Re:Who cares, it's not Aeris!
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Get George Lucas to handle the FF7 remake and there WILL be a way to save Aeris (or the blade just barely missed her vital organs or something) to be closer in line with the "original vision".
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So, how do I download a demo for that PS2?
Re:Easter eggs don't count as news
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What would be news-worthy is if a blockbuster-action-movie-based console game actually turned out to be fun.
Using Google's define:$keyword feature usually nets a good answer and if that's not satisfying you can still ask. I don't see what better answer than "Chinese characters used in Japanese" the poster could give.
I'd say jail is a good punishment for willfully committed crimes. These people knew they were doing something illegal and they did it nonetheless. Accidentally violating some law noone really understands or knows about is understandable, knowing that you will run afoul of the law and continuing anyway in order to profit is not and jailtime is a good deterrent.
If you let them get away with that the original author loses his ability to profit from his creations and therefore has no incentive to keep creating anything. There is a reason beyond "we want more money" that copyright was introduced.
It is. It's profiting from illegal acts. The only possibly justifiable reason to ignore a law is for the greater public good (and even then it's rarely justified). Personal gain is about as low as you can get on the scale of justifications. Evil = Ignoring the well-being of other people in order to further your own well-being.
Ubisoft is notorious for malfunctioning anticopy systems. They don't need Starforce to kill your CD drive and many people have to use noCD cracks on Ubisoft games to get them to run. They've been on my "don't buy" list for a looong time now.
Starforce protected games can be identified because they tell you to restart the computer to complete the installation of anticopy measures when you run them for the first time.
They're playing mostly MMOs (and Starcraft but that's suicide if you play it without the hotkeys), all an MMO needs is the option to move by clicking the mouse somewhere (I think some MMOs still force you to use the cursor keys for that. Kinda pathetic, this isn't 1996 anymore!) and except for the typing you're set. Skills can be accessed from a panel with buttons. It's slower but feasible. If the MMO isn't that fast (e.g. Lineage 2, you can easily have a coffee break while waiting for your HP to recover) it won't be much of a problem.
Piracy is actually any attack on a civil ship or aircraft over international waters. Shooting a 767 with a stinger missile from a canoo ruddered 5 miles away from land is piracy.
Besides, it's a huge conspiracy to cause global cooling, everybody knows that pirates are cool and global temperature is inversely proportional to the number of pirates, making millions of unsuspecting people pirates will freeze the planet down to near absolute zero.
You're laughing but some cities actually deploy traffic lights that turn red if a car approaches. I think they have a speed sensor and only react towards cars that are too fast, though.
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Get George Lucas to handle the FF7 remake and there WILL be a way to save Aeris (or the blade just barely missed her vital organs or something) to be closer in line with the "original vision".
So, how do I download a demo for that PS2?
What would be news-worthy is if a blockbuster-action-movie-based console game actually turned out to be fun.
Golden Eye?
So far everything suggests that they're planning to port it, they've shown localized demos at various tradeshows.
Using Google's define:$keyword feature usually nets a good answer and if that's not satisfying you can still ask. I don't see what better answer than "Chinese characters used in Japanese" the poster could give.
He said it's not evil. I disagreed.
Copying stuff, even if for profit, is simply not inherently evil.
While you might be able to read that as "copying is not evil as long as it's legal" that doesn't seem to be his intention.
I'd say jail is a good punishment for willfully committed crimes. These people knew they were doing something illegal and they did it nonetheless. Accidentally violating some law noone really understands or knows about is understandable, knowing that you will run afoul of the law and continuing anyway in order to profit is not and jailtime is a good deterrent.
If you let them get away with that the original author loses his ability to profit from his creations and therefore has no incentive to keep creating anything. There is a reason beyond "we want more money" that copyright was introduced.
It is. It's profiting from illegal acts. The only possibly justifiable reason to ignore a law is for the greater public good (and even then it's rarely justified). Personal gain is about as low as you can get on the scale of justifications. Evil = Ignoring the well-being of other people in order to further your own well-being.
He's confusing imperial dollars and metric dollars again.
And because they haven't figured out that "Underrated" would work as well without making the metamods wonder...
What is the defining difference between micro and macro evolution?
Ubisoft is notorious for malfunctioning anticopy systems. They don't need Starforce to kill your CD drive and many people have to use noCD cracks on Ubisoft games to get them to run. They've been on my "don't buy" list for a looong time now.
Starforce protected games can be identified because they tell you to restart the computer to complete the installation of anticopy measures when you run them for the first time.
BTW, I think PoPSoT predates Starforce.
And it's still easier to use than emacs.
They're playing mostly MMOs (and Starcraft but that's suicide if you play it without the hotkeys), all an MMO needs is the option to move by clicking the mouse somewhere (I think some MMOs still force you to use the cursor keys for that. Kinda pathetic, this isn't 1996 anymore!) and except for the typing you're set. Skills can be accessed from a panel with buttons. It's slower but feasible. If the MMO isn't that fast (e.g. Lineage 2, you can easily have a coffee break while waiting for your HP to recover) it won't be much of a problem.
Piracy is actually any attack on a civil ship or aircraft over international waters. Shooting a 767 with a stinger missile from a canoo ruddered 5 miles away from land is piracy.
Besides, it's a huge conspiracy to cause global cooling, everybody knows that pirates are cool and global temperature is inversely proportional to the number of pirates, making millions of unsuspecting people pirates will freeze the planet down to near absolute zero.
Art is a subset of information. Information can be anything that is communicated from one person to another (and a lot more).
Don't you mean 4:1?
There are claims that MS tech support said that the system isn't designed to stand on its side and doesn't have the necessary stabilizers for that.
Also the [...] 360 like the PS2 is backwards compatible
No, most of the units sold are the core version, which doesn't do backwards compatibility because it lacks the harddrive out of the box.
The crash came about because people didn't buy anymore. I don't think any of those care about such lawsuits.
Sega never really overtook Nintendo, the Mega Drive lost against the SNES in most territories.
You're laughing but some cities actually deploy traffic lights that turn red if a car approaches. I think they have a speed sensor and only react towards cars that are too fast, though.
So that's why Rambo was using a bow?
Left behind some useful Opensource code, though.