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Comment: Re:Tasteless (Score 1) 506

by grahamd0 (#39054373) Attached to: Sony Raises Price of Whitney Houston's Music 30 Minutes After Death

Businesses are supposed to benefit society. Sure, their (as in the people behind the businesses) individual motivations may be to profit, but that does not mean they can or should do whatever they want. Some things are clearly immoral and we should not tolerate it.

I agree, but I hope you're not suggesting that this is the immoral, intolerable thing that the people behind the Sony corporation are guilty of.

In poor taste? Very much so.

Immoral? Intolerable? Meh. Not so much.

Comment: Re:Good luck getting Japan to listen (Score 3, Insightful) 312

by grahamd0 (#39027095) Attached to: <em>Twisted Metal</em> Designer Rails Against Storytelling Games

One thing Mass Effect has going for it is that unlike in a Final Fantasy game, the player drives the cut scenes. The interactive conversations were really what did it for me. They finally managed to create a real role playing game on the computer (or xbox or whatever).

So many CRPGs seem to think "role playing" means "stat advancement", and ME (and even more ME2) threw that out the window in favor of defining who Shepard really was.

Comment: Re:It isn't that complicated (Score 1) 517

by grahamd0 (#38702820) Attached to: White House Responds To SOPA, PIPA, and OPEN

Excuse me, but if that were true, people would mainly be pirating older things. And although lifetime + 70 years is absurd, it may take an artist/writer/musician/coder/whatever more than 20 years to build a career. Why should they all have to write off their initial investment?

Because the alternative is the system we have now.

Comment: Re:Alien life would be quite different from Star T (Score 1) 294

by grahamd0 (#38670764) Attached to: Astronomers Estimate Milky Way May Have 100 Billion Alien Worlds

I feel like there must be something to your comment, and I wish I'd seen that movie recently enough to remember anything about it.

[Note: This post is utterly sincere. I have seen that movie, but probably not within the last 20 years, so I have no idea what the context is.]

Comment: Re:Alien life would be quite different from Star T (Score 1) 294

by grahamd0 (#38670478) Attached to: Astronomers Estimate Milky Way May Have 100 Billion Alien Worlds

Ships full of water - multiply the difficulties to escape the gravity well by about 1000.

Perhaps these hypothetical aliens captured a comet, send their ships into orbit unmanned, and then thaw the comet's water, adding it to their ships in an environment of minimal gravity.

Or perhaps they're massively technologically advanced, and they have technology to defy gravity, so getting tons of water into orbit is trivial.

You're definitely on their list. The question to ask next is what list it is.

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