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Ah yes, another popular excuse by the apologists... not stealing, just violating a bit of copyright. It might be easier to pursue in a court room, but semanthic obfuscation doesn't change the fact that you are stealing. What you are stealing is the depriving other people due payment for the time and labour invested in their work. To bring back my original example of the hairdresser, walking away without paying him is not really stealing either, is it? Try telling the plumber that fixed your broken water pipe that, thanks, but since I now have what I need, why should I pay you for your time, etc. Only the anonymity in stealing digitally distributable stuff makes lions out of whimps. The same whimps indulging in self pity if somebody wants to make it harder for them apparantly.

Sounds like the original problem was solved...

That has to be the most inane excuse I've heard in a long time. Nobody is forced into pirating anything by anything other than their own greed and lack of morals. Lets cut it out in simple words: You... Don't... Need... It... It's even better, it's single syllable words. To hard to grasp for the mewling filth wallowing around in their own feces on the floor, ranting about evil overlords ripping them off etc. but the truth, as much as it hurts the delusional mind is, there is no music/software/movie/book whatever that anybody *Need* The solution is very simple, do not like, not know well enough, simply leave it where it is. Anything else is hypocrasy, plain and simple. The feeble attempts at justifying it just make people who steal out of convenience look even more pathetic than they already are.

A bit funny since invading England is a favourite occupation amongst its neighbours. The Celts did it, the Saxons did it, The Danes did it, the Iriash had a go at it every now and then, the Normans did it, the Scots did it etc. resulting in a country where most of its people are of either German, French or Danish origin. Even the royal family is German (Hannoverian) iirc.

I'm afraid it wont matter much what Obsidian prefers in these cases, as DRM is usually something that is implemented at the sole discretion of the publisher. Might want to look at recent Square Enix releases to "test the waters" regarding what direction they are heading.

That would be an understatement... it sounds completely weird, utterly out of synch with lips and body language and the translators couldn't agree on the translation. One guy tells me to fetch 5 of something while the subtitle says 6 Other than that, it seems to run Ok. All maxed out too, with high and ultra high settings, no hiccups so far.

So, because it is easy to steal and the probability of getting caught low, you think it is Ok? Parasites with self entitlement issues is the reason legislation like this even comes up in the first instance. When you go to the hair dresser and get a haircut, do you decide when leaving that his time and effort wasn't worth your money and then leave without paying? Probably not, because it is easier to get caught. The mentality is the same though. Why should *I* have to pay if I can weasel my way out of it. I can always try to make up feeble, pathetic excuses afterwards, like nobody gets hurt and everybody else are stealing, so it can't really be wrong, can it? It must be the victims fault, because I am not really a bad person normally. Grow up. Bottom line, there is nothing essential you need to survive on the internet. There is only explanations for piracy, no excuses.

I still buy music. I buy music that has recently been released by bands that still exist. That doesn't mean anything at all. Because you do something legally most of the time does not excuse doing it illegally some of the time. Which doesn't have anything to do with the topic either. It is about giving authority to shut down sites on dubious claims. Piracy in itself is another matter. Yeah, good riddance to piracy sites and filesharers, but the decision process, who decides what qualifies for blacklisting etc. is rather conspiceously (sp?) unspecified at the moment. Few people throw fits at the idea of cops handing out speeding tickets without a court process, but would you have private interest groups have the same authority? Not really.

It still says 2+ hours, but much better

41 hours to download... it's only 1.7Gb. Maybe they are a bit busy at the moment Might try again in a day or two.

Where in the world did you get those numbers? The most common aspect ratios are 4:3 (standard TV, ie. 1280x960) , 5:4 (common computer, ie. 1280x1024), 16:9 (standard HDTV, ie. 1280x720) and 16:10 (common computer , ie. 1280x800). Heh, that should have read 16:9 and 16:10 instead of 9:6 and 10:6. I'd only had 8 cups of coffee at the time

It may not have been their intention, but it sort of pokes the entire "achievement" fad (which is laughable) in the eye with a big rod in a satirical way.

Sort of... yes and no. I live here, yet I live and work in a very multi/inter-national environment where we are way more people from overseas than locals. It was the same thing when living in New Zealand. I have more Dutch, Indian, South African, Danish, German, Pom, Indonesian, Malayasian etc. colleagues than Aussie colleagues. Only when getting away from work and "mingling" do I get to actually experience Australia. Kind of weird, I know.

That leaves us a few days to get to the next page I need to go back re-read the part where he got the holy avenger. The fight can't be that easy (or maybe I'm that bad) >_

Nah, I'm being Nordic (Danish ex-pat here).

I find myself going through 95% of the game without ever touching my heavy weapon. Then I unleash most of my heavy ammo on the thresher maw. It almost kills it in one shot if timed correctly at the start of the combat. Edit:

It's about as sure as pushing a button... tell Nordic people that there is something they are not allowed to say or talk about and they become all agitated. Even to the point of becoming militant about it. Freedom of speech is not something just enshrined in an official piece of paper somewhere, it is a deep seated cultural thing.

Hammerhead beats the crap out of Planet Scanning. Edit: I've been sorely tempted to get Overlord and Lair of the Shadowbroker, but my resentment of paid DLC's will probably keep them off my PC. Hopefully there will be a big box set of ME2 + all addons some day.

I'm at work now, so no NWN2 in front of me (which means it's from top of my head). Isn't it question of selecting resolution with the "correct" proportions, i.e. 9:6 or 10:6? I seem to remember running it in 2560x1600 without having to do anything. For lower resolutions, 1920x1080 etc. might work.

Wow... it is actually more effective to kill their leaders than the footsloggers! Good thing we have geniuses like that, otherwise we would never have figured that one out Now we just need another one of those geniuses from the department of practical math to tell how to actually accomplish it in the field.

Not suggesting that it is less corruptible as such, just suggesting not to underestimate the power of perception. The further away the man on the floor is removed from decision making, the more he is prone to resent the decision makers. The last time Danish police opened fire on people in the streets (since 1945) to control the crowds was after the politicians decided that the Maastricht treaty referendum needed a "re-run" because they didn't like the way people voted the first time.

Hey stop that... I'm playing soldier right now. Trying to play a female Shepard because everybody says the voice acting is better. It probably is, but I suck at roleplaying females. It's just a guy with boobs and a higher pitched voice now