I wasn't going to buy (insert anything) in the first place, it doesn't matter if I (procurement method) it. No harm, no foul.
For example: I wasn't going to buy a Mercedes in the first place, it doesn't matter if I steal it. No harm, no foul.
Just because you can't afford it, or weren't going to buy it in the first place, doesn't mean you're entitled to it for free and there is "no foul" in doing so.
Oh sweet tears of MUD cloud my eyes. Your game brought years of joy, my first couple of girlfriends, and an addiction like no other.
Yeah, I knew the ROM 2.4b thing, I think I just worded my response strangely. It's like when you play D&D the first few times, it can never really be recreated. The same can be said of playing MHS, playing other MUDs are boring. The days back then were magnificent for myself and my addicted friends.
Thanks!
I am doing fine now that I stopped being a crack addict and realized to take things in moderation and do this strange "life" thing I heard so much about. Growing up, it's so hard to do.
I played too much Moosehead SLED (one of the bases for ROM2.4, diku based) in the mid/late 90's until I dropped out of college. A friend and I founded Daedal Macabre which had a heyday for a while then slowly died, and is still slowly dying.
I learned to type, debug, and code... and it got me a nice job, or at least helped attribute to it.
Interesting, I didn't know. Well, you're right then, I fail at stealing.
I find it funny that he's charging for the full set of songs to download digitally then. I suppose it's the "pay if you like" model. I guess I won't be paying then, thanks for the info.
I've been a NIN fan from the moment I heard Pretty Hate Machine, until sometime last year.
I realized that due to Reznor's accountant blowing most of his money and his now sobriety, he was looking to make a payday.
First, he has you pay $60 (or $75) to join his exclusive fanclub so you can get special tickets to his concerts, you get first pick, you stand in a special / shorter line, you get into the building early, and you get a card for your wallet to look super cool. I paid for it.
He has three tours in the same year? I actually went to them all. Two were the same, the third was barely different. Why have another world tour all the sudden yet have it be exactly the same? Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland. Each time, the super special tickets I bought were a failure, cannot find the lines to stand in because the signs are not there or knocked over, not allowed in early, no real difference than if I bought from ticketmaster.
He then releases Year Zero within a year of his last album. I knew he had one last record to make for his contract before he was out, and I consider this one to be the "filler" just to finish his contract. I preordered it from the site he advertized, they send it to me, and I've listened to it once. I don't find it very good. I should have just stolen the music like he told everyone to, funny. The leaked album on a USB drive in a bathroom... haha.
A song here and there I could like if I listened to them a lot, but it never hooked me like anything else he has done (including movie soundtracks), so it sits gathering dust. Now I see why he told everyone to just steal the album. He'd shout this at his concerts even. He didn't care about this album, and since he was not getting the money from it, it didn't matter.
Now he releases a bunch of tracks without vocals, and does he tell you to steal it? No, he says here is a taste and if you really want it, you can pay for it, and he'll get all of the money. I would surmise he has put even less effort into this collection of songs since there are not vocals than he did for Year Zero, yet he wants his paycheck. Of course he does, now it directly affects him... don't steal it now, just steal my other albums!
I'm sorry Mr. Reznor, you've taken me for a ride on my money long enough. You told me to steal the last album, well, I'll be stealing this one instead. If I find I listen to all of your songs more than a couple of times before throwing them away, I will probably pay for them because I am actually honest and believe in paying for what I use. Enjoy your personal gouging of the fans instead of the RIAA gouging of the fans. Same effect, different person.
So if he can't afford a nice leather jacket, he should just go steal one from the store and it's okay.
Oh he loves BMWs and they are what he wants more than anything but can't afford one so he should just get one, by stealing it I guess?
People steal music because it is easy and they are rarely caught. Same with movies and whatever else they can download.
If people could steal cars just as easily, they would. Same with everything else.
I enjoy seeing people justify themselves by simply saying, "Well it doesn't matter because I couldn't afford it anyways." By that mindset, you may as well be "deserving" of quite a few things since you can't afford them, and there is little/no reason to ever make money since you can just steal everything... err... I mean "get" everything entitled to you for being poor.
