Orogun01

Freaking 'A' I'm not European. Then what are you?Asian?

Ah yes, the faceless, greedy corporations argument. The author might not get a large chunk of the price of his copyrighted work, but the last time I looked, it was still more than they got for the Pirate Bay version. I know a lot of one-man record companies (in fact, a large chunk of my whole music collection comes from these). Do these already count as faceless? Or is it just enough to operate as an LLC to qualify for the facelessness? I mean, I've always assumed that people like get paid for their work, so obviously they are by definition greedy... It sort of renders the argument useless if they aren't actually suffering from it. In the end the one man companies end up being consolidated into the the mega-corporations; if their product is popular enough and become part of the same faceless industry. If everyone actually pirated every game and songs these industries would have no revenue and collapse. They haven't. Unfortunately for those who enjoy being obnoxiously self-righteous, the morality of piracy is far from black and white. Most underground music scenes would be dead were it not for the massive exposure boost given by piracy. The error people often make is in the assumptions that pirates don't buy any music and that the music that they pirate would have otherwise been purchased. These are both false. This is the other side of the coin, piracy is a riskless investment for the consumer that wouldn't have been exposed to it had it not given it a chance. E.G. person that doesn't enjoy a particular genre of music/games hears a lot hype and decides to jump on the wagon. But he doesn't want to spend his money on a investment that will not return so he takes the less risk with piracy and whether they like it or not, they now know. The problem is with the economic models that force someone to piracy. We have simply gone from burning or doing a tape recording of a friend's album, to having a whole lot of people offering it to you. The problem was already there before it has just now grown.

This is a peacemaker, the gun that replaced the Colt Army model (the one that Aram owns)

Ahh, that brings me back to my childhood.

Copyright is NOT property rights. ****, I would've thought the more Libertarian-leaning people on this board would be the most astute ones on this matter. Guess not. Libertarians respect property rights, it's one of the cornerstones of libertarianism. The copyright / property right argument is also false. You are freely creating something that you would otherwise buy and depriving the creator of the legitimate profit of his or her labour. It's theft, however much semantic loop-the-looping you want to undertake. Yeah, heavens forbid that we keep the publisher from the profit of the creator's labor. Piracy somehow operates on the same principle of supply and demand, you won't see the peer ratio rise on a product that nobody wants. There is still the fact that as widespread as piracy is its still just a small percentage of sales lost. I find it hard to empathize with a faceless, greedy corporation that wants to put bucks on their pocket but lack the proper product and blame it on piracy.

And if this passes it also sets precedent for the entire world to follow suit. I hardly think that we are the only country with anti-game activists, plus it also hurts all game developers outside of the states that won't be able to move their product inside the US. More than likely they would make their games to fit the same standard just to keep a consumer.

Dear God Please smite down all **** trying to stop piracy. Ubisoft DMR finds it's way up the corporate ladder, and i'm sure that it will also end in disaster.

Maybe that was the point, to be humorous rather than sensual. After all if the Witchers weren't banging as many chicks they would had prbly killed themselves by now.

Depends on context. The WItcher didn't need them. Other places they might be fine. I beg to differ, The Witcher needs something to counterbalance it's depressing atmosphere. What better than naked chicks?

Algebra to the rescue! A solution appears, apparently. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/...00917090835.htm

Well, it'd be a shame if it didn't They got rid of the cards at least (well drawn though). Fingers crossed for the modding community

That's not how it was advertised.

They could have gone free to play, those guys stay online for a long time.

But the general "public perception" still tends to be "games are things that kids play" even though a lot of games these days come out with various mature / 18 ratings depending on the board... Of course most parents don't check those and will still buy those games for their young teenagers... but that's the parents fault not the game makers. On thing that the public needs to be educated on, plus that thing of the parents not knowing is under my scrutiny. I'm sure there is part of that percent that simply lets their kids play violent games because they know they can handle it. 16 year olds aren't kids and they definitively don't need our protection.

Funny considering that the average gamer is 16-30 or close to that range.

Normally and with any other case I would agree with you, consolidation has made any new business enterprise impossible. But in the case of technology there are no such limitations some kid with a good idea can break into the scene and make Facebook. Because the market of technology and electronic entertainment shift constantly there is always room for innovation.

For those that don't already know California is appealing a law in the Supreme Court that would make the ESBR obsolete. The law is pretty vague in terms of enforcement and chooses to leave it to each distributer. Problem is that if the distributer fails to correctly label a game then it's held liable which may deter them from carrying games with violent content at all. That's the gist of it. If you are against please join the cause. http://www.videogamevoters.org/

Just as many other people have grown out of their communities and heritage, by the third generation there is hardly a sense of kinship with the motherland. Instead you grow as an American, and it's up to each family to choose to uphold their traditions or not. But despite this being a multicultural society it is not a multicultural government, each ethnicity does not have a separate code of law and government.

But they are still a minority, if counted apart from the white population. Minorities are the majority in the US. What does that have to do with being an outcast? Even though they are counted as a majority their unique traditions separate them from the rest. They don't consider themselves outcast since they are their universe center and hold on to their culture, since they have always been libeled as the outcast; no country of their own. Even when they have stetted into a place their history usually makes them a very closed community to the outside.

But they are still a minority, if counted apart from the white population.

It involves deleting system 32 (don't do it)

Death Wish: the RPG

Really complicated from what I hear.