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I can do that. @dizzle: Asking errdoth might be a good thing, I know he set an idle server on his torrent box before for TF2. :lol:

Thanks for the recommendations, I got all 3 of those downloading riku. :) (EP 1-13 of Elfen Lied, EP 1-27 of Tengen and EP1-13 of Melancholy).

Alright, so I'm not about to try and troll through 44 pages of this thread so I'm going to keep it brief. What are a few decent anime series to watch? Honestly the only anime I've ever watched is Blood +, Death Note and DBZ if you want to count that. I've seen bits and pieces of Full Metal alchemist as well (at least like.. maybe 5-8 episodes?). Oh and I've seen like .... 10 episodes of Code Gease and then I stopped watching. I guess if anything I'm just looking for anything good, preferably something with some decent action in it (It doesn't have to be the focus) but really I just want some good, fun story telling. I'm just looking for anything to sort of do because of how bored I am, so any good series would be nice. (I'd love to get some good recommendations from SilverSword/Shin, I probably trust theirs the most ;P)

Alamaailman Vasarat's Kaarmelautakunta album. Downloaded it as per SilverSword's recommendation to someone else in another topic, really awesome band. Just about done with the album (last song).

I'm not really saying it's a terrible problem, but I think it effects sales more than piracy. The point is that it is taking away the sale of a full version. If a person goes into a shop wanting to buy a game and then sees a used one for cheaper, they may buy the used one. That means that the potential sale is lost. I'm not saying it's some big deal, but I find it kind of sad that the industry gets up in arms about piracy but not about used games.

Reading threads really is beyond you, isn't it?

Still do we need more blood seems like the game is centralizing upon it rather than the actual gameplay the game looks like other M+ games terror etc. Man, darn those people for having so much blood in them. WHY DO THEY HAVE SO MUCH BLOOD IN THEM! I always find strange when someone wants to be able to chop off heads and not see any blood.

I forgot to mention too that with PC games I wish there could be some rental kind of service (possibly through steam). That way you could rent those shorter games that aren't really worth buying, because honestly that really hurts more than anything compared to consoles. Also while this doesn't have something to do with PC Gaming, used video game sales hurt the industry probably just as much or more than what piracy does. The reason why is that a person going into a shop has the intentions on buying the game, but if they decide to buy the used game (for a $5 discount more or less) then that money goes right to the retail chain and not to the studio who created the game. If anything the used industry is a much worse offender than piracy will ever be, at least in the video game industry. If I'm going to buy something (personally) I'm going to buy the new version, not the used.

I agree or at least a detailed description. How, at all, is that pertinent to Brandon's issues? We wouldn't expect you to understand that. Just know that it is. Yes... this, this is important. @OP: After thinking it out I've decided your entire family is bat[cabbage] crazy. Your dad orders a mail order bride. The mail order bride seems strange in a few ways (beyond normal cultural differences), and you seem like a [bleep]. Well you mentioned you had a brother.. maybe he's normal.

Yeah I'd be down. And for scout I use the regular scattergun. I'm a terrible [bleep]ing aim with scout so I never land both hits on the FAN anyways.

You're right. However, as long as we are talking about music, the current model for selling music is broken. Shelling out $15-$20 for a CD is pretty expensive, and I think that the industry needs to realize this. I still stand by what artists such as NIN have done with their music. They have moved away from the big record company (who ends up taking most of the money from sales anyways) and started their own based around the idea of digital content and free content. Want the album for free? Go ahead! However if you want an album with extras on it feel free to pay for it, and they do this by having several different models of albums. They actually made more money than had they been with a record label this way, it's incredible really. And that's really just the tip of the iceburg. If artists would realize that if you go down the same road as NIN you can fuel a lot of profit just by sticking an advert on the download page for your album. [cabbage], you'll probably make close to what you'd get for an album sale if you stuck with the RIAA. So I wish that more artists would catch on, because the RIAA are just crooks. Not only do they not give the artists any money from these lawsuits (no their only purpose is to line the rich business mans pockets) but artists just don't make much from CD sales period. You're assuming a couple of things here. - That she's going to get fired because someone pirated the game. - That the pirate would have bought the game in the first place. With the first one she's going to make most of her salary on that project while the game is still in development, so her not being able to afford lunch because of someone pirating a game is silly. Of course you then also assume that the pirate would have just gone out and bought the game in the first place, had he not been able to download it. You assume that they download these things because they feel they need them when in reality it's more of just getting it because you can, or because you want something to do. Everything I pirate and download I have had no intentions of buying, ever. It's not taking money out of their pockets (although yes, it is still wrong). I kind of talked about what I think about current payment systems for music, but for games? For one I think that developers need to realize that if they add in value to their game people will buy it. Online multiplayer, free DLC (or cheap DLC support after the game has come out) and even just having a game that lasts for longer than 5 hours will make people want to buy your product. In fact the biggest chunk of games that I pirate (and I don't really pirate many of them) are those which are so short that it would have been better to rent them, and trust me when I say if I could I would. Well, there is a forth thing too -- STOP PUTTING INVASIVE DRM IN YOUR PRODUCTS. As a consumer this does not make me want to buy your product, because it's just going to infest my PC with DRM. I will never buy a game that has such invasive DRM in it to where it limits how I can enjoy my game. Things such as install limits (you can only install 5 times and then you're SOL!) are so stupidly done because they only serve to hurt the legit customer. The one kind of DRM I support is the steam service, just because of how damn nice it is. Being able to download a game on any PC, at any time, just with your steam account is incredible support. Throw this in with steam cloud, which saves your game settings, and it's so easy to switch PC's or whatever have you with steam. Throw in great achievement support, friends list support and great deals (seriously, steam has some of the best deals on games anywhere) and you've got a service that I can support 100%. THIS is how you win over customers, and THIS is how you combat piracy. You don't fight it with invasive DRM, you don't fight it with lawsuits. You fight it with an understanding that your consumer is a person, a good person. The second you assume off the bat that your consumer is a thief all bets are off. I still can't really tell what side you're on, if any. It is extortion plain and clear -- charging such a ridiculous price for 24 songs is just stupid. I mean, if I walked into a record store today and stole two albums (and then got caught) I wouldn't get fined NEAR as much as what this woman got fined.

