KirbyMeister

@tendoboy1984 Hey! That's how we got the Nintendo-produced translations of MOTHER 1 (aka EB0)

@psyXcho Cable companies, movie theatres, and TicketMaster are essentially bill collectors for media companies. Hence they don't actually make much money at all from their main product. That's why movie theatres are essentially overpriced fast food places and TicketMaster charges BS fees. And why your cable company sells you internet and phone services in bundled services - it's a much higher profit margin then their primary product.

This won't stop simply because media companies need more money to produce more crap. It won't stop until piracy is legal, which will depress the absolutely outrageous prices of media content. And I'm not exactly sure if anybody here actually wants that.

@Vidaluko You don't even have to look at illicit use of ROMs. Just the fact that you could load your own ROMs makes it a violation of the iOS agreement because you could write code to run on the emulator without being a licensed iPhone developer. In fact, this thing would have been less of a violation of the iOS rules if it only allowed you to play built-in, unlicensed MAME ROMs.

iOS is a really restrictive platform and people don't notice it as much because Apple let up on their most egregrious things (like trying to force everyone to program stuff in C to kill the headwind of Flash CS5). It's still restrictive for anything that isn't a single-purpose, self-contained workflow that does not need to interact with other applications or rely on long term data storage. It's still a freedom-hating platform, they just backed off enough for people to forget the days of banning Twitter clients because the trending topic had a curse word in it.

@Derppy Minicraft is a top-down 2D minecraft, Terraria is a sidescrolling 2D minecraft. Fundamentally, they're different kinds of games.

@ComedyInK But when the music industry did it we verbally crucified them over it. Now suddently just because a good developer is suing random people who may or may not be pirates they get a pass? It's the same damn method the music industry is using to shakedown people.

@penubag Because only Chrome and Chrome-derived browsers support NaCL (native client) tech so far. It's an open spec with a FOSS implementation, so Firefox could definitely run this when they feel like adding NaCL to their browser.

@vidguy I have a question though: Why does copyright still apply after 10 years? Yes I know that's how the law is written, but I don't think that's a good idea to have copyright last that long. If only because ten years from now you won't be able to buy or download any of the stupid DLC packs and downloadable games for consoles no longer being supported.

@HighFiveJesus Go to the cafe when there's a little "!" over the icon and the guy will offer to skip the level for you.

@Spaceghost The rental cost of an STB is somewhat offset by the cost of an Xbox Live gold subscription for each Xbox.

Seriously, Microsoft, why do I need to pay you $60/yr to use the media features of my own damn box?!

@pluupy They aren't even the first of these Discovery channel reality TV shows to make a videogame related vehicle. *hipster sunglasses* PJD did it first. With a Gears 3 bike.

That being said, I generally don't watch these kinds of shows unless my parents are, mostly because they use the TV right next to my computer.