TheMightyEthan

It does affect legitimate non-consumers though (the ones who neither bought nor pirated the game).

Whatever that thing at the bottom is makes me think of the Flood from Halo.

More common than a politician outright switching sides is that occasionally one will abandon their party to run as an independent.

Alright, my draft is up on gdocs.

I like Velveeta to make macaroni with... But yeah, I would never call it cheese.

That's exactly what I thought too. This game has me interested, but I've been burned by zombie games before. (I'm looking at you, Dead Island.) If they focus on the surviving and the zombies are really just part of the environment rather than a primary driving force then I'm all for it, but if they focus on "AH! Zombies!" then I will be sad. @madbassman: Some of the enemies in Fortnite looked like zombies, but there were other gremlin things that were like phasing through the ground and a couple other types too. I think writing that off as a zombie game at this point might be selling it short.

I did, har har. I just thought maybe you were asking a serious question beneath your pun.

Yeah, you can change parties, though you'll likely have a tough time getting support in your new party.

I'm gonna see about getting mine written today, now that I've re-immersed myself in my game.

Yeah, the Republicans this year are looking a lot like the Democrats did in 2004.

I never upgraded my bomb pouch because there were enough bomb flowers around that I could almost always refill it. I totally agree though that the "you're always in a dungeon" design gets exhausting. I couldn't play it for long stretches at a time, and that's unusual for me.

I know a lot of people don't follow this stuff quite so closely, but at least with me the brand name initially backfired. My first reaction was "An RTS made by Bioware? Pass."

I told myself I was gonna play Skyrim this weekend and then accidentally talked my friend into buying Minecraft and spent a good chunk of the time playing that with him.

Really it's more revealing Desmond's backstory than any forward progression in the plot. They could have made the same amount of forward progression with a 30 second vision at the beginning of AC3.

I lot of the reviews say it's longer than it needs to be, but there was very little that jumped out to me as filler.

The way we do it Strangelove is that each writer picks their person GOTY to write about, and then we all vote. For a brief period of time it looked like no one was going to pick Skyrim; a lot of people had it in their top 2 or 3, but they were all picking different games for number 1.

The reason Hulu Plus has ads when Netflix doesn't is that Hulu Plus gets new TV episodes within hours of them airing, whereas Netflix waits months or years if it gets them at all.

My brain is a super-effective ad filter. It's like they're not even there. The only time I notice ads is if they're actually in my way (ie obstructing something I want to click on, or preventing my video from starting, that kind of thing).

Yeah, I use cheddar on my burgers too when it's available.

What do you think a settlement offer is? It's an offer to settle any civil claims one might have. Just because they haven't actually filed suit doesn't mean the systems for determining damages are irrelevant. You're reading too much into my analogy. I actually tried to find one that wouldn't carry any unintended implications, but I guess I failed. Try this one: It's like saying that someone throwing a bucket of water on you doesn't get you as wet as if they sprayed a fire hose at you. You're still wet. Exactly, that's what makes this extortionate and bad. This goes back to the attorney's fees thing, and how I'm used to the US system where for the most part you can't get them. In the US all of this is irrelevant, all that matters is what damages you incurred as a result of the other party's actions before you ever talked to a lawyer. Which would be the $50 or whatever profit you would have made had they actually bought the game.

I don't see how asking for €911 ($1219) for a single game is reasonable at all. Just because they won't get everyone doesn't suddenly make the remaining people responsible for extra damages. It's infinitely simple to avoid the fee though. Simply don't take their stuff without payment. While pirates are free to download what they wish, companies are free - or even obligated - to defend their product with what means they can. Also, what's the point in asking for retail price from pirates? So they can pirate all they like and if they happen to lose the enforcement lottery, they have to pay what they would have paid honestly? That doesn't make sense - then everyone may as well pirate first and just pay if they get caught. This amount is a punishment, but it's far more reasonable than recording or movie industry groups asking for $100,000+ from people and basically bankrupting them. This is like "HEY. You want to pirate our game? There are consequences - just like we said at the start." That's not how civil damages work though: they're not for punishment, they're simply for recouping actual losses suffered as a result of the conduct. Punitive damages are reserved for extremely egregious conduct, like when someone knows that a product they're selling is defective and will likely kill thousands of people but they sell it anyway. I agree that it's less unreasonable that the music and movie industry behave, but that's like saying a red-hot poker is less hot than a nuclear reactor.

I'm doing the same, though I own neither an iPhone nor iPad. But someday I might! But probably not.

The third one burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the FOURTH one!...

I will say I'm okay with in-game ads if they're well integrated. Billboards in street racing games are fine, as are the side-of-the-field ads in sports games. Basically if it's depicting part of the real world and that part would have ads irl then I'm fine with them putting ads there in the game. The ads should NOT get special treatment though (ie those ads in like FEAR or whatever game it was where everything in the world would get bullet marks on it, but the ads would not).