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Signed On Aug 16, 2005, 21:56
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News Comments > Million Microsoft Points Giveaway
1. Re: Million Microsoft Points Giveaway Jul 26, 2011, 10:49 ldonyo
 
Not really a giveaway, is it? More like a rebate.  
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News Comments > Evening Consolidation
5. Re: Evening Consolidation Jul 21, 2011, 12:22 ldonyo
 
Most everything to Pachter is a surprise.  
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News Comments > Morning Consolidation
2. Re: Morning Consolidation Jul 21, 2011, 12:12 ldonyo
 
I figure that there will be a keygen for this and EA's version before the end of the year, if not the end of summer.  
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News Comments > Evening Safety Dance
1. Re: Evening Safety Dance Jul 20, 2011, 10:00 ldonyo
 
No, we are not getting too much information on data breaches. What little we do get does not come fast enough to be very useful, especially if your data was part of the breach.  
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News Comments > The Swindle Announced
5. Re: The Swindle Announced Jul 19, 2011, 16:01 ldonyo
 
nin wrote on Jul 19, 2011, 14:41:
One would expect "The Swindle" to be published by Activision.

I was thinking EA, but Activision is a good choice, as well.
 
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News Comments > Evening Legal Briefs
1. Re: Evening Legal Briefs Jul 8, 2011, 13:24 ldonyo
 
The White House is just plain wrong, as are the ISPs that voluntarily went with this crappy idea. Apparently no one has learned a thing from the RIAA using IP addresses as the sole means of misidentifying actual people infringing copyrighted material.  
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News Comments > The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Interview
1. Re: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Interview Jul 8, 2011, 13:18 ldonyo
 
Good interview confirming some of the thought processes I've suspected went on at Bethesda.  
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News Comments > Evening Legal Briefs
4. Re: Evening Legal Briefs Jul 6, 2011, 10:43 ldonyo
 
jimnms wrote on Jul 6, 2011, 05:04:
I'm not advocating banning anything from anyone, but John Stewart made a good point on the Daily Show the other day. He showed a clip from what looked like a new Mortal Combat game of a two guys pulling a woman's legs and ripped her in half at from the crotch up. That is protected free speech, but if her nipple slipped out while being torn in half, it would be banned. Why is violence OK and considered free speech, but nudity isn't? Why are kids not allowed to see or rent violent movies, but violent games are OK?

I don't think the government should ban any of it, I think parents should, you know, be parents and choose what they want their kids to see/play.

You are absolutely correct. That is why parents need to understand the ESRB ratings. There are very good reasons for Mortal Combat to be rated M and those reasons are listed on the box.
 
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News Comments > Out of the Blue
10. Re: Out of the Blue Jul 3, 2011, 22:59 ldonyo
 
nin wrote on Jul 3, 2011, 12:59:
The chicken thigh fillets I was going to cook turned out to be startlingly rancid.

Ugh! Least you caught it before you ate them...


Too bad this wasn't caught before they were packaged. Had a human been present, the stench would most definitely been noticed at that time!
 
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News Comments > Sunday Legal Briefs
1. Re: Sunday Legal Briefs Jul 3, 2011, 22:53 ldonyo
 
This won't be played out for years yet. Wake me when all of the appeals are over.  
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News Comments > etc.
2. Re: etc. Jun 30, 2011, 11:58 ldonyo
 
Why are NVIDIA 3D Vision Kit purchasers being punished?  
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News Comments > Hear Yee, Hear Yee
43. Re: Hear Yee, Hear Yee Jun 27, 2011, 22:41 ldonyo
 
California has a $1.3 billion deficit and this ass-clown wants to take a fourth shot at this? If I were in his district I'd be calling him to say that enough is enough already!  
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News Comments > etc.
6. Re: etc. May 30, 2011, 10:04 ldonyo
 
LittleMe wrote on May 29, 2011, 22:07:
He'll score political points for finding it offensive and that it could possibly get into the hands of minors. A new bureaucracy will be created to 'properly regulate' the sale of mature games and all will cheer. The employees of this agency will vote for democrats and play the political game of taxpayer extortion and democratic voters will claim the earth will be sucked into a black hole without this essential agency, even though it existed for 4.6 billion years just fine without it. Many billions of dollars will flush down this toilet and all the while people will denounce game producers as immoral while monetary inflation from Fed counterfeit (deficit) funding of illegal federal programs (like regulating game sales) continue to rise.

You need to turn off Fox News and get outside more often.
 
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News Comments > The Witcher 2 Patched, DRM Removed
42. Re: The Witcher 2 Patched, DRM Removed May 26, 2011, 23:50 ldonyo
 
Dev wrote on May 26, 2011, 23:08:
Wow, now thats impressive. Putting money where mouth is. And as they say, it stopped pre-release piracy. Plus if publishers insist on having DRM in the actual retail version, guess what? Its still there to fit the letter of whatever contracts they have. But the users can easily officially remove it.

Come on ubisoft, I bought settlers 7 complete pack (included all DLC) on this $20 sale, time to remove the DRM. It was a pain signing up for all that crap. The game is now what, over a year old?

It would be even more impressive if the patch didn't fail to install without uninstalling all mods and the game itself for so many people. This was a rush job and it shows. Yes, getting rid of the DRM for retail purchasers is nice, but hosing the direct-download purchasers to do so is not a plus.
 
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News Comments > Evening Legal Briefs
3. Re: Evening Legal Briefs May 26, 2011, 23:45 ldonyo
 
Too bad Wyden didn't do the same thing to the 'Patriot Act'. That would have been a move with balls.  
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News Comments > Out of the Blue
4. Re: Out of the Blue May 22, 2011, 17:44 ldonyo
 
Conducting experiments with a result already in mind typically leads to the desired result being found, regardless of the actual data involved. This not only applies to studies of the effects of video game violence, but to the hunts for 'dark matter' and 'dark energy'. Steven Covey called it 'beginning with the end in mind' in his book 'Seven Habits of Highly Successful People'.  
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News Comments > etc.
1. Re: etc. May 22, 2011, 17:32 ldonyo
 
When has Faux News done anything related to video games that wasn't based in ignorance?  
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News Comments > Sunday Legal Briefs
1. Re: Sunday Legal Briefs May 22, 2011, 16:41 ldonyo
 
What a shock, the studies Leland Yee used don't prove what he thought they did when he wrote that execrable legislation of his. Hopefully, SCOTUS will continue to rule in favor of corporate entities and scuttle this nonsense once and for all.  
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News Comments > Saturday Safety Dance
1. Re: Saturday Safety Dance May 21, 2011, 20:53 ldonyo
 
Oh, goody! Yet another self-aggrandizing head-shrinker type making claims about video games that are completely unfounded. You know it's going to be one of these types of articles when they use an original Xbox game box image.

If this Pile it Higher and Deeper guy were correct then every other media in which violence is depicted would do the same job of dehumanization and we would have all killed one another already.
 
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News Comments > Evening Metaverse
2. Re: Evening Metaverse May 21, 2011, 10:20 ldonyo
 
Zuckerberg has some serious issues. All he wants is money and he really doesn't care how he gets it or who gets hurt in the process. Facebook will be an educational experience, but I don't believe it will be in the way Zuckerberg thinks it will be.  
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