This Months Haul~August Edition

[Dipstick]

diff, I'm using logic, not so much facts, to back up my thoughts. Logically, if people steal something, money is lost somewhere

Wrong.

Wal-Mart stocks 10,000 copies of Shiny Bauble 3: Finish That Shit (now with bloom lighting!). I go on the Interweb and download a pirated copy of said game. Wal-Mart still has 10,000 copies left -- no one has lost anything.

The argument that could be made here is that they lost a possible sale -- i f I was a big fan of the Shiny Bauble series, but was able to download them for free, then that would be true. Guess what? That is not the case with most pirates! Most of them just download the stuff to trade for other leet warez. Some of them do play the vast majority of the games they download. However, if theMAN came by one day and told said pirate to pay for the games they want to keep and lose the ones he does not want to pay for forever... 99.99% of the games in his collection would be gone. If you took the option to pirate games away from him, he just would not bother playing. No sales were ever lost here because there never was one to be. Sure it is illegal, but to the companies bottom line that matters none.

(However, Haibane Renmei for 30 bucks does look tempting...)

-Dippy

[morphix]

wow you pirates can justify anything.

[MechDeus]

Yeah, it supports pressure, though doesn't have the same pressure depth as a standard tablet. That seems to be true for most Tablet PCs for whatever reason, though I get more than enough varience from it for what I need. Depends I guess on just how subtle you get with pressure.

That's cool, I hadn't seen any tablets ever list pressure sensitivity (not that I've really looked since I've never really had the cash to blow on one) so I wasn't sure anyone ever bothered implementing it.

Sketchbook 2 takes some getting used to, but I think for pure drawing it's far superior to Painter (Photoshop isn't worth drawing with imo). Make some customized brushes and play around with the settings some.

Totally unfair comparision since I only used Sketchbook for like ten minutes and I've been using Photoshop for years, but I just really like the way PS' brush tool looks for drawing lines. With pressure levels I think it works great and I really like all the ways I can directly affect lines without switching programs. Being able to layer the picture so that I can make a sketch and then draw the final on another layer using close-as-hell zoom makes the whole thing really easy.

But like I said, I've barely touched Sketchbook so maybe it can do all that as well. I saw the zoom function but haven't messed around with it yet and I'm guessing it can make layers but I didn't see that (nor have I really looked at the menus). Didn't see that you can make custom brushes, I'll have to check that out and see if I can make something I really like.

I still use Painter for coloring and shading since nothing can compare to its toolset for that.

Oh hell yeah, nothing beats Painter. I never used it until recently and I'm totally blown away by how well it replicates effects and blending, it's really a beautiful tool.

w00t!!

[Omni]

wow you pirates can justify anything.

Because it's not as simple as "THOU SHALT NOT STEAL".

Can you bring a better argument please?

[morphix]

It is againt the law too, that is the end of it.

[Diff-chan]

Logically, if people steal something, money is lost somewhere, and it stands to reason that they would fire people due to piracy. They probably don't want to, but I can see it hurting a company to the point where no other option is available.

This comes back to the fact that its not really stealing as we know stealing to be. Youre not actually lifting a physical good without paying for it. Its copyright infringement, yes, and its against the law, but its not the same as going to EB and stealing something, or stealing a car, or whatever ridiculous analogies the copyright cartel want to use.

And as I and Dipstick said, most pirated copies of the games would not have been purchased. If you pirate a game you had no interest in purchasing is any money lost? No.

And besides, even if every pirated copy in the USA was such a huge problem, the simple fact is that internet downloads in the West is a drop in a bucket compared to the piracy going on in Asia, Russia, etc. now.

[kingoffighters]

[Kev]

And besides, even if every pirated copy in the USA was such a huge problem, the simple fact is that internet downloads in the West is a drop in a bucket compared to the piracy going on in Asia, Russia, etc. now.

Fuckin' stupid Cyrillic. Why do I have to put up with them Commie words every time I wanna get me a fix of them good teh r0/\/\z?

[Opaque]

Morphix, do you honor the sabath?

[morphix]

I do not work on Sunday (nor any other day)