I won't buy anything from them because their damned FREE DLC forced my savegames into a 'Must log into servers' before I can play.
It freaking phones home every time I try to play the damned game. Oh crap my connection is down, guess I don't get to play the game.
And I don't give a damn if there is some way to fix it or get around it. My game should work when I go to play it no matter what the state of my internet connection is or was.
Then, after you sell your car with the after-market mods, Ford/GM/Honda/Toyota, hits a button that fires explosive bolts and blows the aftermarket mods off your vehicle and destroys them.
Or they hit a button and declare that you are not allowed to sell your car to your neighbor. They say that your neighbor must buy a new car, AND all of the aftermarket parts over again.
I refuse to purchase any more EA games when I found out that my copy of a game was crippled intentionally.
It's this shaving of the edges bullshit by trying to factor in a decrease in users not due to someone simply shelving their game, but intentionally making it difficult or impossible to give your product to someone else.
It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't start COMBINING different games under one account so that if you want to transfer one game, all become useless.
If anyone knows of any counterexamples on PC from the past couple of years, please do suggest them, but I get the feeling no-one has made a Doom
I'm sorry, but really? DOOM as a counter example? The game that literally made it's way onto the market by shipping as an incomplete game.
Granted we ARE now paying for things that used to be considered shareware, but as far as analogies go, DOOM is pretty much one of the successful examples for the birth of the DLC movement.
Why not just buy a damn guitar, man? With as much effort as you put into this, you could do it for real. I know, I know, stupid idea, I shouldn't have even contradicted the zeitgeist of USA 2010.
To misuse an old spice quote. Experience is everything.
So do you go to war zones instead of playing Call of Duty? Did you go out and buy an F1 racer instead of playing that racing game? Did you post on Slashdot instead of interacting with a person in real life?
My father in law was/is the LITERAL guitarist for a couple of tracks that made it onto Guitar Hero.
He can't play the game. His problem is that the 'notes' don't match up to the song, and the disparity is so great that he is so used to playing the actual notes, that trying to 'reduce' what he would do on an actual guitar is not possible.
It is the weirdest thing to listen to the guy grab the guitar next to his couch, and play the actual song, or listen to his old performances OF the song, and then watch as he plays the game as if he were wearing oven mitts.
And how much does a guitar controller for these games cost you?
You don't HAVE to buy all the peripherals. Just like you don't have to buy the pedal and shifter controller to go with your car game. Shocking that the more you try to accurately emulate real life, the more expensive it gets.
This is what they've said in every era. Along with other gems such as, "old people are dumb" and "kids these days don't know anything." Face it, the average slashdot reader would make any poor cop who had to trail them die of boredom.
You think they trail you because they were told to? No, they trail you because they want to. They trail you because in some way, some how, you wronged them, and they have the tools at their disposal to exact some form of revenge against you.
In most cases, revenge exerted against you will come in the form of someone letting a call with your ID to go to voicemail a few times. With the police and governmental powers, the revenge can be a lot more invasive and dangerous.
Maybe they won't find anything. But that doesn't mean they won't try. Piss off a meter maid, and expect to get a ticket for parking in a spot for the handicapped. Piss off a detective and expect some sort of 'record search' to be performed at the least. Piss off a city employee, expect to find out that your sidewalk curb isn't to code and must be torn out and replaced at your expense.
Trust me, human beings will go to extreme lengths to pursue a grudge and will use any and all tools at their disposal unless you build in some serious safeguards and oversight. And even with those checks, some still will try to fuck you over.
We now decide on whether or not someone gets to keep their money on the basis of how hard he / she worked to earn it?? What subcommittee, from the dark nether regions of Cthulu's domain, decided this stellar policy in my absence?
The man got swindled. Whether or not the man has $2 or $2 million in his checking account, he deserves our sympathy. That he is an heir, and thus "didn't earn the money," is a poor excuse for some highly despicable behavior.
