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Yes, I am sure I'm glad SWS is back.
Now post the link to the video properly, I'm anxious to see it.
Now post the link to the video properly, I'm anxious to see it.
Can it really be called "Sundays with Sagat" if Birdie's in it? Other than that, great to see him back.
Question #1:Why do 66% of destructoid posts have homosexual references or imagery in them?
Question #2: If you ever downloaded a song to your ipod, a rom, or any other thing that you likely justify in the same manner that claim to be against, you need to STFU. There are simple facts that there is something like 85% of people in modernized countries have pirated software in some form or another, and frankly I dont believe you if you say you're part of that 15%.
Question #2: If you ever downloaded a song to your ipod, a rom, or any other thing that you likely justify in the same manner that claim to be against, you need to STFU. There are simple facts that there is something like 85% of people in modernized countries have pirated software in some form or another, and frankly I dont believe you if you say you're part of that 15%.
Technically, they aren't stealing the game, but they are stealing the money.
It's like half a transaction. The pirates have yet to pay for their games to the rightful companies.
It's like half a transaction. The pirates have yet to pay for their games to the rightful companies.
@poopfacekillah
answer #1: Its funny, Destructoid is about fun. Me and my friends make homosexual references all day, and we laugh about it.
answer #2: By your logic, if you pirated one thing you need to pirate everything, . I have pirated things in the past (none of which were games or music), but now that I have seen the errors of my way I buy everything I own. Pirates will download things even though they have the money, and then try to justify their actions in order to make it seem less serious than actually is, and that's bull shit.
answer #1: Its funny, Destructoid is about fun. Me and my friends make homosexual references all day, and we laugh about it.
answer #2: By your logic, if you pirated one thing you need to pirate everything, . I have pirated things in the past (none of which were games or music), but now that I have seen the errors of my way I buy everything I own. Pirates will download things even though they have the money, and then try to justify their actions in order to make it seem less serious than actually is, and that's bull shit.
@ Poopfacekillah- You counted all the posts Destructoid has ever done and tallied how many of them contain "Homosexual imagery or references" in them?
AMAZING!
AMAZING!
Wait, I thought Birdie died in the zombie apocalypse or something. Ah well. YAY FOR SUNDAYS (Tuesday?) WITH SAGAT!
Oddly enough, I tend to think about the issue not as stealing, but counterfeiting (the original copy is not physically destroyed or changed, but copying the product damages its value).
So what about games that are completely out of circulation?
I agree that piracy is stealing but there really needs to be something done about old games that just can't be found anymore. Rereleases and hd remakes are a good start.
I agree that piracy is stealing but there really needs to be something done about old games that just can't be found anymore. Rereleases and hd remakes are a good start.
I agreed with Sterling until he equated PC gamers with pirates. But then again, he's really good at taking up a good cause and still managing to make himself look like an asshole.
@poopfacekillah
Did...you just call Mike Haggar--man above men and the Mayor of Earth--a homosexual?!
Get out.
Did...you just call Mike Haggar--man above men and the Mayor of Earth--a homosexual?!
Get out.
God Damn it HOLMES! I swear, you leave SF make all of us miss you and JUST when i get ready to move on you do something like this! WHY CAN'T I QUIT YOU!
Birdie is seriously the smartest man alive! I find it scary how much i agree with every single thing he said, espcially how its not gay because it feels good, its just like a party....with naked wrestling.
<3 Holmes, you have no idea how happy i am that you brought back sundays with Sagat and Birdie. I just have one question for you. HOW DID BIRDIE EXCAPE FUM DA ZOMBAI WIZADS?
Birdie is seriously the smartest man alive! I find it scary how much i agree with every single thing he said, espcially how its not gay because it feels good, its just like a party....with naked wrestling.
<3 Holmes, you have no idea how happy i am that you brought back sundays with Sagat and Birdie. I just have one question for you. HOW DID BIRDIE EXCAPE FUM DA ZOMBAI WIZADS?
