What? Oh yes we can NOT buy this game. I grew up on the franchise also, but I don't have any obligation or desire to buy in to this broken entry. It's not the SimCity I grew up with anyway, so I'm not actually missing out.
Please... Just because you love SimCity, DON'T BUY THIS GAME. If you've already bought it, please at least request a refund.
You're validating EA's practices by claiming "well, I have to buy it!"
Anyone who thinks the USPS is no longer needed or relevant should try living anywhere rural. A significant portion of this country lives without broadband internet, and in places where FedEx and UPS charge 50 times what the USPS does for delivery.
We need the postal service... Which by the way is an actual enumerated power of the Constitution.
Where are all the right-wingers who live and die by holding only to the Constitution when we talk about the postal service?
A little off topic, but there's a game for iOS (and Android too I think) called GameDevStory. It's a really fun little sim, and you will drain your battery dry playing it.
Who's using a Google search to find anything on The Pirate Bay? If you use The Pirate Bay, you know the URL. Why would anyone who knows what they're doing even bother opening a window to Google?
Yeah, I didn't know about that either. The "always online" thing is pretty annoying, but since I do have broadband at home it's not *always* a dealbreaker for me.
Having to wait in line to play my "private" region/city (which I think is something you can do--have a private city)... That's bullshit.
If you call EA enough times, they'll give you a refund just to shut you up. Failing that, you can always go to your credit card company and do a chargeaback, citing that the product doesn't work and the company refuses to refund.
I don't know... I kind of agree with the Suit. Arguing whether something is transformative "enough" isn't really a good way to go about this, and I like what the artist has done here... But it still does bother me.
Waterson is well known to be protective of his characters, and while I don't think Beste's work diminishes them in any way, he *does* appear to be using the art straight lifted from the comics.
Copyright enforcement *can* be draconian, but in this case Beste asked if it was ok, and was told "well, since you asked... No."
Copyrights aren't *always* bad, and when they're in the service of protecting things the creator really wants protected, they can be good.
I'm fine with a copyright on something like Calvin and Hobbes lasting the length of the author's life.
I think I'd be less uncomfortable about this if Beste were drawing his own versions of the scenes, and *then* putting photographic backdrops on them. In the two examples above, I'd say a LOT more than 20% of the original images are being used. That would take it *out* of fair use.
Not so simple for everyone. Unfortunately, many people need to travel for business, and it's not reasonable for them to tell their bosses "Nah, I'll just take the train... See you in a week!"
Also, some of us live in Alaska or Hawaii... If we ever want to go on vacation, or even receive some kinds of medical care, we more or less have to fly.
Except people keep hoping that if they do pay for stuff, they actually own it. Most people don't even understand the "new industry" model where we just "license" our entertainment and never own anything.
I'd rather my favorite authors get paid, somehow. The way the **AAs and now the publishing industry go on is that if I don't pay *them*, artists will stop creating. We know that's crap, but I'd usually still rather pay for something I enjoyed enough that I want the artist to keep on doing it.
What I often do is go ahead and pay (if the price is reasonable), and then go ahead and pirate the same thing so I have the "unlocked" version of whatever it is.
Add to that, especially with books you really do get what you pay for. The formatting on most books I've "acquired" is atrocious, those I've gotten through the Kindle ecosystem, or storybundle.com or other legit sources have been much nicer. No weird watermarking, no OCR errors. On music and movies, I don't care if the metadata is all messed up, but when I have hundreds of books on my Kindle, I need that metadata to work.
With the rank technical incompetence of most prosecutors and members of law enforcement, I doubt they'll realize the distinction. They'll couch their accusations in terms of Mega now "circumventing" copy protections or some such drivel.
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Re: So what's the solution?
On the post: Avid Gamer (And Minnesota Vikings Punter) Chris Kluwe Does The Math On How Much EA's SimCity Debacle Cost EA
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On the post: Avid Gamer (And Minnesota Vikings Punter) Chris Kluwe Does The Math On How Much EA's SimCity Debacle Cost EA
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What? Oh yes we can NOT buy this game. I grew up on the franchise also, but I don't have any obligation or desire to buy in to this broken entry. It's not the SimCity I grew up with anyway, so I'm not actually missing out.
