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  1. Re:They can stop it: Installs locked to hardware. on Why Game Developers Should Shut Up About Used Games · · Score: 1

    You're correct. Perhaps i failed to convey that properly.

  2. Re:They can stop it: Installs locked to hardware. on Why Game Developers Should Shut Up About Used Games · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Microsoft already addresses this issue by allowing you to Download your gamertag to only one Xbox 360 at a time. So if you go to your friends house you can DL your gamertag and all of your "Xbox live arcade games" can now be played on your friends xbox. Of course your home Xbox will now not be able to play them until you redownload your gamertag to your Xbox 360.

    So it is very possible that this will become a reality because it already very much is on Xbox Live. Its a HUGE pain in the ass tho.

    Sony is actually better about it. If you buy a game on PSN, you can install it on your PS3 and your friends and both of you can even play the game at the same time on both your consoles.

  3. Re:They can stop it: Installs locked to hardware. on Why Game Developers Should Shut Up About Used Games · · Score: 4, Informative

    Also as far as i know... If you buy a game on steam, its locked to your account and name and you can not resell it.

    The used game market is going to die when digital distribution takes over.

  4. They can stop it: Installs locked to hardware. on Why Game Developers Should Shut Up About Used Games · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sony was going to have each game be locked to a single PS3 thus preventing the resale of the game.

    Sony decided against it when the fans made a stink.

    Lets not say that its "impossible" to stop the selling of used games. Its quite possible and they will do it when they feel they have to.

  5. Re:Are you crazy? on Windows 7 Pre-Orders Top Vista's In Just 8 Hours · · Score: 1

    It sounds all nice until you realize...

    A) The major apps are all on Windows.

    B) The people making the those apps... LIKE DRM.

    So why would they invest in writing software for linux? And which flavor of linux? Linux has a lot of users but that number is tiny and insignificant compared to Windows users. Why would software makers opt to make software for such a small audience?

    Its just not going to happen. I dont know what world you live in but in my world, corporations dont give a fuck about freedom, you, or your computer. All they care about is selling their software, controlling information, dictating prices, and squeezing you dry.

    Thats hardly the linux mentality.

  6. Re:Zone of the Enders 2 MechWarrior on New MechWarrior Announced, MechWarrior4 To Be Distributed Free · · Score: 1

    Its all sci fi. Why cant the robots be agile? Would that be tactically more intelligent to design, rather than a slow lumbering machine that costs lots of money and is easy to destroy since it has very little mobility?

    An M1 Abrams tank is quite fast in real life because mobility is just as important as armor and shelling targets. It needs to move!

    If they could make a tank faster in real life they would do it. Since this is Sci Fi, cant we have it both ways?

    I understand what you're saying though. I just found mech warrior too slow at times.

  7. Zone of the Enders 2 MechWarrior on New MechWarrior Announced, MechWarrior4 To Be Distributed Free · · Score: 1

    MechWarrior is great and all but its often frustratingly slow controls makes it a snore fest.

    I hope they improve on this major flaw. Its the one aspect of MechWarrior that hurt it.

    I much prefer the faster paced, and stylistic movements of Zone of the Enders 2.

    Mech games need to be fun, not just cool ideas that are "slow and boring" just to be "simulation like"

  8. No Thanks. I'll play my own games on my hardware on Gaikai Drawing Interest With Low-Key Demo, Believable Claims · · Score: 1

    I hate these silly game streaming ideas. Its too limiting. I would rather own my games and play them on my own hardware.

    Its just a form of DRM. I would rather own POWERFUL computer hardware and the software I run on it.

  9. Re:Reduced Focus = Reduced Significance on Despite New Owner, id Still Lives Or Dies By Their Engines · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I agree with you, but i wouldnt toss Valve into the mix. Valve has been great on the PC. Steam while it still is a copy protection scheme, is still a pretty dam good distribution platform and a great gaming community. Yes its a form of DRM but they're pretty fair with the users and Steam doesn't hassle the user in any way really. Its very light on resources and it enhances the gaming community.

    Valve has also been incredible with Team Fortress 2. They've supported it quite well and Its far better than anything ID has ever put out.

    The Left 4 Dead 2 thing was a kick in the ass to PC gamers that bought L4D (such as myself). The reason being is that Left 4 Dead was too simple, too short, and seamed like a mod (which in reality it is and they some what admit to it if you read about the history of its development).