@Neroisonfire
You make a good point about games that are no longer in print. That is the only type or piracy that I support and that I partake in. My twisted logic is that if if no one is losing a potential sale from my piracy (because the game is no longer being sold), I may as well steal it, even if I don't feel great about it. For example, the SNES game Earthbound has long been out of print, and it costs upwards of $50 on sites like Amazon and Ebay. Earthbound is a great game, but I feel no need to buy the physical cartridge if the makers of the game won't see any profit from that exorbitant price that I paid. There are many great games for older consoles that have this problem, such as Shenmue II and Conker's Bad Fur Day.
If Nintendo sold Earthbound on the Virtual Console, that would be one thing. But as it stands, there is no legitimate way to obtain the game for a reasonable price. Why should gamers have to pay absurd prices (which oftentimes exceed the prices of brand new games) to experience great, classic games?
You make a good point about games that are no longer in print. That is the only type or piracy that I support and that I partake in. My twisted logic is that if if no one is losing a potential sale from my piracy (because the game is no longer being sold), I may as well steal it, even if I don't feel great about it. For example, the SNES game Earthbound has long been out of print, and it costs upwards of $50 on sites like Amazon and Ebay. Earthbound is a great game, but I feel no need to buy the physical cartridge if the makers of the game won't see any profit from that exorbitant price that I paid. There are many great games for older consoles that have this problem, such as Shenmue II and Conker's Bad Fur Day.
If Nintendo sold Earthbound on the Virtual Console, that would be one thing. But as it stands, there is no legitimate way to obtain the game for a reasonable price. Why should gamers have to pay absurd prices (which oftentimes exceed the prices of brand new games) to experience great, classic games?
lol and here I was hoping there would be some redemption for pirates. You forgot to use my favorite argument, however: Everyone else is doing it, how could it possibly be wrong? they can't arrest EVERYBODY, can the? Besides, since everyone else is doing it, it'd be a shame to miss out on it. more of a crime not to, really.
Indian Super Man is a great video, but I'm a huge fan of Indian Thriller! It suxs that people are making excuses for stealing games. I don't care if you think your screwing the man or big companies, but somewhere, some studio is people working hard to make games and people just shit on them. Fuck you over 9000! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3dj3TJ1r9A
What I don't understand is why people seem to think the argument that "piracy isn't stealing" is somehow a defense of piracy.
Piracy isn't theft. It's piracy. This doesn't mean it's "less bad". Piracy can be very bad. But that doesn't mean it's theft. It's something else. Two different "bad" things. Stealing and piracy. They're different.
Deal with it.
Piracy isn't theft. It's piracy. This doesn't mean it's "less bad". Piracy can be very bad. But that doesn't mean it's theft. It's something else. Two different "bad" things. Stealing and piracy. They're different.
Deal with it.
I use Gamefly. I am a horrible person that makes devs lose their jobs because I buy no videogames, unless they are on secondhand sale for under 15 USD.
To rebuttal Birdie's remarks:
1) I get information put into my machine that had already been put in other machines without paying a dime to any of the companies that created said information.
2) Gamefly or some other entity purchases a lollipop and then we all take turns licking it until the media is unreadable
3) I can't justify spending 60 USD on any form of entertainment including a monthly cable subscription, but a mere 16 USD a month doesn't make me feel bad at all. Punching old women in the face is only funny if they forgot their fixadent.
And I guess all of us secondhand rent boys are one giant nest of feel good homosexuality and STDs.
We are the cancer that is killing the games industry.
To rebuttal Birdie's remarks:
1) I get information put into my machine that had already been put in other machines without paying a dime to any of the companies that created said information.
2) Gamefly or some other entity purchases a lollipop and then we all take turns licking it until the media is unreadable
3) I can't justify spending 60 USD on any form of entertainment including a monthly cable subscription, but a mere 16 USD a month doesn't make me feel bad at all. Punching old women in the face is only funny if they forgot their fixadent.
And I guess all of us secondhand rent boys are one giant nest of feel good homosexuality and STDs.
We are the cancer that is killing the games industry.
Also, Holmes, homie, what happened with you and the dtoid show? You brought an energy that hasn't been seen in that studio since.
