This Months Haul~August Edition

[g0zen]

Just google it and shut your piehole.

[MechDeus]

Where is the law that states a game purchased in Japan has to be played in Japan?

I said purchasing, not playing. Did you go to Japan? Because otherwise you're purchasing products that are not licensed for sale in this country.

[avatar]

I have never pirated a game I had intentions of buying. Mainly becuase pirated games and movie are broken or uncompleted.

In most cases a typical day of pirating for me is.

Turns on Firefox
visit bittorrent site
Look at game list
DL whatever looks interesting or get nothing at all.


Very few people scour the internet looking for that exact game or movie. Except for people who watch fansubs i can't think of anyone who specifically looks for something to pirate online.

No one loses cash from pirating on-line. Hell no one even tries to stop it. Except for Valve who in the game industry has taken a stance against piracy. Hell some companies embrace it. Remeber when Anarchy was being offered free via bittorent?

[morphix]

I said purchasing, not playing. Did you go to Japan? Because otherwise you're purchasing products that are not licensed for sale in this country.

some I get direct from Japan some I purchase from agents who buy them in Japan. Where is the written law against that??

[animegirl]

This thread got serious! Anyway, I bought Digital Devil Saga. It has a spiffy box.

[g0zen]

This thread got serious! Anyway, I bought Digital Devil Saga. It has a spiffy box.

I thought you already had it.

[animegirl]

I thought you already had it.

Nope, I bought Shin Megami Tensai: Nocturne a couple of months ago.

[AaronChance]

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.

Double click on the brush icon (not the flyout, the icon next to the color indicator) to bring out the brush menu that lets you customize current brushes and create your own (with a lot more custom options). Layers menu is under one of the flyout wheels, I forget which. I couldn't do anything without layers. It also can save as a .psd file with layers intact for porting into photoshop or painter, but oddly can't read .psd files.

Like I said, it's very different from Painter and Photoshop in a lot of little ways so it takes some practice to get used to. I didn't like it at first, now I wouldn't attempt any design without it.

[Omni]

Dianetics, your buttcheeks is warm.

[Timber]

Thats not true though, the Naruto episodes you download dont have the commercials, do they? Because, you know, the show IS on TV for free but its the commercials paying for it.

But if I watch Naruto on TV it dosen't necessarily mean I'm watching those commercials. I don't think I've watched more than a handful of commercials since I got my Tivo a little over a year ago (other than when I watch live TV). And about the only thing I watch live is sporting events.

The same argument you made about games can be made for television. Even though I downloaded and watched Natruto on my PC dosen't mean Fox (or whoerver airs it) is loosing any advertising money. You could argue that if ratings go down then they will loose money but with the fucked up rating system we use in this country you'd have to be one of the "magically chosen" few with a nielsen box to make a difference (I've never actually met one of these fabled people). Just because I downloaded a show dosen't mean I'd have watched it on TV.

Dianetics, your buttcheeks is warm.

I check my dipstick, you need lubrication honey,