    The problem was Left 4 Dead was so simple and under developed, that fans had expected Valve to support it with lots of free content that would enhance the game such as new campaigns, new weapons, better AI, etc. This expectation was due to the fact that Valve had been so generous with Team Fortress 2 and they still are to this day. They have been openly supporting TF2 at their own cost, selling the game for $10 on several occasions. They managed to grow a large user base by building a community of gamers and supporting it, so much that we all expected them to do the same with Left 4 Dead.

    L4D is a really shallow and boring game. Its a great idea that never really came to light in its execution. Valve probably knows this and decided to just go ahead and do a Left 4 Dead. I dont think L4D was EVER expected to be as popular and as huge as it became (thanks to the hype). L4D2 will remain a thorn in most gamers minds until it is released. I plan to buy L4D2 if it is of quality this time around. L4D was a huge disappointment but a great idea.

    Anyways... I agree... PC gaming is not dead.... YET. If developers like ID dont start actually making games.... It will die.

    Valve has done far more for PC gaming than id has done recently. id may not even be relevant these days because they're too slow to develope and no one is interested in their games because no one ever hears of what they're doing. They might as well not even exist. id is legendary but they need to produce something NOW.

    I just bought Street Fighter IV on steam... I own it already on xbox360. So I dont think PC gaming is dead. The PC has the best version of Street Fighter IV, and MadCatz's xbox 360 Tournament Arcade stick works perfectly on the PC as well.... so its a match made in heaven.

    Developers like CAPCOM (makers of street fighter), whom are traditionally console developers have been supporting the PC more than ever now a days. More so than even id software. Capcom has put out more PC games than id has in the past 10 years. I find that interesting.

    That said... Xbox live is a great community, and the xbox hardware itself is good enough to play 720p games while sitting back on your couch looking at a giant HD LCD screen. More people use voice coms on xbox live than on pc and more people have xbox's than a gaming PC.

    The consoles are going to win this war because developers are going where the people are first, and second they do still care about piracy. The PC versions of console games tend to come out after the console release. The console releases all get priority (Street Fighter, Lost Planet, Red Faction all came out later on PC).

    This is why i wont toss valve under the bus... Valve has created an Xbox Live like experience with Steam. A friends list, voice coms, game invites, messages, personal webpages for gamers, digital download distribution with a very friendly drm scheme.

    Valve is doing the right thing, and I'm proud of their fair pricing and often ridiculously cheap prices on their hit titles... They're quite fair to gamers in many respects. The whole Left 4 Dead 2 thing is a bitch but i cant complain too much. I bought Team fortress 2 for $10 on Steam, and they have given me so much free additional content for TF2 and have kept the community alive and well that it really is admirable. I cant kill Valve for the Left 4 Dead 2 thing yet... not until I see the final product.

  10. Re:Privacy? Huh? on US Couple Gets Prison Time For Internet Obscenity · · Score: 1

    Yeah it quite depressing. Its more depressing than the economy. Lets hope it burns down to the ground faster so it can rise from the ashes sooner.

  11. Sounds like the FUD against Universal Health Care on Symantec Exec Warns Against Relying On Free Antivirus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Symantec is taking a page right out of the republican/democrat "anti (not for profit) universal health care" hand book. Instead of having universal single payer health care that would cover us all, for the good of man kind... the special interest groups are spreading FUD because they would lose profit and power.

    Same thing with Symantec. They would have you believe that Free AV would destroy humanity itself and leave you unprotected. Symantec would have you believe that only they can protect you properly.

    The reality is free AV will help prevent the spread of virii thanks to more people having anti virus software.

    Apparently Symantec doesnt really care about protecting users... they just want a profit.

  12. Re:Attn: Amazon - BOOKS DO NOT HAVE ADS! on Amazon Wants Patent For Inserting Ads Into Books · · Score: 1

    There have certainly been some interesting replies. I really havent seen any advertisements in a book. I have seen the occasional ad at the back of the book for another book from the publisher related to the material but I have not seen ads sprinkled throughout a book ever... and i hope i never do.

  13. Attn: Amazon - BOOKS DO NOT HAVE ADS! on Amazon Wants Patent For Inserting Ads Into Books · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I dont really ever remember seeing and advertisement in ANY BOOK I have ever purchased. I'm sorry Amazon. Blow it out your ass. I'll stick to paper backs rather than your greed infected E-book.

