Koki on 10/4/2011 at 05:23
Quote Posted by Yakoob
What is the 3rd word in the 4th paragraph on Gabe Newell's buttcheek tattoo?
"gibbous"
june gloom on 10/4/2011 at 05:30
I lol'd.
CCCToad on 10/4/2011 at 08:53
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
You are an idiot. Not only did you forget a password to something you obviously cherish, you OWN yourself by telling the world how fucking stupid and short-sighted you are and blame Steam? Go to Hell. You fail at Steam and life.
And you fail at reading comprehension.
Read the part where I have games on another service that won't work because it refuses to authenticate them.
If you take it so personally when someone else is ranting, I'd hate to see what happens when somebody insults you in real life. How often have you been arrested for battery?
june gloom on 10/4/2011 at 10:16
Quote Posted by CCCToad
If you take it so personally when someone else is ranting, I'd hate to see what happens when somebody insults you in real life. How often have you been arrested for battery?
How often have you been an assault victim because of your incessant bullshit?
CCCToad on 10/4/2011 at 10:39
I'm happy I've never had to use a dongle. That just seems like a massive pain in the ass. I have to say though, that in spite of the inconvenience I like those forms of copy protection a bit better. The reason is that proper functioning of the software is entirely incumbent upon me and is not reliant on some outside entity holding up their side of the bargain.
I'm not going to, say, run into a situation where I can't play Assassin's Creed because Ubisoft's servers fell victim to a DDOS attack. By the same token, I also have another online game (STALKER) that I purchased over the old microsoft games download service. That service has since been replaced by GFWL, and I no longer have access to a product that I paid for because the service went down on somebody else's end.
The old measures still work. Sierra may have gone underwater, but I can still access both the Island of Dr. Brain and Battle Bugs because I still have the accompanying manuals.
Matthew on 10/4/2011 at 11:51
I've had a similar problem with Amazon-bought e-books. They started off using PDF e-books with some ludicrously-complicated Adobe copy protection system. If you wanted to use the book on any computer other than the first one, you had to register at some site on the first computer and then register again on the second. What if, like me, you didn't have access to the first computer any more? Tough shit; there were no reset options.
As a result I moved to Mobipocket e-books, as they were readable on my smartphone of choice at the time (Sony Ericsson P800 and later models). Amazon promptly bought them and used the .mobi format as the base for the Kindle platform. Unfortunately they left Mobipocket to die and the much-promised iPhone app strangely never arrived. I'm told there's a way to strip the DRM from Mobi books so they can be converted but I still haven't quite figured it out.
Then I moved to Fictionwise, who use eReader. Then Barnes and Noble bought them and basically stopped anyone from outside the US purchasing three-quarters of their library, just before the publishers started to withdraw huge swathes of their catalogues from Fictionwise anyway. So now, ironically, I'm back to Amazon with the Kindle format. Sigh.
gunsmoke on 12/4/2011 at 15:04
Quote Posted by CCCToad
And you fail at reading comprehension.
Read the part where I have games on another service that won't work because it refuses to authenticate them.
If you take it so personally when someone else is ranting, I'd hate to see what happens when somebody insults you in real life. How often have you been arrested for battery?
I just shoot them.