Primal Rage was sweet because I played it once for a quarter and beat the whole game. Also, the fact you could eat people for more health was funny.
Time Killers was sweet too because you could lose limbs yet still fight, unless you lost your head of course. 1993 where are you?
School, learning, colleges, whatever - it's what you make of it. You get out what you put in. I graduated from DeVry in 2003 while hiring still was very poor. I had about 30 interviews while other people I knew from DeVry and other schools had none. I ended up getting hired as a consultant above everyone else because of things I knew or could do, some of which I learned at school, some of which I learned myself.
The people who didn't do jack in school and thought the paper at the end would get them some hot shit job are still sucking cock in their free time for some extra smack.
I worked hard and did a lot of extra work to learn and it paid off. They're paying for it now for wasting their school time.
I see too many posts here about someone saying they're poor and that's why they steal games.
Do you steal your groceries too? How about a car? Do you steal gasoline? Do you go into a store and steal the game package off the shelf? No, you steal games off of the internet because it's easy and you won't get caught.
It has nothing to do with being poor. All the rest of that you'd steal too if you didn't think you'd get caught. It's about having no sense of morality and thinking you're entitled to everything simply because you're the most important person around.
Some of us don't steal because we think it's wrong, not because we're afraid of being caught. I actually buy CDs, DVDs, and games. Crappy games? Rent them first, if you like them buy/keep it. Pretty simple, or even wait a bit and buy it when it comes down 20-30 bucks.
I played for 11 months to finally figure out/beat this damned game, and what do I get?
The credits scroll, then it says, "Thank you for playing, see you next game."
F that. Next game? I promptly threw that damned cartridge against the wall.
Granted, it was my first taste of some real RPG fun on the NES. Dragon Warrior was alright, but Ultima Exodus was some crack rock - only to be toppled by Final Fantasy.
Pathetic, really! Okay... so the original Ninja Gaiden was mighty tough, and in fact so were 2 and 3. My brother and I used to keep a list of games we had rented and beaten, trying to pretend we were like the super player awesome kid in "The Wizard" or whatever, and we were mightily skilled.
Anyhow, it took us about a week to beat Ninja Gaiden. I remember the last boss being something else. About the same time to beat Ninja Gaiden 2, and never could beat the boss of 3. Maybe it's time to fire up some ROMs and try it again.
Quite simply i'd jump at the chance to get away from this Godforsaken hellhole, and an incentive like this is going to do so much to encourage me.
The question, however, is what is then going to happen to the immigration laws. Presumably they are going to have to do something to prevent just anyone jumping in and claiming. Will this preclude the majority of people? Will they lower the immigration requirements? Who can say?
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Show me where in there it says he is not from the US? Does this mean that your public schools typically promote people who can't follow the correct thread, and I should trash you too? Of course!
Does anyone find the raised/lined thumbstick of the Gamecube just annoying? Barely any better than the PS2 either. Xbox has one thing right - the thumbsticks have an indentation on them to secure where you thumb is going instead of having it slip off.
Has anyone thought of the ergonomics or strain of having to hold these things in front of you, one handed controllers, continually moving things in little motions... I see a lot of carpel tunnel victims emerging.
I like the idea of innovation, I do, but some things just look wrong.
Also, the controller is blocky near the bottom corner, which will put an indentation into your hand instead of being more rounded and comfortable.
Imagine the palm sweat on this thing.
It looks interesting though. How will you button mash things though?
My arms, wrists, and fingers hurt just looking at this thing.
I will say one thing... does this mean that the mainstream games of the XBox and PS2/3/or 87 won't be playable, or even made, for the revolution? How will I play soul calibur on this?
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Actually, it does show you how to claim it as a deduction. Kind of funny.
Finally, someone else who agrees with me that Contra was an easy game. Spread gun + rapid fire and you could breeze through the game.
For example: I wasn't going to buy a Mercedes in the first place, it doesn't matter if I steal it. No harm, no foul.
Just because you can't afford it, or weren't going to buy it in the first place, doesn't mean you're entitled to it for free and there is "no foul" in doing so.
Funniest, and most accurate, thing I've read all day.
