Hell, I think we would be much better off if we were forced to default. What most call collapse would economically force us to pull our military c**k out of the worlds ass and take care of issues at home. I cheer the coming default, which will happen no matter what Washington does, and I hope those D.C. bastards burn for it.

Yea, it does. I own 200+ games physically, and don't have a single manual left from them. They are all older games, so even getting them to work on a modern OS is a challenge, and that is for the ones where the disks are still readable. Oh, and for the most part, there is DRM on the disks of the older games as well. I also own 200+ games between Steam and GOG.com, and I greatly prefer the electronic copies I mean, look at the Witcher 2. If you bought the physical copy, you got SecureROM as well. If you got it from Steam, the only DRM was steam itself, and the GOG version had none at all. Just because you have a physical copy doesn't mean you own the game more than any other type of copy.

I found the reason World of Warcraft has such a strong following is not because it is good, but because it has perfected the addiction formula of the MMO genre. It says "look at all of this content we have", when the content consists of doing very nearly the exact same thing over and over, until you get the slight improved reward. I don't call that content so much as addiction. Especially with WOW. I couldn't make it past 70 in that game because i had realized all that i had done and all i was doing were the same damn thing, repeat ad nauseam.

A GOOD videogame gives you an objective to complete, and when finished you can move onto something else.

And I would rather have ponies and be surrounded by buxom blondes, but we have deal with the system we have. DRM free games are a pipe dream, unless you don't mind only playing ancient games from GOG.com, or freeware, open source crap

That's ok, i couldn't care less about their TOS. Hell, my friend and I share a steam account (about 200 games now), and we just D/L the game, and the go into offline mode. Have never had a problem with it, and we get to share each others games. As for multiplayer, I never buy a single player game for the multiplayer aspects. That is what MMOs are for, they do much better at it. I am loving steam ever since i bought Half-Life 2 years ago. Many of the older games and MMOs dont even require steam to work. As for cracking it, hell yea. I usually pirate games first, then if i like it, I'll buy it (saved a lot of money on DNF and DS3 this way). Once i buy it, it's mine and i couldn't be bothered to care what the devs or publishers think of my cracking it at that point. Plus steam usually has less actual and less debilitating DRM than a physical copy

FTFY

Might be true, but i would still vote to kill the military and dump all those trillions directly into space centered research. Skip the middleman. This country would be more peaceful and better off.

They can listen to our phone calls (and i am very uncomfortable with that), but they don't dictate what we can and can't see on the web. Yet, admittedly. Plus I firmly believe that the NSA should be wholly done away with. Don't get me wrong, neither side is good, its just that i find a national firewall unconscionable.

I do not understand why some Australians are so happy with the NBN. From articles on /. and elsewhere, I would say that what it does best is give the government the ability to dictate where you can go on the web, and track where you have been. I would rather have no internet at all than one like that.

You forgot one: fuck racist whitebread idiot trolls

Could could you remind me exactly when this country, or for that matter, any other were not xenophobic gits? Hell when was that great fairy tale melting pot supposed to have occurred? Immigrants would come to this country, settle in an immigrant enclave, and then move to other areas of the country with similar immigrants. Welcome to Human Nature 101:Tribalism. There is no melting pot.

I think you mean "Classical Liberal", which has nothing at all to do with modern "progressives" or "Liberals". Liberal are just as willing to accept fascism as any conservative, as long as it is their guy running the show, or a "socially responsible" fascism. What a lark. Liberals are nothing of the sort, and wouldn't know liberty if it slapped them in the face

I love to see the result of that. Would the cost unions drive all of our coding overseas, just like it did our manufacturing? That would be hilarious, because this country would then have nothing left

Well, what is the answer when the strong central government is in thrall to the Mega-Corps, and beyond our ability to recover it? We are at that point now. It is nice to think your vote can change the government, but its only an illusion

Funny thing is, the problems in Africa have absolutely nothing to with the population. Hell, they have a low population for the amount of arable land on that continent. Their problems stem from the thugs and olgiarchs and kleptos running the various governments in Africa, If you could get good leadership, the population on that continent could greatly expand with out harming the land.

Try again with a better arguement