I note your assumption that, in order to find that cover offensive, one must be Christian.

-1 Woosh

Your whole post is a huge slam at D&D 4th, and I have one thing to say: a massive portion of the D&D population has stayed with 3.5 (or earlier!), and have no intention of moving on, for the exact reasons you mentioned. "If I wanted to play WoW, I'd play WoW. I want to play D&D."

So, question, if anyone knows the answer: I own a working cart of Chrono Trigger for the Super Famicom. Am I therefore "allowed" to download an image of the same game from the internet and use these rom patches to theoretically play this? Or is obtaining a copy from somebody else of what I already own illegal?

700 yen. The cart works fine, too.

...why are you Ctrl-Clicking? The "click" was to "select the text", if you didn't get it. I know I didn't say "drag", but that really doesn't deserve its own step.

Click
Ctrl-C
Ctrl-T
Ctrl-V
If you're not used to doing that on the internet by now, you're probably doing it wrong.

So, to use your logic just a bit further, it would be OK for McDonalds to serve coffee far too hot to be safe, if only it was an industry standard?

Knowing what is quality and producing something that is quality are completely unrelated skills.

I'm not going to lie. I read the summary, I watched the trailer. This mod looks stupid. I'm sure it's very "deep" and whatnot, but it looks to be not worth my time in the least. It may have taken 7 years, but that doesn't mean you produced anything of worthwhile quality. If you've got 7 years to make a trailer to hook me (a lover of Deus Ex) into playing it, and you've failed, doesn't that say something?

I have never before heard an argument for suicide before, and certainly never the same one used for abortion. Congratulations.

Oh, there it is! How intuitive and easy to find!

Those who are intelligent and, as you claim, should be pumping out children for the best of society, are also much more likely to be depressed and commit suicide than their "stupid, ignorant" counterparts. Just sayin'.

Running on my netbook right now:
1) Firefox
2) Tagaini Jisho (Japanese Dictionary client)
3) miniAim (AIM client)
4) Skype
5) Unlocker (never leave home without it!)
6) Hamachi (so I can access my home network)
7) Foobar2000 (listen to various types of audio)
8) Proxy Switcher (required for my university's network to not infuriate me)
9) Avast! Antivirus (wouldn't count towards the limit, thankfully)
10) Orbit Downloader (grab youtube videos, etc)
11-12) A couple of random dell utilities that are marginally useful and take up about 0% CPU time.

And that's just what gets left open. And it still run fine (Dell Mini 9, gig of ram). I may not be the typical user, but I'd simply rather not have to make the sacrifice of which 8 of those I want to cut out (9 if I ever want to do anything else, like watch a movie file, or use my flashcard program, or play a game, or check my mail with thunderbird, or...). That sucks.

Actually, doing those things is akin to running cheat programs or hacks. Buying gold in a boring MMO is completely unlike your two examples. I am only mildly surprised you got modded up, however.