Yeah, I knew the ROM 2.4b thing, I think I just worded my response strangely. It's like when you play D&D the first few times, it can never really be recreated. The same can be said of playing MHS, playing other MUDs are boring. The days back then were magnificent for myself and my addicted friends.
Thanks!
I am doing fine now that I stopped being a crack addict and realized to take things in moderation and do this strange "life" thing I heard so much about. Growing up, it's so hard to do.
I played too much Moosehead SLED (one of the bases for ROM2.4, diku based) in the mid/late 90's until I dropped out of college. A friend and I founded Daedal Macabre which had a heyday for a while then slowly died, and is still slowly dying. I learned to type, debug, and code... and it got me a nice job, or at least helped attribute to it.
You're too big to be a thief.
Interesting, I didn't know. Well, you're right then, I fail at stealing.
I find it funny that he's charging for the full set of songs to download digitally then. I suppose it's the "pay if you like" model. I guess I won't be paying then, thanks for the info.
I've been a NIN fan from the moment I heard Pretty Hate Machine, until sometime last year.
I realized that due to Reznor's accountant blowing most of his money and his now sobriety, he was looking to make a payday.
First, he has you pay $60 (or $75) to join his exclusive fanclub so you can get special tickets to his concerts, you get first pick, you stand in a special / shorter line, you get into the building early, and you get a card for your wallet to look super cool. I paid for it.
He has three tours in the same year? I actually went to them all. Two were the same, the third was barely different. Why have another world tour all the sudden yet have it be exactly the same? Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland. Each time, the super special tickets I bought were a failure, cannot find the lines to stand in because the signs are not there or knocked over, not allowed in early, no real difference than if I bought from ticketmaster.
He then releases Year Zero within a year of his last album. I knew he had one last record to make for his contract before he was out, and I consider this one to be the "filler" just to finish his contract. I preordered it from the site he advertized, they send it to me, and I've listened to it once. I don't find it very good. I should have just stolen the music like he told everyone to, funny. The leaked album on a USB drive in a bathroom... haha.
A song here and there I could like if I listened to them a lot, but it never hooked me like anything else he has done (including movie soundtracks), so it sits gathering dust. Now I see why he told everyone to just steal the album. He'd shout this at his concerts even. He didn't care about this album, and since he was not getting the money from it, it didn't matter.
Now he releases a bunch of tracks without vocals, and does he tell you to steal it? No, he says here is a taste and if you really want it, you can pay for it, and he'll get all of the money. I would surmise he has put even less effort into this collection of songs since there are not vocals than he did for Year Zero, yet he wants his paycheck. Of course he does, now it directly affects him... don't steal it now, just steal my other albums!
I'm sorry Mr. Reznor, you've taken me for a ride on my money long enough. You told me to steal the last album, well, I'll be stealing this one instead. If I find I listen to all of your songs more than a couple of times before throwing them away, I will probably pay for them because I am actually honest and believe in paying for what I use. Enjoy your personal gouging of the fans instead of the RIAA gouging of the fans. Same effect, different person.
HoMMIV I thought was better myself.
Awesome!!!
What a load of crap.
So if he can't afford a nice leather jacket, he should just go steal one from the store and it's okay.
Oh he loves BMWs and they are what he wants more than anything but can't afford one so he should just get one, by stealing it I guess?
People steal music because it is easy and they are rarely caught. Same with movies and whatever else they can download.
If people could steal cars just as easily, they would. Same with everything else.
I enjoy seeing people justify themselves by simply saying, "Well it doesn't matter because I couldn't afford it anyways." By that mindset, you may as well be "deserving" of quite a few things since you can't afford them, and there is little/no reason to ever make money since you can just steal everything... err... I mean "get" everything entitled to you for being poor.
Install it, along with making them a restricted user and using domain policy to restrict more things and reboot computers every night.
Did it in a public computer lab, worked fine.
Primal Rage was sweet because I played it once for a quarter and beat the whole game. Also, the fact you could eat people for more health was funny. Time Killers was sweet too because you could lose limbs yet still fight, unless you lost your head of course. 1993 where are you?
