Malcador

I should try that, usually I just channel my work stress into impotent death threats or hatred of our clientele.

Well those fans aren't getting any return, just a product paid for in advance. Not seeing that as pirate safe, although if the games are mostly DRM free, no cracking required.

Not really that silly, facerolling through everything isn't fun. Although there's all that empty scenery to gawk at along the way.

Got a cold, damned coworkers showing up with their diseases.

Hm, I dunno about pirate groups responding faster, as they are dependent on the publisher to release fixes (as far I know, the idea of a scene patch is rather funny). Caring about the product, heh, well maybe - if the release doesn't work as well as another group that's embarassing etc. It's useful for stripping DRM from your bought games if they're acting up or just bothering you somehow, I'm ok with that.

That's usual, I found I was over level even without the bonus series on some worlds.

Pretty much. Although I suppose they can wax on about morality or just get all ragey over some company's products

Could be both, really. If it doesn't sell well, you could blame piracy for it or your game could have been garbage. Although I'd imagine companies would be more inclined to suggest the former, heh.

Would be cool if we could get an accurate metric of how much money a company "loses" due to piracy.

Different from not working at all. Odd that there's no backup service so you're not locked out of a single player game due to planned or unplanned outages. Cracking a game you paid for doesn't really seem like stealing in any sense, either.

Especially in key battles in wars, you do get an appreciation for what a knife egde the leaders dance on.

Sure is an interesting approach.

Preview of Endless Space http://www.strategycore.co.uk/articles/previews/endless-space-preview/ http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/05/04/orions-belter-endless-space/ Worth keeping an eye out.

Checkpoints ? What is this, Dragon Rising ?

Thief 3 out - http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/thief_3

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/geforce_gtx_690_nvidias_dual-kepler_videocard_benchmarked Some benchmarks. Look at that peak power consumption

I'm glad I'm not part of the Internet.

Beware the Revenge of the Fifth!

Pft very, very little work to find a decent torrent site. Well unless they're hunting porn, but I imagine the DD sites like RS/FS/Oron can pick up the slack for that

Arma 2 or Arrowhead ? Either one is great fun, I mostly spend my time with the editor just making battles and engagements. I'd recommened your get the JSRS sound mod for it too, sounds are a hell of a lot better than the vanilla.

Haha, that's pretty rich. Not so sure on describing it as counterfeiting, it might well work as they do recompile the files with slight changes and so on. And sometimes they try to pass it off as the real deal (who's dumb enough to believe some Chinese store is selling games 80% cheaper than everywhere else I'm not sure).

Yeah I need more interesting photos, that was on a foggy day

EVE ?

Further photos of out my window