I usually wait a few weeks after the game came out and check youtube for some let's play type videos and see what I think of the game and go from there. I bought Wolfenstein (2009) thanks to doing this, and I absolutely loved it.
"But how will studios compete without being able to produce $100 million dollar games, Pirate Knight! Without shitty studio games with loads of bugs and hordes of DRM and DLC, how can the studios expect to recoup their costs they spent on creating DRM and DLC instead of shipping a product that worked!?
...Maybe we just need to charge for bug fixes. Yeah, that's it! You have to pay for perfection, right!
Somebody write me up a patent! And trademark the sentence before the last! And let's extend copyright while we're at it, for the sake of the newly owned Mickey Mouse Star Wars franchise!"
(I realize after typing this joke post that it seems slightly tangential... But it truly is a commentary on thinking outside the box.)
It is amazing, for all the "time" the 24-hour networks have, they sure as hell don't seem to have any time to do in-depth reporting on hard hitting issues that require real journalism.
Instead let's show...
"LIVE car chases! LIVE weather reports! LIVE... cats and dogs! Awwww, isn't that cute? What, follow the money, that takes time and effort we don't have -- there's cats and dogs to film, for cripes sake!"
5 minutes worth of news for every 2 hours worth of commentary on the 24-hour news networks, IMO.
This was my first thought, as well. Plus, I've already had paranoid thoughts of "what happens if I am doing an absolutely legal thing when the lights change, but they snap my picture and give me a ticket anyway -- how can I fight it!?". I'm sure more people would rather pay their ticket than fight against the brick wall of abuse of authority (all in the name of "money", errr... I mean "protection"...).
What I'm also wondering is... Are all of these places filing ContentID claims against each other for the same public domain footage as well? Because the cat-fight that would ensue there would be enough, in my mind, for some attention to get brought to this situation to start working on a fix.
Remember the good old days of Doom mods? Or heck, the current day version of that is basically like Half-Life 2 (the "Source" Engine) mods. So much fantastic stuff has been done...
Of course, speaking of learning something... I think most of us that learned how to play guitar immediately went out and tried to learn how to play some of our favorite (though easier) songs. Then you take components of them and try your own spin on them (say... and alternate guitar solo or a variation on the core riffs). It's not like we sat down and tried to reinvent the wheel. Same premise with coding here.
This is the same sort of logic failure that causes CDs to be released in Europe an entire month different from when they are released in the US. But at least THEY can pretend to have a physical product/distributor excuse.
Speaking of "take my money", I'm sure the industry at large will ignore what I assume will be a truckload of money brought in by the Steam Summer Sale, as usual (I know I've already availed myself of the sale).
More cries from the 'so called content industry' at large against piracy and a trumped up need for more annoyingly invasive DRM to follow.
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
Also, there's this whole misnomer about legislating morality because "just a little bit will protect us"... Something about the path to hell being paved with good intentions (though apparently near-sighted and foolish ones, at that)?
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Also...
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Nice...
...Maybe we just need to charge for bug fixes. Yeah, that's it! You have to pay for perfection, right!
Somebody write me up a patent! And trademark the sentence before the last! And let's extend copyright while we're at it, for the sake of the newly owned Mickey Mouse Star Wars franchise!"
(I realize after typing this joke post that it seems slightly tangential... But it truly is a commentary on thinking outside the box.)
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Re: Re: CNN Logic
Instead let's show...
"LIVE car chases! LIVE weather reports! LIVE... cats and dogs! Awwww, isn't that cute? What, follow the money, that takes time and effort we don't have -- there's cats and dogs to film, for cripes sake!"
5 minutes worth of news for every 2 hours worth of commentary on the 24-hour news networks, IMO.
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Re: Re: The mindset is just different
"HEY, I DIDN'T GET A HARUMPF OUT OF THAT GUY!"
On the post: The 'Final' Sony PS3 Hack
Well...
Apparently they like their hardware platform more than they care about their customer's data, lol.
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On the post: Sticking It To The (Camera) Man: Inventor Develops License Plate Frame That Defeats Red Light Cameras
INCEPTION
On the post: How Google's ContentID System Fails At Fair Use & The Public Domain
Hmmm...
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Re: Customer service is a different cost center.
On the post: Outdated Compulsory Licensing Means Australian Schools Must Pay Millions To Use Free Internet Materials
Lovely.
"...It's free."
"That's great. But do you have a license for it?"
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Yes
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Re: Re: I am disappointed.
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Doom, anyone?
Of course, speaking of learning something... I think most of us that learned how to play guitar immediately went out and tried to learn how to play some of our favorite (though easier) songs. Then you take components of them and try your own spin on them (say... and alternate guitar solo or a variation on the core riffs). It's not like we sat down and tried to reinvent the wheel. Same premise with coding here.
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Re: Re: Speaking of which...
On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
Speaking of which...
More cries from the 'so called content industry' at large against piracy and a trumped up need for more annoyingly invasive DRM to follow.
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It's simple...
Also, there's this whole misnomer about legislating morality because "just a little bit will protect us"... Something about the path to hell being paved with good intentions (though apparently near-sighted and foolish ones, at that)?
On the post: .Rip .Off: Highlights From The Top-Level Domain Scrum
Hmpf
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BIZZARRO! BIZZARRO!
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