a week later with a never been popped out flat box and a cart that looks legit, but on further examination wasn't. In this case it would have been a new sale, even though it would have been old stock.
I don't care what the publishers say, a pirated game is not necessarily a lost sale, quite the contrary, I've found most pirates to be lazy bastards who wont pay for anything if they can help it. When one of those types pirates it's just a copy in circulation that shouldn't exist.
On the other hand, there is a type of piracy that is a lost sale. I still love the Gameboy Advanced system, and of course they no longer make games for it, so I turn to eBay and the like. More than once I've gotten outright pirated cartridges off of eBay. I always make sure the sellers have some history to prevent that, but occasionally one slips through. Some of the pirated games I've gotten off of there were really high quality, I spotted the fakes, but I don't think most people would have. On more than one occasion the seller disappeared while my game was in transit, when they don't disappear I tattle to eBay. I then have a moral dillema of what to do with said pirated copy. I paid for it, I didn't know it was pirated until it got here, but it is pirated... Hurricane Ike settled that for me on my older cartridges, but I actually did get a pirate cart off of Amazon since then.
I'm of the opinion the MPAA and the RIAA need to police flea markets and sellers like the above, go after file sharers, but leave downloaders alone. The video game guys need to do the same thing. The big difference between the movie and music people and the video game people is when a new format comes out movies and music usually transition to it. Not until recently have classics been commonly re-released on newer systems and they still don't re-release all of them legally.
Nope, most houses in the Houston area have to pay a trash company. Apartments have a contract for the residents, some home owners associations make it part of their dues, but a lot of homes are on their own.
I know what you're talking about though. Where I grew up in Pecos it was just part of the water bill and was a lot easier to deal with.
I tried to get "naked DSL" there. Verizon claimed repeatedly I wasn't in a DSL coverage area, despite my land lady having access at that house before she moved out. I finally ordered a phone line, then about a month later asked for DSL. What do you know! I was in a DSL area! Of course every time it rained the DSL went up and down for about a day - then Hurricane Ike hit. That was the end of that.
At my last rent house local telco's were in competition with each other to have the "defacto" phone book. When stacked together the phone books I got in a 1 year period were 2 ft tall. The phone companies kept trying to 1 up each other. I never actually used one of them - except one of them had a nice local map tucked in the front. I pulled it out, circled where I lived for someone who was going to visit later and handed it over.
Why should I have to pay for trash pickup if they do free trash delivery?
As soon as something like this comes to light it's only a short matter of time until turfers screw it up. Turfers are like spammers, as soon as there's a new medium they abuse it into uselessness.
I watch Stargate Universe on Hulu and some of the Fox cartoons when I feel like it, but those are optional. I watch Southpark on Southparkstudios.com.
Otherwise - TV just sucks.
When I did watch TV I switched between SciFi, the History Channel, Discover, TLC and Cartoon Network.
Now with Miro for my laptop, TED and a couple of other podcast for my iPhone are all I use for myself. There's lots of good nature stuff easily accessible from Miro's default "channels" I'm covered. I don't even want cable anymore.
The only thing I need is a neutral (as in bandwidth and port neutral) ISP with good throughput. I don't think that's available in my area.
Starting with the last PSP-2000's made, more noticeably the 3000's and the GO the PSP's aren't really pwned anymore. There is the Chick-Hen thing that works with lower firmware revisions which allows you to load a different BIOS into RAM, but it has to be performed every time you shut the thing completely off.
I'm just glad my 2000 is under total pwnage. Haven't pirated anything for it, just don't want to carry my UMDs. Yes, I want UMD's, I don't always trust digital distribution.
I'm am suddenly thinking of the Christopher Moore book called Fluke, or I know why the winged whale sings. Seriously, it will make you look at whales differently from now on.
Seriously, you rip the wings off of a fighter jet and make it stay on the ground does it become a car? To really be a "car" I would almost argue it needs to be propelled by the wheels.
It was a little over ten years ago, I turned off the voice option (he didn't know there was one) and got him interested in Gabriel Knight Sins of the Fathers. He got incredibly interested because of how dark it was (hook, line, sinker). He would sit on my computer for hours reading the conversations between the characters, and I would help him with the hard words. His grades went up significantly at school after getting interested in that game.
He's in the Army now, take that as you like, but he went from a special slow learners class to a gifted and talented program.
Granted, I didn't maintain the speed for far, but I was clocked at 32 for just a dozen feet or so. You have no idea how many freewheels I've stressed beyond their tolerance point.
The fact I would actually have to get to NASA 1 or Medical Center/Hercules.
