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Why not? I wanna have fun doing exactly what I just told you off for doing!

Yes, if you are an epistemological existential empiricist (in extremis). ... Empiricists have traditionally denied that even these fields could be a priori knowledge. Two common arguments are that these sorts of knowledge can only be derived from experience (as John Stuart Mill argued), and that they do not constitute "real" knowledge (as David Hume argued). ... Existentialists do not need an external "god" to complete their Weltanschauung: ... Sartre's dictum, "Existence precedes and rules essence," is generally taken to mean that there is no pre-defined essence to humanity, except that which we make for ourselves. Since Sartrean existentialism does not acknowledge the existence of a god, or of any other determining principle, human beings are free to act as they choose ... If a person chooses to give into temptation, surely they are acting in a totally authoritarian manner over the corporeal demesne? Methodological skepticism behooves us to not insist on a priori knowledge, as the Rationalists do. ("... Descartes considered the knowledge of the self, or cogito ergo sum, to be a priori, because he thought that one needn't refer to past experience to consider one's own existence. ..."; whereas "... Existentialism conceives of Being itself as something that can only be understood through and in relation to these basic characteristics of human existence ... asserting instead that as conscious beings we always find ourselves already in a world, a prior context and history that is given to consciousness and in which it is situated, and that we cannot think away that world. It is inherent and indubitably linked to consciousness. In other words, the ultimate, certain, indubitable reality is not thinking consciousness but, according to Heidegger, 'being in the world'.", namely what is it to be?, the "... real essence or meaning, that is, its intelligibility for us ...", or Da Sein.) Soooooooooooooo, the individual's power is about all the power an individual needs to consider themselves a god ... What? What am I, the local librarian? Oh, I might do some googling later, I'm tired and I have to get up early tomorrow, so I'm off to sleepy bo-bos ...

The only Streetfighter I've seen was the original classic starring Charlie Bronson ...

Eldar, I will have to edit my TOMBS report for you. As a paid up member of the libertarian movement, I abhor your nannying interference. Blaming someone who feels like expressing themselves in a non-standard way for the greedy mercenary behaviours of "members" (used in the loosest sense I can muster) of society is wrong. It is also a brilliant way to create repressed tension that will boil over somewhere else. For all we know, this person could be a performance artist. No one has the right to walk up to anyone and commit assault and battery, just because they did something unpopular with their own property. That would be like me beating up on some poor Christian bookworms for reading the Bible with the intent to believe it. "

You obviously haven't witnessed high enough levels: go back and play again ... Sounds like the Original Pokemon Colloseum. Purify every single shadow Pokemon. Defeat all 100 trainers on mount battle and you got a Ho-Ho as a reward. Perhaps one of a more puzzle oriented nature would be the buried chambers in Ruby/Saphire where you got the regi's. Even had to translate brail for that one. Games could learn so much from Pokemon <{POST_SNAPBACK}> mkreku: AD REM. Paladin: I agree, as Pokemon seems to be a pure form of game theory, that all games either use or CAN use strategies and tactics straight out of the game. Before I got to this part, it sounded very anal and forced. But as an optional thing; well, it sounds cool. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> *Moves closer to finding a Pokemon game that will run on some sort of PC emulation*

Don't move your lemon-shirted arm, I know there is a sniper rifle trained on your right shoelace ...

This one is built on VALVe and Havok, isn't it? Should be good.

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Slanderous information could hurt them...but it might also benefit. Post information a company put an illegal sex game in a game and has to remove it by law and $ (of sold games) and free marketing... Theft is financially hurting a company. No way to deny that. No, it DOES matter. According to you and other people here "stealing" is perfectly fine, if the creator didn't create his loss himself... but another created the copy of the creation that causes the loss (and now I totally lost myself too...) Stealing has, and is for as I know, taking stuff, be it physical or digital that you should not have for free for free... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> As we seem to be indulging ourselves in the "single examples to prove sweeping statements" generalisation inductive logical fallacy, let me add one for you to ponder: A person (let's say she's a student) plays a game on a friend's PC, that that particular friend has not purchased in one of the legitimate ways accepted by all of us under unanimous consent (for whatever personal and irrelevant reasons). The person likes the game, and then decides to buy her own copy. So there exists a case where, just like your strawman, above, something positive and legal and beneficial and generates revenue from an illegal action. Now if we add that the "pirate" doesn't like the game and only downloaded it to see what the fuss was all about (maybe the pirate was a student also, and he didn't really like the whole "Sims" thing; after all, it's a girl's game " ), then the "crime" has a zero negative effect and has positive consequences. See how easy it is to use logical fallacies to prove (in)valid arguments? Right. Let's keep it real, shall we?

