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Heck, I watch Army of Darkness with my 4-year old. It's pure comedy.

I'm not sure why a person would spend time defending piracy, and then not pirate themselves. I mean, you've already justified it in your own head, it's not like it is hard to find pirate sites to download from. So yeah, it is a reasonable assumption indeed.

yeah, they should be looking for ways to prevent it, Steam is a good example. not only because of digital distribution, but mostly thanks to achievements, friend lists etc. Steam is very much a form of DRM.

I will be pretty bummed if Steam and GOG become the only way to continue playing PC games, but I guess I'll have to adapt. Doesn't that prove that piracy is damaging to the industry in and of itself? Would we be in this situation if piracy was nonexistent?

How could they remake that? It was scary enough the first time with Shawn & Marlon Wayans. I don't think that you are talking about what you think are talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_White_Female and "The Roommate" may not be a remake per-se but I'm getting a strong vibe that they are the same. Heh, he's referring to White Chicks, which was an awesome movie But yeah, the Wayans brothers in that make up is about as scary as it gets.

I haven't seen anyone claim that, here or in that linked article. The point isn't that the developer/publisher is losing money every time someone plays a pirated game illegally. The developer/publisher has released their work for a price. Pirates ignore that price and take the game without paying. It is wrong, and it is terribly frustrating for many of the people working on games. I don't know why anyone needs hard data to see that, it is basic common sense.

I dunno, what would you call a person who bought a stolen phone from someone for 1/10 of the actual price? surely not a thief? what if he got that phone as a gift from his friend who bought it from a person who in his turn got it from the thief? what do you call him then? because this happens all the time at pawn shops and whatnot Pawn shops have many legal restrictions they have to abide by. I know in California, they have to report anything they receive to the police and hold onto it for 30-days in case it comes up stolen. And yes, if you are in possession of stolen goods, you will be charged.

Fair enough. The morality isn't really what's relevant when defining it, though - what's important is the impact it has on sales. Why is that? This isn't business law, it is criminal law we are talking about. Morality does come into play considerably.

Not really, as it doesn't take a team of 100+ people years to make currency. I'd say it is a lot closer to stealing than counterfeiting.

Is it really already time to have another piracy debate again? I thought we still had a month or two. Whatever you call it, or whatever legal class you put it into, it is wrong to do. Let's just leave it at that and stop trying to justify it.

That seems like a very large town, to be honest. Very nice pictures!

Starcraft 2, which had pretty insane DRM, was downloaded illegally over 3 million times. It also sold 3 million copies. So basically a copy was pirated for every one sold. That is a pretty big problem.

Maybe he meant he is practicing emptiness so he will be prepared to play DA2 for many hours. I'm trying to link DA2 to emptiness there. Eh, I can't figure out how to word that right

Let's also just realize that a score in the 90's is simply a high score and means it is a very good game. Getting caught up with which games got 93, 94, and 95 is silly.

When rating the Bioware stable of games, I find it is best to implement an advanced and sophisticated system of trigonometric equations so I can really get into the gritty details and pick them all apart with maximum anal-osity. After years of research and number crunching, I came up with surprising results... But if I share them, you guys wouldn't have anything to talk about.

Exactly. Trump inherited his empire and almost lost it twice. His biggest success has been his media savvy.

I was watching Justified last night, the best show on TV ever, and I got thinking about all the guys I have man crushes on. Now it's nothing to be embarrassed about, Timothy Olyphant just seems to be awesome in everything, and I am sure if I ever ran into him, I would be reduced to giggling like a school girl. The other big one is Ryan Reynolds. He's always been pretty dreamy, but then he went out and married Scarlett Johansen, making him the ultimate man. So who is your man crush?

BFBC2 either had 32 player battles or 64, I can't remember. Either way, this isn't all that huge. 64 is actually twice as many as 32, so that is fairly huge. As I said, I haven't tried BC2, so I can't comment too much. But the original BC was a vastly different experience than BF2.

I haven't played Bad Company 2, but when I played the original Bad Company, it was missing a few things I really enjoy in BF2. I felt like the vehicles were not a real focal point, I felt like the maps were limited. It was also on the console, which was a problem,, since I love to be a sniper and the mouse is superior for that. I'll try BF2 when I get my new internet connection next month, but I still expect BF3 to be more to my liking. Oh, apparently they've made it so you can destroy everything.

Game Informer had a big spread about Battlefield 3. I'm pretty excited Dice is returning to their roots, bring on the 64 player battles!

I second this. Actually, only partially. See, I was laughing my head off while actually watching it, but afterwards ideas and images kept creeping into my head and it kept me up the whole night. I agree, it worked very well. They remade it about a dozen times each time it got worse and had a bigger budget. The American version wasn't even the worst one. Maybe when you don't have any money you are forced to sit down and figure out how to make a scratching noise the most scary thing in the world. Agreed as well. The ending is basically terrible too, no happy resolution that makes all western horror flicks so easy to walk away from.

I had my taxes done on January 31st, but one of my deductions (The teacher credit) means they won't process it until February 14th. It's like $5000, so I'm really waiting impatiently for it. We are also moving in a couple weeks, so it is much needed right now. I've also started the process to short sale my condo. I'll post details on that later.

I've always preferred Dr. Doom myself. But that's because he's got a castle, yo.

It's really adorable how seriously they take the Winter Olympics. That's why we don't have the heart to tell them that they aren't real.