School, learning, colleges, whatever - it's what you make of it. You get out what you put in. I graduated from DeVry in 2003 while hiring still was very poor. I had about 30 interviews while other people I knew from DeVry and other schools had none. I ended up getting hired as a consultant above everyone else because of things I knew or could do, some of which I learned at school, some of which I learned myself.
The people who didn't do jack in school and thought the paper at the end would get them some hot shit job are still sucking cock in their free time for some extra smack.
I worked hard and did a lot of extra work to learn and it paid off. They're paying for it now for wasting their school time.
I see too many posts here about someone saying they're poor and that's why they steal games.
Do you steal your groceries too? How about a car? Do you steal gasoline? Do you go into a store and steal the game package off the shelf? No, you steal games off of the internet because it's easy and you won't get caught.
It has nothing to do with being poor. All the rest of that you'd steal too if you didn't think you'd get caught. It's about having no sense of morality and thinking you're entitled to everything simply because you're the most important person around.
Some of us don't steal because we think it's wrong, not because we're afraid of being caught. I actually buy CDs, DVDs, and games. Crappy games? Rent them first, if you like them buy/keep it. Pretty simple, or even wait a bit and buy it when it comes down 20-30 bucks.
Humans are so damned weak anymore.
I wonder if it just thinks all corporate keys have just been installed on too many computers.
... though this was for a copy of windows where the girl had lost her actual activation key.
My key is legitimate... legitimately generated at least.
Lovely.
I worked in an "adult book store" for three years, until Oct 2003, and let me tell you, there are plenty of people who buy porn.
I figured we had net income (not gross) of 20K a month.
Nothing like 1000% markup on things.
Ultima Exodus for the NES.
I played for 11 months to finally figure out/beat this damned game, and what do I get?
The credits scroll, then it says, "Thank you for playing, see you next game."
F that. Next game? I promptly threw that damned cartridge against the wall.
Granted, it was my first taste of some real RPG fun on the NES. Dragon Warrior was alright, but Ultima Exodus was some crack rock - only to be toppled by Final Fantasy.
Pathetic, really! Okay... so the original Ninja Gaiden was mighty tough, and in fact so were 2 and 3. My brother and I used to keep a list of games we had rented and beaten, trying to pretend we were like the super player awesome kid in "The Wizard" or whatever, and we were mightily skilled.
Anyhow, it took us about a week to beat Ninja Gaiden. I remember the last boss being something else. About the same time to beat Ninja Gaiden 2, and never could beat the boss of 3. Maybe it's time to fire up some ROMs and try it again.
Quite simply i'd jump at the chance to get away from this Godforsaken hellhole, and an incentive like this is going to do so much to encourage me.
The question, however, is what is then going to happen to the immigration laws. Presumably they are going to have to do something to prevent just anyone jumping in and claiming. Will this preclude the majority of people? Will they lower the immigration requirements? Who can say? --
Show me where in there it says he is not from the US? Does this mean that your public schools typically promote people who can't follow the correct thread, and I should trash you too? Of course!
If you think it's such a hellhole, good riddance. I hope you move to Canada. In fact, I'll give you $20 to help you move.
Does anyone find the raised/lined thumbstick of the Gamecube just annoying? Barely any better than the PS2 either. Xbox has one thing right - the thumbsticks have an indentation on them to secure where you thumb is going instead of having it slip off. Has anyone thought of the ergonomics or strain of having to hold these things in front of you, one handed controllers, continually moving things in little motions... I see a lot of carpel tunnel victims emerging. I like the idea of innovation, I do, but some things just look wrong. Also, the controller is blocky near the bottom corner, which will put an indentation into your hand instead of being more rounded and comfortable. Imagine the palm sweat on this thing. It looks interesting though. How will you button mash things though? My arms, wrists, and fingers hurt just looking at this thing. I will say one thing... does this mean that the mainstream games of the XBox and PS2/3/or 87 won't be playable, or even made, for the revolution? How will I play soul calibur on this?
Seriously, people might actually see the movie if they knew it wasn't going to be available right away at the cost of 2 tickets.
In the good ole' days they didn't release E.T. on VHS until 8 years later, which let it be re-released in the movie theater 4 years later.
I think I remember that rightly. Maybe not.