I'm sorry, do try to remember this one thing about gaming lately...
Smart phone games are beating the pants off of PC AND Console gaming COMBINED.
So, you PC "Master Race" and my Hardcore Gamer Consoles just have to gnash our teeth in anger.
Besides...
I play DS, 3DS and PSVita games.
Last I heard, PCs don't have touch screens and 3D effects that work with those games.
Plus, well, PC emulators for anything PS2 and afterwords kind of suck badly.
Believe me, I hear that *ALL* the time...
"I can't play that PS2 game because the emulators don't work."
"Can't play that 360 game on my PC."
"DS emulators kind of suck."
ETC, etc, etc.
Yes, you can emulate older console games, you can play older PC games (I got a GoG account just to play Descent 3 after all), etc.
There's one problem though...
You see, PC gaming was never meant to deal with most of the console games and vice versa. That's why you see such bad ports from consoles to PCs and vice versa.
If the game is designed for consoles, a PC has a harder time using it.
The RIAA promised us that once cassettes were gone and CDs, which were cheaper to make, became the norm, the price of CDs, which were superior to cassettes, would drop from 17.99 a CD (cassettes were 14.99) down to probably somewhere around 14.99
What happened after cassettes were abolished?
CDs went from 17.99 to anywhere from 21.99 to, in most cases, 24.99.
Yeah, there's no way that they won't increase prices without used games.
hell, I bet that if used games disappeared tomorrow, it would be a month, at most, before games started to come out at 70 USD, and then later 80 USD and topping off at around 100 USD.
They're already that high in the EU and Australia after all.
“Today, it’s not possible to cut off Internet access,” she said. “It’s something like cutting off water.”
It may have taken something monumentally stupid, but it seems governments are slowly starting to understand that the net is too important these days to just unplug.
As was said on Cracked.com awhile back, "it's like when the telephone was first introduced. Everyone knew that it would soon be expected for you to have one in your home. You weren't going to do all your work over the phone, just like no one expects you to do all your work over the internet, but you were expected to have one anyway."
The internet is the norm for most people these days, not the exception.
While a MINORITY of artists have gotten rich under contracts with those leeches, it's a TINY minority, less than 1%.
Back in the late 1990s, the Dixie Chicks, at the height of their popularity, were speaking with Dan Rather about their careers, and he brought up that they had sold, off their latest album, over 30 million copies and pointed out that they should have lots of money.
Their response?
"Please don't point that out, we're not seeing a dime of that."
And that was one of the most successful bands of the 90s.
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Re: Worked for PCs
You think that the PC "master race" is superior?
I'm sorry, do try to remember this one thing about gaming lately...
Smart phone games are beating the pants off of PC AND Console gaming COMBINED.
So, you PC "Master Race" and my Hardcore Gamer Consoles just have to gnash our teeth in anger.
Besides...
I play DS, 3DS and PSVita games.
Last I heard, PCs don't have touch screens and 3D effects that work with those games.
Plus, well, PC emulators for anything PS2 and afterwords kind of suck badly.
Believe me, I hear that *ALL* the time...
"I can't play that PS2 game because the emulators don't work."
"Can't play that 360 game on my PC."
"DS emulators kind of suck."
ETC, etc, etc.
Yes, you can emulate older console games, you can play older PC games (I got a GoG account just to play Descent 3 after all), etc.
There's one problem though...
You see, PC gaming was never meant to deal with most of the console games and vice versa. That's why you see such bad ports from consoles to PCs and vice versa.
If the game is designed for consoles, a PC has a harder time using it.
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Re: That sounds familiar...
What happened after cassettes were abolished?
CDs went from 17.99 to anywhere from 21.99 to, in most cases, 24.99.
Yeah, there's no way that they won't increase prices without used games.
hell, I bet that if used games disappeared tomorrow, it would be a month, at most, before games started to come out at 70 USD, and then later 80 USD and topping off at around 100 USD.
They're already that high in the EU and Australia after all.
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Re: Yeah, it runs up against the need for monitoring.
Again with that false study that ignores the recession the U.S. and Western Europe was in thanks to Wall Street and the banks?
Again with the false study that ignores how the economy in the U.S. only just started to slowly recover just before the SOPA/PIPA protests?
Fact: Megaupload was shut down.
Fact: Movie sales jumped 10%
Conclusion: OMG! See! Megaupload was taking money from the studios!
Facts that are ignored...
Recession, home closures, job losses, money being funneled to Wall Street banks and helping the rich out instead of helping those who need it.
Hmm...
I think that those ignored facts are probably the reason that the studios got a 10% income buff, not megaupload.
Correlation does not equal causation, ootb.
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Re: Re: But....the numbers
The MPAA doesn't care about the numbers. Facts are optional for Copyright Cartels.
Ah, that's what you really meant to say.
Totally agree.
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Re:
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Finally...
It may have taken something monumentally stupid, but it seems governments are slowly starting to understand that the net is too important these days to just unplug.
As was said on Cracked.com awhile back, "it's like when the telephone was first introduced. Everyone knew that it would soon be expected for you to have one in your home. You weren't going to do all your work over the phone, just like no one expects you to do all your work over the internet, but you were expected to have one anyway."
The internet is the norm for most people these days, not the exception.
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Re:
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Re:
http://www.1011now.com/home/headlines/School-District-Says-Deaf-Student-Not-Required- to-Change-Name-167784235.html
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Re:
or I have to run to the bathroom.
Either way...
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Yuck!
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Re: Re: Yuck!
Where would I be deported to?
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Yuck!
*Shudder*
It's nothing but grease, crunchy stuff, yuck and fat.
Nothing good about it.
Proud to say that I haven't had bacon in almost 15 years.
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Why can't you trust the government to do good work in secret?
I mean, screwing over the public for the rights of the few elite rich folks is a time-honored tradition.
Won't you think of the rich and powerful for once?
What about them?! Don't they deserve to have their rights put ahead of all of the poor and middle class?
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Dayyyyyyyyymn...
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Re: Re: SEE? Works FINE if you create your OWN outside of RIAA.
Except in parks...
Or at restaurants...
Or even in some nightclubs...
Hmmm...
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Re: Re: Re: SEE? Works FINE if you create your OWN outside of RIAA.
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Re: Re: Re: Kudos to the RIAA!
While a MINORITY of artists have gotten rich under contracts with those leeches, it's a TINY minority, less than 1%.
Back in the late 1990s, the Dixie Chicks, at the height of their popularity, were speaking with Dan Rather about their careers, and he brought up that they had sold, off their latest album, over 30 million copies and pointed out that they should have lots of money.
Their response?
"Please don't point that out, we're not seeing a dime of that."
And that was one of the most successful bands of the 90s.
Wanna try again with your failed arguments?
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Counter point
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Hmm...
Maybe someone can convince the government to come up with something like that and implement it.
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Re: Re: Hmm...
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