[quote]That is why you force the user to create an account and tie the CD key to it before he can get an update or DLC.[/quote] Both of which can be found through... dun dun dun... pirate sites and torrents. The more you try to lock something up, the more it will be attempted to be cracked. Game developers need to work WITH the gamers, not AGAINST the gamers.
[quote]Piss on the RNC, the DNC and their bought and paid for human turds. [/quote] This made me laugh. Wow Para, you are not short on loathing for those groups are you? [e digicons]:rofl:[/e]
[quote]Yes, that's because Will Wright likes to make "digital toys" rather than games. [/quote] Haha, that makes sense. Sims are like virtual, complicated, Barbie dolls. "Game" is a word that covers a huuuuuge amount of ground though. It doesn't neccessarily mean that you have to "win" though, just that you have to participate, and, preferably, have fun.
[quote]I say we vote them all out next time and tell the RNC and DNC to shut their criminal pie holes![/quote] Who will replace them? More of the same? We can say this all we want, but when it comes time to vote... we vote either Democrat or Republican, over and over and over and over... you get my drift. As Albert Einstein said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” The American pe
[quote]So long as political positions are cared for more than those they claim to represent, this cycle will continue to repeat itself no matter who's in the White House, Congress or the Senate.[/quote] It's our responsibility to remove these people from power... however people are just too lazy, or uneducated to care. It's not about getting the ones in office to care about us, it's about getting those that care about us into office. Until people see that the two-party s
[quote]Your greatest friend in the fight against piracy is the CD key. Even if the pirates figure out the algoritm and keygen it, you will always have a private whitelist of keys that you published, and can blacklist all the keys that weren't published (keygenned keys). A CD key is the only way to tell a pirate from a legit user. Use it wisely. [/quote] This only works if the user registers his/her product. Otherwise, the original key can be used indefinitely, passed on from
Brad, (or one of his alters), wrote an article about the cycle of a blog-site. It's pretty interesting, and over the 4 years I have blogged here off and on, I have found it to be true. Wish I could find it.
No single group, nor person, is responsible for the way things are today. Humanities greed, however, is. This has happened the entire existance of mankind, on different levels, and will continue to happen as long as we exist. Pointing fingers and bushing blame around never solved anything.
I actually enjoyed Spore... for the first... 8 hours. After that, I just couldn't play it anymore. The idea is awesome, but the actual game was only good for a bit. I think the only reason that I enjoyed it so much is because I kept comparing it to human evolution. Taken in that way, it's a little more interesting (to me.) [quote]Spore is not a game. You cannot lose, there is no challange, there is no consequences to any threats against you.[/quote] This
[quote]That would be the French, as they have never won a war in their entire history. William was Norman and not French, while Napoleon won a couple of battles before losing inevitably.[/quote] Yes, they couldn't even win in the war against themselves. :D
[quote]Humans, on the other hand, adapt rapidly (sometimes within a single generation or less) to changing situations.[/quote] We may adapt quickly, but perhaps that just means our destruction all the sooner. Humans have evolvedbecause of our ability to lie, (which can also attribute to our ability to manipulate on such a grand scale). This was, I believe, our tool for survival, where we had no physical defenses against predators. We did, however, have our
[quote]S&JT was here not too long ago. But infrequent[/quote] I have been here the past week. I noticed that you, Dr. Guy, haven't blogged much lately, so I have been wondering if you've moved on. Glad to see you are still around. (Is it just me or does that seem to reference death too much. That isn't what I mean, though, haha.) MM, I am glad to see you are doing well! Have missed you guys! To add to that list, Dharma</p
[quote]Actually, we ARE above other mammals simply because we CAN debate our morality[/quote] How can you know this for sure though? We assume that other life-forms aren't as intelligent as we are, because we use our knowledge of the way that our minds and bodies work as a basis to compare. Just something to think about. [quote]but you can't deny that it's probably the best tool that currently exists.[/quote] No, I can't deny that. But of course we may o
"Ambition is the last refuge of failure." -Oscar Wilde
News is just news. It is our own perspective, or those of the ones that informs of us of the news, that gives it a good or bad connotation. For example, the statement "a gunman killed 13 people" is simply that, a statement. It is our view of murder (murder is bad) that makes us believe that the news is "bad."
Selfishness is in us all, and even a little stupidity. Yet we always try to delude ourselves into thinking we, or the ones we deal with/trust, are above that.
Banned for having an avatar with a non-symmetrical face.
Up until a year or so ago, I always had to have dramatized stories or tv on. Not just music, and not just talking, it always had to be a mix. I believe this developed because I grew up in a household that didn't have a tv, so my dad constantly had the radio on, and would listen to sports and talkshoes. The variety of talking, and music from the commercials conditioned me to only be able to sleep if there was noise like this. I wasn't able to get out o
Instinctual* (My pc is not letting me edit for some reason.)
[quote]yes, everything we do could be contrived to a selfish motive. even when helping another person at direct expense to yourself, it could be said that it is so that you can"feel good about yourself" or respect your self. and then there's that "warm, fuzzy feeling" that some people say they get when helping others.[/quote] Not only do I agree with this, I have made this exact argument many times. It is instintual to think of ourselves/our bloodline first, because withou
Thought: The majority of problems happen because we are naturally selfish creatures that expect others to have altruistic motives.
[quote who="Protocept00" comment="8"]Annatar,I refuse to watch reviews anymore. I think it takes away from the experience of playing a game. Let's say a game you've been looking forward to is about to come out... and well, you log onto your favorite review site one day and it gets a shitty review. You decide to buy the game anyway. But unfortunately, after reading his rant... you're no doubt going to go in to the game EXPECTING it to be bad whether it really is or not. I think reviews are ano
Since when does free time have to be spent well, :D
Since when does unexpected free time have to be spent well? [e digicons]:grin:[/e]
For the past few weeks, I have felt suspended in time, suspended somewhere between the past year, and whatever may come. I know there are a lot of things happening right now that I don't see, and I try to take comfort in this fact, but the waiting is irrefutably wearing me down. I often find myself wondering if I will forever be frozen in this state of transition, forever feeling as though I am in overdrive, preparing for something that may never happen. I suppose I
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