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RPGMasterBoo, did you happen to notice this is a game developer's message board? You might not want to defending piracy here, it's like arguing for counterfeiting money while in line at the bank.

It got a decent review in Game Informer. I'll probably pick it up the next time I go on a trip.

Wow. So basically you are calling the people who don't rip off developers ignorant? You've got it backwards. When I was young and dumb I though only about myself. In High School I went to a FTP sites and downloaded games. When I grew up I realized that not only is it morally wrong, it is also counter productive, because I'm hurting an industry that I enjoy. There is no justification for piracy. You do not need games to survive, so if you can't afford it, you go without. It is immature and selfish to pirate, accept that.

Here's a pretty sweet update coming up, and it's free. http://www.lotro.com/mirkwood/

It's immoral to make a profit off illness and people's fear of death, preying on the sick and downtrodden. J. It's also American, gosh darnit! Seriously though, do you expect doctors and nurses to work for free? There is obviously a line that needs to be drawn somewhere, but there has to be some profit or you wouldn't have anyone involved in medicine. For example, pharmaceutical companies probably make way too much money in this country, but they do need to have a healthy profit in order to fund more research and development, because that is the only way stuff will get better.

A wayward brick hits you in the head, and you are knocked unconscious.

By pirating a game? Of course not. Yeah, no, you are still a thief. I recently traded in my 360 for a PS3, but I really wanted to keep playing Saint's Row 2. I guess I could have stolen the game off the store shelf, but I decided to buy it instead. You know, because that isn't illegal, and it also supports the developer whose product I enjoyed enough to play more than once.

Actually $10 a month if you do it right, they have promotions going on, or if you get invited by someone like myself.

It's more like this:

Maybe they could spell awesomeness correctly though, you know, to be different.

That is a fantastic picture :D

That comic is from some lame EA LotR game, you can swim in LotR Online. There are actually a few LotR Online folks here, including a developer or two. First off, it is an MMO, so if you've hated every MMO you've ever played, this probably won't convert you. However, it is a very well polished MMO, and it does a fantastic job recreating Middle Earth and involving you in an epic storyline. The quests are the real draw for me, they are layered and interesting. The book quests really made me feel involved, like I am taking part in something much larger. The classes are all solid, most of the melee classes have some type of combo system that I find rewarding and isn't just mindless button mashing. It's also quite beautiful, traveling through Moria and the huge stone hallways, or wandering around the shire, there are quite a few visual treats.

I think he is Sawyer's alt. I mean with the Aliens RPG canceled, he had to do something with his extra time.

Yeah, I'm getting pretty down about the Giant's chances, especially after they really got whooped by LA last night. It's hard to be too down though, I thought they'd be fighting to be .500 this season. The fact is they got a lot of young talent and they should be good for a few years to come.

Woohoo, huge that they got Heatley without giving up Marleau. I hope Cheechoo is able to thrive in Ottawa a bit, after 50 and 35 goal seasons, the expectations were just too high for him in SJ. I think he can be a solid 20 goal guy if he stays healthy. Michalek is another 20-30 goal guy, might be even better in a couple years.

I don't see any big changes coming, we've been having these same arguments since the articles of the confederation. In 3-7 years we will have an entirely different leadership and we will argue about the same issues. As for State run UHC, I'm not sure I want California running anything at this point. I have no idea how a state with a GNP larger than most countries is in such a pitiful state.

I haven't read through all of this, but I'm not necessarily opposed to UHC, but for the Europeans, ask yourself if you would want a single UHC program that covered all the countries in Europe. The US just has a huge population, and many people see a Universal Health Care system as a total nightmare that will be terribly mismanaged.

Well, I'd say they are in the order you listed them. This game is kind of boring.

So couldn't we drop that down to twelve and squeeze in a few more interleague series?

I like the interleague play, but I think they should figure out a way to have a series against every team. It should be possible, they play like a thousand games a season. How many times do we play division rivals? I'm glad it is a lot, but it does seem a bit excessive.

Oh, right My mind tends to forget all bad stuff. Yet you remember NWN I think it's a bit of a stretch to say Oblivion included characters. They are really just cardboard cutouts with annoying voices.

Max Payne - You know, it wasn't half bad. I expected much worse. It had fairly solid actors across the board, and it was a nice little crime noir story throughout.

You aren't attached to any of the Jagged Alliance Mercs? Razor and Haywire always make me smile.

I'm playing Baldur's Gate 2 right now, and Imoen is really quite awesome. It's odd, because they didn't develop her all that much in the original, but she was with me through the whole thing, and when she gets take away it really feels like I've lost my closest friend in the game. She's also clearly broken as we move through the dungeon. Going back further, Gurgi in the Black Cauldron was another close friend, and his sacrifice at the end was stunning for me. Snake was my favorite merc in Jagged Alliance, and when I read the bio in JA2 that said he was killed, I was really bummed.

Grats!