Valve and Riot are currently the only two companies that won't make you feel ripped off by paying. If you don't know Riot, they're pretty similar to Valve, they love what they're doing and they love their community.

I badly wanted to buy this game, I didn't care about online-only, I just wanted to play it, no matter the cost, the DRM bullshit or anything (I just love this game, it brings memories from my childhood, so I had no intention to think rationally). Thank you for opening my eyes! I hope they rot in hell for this, I'm…

No, no, nothing that cheesy; it's powered by the love of carebears!

You don't have a chance to reach a high level of any skill if you're not positive. It requires dedication beyond the comprehension of some people (the types that are surprised that you can sit in front of your computer for 50+ hours at a time), and this kind of dedication is always the product of emotions.

Bought Deus Ex and all DLCs for 7.50 eur, even for bulgarians this is a great offer :) I could have pirated it, yes, but 1) I didn't know about this game - the promotion was the first time I saw it; and 2) they give me automatic updates, easy sharing of screenshots and achievements and synchronized save games between…

There is. I haven't pirated a single game since I found Steam - the key words are convenience, community, offline mode and low prices (really, really good promotions).

Children aren't as innocent as we pretend they are, neither are they as stupid as we think they are. I knew perfectly well what was happening - I was running over an entire city of people (in Carmageddon II), while destroying all my opponents. I guess it was either that or shooting cats with a slingshot...

No, it's not like i'm saying they shouldn't, I just think word-of-mouth is much more powerful than any PR strategy or advertisement. You go to a friend's house, you see a pair of them. You try them on and no explaining needs to be done :)

I played GTA too. GTA1, later 2. I didn't like the 3D versions, though.

I basically grew up with DooM II and Carmageddon II and such, and I'm one of the least violent people among my friends. I don't even hurt flies and small insects, for Christ's sake (at least when I can prevent it; yes, I do feel a bit guilty driving my car and sucking up insects with the airflow). I was around that…

That's the first time this has happened - other VR headsets *DID* have screens that close, both optically and physically. But I guess Occolus' makers are currently busy building the hardware... If they do get it right, there won't be any need to explain anything.

Thank you!

If we're only talking about _this_ demographic, I'd rather see them worried about life-changing issues, like articles about history, politics, technology, medicine... Biological death is irrelevant when your mind is already dead.

Indeed he would ;)

How's that good news? Do you like it that third world countries have no Internet access? That we're the only ones that know how to improve our lives by accessing our large database of knowledge?

What's to stop them from selling it? How would I even know that they sold it? Trusting anyone but yourself with your data is just plain silly.

They were rich in Internet dollars :) People are still unable to understand that information isn't a tangible product, and sadly this applies both to RIAA and supposedly Internet-savvy online businesses.

I think they already do this... You get served "relevant" ads to your conversations or something (I have AdBlock, so I wouldn't know). That's why some of my messages are only stored PGP-encrypted on their servers. Mine THIS, Googlebot.

Also, rkhunter, firewalls (on heterogeneous hardware), anti-virus, latest updates for everything, disabled plug-ins in the web browser, AdBlock Plus (with additional privacy filters), Ghostery, HTTPS Everywhere and Spybot S&D. For more protection I use a clean disposable virtual machine (even though this is pretty…

Well, the results are obviously Safe-Search filtered. Otherwise, 10 of the top 10 would be something porn-related and this would make for a pretty boring list.