Posts by FrieChamp

  • Piracy is the great equalizer

    Quote from Bic-B@ll

    so i never really downloaded shit besides photoshop. fast forward to me going away to college and being bored and i started downloading movies to watch, especially because i brought my projector with me. last week i got an email from the school that made me shit my pants. full story here:http://suprbay.org/showthread.php?t=33050

    turns out that you can get caught being a pirate

    wow that IS some scary shit! Looks like you got away this time though! I liked the "parents...will not like this" part

  • C&C first-person shooter cancelled

    Woah people ARE venting off, lots of accusations and names dropping. These things are as subjective as they can be, but all posters seem to agree that there are some major structural problems in the way that EA internally develops its games. 1 manager for roughly 3 devs? That isn't just a waste of money, it's counter productive too! Interestingly enough EA Tiburion seems to have similar issues (which might not be as fatal though if all you do is release a new Madden game each year and take your sports car for a ride). I talked to someone who recently left EALA and he told me similar stories. Very tight dev cycles and more than enough suits who keep a watch on your project, because if it doesn't look like it's going to sell more than a million, they pull the plug.

  • Forum restructure

    Nice surprise! I had my doubts you would ever get to it, after multiple threads on the subject and nothing happening, so I'm even more glad that the announced changes are being put into action now! Can't wait for the new spotlight galery to sparkle and shine above the forum! Good job Thrik!

  • Piracy is the great equalizer

    Quote from e-freak

    Games ain't be products, chris. Games are services. By buying a game you should know that you get patches, support and content on the product - you don't pay for the disc but for the service that comes with it. If a Game Dev will not support his game it's kind of worthless esp, if it has bugs or is a mp-title that would require certain content updates for long-time fun.

    Errm no, games are goods, not services - at least in the macroeconomical sense.

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    In macroeconomics and accounting, a good is contrasted with a service. A good here is defined as a physical (tangible) product capable of being delivered to a purchaser and involves the transfer of ownership from seller to customer, say an apple, as opposed to an (intangible) service, say a haircut.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_(economics)

    There might be services like support that are tied into the product and come with a purchase, but these are secondary components of the deal. Does anyone even read those EULAs when buying/installing a game? Frankly I do not, would be interesting if somebody can tell how publishers handle such support services in detail, for example guarantees, expiration etc.

    Why are you bringing this up in relation to piracy by the way? I'd say most pirates (YARR!) use their cracked copies for SP only and don't make use of MP or patches, because of cd-key verification, new cracks for new patches etc

  • Piracy is the great equalizer

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    Surely there will always be some who download things anyhow, but there is also a group who download because (...)

    True, I believe it is unrealistic to assume that there is a way to fix piracy once and for all. Instead developers/publishers should try to find a way to minimize it and that is by winning those people over who occasionally pirate a game in between legit purchases. At least that would be the first reasonable step and you don't achieve that with tougher copy protection systems.

  • Amazing gameplay video

    NICE ad! When the first coins flipped out of the video I was like "wtf maybe that was a bug" and then it struck me hehe

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    i remember playing and replaying warioland (first through fourth) on gameboys

    I also used to play through the first one over and over, collecting all treasures to get a new house/castle/planet. Great game!

  • Jogging

    I work out 2 to 3 times a week, but that's just power/muscle training. I find it hard to do stamina training after my work out cycle and quite boring too. If I can jog through a nice scenery, meet up with friends to do it, that's more appealing to me right now. I've lost enough weight the past year, that I don't want to do it to get in shape. I want to move more and don't feel like a wuss because I know running around the desks 3 times will have me hyperventilating.

    Quote from st0lve

    I jog atleast 2 times a week here in the army. Our first choice of route is around the airport (about 8,6km), it's boring as hell and you have a steep upward climb right at the end. What we do is that we jog in a pace that is barely faster than walking, so that you train your stamina and breathing. (...) To improve your jogging\running, what you can do is to find a nice upward climb (free for choice, depending on your condition), and run it at about 80% (you should be able to talk while running, without gasping for air), then walk down.

    That gives me a clearer idea of how fast I should go, thanks!

    Quote from dux

    Oh how wrong you are.

    Bet yes I do weight training and bike riding when I can. Good stuff.

    A fit body isn't everything women look for in a man obviously and from a certain point on your muscles will start to work against you (just don't overdo it guys) but - "women love fit men" I find nothing wrong with that statement.

  • Jogging

    Today I had the worst idea ever. I went jogging.

    After hearing from one of my (female) friends yesterday that it took her 50 minutes of jogging for 7km I became curious. She said that it's quite embarassing, even for a girl, because 50 minutes is such a long time for that distance, but I honestly couldn't recall when or even "if" I ever travelled 7km faster than walking speed (outside a vehicle). "You go to a gym regularly and men run faster anyway so it shouldn't be a problem for you" she said. So I left my house this afternoon, checked the clock before I left - it was "3.55pm", when I came back it was "4.08pm" and I was fuckin exhausted. I felt like in a bad comedy movie. I made it upwards to the end of the street, across the intersection up that following road halfways and had to stop to catch for my breath. I started running again and that was probably mistake number 1 - I went way too fast, this is no excuse but looking at other joggers, I think I should have jogged half the speed, especially for a beginner. Anyway, across the park, which isn't that big admittedly, a little further and then I stopped again, walking to my house (I ran in a circle). Fucking pathetic. It dawns on me now that I haven't done any significant stamina training for the past 4 years and that starts to show.

    Does anyone here jog regularly or do any other stamina training? Tips maybe?

    I think I need to lie down now :-|