I get the feeling that you're trolling here but just in case, let me try to explain to you again what OP is actually saying.

Imagine a world with no piracy. None. A movie comes out. 100 people buy tickets. 10 people either can't afford it or decide it's not worth it. The movie sells 100 tickets.

Imagine a world with piracy. A movie comes out and 100 people buy tickets. 10 people who can't afford it or decide it's not worth paying the ticket price torrent it. The movie sells 100 tickets.

Now, it's true that this is a very simplistic model. There are of course some people who will torrent rather then go to a movie just to stick it to the man, or because they feel like maybe they should save that $10 after all. But they are a minority. Most movie torrents, to be honest, are terrible (and cam rips are worse). I used to torrent, I won't lie, but that was before I got a job. Had I not been able to torrent, I wouldn't have gone to see the movie anyway. Now that I have money, I much prefer seeing the movie in the theater or buying the DVD. I suspect a vast number of pirates are the same (though I have no statistical data to back that up).

Bear in mind, I do agree with you that it's a bit of an "entitled" opinion to have (though a lot of that was given to us by society), but you've completely missed the point of OP's argument.

Not if you consider that "good" is relative. As much as I disagree with them, a large number of people thought that Twilight was a good movie and wanted to see it.

Sounds like business as usual.

I've found it helpful for rapid prototyping of an idea. But it's at best a teaching program (my college's game design program used it for the lower level classes), not really well suited to any serious game.

Does anyone understand this? I've been gone from /. for about a week and I am very confused as to what these posts mean. Is this some strange meme I missed?

Considering how people drive around here I can't see how a driverless car can be any worse...

I honestly hope you don't believe that. Even working 5 jobs at part time (20 hours) you'd be working 100 hours a week. There are 168 hours in a week. Assuming you get a full 8 hours of sleep (which you will NEED, working 5 jobs), that's another 56 hours. That gives you a full 12 hours left a MONTH, most of which you will probably spend going between jobs and changing uniforms. That isn't how people pay back education loans. That's how people become serial killers.

And it's not just as easy as "get 5 jobs". I have a friend who had (until last week) been unemployed for 3 years. She would have loved to work 5 jobs, hell she would have loved one. And it's not that she was unqualified-there is simply no work available, even at fast food places.

You seem to be a little out of touch with the world around you. But then again a lot of people who aren't in this situation are.

There are some people who manage to rack up $70,000 in student loans just getting their Bachelors. Now, they probably made some pretty dumb choices to get to that point (or go to a school that is way out of their class) but someone in that situation (probably with an Arts degree too) is going to owe something like $1000 a month in student loans for the next 20 years (I'm estimating here based on what I pay for the loans I owe). That's not easy when you work at starbucks (the Art degree, remember?). And any serious career requires a Bachelors at this point, not to mention the social pressure kids have been experiencing their whole lives.

Note, I'm not insulting Art majors here. Replace "Art" with whatever you feel to be a useless degree if it offends you.

I think it's kinda funny that almost every single comment on this article so far has been bitching about the frequency and how people can hear it, and not how amazing this is.

During party mode too....