And to cap it all off, he’s ALSO getting to level 100 by never having sex.

Yet my taxes will pay to defend these businesses properties, provide special zoning for them to operate in, give them tax breaks, access to subsidized business loans, keep the roads in front of them plowed, make sure they have access to municipal services and I get no say in whether or not any of that happens, but…

Well, color me surprised, half the video was a guy digging a hole in the side of a mountain he couldn’t stop sliding down that ultimately went nowhere.

And then he put some blobs of mud on the landscape. Woo!

Its amazing how much GlaDOS sounds like a Trump speech.

I place and remove “bugs” in the robot’s programming. My job is safe ... or else.

Fine, while you’re fishing around in your utensils drawer for a meat thermometer, I’ll be eating medium rare steak.

Yeah, I always feel guilty when I go to the ‘library’.

Yeah, I always feel guilty when I go to the ‘library’.

“First, the manifold of events might simply be self-consistent.”

Well, it will be interesting when you there is an alive and a dead version of yourself because of a superluminal bullet, and both are self-consistent to third party observers - because that is what it means. Not that some chronology protection conjecture…

I wouldn’t ask you to pay for the lock I put on my house. And I’m not a supporter of IP laws that don’t allow you to resell products you purchase (ie., right of first sale), nor do I believe copyright should extend for over a century. In fact I’m not entirely thrilled that my tax dollars go to pay for enforcement of…

“ If they used no DRM at all, piracy would cripple their revenue, skilled workers would lose their jobs, and the production quality of large, triple A games would suffer.”

Umm, I’m old enough to know that that is utter bafflegab. Have movies gone away? Books? Music? They are all *trivial* to pirate, so much so that the…

“How is this an anti-consumer practice anyway? DRM performs an infrequent, low level check, to make sure you’re not pirating the developers’ software, which should barely even affect your in game performance.”

They are stealing clock cycles, power and heat from you to protect someone’s business model. Low level check…

“If you can’t get into the exe without corrupting it in some way,”

The system gets into the executable just fine in order to run it. That these hacking groups don’t have logic probes and sophisticated emulation software is just saying ‘once again, they raised the effort:reward ratio’ for piracy.

I don’t agree; the sophistication of the software itself always approaches the ability of the hardware to run it. Any additional burden not related to its job is going to lower its performance unless there is a chokepoint elsewhere on the system giving it that latitude (ie., you had excess capacity on CPU because you…

“while implicitly advocating a terrible solution”

Really? I thought the solution was to stop glorifying stupidity. It said nothing about eugenics. IQ isn’t heritable, but culture sure is.

As long as the executable resides on the owner’s system and has value greater than the cost to crack, software will be cracked and pirated. That the current operations want to get out of the business should hardly be taken to mean that software piracy has been defeated. The same things were said about every copy…

Anything that periodically checks the integrity of the in-memory executable is de facto lowering performance. Your reply sounds remarkably like ‘why put letters in an envelope if you have nothing to hide?’ Anybody can claim DRM now is better than it was and that may be true, but the best DRM for the legitimate…

I hope the companies keep a list of people who they are to refuse service to in the future. I certainly would.

“Oh, you’re the guy that played our last game to completion and then returned it for a refund? Yeah... this new game... you wouldn’t like it. Its below your standards, not even as good as our last game. Keep…

Um, it’s taken me more than 2 hours to get to the third day of the story, and I’m pretty sure I’m not taking a hugely circuitous route - basically two direct round-trip hikes. I just did some looking around on the way, read some of the notes, talked on the walkie-talkie about things. The person talking about wanting…

A lot of people have already finished it. But Xcom 2 is out!

If you have a PC, I have no idea what owning an Xbox gets you - clearly there are some Xbox only exclusives, I just never took an interest in them. PS4, I know you get access to Japanese titles and some of the Sony exclusives. If it wasn’t for those, I would probably build a bookshelf PC, stick it under my TV and call…