I don't recall Hercules being an excellent road for biking, granted it's one I could probably take rather safely in comparison to others in the area, but getting to either of those roads from just a little ways North can't be done safely. I would have to drive half way to work, park, pull my bike out then ride to work. DUH! Not a good thing to do.
I could hop on my bike right now and get to work. I could do it I don't know how many times, but eventually I would expect not to survive the trip. Not in a "it was just one of those things" manner, but in a "well what did you expect?" manner. How would you bike from El Dorado and I-45, think of starting at Sam's Club, or even better taste, Texas Road House, and bike to the Space Center? It's only a few miles, it's no big deal, I've road much further in a casual trip. All those nice little roads right there you mentioned would be great once I got there, but there's a lot of road pizza chances before that happens.
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I annoy the guys at GameStop, they have a real motivation to push used on you, they have a higher profit margin. "Would you like to get it used? You save three dollars!" Uhmm, no, give me the new one. "But you save three whole bucks!" Yeah, but I have to peel the price tag off of the cart and it's going to have that sticky shit all over it and all I get is the cart. For three bucks more I get the box, a clean cart with a warranty and no saves on it, and the original clam shell case the game should be in.
That always seems to disappoint them. Fortunately I've found lots of non-GameStop local game shops that are a lot better to deal with.
Just six? Just six months?
I've bought tons of media and not gotten to it until much later. I've been working my way through all the Final Fantasy games in order. I finished Final Fantasy IV three days ago, I went to retrieve my copy of V, which I know I bought in anticipation of getting there. I couldn't find it. I realized I must have lost it in Hurricane Ike - that was in in 08, that's some for sight lost. I've bought DVDs and finally gotten a chance to watch them a year later, I do the same with books. Its a lack of time. Internet stuff like this I can do when I have a few minutes here or there.
Based on your use of commas where Americans would use periods and your trailing instead of leading dollar sign I'm assuming you're European. Since you say you feel entitled I strongly suspect so. I really don't like the entitlement mindset. If we want these people to keep making games, movies, and music we need to make sure they profited some how. I've had people argue that I'm just as bad as a pirate because I buy used, but I disagree, I'm paying attention to the first sale doctrine. The license follows the media. The content creator profited somewhere on my copy. If everyone had an entitlement mindset nothing would get done. The proof is in what happens with areas with large amounts of people who have entitlement mindsets, no work gets done, but lots people bitch about what they don't have. I'm looking at both France and New Orleans here.
Then you have people like me who use tons of pirate utils but stay legal. I rip every PSX and UMD game I own and put them on my MS Pro-Duo cards in my hacked PSP. Not one of the PSX or PSP games is pirated. I buy CDs and rip them, it's actually cheaper than buying downloads for .99 each, especially if you go the still legal used route. I even rip my own kids DVDs to put them on her netbook. Really, you don't want kids handling optical media if you can avoid it. I consider "Digital Copy" a joke. All DVD's are their own "Digital Copy". If they didn't make those things expire I might take them seriously.
Yeah, on one occasion one of the sellers was listed as being in New England, and the game was new in box, sometimes retailers have leftovers or one turns up. I get a package from Hong Kong a week later with a never been popped out flat box and a cart that looks legit, but on further examination wasn't. In this case it would have been a new sale, even though it would have been old stock.
I don't care what the publishers say, a pirated game is not necessarily a lost sale, quite the contrary, I've found most pirates to be lazy bastards who wont pay for anything if they can help it. When one of those types pirates it's just a copy in circulation that shouldn't exist.
On the other hand, there is a type of piracy that is a lost sale. I still love the Gameboy Advanced system, and of course they no longer make games for it, so I turn to eBay and the like. More than once I've gotten outright pirated cartridges off of eBay. I always make sure the sellers have some history to prevent that, but occasionally one slips through. Some of the pirated games I've gotten off of there were really high quality, I spotted the fakes, but I don't think most people would have. On more than one occasion the seller disappeared while my game was in transit, when they don't disappear I tattle to eBay. I then have a moral dillema of what to do with said pirated copy. I paid for it, I didn't know it was pirated until it got here, but it is pirated... Hurricane Ike settled that for me on my older cartridges, but I actually did get a pirate cart off of Amazon since then.
I'm of the opinion the MPAA and the RIAA need to police flea markets and sellers like the above, go after file sharers, but leave downloaders alone. The video game guys need to do the same thing. The big difference between the movie and music people and the video game people is when a new format comes out movies and music usually transition to it. Not until recently have classics been commonly re-released on newer systems and they still don't re-release all of them legally.
