I know it, I've seen "Croucing Tiger, Hidden Dragon"!

I'm not addicted. I stop whenever I want!

This supposed friend of yours is a liar. It's impossible to get to level 85 in a day, unless you start at level 84. (Disclaimer: I've been playing WoW for almost 2 years, I think I know well, this game at this point.)

Lucky you... on my car the threshold is below 65%...

It is cheaper "per liter", not "per kilometer", unfortunatelly. Until 2 years ago I would fill my car's tank with ethanol only. Now I use gasoline because the cost per kilometer is lower with gasoline.

You don't live in Brazil, do you? We already had a big rise in the ethanol price because of the international price of sugar. Sugar cane farmers prefer to turn their crops into sugar than into ethanol for bigger profits. If the demand on the ethanol increases, it will be more expensive than gasoline PER LITER!

My cat is named Nacho. And he once tipped my wi-fi router. Does it count as a Nacho-dropped wi-fi?

This would be nice to see, but I don't want to be around when a corporation can force a government to overrule a court decision.

Sorry, but PI *ACTUALLY* is 4: http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbxrvcK4pk1qbylvso1_400.png

fuck punch cards

No, thanks. I'd prefer to fuck a 5-1/4 inch floppie, at least it has a bigger hole.

Hey! Don't you dare touch my privates!

[...] but as far as I'm aware windmills can't plough into harbours destroying themselves and their cargo, potentially killing lots of people at the same time.

Don Quixote couldn't disagree more with you!

Unfortunately, it would be pretty illegal.

Even on international waters? (Just curious, I'm not saying you are wrong...)

I work at a game development company and I once put a post-it on the coffee machine written "The caffeine must flow". Everybody got it, except a new girl. She was fired like 2 months later, as an unrelated fact.

Check my other reply, it's partly addressed to the matters you raised here.

I work in the game development industry (I'm a game programmer) and I am against software piracy, because it hurts the industry I work in. We could go on forever arguing the causes of piracy and how to fight it, we could even argue about DRM, I don't care. The price issue I told in the GP post is what really pisses me off about videogames in Brazil, but the biggest problem is the country culture about it. "Why to pay for a game if you can download it for free?" I had a hard time to convince my 14-year old step-daughter that we "shouldn't download all Sims 2 expansion packs" and that she could have plenty of fun with the two she already has (originals, one was a birthday gift and the other was a christmas gift).

Some friends of mine found eStarland.com, where you can buy used original PS2 games in good shape for sometimes less than the pirated ones in Brazil, so the price isn't the real problem for who is willing to do things right, I admit.

Nonetheless, this brutal system here is mostly applied to the console market, not the PC gaming market. I'm not saying that there's no PC games piracy here, they are sure rampant. But in most retailers you can find them at the same price they can be found in the USA, sometimes even cheaper. I once got a discount coupon from a major retailer (Saraiva) and bought my Left4Dead copy for the same as US$33, when a XBox 360 console costs the same as US$820. And it's not event the Elite.

My friends and I usually say that "the dollar exchange rate for videogames in Brazil is R$10 to US$1", when the official exchange rate is about R$2.35 to US$1.