BTGBullseye

Banned for not returning.

Some Friends Hate Ketchup Tacos HEFTY

Sleep.

lNRjt4rCymM Hans Zimmer is a master.

Piracy is just another way of life... Don't knock it till you try it!

What are you talking about with the release dates? I'm talking about when it first unlocked on Steam, which is the exact same moment across the globe, local time does not matter. Less than an hour after it unlocked there was a torrent for the Digital Deluxe edition out for use, already cracked. What do you mean a "campaign"? Honestly, I was expecting it to take about a week before anybody cracked it. It's from a lesser known cracker, so he probly doesn't do what the rest of the scene does, and wait a week or two for the initial sales to die down. (the scene's typical of a week or two is much better IMO, both for devs, and for people in general) I honestly wouldn't be surprised or upset if XCOM 2 devs were upset about it being cracked and released an hour after unlock, but the least I can do is tell them I WILL be buying this ASAP. Actually, BitTorrent works by sending chunks of files across a peer-to-peer connection, and has nothing at all to do with piracy. (it actually uses the internet the way it was originally intended to be used, except on a much larger scale) You're saying what the MPAA and RIAA want you to, which aids them in shutting down legitimate file transferring technology, just because some people misuse it. I know I'm impatient... Mainly because I love the XCOM franchise, and this game fixes almost every problem I had with Enemy Unknown/Enemy Within... It's really hard for someone who loves the game to wait to purchase it, especially if it's possible to obtain it immediately and still purchase it later. As far as passing the data on to thieves, it's already happening... Nothing I do will ever change that, and no way to know how many of those downloading it are doing as I am, or even downloading it because it might work better than their legitimate copy. (I do remember several times over the years where the crackers fixed major issues with the games before the devs, and even legit customers were grabbing the torrent to play the fixed game)

Except Machinima, and EA... Not in a bad way either.

That's exactly what extradition treaties are for. It's an agreement between countries that they enforce the other's laws on their own citizens should the criminal's actions affect the other country's citizens directly.

You can have your opinion, but I don't follow the opinion of someone who hasn't actually experienced it over someone who has.

How about release day? XCOM 2 was torrentable in a fully functioning form less than an hour after it was released. (i am getting it now, simply because I want to play now, and will definitely buy it ASAP, so no lost sale)

You again completely ignored the situation. If you brace for it, very little can knock you down, but if you don't, or can't, even extremely minor impacts can throw off your balance enough to knock you over. I'm not saying it would pick you up off your feet and throw you a dozen yards away, just push you far enough off balance to fall over.

Meet my microphone... He's rather cute ain't he?

Can also use frozen butter... I find it to work better for me. (also reduces peeling)

Torrenting XCOM 2... It came out this morning, and there's already a crack and compressed torrent for it less than 12 hours later. Makes you wonder why companies even bother with DRM in the first place.

You're comparing to Windows 7... 7 doesn't even have a hybrid shutdown capability, and sleep doesn't count in the uptime. (the system isn't actually on in sleep mode, it just sends a slight current to the RAM to prevent it from losing its stored data) Windows 8 and newer went and changed a ton of stuff, (including the timers) all without caring about why things were the way they were previously. (uptime timers are primarily to determine hardware usage times for business systems) Believe it or not, there are much older and simpler designs that perform similarly... The problem with those are that they just aren't quite as durable. (maybe 1000 rounds instead of the OSS 10000 round rating for a 5.56NATO system, probly can't handle the pressure from a .50BMG though)

I'm good with being an uncle... Been one since I was 8. (so 2 decades now) Sorry Jeb, you're just a little too young for me.

You obviously don't realize that people don't brace for an impact from a surprise opening salvo of bullets... If braced, no bullet can knock you down. If not braced, and not readied for the bullets, they can easily knock you over. It's not just a question of physics in relation to the impact felt, as the entire momentum of the object is transferred into the body, regardless of if you feel hardly anything, regardless of the amount of padding, and will push you by that amount. If the impact moves your center of gravity enough, it knocks you down. In addition to all that, you keep pulling back to just a single round assumption, whereas I specified multiple rounds in a very rapid succession. (the total energy would be equivalent to me tossing a 10lb weight into you at 10 mph, it wouldn't hurt much, but you could easily get knocked off balance if you weren't prepared for it)

+1

World of Warships.

World of Warships... Pretty fun. Kinda like a WWII version of the ship combat from Assassin's Creed 4, only in a 'match' setting.

Not everyone...

As I said, it wasn't political... It was in response to him actively putting out information, knowing it would likely kill someone. He attempted to commit murder, indirectly, but that's equivalent to hiring a hitman. Last I checked, all crimes were a part of a full extradition treaty... Only a rare few are limited to specific crimes. Treason is a crime, but only happens if you are a citizen of the country, and is very much a part of every US extradition treaty. Political crimes is such a vague concept that it is effectively meaningless anymore. (I personally consider every politician to be a criminal, so would their actions be political crimes?)

I'm sorry, but I just can't bring myself to see her as anything but my little sister. (no insult intended, I always wanted a little sister that I didn't have to change diapers for)

Agreed, but when it's a simple request to delay releasing the information a few days to keep someone from being murdered, and it's not going to harm anything or anyone to delay, and he refuses, that's the same as attempted murder in my book. (the government agency that made the request didn't really care at that point if he released the info, just so long as they had the time to extract their personnel) When it comes to attempted murder of a US citizen, I am never against trying to extraditing the person responsible. (it could even be argued that it was premeditated since the reason for the delay was included in the request to delay) Most countries have extradition treaties with the USA, meaning if they are a criminal to the USA, the country that has one of those treaties will arrest the criminal and send them to the USA for trial. IIRC Assange was in a country with one of those treaties, so it wasn't in the slightest underhanded IMO. (no blackmail or bribes required to get most countries to honor their extradition treaties)

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