What do these titles have to do with eachother?

Well; the main answer one would get is, "They're both made of Epic Win". But nay, my fellow gamers, the reason they are together here in unholy matrimony is due to anti-piracy, aka stupid corporate people trying to stop something they can't.

In a new batch of stupidity, Maxis, the makers of Spore, and Bioware, the makers of Mass Effect, are using a new form of copy protection called SecuROM.

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In a bioware forum post, a Bioware producer spoke about the new copy protection that requires you to go online at least once every ten days so the game can check for CD key validity or the game will deactivate itself

This sort of bullshit, especially for an 'offline' game like Mass Effect, just makes legit consumers jump through hoops while pirates just find a new patch to disable the copy protection.

I figured this was worthy of my first post.


I've followed Destructoid for quite some time now, it's my favorite video gaming news site by far.

I mainly only read, commenting maybe once, or twice. One time, I decided to give a whack at a contest, offering a free copy of the game Galactic Civilizations 2: Dark Avatar, because I owned a copy of the game prior in the series, Dread Lords.

I made a forum account and posted my answers. I was pretty sure I was wrong. Throughout my life I've never entered in any contests and never bothered; I have pathologically poor luck.

So as a result, I never followed up on said contest and went off on my merry way checking Dtoid on my RSS feed and playing video games whilst attending college. Today, while on a narcissistic binge, I googled my screen name (jehutus) and discovered, aside from myself bitching on some retarded ass roleplayer video game forums, a blog post at the bottom of the list:

Some retarded Blog

Which lead to:

Destructoid Link

I won, and apparently did so admirably, as shown by the "By far" next to my name. It's a shame, because I still play and love dread lords, and drool longingly at Dark Avatar, as my college-student-working-two-jobs budget cannot afford to purchase anything more than used+months-old+greatist-hits games

So, it's official people. I'm a retard. Congrats to me.

E-mail me at finderdj@gmail.com to taunt and laugh at me. I truly feel like I deserve it.

Oh, that's my dog Oakley, by the way. Even he couldn't help but laugh at me