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    Is piracy a serious issue for game developers?

    Fight fire with fire: I surely won't pay full price for an already overpriced cd with one good song on it, especially not with album lengths being as pathetic as they are lately. If you want me to buy your cd stop price-fixing, intentionally padding it with crappy filler, etc. Or are...
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    Is piracy a serious issue for game developers?

    Or, hey, maybe it's because most ENWorlders are American period. I probably pirate more than anyone else here and, like most pirates, I'm also American. Little logic please.
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    HBO's ROME

    Not primarily, but they knew it well enough.
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    Stargate SG-1 Season 9: 9.9.05 NSCR

    They should've just titled this episode "The Last Samur...Jaffa."
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    Is piracy a serious issue for game developers?

    As far as I know, data is data. You don't need any kind of video suite or fancy equipment to make an image (an exact digital copy) of a DVD. I can copy the image to my harddrive and play it there by mounting it on a virtual DVD drive, for example, and this is identical to putting the DVD in my...
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    Is piracy a serious issue for game developers?

    Actually, full-quality DVD rips are probably the second most common format after DivX-compressed ones (and even those sport a loss of quality invisible to most TVs).
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    HBO's ROME

    This observation is based on what? Rome's lyric poets more or less invented "romantic love."
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    Aeon Flux

    Nope. It was the amazing acting, awesome plot, anime physics, and of course the explosions. Hyperbole is a two-way street.
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    Mysterious Skin

    It's good, but I like the Doomed Youth Trilogy best of Araki's stuff. It's not quite as mainstream though (if Mysterious Skin can even be called mainstream).
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    GC 2006 - Ptolus Hardback $120!?!

    But this assumes that the buyer can do what the book does as good as the book does it. I don't think it's a stretch to say that the book is worth more than the time it saves the buyer, since, in general, it's doing something many (but of course not all) of its buyers could never do half as...
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    Hypothetical Question about future D&D

    That actually seems pretty accurate to me. A lot of RPGs are really just D&D, the same way a lot of CCG's are really just Magic.
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    Has anyone tried Grim-n-Gritty Hit Point and Combat Rules, Version 4.0

    It's here, you just have to use the attachment link, not the link in the post.
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    Has anyone tried Grim-n-Gritty Hit Point and Combat Rules, Version 4.0

    But you sat still long enough to write that longish post up above which, I wanted to comment, would make, with some revision/expansion, a great introduction to and justification of the system.
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    Turning Eberron into a Barsoom-like world?

    That would be a silly reason not to like Eberron. What he actually said was that Eberron mixes styles which, in his opinion, simply do not mix well.
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    Established Generic Setting for D20 Future

    You had me at "Hello." Seriously though, one of the things that's bugged me about the (admittedly small amount of) sci-fi I've encountered is how restricted it is everywhere but in its technology. Dune already did the big backward looking social strata to perfection--it's time for people to...
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    Thongs

    It is for most of the girls I know. Might be a California thing.
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    Pirating RPGs. (And were not talking "arggg" pirate stuff here.)

    I like most of what you say, but this simply isn't true. Suits don't dictate creativity-stymieing genres--artists do. To be more specific, second- and third-rate artists do. These are (in the pop-music industry) usually people with passable musicianship who lack any sort of composition skills...
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    Established Generic Setting for D20 Future

    Someone (Phil or Hal) want to say a little more about Fourth Millennium? There's essentially no info on it at RPGNow, but one of the reviewers "insulted" it by calling it too unique (I hate it when people come up with interesting and unique ideas!), so my interest is piqued.
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    Pirating RPGs. (And were not talking "arggg" pirate stuff here.)

    You're absolutely right that DRM wouldn't have made a difference, as protection schemes generally don't. DRM-removal programs have been around for a while; the process is already automated. The same is probably true of removing watermarks, so I doubt anybody went through all 256 pages and...
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    Favorite Pizza Topping

    As much cheese as humanly possible, pepperoni, sausage, bell peppers, preferably Chicago style from Zachary's in Berkeley or Santa Cruz.
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