Glad to bring a laugh. And I know they'll bring more influences in, but come on - this looks SO MUCH like Entourage. All the archetypes are there - the slick important guy (Vince/The Prince), the big brother figure (Johnny Drama/the big guy in the back), the plucky, small, comic relief (Turtle/the blondie up front),…

So this is Final Fantasy: Entourage?

Boy, they are dancing all around releasing FFVI on PC, aren't they? We've got 4, 7, 8... Come on, Square! You know what we want! And please don't send crappy updates - give us the one we actually want!

Total agreement. The face is hideous and the sculpt shockingly underwhelming. Where is the $199 coming from? Material cost? Design cost? Or is that just what the market will bear on something like this? Because it is a ludicrous price point for something this poorly made.

I hope there's an alternative to sit-ups, which are terrible for your back and not actually that great for building abs. Planks are far more efficient and safer, but it's hard to gamify that I guess. Still - should've avoided sit-ups. Bad stuff.

Well, when your life basically stops mattering to anyone after graduating high school, and no heroes can be older than 14 or so, you have to start something resembling a career at a pretty young age.

Pirates spend many times more on media than people who don't. Their overall spending is offsetting what few losses were made by the initial piracy. There's a lot of evidence that people, when removed of piracy or other free sampling options, simply don't bother with certain products. There is also evidence that some…

Look, man... you want to have this argument about the morality of internet piracy, but that's got nothing to do with what I'm talking about. The point I am making, and which is backed up by reams of studies (which I DID link, should you choose to scroll back up and read through them) is that piracy is not damaging…

Credible sources: British telecom regulatory body Ofcom, the London School of Economics, North Carolina State University, The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, the Swiss government... there are more, but I've made the point.

That's a hard thing to study and a tricky point to prove either way. I can say that, when I was younger and did a bit of file sharing myself, it was primarily because I didn't have any money. They weren't losing anything from me because I had nothing to give. They did gain something in word-of-mouth promotion and…

Here's a study by the London School of Economics showing that not only does piracy drive sales in some cases, but that the overall impact of piracy on the bottom line of film and music industries has been grossly exaggerated. That's one. There's also buckets of anecdotal examples of artists ranging from metal band…

That's confirmation bias. Just because you've never encountered something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I've never met a single person from Taiwan - yet there are still tens of millions of Taiwanese out there.

You're missing the point entirely with that bogus straw-man. Read my response here to somebody else with the same misinformation to understand that pirates are actually the ones spending most of the money on media. There is absolutely nothing wrong with trying something out to see if you like it before dropping money…

Wow. That's an awful lot of hate, right there. I'm not sure whether to bother responding, but in the interest of discourse I want to try.

Sony is trying to be part of the solution, and I applaud them for it. This movement to allow a kind of online game rental thing, or gaming/Netflix hybrid services, is a way of recognizing some of the problems piracy is a response to and addressing them rather than attacking pirates with anti-consumer practices.

Would you borrow something from a friend to try it out before you paid for it yourself? That's piracy. Would you make a mix-tape to listen to songs you wanted in your own order? That's piracy. Would you listen to stuff on the radio before buying a CD? That's all the pirates are trying to do.

It's funny, but this is a real thing. I wasn't pirating on 360, but I wasn't getting many games either. But when I switched to PC gaming - a platform on which I pirated quite a few things waaaay back in the early net days - I found myself always trying to find ways to buy rather than "borrow."

I could give you a long list of Playstation exclusives that never released on any other platform. Sometimes exclusives cross over, but most of the time they don't.

Getting a little tired of having all the interesting 2d games coming out on 3ds. It's like, every time there's an announcement about a fun looking 2d game, whoops! Not on a platform I can play! Ugh. Throw a bone to those of us who aren't interested in handheld gaming or can't afford to buy multiple gaming devices.

No, James Alpern and Richard Usher of Partners in Kryme, he is not. I succinctly remember pointing out this glaring mistake as I listened to the soundtrack on the cassette player in my '81 Chevrolet Citation. I would look around incredulously at the other cars, as if to say "Am I right, random strangers who don't…