psychoak

Reply to New copy protection comming for Spore and Mass Effect (EA) in PC Gaming Sins Forums

If you read the thread, it was explained. Repeatedly too, you're not the only one that didn't immediately see it... The specifics. On install, the software counts down, five days in, it attempts to authenticate, ten days in, if no authentication, poof, no work till authenticated. On authenticating, the timer is reset, giving you ten more days. Assuming constant connectivity it will re-authenticate every five days. The problems, aside from the obvious one for someone

Reply to Who hates EA games in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Ron, that's Half-Life 2. Which hasn't sold half as well, on account of not being nearly as age friendly towards ones computer. Find a high selling pc game that broke records and required a year old pc or better to run well, and you can disprove my observations. :)

Reply to How long do think the Simpsions will last? in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]psychoak: You're the real dick.[/quote] That implies exclusive rights, besides, I'm an ass.

Reply to New copy protection comming for Spore and Mass Effect (EA) in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Why is it? I have x money I'm going to spend on games. I'm not going to magically buy more games just because there are more games I'm interested in than I have money to spend on them. If, instead of passing on them, I "steal" them, who have I hurt? Where is the effect of the wrong I've committed? The answer is nowhere, such piracy has no victim because there is no loss to anyone. If the software wasn't going to be purchased if it wasn't for the act of piracy, nothing bad h

Reply to Girls that play RTS? in Everything Else Sins Forums

RTS games are impersonal. Make one with a figurehead that they can become emotionally attached to and they'll come around. Quite a few guys got their wives and girlfriends to play the Warlords:battlecry games, same vein as warcraft or the myriad of even more boring clones, but with persistent heroes that you can build up one battle to the next. They went from basic infantry strength all the way up to army destroying titans, the attack spell geared ones could solo the max unit limits at full s

Reply to How long do think the Simpsions will last? in Everything Else Sins Forums

You're a dick for being sadistic and starting political threads that I can't help checking, and then being satirical.

Reply to New copy protection comming for Spore and Mass Effect (EA) in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Believe it or not, there are pc gamers out there that don't have internet. It's a dumb move. Besides, I don't do phone home software, end of story. I tolerate steam since it gives useful functionality in return for being a nanny. It runs off-line till I check for updates as well. Until it's cracked or they give up on the latest idiocy, spore's out for anal retentive bastards that dislike nanny software.

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

Myth perpetuated by Hollywood. Every nuke on earth, set off at the exact same time in as uniform a manner as possible, wouldn't even guarantee the extinction of many animals. We'd be pretty fucked up for a while, high rates of cancer, birth defects, stuff like that, but we'd be just fine in the long run. There'd be a lot less of us obviously, but the world ending cataclysm that wipes out life on earth is pure myth. The nuclear winter that may or may not come about is less of a threat than th

Reply to How long do think the Simpsions will last? in Everything Else Sins Forums

You're a dick.

Reply to What I think could happen to the US in Everything Else Sins Forums

Therapy is for people that can't handle reality, here's hoping we never face it, you wont.

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

I'd be happy if Europe would just share the weight... I don't need the UK to try and play world police, but being able to fully man their aging navy would be a nice start. It's damned inconvenient being the only stable democracy capable of defending itself.

Reply to What I think could happen to the US in Everything Else Sins Forums

International law is a joke, has been since it was started. The only country to abide by the Geneva Conventions to date is the evil empire itself. In every war we've been in, civilians have been used as shields, children sent out with grenades, disease used as a weapon, villages massacred for cooperating, captured soldiers tortured for information or just for the hell of it. I frequently despise my loathsomely stupid country because it abides by a piece of paper created by a conflue

Reply to Who hates EA games in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Hollywood is a fairly different problem. They are bloated to the extreme. The entertainment industry as a whole is too lucrative for it's own good. The list of who would want to be a movie star is depressingly large, the list of who will actually be a movie star is necessarily small. It's not constrained to a more reasonable comparison as a janitor is. Often there are fewer people wanting to be janitors than there are jobs available, wages go up in order to attract more janitors to fill the

Reply to What I think could happen to the US in Everything Else Sins Forums

You're right Drathkar, some people will find your post offensive. Offensively stupid. You weren't doing too bad till your blatant antisemitism came through, congrats on being a blind racist that can only see one side of a story. I'd shred your post, but it's beneath even my petty attentions.

