[Ashrak]

admins are nubs

[colecampbell666]

I thought that by "till tomorrow" meant until 12, so I thought that it had already lifted.

[Bobboau]

you know faggy modderateing has driven far more away than usage of standard slang ever has.

[achtung]

Unneeded/Excessive moderation hurts more than it helps.

That's all I'm going to say.

[Al Tarket]

the best way to stay out of trouble is not to get into trouble in the first place, of course i think you know that... right???

[karajorma]

you know faggy modderateing has driven far more away than usage of standard slang ever has.

You know that there are people who no longer post on HLP as a result of people using that word and the fact that the admins did nothing about it? I can think of at least one who made a real contribution while he was here.

[BloodEagle]

For example, Bioshock had an install then register through the net every time to play the game, now they found a way around such a problem via a crack, registry key and so on.

Bioshock had horrible protection. You can copy the game folder over to another computer (there were installation problems on that one) and it runs perfectly.

[Hellstryker]

you know faggy modderateing has driven far more away than usage of standard slang ever has.

You know that there are people who no longer post on HLP as a result of people using that word and the fact that the admins did nothing about it? I can think of at least one who made a real contribution while he was here.

Says the person who laughed at the pool thing along with everyone else.

[karajorma]

I doubt there are many here who have a problem with the pool thing.

[Hellstryker]

I don't have a problem with it, but the fact is it's more offensive to black people than "fag" is to gay people, due to the fact that "fag" was being used as a not so subtle euphiesm (hope I spelled that right) for moronic asshole. I won't say anymore, but swantz is correct here.

[colecampbell666]

Yeah, I didn't mean it as a homophobic statement, and the meaning of a word is defined in popular culture by the meaning that most people associate with it. Fag, in popular culture, means "asshole" more often than "gay"

[Bobboau]

you know faggy modderateing has driven far more away than usage of standard slang ever has.

You know that there are people who no longer post on HLP as a result of people using that word and the fact that the admins did nothing about it? I can think of at least one who made a real contribution while he was here.

you know I don't post here very often any more in large part due to administrative choices. so I guess if you are going to use 'pushes people away' as a criteria for policy your ****t either way. so are you going to make this a padded room safe for the thin skinned, or are you going to let people be themselves?

Yeah, I didn't mean it as a homophobic statement, and the meaning of a word is defined in popular culture by the meaning that most people associate with it. Fag, in popular culture, means "asshole" more often than "gay"

exactly and that's why this pisses me off. in this context the word fag does not refer to a homosexual, it refers to someone who does not know how to interact with people or intentionally does it wrong just to be an ass, we can all see the etymology of it and how it came from an insult directed at gays, but it has another totally separate usage which has nothing at all to do with homosexuals. and even if it did I'd prefer a person was open about there homophobia so I'd know that they were idiots so I could better ignore and berate them for it.

[Admiral_Stones]

Copy protection is futile. From a physical view, the only way to make it impossible to copy is to make it not readable at all. Everything else will fail with time.

[Nuke]

i personally think a game that i spent real money on should not have any damn protection, even going as far as not needing to flip discs every time i wanted to play the game. i find that by the time i hunt down a particular cd and get it in the drive and after waiting for spinup, im either out of free time or not in the mood to play anymore. i have a god damn terabyte of storage in this thing. i dont see why we have to keep using slow ass dvd drives every time i want to run a piece of software. this is why hard drives were invented. if an expensive program such as photoshop can be ran without the disc, i dont see why some piece of software which has no real purpose needs too. its rediculous that they should waste my time, as if they think im some teenage punk who's time is as worthless as they are, so that some corprate exec dicks can have a false security blanket. its just the ultimate lame. i seldom pirate games, i respect the skill of their developers, but i have no qualms against using nocd cracks, virtualization, or any other means to render disc flipping an obsolete thing of the past.

[Al Tarket]

i hear that music is being downloaded these days instead of bought in a shop. same could hold true for games stores, just convert them into servers not unlike gamespot or fileplanet. D2D does this, all you need to do is buy it and download it. nothing more simple then that. link - http://www.direct2drive.com/

pirated software on the other hand is a problem, they tend o be far more unstable but they try at least to give people like nuke a good time.

[BloodEagle]

The only form of copy protection that I don't mind is the good old fashion cd-key. Kind of funny that they don't use them anymore, though.

[Colonol Dekker]

Yessum, I agree, but imagine the horror of buying a game with unique on-line multiplayer attachjed to your serial, only to find some nub had keygenned a copy and stolen your rights by registering first.

[Al Tarket]

which happens a lot these days... i cant make further comment as i never made a crack in mind with that though .

[FUBAR-BDHR]

There was a game awhile back that did something like that.  Can't remember what it was but it registered your system specs for multi and you couldn't play multi from any other machine with that copy.  Even another person couldn't use your copy on your machine with a different login.  Might have been Tribes 2 or something like that.  Lot of people were complaining because you had to buy one copy for each player in your house not for each computer. 

[Kie99]

i personally think a game that i spent real money on should not have any damn protection, even going as far as not needing to flip discs every time i wanted to play the game. i find that by the time i hunt down a particular cd and get it in the drive and after waiting for spinup, im either out of free time or not in the mood to play anymore. i have a god damn terabyte of storage in this thing. i dont see why we have to keep using slow ass dvd drives every time i want to run a piece of software. this is why hard drives were invented. if an expensive program such as photoshop can be ran without the disc, i dont see why some piece of software which has no real purpose needs too. its rediculous that they should waste my time, as if they think im some teenage punk who's time is as worthless as they are, so that some corprate exec dicks can have a false security blanket. its just the ultimate lame. i seldom pirate games, i respect the skill of their developers, but i have no qualms against using nocd cracks, virtualization, or any other means to render disc flipping an obsolete thing of the past.

You're heavily missing the point here.  Making the CD necessary is in no way a false security blanket, it's actually an extremely effective one.

Consider the number of people who would prefer not to pay for games, but don't know much about the torrent scene, I'd wager there is a significant amount.  If you remove all CD protection, these people are going to realise that it is extremely simple to buy a game and either take it back to the store and claim it's faulty, or sell it on to someone else.  Of course, it's possible to play without the CD already, but a substantial chunk of your customer base won't be willing to do it through ignorance or fear of viruses.

Further, I question why it bothers you if you don't mind using CD cracks.