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Comment A industry designed to fail.. (Score 1) 272

Gee, with shorter games, dumbed-down games, yearly franchise releases over-saturating brands, less focus on bug-free releases, a dramatic rise in nickel-and-diming DLC, exploding budgets, and a general fear of innovation or creativity, I wonder why the video game industry is starting to slump?

The only game on the horizon I'm really looking forward to is Guild Wars 2.

Comment Re:getting ahead of myself (Score 3, Insightful) 355

Basically the questions concern privacy (as individuals they have very little) and morality (do we want two men sharing them, or do we want them sharing one man).

It doesn't matter what we want. Only what they want. Society needs to stay out of the personal lives of consenting adults.

Comment Re:Bittorrent != Piracy (Score 1) 223

Let's be honest. At least 90% of bit torrent traffic is either downloading p0rn or people pirating games, movies, and music.

Let's be honest, 90% of guns are used to kill people. Let's abolish the 2nd amendment!

The problem with your argument is, bittorrent is not in the wrong. The people using bittorrent for infringement are.* You might as well blame the internet itself.


*"Wrong" depending on your perspective perhaps, but that is a different discussion.

Comment Bittorrent != Piracy (Score 3, Insightful) 223

Slight (mostly relevant) rant:

I'm a little tired of hearing "bittorrent" used as a synonym for "piracy". Do lawmakers, ISPs, and IP holders not realize that bittorrent has plenty of legitimate uses as a distributed filesharing platform? And I'm not just talking about Linux ISOs: One example is World of Warcraft, which has integrated bittorrent technology into it's patcher. For a piece of software that popular, not using bittorrent or something similar would probably bring down the patch server constantly.

Bittorrent != piracy (or copyright infringement). Stop using them in the same breath.

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