Nope, most houses in the Houston area have to pay a trash company. Apartments have a contract for the residents, some home owners associations make it part of their dues, but a lot of homes are on their own.
I know what you're talking about though. Where I grew up in Pecos it was just part of the water bill and was a lot easier to deal with.
I tried to get "naked DSL" there. Verizon claimed repeatedly I wasn't in a DSL coverage area, despite my land lady having access at that house before she moved out. I finally ordered a phone line, then about a month later asked for DSL. What do you know! I was in a DSL area! Of course every time it rained the DSL went up and down for about a day - then Hurricane Ike hit. That was the end of that.
At my last rent house local telco's were in competition with each other to have the "defacto" phone book. When stacked together the phone books I got in a 1 year period were 2 ft tall. The phone companies kept trying to 1 up each other. I never actually used one of them - except one of them had a nice local map tucked in the front. I pulled it out, circled where I lived for someone who was going to visit later and handed it over.
Why should I have to pay for trash pickup if they do free trash delivery?
As soon as something like this comes to light it's only a short matter of time until turfers screw it up. Turfers are like spammers, as soon as there's a new medium they abuse it into uselessness.
I watch Stargate Universe on Hulu and some of the Fox cartoons when I feel like it, but those are optional. I watch Southpark on Southparkstudios.com.
Otherwise - TV just sucks.
When I did watch TV I switched between SciFi, the History Channel, Discover, TLC and Cartoon Network.
Now with Miro for my laptop, TED and a couple of other podcast for my iPhone are all I use for myself. There's lots of good nature stuff easily accessible from Miro's default "channels" I'm covered. I don't even want cable anymore.
The only thing I need is a neutral (as in bandwidth and port neutral) ISP with good throughput. I don't think that's available in my area.
Starting with the last PSP-2000's made, more noticeably the 3000's and the GO the PSP's aren't really pwned anymore. There is the Chick-Hen thing that works with lower firmware revisions which allows you to load a different BIOS into RAM, but it has to be performed every time you shut the thing completely off.
I'm just glad my 2000 is under total pwnage. Haven't pirated anything for it, just don't want to carry my UMDs. Yes, I want UMD's, I don't always trust digital distribution.
I keep my valuables in my genes.
They're both after the same thing either way.
Seriously, all this groping around in my genes and telling me that they owned anything they found. Fucking lawyers.
Actually, not my kid, he sort of adopted me, long story.
Good point, is a "rocket sled" a car? Train tracks would work, and that's how they used to test some of this stuff.
I'm am suddenly thinking of the Christopher Moore book called Fluke, or I know why the winged whale sings. Seriously, it will make you look at whales differently from now on.
Those were cool videos.
Seriously, you rip the wings off of a fighter jet and make it stay on the ground does it become a car? To really be a "car" I would almost argue it needs to be propelled by the wheels.
It was a little over ten years ago, I turned off the voice option (he didn't know there was one) and got him interested in Gabriel Knight Sins of the Fathers. He got incredibly interested because of how dark it was (hook, line, sinker). He would sit on my computer for hours reading the conversations between the characters, and I would help him with the hard words. His grades went up significantly at school after getting interested in that game.
He's in the Army now, take that as you like, but he went from a special slow learners class to a gifted and talented program.
I don't wanna know how you were working the joystick.
Seriously, this is looks like any of the rest of the spam, especially with the opening statement.
I've done 30 on a 20" BMX.
Granted, I didn't maintain the speed for far, but I was clocked at 32 for just a dozen feet or so. You have no idea how many freewheels I've stressed beyond their tolerance point.
As soon as I looked it up I questioned rather I should correct it or not, it's close, but it doesn't quite work where it's at.
The fact I would actually have to get to NASA 1 or Medical Center/Hercules.
I don't recall Hercules being an excellent road for biking, granted it's one I could probably take rather safely in comparison to others in the area, but getting to either of those roads from just a little ways North can't be done safely. I would have to drive half way to work, park, pull my bike out then ride to work. DUH! Not a good thing to do.
I could hop on my bike right now and get to work. I could do it I don't know how many times, but eventually I would expect not to survive the trip. Not in a "it was just one of those things" manner, but in a "well what did you expect?" manner. How would you bike from El Dorado and I-45, think of starting at Sam's Club, or even better taste, Texas Road House, and bike to the Space Center? It's only a few miles, it's no big deal, I've road much further in a casual trip. All those nice little roads right there you mentioned would be great once I got there, but there's a lot of road pizza chances before that happens.