Nick_i_am

Haha, router broke, no 360 for a while. Whhhhile

Not if I can help it (though I really enjoyed it about three years ago), the move to 3D animation totally killed any desire to use flash. Mostly because I find it so restrictive without the third dimension. Having said that, now that i've got a tablet, this could change.

Take me. NOW

The fact that the traditional view of of the arastocracy in the army is of the WW1 officer with the handlebar ordering 1000s more 18 year olds to their deaths on the somme without a thought only helps the refeshing image of Harrys actions.

Oh, yeah, totally, only, I was refering to a specific individual who seemed to do exactly what I do. That is to say, i've only pirated games I would never have bought. This isn't subjecture based on other people, it's me. It was projection and when refering to the general populus you're right, both about the issue and the language used to express it.

'is not different from pov of the law' except that it falls under a completely different set of laws. Again, i'm not saying it's acceptable, but i'm not saying it's the same thing either. A better analogy than any you've offered is a person fishing in a lisenced lake without a hook. Yes, he's fishing, yes, it's wrong, yes, he's stealing, but only by virtue of the fact that he hasn't payed. If arrested, he wouldn't be charged with theft. I'm stealing if I ride an empty rollercoaster without paying, but that's vastly different to stealing the bloody rollercoaster. If i'm arrested, again, i'm not charged with theft. If i'm arrested for software piracy i am NOT charged with theft, i'm charged with copywright infringment and the likes. 'is kookie to claim that there is some special category 'o theft for information and use.' Yes, because there is. Again, you're not stealing somthing that doesn't belong to you, you're stealing the right to use it. Steal the software but don't install or distribute it and you're basically in a legal grey-area. Now, if you want to talk about livelyhoods of the programmers, that's different.

And to the person from who it's being stolen, the law and everyone else. Being that buying a game does NOT mean that you're buying the code, stealing the code doesn't mean you're stealing the game either. When you pirate a game you're stealing the lisence and that's a vastly different concept from stealing somthing physical. I'm not even saying that it's better, but saying that it's the same thing and should be subject to the same laws is int < 8.

That's more a facet of your tastes, which isn't a critisism as much as a comment on the fact that it's sad that these staples of the PC gaming market are being killed off.

Right next to the 'bitter and twisted old fart' option.

Someone who goes to war because they feel it's the right thing to do is superior, morally, than jimmy-poorbum who got shipped off to war because it was essentally the only career choise open to him, as seems to happen in the poorest areas of the US. That doesn't mean that Jimmy doesn't deserve respect, but that doesn't make it any more noble than someone who HAPPENS to come from a royal family wanting to 'muck in'. Gromnir is being bitter because people are actually noticing the guy, but failing to achnoloage that it's obvously not HIM that wants the attention. The point is fair, we shouldn't, essentially, honour Harry any more than any other soldier, but that doesn't mean he doesn't deserve to be honoured.

Actually, what you guys are proving with your failed analogies is that there is no simple analogy. Which is part of the problem in terms of people understanding how to deal with the issue.

The stadalone addon for Dawn of War, Dark Crusade, allows you to install it across a LAN with one copy, which was very nice. Players with this install can only play Tau or Necrons though. Civ4 can be played across a LAN with the same CD, but NWN1 throws a hissy fit if you try to LAN games between two computers with installs that use the same CD key (i'd guess NWN2 does too, but I havn't tried it). Personally, I feel that digital distribution is the way forward, but this again brings up even more issues with the LAN idea. I want to buy SINS, but I am tempted to get the CD version just because there might be issues with installing the DD one across two computers (if need be). Thing is, it's not just the userbase that needs to change their thinking somewhat in order to pull the PC markets head out of the mud, but the publishers, like the record industry, don't really want to hear it.

I am in no way defending piracy, but I won't say I havn't done it either. Like newc, my shelves are full of games, old and new, and some of my proudest are those that were a complete commercial failure. Hell, I even bought BG2 depite never having played it for more than 3 or 4 hours (not due to not liking it, just better things to do). People who can afford to buy games and don't (at all), for no good reason other than that they're cheap can burn, and I salute interesting copy protection, such as that used in Operation Flashpoint, whereby the game would slowly make the controls more and more unmanagable as the game went on, lure the pirate into enjoying the game THEN screw it up for him. The problem is that I enjoy playing games on a LAN, i've got a two computer one set up here and use it when I can. More often than not though, the games played across these two computers are done so with just one copy of the game. I bought the game, sure, but i'm denying the publisher just as much profit again from not buying a second copy as I would have been by pirating the first. Am I as bad as someone who pirates all their games? I can't decide, point is that i'm still doing it. Likewise, when I lend a game to a friend, and borrow one of his, piracy is the 'big topic', but I could have never pirated a game in my life and still cost the industry just as much. And yet, it's only when I download a game that I wouldn't have bought anyway that i'm branded a badguy. Bottom line is that I, and guys like me, do help support the industry, to no small degree, my actual game to pirate game ratio is at least 10 to 1, discounting console games.

Again, the analogy doesn't work, the programmers (the builders) are still being payed if you pirate the game or not, trying to guilt trip people like this seems pointless and you're ignoring the fact that the pirate in question probably wouldn't have spent more money on games either way.

rofl @ Ace of Aces. They should have called it 'Asian mode'.

Only, when you pirate a game, you're stealing somthing that can't be used by anyone else, which isn't really stealing at all EXCEPT for the fact that it's the right of the pulisher to ask for money for it. You steal a car that belongs to someone else, whole different story. This isn't the point though.

Who else said 'sucks'?

Simple minds, easily amused. haha, wait, did that sound pretentious?

Yeah, it's too bad, the PC market is dire enough as it is at the moment.

That's okay then, I didn't realise it had gone gold already.

Erm, weren't they in the middle of making Soulstorm?

Ranger, Cleric, Druid, Bard, Wizard, Theif was good fun, screw fighters.

And he'd probably kill himself.

The lack of online play for VC titles irks me, but i'll be getting one once Brawl is out.

Flash.