Isn't it Sony who announced basically "no more used games"
Im trying to find an excuse for not being excited at all at the latest console release
I guess I just dont really see the point of consoles anymore
I feel like a dedicated, proprietary gaming platform is a relic we should let die
no
every once in a while some anti-used game patent gets turned up and everyone gets up in arms that Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo/Activision/EA whoeverthefuck is banning used games in their next platform/game/release/whateverthefuck
but it doesn't really mean anything. Every 6 months or so a company lawyer comes around and asks if you have any patentable ideas for inventions relevant to the company's business. There's usually a bonus per patent so there's an incentive to dream crazy schemes up. That company gets a larger patent portfolio to play Nuclear Deterrent with. That's all this shit ever is.
Also my boss bought me a beer on the train and then I was walking down the hall of penn station saying no you fat fuck, no pizza, no Taco Bell, and I made it all the way down the hall and McDonald's was at the end and I failed and then I muttered to myself the whole subway ride home out of anger and disgust
Watching the Walking Dead... sometimes I just want to punch some of these people.
STAHP BEING DUMB
STAHP
Only stupid people can survive a zombie apocalypse. I'm pretty sure that intelligent people all fall prey to zombie infection vectors FIRST. This may be related to the zombie hunger for brains.
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I finally got to go to one of the German clubs movies and now I'm depressed.
Also my boss bought me a beer on the train and then I was walking down the hall of penn station saying no you fat fuck, no pizza, no Taco Bell, and I made it all the way down the hall and McDonald's was at the end and I failed and then I muttered to myself the whole subway ride home out of anger and disgust
Actually, I enjoyed the hiring and firing practices when I worked in landscaping.
You could be fired, without warning, for anything at any time of the day, but if you showed up the next morning you were hired again.
makes sense
I'm betting a lot of the firing is at a suspicion of indiscipline so egregious that you must be chased away immediately
so showing up is ipso facto disproof
It is similar to pre-union methods of hiring/firing of longshoremen and dockworkers. I forget the colloquialism for it... Anyway the re-hiring wasn't guaranteed given the inevitability that there was a high supply of people willing to do the work due to the unskilled nature, is the thing, and thus you could implicitly be blackballed
But I'm sure in glorious canada the number of people willing to do the work is perfectly in line with the number of people required
Eddy on
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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Sort of. It was over-zealous anti-piracy measures and online play that killed the used PC game market though, not a single company's decision.
I thought it was steam.
Nah, Steam came years later and capitalized on it by acknowledging how shitty the situation was with aggressive pricing and the added value of a permanent online library. They didn't cause it.
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
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If it was an orphan babby
no
every once in a while some anti-used game patent gets turned up and everyone gets up in arms that Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo/Activision/EA whoeverthefuck is banning used games in their next platform/game/release/whateverthefuck
but it doesn't really mean anything. Every 6 months or so a company lawyer comes around and asks if you have any patentable ideas for inventions relevant to the company's business. There's usually a bonus per patent so there's an incentive to dream crazy schemes up. That company gets a larger patent portfolio to play Nuclear Deterrent with. That's all this shit ever is.
I feel like I should @tav because this sounds like it would be his Album of Year 2013.
I will have to stay at a pleb hotel
@eddy @desc you guys arent pax east right
pc master race consoles for scrubs was the point of that post
Watching the Walking Dead... sometimes I just want to punch some of these people.
STAHP BEING DUMB
STAHP
Sort of. It was over-zealous anti-piracy measures and online play that killed the used PC game market though, not a single company's decision.
You could be fired, without warning, for anything at any time of the day, but if you showed up the next morning you were hired again.
Since I have no musical talent whatsoever it seems wise to form a heavy metal band.
no sir
Only stupid people can survive a zombie apocalypse. I'm pretty sure that intelligent people all fall prey to zombie infection vectors FIRST. This may be related to the zombie hunger for brains.
I thought it was steam.
makes sense
I'm betting a lot of the firing is at a suspicion of indiscipline so egregious that you must be chased away immediately
so showing up is ipso facto disproof
haha you fat fuck
Gonna be gooooooooooooooooood.
Ex Pope Fatso
Actually yeah that's p much how I saw it too
Can we bring back anti-pope?
It is similar to pre-union methods of hiring/firing of longshoremen and dockworkers. I forget the colloquialism for it... Anyway the re-hiring wasn't guaranteed given the inevitability that there was a high supply of people willing to do the work due to the unskilled nature, is the thing, and thus you could implicitly be blackballed
But I'm sure in glorious canada the number of people willing to do the work is perfectly in line with the number of people required
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Nah, Steam came years later and capitalized on it by acknowledging how shitty the situation was with aggressive pricing and the added value of a permanent online library. They didn't cause it.
I'm sure, somewhere on the internet, someone has declared themselves pope.
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
I was gonna sign up but I looked it up and that's not exactly what I want to do.
vile betrayer
say in their respective pope- and anti-pope-mobiles
stay at a hotel with me
Schisms are fun!
The Big Bang
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/25767767/#Comment_25767767
They annihilate and release photons of equivalent energy to their combined mass.
What's your Pope name?
Pope vs Pope ala Spy vs Spy
Assuming we get a black pope next, naturally.