Sarjahurmaaja.

That's no sig! It's a space station!

"Still alive... but not happy" That bad, huh? Well, at least you learned a valuable lesson today.

GIS Harlequin baby. I hear it's a pretty impressive sight.

"single most annoying female in the world" Also, her face looks kinda mannish.

You don't want to spend your time filling a huge ass quiz only to find out something about yourself you already knew?

These forums have only the wrong kinds of thumbsup icons.

"Why not? Well. First, it is illogical. The Bible is not Christ's direct words but Muhammad did write the Qu'ran and it reads like poetry. Now Muhammad himself never had any education and was a warrior for his whole life. I doubt he can dream up poetry out of the blue." If Qu'ran didn't 'read like poetry', maybe no one would've given two ****s about it. I'm fairly sure there are lots of religious books that don't read like poetry, and as such, are not given two ****s about. That is, in order for a religion to be succesful, it has to sound good. I hope you understand what I'm going for here.

Yes.

I was neutral. Then I saw the screenshot. Ugly.

"It's basic economics Drakron. People like to maximize what they can purchase. If something can be acquired for free, many people would choose that route. I mean, lets imagine if there was an offer for everyone that has preordered a game to receive a free copy without any strings attached "just because." Now these people have already committed their money to the product, having preordered the game. I wonder how many of them would opt for the free copy of the game. I would suspect it'd be much more than 1/10 because people always like getting something for as little as possible." Yeah, that doesn't work so well at least with music piracy. I hear those crazies actually buy, as in pay moneys (!), for the stuff they've already otherwise acquired. I'm going to make a bit radical assumption here: people are, at least on some levels, intelligent. If they really like Stuff a lot, and know that there will be no more Stuff if the people who make Stuff go broke and starve to death, they're willing to pay money for Stuff. Of course, if they don't like Stuff, the people who make it might as well eat **** and die for all they care.

"Given your lack of control over your squad, I'd say it's probably not a Tactical Squad game." Fine, it's just a turn-based tactical combat game then.

"The ONLY means of combat is using the first person shooter mechanics. It's entire combat model is based on the SHOOTER style of gameplay." And this is why Deus Ex is a FPS? (I only read the last page of this thread) So, I guess Fallout is a turn-based tactical squad game (if you interpret your mules, err, I mean companions, as a squad).

"Unless they explicitly patent it." Why don't they have to do this with games and such? "The question should be 'Without mass-production in place, would we have piracy issues?'. The answer is no." That's the question you want to answer. The question I want the answer to is "Without mass-production in place, would piracy be morally acceptable?" I'm guessing "yes". "Yes, but you will have hard time proving it in the court" And even then, there's still civil liability for it and all. I'm not defending piracy here. I'm just saying it's silly to compare it to theft. Now, I disappear in a puff of ninja smoke. *PUFF*

"I can take things from the store without paying for them as long as I have the intent to return them?" Truth to be told, I have no idea why the word "permanently" is there. It doesn't mention it even in the example that follows. It just speaks of "intent to deprive", so I guess you can't take things from store without paying for them, even if you intend to return them later.

"With wood carving you sell a hand-made piece of artwork, which is paid for for being hand-made, you can carve all you want, but main effort is 'producing a hard copy' (same with painting, sculpture, anywhere, where work outcome is unique)." Would it be acceptable to take someone else's unique and succesful wood carving design and start making copies of them for sale then? "If reproducing a copie of a movie would be so difficult, we would be getting our 'copies' in the local theatre." That doesn't answer my question.

"Piracy can't be justified and is not comparable to 'wood carving' if you ask me. It is a fact, that if we were now to be allowed to copy stuff from each other, there will be a rapid decline in software (and movie) industry." Why isn't it comparable? Because copying a wood carving is much more difficult than copying a game? Would piracy suddenly became justifiable if it was insanely difficult to do?

"Compared to say IWD where they reused a lot of the animation and models it would have cost more I think." True, but instead of praising the creators of PS:T, perhaps we should scold the creators of IWD.

"It's occured to me that some of the art in Torment is amazing. They've basically made new art, animation, spell effects (one of my favs), interface etc just for the game - tons of work and time for just one game." This is not a rarity in the gaming world. In fact, I believe it is the norm.

"We wouldn't have so much computer users, if we were to use command line now." True, but I'd say even if we were to use command line nowadays, computers would see a lot more use than they did back in the command line days.

See, that's not right either. People also become more computer-literate nowadays because they need to.

"No, it is computers become more and more idiot-proof." Actually it's both.

You... urinated a ring on the top of my head and carved a cross on my forehead? I don't get it.

"I'm a changed man." So I see.

I say we hang it.