Recent content by dbenoy

I suppose that makes sense, like in an "arg! I wish there was something out there for me!" kind of way, but even from that perspective I have trouble empathizing. I just don't know what it's like to have my identity so tightly wrapped up in my sexual orientation that I actually start rejecting...

I think there could be just as big of an outcry from bigoted christians if they had gone the other way with this game from the beginning. They might have ended up having to make an apology to try to appease them. Probably not, though. There wasn't an outcry about The Sims, it's true, but I...

No way, dude! It was totally uh... sequitiry! Jim was complaining about how you can't play old PS1 games on the Vita, even though the old games actually run on them just fine. See? Copyright!

This is what happens when you support copyright.

I don't care. I consume the stuff that I think is most accurate, and most interesting. If they can take bribes to change their opinions, and somehow this makes them more accurate an interesting, then great! It seems really unlikely that something like that would happen. Being a corporate...

Whether I'm on the side of the meme creators depends on what their intentions are. If they're doing this because they believe it's their right and they're entitled to the fruits of this extortion, then I'm not on their side. If they're doing it to give this publisher a taste of it's own...

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Copyrights are automatically granted on creation.

I've always been annoyed by DRM schemes but it wasn't until recently that I took games that I was extremely excited to play and refused them, because of the DRM. First was Crysis with its SecuROM fiasco, and more recently Diablo 3 and SimCity. I wonder if the publishers realize just how...

Indeed! Strong agreement here. A new story or environment is novelty too, even if the rest of the game is almost completely identical. Although, you can burn through a story fast. The best games are the ones which can create prolonged novelty through the mechanics alone, so that you can...

Good games require novelty. It's the reason why new games exist. If novelty wasn't important, then we'd be able to just be able to keep playing the old games forever. The point I think both I and Jim are trying to make, though, is that novelty alone isn't sufficient.

What do you mean when you say artists wouldn't get a paycheque without copyright? I may be confusing my threads, but I thought I gave you numerous examples of how copyright both isn't necessary for artists to make money, and actually prevents them from making as much money as they otherwise...

Well there would be a symmetry there :) If someone takes money from you by force, they can't complain when you take money from them by force. There's already force involved. It's not being introduced by the anti-theft laws. Likewise, if someone copies your art, they can't complain when you...

"Some businesses would have trouble in my opinion" is not a justification for copyright. People who make games are much better at figuring out how to make it profitable than you or I, and they'll find a way. I've given a multitude of examples of it happening already. Microtransactions are...

Donations are one option, but there are others. Crowd funding was mentioned as well, but those aren't really donations. That's just a job like any other where money is exchanged for labor. And it gets around the perceived problem of the free rider, because even a greedy person will...