Divided By Zer0

"Motherfuck! It worked! You're a genius mate :) It even charged me US $ instead of Euros!" - Divided By Zer0

"You guys are fucked." - Divided By Zer0

"Anyone have any idea what the difference between the THQ pack (DE) is and normal versions? Probably it will lack a lot of blood but I'd like to ask how horrible in general it is." - Divided By Zer0

"You assume perfection and should know better than to assume a perfect invasion. And that's unfortunately the problem I see with the scenarios people suggest around here, you assume everything on the assumption of perfect behaviour and scenarios. Avoid passing through any inhabited areas, convince opposing armies (who speak a different language most likely and have their own propaganda to back them up) to defect, perform warfare without damage. And so on and so forth. Based on assumed perfection it's not difficult to see how you cannot possible see any issue with your suggestions." - Divided By Zer0

"Come now, is this the best you can do? Call me an "idiot" and tell me to "get a job"? What next? "Get a life"? You're simply graphic at this point. The exact same kind of empathetic reasoning you're using now is what the music industry was using back at the times of VCR and Radio battles. All emotion and "people need to get paid" and no substance. If you thought about it for two seconds instead of acting like a corporate tool you might realize that games would continue to be made whether there copyrights exist or not. People will simply find ways to work with zero-cost duplication just as they started doing already, rather than pretending this doesn't exist. That some people have based their business model on this obsolete system and will lose their jobs when people refuse to play by old rules is just a fact of life, they will get new jobs on making games under different business models. To assume that no company will be making games anymore is simply silly." - Divided By Zer0

"You mean the ones below Backlinks? This looks to me as if there's a conflict between scriptaculous (which is what I'm using) and the javascript you use for your tabs. Unfortunately I can't help with that. Sorry. The only option I can think of is to create a way to display the backlinks without scriptaculous (i.e. start displayed) but this of course depends on my getting down to coding this. I suggest you disable backlinks and check again on a future update." - Divided By Zer0

"The point that I was trying to make is that there are limits to the actions one should take against those they consider their enemies in order to come out on top. Intelligence gathering is not something that we wish to discourage but hacking is. The way I think about it is: Would you be angered tomorrow if you're found that fascists had hacked your inbox and published all your emails (personal or not) in the WWW? I'm guessing you would not say "fair play chum" to such an event happening, and that is because you consider such an act condemnable regardless of who is doing it. Sure, you may expect fascists to take such acts because they are fascist scum but the point is that we're trying to bring about a world that is different from theirs. It may of course be argued that violating the privacy of others is warranted when they are scum, but the problem about words like "scum" is that they are ambiguous enough that can easily be sticked on anyone else easily. This is what the Bolsheviks..." - Divided By Zer0

"And you insist. I just pointed out that you're basing yourself on correlation which stopped correlating in the last 60 years." - Divided By Zer0

"Didn't you see the followup post?" - Divided By Zer0

"I don't know from 60 years ago but it has been decreasing since the 70s. Otherwise people wouldn't feel the need to work more would they? But of course, that's natural for increasing productivity *within capitalism* as it brings wages down. Of course, this questions of yours has nothing to do with your original statement which implied that the reduction of the workweek was solely because of the increases in productivity (i.e. capital investments)" - Divided By Zer0

"Getting a new business model does not necessarily means regressing. And just because you or I can't think of one doesn't mean its not possible. Already musicians are toying with it and many are successful to the point of actually helping to share their own works. Such is possible in the gaming industry as well. You calling people - who fileshare stuff that an obsolete law (copyrights) has made illegal - various names is not an argument of course. Just goes to show how much you've swallowed the industry kool-aid." - Divided By Zer0

"And I countered that too." - Divided By Zer0

"Yes, people did band by themselves to provide all the things they needed, much like they banded to oppose big business and get an 40-hour week. I'm not certain what your point is." - Divided By Zer0

"Productivity has risen in the last 60 years enough to make a 20-hour week possible. It has more than doubled. Do you see us working 20 hours yet? No, in fact workweeks are increasing for more who end up looking for second and third jobs to support themselves." - Divided By Zer0

""Almost every story you can think" seems an exaggeration since it lists only major USA outlets." - Divided By Zer0

"Obviously then piracy is widespread and DRM is not working. It's time for new business models if you ask me and for Publishers to stop trying to pretend it's still 1998." - Divided By Zer0

"Yes." - Divided By Zer0

"And your link is broken. : ) Yours as well :P" - Divided By Zer0

"Yeah, I used a custom plugin. Contact Intense Debate support and ask them about it. They should be able to give you a file" - Divided By Zer0

"Well, if I ignore the poalrized dialogue and silly atheist-baching parts, the game is decent. But of course I also liked KOTOR which is almost the same thing in style. There's far more killing going on after the introduction of course. Problem is, if Western RPGs are not immersive enough, then you're frankly out of RPG option as JRPGs are even worse. I've yet to find a more decent a gritty modern RPG to tell the truth. Low fantasy and Swords and Sorcecy style would be far better than high fantasy of course but nobody makes those." - Divided By Zer0