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Reply to The Great Debates -- VP Debates -- "Palin Needs Structure" in Everything Else Sins Forums

An Alaskan here. I know all the assfucking shitbag politicians in question. :) For Palin to beat Murkowski in the primary, and then beat Knowles in the general, in itself speaks volumes on her aptitude for politics. Murkowski is to Alaska what guys like Ted Kennedy are to Massachussets. He didn't even need to buy ad space to get the job. Both of our long time Senators and our lone representative were a long standing trio of bacon

Reply to What would be viable copy protection? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

It took me, on my uber shitty satellite connection, less than five seconds from reading to find a 1.1 beta torrent of Sins. I wont hold it against TPB for not having a new beta version of an expansion for a game over two years old. :) I downloaded the CC demo before it was released, I have plenty of friends that downloaded the full Spore game before it was released. Mass Effect was fully cracked four days after it was released, cracked day one with a flaw.&n

Reply to Have you ever downloaded a game? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

AOE2, someone swore it was my kind of game, the demo was ungodly bad. I downloaded it, played a bit, bought it, the first one, and the expansions. Homeworld, I actually got cataclysm first and was curious about the differences, the fucker was one hard to find game in Squarebanks Alaska, but I've bought them all. Patience is a virtue I lack, I do however have the vices of complacency and procrastination, so I get to skip the need to accomplish tasks.

Reply to What would be viable copy protection? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Sorry Frogboy, but I can steal any game I want to right now. You're already working off the honor system. The software industry has been on the honor system since creation, and it's not going to change short of killing itself. When people that want to are no longer downloading a couple hundred gigs in pirated material every month in spite of the protections, maybe you'll have a leg to stand on.

Reply to Dead horse buffet in Everything Else Sins Forums

Incorrect. What statistics did you see that said such? Capital gains were cut by more than half from 86 to 87 in anticipation of a move from 20% back to 28%. That wishful 26% hike in revenue turned into a massive loss as it dropped from over 400 billion to under 200. People bail fast when they start trying to pass increase. Revenue as a percentage of GDP is historically about double at 20% as well. Also, only smart investors make more mone

Reply to Bioware in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Bioware doesn't actually exist, it's a subsidary of EA, so they'd need to sign a deal with EA, which is probably about as likely as hell freezing over. :) EA will have to get the shit kicked out of them before they'll stoop to something intelligent like an online distribution system that doesn't violate your backside.

Reply to Dead horse buffet in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]On the issue of the need for tighter credit, there is an even stronger need for tighter controls on interest rates. What with the average American paying well over 20% interest on credit cards it is no wonder people can't get out of debt. Regarding the notion that my cousin was "living beyond his means" it is patently false. He had over six months living expenses saved up prior to losing his job. BTW: I must pay taxes in two cou

Reply to Dead horse buffet in Everything Else Sins Forums

Death to the bailout! Maybe we live to fight another day?

Reply to What Size Monitors are You Using? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

1600x1200 @85hz, native resolution NEC Multisync fp2141sb. The ultimate in 22inch CRT's. :) A rock solid picture that compares with an LCD for stability, contrast that makes your LCD's look like crap, and no jaggies! It's gonna suck to upgrade to a widescreen flatpanel in the next year or so, maybe I'll get lucky and they'll come out with something that's good for watching movies and playing games on. Even an NEC wont last forever :(</

Reply to Will America always be a superpower? in Everything Else Sins Forums

Clinton definitely made it massively worse by forcing Fannie and Freddie to buy bad loans to push his minority housing agenda, but we'd still be running into it without his help. It would be a lot smaller though, maybe half? Btw, if we do collapse, the rest of the world will follow us with twice the bang for their buck. If the US cuts their consumption of oil in half for instance, the oil states will be burning the shit off on the ocean to try and get the pr

Reply to Game Cheats Are Illegal? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Restricting EULA's wont get a valid implementation because few people are dumb enough to sign over their rights for a product.