Please... Just because you love SimCity, DON'T BUY THIS GAME. If you've already bought it, please at least request a refund.
You're validating EA's practices by claiming "well, I have to buy it!"
On the post: Wrong Legislative Thought Of The Day: An Email Tax To Save The Post Office
Re: Tax Hollywood
It's Congress that hates the Post Office. Note that this is not a USPS official proposing this, it's a bone-headed member of Congress.
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We need the postal service... Which by the way is an actual enumerated power of the Constitution.
Where are all the right-wingers who live and die by holding only to the Constitution when we talk about the postal service?
On the post: SimCity: The Backlash
Re: Meta Game
On the post: SimCity: The Backlash
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I didn't buy it. I signed the petition. I backed Civitas on Kickstarter. I tweeted EA the proof that I'd done so, proving that I was a lost sale.
On the post: Google Downranks The Pirate Bay In The UK, Because Surely, That Will Make People Buy Again
/baffled
On the post: Launch Day Punishment: SimCity's Online-Only DRM Locking Purchasers Out Of Servers, Purchases
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Having to wait in line to play my "private" region/city (which I think is something you can do--have a private city)... That's bullshit.
On the post: Launch Day Punishment: SimCity's Online-Only DRM Locking Purchasers Out Of Servers, Purchases
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On the post: Copyright Strikes Again: 'Real Calvin And Hobbes' Shut Down By Copyright Claim
Waterson is well known to be protective of his characters, and while I don't think Beste's work diminishes them in any way, he *does* appear to be using the art straight lifted from the comics.
Copyright enforcement *can* be draconian, but in this case Beste asked if it was ok, and was told "well, since you asked... No."
Copyrights aren't *always* bad, and when they're in the service of protecting things the creator really wants protected, they can be good.
I'm fine with a copyright on something like Calvin and Hobbes lasting the length of the author's life.
I think I'd be less uncomfortable about this if Beste were drawing his own versions of the scenes, and *then* putting photographic backdrops on them. In the two examples above, I'd say a LOT more than 20% of the original images are being used. That would take it *out* of fair use.
On the post: Teri Buhl Threatens To Sue Us And Others; Still Seems Confused About The Law
On the post: Teri Buhl Threatens To Sue Us And Others; Still Seems Confused About The Law
On the post: CBS Bans Commercial That Disparages Coke & Pepsi, But Lets Them Disparage Each Other
Re: So tempting
On the post: Man Detained By TSA For Writing 4th Amendment On His Chest Wins 1st Amendment Argument In Court
Re: The answer is simple
Also, some of us live in Alaska or Hawaii... If we ever want to go on vacation, or even receive some kinds of medical care, we more or less have to fly.
On the post: Canadian Kindle Owners Forced To Leave American Kindle Content & Features Behind
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On the post: Canadian Kindle Owners Forced To Leave American Kindle Content & Features Behind
Re: Struggling For Sympathy
I'd rather my favorite authors get paid, somehow. The way the **AAs and now the publishing industry go on is that if I don't pay *them*, artists will stop creating. We know that's crap, but I'd usually still rather pay for something I enjoyed enough that I want the artist to keep on doing it.
What I often do is go ahead and pay (if the price is reasonable), and then go ahead and pirate the same thing so I have the "unlocked" version of whatever it is.
Add to that, especially with books you really do get what you pay for. The formatting on most books I've "acquired" is atrocious, those I've gotten through the Kindle ecosystem, or storybundle.com or other legit sources have been much nicer. No weird watermarking, no OCR errors. On music and movies, I don't care if the metadata is all messed up, but when I have hundreds of books on my Kindle, I need that metadata to work.
On the post: WikiLeaks Reveals Aaron Swartz May Have Been A Source: Wise Move?
My first reaction...
On the post: No, Kim Dotcom's New Mega Service Does Not 'Dismantle Copyright Forever'
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Can I court a takedown if I call my vacation video "Prometheus"? Maybe we'll go back to the warez days of calling everything "Potosh00p"
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