Then you haven't ever seen any Olympic hockey... :/

For the Chinese team, though, their only options were to win and face a team of their own countrywomen, or lose and face a different country. In their situation, it wasn't so much about fearing their potential opponents as it was giving their country a chance at multiple medals—an utterly sound strategic move. To win…

Why write the rules in a way that incentivizes losing? Up until the 2012 Olympics, all badminton events had been played in a straight-knockout system. When the governing officials needlessly rewrote the rules, they were warned by both players and managers that some amount of gaming would be all but inevitable. They…

You're comparing apples to penguins.

Wow. I'm not usually quite this blunt, but that is fucking dumb.

My mind... full of fuck.

Mowing the lawn really does suck that bad.

GOTY, Complete, Ultimate Edition, or whatever else you want to call it: Can I has it?

Right, and your one suggested solution is what I (and many others) think the digital world is heading to, as I said.

There is nothing a company does that in any way makes them "fair game" for piracy. Ever. This is where you and many others are in the wrong, morally and legally. If you don't like what a company does, don't buy their product; that is the only action you are justified in taking.

And every title on GoG is also available via torrents. The problem still exists.

D3 is a special case, and we'll see how that unfolds. And it has nothing to do with whether or not people can afford something. It has become a given that software is something you don't need to pay for. If you can afford an iPhone, you can afford a $0.99 game. Many choose to save that dollar.

Well, Blizzard is trying something new (as far as I'm aware) with Diablo III: The sandbox is on disc, but the swings and slides are on their servers. I'm seriously interested in seeing what the crackers will come up with. Short of an internal Blizzard leak, it looks like they're going to have to write up their own AI…

What is a "fair" price for a game that cost tens of millions of dollars to create? Who determines that? God forbid gaming's future exists entirely within the realm of $0.99 apps. And even those are pirated to hell and back.

"...I'm inclined to pirate D3 just to stick it to them."

Which was the version where the people who worked on it got paid in full for the work they did? Which was the version that was not pirated at all?

DRM wouldn't be necessary if people would just stop pirating intellectual property. Ironically, pirates often cite DRM as the very reason they pirate, as if it were their God given right to enjoy someone else's work without paying so much as a dime for it.

Buy whichever currently offers the best performance for your dollar. In this sense, AMD and nVidia have traded blows over the last few years. With the release of the 670, it seems that nVidia is currently gunning for the lead, and that's probably what I'd go for if I was in the market today. That is, if you can even…

I don't think you can really arbitrarily decide who is and isn't a REAL fan of the series, but I'll reply anyway...

So they're planning to kill the one thing that makes Elder Scrolls games playable weeks before official bugfixes are released, and enjoyable long after their shelf lives have expired: User created content.