Zoraptor

Sadly, almost all self proclaimed libertarians are "nobody has the right to tell me what to do (but it's fine telling others to do things I agree with/ already do)". No, it isn't. You and the industry can shout about stealing as much as you like, it doesn't make it true. Everyone 'prosecuted' for piracy has been prosecuted for copyright infringement, not theft. It is copyright infringement. End of Story. Now, if you're going to accuse me or others of piracy or being criminals please have the courage to make it explicit and include your evidence for it, as well as a way to contact you under your real name for potential legal redress. After all, if we're talking libertarianism then one of the other tenets is personal responsibility, yes? so, under libertarian ideals I or others should have the right to sue you when you run around making wild accusations, yes? or get you banned for making unfounded accusations, yes? Don't worry though, I at least won't accuse you of stealing my reputation, I'd do you for what it actually is, libel, and I'm not holding my breath waiting for an explicit accusation of course. As with most internet 'libertarians' it's entirely do as I say, not as I do, yes?

Well, no. But that's because Lucas has said that that scenario is AOK and has in the past actually publicised fan projects. On the other hand, eagle eyed IP lawyers are already running around the net throwing cease and desists at unauthorised usage whether commercial or not. Try remaking an Ultima without EA's permission and despite them not doing squat with Ultima you'll still get a lovely cease and desist as soon as they notice it. Unless you happen to have got permission from Richard Garriott when he had the power to grant permission, at least. Further, shop analogies are inapt. The only real analogy to torrent based systems is a bunch of people playing collectable card games swapping and photocopying cards to get the full set rather than buying them from the publisher. Even further, it's simply not theft or stealing as both require an owner to be deprived of physical property. It's copyright infringement (by means of unauthorised duplication). Calling it theft or stealing is a call to emotion that has forever been poisoned by those inane anti piracy diatribes at the start of legit DVDs (I wouldn't steal a car? No, but I also didn't steal this DVD and its nett effect is that I would like to kick inane MPAA anti piracy video makers in the nutsacks with an iron toed winklepicker) Also, ITT WoD supports government intervention in and control of the internet...

I actually think that one of AP's biggest problems was that it couldn't decide whether to be serious business reality or super power Bond/ Batman hybrid, and the associated problem of whether to judge it as fantastic or realistic. If you view it as realistic then the fantastic parts are a negative, if you view it as fantastic then the realistic parts (like not every shot aimed at a bullseye actually hitting the bullseye) are a negative. As such it (potentially at least, personally I wasn't bothered by the dichotomy) has the worse of both worlds.

Yeah...vague statements like that I don't find very comforting. To me it sounds like "If it comes, we hope we can, but in the end, who knows." So it's a fear of mine, with things like Steam, as well. Not a huge one, but it's always in the back of my mind, making it difficult for me get on the Steam-like bandwagon. To be clear, the statement (if it were ever made) was patent rubbish. There are a host of circumstances- eg get sold or go bankrupt- where you'd have zero say on what happens; your administrators/ new owners can close it down, turn it into a subscription model or whatever and there's nothing you could do about it. In fact, if you were going bankrupt and 'jailbroke' all the games you'd almost certainly be criminally liable for deliberately decreasing the value of the company's assets. They'd pretty much need to be both closing down voluntarily and to have got the prior consent of every publisher and developer to do what they claim. That's not just true of Steam, of course. GoG's a lot more safe though because so long as you've backed up properly there's no dial home at all.

If you've got radtools installed you can run the movies (biks) from the data folder. No doubt the stills can be found on the web as well, perhaps via the arcane mystery of a google search.

DDO possibly, but LOTRO was not heading for a shutdown any time soon even before the switch to f2p.

KOTOR's compatibility seems to get broken by video card drivers having poor legacy openGL support more than operating system (but so far as I know both major manufacturers have fixed their issues with it now)

The fault is Sega's, almost certainly, though there's certainly room for other parties (could be a uniloc/drm problem as it asks me for the disk which it ain't supposed to, also WUNE's grunt problem is DRM related). Sega are meant to handle patch releases and testing and it appears that the problem is specifically with its compatibility being broken rather than it being outright broken. I'm actually at the stage of wondering whether some tech guy at Sega just got sick of it and stuck an interim patch up. The weird structure, lack of publicity, lack of localisation testing and everything else about it is so far out of usual operating procedure it really looks like something odd has happened.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/a...wing-extremism/ Shows loud and clear what the administration thinks of veterans. I mean after all they voted for McCain by a margin of 16:1 Or perhaps they just remember a certain veteran by the name of Tim McVeigh? He blew up a building in Oklahoma, I believe, along with a bunch of his ex army mates?

A patch that is literally just an exe replacement, no installer, no readme, nothing else at all? I'm not sure I've seen that in the last decade. Or at least not without it being labeled an interim or beta patch or similar. Edit #2 and more amusingly*, the patched exe gives me a no disk error then Dr Watson's and needs to be killed in task manager... *as v1 has always worked fine for me PEBKAM errors relating to a changed video card notwithstanding.

