can i just say that bulletstorm was an awesomely over the top game of duke nukem level baddassery and mega violence?
seriously, it made me want to go out and use my energy whip to haul people in the air while shooting them in the dick for bonus points right then and there.
it's great that this is getting attention but i just hope people donm't lose sight of the fact that this isn't just computer laws, this shit is systemic, end to end. Overcharging to force a plea with the threat of getting maxed if you insist on your right to trial is simply business as usual for millions of americans caught up in our byzantine web of asshattery we call the justice system.
lol, we had that on the first weed petition in 48 hours. upping the threshold doesnt mean shit until they stop issuing press releases when people are looking for honesty and transparency and real communication.
weren't you trying to convince us that HBO was a real contender yesterday? Because they were betting against us cord cutters catching on?
never going to happen, it's not about cord cutters anymore, an entire generation has grown up knowing that every piece of media they could possibly want is a click away. And we're teaching our kids that. Hell, i even taught my 50 year old mother.
20 years from now, having a cable subscription will be as alien as having a landline, or an aol account. you only see it in the elderly and stubborn.
wasn't the deal supposed to be that someone serves their time, then goes on to rejoin society, after all, jail's supposedly "corrective detention" right?
we will not forgive. we will not forget. Another brilliant young man hounded to destruction by asshat bureaucrats for felony interference with a business model.
i recently had WOW expand into my area, offering me better speed, no caps, no 6 strikes sign ons, and ten bucks cheaper.
I took great pleasure in making the time warner retention specialist cry, and eventually admit that he had nothing whatsoever to offer me that would offset his company being run by evil d-bags.
I was not impressed by his offer of ten bucks less a month, especially after the dmca nastygrams threatening my service (before i got a proxy).
Vote with your feet if at all possible.
And watch the sneaky pricks. Before cutting their service entirely we'd cut the tv cord about a year before, just going to internet service. A few weeks later i get a call asking if they could come "verify that i was getting the speed i was supposed to be". I'm thinking, well that's odd, since i haven't called lately to complain about them throttling me, but sure.
So this guy shows up, and asks to be shown to a computer to run a speed test. i take him over to the wifes wireless lap top, across the house from the nearest router, getting maybe 2 bars, (with utorrent running) where he proceeds to go to speedtest.net and run a quick up/down (now mind you, once again, this was supposed to be a TECHNICIAN, who had just walked in and run a speed test on an obviously WIRELESS device, to convince me that i was getting the speed they prommised, (obviously i was not, with everything else going on the connection)
Note anything stupid there? I kind of assumed it was a cover for a home invasion and had a 38 on him when he turned around, and i invited him to explain just what the fuck exactly he was doing in my house and what was really going on.
Turns out he'd been sent out to pitch me to come back to their tv service, had no technical training whatsoever and was simply there to sell me on coming back. he left rather quickly after that, i think he needed to change pants. apparently no one had ever called him on this bullshit before.
it's a bad neighborhood, home invasions happen a lot around here. the whole set up seemed pretty shady, even before i found out he was a fucking schill. if they'd put that much effort in to making sure my connection actually worked maybe they'd have more satisfied customers.
note- i'm not saying they weren't perfectly within their technical legal rights (as assholes) to dmca it, since apparently fair use is a fairy tale, just that it was a stupid counterproductive move that would only be contemplated by asshats or lawyers.
but if you screenshot mario and used him to sell game controllers...which would then be used to play mario games which would need to be purchased, it's a slightly different situation.
there's no brand confusion, there's no way in which any attention for that particular game could have done anything but help their sales.
you know....i recently had to set up my mothers new computer, and in the course of it got a look at what the web looks like without adblocker running.
most pages are a fucking mess. I couldn't believe how different, and fugly my favorite pages were. I mean...i understand, advertising helps pay for the sites i love, but it's just not worth it. If you're worth supporting, i buy schwag, and i link to you to send you more traffic, but running without adblock? not bloody likely. especially given how often i hear about someone getting infected from a jacked ad on an otherwise safe page.
it's funny you should mention "a memory of light". Like most Jordan fans i'd been looking forward to the final book for ages. i was all set to order a physical copy so i'd have the full set on my shelf....but i don't read dead tree anymore, i read on my kindle.
