No. Since it's understood that the reproduction is poor and that doesn't reflect the quality of the original (yeah yeah insert joke about quality of hollywood movies...).

If the reproductions were passed of as the original then sure they might put people off the original, but they aren't in this case.

How can there possibly be so many pre-orders. Sure I'll grant that gamers probably pre-order once but surely that first time is the only time since it's almost certain the game will be nothing like what was hyped at pre-order time.

Are gamers really stupid enough to pre-order something again? Or is the market growing fast enough for there to be enough new suckers each time?

I'm was dumb enough to pre-order one game long ago... I'm not completely moronic and hence never have again.

How is that a contradiction?

If 54 million copies of minecraft have been sold then people must be getting fed up with the grind-for-gear ooh shiny with shallow gameplay that it epitomizes by now.

Except of course that it makes no sense in the sentence and hence is incorrect.

Hint: games are not films.

Just like if I say "What happens when gaming sous chefs try to make it on their own?" I make no sense, because games are also not food.

That's not what I said. Maybe try reading comprehension next time?

Unsurprisingly you do not make up 100% of cable operator revenue. In fact you make up approximately 0% and hence your particular preferences mean exactly diddly squat to their decision on how to value the sports stations that drive a large portion of their revenue.

You can still sit comfortable in your knowledge of your superiority to the people who do enjoy watching sports, of course.

Clearly your usage and the government's usage of the term is different. And since they get to define it...

Maybe you should learn what arrested means.

Do you think if he had said the the US Secret Service, "I'd like to leave now, thanks. Am I free to go". They would have said "yes" and let him go?

No they wouldn't have. Because he was under arrest. In other words he had been arrested and the US Secret Service was now depriving him of liberty.

The US government stated "On July 5, 2014 the U.S. Secret Service arrested Roman Valerevich Seleznev." They didn't go into any details like where which seems like exactly what you would expect since that's irrelevant and you don't want to give out operational details in some cases (and thus don't want to give them out in general - so that the cases you have a reason not to don't obviously stand out).

There's no interpolation to "arrested by the US Secret Service", it's just reordering the statement without changing the meaning in the slightest.

Of course if Maledives authorities hand him over the the US Secret Service he enters US Secret Service custody and thus has been arrested but the US Secret Service.

You have an amazing ability to ignore simple reasons and declare huge conspiracies as "the only conceivable" explanations for things.

Since they states the exact opposite of that, you don't have to believe it.

Because there's this thing called the internet. Which makes it surprisingly easy to install software that didn't come by default with the computer.

If they want Windows native code they are doing it wrong anyway. Why would somebody wanting to do something simple add such a ridiculous and unnecessary technical requirement before they even start?

What advantage do you see in microsoft qbasic over microsoft small basic anyway?

Ah OK. So police state behavior is all perfectly reasonable as long as it happens some place you aren't.

You are quite the selfish prick. Congrats.

And of course you could be such a fanatic jihadist pretending to not even be muslim. So you want mind if the FBI goes through all your communications and belongings anytime they feel like it. And of course you won't mind the occasional week long questioning session..

It's a fair point if you are deluded.

Programming has better tools for such uses now. It's easier for "regular people" to build useful software now.