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Defence receives apology after scathing report

I actually have no fundamental problem with DLC, though the cost benefit ratio so far is dreadful in most cases. The problem with Broken Steel specifically is nothing intrinsic to it, but that it is a payment required end game replacement for one of the worst* 'vanilla' end games in the history of gaming and it would have been far more appropriate/ better simply to not have had the broken endgame in the first place. *I'd use the term 'ill though out' rather than worst, except they admitted to knowing what the problems were and just ignoring them.

I could view the models fine. You need to run umodel from a command prompt rather than by double clicking it, easiest way is to install something which will open a command prompt in the correct place via right click context menu ('command prompt here' powertoy on XP, not sure for vista/w7) then type umodel [filename].upk in the command window. You'll need to put umodel and its dll into every folder you want to view using that method, but it does work.

Apart from the one (two/ three) which was a linear shooter, and the one which they forgot to include a bunch of assets leading to a forest of pings, and the buggy pointless one set on a spaceship. It was far better than Oblivion's DLC though. Broken Steel, yes, if most/ all DLC was like that it would be worth it. If only it were not essentially selling an ending separate to the game and an admission that the original ending sucked worse than being locked in a room listening to Celine Dion on permanent loop until your brain explodes.

Sir, I object to your interjection! Also, you are not Purkake. Cogar66 dear fellow, you haven't got any points at all either. Accusing AP of being stereotypical and unoriginal is fair enough since it is. Unfortunately, so is Bloodlines by any objective measure- much as AP hits just about every spy/ conspiracy trope Bloodlines hits pretty much every vampire plot trope and cliche in existence. Irrelevant anyway as unoriginal and good is far better than original but crap. And gameplay? Many if not most of AP's gameplay elements are close equivalents to Bloodlines'. The issue is obfuscated a bit by Bloodlines having active mod development and patching. Personally I'd pick Bloodlines over AP if pushed, but not Bloodlines V1. But that ain't any kind of authoritative judgment founded in logical fundamentals. Bananas > Apples because bananas have more potassium is an actual argument. Bananas > Apples because spheres are an unoriginal shape for a fruit isn't.

Darkside female can kill him. It's a fitting reward for suffering through the 'romance'... even better than killing Carth Jr. I think I may have told Carth to FOAD when I played a female as a cheaper alternative to vomiting over my computer and needing a new keyboard after talking to him. May also have been confused with the, ick, Carth redemption option which is reactivated by a mod.

Someone in the linked article played it 28 times, not Volo.

Getting Zaalbar to kill Mission = cruel. It's also probably KOTORs single largest redeeming feature. Unfortunately you can't kill Carth, mores the pity, though hopefully he gets eaten off screen by some peckish Rakatan. Carth Onasi: less balls than a 14 year old twilek girl. And yeah, I too guessed the twist very early. On the subject of ME2, some may find this article (blatantly stolen from RPGWatch) interesting.

0A, A0 is 160. You can check values with the built in windows calculator which has a hexadecimal mode and can do simple dec <-> hex conversions.

... Neither the fact that it is called "Penumbra __ Mac", nor the handy little Apple icon afterwards nor the system requirements tipped you off as to what version you were buying? I guess you've proven GG isn't idiot proof, at least. Since I'm an inherently nice guy I'd point out that you can ask for a refund and since they're in Sweden you'll probably get it too, even if only as a credit.

For negative reps it's probably just putting in FF FF FF F# (where hash is a hex value from F [gives -1] to 6 [gives -10]) in columns 2-5 from the original post.

Gothic is not JoWood's they just have a licence to use it for Gothic 4 that PB/P13 could not rescind. Hence the ArcaniA part, which JoWood can at least theoretically continue to use.

I think you've hit my nail on the head. Ashdown was precisely the sort of supremo (q.v. Gerard Templar in Malaya) required. Send him to the 'Stan forthwith and give him some clout. The pity is, and I'm genuinely not being chippy about the Yanks, the US foreign policy machine consists of almost nothing but careerists you are rightly leery of. Iraq proved that US civilian administrators are NOT match-fit. You'd need an ex-military man, as the US armed services has thrown up a generation of thoughtful, imaginative generals whjo might be ideal for the role. which respected ex-military man would take the job if he is gonna know he do not have genuine support o' the current administration? what sorta respected ex-military man With Clout is actually gonna be chosen by the powers that be? Yep, the Jay Garner situation (not just him being replaced by an incompetent stooge for not being a yes man but more especially the slander involved in his removal) should ensure that no military man would touch something like that again without absolutely cast iron guarantees. Which is a real shame because Garner gave the impression of avoiding just about every pitfall Bremer cheerfully leapt into with both feet.

I think the appropriate response is probably: If there's no point bothering why post in the thread in the first place? (Though that's more aimed at run and hide "lol u r rong" posts rather than having already posted previously in the thread and not wanting to go off on tangents like "Why do Finns <3 Nazis- discuss!!!" In any case, LoF is right this time. That NYT article is garbage.)