Deus Ex doesn't have to be like that, and it doesnt have to make it into a run and gun game.
It wasn't like that. However, if you trained your character that way, you could indeed play run and gun. That was the beauty of that game.
You keep referencing some imaginary scenario in which you're forced to survive the rest of some impossible level with low health, ignoring the fact that there were tons of medkits lying around in Wolf/Doom. In fact, in Deus Ex, you had an inventory to store your medkits and could buy them or discover them through exploration, utilizing skills you may have specialized in, such as lockpicking or computer hacking. You could even increase the effectiveness of medkits, and there were health bots. If all that wasn't enough, then you just needed to reload your save game and play better.
I know, I know, probably sounds horrible in this era of coddling, no-punishment gaming like WoW. This attempt to portray permanent damage as "bullshit" from some forgotten era is silly. It makes me sad, because I suspect you're the target demographic--a demographic of people who are accustomed to EZ-mode shooters in which you can duck behind a corner and magically auto-heal your whole lifebar like some low-grade MMO.
How exactly is piracy ethically no different from mob looting a store whose locks were broken? Your analogy is missing something. Try "mob looting a store that has an infinite supply of something and pays nothing for it." You seem to be missing the specific points between theft and copyright infringement (there is a reason courts still don't call it theft). Media can be infinitely reproduced at no cost to the creator. Throws that whole supply and demand thing out of whack, doesn't it?
My sig is about the ethics of piracy, not the distribution costs. I purposely included the word "ethically" to avoid responses like yours. However, since you brought it up, why do Slashdotters insist that piracy isn't theft, yet when someone is violating the GPL, you guys call it "stolen code?"
Clearly, just because something can be digitally copied doesn't mean it has no value--it certainly has a lot of value to the person who created it to try to make a living, which pirates want to make sure doesn't happen by freeloading off their work.
Welcome to the angry antisocial Linux community, ladies and gentleman--where wanting to get things done instead of spending all night configuring an OS is "anti-intellectualism," and having more interesting things to do is a "misguided rush."
You're a "drone" if you want to use software that already works. Good luck spreading that message, Linux users.
In the coming flood of OS conversion, shove as much Linux or BSD down their throat as you can. This is an opening that the Open Source community cannot afford to miss.
Almost every poll! . . . . . . . . (on DailyKos...)
It is not "in the bag" for Democrats. Kerry fans thought the same thing four years ago. Even the exit polls showed Kerry with the lead on election day. Americans don't elect liberal presidents, and Obama is one of the most liberal senators in America.
Meanwhile, Biden says crazy shit like Americans were huddled around their TV sets in 1929 to hear the president talk about the Great Depression, or tells Chuck Graham to stand up and applaud, or claims his helicopter was "forced down" by terrorists when it was actually the weather.
Republicans are held to a higher level of scrutiny and mocking. You won't see late-night punchlines about Joe Bidens history of gaffes (remember when he said you couldn't go into a 7-11 without hearing an Indian accent? A Republican could never get away with saying that).
Maybe because this is 2008, and they're not trying to cater to the teeny-tiny, incredibly miniscule number of Slashdot whiners who still live in the Dark Ages and refuse to use any Flash whatsoever even though it's the most popular cross-platform web solution for delivering multimedia content.
CDs aren't a perfect digital copy of the recording. They're downsampled to 16-bit, 44.1khz. One of the marketing points of iTunes several years ago was that the files are encoded from direct sources like master tapes, giving a more accurate representation of the source audio.
DRM was never about catching piracy, it was about extracting more money from those who legally pay for their media. Fortunately, DRM appears to be dying a death but the media companies still want to make more profits from those people who do pay for the stuff.
I love when pirates invent these wild conspiracies with absolutely no evidence to back them up. DRM was obviously a response to Napster and the ease of pirating copyrighted materials. In fact, for many years, the record industry was mocked for its slow response to the threat of internet piracy.
He's releasing on iTunes. Not really an avoidance of corporate engines. In fact, I believe it was Weird Al who stated a few years ago that he makes less money through iTunes than through traditional distribution channels.
Besides, saying that established artists can be independent from usual business models leaves out that they relied on that business model beforehand to raise them to the position they're at now. Radiohead and NIN weren't releasing their music for free 10 years ago when they still needed the money. It's sort of like an anarchist using a computer and internet connection to rant against capitalism. Capitalists made the computers and software that are allowing the anarchist to rant in the first place.
I never claimed you were saying you were first (why are you posting anonymously?). I was pointing out that your emphatic lecture to everybody on media coverage isn't new or original.
You're totally saying something that nobody has ever said before. Seriously, I've never seen anyone make the point you're making. You are witty and original. I am not being sarcastic in any way.
Why is the parent marked as a troll? The grandparent post cited a $25 bailout in the automotive industry as a reason to complain about Nintendo releasing a new model of DS. Seriously.
Yet another in a long line of pro-piracy articles from Slashdot over the years. Nobody wants to talk about the artists getting ripped off because of that site. Everyone wants to joke about how "down to earth" its owners are. Everyone wants to scapegoat media companies to make them the bad guys in the narrative instead of the pirates ripping artists off. Everyone wants to forget that artists willingly sign their contracts.