So i was a little irked to say the least when i found out that the digital edition was pushed back to april.
OFC 12 hours later we had an epub scan available all over the place, so i said screw it and cancelled my dead tree, i'll buy that shit at a second hand store somewhere down the road.
roku + plex ftw. i can play pretty much anything, anywhere, anytime. I've never seen a virus in a torrent outside of a couple dodgy game cracks from random unknown uploaders.
so long as your not running random .exe's attempting to download from shady sites, you're probably never going to see a virus in a download.
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seriously, it made me want to go out and use my energy whip to haul people in the air while shooting them in the dick for bonus points right then and there.
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it's even got it's own plug in for plex so i can watch easily from my tv's.
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weren't you trying to convince us that HBO was a real contender yesterday? Because they were betting against us cord cutters catching on?
never going to happen, it's not about cord cutters anymore, an entire generation has grown up knowing that every piece of media they could possibly want is a click away. And we're teaching our kids that. Hell, i even taught my 50 year old mother.
20 years from now, having a cable subscription will be as alien as having a landline, or an aol account. you only see it in the elderly and stubborn.
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Why the fuck do people keep investing with them?
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lmao.
just kidding.
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a petard was a small explosive charge, like a grenade
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Re: Not much to say.
I took great pleasure in making the time warner retention specialist cry, and eventually admit that he had nothing whatsoever to offer me that would offset his company being run by evil d-bags.
I was not impressed by his offer of ten bucks less a month, especially after the dmca nastygrams threatening my service (before i got a proxy).
Vote with your feet if at all possible.
And watch the sneaky pricks. Before cutting their service entirely we'd cut the tv cord about a year before, just going to internet service. A few weeks later i get a call asking if they could come "verify that i was getting the speed i was supposed to be". I'm thinking, well that's odd, since i haven't called lately to complain about them throttling me, but sure.
So this guy shows up, and asks to be shown to a computer to run a speed test. i take him over to the wifes wireless lap top, across the house from the nearest router, getting maybe 2 bars, (with utorrent running) where he proceeds to go to speedtest.net and run a quick up/down (now mind you, once again, this was supposed to be a TECHNICIAN, who had just walked in and run a speed test on an obviously WIRELESS device, to convince me that i was getting the speed they prommised, (obviously i was not, with everything else going on the connection)
Note anything stupid there? I kind of assumed it was a cover for a home invasion and had a 38 on him when he turned around, and i invited him to explain just what the fuck exactly he was doing in my house and what was really going on.
Turns out he'd been sent out to pitch me to come back to their tv service, had no technical training whatsoever and was simply there to sell me on coming back. he left rather quickly after that, i think he needed to change pants. apparently no one had ever called him on this bullshit before.
it's a bad neighborhood, home invasions happen a lot around here. the whole set up seemed pretty shady, even before i found out he was a fucking schill. if they'd put that much effort in to making sure my connection actually worked maybe they'd have more satisfied customers.
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there's no brand confusion, there's no way in which any attention for that particular game could have done anything but help their sales.
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playon wants money for a crap interface with a tenth the functionality of the freeware (plex)
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most pages are a fucking mess. I couldn't believe how different, and fugly my favorite pages were. I mean...i understand, advertising helps pay for the sites i love, but it's just not worth it. If you're worth supporting, i buy schwag, and i link to you to send you more traffic, but running without adblock? not bloody likely. especially given how often i hear about someone getting infected from a jacked ad on an otherwise safe page.
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So i was a little irked to say the least when i found out that the digital edition was pushed back to april.
OFC 12 hours later we had an epub scan available all over the place, so i said screw it and cancelled my dead tree, i'll buy that shit at a second hand store somewhere down the road.
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Re: A really wrong approach (DLNA)
so long as your not running random .exe's attempting to download from shady sites, you're probably never going to see a virus in a download.
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