Sorry, all my sympathy was used up for the people who lived, worked, and died for those who setup this guy's inheritance.
Why should I have any sympathy for the person who has $20 million to lose?
The world isn't fair. Let me know when it sucks so much to be mind-bogglingly rich that it sucks equally as much as only having $2 in your checking account. Then I'll have some sympathy.
You see, the advantage of having $20 million around to lose is that you don't normally have to face the fact that life sucks, because that $20 million makes it a hell of a lot easier to make it suck for enough other people that you get to live a fairly comfortable existence.
I know that isn't fair of me, but for some reason it's just easier to feel compassion for the $2 in their checking account family.
If it doesn't work then why are the Russians so afraid of it?
A 150lb ITG picking a fight with a 230lb fighter would make you say "Why would the 230lb guy worry?"
Because the 150lb guy might delude himself into believing his own hype, and you DON'T want someone thinking that they have the ability to start a nuclear war and not suffer consequences. Even if they are wrong, they might believe their own hype.
Are we certain that this was a friendly missile, not e.g. a Chinese sub saying "look where we managed to drive this thing"?
China may be bold, but sub launching a missile within a few miles of major US cities and military installations is a quick way to nuclear annihilation.
That sort of action would have had even Denzel rushing to turn the second key.
Chinese sub simply popping up in US coastal waters would likely involve it being attacked. (Submarine warfare does not follow the same rules that surface naval warfare follows. If you are on a sub, even in 'peacetime' you are always under threat of being attacked)
The level of provocation that a Chinese sub launching a missile so close to major population centers? They wouldn't try it. It would surprise me if North Korea would try something so bone-headed. No way in hell it was China.
If only there were a way to get rid of those damaged cells and create new ones.
Or maybe we can evolve some way to correct that ridiculous stopgap measure that we have due to sperm's inability to withstand normal body temperatures.
You are indeed an ignorant American who needs to spend a little more time thinking things through. Race was not mentioned once in any post in this thread until you brought it up. Perhaps you should also study the definition of racism while you are at it. To the extent that "race" even exists, there is no USian race at all. There is most definitely a USian culture which I despise. And I should know, I was born in the U.S. and have had to live around you disgusting people my entire life.
No you never mentioned the word race. And I can hardly understand how I could have considered you to be a bigot. I forgot that one must invoke specific words in order to be racist. One could never make an inference based on the content of your posts.
Similarly, an "American Accent" is Spanish-speaking accent, as that is the language spoken by the majority of Americans, though I could imagine a few people in the U.S. who wouldn't be happy about this.
Aren't you being rather insulting to the people of Brazil (Yeah lots of Spanish spoken there...)? What 'Spanish accent' are you referring to? It certainly isn't European Spanish. And I'd like you to compare Venezualan Spanish to Puerto Rican Spanish.
But what do I know, I'm just an ignorant American who happens to speak Spanish and learned enough of it to be able to converse with either an Iberian, or some of the multitudes of other Spanish accents.
You are modded insightful as to a comment filled with racist and ignorant comments as to how much you 'hate' the people of the United States. That is what is sad.
Sure that makes sense. He deserved to die. So if he had purchased the powder, got it and decided to eat it, but then a friend stopped him, he should be arrested and executed, because he deserves to die for making that decision.
Several pregnant moments? I could be wrong but I think you meant to say "several pregnant monuments".
Huh, I don't know what you are talking about. Is it a reference?
Pregnant in this sense is used to refer to a period of time which is filled with suspense or anticipation. An example would be if the president came on the air to announce something catastrophic.
If he paused before delivering the message for dramatic effect, the pause... the emotional feeling of the audience, could be said to be pregnant with suspense.
There are medical studies going on right now, that are so important to me that I half considered investing a significant portion of my money (all of it really) in order to COPY what they are doing now.
For some conditions, people could not care less about the risks of the cure because the problem is several orders of magnitude worse.
