...I get to buy Assassin's Creed 2.

I own only games I can play offline and without activation - if it means I have to crack the retail version, so be it! After all, I legally bought the game, and I want to still be able to play it whenever I feel the urge, even if that's ten years from now.

Just for the record, I don't own any games I haven't bought in a retail box (I like to show them off).

Yes. They profit from the sale of DVD's and Blu-ray. You may not like it, but they do, and they are taking steps to protect that revenue stream. If they did not have this option, I would probably not be able to freely view this content via browser as is. They would simply make everyone buy the disk when it came out.

Is BBC entirely funded by the tax-payer? Do you agree that any taxes eliminated by profits that they may make are a good thing? You can't have it both ways. I can only assume that the BBC is much like PBS in the US (public funded). PBS is a wasteland of uninteresting content here and doesn't have near the recognition of BBC. If they have a successful model that doesn't cost your tax payers too much, I personally wouldn't be so quick to criticize this move.

Not if your name's Saotome Ranma...

Define classic. Start there. I think RAH's works are for the most part classic. Same with Vachss. I also like some other less known writers, and think their works fall into classics. It is not conservative to want to set the library up with only the items you think are correct. You are trying to shoot your personal opinions into what conservatism is. Conservative would be opposed to public funding of a library, but even then it would be a stretch. The opposition to using public money for something that is broadly considered for the public good is more in line with libertarianism.

It wouldn't work in this case. You can't drive until you're sixteen, and by then the idiots that would even get in a car like that would already have three kids.

I'm sure there's a solution for this, as you can rent games from lots of places other than the library, right? Maybe there are special editions of the games which are specially made for rental and not meant for sale or something?

...it's hacked in a month. Probably wouldn't be too hard, either. Just run the current OS in a controlled environment to figure out what makes it so special, then make a Linux distro to duplicate that. Install the new distro on the hard drive through a regular computer, then transplant into the PS3.

So this is why girls can tell when those shoes don't go with that handbag?

Oh yeah, Stalker... *smiles*

One of the best "post-apocalytic" games - but, as with all the other ones, only using the right mods. The unmodded game itself was way too easy.

Then again, I'd even make the ammo weigh something. *grins evilly*

Because
Wikipedia : Truth = Hypothesis : Facts

Thank you, I didn't know that; I never got the hang of melees in FO - maybe, because I prefer snipers and pistoleros... *whistles inconspicuously*

Yeah, pretty damn unlogical when they just run off...

Yeah, the humor issue bugged me, too. The originals were more... british, if I might say so.

Most of the rest... Well, I have like 30 Mods running to fine-tune the look and feel - ever died of radiation poisoning trying to disarm the nuke? Or how about shooting a Death Claw with a dart gun and then killing it with BBs while dancing around it? No problem with correctly calculated crippling effects.

Additionaly, I definitely use the original FO music files.

However, they did get one thing right:
In FO1, 2 and Tactics, you'd have to be suicidal to rely on close combat. I think BethSoft handled that really nicely (OTOH it's no wonder, since their engine seems to usually prefer melee types).

Oh, but one more thing: Could I have my soul back? I lost it killing Harold with a flamer.

No other industry has as much freedom as the food industry when it comes to the ingredients of their products! WORLDWIDE! There are laws, but they only cover a tiny fraction of the possible substances the industry can put into their "food".