  14. Re:Illegality on US Couple Gets Prison Time For Internet Obscenity · · Score: 1

    If it is distribution, really, the prosecutor should have to prove that society or some individual was harmed by the distribution, in a concrete example. There needs to be a victim.

    This is correct and really there is no proof that this harms society. Someone may be turned on by rape play, but we are adults are we not? We know the difference between real violence and fake violence dont we?

    When it comes to video games, politicians seem to think we cant separate fake from real violence. I know we can.

    In the case of videogames, politicians will say "its for the good of our children" (as if children only play videogames). But lets also take this children thing into factor.

    Most parents have children. Which means 2 adults fucked each other to create new life. Now if its a healthy relationship, the parents or guardians will continue to fuck each other while there is a child in the house. When will the politicans start having a problem with that? I mean surely, the child might walk in on mom and dad fucking, or hear them screaming. What if mom loves to be choked and pissed on?

    What if the child walks in on that?! Surely, a cunty politician would demand the child be taken away.

    What is private?

    What is adult?

    What is freedom?

    The silly thing is... these things have already been established, and instead of teaching each other what freedoms really mean.... we instead continue to whittle down the established freedoms until we rid the world of hurt.

    Back to Mom and Dad pissing on each other while Junior is in the next room sleeping...

    Mom and Dad arent dumb. They are adults. So what do they do? They partition their lives. They know there is "for good of the child" and "for our dirty fucking naughty time"

    Adults are capable of having 2 spaces... They're capable of understanding REAL from FAKE violence.... They're capable of being RESPONSIBLE adults while also being deviant fuck bunnies in bed.

    Politicians tend to think its 1 or the other. Its human nature to try to whittle everything down to 1. Thats why we have silly things like "GOD".

    In the case of smoking... I think public smoking does harm to others around you who have no CHOICE in the matter. With PORN... as obscene as it can be, there is a CHOICE there.

    Sure a child could google "tits"... but a child could also walk in on mom and daddy peeing on each other.

    LIFE IS NOT PERFECT. Just let it live.

  15. Re:SAW and KINK.COM on US Couple Gets Prison Time For Internet Obscenity · · Score: 1

    Be careful pointing out the double standard because the powers that be will simply put an end to films like SAW rather than realize the hypocrisy of their holy war.

    When have you EVER heard of the people voting back the strip clubs into a neighborhood?

    Those who have power will use it to destroy our country for personal gain and they will succeed.

    Soon films like SAW will be banned as well. Just wait.

  16. Re:Can someone please explain this to me? on US Couple Gets Prison Time For Internet Obscenity · · Score: 1

    You see, here in America we dont actually have those freedoms that you may have heard about in your country. Its not real. Its all an act to make us feel better about ourselves. Here in America we always think we're the best country because we have freedom and the best of everything. We're very arrogant like that.

    We dont like to learn that we're not really free, or that our country isnt as good to its citizens as many other nations are.... so we close our eyes and say we're the best country there is. Its just easier that way.

    Its easier to feel better about yourself by lying to yourself.

    America is a corrupt nation. We have no freedom of the press, no real health care, and we're being bled dry financially by corporations that being capitalism is supposed to kill a country.

    Our history books are full of lies to make us feel better about ourselves. Even this weekend we will be celebrating our "Independence Day" (4th of July) which is supposed to stand for freedom. We will be having our 4th of July parties and eating our food and never think once about what real independence means. What real freedom means...

    It will never even cross our minds. We will be too busy eating hamburgers and hot dogs and goofing off with friends and family. We dont like to deal with reality much here in America. That is why we have slowly let the America that you learned about, die.

  17. Re:As someone who was following the case... on US Couple Gets Prison Time For Internet Obscenity · · Score: 1

    There is nothing wrong with simulated rape being advertised as actual rape. Survivor is advertised as "reality TV" and its anything but reality.

    There is nothing wrong with advertising the girls as minors when they are in fact adults of legal age. That is role playing. If your wife or girlfriend wants to pretend that she's a 15 year old cheerleader in bed.... thats perfectly legal and no different.

    Now there may be some law broken that i dont know about where as you said, they did not state that they were of legal age in fine print... I cant speak to that other than its really not a big deal as long as the girls were actually of legal age and is documented. Its perhaps a poor choice... but its not like they were raping little children.