Blah blah blah All "black and white" fundamentalist viewpoints are wrong.

No, the point of a console is to standardise the hardware to eliminate (or at least minimise towards a probability of zero). This indicates that some part of the QA is faulty. Either the hardware wasn't QA'd properly, or the game wasn't. If it's the hardware, then there will need to be a patch to all further games to fix it (like the Intel 486 co-processor debacle, or the Hubble telescope's initial myopia), or a recall (depending on the seriousness). If it's software, then the publisher/developer/M$ are to blame for either poor work or poor standards checking. An Xbox should work like a tv or DVD player, not a PC: it should (under normal working conditions) not crash. That said, I wouldn't be at all surprised if some wag had put some sort of thermal enhancer on the GPU/CPU chips, to induce a crash, and cause some bad press ...

Guys, a primer: the format is loose enough to give poetic licence to say things about someone that you really want to, but haven't had the need / ammunition / inclination / whatever to in another thread. No need to be a "rules lawyer" (sic). Just have fun. I mean, anyone who thinks Eldar is as nice as I said is plain daft, or a complete n00bz0rz0RZ111!111

That is a frighteningly accurate onomatopoeic rendition of the Cookie Monster's mad scoffing of many cookies ...!

Yes, Big Brother is here to protect you.

They wouldn't live long enough to learn the ways of the Force. And that singing is enough to stun an opponent.

Gaming Theory is obviously lost on you, then. You are too interested in the pretty colours to understand the logic system that underpins it: much as the monk called Mendel determined the laws of heredity, so too the laws of gaming can be used for multiple applications (like warfare and free market trading). Using the pretty characters is just a handy mneumonic for the character traits, short-cutting the learning and recognition process.

I will never play a Jedi Ewok, Darth!

Isn't that more Freeware or Public Domain? The Shareware model that I'm familiar with is usually either trial based, or with limited functionality. Doom for instance, only had the first episode available as Shareware. If you wanted to play the other levels, you had to buy the game. It wasn't "please contribute if you like it." It was "please contribute if you want to play more." Alternative styles are the 30 day trial periods that offer full functionality (well, usually), but disable themselves after the trial period is over. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Shareware = Try it for free, if you use it, then buy it to get rid of the ubiquitous nag screen (and possibly the appliction is nerfed, as well). GNU GPL = Use it for personal requirements for free, but any revenue generation needs to be reconciled with the original author. Freeware / Public Domain = All yours, baby, but please consider the developer and contribute what you think is fair. Doom was Shareware. ZoneAlarm Personal Ed is freeware. I forgot a big one, too: Duke Nukem.

Unless it's a Jedi Wookiee. And definitely no Ewoks, except as hors d'

As a funny aside, I remember when many people were reporting bizarre problems about the Half-Life expansion Opposing Forces. They were all up in a rage, and many were contacting tech support and whatnot. It turns out though, that the problem only existed in the pirated version. I heard there were many bannings on the gearbox forums <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I remember a story about AutoCAD (y'know, the Computer Aided Design package that invented and defined the market, and came with a hardware copy-protection device, connected via the serial port, called a dongle?): apparently the 3D wire models were degrading after a certain (predictable) amount of time. So, after a couple of weeks, the model would slowly lose it's vertical integrity and look like it was melting. Turns out that this was due to the pirated versions not completely duplicating the functionality of the dongle: there was some dimensional constant that used a value from the device as a reference, and when it was absent the Y axis would deteriorate asymptotically. Very fiendish copy protection, worthy of admiration! The closest I ever heard of for the black hats was a virus that installed itself as an encrypting hash algorithm between a database engine and its data; after a number of weeks (a couple of months, IIRC, enough to affect all normal archives in the backup cycle) it would then delete itself and leave the engine with an encrypted database. That's one pee'ed off ex-employee! (Not sure if the perpetrator was caught.)

I would add a corollary to Kaftan's First Law of Puzzles: the puzzle should include good feedback, especially for incorrect responses, that indicate how wrong the response was, as well as how many more responses like that will fail. This also adds meaning to the Second, Third, Fifth Rules of Puzzles, and even a little to the Fourth Rule.

Where are you playing this curious game?

Lots of countries have (had) hyperinflation, like interregnum Germany, which suffered 3.25 million percent per month (prices double every 49 hours), after the European nations uncoupled their currencies from the Gold Standard. Of course the Germans got it right when they occupied Greece: 8.55 billion percent per month (prices double every 28 hours). Current world record holders are Hungary, though who, after the end of World War II at 41.9 quadrillion percent (4.19

It is now. All we need is a good back beat.

He flamed me once. Bastard. I hate him.