From here... about the Real-Time Strategy game Supreme Commander -
‘Nothing says "It's too late to be playing" like building a Nuke Eliminator and not putting any missiles in it.
"Strategic launch detected."
"Thank God I built that anti-nuke launcher.
Wait a minute, I don't remember...
Son of a bi(CRISPY)"’
This made me laugh a lot. My situation was that I had built my nuke eliminator, and was 1 minute too late in starting my missile build. I got crispied also.
Posted by Daishi at 9:41 PM 0 comments
DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, and is a way for game publishers to control, notionally anyway, what happens to their creation and to fight piracy. For example, EAGames released a game called ‘Spore’ last month, and users were limited to being able to install the game only 5 times. Ever. If they had a hard drive failure, or had to reformat, or some other catastrophe more than 5 times, then their limit would be reached, and then would have to call EA tech support and plead their case to get the game reactivated.
Nominally these draconian measures are put in place to stop, or impede, piracy of intellectual property. This is supposed to make it more difficult for people to illegally download the game off of a program like BitTorrent. In reality, the DRM gets cracked either before the actual release of the game, or immediately after. Therefore, the DRM is rendered useless, except for those who decide to follow it.
Ultimately, the ones who get hosed on this deal are the gamers, like me, who pay good money to be able to play the games. There are games that I have that are 10+ years old that I still play (Dune2). If, in 10 years I want to play my copy of Command & Conquer 3 and I have passed my 3-install limit, and EA is no longer around, what do I do? Maybe EA will still be around, but game developers change on a seemingly constant basis. What happens to the people who paid money to get the game?
I don’t support illegal downloads. I don’t participate in it. Don’t break the law.
In this instance, however, I believe I will buy whatever copy of a game that I want, like ‘Spore’, and then download a non-DRM copy to install and then play. Then I am legally playing my game, and can bypass their ineffective and useless DRM. Then I win, and so does the publisher.
While you may not agree with me, I’d like to know what those of you who read this blog think of DRM and its application.
Posted by Daishi at 10:29 PM 1 comments
...delete it, and forget about it!
This poor woman, now poor because of her gullibility and overwhelming sense of greed, got suckered by the most well known email scam in the world. She sent over $400k to the scammers, who are probably still giving each other high-fives and chortling with glee at people’s stupidity.
The worst part is that other people told/asked her to stop, and she decided not to.
I just sit here, shaking my head and chuckle to myself. I don’t think I can do anything else. Yes, I am a bad person for laughing at other people’s misery. However, if people tell you to stop doing something, and they are knowledgeable enough to do so, then if you don’t...you bring it upon yourself.
Posted by Daishi at 8:13 AM 0 comments
The new computer is up and running, and is currently being stress tested to see if everything works. I’ll get pics of it, all done up, in a while.
Your link for today is about being rude.
Yeah, I know it’s from Oprah, but it’s a good article.
Basically, rudeness stems from a lack of respect towards other people. Everyone has been rude at least once in their lives. Most people are rude because they are either selfish or stressed out. In my opinion, there is never any justification for poor behavior, ever. I know that the times I have been rude, I was also being selfish. I had/have no excuse. I have reasons, but they are pretty lame when analyzed by any sort of rational standard.
The short version is: treat other people in a manner with which you would want to be treated. Don’t be mean. But, if you have to stand up for yourself, do so in a way that is firm and unyielding, but don’t be mean.
Posted by Daishi at 8:20 AM 0 comments
All of my new computer stuff showed up yesterday, and I started the laborious task of getting it all together in to a working unit. You wouldn’t know it by looking on the outside, but there is a lot of effort that goes in to making a computer work; besides all the work to make the separate components, the last task is getting them all to work at the same time.
I’ll take some pictures so that you are able to see the scope, grandeur and mess that goes in to making your own PC. It may take a while to upload them, but I’ll try.
Other than that, there isn’t too much else that is vying for my attention right now.
...Except for my anniversary, which is tomorrow. It’s hard to believe that we have been married for 5 years now. I don’t know why Valerie puts up with me, as I screw up so often. I am grateful for her kindness towards me, and her laughter. I am glad she loves me, and I know that I am blessed because of it. She deserves better than I can give her...but I try.
I love you, my precious treasure.
Posted by Daishi at 5:13 PM 0 comments