Piracy is nothing more than freeloading. It's the total opposite of OSS in that you're not giving anything back to the community. Much worse, you're completely disregarding the human being who worked so hard to make a product to make a living off of. You genuinely don't give a shit, because it's free and it's easy to get. Software developers, musicians, filmmakers, authors, and so on--"Fuck their rights!"
I could see how mainstream, non-geeks would get the idea that the guys who run a "piracy file sharing website" (as some in the MSM portray it)
Huh? It is a piracy file-sharing website. It's even called "The Pirate Bay."
It's a site devoted to ripping off material that artists are selling for a living so that you can get it for free. It exists solely to facilitate freeloading. Slashdot (as usual) is glorifying it by linking to this story.
It's all about how you go after them. Jaywalking is illegal. So to stop it, would you mind if we shove a camera up your ass to record where you walk and a set of electrodes on your balls to we can zap you if you look like you might be heading away from the crosswalk?
This is such a stupid statement. The RIAA isn't zapping your balls with electrodes. They're filing lawsuits against copyright infringers
You're an industry shill so I know you won't get the point, but there is a point to be made. It's the RIAA that are fucking over the artists you claim to care so desperately about - not the pirates. For every penny lost to piracy the record execs walk away with truckloads of cash. All in the name of "protecting the artist".
Total bullshit, and you know it.
My favorite aspect of pro-piracy Slashdotters and their misinformed opinions is that if you dare defend artists from getting ripped off, you get accused of being an "industry shill."
IF THE RIAA IS FUCKING OVER ARTISTS, HOW IS YOU PIRATING THEIR MUSIC GOING TO HELP THEM?
Did you know artists willingly sign their contracts? Did they ask you to "fight for them?" You're using the same mindless pro-piracy argument that every pirate uses to justify their immoral activities and make themselves feel less guilty. "I'm not the bad guy, the RIAA is! That makes it okay for me to be ripping off artists!"
You're a tool, and you don't even consider the artists who have publicly stated that they don't want people pirating their material. Hell, the MST3K guys have started a program called RiffTrax, and they posted comments to their materials on PirateBay asking people not to download it. EVERYBODY ATTACKED THEM AND INSULTED THEM.
Pirates are freeloaders who just want shit for free. You use morality plays like "the RIAA is evil and screws over artists" to distract people from what you're doing. Period.
FUCK artists, and FUCK their rights! How dare the RIAA go after individual infringers, even though it's what Slashdotters said they should do back in 2000 during the Napster lawsuit.
I deserve to have people's work for free because I can. Artists are my personal slaves. Somebody else will pay them, by buying show tickets or t-shirts or something. I don't care. FUCK THEM.
Presidential candidates with 120 days of an election generally get government protection, such as from the Secret Service. The FBI will step in to investigate incidents as needed.
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It wasn't like that. However, if you trained your character that way, you could indeed play run and gun. That was the beauty of that game.
You keep referencing some imaginary scenario in which you're forced to survive the rest of some impossible level with low health, ignoring the fact that there were tons of medkits lying around in Wolf/Doom. In fact, in Deus Ex, you had an inventory to store your medkits and could buy them or discover them through exploration, utilizing skills you may have specialized in, such as lockpicking or computer hacking. You could even increase the effectiveness of medkits, and there were health bots. If all that wasn't enough, then you just needed to reload your save game and play better.
I know, I know, probably sounds horrible in this era of coddling, no-punishment gaming like WoW. This attempt to portray permanent damage as "bullshit" from some forgotten era is silly. It makes me sad, because I suspect you're the target demographic--a demographic of people who are accustomed to EZ-mode shooters in which you can duck behind a corner and magically auto-heal your whole lifebar like some low-grade MMO.
My sig is about the ethics of piracy, not the distribution costs. I purposely included the word "ethically" to avoid responses like yours. However, since you brought it up, why do Slashdotters insist that piracy isn't theft, yet when someone is violating the GPL, you guys call it "stolen code?"
Clearly, just because something can be digitally copied doesn't mean it has no value--it certainly has a lot of value to the person who created it to try to make a living, which pirates want to make sure doesn't happen by freeloading off their work.
Welcome to the angry antisocial Linux community, ladies and gentleman--where wanting to get things done instead of spending all night configuring an OS is "anti-intellectualism," and having more interesting things to do is a "misguided rush."
You're a "drone" if you want to use software that already works. Good luck spreading that message, Linux users.
Wow, talk about spin. The return rates are higher for Linux, yet "most people are quite happy with Linux?" What a leap.
...or people just had some hardware troubles with Vista due to driver issues, there's no "revolt," and the economy is going to be fine.
Less dramatic, more accurate.
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It is not "in the bag" for Democrats. Kerry fans thought the same thing four years ago. Even the exit polls showed Kerry with the lead on election day. Americans don't elect liberal presidents, and Obama is one of the most liberal senators in America.
