When I pay the IRS I get something for my money. If I were to choose to pay Comcast I would get a rebroadcast of what I already receive over the air. I don't mind paying for something, I would mind paying for nothing.
Would going to a hockey rink and watching people play solve your problem or is your problem more specific than "I also like to watch hockey?"
Back when I last had Comcast (around 2005 or 2006) the quality of PBS over the cable was so much worse than OTA. It was full of compression artefacts, dropped frames, audio distortion. I called them several times and they always told me their digital picture was perfect. It got even worse when they increased their compression ratio to up their cable modem bandwidth (I never used their internet service, I used DSL because Comcast didn't want to sell me service with a static IP and unfiltered ports) so it was a net loss for me and was the last straw. I cut the cord a week after they rolled out their faster internet service I wasn't using which made my television unwatchable.
Hulu doesn't cost money other than watching the ads which were on southparkstudios.com as well. All the episodes right now are on regular Hulu. You don't need Hulu Plus.
Not yet you don't. Come September 24th you will. Hulu Plus does cost money. Watching most South Park episodes will cost money *in addition* to commercials. That's a net loss for the viewer.
Yes, captions are key in my household of two non-native English speakers. Though it is interesting to note that VLC subtitle handling is *far* superior to Hulu, Netflix and Amazon combined. Fan-written subtitles tend to be of much higher quality much of the time.
I didn't claim that he claimed anything either. I asked him for his opinion.
I found that starting with several overall reviews of prior material per day and only learning a new segment of a lesson if I felt like I had mastered the prior material to be a good pace. That way I only added new words and concepts after having reiterated over the prior ones several times. I found that I had pretty good control over how quickly I added more words and concepts into my pool of learning and could control just how quickly I progressed.
You aren't creating anything in Dwarf Fortress, you are playing with someone else's creation.
You have a very narrow view of creation.
There is no evil here, only uninformed consumers with a fear of missing out that give a company money for useless in-game items because they don't want to be the only kid on the block that has the blue gun and not the blue and gold gun.
If you are to patient, it's your (social) loss.
Like talking about last month's tv shows.
Do you feel that the only art worthwhile appreciating is art created in the last thirty days?
Well said.
The only way for this kind of abusive marketing to be stopped would be for gamers to boycott the products and vendors, which would be like meth-heads boycotting meth.
They need not even boycott the products. They could wait for the release of the game, study the game's reception, and then if still excited, buy it. If publishers saw that only a minority a game's sales happened during presale shenanigans, they might start putting that effort into more interesting things.
you'd have to buy multiple copies of the game to get all of the content.
It would appear that publishers are cashing in on people's fear of missing out, but I wonder what proportion of gamers actually shell out the price of a game multiple times just to have two different pre-order items. I also wonder what proportion of gamers just wait for the release then read the reviews or watch "Let's Play" videos before making a purchase decision and "miss out" on the (mostly pointless) pre-order items.
The irony of such a predictable response...
In addition, if you had an inkling of imagination, you'd be creating, not playing around in someone else's creation.
So if one did not create the sandbox in which one creates, one is not a creator? You have an odd view of creativity.
Here's a hint: a trademark has no natural expiration.
And a trademark can be lost if it's shown that you knew about the infringement but did nothing.
Which is not really a *natural expiration*.
We don't put people in jail for their thoughts.
I'm not convinced this is true.
Neither was the judge, I take it. I believe that was a statement to remind us how we intend to live not how we do live.
As the trials of life continue to take their toll, remember that there is always a future in Computer Maintenance. -- National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"
