Johnny

Johnny vs. Duke Set 1 Johnny wins 5-0

And as I recall, finding a crack that fixed the anti-piracy "bugs" was a task accomplished in a few minutes.

Message me on steam any time and I'll be up for playing, Dex. I'm interested to see how good you are.

That leaks sometimes happen doesn't make it any smarter to delay EU release for three days, surely?

I'm not sure what you're saying?

That said, I have to admit the main reason I didn't pirate is that I'm planning to buy the game anyway and don't feel like starting over once I get it on steam.

This is what I'm doing. But I have several friends who decided not to wait. The point is that if the goal of modern DRM is to reduce zero-day and first-day piracy, launching games in Europe two to three days later is shooting themselves in the foot. To put it simply, any time you're making the pirated version more attractive to a consumer compared to the version they pay money for, either by making your DRM too restrictive, having heaps of retailer-exclusive pre-order DLC, or anything else, you're encouraging piracy. And if you're trying to make money off of selling games, that is probably a dumb idea.

Nothing stopping them from putting the brick and mortar release on the same day worldwide...

I would just like to note that I'm currently in a position where if I buy XCom or Dishonored, I can't play them for over two days. But if I pirate them I could play them immediately. These companies talk so much about preventing zero-day and first-day piracy. And then stuff like this happens where a large region can't buy the game for several days while there are pirate copies on the net. Seems like smart business...

Guild Wars 2... Most of the things that get in my way when playing that game is mentalities I've developed playing other MMOs. For example, I feel bad jumping into structured PvP on a not max level character. There is no reason why I should feel bad about that. And I'd enjoy the game more if I could get over it.

The popular deck builders (NOTE: This is different from Collectible Card Games where you build a deck outside of the game and then play with that deck!) include: Eminent Domain Puzzle Strike Dominion Thunderstone Advance Nightfall Ascension

I think you're talking about "Mr. Card Game"? Doesn't look very interesting to me. Deck building games are simply the current flavour of the month and this one doesn't seem to be doing anything to differentiate itself from current offerings.

I'll join. Parries with a d-pad and EU to US connection? Let's do this!

I just wish the Axe Cop license had been used to make a good game instead of yet another Munchkin re-theme. And I bought it so I am part of the problem.

I've fallen behind a lot on writing stuff here haven't I. Oh well, I'll deal with it when I find time. For right now, here's an updated picture of (most) of my collection. Missing is Hive: Pocket Edition and my Magic The Gathering cards. Also, a strong recommendation to anyone who likes collectible card games to try Android: Netrunner. It's the best.

ACR is clearly worse. I don't have the whole thing in my head right now, I just want to note: whoever does tell him, do make sure to use spoiler tags.

I'd join 3S or BlazBlue. I'd not join UMvC3. Though if P4A is released here before then (most unlikely), that's the one I'd vote for xD

Switzerland and Sweden are actually not the same countries

I think I'm technically an uncle. My sister who I've never met has kids. Does that count? You're awful.

Sure, we can't say God doesn't exist. In the same way we can't say that there isn't a teapot orbiting around mars.

I honestly don't see why there should be a difference between atheism and any religion in this regard. All camps will have people yelling loudly. It's just how it is. This is exactly as invalid as the arguments that hateful Christians aren't "real Christians", or any similar idea. Here's an anecdote taken from my own personal life. I don't believe ghosts exist. All of my relatives, however, do strongly. This is often discussed openly, when I am present. Oftentimes someone will point a statement or question towards me. Yet, still, if I ever speak about my disbelief in ghosts, the room goes deeply serious and everyone starts acting like I tried to throw them under a bus. They are allowed to freely express their belief, but my opinion is not allowed because it is not in favor with the majority of my family. If this was about Christianity, instead of ghosts, damn right I would hate Christianity. Reasonable? No. Strong emotions like those rarely are. That, I imagine, is where a lot of the animosity comes from. Though I don't have to imagine; having browsed r/atheism in the past, I have seen this written by many of the people who post there. In regards to r/atheism in particular, I think the place serves its purpose as somewhere for people in such situations to let out the bitterness and anger. From what I can tell, most people who post there are not long-term; they tend to move on once they've gotten it out of their system. I feel that hating it and ridiculing it is missing the point. I think it could probably do with not being a default subreddit though.

Though like Newell says, it wouldn't happen.

Can we challenge him to a test? He gets injected with a lethal overdose of some medicine. If there is no effect, he's right. When he dies from the overdose, you guys get to pick a new health dude.