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I get that, I really do. But none of this stuff is critical, it's all pretty much entertainment. So if you have to wait 6 months for something to release in your own country, why is that a big enough deal to break the law over? I've made the argument before that there is this odd sense of entitlement to the whole piracy debate that I've just never understood. The point isn't that region locking justifies piracy. It goes without saying that it doesn't. The gist of the issue here is that media corporations are essentially encouraging piracy and missing out on a potentially huge customer base by doing region delays. It's not about morals, but rather about lack of business sense on the part of the corporations. Steam's regional pricing , to give an example, essentially means I don't buy any game on it, directly, unless it's one of those bargains. And I'm essentially the demographic which services like Steam target. What's the point of that? Corporations should stop playing the morality card, which is pointless, and start offering competing services to the people who pirate. Imagine if, say, ABC, offered a torrenting worldwide service of Lost episodes, for, say 5$ an episode. Kind of like the price of a movie ticket. They could, as encouragement, guarantee speedy delivery, better quality files and extras like a preview of the following episode, stills of the show, wallpapers, and whatever. The bottom line is that to stop piracy, companies have to treat piracy as any other competitor.

I edited the title for ya. I'm pretty sure Avram Grant isn't female or married to a guy.

But you are in the States. In the rest of the world region locking affects practically everything, and inevitably leads to greater piracy.

I'd wager that Matt ignoring the reference to a Summer release, means AP is coming out in June or later. Sad panda.

While I've never played God of War, my understanding is that GoW is Devil May Cry/Ninja Gaiden for the gaming-impaired. Is that correct?

Admitting that you are a pirate is usually the only thing that gets piracy threads instalocked.

Summer? What's that about summer?

Would you please make that game?

It's scared of your ugliness.

Everyone tells me that it's awesome in co-op, but Gears of War combat blows chunks when playing solo...

While I haven't seen Brendan and the Secret of Kells, I have to say that the other two movies don't really hold a candle to Ponyo. Even Up, which is far and away the best of the two was rather uneven and could quickly go from sublime to standard American animation. I'd say that Ponyo, while not up to the level of Mononoke or Totoro, still provides a deeper, better animated experience with little or no low points. Besides, these are the Oscars not the Let's-See-If-Miyazaki-Outdoes-Himself-This-Time awards.

That's a really, really old joke.

Beatles instrumental acoustic covers by a rather old guy.

Ponyo wasn't even nominated. The academy's retardation knows no bounds.

Catcher In The Rye is easier to take in, so you may want to start with that.

The combat wasn't only pretty awful, but also the shallowest Bioware has ever done. And that's some kind of feat.

And we're done. Piracy is not condoned.

The first one by Cryo was great, mixing adventure with strategy and management elements. It's the only game of its kind I've ever played. The ones by Westwood are all standard RTSs

Thanks, Purkake. Thread closed, use the other one.

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Why do you hurt me?

PC?

Compare Avatar's and Titanic's numbers to any other commercially successful movie like, say, The Dark Knight or the Harry Potter movies. Cameron's movies absolutely crush everything else.

PC?

I'm more appalled by the awful dialogue than the implication of interspecies horizontal mambo.