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But those expansions were games weren't they? I payed the same price for them as a normal game

Here they were considerably cheaper on day 1 than the base game.

I think only big budget titles end up overpriced. I don't want to pay 60 € for a game.

That is because people keep buying them at full price, voting the price over us all with their wallets.

You are a very specific taste judging by your rep and the fact you've been the subject of at least two insult trips from other members so far, counting this one. Be nice people, and on topic, if you have a bone to pick with a member try to settle it in private, and if it gets nasty request the assistance of a moderator.

Now let's go back to discussing the truth of how much Machinima sucks. I'm certain this thread will be blooming with activity once Ross submits FM #32.

I don't have a cat.

I've actually never watched the whole thing start to end. Youtube is not bandwidth-friendly, and some of the episodes supplied by the FM torrent play weird no matter what player I use.

You might think that, but I'm a pretty versatile person, and very determined to get things I feel would benefit my life.

Meow.

Serious Sam is the kind of shooter where you find yourself running backwards while holding down mouse button 1, yelling "This is fucking insane! How many are they!?".

Grab the two Serious Sam HD games on the next Steam sale, the bundle can be as cheap as $4.

Nothing wrong with following proposed guidelines if you agree with them. I hope they will at some point be made official but only time will tell.

Seriously? Serious Sam 3 is coming out?! I better be prepared to spend money this year!

Yes, seriously, things will get seriously serious when Sam the Serious arrives.

Here's a seriously serious link to the serious Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/SeriousSamFan

Look for a few SS3 screenshots in the photo section.

Many good points in this discussion.

Games have always been this expensive. Remember the starting prices of the Nintendo 64 cartridges?

I have completely stopped buying games at full price/day 1. One doesn't really have to wait long for a meaty discount, I bought Dead Space 2 less than a month after its release for less than half of the starting price over on Amazon UK.

Actually he is replying to a specific part of your post, and removed the rest from the quote.

Maybe she lives in one of those creepy little towns in the US where every resident except her belongs to a fundamental religious cult.

The only thing more pointless and ridiculous than swear filtering, is political incorrectness filtering.

Any way, I see the poll has been updated. It now reflects more accurately the reason why I do not even write genre tags into my music collection.

I find Pepsi Max very sweet tasting, too much in fact, so I stay with regular Pepsi.

Just my two pence really, although I do think discussion like this would be better suited to a staff forum.

There is no such forum yet, and judging by the current presence of an administration I think we will need to wait a good while longer for any progress.

Wouldn't it be smarter to actually set point B before leaving point A?

A video game, or any data for that matter, has no tangible value. At all. Those who compare illegal downloads to stealing a physical copy from a store fail to see that a download is no loss to anyone, it is a neutral action. Data can be copied n number of times for free. As was previously said illegally downloading something doesn't mean a lost sale either.

I think piracy can not be eliminated, but it can be minimized; by offering a product people want to buy. Publishers should stop treating their customers like criminals and drop the DRM bullshit already, and actually supply a demo so people won't have to pirate to try the product before buying. Only those with deep pockets would find an excuse to blindly spend dozens of dollars on a game.

There are two types of software pirates in the world; those who pirate no matter what, and those who pirate because they are underserved customers. The former group should not be counted as lost sales because they wouldn't buy a game even if it was DRM free and in the bargain bin, they copy data neutrally and therefore have no impact on the industry. The group publishers want to focus on winning over to the good side are the underserved customers who pirate because they do not want to deal with DRM and/or they want to try a game before buying it. That problem can be solved easily; stop using DRM and supply a demo.

Worse still, publishers and developers never actually release patches to remove DRM once it has been cracked, which rarely happens more than a week after release. Once the game is cracked it will be up on torrent sites the same day. Therefore the pirates get to enjoy the game without the bullshit while the honest customers need to needlessly live with the DRM for as many years as they will play the game. I would be less bothered by DRM if I could actually feel safe in the knowledge that it gets patched out once it is rendered useless. If publishers do not have the decency to consider this then perhaps there should be a law that enforces the release of a de-DRM patch once certain conditions are met (Number of sales and time since release, for example.).

I prefer RBC over DLC by the way; retail-buyable content. Like the good old expansion packs for Quake 2 or HalfLife. With that method of distribution developers as well as publishers actually had to put effort into the content, DLC gives room for laziness and scamming customers.

Wasn't there supposed to be some action performed that resets all passwords? I still haven't had to reset anything on my end.

Keep your eyes open for Serious Sam 3 this summer, and of course DNF. The fun, arcady shooters seem to be making a strong return this year.

Aside from a few problematic situations where the encoder falls flat, the psychoaccoustics fool the casual listener perfectly, including my healthy, non-trained pair of ears. I don't use mp3 files but occasionally I encode one of my lossless files for fun with LAME 3.98.2 and I have yet to hear any difference with a side-by-side comparison. Our frequency response is not very wide and even less so when we only take the most sensitive ranges into account, a lot of data can be thrown out without anyone but the most trained ears noticing. This opens up a lot of options for fooling people, and I really feel sorry for those who buy all the snake oil circulating in the audio market.

But that wasn't really the main part of my post, let's try to focus on the avatar images, I did ask you a specific question.

Girls also seem to be very unstable creatures. One day she can't get enough of me, and the next day she says good bye. This is almost completely true in my case.

These are quite good. Why not make a showcase thread of your work?

I will add some more stuff to the OP later by the way, including your suggestion on the signatures. I am feeling lazy tonight. . .

I don't like signatures, no matter the size or content, so I hide them all. I do agree with you however, there need to be enforced some limits, as there will always be at least one person who thinks s/he is the only person on the forum.

I don't even understand why in the first place, why do people like massive signatures? They have to scroll through them themselves, not just other people.