Not my issue, but I've had Migraines, bad ones. But it's only 2-3 times per year (They can last 24 hours though). I've heard of some people who get them 2-3 times per WEEK! (Again, talking about real migraines here which some people don't understand how debilitating they can be.) At 2-3 times per year, I've often had pain so bad that I considered removing the flesh from my skull to be preferable.
2-3 times per week and I'd be dusting off my 12 gauge.
Regardless - sure they'll trip the alarm but by then you've killed an expensive camera(s) without breaking a single law (it's not a recording device)
I don't see how you can possibly claim that intentionally damaging or destroying someone else's property is not breaking a single law.
It also strikes me as one which people would easily be caught.
Camera operator: Looks like camera five got burnt out again. Manager: Who did it. Camera operator: *rewinds recorded video* Looks like you can see the guy sitting right in seat L14. Yup, increasing brightness and then a big bright flash coming from his right hand just before the sensor is burned out. Manager: I'll go get officer Steve. Good thing the police keep a guy here on weekends due to all the teenagers.
It is an interesting question. Would we be happy if a company cut us off from the internet because we were insecure or compromised?
I've been on networks where they wouldn't allow you to register your network card until they verified that you had an antivirus and your computer was patched (College dorm). I'd view it similar to a drive-on racetrack verifying that your car has the required safety equipment before allowing you onto their track.
I think the only reason (personally) why I give cell carriers a bit more slack is because they ARE dealing with a much more limited medium in the form of over the air transmission which has to be shared for it to work at all.
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I won't buy anything from them because their damned FREE DLC forced my savegames into a 'Must log into servers' before I can play.
It freaking phones home every time I try to play the damned game. Oh crap my connection is down, guess I don't get to play the game.
And I don't give a damn if there is some way to fix it or get around it. My game should work when I go to play it no matter what the state of my internet connection is or was.
Let me fix that for you.
Then, after you sell your car with the after-market mods, Ford/GM/Honda/Toyota, hits a button that fires explosive bolts and blows the aftermarket mods off your vehicle and destroys them.
Or they hit a button and declare that you are not allowed to sell your car to your neighbor. They say that your neighbor must buy a new car, AND all of the aftermarket parts over again.
THIS.
I refuse to purchase any more EA games when I found out that my copy of a game was crippled intentionally.
It's this shaving of the edges bullshit by trying to factor in a decrease in users not due to someone simply shelving their game, but intentionally making it difficult or impossible to give your product to someone else.
It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't start COMBINING different games under one account so that if you want to transfer one game, all become useless.
If anyone knows of any counterexamples on PC from the past couple of years, please do suggest them, but I get the feeling no-one has made a Doom
I'm sorry, but really? DOOM as a counter example? The game that literally made it's way onto the market by shipping as an incomplete game.
Granted we ARE now paying for things that used to be considered shareware, but as far as analogies go, DOOM is pretty much one of the successful examples for the birth of the DLC movement.
Why not just buy a damn guitar, man? With as much effort as you put into this, you could do it for real. I know, I know, stupid idea, I shouldn't have even contradicted the zeitgeist of USA 2010.
To misuse an old spice quote. Experience is everything.
So do you go to war zones instead of playing Call of Duty? Did you go out and buy an F1 racer instead of playing that racing game? Did you post on Slashdot instead of interacting with a person in real life?
My father in law was/is the LITERAL guitarist for a couple of tracks that made it onto Guitar Hero.
He can't play the game. His problem is that the 'notes' don't match up to the song, and the disparity is so great that he is so used to playing the actual notes, that trying to 'reduce' what he would do on an actual guitar is not possible.
It is the weirdest thing to listen to the guy grab the guitar next to his couch, and play the actual song, or listen to his old performances OF the song, and then watch as he plays the game as if he were wearing oven mitts.
How much does steering wheel cost you? $40?
And how much does a guitar controller for these games cost you?
