Sarjahurmaaja.

"We cannot change ourselves from human to spider, let's say, and then back again." I was a parrot yesterday.

"No, they're just willing to take a risk." Taking risks when the only thing you may win by doing so is a bit of spared patience is, by definition, stupid. Unless you're in awfully short supply.

Pr0n via p2p can be... disappointing.

"The US has the death penalty for murder (like Albania and China), still the US has one of the highest murder rates of all nations in the world, including those currently at war. Laws are good, but they don't affect people the way you think." In all fairness, murder and piracy aren't comparable in this aspect. At all.

"Now, I ask you, what hurts more; a DL in a country where people have the money to spend on your game, or a Illegal Sold copy in a Asian country were selling prices are already a lot lower because they have less money?" A flawed question. How do you expect it to be answered, when there's no way to tell how often a download would turn into a sale if downloading wasn't an option. Besides, at least with illegal copies, there is provably enough interest in the product to pay money for it. "A. Hey! I can't pay a Farrari... Can I take one?" Your example is flawed. "B. Game prices haven't fluctuated with the Inflation for many, many, many years. Profit per copy is less than it used to be, while the money costs per copy are way higher. A price reduction is equal to a financial suicide..." Why is it absolutely necessary to spend so much money on it? Plenty of low budget games that have been targeted to niche markets have succeeded. "C. So, they wan't to test it, eh? Ever heard of DEMO'S? Because that is what they are for (try before the buy), not a complete copy of the game..., after which like 30% of the DL'ers don't buy even if they like it and completed it trice ("hey, why buy it, if I already have it")..." Not every game has a demo, and even if they do, a demo is something that is probably made to show the best parts of the game and none of the worst (ideally, from a marketing POV -- in truth, though, most demos suck pretty bad. Poor representation of the final product, either way). 99% of people who make up statistics are retarded morons. "D. Heavy punishment on the user side would be a big step in scarring them off..." Much in the same way that death sentence for pickpocketing is effective deterrant to it. Besides, it would be rather immoral to set a warning example instead of just punishment, don't you think?

"Oh, you sold out? FANTASTIC!"

"Not when it comes to himself, okay. but i kind of was referring to the fact that that is not real power. its only over yourself, and if you can't even control yourself then you are pathetic anyway." Not real power? One could argue that it is the only kind of power that matters. "Anyone who truly believes they have any significant power over himself is sadly mistaken. We don't have power over ourselves." You don't believe in free will? Color me surprised.

Yeah, well, you want to stop piracy, don't you?

"When new PC video cards are released ever few months, compared to new consoles released every few years, the PC will alway be the domain of the graphics-first crowd, both consumers and developers alike." Of course. But, as I said, you're misunderstanding me. Console gamers are labeled as graphics whores (by PC gamers) because since they don't have to worry about the performance, they will complain if a game is ugly or looks out-dated. There is no vocal group of people playing games on crap machines (say, NMA), demanding that the games should run perfectly fine on 5 year old computers and declaring that anyone who disagrees is a retarded moron.

The subject of this report is Musopticon? ____ Totally Gay. and creepy ____ Reviewer's notes: Yar.

"Since when do poor people buy the latest consoles at launch? Just how well off are the 'poor' people in your area?" It seems you're misunderstanding me, read it again. And no matter what, it would be redicilous to interpret poor, in this context, as truly poor. It's quite obvious, really, that it was used to mean people who can't really afford to keep their PCs as up-to-date gaming rigs.

"That seems an odd comment, even if it's not particularly serious, given that PCs, with the ability to constantly upgrade, have always been the domain of graphics whores. Sure, the new consoles may be capable of better graphics when first released, but that never lasts." Yes, but with consoles, even poor people can be "graphics whores". No need to cry about the good old times when design was law, etc, etc, when everybody is running their games on the same hardware and you can be certain that the newest games run just as well on your machine as they do on your rich friend's.

"and if everyone is a 'god', then the special power you might have had is nullified by everyone else's equal power." No one has the kind of power over someone as they have over themselves. Thus, his 'special power' isn't nullified -- not when it comes to himself.

"Outsourcing is one of the worst threats to the social and economic stability of the western world. Increasing the profits of major companies at the cost of significantly larger numbers of unemployed is quite insane to do from societys standpoint." Yay for more even distribution of wealth in the world!

"Oh, I'll always be a deist whether I follow the Christian religion or not until the exact minute science can explain the creation of the universe, no supernatural forces setting things in motion." So, you would say that the foundation of your faith is ever diminishing, as science makes more and more progress? Yar.

The Magnificent Seven, Howl's Moving Castle and Ikiru.

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I declare myself the victor.

Get with the times, kumquatq3. The conflict escalated beyond falsifying quotes a long time ago!

"they weigh 40 pounds" Good point. A blind, crippled and already mortally wounded lynx.

"Quite the deduction if you even added spelling errors." Yes, well, it was a reasonable assumption, was it not? You didn't even begin the sentence with a capital letter! "Besides, I can take a lynx, provided that the lynx is blind and crippled." Most probably yes.

I deducted all this from the missing period.