Bjossi

You know, those watermarks with website urls and such kind of ruin demotivational posters for me. Did you know that 4chan responsible for a lot of the internet memes?

Censorship can go fuck itself. My mind goes into rage mode whenever I hear bleeps on videos/TV/etc.

Did you know that post counts are meaningless?

Do they cost money?

What platform are you guys talking about? I loved SMB 2 on the Gameboy.

"Hats" is kind of a meme that originates in TF2 and continues in Portal 2's store. Anyone who invests money in Valve hats deserves to get ripped off.

Did you know that water is wet?

Did you know that I was picking my nose right before writing this post?

When I play older games in 640x480 (windowed) it looks hilariously tiny on my 1920x1080 21.5" LCD.

Magnum part was sweet, he spoke my mind about the feeling of shooting with one of those things. How many eps do you suppose will pass before Freeman reaches the Questionable Ethics chapter? That one introduces the alien grunts, which I hope for the sake of Freeman's intelligence will be dealt with with nothing less powerful than the .357 Magnum or SPAS 12.

Did you know that thanks to near extinction of PC demos that is often the only way to find out how a game plays like before spending a lot of money on it?

Freeman firing the Magnum gave me an eargasm. The best episode in a while in my opinion. He did get some more stuff to work with in this part of the game than in the past few eps. Also, criticising level design ftw.

I never said data has no value, I said it has no tangible value, unless you like stroking the surface of your hard disk drive's platters. Prices are a problem in the mainstream gaming industry though, and monopolies like EA are not exactly moral compasses. Isn't it just hilariously convenient how games like codblops stay around the full price much longer than what you would expect from lesser known titles? The discounts of mainstream titles are also laughable and stand out during Steam's crazy sales. Crysis 2 was pulled off Steam recently and EA "supposedly" have turned it into an Origin (Their new download service.) exclusive. You know what happened during that transition? EA added some more quid to the already absurd price tag. Right now you can buy a new and sealed retail copy of the game from Amazon for less than half of the price EA want for it. And you know what the bottom line is? You are paying a fuckton of money for a product that has a limited license (Activations, reliance on external server for the product to work.), no quality assurance (Dead Space is a very buggy game yet not a single patch was released.), and likely has malware on it (This malware will never, ever be removed even years after the pirates crack the lock which usually takes no more than hours or days after or before the game's launch.) that is absurdly well integrated into your computer once installed and can in rare circumstances damage it. Money making/profit is of course very important, but you do not need excessive prices and playing with your loyal customers like fish to get your hands over it. It can probably be reduced a bit by getting rid of all the annoying region locks used by digital distribution services. Other than that I see little reason to pirate music as it is pretty cheap, easily available legally and most of the time DRM free. Guess a lot of people just know no shame and don't think about the hard work that goes into making music (and other forms of digital entertainment.). I am not sure about it but in my mind it seems like a better idea to try and change the pirates' mindsets than trying to put draconian protective measures on your product.

That is not necessarily true. Copying data is a neutral action and the data itself has no tangible value at all. If you stole a physical copy from a retailer you would only cause the retailer financial harm, since the publisher and (indirectly) developer already got their money's worth for that copy when it was part of a larger shipment bought by the retailer. You can only talk about a lost sale if the person in question would buy a legit copy but instead chose to pirate it and never buy it out of certain principle or protest. Including those who would not spend money on a game even if it was DRM-free and cost $1 in the potential customer list is as idiotic as saying entire mankind is a potential customer and talk about a failure if only 7 million out of 7 billion sales were made. So download a game for free to your heart's content, as long as you buy it later on any ways nobody has a reason to complain about financial damage except suits who live on copyright violations. I should say that I am only writing down how I believe things work. Actual numbers need to be gathered with thorough research. It would be interesting to see how many people pirate instead of buying to protest something (lost sales) versus those who do it because they don't care and would never put a penny towards a proper copy (neutral passer-bys). Did you know that publishing companies can not see reality from all their money blocking the view?

Loading screens are almost a part of the gaming experience for me. But with my current computer my older games, like Jazz Jackrabbit 2, load so fast that I can just barely make out a loading screen. I have to read the savegame info to see the level name.

I was a happy user of Kmq2 until I got my HD 5770, the drivers at the time of my upgrade (Cats 10.8) broke legacy OGL, and to my surprise they also broke Kmq2 despite it being a new-ish source port. I found some obscure modified OGL renderer made in 2006 that worked. When I upgrade my drivers again I should see if AMD had gotten the feedback through their thick skulls and fixed the issue.

My eyesight is bad enough that I need to use a staff outside, can't see anything in darkness either. Banned for stuff.

Definitely, but it could be misinterpreted as a "united Europe". Actually so can "United States of America" now that I think about it.

I see/hear the name America more often than the United States/US/States/whatever, personally. "The United Kingdom of Europe" is never nicknamed Europe, it is always UK, United Kingdom, England, etc.

Same here back when I did my first runthrough. Nowadays I have to play Quake 2 and its expansions with modded difficulty to create a challenge. I more than doubled enemies' damage and multiplied their health quite a bit as well as projectile speeds and bullet accuracy/aiming. Wish I could figure out how to create an enemy spawner entity to add more enemies to levels by code.

What are you talking about? There is nothing to debate about, locations of countries are definite. The discussion originated from my point about calling a country by the name of the continent it is a part of. Only the United States do that, as far as I know.

This update should have been 4.0.2 or 4.0.3 (whatever was next in line). A major version number should introduce dramatic changes and improvements.

Indeed. It is in Europe, just like the United States are in (north) America.

Yes, and fullfill this (in my opinion) reasonable request.

Has anyone else received the Firefox 5 update? What the fuck Mozilla? Are we on a version number race now?