I'm glad Sundays with Sagat is back and you have convinced the rest of dtoid of Adventure Time's awesomeness. Now if you can only get them to watch Ghibli flicks...or Chomet films (The Illusionist is FANTASTIC Layton-esque animationstravaganza)
I'm glad Sundays with Sagat is back and you have convinced the rest of dtoid of Adventure Time's awesomeness. Now if you can only get them to watch Ghibli flicks...or Chomet films (The Illusionist is FANTASTIC Layton-esque animationstravaganza)
Piracy is theft. You are taking something that costs something,f or nothing, without permission from the original owner/distributor.
And you are taking something, your taking the information and data.
I dont give a crap if people steal/pirate shit, but its funny when they try to claim they aren't.
And you are taking something, your taking the information and data.
I dont give a crap if people steal/pirate shit, but its funny when they try to claim they aren't.
Ok. I confess. When I was 12 my best friend made me a copy of his DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince cassette tape. I am fully prepared to accept the punishment for my crime; the crime being that I once listened to a DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince album.
This is a pointless semantic argument.
Piracy is piracy and theft is theft - they are actually two different words that mean two different things.
I'm not sure why people feel the compulsion to equate the two.
Piracy is piracy and theft is theft - they are actually two different words that mean two different things.
I'm not sure why people feel the compulsion to equate the two.
The reason copyright infringement isn't "stealing" is that you don't "permanently deprive" the other person of access to the property. Which is the definition of theft in the majority of the western world. (Ask a lawyer.)
Now, obviously it's an offence, but it's not "theft" - Jim was quite wrong.
Why are we having this semantic argument, then? The only reason the copyright industry is determined to call it what it's not is that the word "theft" sounds more dastardly. It's a PR campaign. (Because their last one, calling it "piracy", backfired when pirates started to be perceived as cool. Thanks, Johnny Depp.)
The problem with taking copyright infringement particularly seriously as a crime is that copyright is so indefensibly abused by its holders.
First, remember that copyright is a temporary monopoly that we, through our governments, grant creators of IP in order to enable them to earn a living from their work. Which we, as a community, care about because ultimately it will become part of the public domain and benefit all of us.
Unfortunately, that monopoly has in recent years, due to corrupt lobbying from wealthy IP owners like Disney, been extended to ludicrous lengths of time, well beyond what is appropriate for the medium in question. Computer games, for example, lose the vast majority of their commercial value after ten years at most. If the makers don't make their money back in that time, they're never going to. Meanwhile, companies dissolve, the hardware that will run it stops working - and this material never ends up entering the public domain because nobody's allowed to try preserving it for the better part of a century.
Meanwhile, copyright holders abuse the privilege we've granted them with, for example:
- regional price gouging
- blocking regions from access to games
- declining to sell products after a certain time
- making products not work via prohibitive DRM
- removing our right to resell the product for which we've paid (which is what single-use codes do).
If they're not living up to their end of the bargain, why should we as a community live up to ours?
Now, obviously it's an offence, but it's not "theft" - Jim was quite wrong.
Why are we having this semantic argument, then? The only reason the copyright industry is determined to call it what it's not is that the word "theft" sounds more dastardly. It's a PR campaign. (Because their last one, calling it "piracy", backfired when pirates started to be perceived as cool. Thanks, Johnny Depp.)
The problem with taking copyright infringement particularly seriously as a crime is that copyright is so indefensibly abused by its holders.
First, remember that copyright is a temporary monopoly that we, through our governments, grant creators of IP in order to enable them to earn a living from their work. Which we, as a community, care about because ultimately it will become part of the public domain and benefit all of us.
Unfortunately, that monopoly has in recent years, due to corrupt lobbying from wealthy IP owners like Disney, been extended to ludicrous lengths of time, well beyond what is appropriate for the medium in question. Computer games, for example, lose the vast majority of their commercial value after ten years at most. If the makers don't make their money back in that time, they're never going to. Meanwhile, companies dissolve, the hardware that will run it stops working - and this material never ends up entering the public domain because nobody's allowed to try preserving it for the better part of a century.
Meanwhile, copyright holders abuse the privilege we've granted them with, for example:
- regional price gouging
- blocking regions from access to games
- declining to sell products after a certain time
- making products not work via prohibitive DRM
- removing our right to resell the product for which we've paid (which is what single-use codes do).
If they're not living up to their end of the bargain, why should we as a community live up to ours?
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