You’re probably right, but that’s a time consuming process. :(

“define scientist.”

“anyone that listens to his podcast regularly”

Not really. You don’t massively dehydrate yourself to drop 40 pounds of weight before you shovel your driveway or chop wood. Since that’s the dehyrdration at the root of all of this, it’s not really applicable to general physical exertion outside of MMA (or other combat sports with a history of weight-cutting).

There will also be a peer review led by Vox Media editorial director Lockhart Steele

WHERE IS THIS WEEK’S FAILED DRUNKEN HOOKUPS?!?!?

I can read anything at my office. I can’t listen to anything.

Still hate this. These are funbag questions most of us will be denied because there’s no way in hell we’re listening to a podcast.

Just look at the forum posts above from the pirate forums, where they cry about Denuvo. “What is this shit that stops me from getting free games? I’m tired of it!” You’d think they’d preordered a car and wanted to know why the plant hadn’t delivered it yet. “Look, I paid nothing, and I want it now!”

Don’t forget, “I’m a cheap bastard and I want it NOW!!!!”

Man, I don’t know if it’s a function of being 30something with a stable career that means I can afford games anyway, but piracy just has ZERO appeal to me now.

I really scratch my head of the argument that it’s just “data”, so it’s ok to steal it. Why does a car cost 25k? Because it’s metal, plastic and rubber? No, because of the resources that it cost to put that car together, most of which is labor. How many thousands of man-hours go into many video games? The argument is…

Seriously. Don’t want to pay $60 for a game? Wait a couple months. It’ll be $40. Still too much? Wait a year and it’ll be $15. I have zero sympathy for those that pirate games. “Waaaaah! We can’t have everything we want right now for FREEEEE Waaaaah!” Meanwhile, I’ve got copies of almost every GOTY from the past few…

Aaaaaaand cue the justifications for piracy/theft from the comment threads:

I fucking love that these thieves are getting thwarted. Softwares thieves are a whiny, entitled bunch of assholes.

The ZX Spectrum, way back in 1983ish, had some copy protection that could make loading the game from a legitimate source a trial and error process. In those days you could copy a cassette-based game in any regular 2-deck player, so new ways of making the signal degrade faster when copying it were invented. I remember…

My desire to buy games at a low price is easily trumped by my desire to see people with entitlement not get something they want.

Haven’t had any problems with games and DRM in many years, in any of my games. Face facts, the gravy train is over, and pirates will either need to get new jobs or find a new hobby. Games are cheaper than ever, games plummet in price almost immediately after released. It’s the “excuses” for piracy that are becoming…

As it stands, piracy is a symptom to distribution flaws, drm flaws, pricing problems, and just bad people always being bad and never playing “fair”. It doesn’t give them carte blanche to go fucking with paying customers with abusive, intrusive and resource hogging DRM.

Perhaps I’m on the wrong side of zeitgeist, but as games become more of a hassle to pirate hopefully this will ultimately benefit players.