You don't HAVE to buy all the peripherals. Just like you don't have to buy the pedal and shifter controller to go with your car game. Shocking that the more you try to accurately emulate real life, the more expensive it gets.
This is what they've said in every era. Along with other gems such as, "old people are dumb" and "kids these days don't know anything." Face it, the average slashdot reader would make any poor cop who had to trail them die of boredom.
You think they trail you because they were told to? No, they trail you because they want to. They trail you because in some way, some how, you wronged them, and they have the tools at their disposal to exact some form of revenge against you.
In most cases, revenge exerted against you will come in the form of someone letting a call with your ID to go to voicemail a few times. With the police and governmental powers, the revenge can be a lot more invasive and dangerous.
Maybe they won't find anything. But that doesn't mean they won't try. Piss off a meter maid, and expect to get a ticket for parking in a spot for the handicapped. Piss off a detective and expect some sort of 'record search' to be performed at the least. Piss off a city employee, expect to find out that your sidewalk curb isn't to code and must be torn out and replaced at your expense.
Trust me, human beings will go to extreme lengths to pursue a grudge and will use any and all tools at their disposal unless you build in some serious safeguards and oversight. And even with those checks, some still will try to fuck you over.
You gotta be kidding me.
We now decide on whether or not someone gets to keep their money on the basis of how hard he / she worked to earn it?? What subcommittee, from the dark nether regions of Cthulu's domain, decided this stellar policy in my absence?
The man got swindled. Whether or not the man has $2 or $2 million in his checking account, he deserves our sympathy. That he is an heir, and thus "didn't earn the money," is a poor excuse for some highly despicable behavior.
Sorry, all my sympathy was used up for the people who lived, worked, and died for those who setup this guy's inheritance.
Why should I have any sympathy for the person who has $20 million to lose?
The world isn't fair. Let me know when it sucks so much to be mind-bogglingly rich that it sucks equally as much as only having $2 in your checking account. Then I'll have some sympathy.
You see, the advantage of having $20 million around to lose is that you don't normally have to face the fact that life sucks, because that $20 million makes it a hell of a lot easier to make it suck for enough other people that you get to live a fairly comfortable existence.
I know that isn't fair of me, but for some reason it's just easier to feel compassion for the $2 in their checking account family.
If it doesn't work then why are the Russians so afraid of it?
A 150lb ITG picking a fight with a 230lb fighter would make you say "Why would the 230lb guy worry?"
Because the 150lb guy might delude himself into believing his own hype, and you DON'T want someone thinking that they have the ability to start a nuclear war and not suffer consequences. Even if they are wrong, they might believe their own hype.
Are we certain that this was a friendly missile, not e.g. a Chinese sub saying "look where we managed to drive this thing"?
China may be bold, but sub launching a missile within a few miles of major US cities and military installations is a quick way to nuclear annihilation.
That sort of action would have had even Denzel rushing to turn the second key.
Chinese sub simply popping up in US coastal waters would likely involve it being attacked. (Submarine warfare does not follow the same rules that surface naval warfare follows. If you are on a sub, even in 'peacetime' you are always under threat of being attacked)
The level of provocation that a Chinese sub launching a missile so close to major population centers? They wouldn't try it. It would surprise me if North Korea would try something so bone-headed. No way in hell it was China.
I'm going for oversight and relying on the supplier to have crossed the "T's" and dotted the "I's"
I don't know about you, but I also cross my "I's". Twice in fact!
Isn't the publisher just sales, marketing, and distribution?
And money. The point is they often control the release schedule because they control the money.
If only there were a way to get rid of those damaged cells and create new ones.
Or maybe we can evolve some way to correct that ridiculous stopgap measure that we have due to sperm's inability to withstand normal body temperatures.
You are indeed an ignorant American who needs to spend a little more time thinking things through. Race was not mentioned once in any post in this thread until you brought it up. Perhaps you should also study the definition of racism while you are at it. To the extent that "race" even exists, there is no USian race at all. There is most definitely a USian culture which I despise. And I should know, I was born in the U.S. and have had to live around you disgusting people my entire life.