    2 girls 1 cup? There is nothing wrong with 2 girls enjoying a cup of their own shit. You may not like it, you may not love it.... but they do and thats what freedom is about. It hurts no one other than (maybe) the adults who chose to partake in something they apparently get off on. So be it. As Bob Ross once said... "Its your world".

    Freedom is a tricky thing. You may not like 2 hot girls rolling around in shit and swallowing it... but that does not give you or anyone the right to take it away from those that do enjoy it.

  18. Sounds more like an FBI Backdoor than an exploit on iPhone Vulnerability Yields Root Access Via SMS · · Score: 1

    Sounds more like an FBI Backdoor than an exploit.

    Oh but dont worry, the federal government has your interest at heart.

  19. Happy 4th of July! on US Couple Gets Prison Time For Internet Obscenity · · Score: 1

    Be sure to buy your hot dogs and illegal fireworks so that you too can celebrate Independence Day!

    Lets all get out there and eat our dick shaped shitty meat tubes and pretend we have freedom. GOD BLESS AMERICA... May she fucking die soon.

  20. Mary Beth Buchanan is a NAZI CUNT. on US Couple Gets Prison Time For Internet Obscenity · · Score: 1

    AMERICA is about freedom, you stupid cunt.

    Simulated RAPE, is not RAPE.

    Is it wrong to rape your girlfriend if she enjoys to be fucked that way? If she is a consenting adult who enjoys rape fantasies and rape play.... is that obscene?

    Wall Street does far more obscene things than any CONSENTING ADULT IN PORNO.

    Mary Beth Buchanan's pussy must be so precious that we're all in awe of her majesty.

  21. Re:Privacy? Huh? on US Couple Gets Prison Time For Internet Obscenity · · Score: 1

    Max Hardcore featured women who WANTED to be in those films.

    He was railroaded by our "free society"

  22. Re:Privacy? Huh? on US Couple Gets Prison Time For Internet Obscenity · · Score: 1

    Yes there are laws in this country. Apparently its illegal to film porn in any state except California.

    Its illegal in NY etc.

    This country is fucking dumb. In some states its still illegal to fuck a girl in the ass or eat cum. Lets send the police out to enforce these laws immediately and lets start seeing what America REALLY is about.

  23. Re:Privacy? Huh? on US Couple Gets Prison Time For Internet Obscenity · · Score: 1

    I miss Bill Hicks.

    If cancer hadnt killed him, America would have.

    In a way i'm glad cancer got him first. This is just fucking sad.

    We have succeeded in failing to live up to our "American" ideals and should rid ourselves of the planet as a favor to those who are intelligent to handle mature adult life.

    If my chick wants me to piss in her mouth and shit in her cunt... Its our business. I'll extend the same courtesy to Michelle and Barrak Obama, the Clintons, the bushes... etc. Whatever the fuck they do in their fuck games... is they're business.

    Im tired of people losing their jobs and lives over "obscenity". Thats not America. That is not what FREEDOM means.

  24. Re:Privacy? Huh? on US Couple Gets Prison Time For Internet Obscenity · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Extreme Associates produced and distributed sexually degrading material that portrayed women in the most vile and depraved manner imaginable,"

    Shouldn't there be a "CONSENTING WOMEN" in there somewhere?

    Whats wrong with sexually degrading material? Whats wrong with OBSCENE material?

    Some women like to be degraded. Hell most of them like when a men takes charge and tells them what to do in bed. Some women like to dominate men. IS that ok? What the fuck does it matter?

    I fucking hate this shit land of oppressive laws known as America. Why is it that my "FREE" country continues to fail its own test at ever fucking opportunity. America is dead.

    You know what truly is obscene? THE EVENING NEWS. That is obscene. Its not even news. Its not even real. Its complete bullshit designed to distract you with entertainment while the criminal politicians and corporations run away with murder living off the wealth of this country.

    This country is a fucking vampire draining itself financially and ethically and dracula is telling you it will all be ok... just sit back and take it.

    The war in iraq is fucking obscene. The politicians are obscene! The state of health care is obscene!

    Reboot America please.

  25. Re:Surprise surprise... on Microsoft Changing Users' Default Search Engine · · Score: 1

    No wonder i never believed in Jesus Christ.