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  1. Re:Fags are gay on How Cities: Skylines Beat SimCity At Its Own Game · · Score: 1

    But he also, uhm, got you to respond with invictive. And that's the trolls goal, so he won.

  2. Re:Thank god on Whoah, Small Spender! Steam Sets Limits For Users Who Spend Less Than $5 · · Score: 1

    A partial fix to this is already part of many phones: call blocking. If a caller is not in your address book, it goes right to voice mail. I also have an app that automatically disconnects calls from unlisted/private numbers or numbers that are part of a community black list that you can add to.

  3. This was determined by... on Steve Ballmer Replaces Don Mattrick As Xbox One Chief · · Score: 1

    seeing which MS exec could throw an Xbone the furthest.

  4. Re:Well... on Notch Won't Certify Minecraft For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Nice to see Stardock still pumping out handy Windows utilities as well as the occasional time-sucking 4X game.

    To this day, I still use Multiplicity on several machines to access computers right next to each other without using a KVM or multiple mice/keyboards.

  5. Re:Who's this CowboyNeal? on CowboyNeal On Dota 2, Modern Games, and Software Development · · Score: 1

    I wish I could get my low ID back but I lost access to the email address attached to it.

  6. Re:Allegiance on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced? · · Score: 1
    I _loved_ that game. I was in the beta because I was a zine reviewer at the time and also enjoyed playing it a lot after release.

    I think part of the reason it failed was because MSFT launched it using a monthly fee on top of the $50 initial purchase cost. Nuts, eh?

    Anyway, I'll check out the game as it is now; it might be a good excuse to buy a new joystick.

  7. Re:Allegiance on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced? · · Score: 1

    I was a big fan of that game and wrote a review on it for a now defunct magazine. A friend of mine was on the development team. If you want to, I can ask him about it.

  8. NEWSFLASH!!! EXTRA EXTRA!!! on Why You Don't Want a $99 Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    Time value of money exists! Read all about it!

  9. I hope... on Bethesda Announces Elder Scrolls MMO · · Score: 1

    I hope they asked themselves the question before they got started, "What things can we do that will make ours better than what else is out there?"

  10. Re:Seems partly justified on Judge Grudgingly Awards $3.6 Million In DRM Circumvention Case · · Score: 1

    But that's not what the law says and not what was meant by the people who wrote it.

    The company ripping of MapleStory made a lot of money doing so and the fine was too light if anything.

    Judges intepret and apply laws, they shouldn't be writing them or basing what they think the penalty should be on what they think is right. That is the job of the democratically elected legislature. No one voted for this judge.

  11. Re:exponential version growth on 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons Announced · · Score: 1

    Well, you did come to the one website on earth where that would be possible. Don't be so surprised.

  12. Don't really need them anymore.... on GamePro Shutting Down After 22 Years · · Score: 1

    Why do I need to know someone else's opinion about a game when I can play a demo myself or read a one-man-blog who reviews it? Or watch a preview video on Youtube?

  13. Re:Seems Reasonable on Battlefield 3 Banned In Iran · · Score: 1

    Nonsense.
    If I build a TV station and I decide I don't want to broadcast your crap, it's not censorship. You are guaranteed a right to speak, not a right to be heard.

  14. This does not equate to intelligence or virtue on Study Finds Frequent Gaming Changes Your Brain · · Score: 1

    If there was some tie in to emotional maturity,patience, wisdom, or even raw intelligence, that would better validate the value of VG more than just changes in the shape of the brain - which is quiet common among those engaged in repetitive mental behavior just like muscle develops according to to repetitive physical behavior.

  15. Re:Hmmm on Valve's Gabe Newell On Piracy: It's Not a Pricing Problem · · Score: 1

    What do you think the "C" in "LLC" stands for, genius?

  16. Probably the same on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    Meat from cows is made of molecules.

    Meat from a lab can be made from the same molecules.

    If your tongue and your stomach can't tell the difference, what does it matter? *shrug*

  17. Re:In the middle of the greatest deficit... on US Gives Raytheon $10.5M For 'Serious Games' · · Score: 1
    I'm going to stab at your ignorant meme.

    Bankers paid back all of the money from TARP with interest. It netted the US treasury a profit to spend on Pell Grants, food safety, and whatever other benevolent things you think government does.

    The portion of TARP that did loose money was that which was invested in GM and Chrysler. Many billions lost - but that was solely to bail out the unions, not the companies. If they had gone into bankruptcy, they would have shed their union obligations and continued making cars.

    It was comrade Obama's venture socialism in 'green jobs' that cost taxpayers.

    Stop pretending you speak for the 99%. Get a job, anonymous coward freak.

  18. Re:Back to Morrowind on The Elder Scrolls Return With Skyrim · · Score: 1
    There was a line from comedian Richard Pryor where he said he knew he had a cocaine problem when he chose the cocaine over the, er, woman.

    Your post reminded me of this.

  19. Re:Say what? on When Having the US Debt Paid Off Was a Problem · · Score: 1

    We are clearly going to get a big bunch of amateur economists commenting on this one.

    I see you are getting this trend started. I would add that there still would be secure government debt to purchase for a long time - though not as much of it. States, municipalities, school boards, etc. are always participating in the bond market for special projects. There are also foreign government's that run deficits but whose debt is more secure than the US's (Thailand, etc.)

  20. Re:Shows how little you understand about money on DC Universe Online Goes F2P · · Score: 1

    This is why many places that accept credit cards require minimum transaction amounts to use them.

    Which is a violation of their merchant agreement and, if you notify the credit card company, will result in them being told to either drop the minimum or stop taking cards.

    IThey are not allowed to have minimum transactions for cards and they are not allowed to charge a premium for card-using customers. They are, however, allowed to give cash discounts.

    /merchant account reseller for the last 5 years.

  21. Re:Why? on Xbox 360 Reset Hack Yields Unsigned Code Execution · · Score: 1

    No.

    You buy that equipment with an understanding that there are restrictions on how you use it.

    Do you buy a lunch buffet carrying a set of Tupperware?

  22. Better alternatives for less money on Razer Announces Dedicated Gaming Laptop · · Score: 1

    I have an Asus G73JH-A1 with one of the HD's upgraded to a SSD from http://www.xoticpc.com/.
    It has a better processor and cost $1000 or so less.

  23. Re:Tampering on GameStop Opening Deus Ex Boxes, Removing Free Game Coupon · · Score: 1
  24. Re:"Estoppel Defense" on Atari Targets Retro Community With Cease & Desist · · Score: 1

    Mr. Fake Lawyer: Why are you defending a squatter?

  25. atari2600.org is a squater on Atari Targets Retro Community With Cease & Desist · · Score: 1

    It's not as if the site is currently a home-brew fan site where people share pictures of their atari's.

    It's a squater trying to sell it for money. And it's pretty standard procedure that when you take a protected name as a URL and try to SELL it, the owner of the name gets to take it away from you.