My friend had a TurboGraphix 16 and a couple arcade cabinets. I did know is name.

For me, the goal of the shiny new toy is better than the shiny new toy itself. I frame the goal as beneficial and now I have something to look forward to. The way I see it, if we had all the possessions of our desires we would have nothing to look forward to or hope for.

I nominate you.

Some at LinkedIn needs to be smacked for these logic fails.

They couldn't afford the first dancing aliens.

"Brains?"

I usually respond with "I sit at a desk."

Apparently, he likes to crowd-source.

Hal-ik-sion-na-tion?

Thanks, that is good to know.

On DVDs I'm legally limited from doing anything other than puting them in the DVD player. DRM at best only slightly limits the consumer and time limits the pirate (like a lock). DRM at worst severely limits (like with blu-ray or always online games) the content consumer and rewards the pirate.

I don't go to Starbuck's.

DRM assumes you are a criminal. I've managed to not upload a single one of my paid-for DRM-free titles. DRM does not benefit the consumer. It is true there are examples of DRM models that do a good job of intruding lightly on the consumer's consumption of content.

Thanks for the clarification on the boot-off time. I don't believe I had any other confusion, FRIEND2 is borrowing my account while I'm not using it. Some stories have indicated a wait on FRIEND1 for the boot off time for FRIEND2, is this true?

In many of Bioware's games they leave that decision up to you the player on the orientation of your character.

It's more like account sharing, not game sharing: they are practically logging into my account from their account except I get precedence. I wonder if it immediately boots them out of the game if I want to play?

It at least puts a little more ownership into the purchaser's hands, one of the reasons why I disliked online stores is because I couldn't uninstall a game I own and share it with a friend. Of course nowadays you have to deal with the publishers trying out their crooked first owner gimmicks. I also have yet to buy a…

Exactly (you can still find Flappy Bird .apk for Android). The walled garden is profiteering off of what it omits rather than includes. My frustration the other day at trying to send a 30 MB video file from an android phone to an iPhone in the same room: can't use email, file too big; can't use bluetooth, iPhone…

My gripes with app stores:

1. DRM is never good.