@NervClaX: I agree that there needs to be a preview of some sort. However, just 'cause you can see someone's content doesn't mean you can recreate it. You've seen a car on the street - does that mean you could build one? LBP allows the user to create some really completed "machines" that would take a lot of effort to…

@bnpederson:

Seems the popular opinion here is that paying for user generated content is bad. I wanna ask why everyone is so against it, but first, let me propose a few prerequisites:

@Black-Dog-Howls: Just 'cause it's not official doesn't mean it's not good. There are plenty of mods and user created content, as well as indie games out there that are phenomenal, and they're worth forking over a few bucks for. I suspect the same will be true in lbp. Don't get me wrong - I'm also sure there will be…

You know, it really depends on where the money is going - if I'm paying another player for some in game assets they clearly spent some time on, sure - I'll fork over a couple bucks. That's only fair. However, if some genius spent three weeks designing the best lbp level ever, and sony and media molecule start charging…

I have an alternate solution - I call it an Apple Rogue.

So he's using the Bart Simpson defense - saying "I didn't do it" when he clearly did. meh. I wasn't overly offended, but it does sorta go to show that Ninty isn't really in touch w/ gamers

the one in a zillion chance of winning this is almost enough to get me to eat a pizza hut pizza.

Damnit - now all my comments are going to have to come with a disclaimer. Something along the lines of....

So, for Gears 1 we had CliffyB, and for Gears 2 we have Cliff Bleszinski...... I'm calling it now, by the time Gears 3 comes out we'll be referring to him as Clifford Upperbottom Bleszinski of the East Hampton Bleszinskis.

I read all the info, and took a moment to absorb it. While I believe they know what they're talking about, I still refuse to believe MS pays $100 for that hard drive.

@Dooga: Believe me, I'm not trying to insult the inelegance of anyone here. This is a very tech savvy crowd for certain. I'm just making a case for the concept of "better safe than sorry". There are types of malware that no amount of safe browsing can avoid. I'm as knowledgeable and careful as anyone here, and, even…

@jharbert: hey, more power to you.

@jharbert:

@maztec: I'm sincerely glad to hear the scan turned up nothing. Like I said before, viruses and other malware can get in without any noticeable signs of infection, and can come from sites that you trust, so run the trend housecall scan from time to time just for safety's sake if you're not going to run an AV. I…

@teatime: That's just not the whole story. Yes user education is very important, but boring, everyday websites get hacked to drop malware on your computer. I'm a freelance IT technician, and I've seen it happen to boring, mundane, everyday websites - there's no place on the internet that's one hundred percent safe.

@jharbert: In my above mentioned example where my client had a hacker make it so their site opened an invisible window that installed a trojan on your computer without providing you with any prompts, how would you go about keeping yourself safe?

@CyberCowboy: If you run linux, you're the exception to the rule. There are almost no pieces of malware programmed to run on linux. Also, trend micro won't find much if you're running linux anyway - it's set up for windows file types. It'll find some stuff, but not all. Like I said though, Linus is fairly safe all on…

@bachcottage:

I have a challenge for all of you who think you're clever enough to not get any sort of malware without the help of an antivirus: