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Mass Effect is a shooter-RPG hybrid. In mass effect 1 the hybrid is a misshapen monstrosity; in 2 and 3 they went more for a straight...

A more-or-less faithful translation of Necromunda as a turn-based tactics game would be amazing.

That can be a rough fight, your opponents have a couple of nasty special abilities and can deal a lot of damage in a short time...

Add to that the likelihood that they won't be getting much better any time soon. Just statistically, making them substantially better...

And we have to be clear, there are two separate violations here. The first was that they literally downloaded the archive via a torrent...

With respect, the choice to have material out there as a "loss leader" should be the creator's, and not the consumer's. It is, simply...

Not exactly because the college kid is an actual human person. For real people, piracy can be a gateway drug to a lifetime of spending...

Yes, making money off it is worse, but the student download still represents lost income for the creator. The basic idea is simple - if...

Yeah its totally comparable. In one corner, we have the university student downloading a song, making no money. In the other, we have...

I've worked in software development for almost 40 years and deal with IP laws on a fairly regular basis as a result. Hey, software...

This is going to be an unpopular opinion: Training AI on existing works isn't piracy in any reasonable definition of the term. It isn't...

Ah, this is how I discovered that I didn't have a bald spot but, rather, hairy spots and nowhere near sufficient of those.

I relate to this, I like them (and I'm bald now) but I've got too much millennial angst about hats. If I put anything besides a...

Interesting. I recently forced my wife to watch B5 and was worried she’d hate it, but she rather loved it, even without my thick...

I’m hardly an aRPG aficionado, but I always liked Diablo 1 for this reason. It’s very bite-sized; easy to pick up and put down, even if...