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

The US is the worlds largest exporter of food, not just an importer. The gas is about 50/50, you can blame congress for that. Forcing the oil companies to lose money on any new refineries they built just so they could build them in Mexico with even lower standards was real bright. Same deal with California making it impossible to operate a new power plant in California, so they buy their power from Mexico, again with even lower standards. The joys of environmentalism. Still,

Reply to Starcraft vs. Sins of a Solar Empire in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Play it. Doom divers are most definitely cartoonish. Perhaps you take your Warhammer a wee bit too seriously?

Reply to If You Have An Opinion On The Price Of The Full Version SPORE Creature Editor, Click Here. in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Some of you seriously over-estimate the damage done by selling a "demo" in advance. People that actually pay attention, notice this, and get annoyed at them over it, already pay attention. If your dick is so far up your ass that this will prevent you buying anything from EA on principle, you stopped buying anything from EA on principle about a decade ago. Either the game is good and doesn't tank at release, or it isn't and we're not interested. Whether or not the full version of the creature

Reply to Who hates EA games in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Yeah... Great title. Way to pick on the lesser of two evils when it comes to mega publishers for the pc. I'm with U235, Ubisoft is worse. It's systematic of the entire industry. Sierra/Vivendi and Ubisoft aren't any better. Quite honestly, EA has been pushing bug ridden shit for a shorter time span than the other ones have. Anyone remember Lords of Magic? Bad ass game, bad ass OOS errors too, never did manage a network game... NFS Porsche unleashed was a pretty good game aside f

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

The British empire was never a superpower until WW2 wiped out the rest of europe and left them as the only one standing. It was just marginally more powerful than France, hence all the lengthy wars between them. Top dog yes, but not capable of walking all over everyone else, if they'd been a super power, WW2 would have been a flash in the pan. Of course, they also dissolved their empire right after attaining the status. The term superpower came about more because other countries were

Reply to What I think could happen to the US in Everything Else Sins Forums

The spend happy congress. Learn to read and do so. Military spending, Iraq war included, is a pittance compared to the overall budget, entitlements vastly outweigh it. We have a lower level of spending on the military now than we did when Reagan was in office. It's insignificant compared to the level of spending we had during actual wars, a minuscule fraction of the WW2 spending.

Reply to What do think will happen to the Middel East if oil is replaced by alternative fuels? in Everything Else Sins Forums

Paul will be very disappointed to hear that he died 19 years before conception. You obviously didn't read the article if you couldn't figure out the second wiki link on your google search was the right one. [QUOTE]"It's irrefutable fact that we haven't even explored for oil in much of the world and have absolutely no idea how much is actually out there". Yah, im sorry have to REFUTE that, its blatantly incorrect, what do you think oil companies do with their billions of oil re

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

[quote]Best troops anywhere is in America.Then why can't we win a simple war against a few 3rd world nations? I mean come on we've over in the middle east for 4.5 years! WW2 was against three major world powers and it was only about six years long. This stupid war in the middle east has dragged on far to long.[/quote] Course of events. WW2: Vast tracts of land are bombed back into the stone age, entire cities razed to the ground, ~50 million people killed. The German army is

Reply to Absolutely pathetic in Technical Sins Forums

Saved game compatibility is dependent on what kind of things are changed. If you changed the layout of the map for instance, every position is broken, a saved game being transfered would require reverse engineering the positions through an absurdly complicated bit of code, a colossal waste of time. Depending on how information is stored, little things like unit stat changes are irrelevant, only removal would be a problem. Underlying mechanics and superficial details rarely break saves, save i

Reply to What do think will happen to the Middel East if oil is replaced by alternative fuels? in Everything Else Sins Forums

AJackal is mostly right, the joys of eduction. Educated morons have been educating each other for millenia, the oil crisis isn't a new thing. Civilization has been a cascading prediction of doom since inception. This or that is always doomed to run out and will end life on earth as we know it. His post is relatively accurate, well reasoned, but devoid of fact. We already ran out of oil reserves several times, the first time was over seventy years ago. Reactionists can come

Reply to can you spawn level 10 ships? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

There should be some method of doing it. The flagship was built at level 3 in beta so the functionality existed before.