Until you start paying for your own food you can't just call that [cabbage]. I mean, can she not eat the same things you eat or something? It even seemed like your dad was trying to help you out by getting an extra one just in case, but no, you'd rather just get one so you can [bleep] about it later when she eats one. And the drink thing, it's [bleep]ing $1 for a drink at McDonalds. How is that wasting a dollar? She said she was thirsty, and it's not like you guys are hard or money or anything if you have two go karts... It just seems like half of this stuff you're just trying to find a reason to [bleep] about it. Yeah, a few things are are legitimate concerns but most of it is just childish.

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Love the colors and composition of this one, great photo.

The record companies ("the selfish nazi's") want more money than they can get. You want more digital entertainment than you can pay for ("fourteen year old without money"). Greed's greed. Since survival without more digitial entertainment than you can pay for is still perfectly possible, I fail to see any argument in regards to the record companies greed that couldn't be turned against you. I mean, [cabbage], if you break copyright on a textbook or two to further your own education, that's one thing. But music? Video games? Movies? They're luxury products. Not a neccesity, and certainly not a right. Heard of supply and demand? It's what our entire market is based on, more supply than demand and the price drops, more demand than supply and the price rises. With computers the supply of a game, song, movie is theoretically infinite. Yet the price hasn't dropped to nothing. It's run by a monopoly, as ONLY one group are selling the object, they could charge you $100 a song and you can't go elsewhere as that place will also have to charge you $100 a song or they won't be allowed to sell you the song. You can consider me "for" piracy, but this is the most [developmentally delayed]ed piece of logic I've ever read. Do you even know what a monopoly is?

It's not a hard game, just pick whatever sounds fun.

Have you listened to Ordo Ad Chao? I might have heard some of the songs from it, haven't really listened to the album though.

Mayhem's Freezing Moon This actually isn't a terrible version of it. It's still low quality as [cabbage], but you can kind of actually make out the guitar work unlike other albums of theres where it's just BOOMBOOMBOOM DRUMS.

my sister does the same thing. :lol: @OP: You seem to really be blowing this out of proportion. Dear god no, she cleaned your room! What an invasion of privacy! I mean, you're 14 or 15 years old right now -- you're still a minor. Really though, Just sums it up.

Agalloch's ...And The Great Cold Death Of The Earth. Great song. :thumbup:

Did you just now notice that? I remember people complaining about it a while ago. :lol: I've been playing demoman some more recently, getting a little better at it but still can't play it as well as soldier or sniper. I do still love his taunt though, "Kah-beem!!!!". WTB Demoman or soldier update. :P (Demoman should totally get proximity bombs)

Dude, I was talking about playing with viewmodels off, not melee weapons (I play with melee all the time)...

Oh yes, every country has access to Spotify. They do with proxies. :thumbup: If I'm going to be bending rules may as well just download. :lol:

Without what on? You can set it in multiplayer settings, like when playing soldier you see the rocket launcher when it's out? Most competitive people turn that off to get a full view of the screen. I like it a bit but it makes melee really hard :S Doesn't really seem worth it to me, but then again I just PUB and that would just feel weird as [cabbage] without any gun.

If you go through the idea of Torrenting it may as well just not buy it :/. At least, that's what I do. Anyways no one really cares. However I'm going to say that if you already are hung up on if you should or not, just don't do it and save yourself the moral dilemma.