The App is a glorified downloader/installer. You need to use it for updates if they're distributed through GameStop, but you do not need to have it running in order to play the game. If it is responsible for activation for a particular game, it does it once and then you're done on that machine. I suspect for Guild Wars 2, they handle both activation and updates, though I could be wrong.

Here's some links for the GameStop option: Digital Deluxe edition - regular edition

We have community tagging now, so even if they don't, others can. (Of course, if they're persistent, you might have to block the artist instead.)

I was actually awarded "Most Geeky" by my university computer science society (as well as "Worst Dressed" and "Most Likely to Become a Serial Killer"). I think it's the hair.

Sounds like you were lucky; you got to do the job for a whole year without having the right qualifications! You can't dodge the college tax forever . . .

I'm a moderator for furry art community Inkbunny in my spare time, and I've seen depictions of everything mentioned in the article and much more besides. However, most of it is permitted under our terms of service - instead, we don't allow human in sexual situations/showing genitals (which are what the laws are targeted at), or general photography (which thankfully avoids most realistic and graphic shock pictures). So the diaper porn stays.

Does it change you? Yeah, I guess. Some of the fetishes are pretty crazy. Rape followed (or preceded) by torture, impalement, or beheadings. People being turning into dirty diapers. Art for those who like to fantasize about eating others - or being eaten. Tentacles galore. Over time you start to blank it out; most just gets a glance as I check it off for humans or other policy violations. All in a day's work. Of course, I can stop any time I like, since I'm not being paid.

(This isn't the experience of every Inkbunny user. We have great tag-based blocking features, but of course as a moderator I can't use them while doing my job.)

I think we are both dancing around the core issue: time vs. money. How much is your time worth? If you can take the bus, it may be "worth" it even if it takes twice as long, if your time is not worth $20/hr - especially for trips such as your daily commute which can be planned. For those with no assets even the cost of a car plus insurance may be too much, but a weekly or monthly travel-pass may be an option.

Bear in mind that I was going to the airport. Parking there will easily cost you almost as much as a taxi for most trips, unless you're being dropped off by someone else (and then there's their time to consider). Usually you take a car there because time and/or greater certainty over timing is a concern, not for cost purposes.

Public transportation actually isn't all that terrible in many parts of the U.S. either, but people often don't take it anyway.

It took me two hours to get from one side of Indianapolis to the other, but it would have taken 45 minutes in a taxi, and cost over 10x more ($45 vs. $3.50). There was nobody else on the bus when it got to the airport.

Modding "funny" does not give the commenter karma; modding "insightful" does. This devalues "funny".

Names are important. Would a Dremel by any other name drill so straight? (Perhaps, but you have to prove it.) Also, an open-source clone of the Dremel hardware tool would be way cooler than what this actually is.

It's called GameStop PC Downloads - aka Impulse, bought from Stardock last year.

GameStop has also been getting into the refurbished iDevice market. There will always be hardware of some kind to (re)sell.

Actually, there's just a licensing/SKU restriction. You can hack the kernel to get access to more, if your chipset and drivers support it - I did it just to make use of all 4GB I have installed. This makes sense when you consider that MS offered 32-bit versions of Windows Server 2008 that went up to 64Gb.

He's talking about the taskbar, which also functions as a means to start applications on Windows 7.

No, you misunderstood. Paying to upgrade to CS6 is the solution offered. That is why they always talk of an upgrade, not an update.