You should check out the Adam Corolla podcast.

I guess one could always say... What do you expect from people who believe they are a product of incest not once, but at least twice. Adam, Eve had 3 sons. Eve was the first Cougar. Then god decided his populous game was going badly and flooded everyone out so the boat people got busy with each other. With that muddled of a gene pool it's surprising we've lasted this long.

Err... didn't it work pretty much the same way under evolution? Once you have a new species, I'm guessing the gene pool is really small. Also you have situations where the gene pool is reduced to a very small size due to near-extinction (gee whiz, just like the flood). I'm pretty sure that doesn't mean every generation is afflicted with massive birth defects or something.

As someone already explained, you won't blow any Christian's mind with the whole free will vs omnipotent God thing. It's something that's been considered for over a thousand years.

This is just EA's "Project Ten Dollar" and it is not limited to just he sports games. It has already been featured in Dragon Age Origins and Mass Effect 2. Both games included content that you got for free with a code that came with the game, but you had to pay $10 to get if you bought it used.

You also get to skip on the console-fee for your games. Games cost more on consoles because the makers have to pay the MS and Sony. You can get games at 50% or more off within just a month or two for the PC. Prices on console titles stay at $60 for a long time. So, if you are the kind of gamer who buys lots of games, you can save big.

PC's also have an insanely huge back catalogue of fantastic games. If you really want some fun, cheap gaming, just buy the cheapest desktop (or laptop!) you can find and check out Good Old Games.

Adventure Games (and flight sims) did not die because of some rush for big bucks. I've always enjoyed Adventure Games, but nothing will change the fact that they really kinda' suck. That style of gameplay doesn't make much sense anymore.

I especially like how AG fans will try to argue that AGs are "smarter" or have "good stories" and other nonsense. How smart do you have to be to spam every item with every other item and then apply that to all the scenery? And the stories aren't any better in AGs than in any other genre that bothers to put a story together. So, you just left with gameplay, and AGs are just really stiff and boring compared to other genres. I think the only thing that could really bring them back is following the game mechanics of Penumbra, which actually had fun gameplay. Too bad they picked the "horror" genre for those games, which many Adventure Gamers don't like.

Sure, shooting/slashing at people/monsters shouldn't be the only gameplay mechanic that exists. It is too bad that you don't see more games like Portal. Portal is a smart game with a great story. It is a better GAME than 99% of AGs.

Flight Sims were cool on early computers. Oh wow, I'm flying. Most people who bought them did not really get into them. They are now, like sub sims, an extremely small niche.

PC Gaming is not being killed because of the lack of good Adventure Games and Flight Sims. It might be dying for you though.

(I don't know what you are talking about when it comes to strategy. There are tons of strategy games out there right now.)

Why go to the store and spend $70 on a disc with 5-6 good tunes and a bunch of filler, when there's more money to be made with DLC ?

Well, if you wait a few months you can get the disk much cheaper. I can't stand spending $2 per song when I can get like 80 songs for like $30. I guess I'm just not that concerned with how awesome the music is. I don't actually listen to a lot of what they offer anyway. I just like playing along to whatever song. I even enjoy playing songs by bands I hate if they are fun to play.

No, it was just flawed. Stability and performance were a problem and the Social Club+GFWL sucked, but GTAIV did a whole lot correctly. The game seamlessly switched from keyboard/mouse to controller. You could drive around with the controller, then switch to sniping with the mouse. Very few ports do this. It came with high res graphics for the PC, if you could manage to use them. That is becoming increasingly rare unfortunately. It came with a fantastic video editor. The video editor alone is good for hours of fun, if you like GTA. The editors controls were great. I've never edited a video and I made some fun clips in just a few hours. I had a riot doing it. Having some random thing happen in a game is funny. Watching it in slo-mo with a panning camera is hilarious.

GTA IV could have been one of the best ports ever, but it was marred with problems.

If you want to play a terrible port of a really fun game, try Saints Row 2.

I was just joking that adventure games are on old forgotten genre. You might as well play Pac-man or something. I love AGs by the way, and am happy when a good one comes out. I've visited those websites before.

Try an adventure game.

But he said he didn't just want to play old games\genres like Pole Position ...

That's not really true for PC Games. I don't even know of a store who sells used PC Games. I guess you can get them on EBay or something, unless they require Steam. Many PC gamers download their games (Steam, D2D, Impulse, etc.), so there are no used sales there. Used sales are a really big problem for consoles though. That's why there is a growing trend to only offer certain content to the first purchaser. Google "Project Ten Dollar".

I think UbiSoft is just making it harder for the scene to create 0-day cracks. If important parts of the game's code is stored on their server, Ubi might get a few piracy free weeks which would probably have a good impact on sales. Of course, the damage to their reputation by implementing this harsh DRM might hurt future sales.

The other possible nefarious plan is to allow them to shut down single player games in a year or so to encourage you to move on. That just seems too crazy to be true though ...

But that's exactly the point! Ubi wants a few weeks or maybe, just maybe, a few months of no piracy.

As several commenters have mentioned above, collecting and submitting taxes for all the various state, city, and local taxes would be a huge burden on small business. It is also unnecessary since most states already have a "use tax". Of course, no one actually pays the use tax. Why? Because the state has no idea how much stuff you have bought on-line, so why would you pay it?

So then, the solution is easy. Why not create a new Federal 1099-E form. A business dealing with another state does not have to collect any tax. At the end of the year they issue a Form 1099-E to each applicable state and to their customers. The customers now know the state knows how much they've bought so they will be compelled to pay the use tax. It will also be easy to do since they just have to add up all their 1099-Es. It shouldn't be difficult for a business to keep track of the total spending for a customer and issue a couple automated forms.

I doubt a "terrorist" is the kind of person who would actually spend money on software. I know perfectly reasonable teenagers who access software for free all the time on this thing called the internet.

The guy answering the questions speculates this as a possibility at the bottom of the page.

Musicians should move to live performances to make money and accept that they shouldn't be millionaires for 1 album. They should work for a living like the rest of us.

Ya, and game designers should tour the country playing their games in front of audiences to get money. Hmm...

I'm not saying copyright isn't a big problem, but how does this model work for the gigantic gaming industry that I enjoy so much?