TheMightyEthan

@elev3n: lol, this is why metaphors are bad, they just end up confusing everything. What I meant is that not every use of pirated software constitutes cheating other users. If I pirate Photoshop and use it to make silly pictures to post on this forum the only person I've cheated is Adobe (putting aside that they seem to encourage Photoshop piracy...) *Edit* - @FDS: Well, I would make a distinction between pirating a product and just cracking one you bought, but fine, throw an "in general" on the front of that, and know that I acknowledge there are exceptions but that it's impractical to list every exception.

Nothing, it just affects War Assets. Like every other decision. *Edit* - This was @elev3n re: collector base.

I'm not super familiar with the tax code, but I believe it works the same way here.

Actually, that's a really good idea. And with it identifying the devices you wouldn't necessarily even have to go to the cloud. The plug knows that it's got a curling iron plugged into it, and if that curling iron has been on for more than like an hour then the plug can figure you left it on accidentally and turn it off. Or as houses get smarter overall the house could know you're not home and turn off anything like that you might have left on by mistake.

Sorry, assume GPS's are against the rules in this competition. Just because you could use something to cheat at something doesn't mean that getting it is cheating by itself was my point.

That's kind of what I was trying to get at: yeah, it's "wrong", but I don't really care if people do it.

If you don't like any of the side stuff then don't do it, no one's forcing you. And you might have a point if it had resulted in more focus on and improvements to the main campaign, but it didn't, the main bit of the game is comparable to Brotherhood.

@elev3n: that's like saying that buying a GPS is cheating other consumers because I could use it to cheat in a wilderness navigation competition. Piracy of a product that is otherwise officially & legally available to you is wrong. Piracy of a product that is legally available but you would not buy anyway is wrong, but it's wrong like lying to your boss about being sick so you can go to a football game is wrong (i.e. only in an academic, doesn't-really-matter kind of way).

Amazon is having an Ubisoft DD buy-one-get-one-free deal. DRM free. I'm tempted to buy Assassin's Creed again just to support the DRM-free practice.

I just want to make it clear that saying it's not stealing is not the same as saying it's okay. Piracy is wrong, but that doesn't make it stealing. How does someone pirating a game or movie or whatever hurt the people who bought it? Yes, you're cheating the creator/publisher/whomever, but how are you cheating the other consumers?

I don't believe that 45% of americans cannot afford to pay any taxes. How do the rich financially benefit more from society than any other person who lives in society? What benefits do they accrue? If you're talking about money then what should be fairly obvious is that as people provide goods and services to society. The only idiotic thing would be to punish people for providing goods and services to society. How is that not obvious? You honestly believe that Mitt Romney contributes 1000 times more to society than someone who makes $50,000 per year? It's not a punishment. It would only be a punishment if people were somehow worse off for making more money. But guess what, if you make more money you're still going to end up with more money, even if the government takes a larger percentage of it.

It's not a justification for piracy, it's pointing out a flaw in the reasoning through satire.

Ah yeah, forgot about that. I'm somewhat skeptical that this was actually their intent, but if it was then it does make the endings less bad. Still,

It's not stealing! That's actually a decent analogy, except it's an infinitely huge drive in, so you don't even prevent anyone else from seeing it by taking up space.

Revelations is a step down because there's none of the side stuff that previous games have had. There's like 4 or 5 side missions, and that's it. The game just feels rushed.

Hmmm...

Yeah, I think you're reading way too much into it. It's like WEP or WPA for wifi. Sony isn't going to forcibly install these in your house.

Already brought up in the piracy thread, doesn't seem to bad to me. I mean it's obviously not perfect, but it is several steps down in the level of insanity from previous content industry approaches. We'll have to wait and see how it plays out in practice to see if the EFF's fears are justified.

I wouldn't recommend skipping Revelations just because it's all part of the story, but it's definitely a step down from Brotherhood.

We've been over this: I don't want to pay more for the sake of paying more, I'm willing to pay more to contribute more to society. Me contributing more so that your sister can contribute less defeats the purpose.

New Game+ creates an entirely new "Shepard", so it doesn't affect the autosave from your first playthrough. If you go to "load game" and then "switch careers" you can see both the first playthrough and the New Game+ as separate careers.

My wife's going to be gone all next week visiting her grandparents, so I really want KoA, but now I feel morally obligated not to buy it.

And I know this is a value judgment, but imo every penny is worth it. Oh, and just so you don't think I'm ONLY saying tax the rich, I think my taxes could stand to go up too, and I am definitely not rich.

Oh no, I understand that, I just wanted to point out that it's VERY misleading to say that they paid no taxes.

As for the Romney thing, you know damn well I meant that he only paid 13.5% income tax rate. Oh no, he paid $6.2M out of his $50M income! Now he only has $43.8M to spend on whatever he wants! Cry me a fuckin river.