I'm happy with my Kitara, or I will be when they ship >_>

I know that. Doesn't make me feel any less like the song reference was made after the fact.

While I agree with Oogzy, I swear you just posted a quote from a sensationalist news outfit...

So someone at the development house smoked a lot of weed and decided "HEY LETS HAVE A MAD WORLD MODE!"

Specs line up, won't be long before it's hackintoshed.

So, with full respect to this man, who is a talented artist - no debating that - I have one question: What the hell happened?

Damn right I would.

Its less the fact that he is doing it, more the timing: Aether is just starting to get a lot of notice, it seems just too coincidental.

Yes I do realise, and yes I was around back then. Yes I was around when floating islands were a map theme. I just find it very coincidental that as soon as Aether starts getting lots and lots of notice he decides to implement his version again.

@ibelli: You do know what a shuttlecock is right?

It's just being tested right now, he may not even apply it.

A paypal is easy enough to get when you're young (I've had mine since I was 14 - 22 now) and not all of us like the idea of having our credit/debit info hooked to too many companies. Again you can easily get a debit card that will work in steam at 14 if you're not in the US (and probably easily enough IN the US).

"Our games are being pirated through the woozaa! Fix it you bastard!" "Here we've put in this DRM that's really hard to crack." "Well done that'll help our sales figures."

Not doable. Online gaming is an international affair, you can't expect everyone to have an american drivers license, and the sheer cost involved with certifying every country to their laws would be fucking immense.

They aren't - but they are cheap to port over, which is why we get sub-standard results.

But do you give a shit about PC DRM? Valid question, because that kind of intrusive DRM hasn't quite hit consoles yet.

Reading a silhouette is a lot more complicated and intensive than reading a set of colour values.

Sorry to prod you off the PC high horse (I usually ride it to) but the comparitive sales on PC compared to console are low enough that the negative image in the PC market brought on by the DRM fuck ups are nowhere near the negative image brought on by them releasing shoddy products.

Thanks very much kind sir!

That's an entirely different group of developers, though.