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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.

No, I was only talking about real countries.

History has not looked kindly upon Joe Kennedy. He has a very negative reputation in the US.

Since we have been talking about Prince

Who dissed Prince? I agree he is a living god.

Monty is on a bit of a tear today. I probably needed to expand on my post a bit, but I just didn't have the time. It was not meant to come across as taking a moral high ground. I'd also say anti-British sentiment is about as low as it has ever been in the US right now. Heck, just look at the popularity of Ricky Gervais and Simon Cowell. They make a living insulting Americans and we love them for it. Politically I can't think of a country that the US has a closer relationship with. Canada doesn't count.

I really don't think the US would have. The whole not negotiating with terrorists thing is taken pretty seriously by the US government. Not that I think it is always the best policy, but in this case it would have been appropriate.

Star Wars Galaxies had its charms. The non-combat options in the game were fairly expansive. You could set up your own stores, create entire towns. I played for a few months and managed to get a full set of stormtrooper armor and a little house to decorate. It was pretty fun running around as a stormtrooper doing errands for Darth Vader. They even implemented a language system, where you had to learn wookie in order to understand what those players were saying. It was laso nice that there was no traditional leveling system, although you still grinded stuff.

Apparently Prince is constantly recording stuff and then locking it in a vault. Not to sound morbid, but it will be interesting to see if it all gets released after he dies. Happy Birthday Nepenthe! 30 is when everything started to break down physically for me. Enjoy