Reply to Stardock & Ironclad ROCK! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

There's a massive level of innovation left to do in the fps genre. The lack of it is one of the problems it suffers. When they stop getting caught up in graphics and start working on making them interesting, I'll be depressed by my inability to play them online. We need command structure, fortification capability, real strategic and tactical values in loadout decisions, more creative weaponry. Honestly, how many games actually have an awesomely unique

Reply to Sweet Mod in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Um... wrong button?

Reply to Dead horse buffet in Everything Else Sins Forums

Fueling the economy by overselling at 100% markup to people that can't afford them doesn't actually fuel the economy. You have five bucks, you buy something with it, and sell it to some sucker for six, then he sells it to someone for seven, and so on and so forth. You haven't actually created any wealth at the end of it, regardless of how high the price goes before the guy holding it can't find another seller. We're literally running off a thirty year econom

Reply to Should people have the right to resell games as grey or secondary market material? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

It's not so much the five bucks off as it is the five bucks the guy that traded in his used game made to start with. If you went off ebay, you'd have most of the buyers costs in profit yourself, ready to reinvest in another title. When you go through eb games or such, you get reamed about as well as you do when you trade in a car for two grand and the dealer sells it to someone else for eight. If the game store paid the trader 30 bucks and sold it for 35, th

Reply to Dead horse buffet in Everything Else Sins Forums

Maudlin, you're attempting to apply logic in an illogical manner. I have just been appointed CEO to a billion dollar industry, when they can me, I'm going to make X million dollars. If their stock price goes up, I get X million dollars when it does. Yes, logically, the shareholders don't want their stock to go up five bucks today and down five hundred tomorrow. Also logically, the CEO doesn't want the same thing the shareholders do.&nb

Reply to What would be viable copy protection? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

You're hilarious, really. Try two or three weeks, maximum. I can't imagine the response created by a copy protection system claiming such difficulty. If it even made it a week without being cracked, I'd be surprised. Every cracker on earth would be in a race to be the first one to break the unbreakable. Even the longest lasting version of starforce only made it a couple months, and the reason wasn't because it was particularly ha

Reply to Should people have the right to resell games as grey or secondary market material? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

There's not a lot you can do about people being suckers. Used game stores are like used car dealers, they're going to make the money off the transaction. When the buyer is the one benefiting from the trade, you're losing very little, if anything.

Reply to What would be viable copy protection? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Bank vaults aren't unbreakable. It's a matter of time and planning. They don't let you study their blue prints in advance and you can't spend several hours breaking into them because people tend to notice that sort of thing. Software is a bank vault that you have the blueprints for sitting right in front of you. To make a lock and key that can't be decrypted, you design software that can't run without outside help.

Reply to I am surprised this has not been done. in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Um... Two points. Years would require years, Sins is an 08 release, February specifically. :) There are. Multiple. Check the downloads.

Reply to What would be viable copy protection? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Your reply was a little off mark. Viable as in commercially acceptable to the people buying their games. The man wants to know where we stop buying his products, a question on our personal views on how far up our ass we'll let a company shove their stick. I've previously answered. Viable, and yours isn't, as in actually functioning and preventing copying is practically impossible, and theoretically debatable. When you key software to a lock conta

Reply to What would be viable copy protection? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Usually, refuting a post is supposed to have a point. Your point is that a parody isn't a competing product, thus is irrelevant. We'll just ignore the problem of "The Wind Done Gone" not being an actual parody to start with. A cd crack is not a competing product, thus is irrelevant. Copy protection does not prevent a competing product, thus is irrelevant. Reverse engineering does not create a competing product, thus is irrelevant. A c

Reply to [MOD RELEASE] Star Trek: Sacrifice of Angels 2 0.03b Released (updated 01/10/09) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Feds are actually awesomely overpowered anyway. Just send fleets of 100+ damage miranda's at things. :) They have the punch of a galaxy class from 4ap.

Reply to Should people have the right to resell games as grey or secondary market material? in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Expenditure is a zero sum game, more money wont fall from the sky. That lack of a used market will directly translate to a drop in discretionary spending that matches the income going towards used goods. It may not be a 1/1 ratio on pc game sales, but it's close enough that you're going to take a hit if you kill it off.