Combating Piracy

[Chad]

To Nesfan: Obvious and the Mad Blogger are two different individuals.
The Bunnycorn/ Not Available and Steer/ James Mc Cloud issues are
past us now, let's move on! Should this kind of thing happen again though,
trust the VGC mod team to catch on, eventually.

That's good. I'd rather be wrong than have more trolls on the board.

It's confusing because 'Obvious' is an 'approved' troll (probably an alt account of Mozart) which breaks the rules but I guess Mozart can break the rules when he has to tell people their opinions are stupid without suffering the indignity of responding using his real handle.

[The Mad Blogger]

The Mad Blogger will take the Video Game Critic's advice and post less. Have a great week, and he will back next week.

The Mad Blogger is the man who
Shakes Things Up,
Breaks Things Down, and
Wakes People Up!!!

The Mad Blogger has spoken!

[0-Storm]

It's confusing because 'Obvious' is an 'approved' troll (probably an alt account of Mozart) which breaks the rules but I guess Mozart can break the rules when he has to tell people their opinions are stupid without suffering the indignity of responding using his real handle.

I suspected as much. Is Mozart a mod?

[PacFan]

I think they really need to call attention to the problem with overseas piracy before they start with buyers.

 

Yes I said buyers. How many people can copy a new game on their own?

 

Their is usually someone in the distribution part that is putting the games out there and not always for free(unless they let you think your getting it free and they are actually stealing the information off your computer). It is all bad but the distributors are the biggest threat.

[Obvious]

To Nesfan: Obvious and the Mad Blogger are two different individuals.The Bunnycorn/ Not Available and Steer/ James Mc Cloud issues are past us now, let's move on! Should this kind of thing happen again though,trust the VGC mod team to catch on, eventually.

That's good. I'd rather be wrong than have more trolls on the board.

It's confusing because 'Obvious' is an 'approved' troll (probably an alt account of Mozart) which breaks the rules but I guess Mozart can break the rules when he has to tell people their opinions are stupid without suffering the indignity of responding using his real handle.

I can assure you that I am not an alt for Mozart or any other of the mods....

[The Mad Blogger]

And I can tell you that I am definitely not this Obvious character. Here's one difference: When was the last time you read a post originated by Obvious?

[Obvious]

And I can tell you that I am definitely not this Obvious character. Here's one difference: When was the last time you read a post originated by Obvious?

Well there was this one time when I trolled steer

[The Mad Blogger]

As you brought this up, can I ask you why you would be proud of trolling? The sole purpose of trolling is merely to disrupt. A troll does not bring anything original to the table. There is nothing thought provoking about a troll. It is one thing to offer a different perspective, to get others to think. However, if all you want to do is create inflammatory posts, what is the point of that?

Now, it seems to me that you have a lot of intelligence, and can bring more to the table than merely trolling. Do you disagree?

Robert

[Obvious]

Anyways I think this whole thing has blown over now so we can all take a break now.

[Fingers dripping ink]

I've downloaded just about every arcade game ever made (and their variations) and have currently been playing through Gunbird 2 and Daraku Tenshi - The Fallen Angels.

Daraku Tenshi is one of those games that was released to in small numbers. I literally just picked the title out of the 8800 games I have and started to play. I was pleasantly surprised to find a solid fighting game I'd never heard of. And, because of the simple ability of the MAME program to categorize by company, I was able to find all the other games by Psikyo.

One of these games is the fantastic Gunbird 2. I did some research and found out it was released for the Dreamcast. Dave reviewed it too. I'll be purchasing a copy of this game shortly. Psikyo has other games in this vein too, such as Dragon Blaze.

Arcades are dead, but I want my arcade gaming experience. I own multiple arcade conversions from the 2600 years up, spent my youth in arcades, and frankly I still visit them as often as possible. However, with the advent or MAME, there are thousands of games I can play that wouldn't normally be able to. It also exposes me to games I could add to my collection.

Copying a new game for a current platform is stealing. Flashing a drive to not pay for new games is stealing. Have a nice day.