No you never mentioned the word race. And I can hardly understand how I could have considered you to be a bigot. I forgot that one must invoke specific words in order to be racist. One could never make an inference based on the content of your posts.
In a way, you remind me of Clayton Bigsby.
You didn't tell us, did they find anything bad?
Similarly, an "American Accent" is Spanish-speaking accent, as that is the language spoken by the majority of Americans, though I could imagine a few people in the U.S. who wouldn't be happy about this.
Aren't you being rather insulting to the people of Brazil (Yeah lots of Spanish spoken there...)? What 'Spanish accent' are you referring to? It certainly isn't European Spanish. And I'd like you to compare Venezualan Spanish to Puerto Rican Spanish.
But what do I know, I'm just an ignorant American who happens to speak Spanish and learned enough of it to be able to converse with either an Iberian, or some of the multitudes of other Spanish accents.
You are modded insightful as to a comment filled with racist and ignorant comments as to how much you 'hate' the people of the United States. That is what is sad.
When you are in a hole, stop digging. This applies more to her "lawyers" than to herself though.
If the hole deeper than you can climb out of no matter what, why not keep digging and bring the asshole who tossed you in there down with you?
Sure that makes sense. He deserved to die. So if he had purchased the powder, got it and decided to eat it, but then a friend stopped him, he should be arrested and executed, because he deserves to die for making that decision.
Several pregnant moments? I could be wrong but I think you meant to say "several pregnant monuments".
Huh, I don't know what you are talking about. Is it a reference?
Pregnant in this sense is used to refer to a period of time which is filled with suspense or anticipation. An example would be if the president came on the air to announce something catastrophic.
If he paused before delivering the message for dramatic effect, the pause... the emotional feeling of the audience, could be said to be pregnant with suspense.
No way, I still need my analog hole!
Just what we need. HDCP in my eyeballs.
Who knows, the child's brain may adapt better to the low resolution images. The child's brain may develop some sort of anti-aliasing capabilities.
It does more than that. Take yourself for example. You do know that there is a rather significant blind spot right in the middle of your vision right?
There are medical studies going on right now, that are so important to me that I half considered investing a significant portion of my money (all of it really) in order to COPY what they are doing now.
For some conditions, people could not care less about the risks of the cure because the problem is several orders of magnitude worse.
Not my issue, but I've had Migraines, bad ones. But it's only 2-3 times per year (They can last 24 hours though). I've heard of some people who get them 2-3 times per WEEK! (Again, talking about real migraines here which some people don't understand how debilitating they can be.) At 2-3 times per year, I've often had pain so bad that I considered removing the flesh from my skull to be preferable.
2-3 times per week and I'd be dusting off my 12 gauge.
Regardless - sure they'll trip the alarm but by then you've killed an expensive camera(s) without breaking a single law (it's not a recording device)
I don't see how you can possibly claim that intentionally damaging or destroying someone else's property is not breaking a single law.
It also strikes me as one which people would easily be caught.
Camera operator: Looks like camera five got burnt out again.
Manager: Who did it.
Camera operator: *rewinds recorded video* Looks like you can see the guy sitting right in seat L14. Yup, increasing brightness and then a big bright flash coming from his right hand just before the sensor is burned out.
Manager: I'll go get officer Steve. Good thing the police keep a guy here on weekends due to all the teenagers.
It is an interesting question. Would we be happy if a company cut us off from the internet because we were insecure or compromised?
I've been on networks where they wouldn't allow you to register your network card until they verified that you had an antivirus and your computer was patched (College dorm). I'd view it similar to a drive-on racetrack verifying that your car has the required safety equipment before allowing you onto their track.
I think the only reason (personally) why I give cell carriers a bit more slack is because they ARE dealing with a much more limited medium in the form of over the air transmission which has to be shared for it to work at all.