Meanwhile, Biden says crazy shit like Americans were huddled around their TV sets in 1929 to hear the president talk about the Great Depression, or tells Chuck Graham to stand up and applaud, or claims his helicopter was "forced down" by terrorists when it was actually the weather.
Republicans are held to a higher level of scrutiny and mocking. You won't see late-night punchlines about Joe Bidens history of gaffes (remember when he said you couldn't go into a 7-11 without hearing an Indian accent? A Republican could never get away with saying that).
Maybe because this is 2008, and they're not trying to cater to the teeny-tiny, incredibly miniscule number of Slashdot whiners who still live in the Dark Ages and refuse to use any Flash whatsoever even though it's the most popular cross-platform web solution for delivering multimedia content.
http://facethestate.com/articles/democracy-alliance-memo-details-dem-plan-educate-idiots-and-target-minorities
CDs aren't a perfect digital copy of the recording. They're downsampled to 16-bit, 44.1khz. One of the marketing points of iTunes several years ago was that the files are encoded from direct sources like master tapes, giving a more accurate representation of the source audio.
Apparently, "properly market an album over the internet" = release it for free because you're an already-established artist who can afford to do so.
I love when pirates invent these wild conspiracies with absolutely no evidence to back them up. DRM was obviously a response to Napster and the ease of pirating copyrighted materials. In fact, for many years, the record industry was mocked for its slow response to the threat of internet piracy.
You just restated the Weird Al post that this article is linking to. Instant +5!
He's releasing on iTunes. Not really an avoidance of corporate engines. In fact, I believe it was Weird Al who stated a few years ago that he makes less money through iTunes than through traditional distribution channels.
Besides, saying that established artists can be independent from usual business models leaves out that they relied on that business model beforehand to raise them to the position they're at now. Radiohead and NIN weren't releasing their music for free 10 years ago when they still needed the money. It's sort of like an anarchist using a computer and internet connection to rant against capitalism. Capitalists made the computers and software that are allowing the anarchist to rant in the first place.
I never claimed you were saying you were first (why are you posting anonymously?). I was pointing out that your emphatic lecture to everybody on media coverage isn't new or original.
You're totally saying something that nobody has ever said before. Seriously, I've never seen anyone make the point you're making. You are witty and original. I am not being sarcastic in any way.
Why is the parent marked as a troll? The grandparent post cited a $25 bailout in the automotive industry as a reason to complain about Nintendo releasing a new model of DS. Seriously.
Yet another in a long line of pro-piracy articles from Slashdot over the years. Nobody wants to talk about the artists getting ripped off because of that site. Everyone wants to joke about how "down to earth" its owners are. Everyone wants to scapegoat media companies to make them the bad guys in the narrative instead of the pirates ripping artists off. Everyone wants to forget that artists willingly sign their contracts.
Piracy is nothing more than freeloading. It's the total opposite of OSS in that you're not giving anything back to the community. Much worse, you're completely disregarding the human being who worked so hard to make a product to make a living off of. You genuinely don't give a shit, because it's free and it's easy to get. Software developers, musicians, filmmakers, authors, and so on--"Fuck their rights!"
Huh? It is a piracy file-sharing website. It's even called "The Pirate Bay."
It's a site devoted to ripping off material that artists are selling for a living so that you can get it for free. It exists solely to facilitate freeloading. Slashdot (as usual) is glorifying it by linking to this story.
This is such a stupid statement. The RIAA isn't zapping your balls with electrodes. They're filing lawsuits against copyright infringers
My favorite aspect of pro-piracy Slashdotters and their misinformed opinions is that if you dare defend artists from getting ripped off, you get accused of being an "industry shill."
IF THE RIAA IS FUCKING OVER ARTISTS, HOW IS YOU PIRATING THEIR MUSIC GOING TO HELP THEM?
Did you know artists willingly sign their contracts? Did they ask you to "fight for them?" You're using the same mindless pro-piracy argument that every pirate uses to justify their immoral activities and make themselves feel less guilty. "I'm not the bad guy, the RIAA is! That makes it okay for me to be ripping off artists!"
You're a tool, and you don't even consider the artists who have publicly stated that they don't want people pirating their material. Hell, the MST3K guys have started a program called RiffTrax, and they posted comments to their materials on PirateBay asking people not to download it. EVERYBODY ATTACKED THEM AND INSULTED THEM.
Pirates are freeloaders who just want shit for free. You use morality plays like "the RIAA is evil and screws over artists" to distract people from what you're doing. Period.
FUCK artists, and FUCK their rights! How dare the RIAA go after individual infringers, even though it's what Slashdotters said they should do back in 2000 during the Napster lawsuit.
I deserve to have people's work for free because I can. Artists are my personal slaves. Somebody else will pay them, by buying show tickets or t-shirts or something. I don't care. FUCK THEM.
Yeah, pirates aren't crooks or anything. There's no irony in your post whatsoever, and no sarcasm in mine.
Presidential candidates with 120 days of an election generally get government protection, such as from the Secret Service. The FBI will step in to investigate incidents as needed.
So much of that is just caching. I don't know why people freak out so much over browser memory. Unused memory is wasted memory.