However, this is true for satellite or cable television: you have to pay for those advertisements as well, and more people are obviously willing to let advertising subsidize their bill, or else HBO, Showtime, etc. would have a wider subscriber base.

I do agree, however, that I should not have to pay for advertising to be delivered to me. I'm just raising a valid point about advertising in paid service media.

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Shaka, when the walls fell.

• Final Fantasy 8 did this very well. Most people hated it (I am not one of them; it was for many years my favorite FF game, may still be).
• FF 10 was fairly balanced as the game progressed (I think the boss at the top of the mountain was the only real fight I had trouble with, first play through, until the end bosses).

A big one you missed was the Beast. Which would also lead to the problem with licensing and weird copyright issues mentioned above.

That was my major complaint. After the first sequence, there was a 2-minute montage of action. It didn't get across how good of a soldier/leader Cap was supposed to be. It was glossed over, similar to how unbelievable Thor's humility turnaround was. It kinda ruined it for me, but I have to remind myself how much else worked pretty well (such as what was mentioned in the review).

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This is probably the best game to test this approach on.

Background: Resident Evil (RE) has had a Mercenaries mode in RE 3, 4 and 5. It is a mini-game where you have a timer counting down in each level. You kill enemies, rack up multipliers that fade quickly unless you continue your killing spree, and you can get time-extending power-ups. In short, each level is at most 10 minutes, usually no more than 5 minutes. There were unlockables in RE 3 that went back to the main game. In RE 4, you unlocked other characters (and levels?) and if you mastered it, you get the 'hand cannon' magnum that can kill anything with one shot.

Mercenaries is a highly repetitive Resident Evil mini-game. RE: Mercenaries 3D is that very same game play over and over again. What do you unlock? Additional characters? High scores? Pragmatically, there isn't much *worth* resetting the game for, except to unlock characters or costumes all over again. Plus it is on the 3DS, which means a lot of kids playing it; when I was a kid, I would have thought that getting the game already with all the unlockables was awesome.

While I am personally irritated that you cannot wipe the game's save, I do understand that this is the best type of game to try this BS behavior with, because there is very little to actually reset.

Ultimately, it's like not being able to reset that Mortal Kombat 3 arcade machine that someone already unlocked the hidden character, Smoke, on.

Mel Brooks must be proud.

"StarCraft" for S, no?

...to kill Osama bin Laden. I don't think many U.S. officials would have given a damn whose sovereign toes were being stepped on to quite literally get a shot at Osama.

Shortly after DVDs came out, they were in the range of $15-$20 per disc. They decreased steadily until right around the time Blu-Ray won the format war. Now DVDs can cost $30 and Blu-Rays up to $40, new. The market is showing that cheap media was a great seller, but more expensive media is a turn-off to consumers.

I wish I had mod points. To build on that, if I were to investigate everything that I have been taught (in my personal example, there are mathematics concepts which I disagree with, but have to accept rather than verify) I would die very quickly due to the fact that I would be utterly unproductive. And to stay productive but investigate these things would detract greatly from the ability to verify these things. Simply put, it is impossible to verify all these things, and as such, it has to be taken on faith. 'Tis the natural order of life, not to mention society.

Look carefully. The superior technology is supposed to be on the left-hand side.