Zyxpsilon

Reply to EA Comes to Impulse! in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Why? Because I'm a pirate until I can prove otherwise.[/quote] Kaboooom, yo'got'it. Some DRM verification "processes" prove to you & them that YOU aren't a Pirate.

Reply to EA Comes to Impulse! in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]# It does not intrude upon the user's privacy[/quote] The most important aspect of the issue, AFAIC.

Reply to Health care reform: The motives behind the opposing parties in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]If you're really feeling brave, maybe you could take five minutes of your time to educate yourself on the subject so you actually know what you're talking about when you trash the free market for the results of...[/quote] Well, you see that's *EXACTLY* what i "hate" about you; uselessly provocative & judging anyone for your own personal fun (i'm guessing). It's the attitude not the economy, buddy. It's the tolerance not the superiority comple

Reply to EA Comes to Impulse! in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]A lot of DRM from EA games is installed on your system without your knowledge, and is not uninstalled from your system. Ever.[/quote] I'm certainly aware of that too... but, lemme give you a trick or two; find out what registry dispatching slots can call for in a series of self-executing fake files pulled off plenty of differently managed folders while ini & other zero zum "transitional" assets loop directly to rootkit codes. Also... get a degree in low-level langua

Reply to Health care reform: The motives behind the opposing parties in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Of course you can say that he is stupid because he doesnt get a job that pays better..[/quote] Salaries, what is the current cost of living anywhere in the states? Variable? Adaptative? Calculated by inflation? Tagged on items in commercial outlets? Unaffordable? Minimal costs? Welcome to the assembly lines, next unemployed please. Your economy is collapsing under the weight of greedy corporations who would pay anyone wo

Reply to Health care reform: The motives behind the opposing parties in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Melchiz" reply="532" id="2370525"] Quoting Zyxpsilon, reply 531Copout. No offense, but it really is difficult to decipher your rants. I think he has a right to throw his hands up at that.[/quote] So tough in fact that if were to insist i wasn't ranting (at all), even proper grammar or superbly constructed phrasing wouldn't even change the meaning detectable. After all, the english language is ONLY understandable by those educated enough to mock around anyon

Reply to Health care reform: The motives behind the opposing parties in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Copout.

Reply to EA Comes to Impulse! in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]But I will not pay for malware.[/quote] Nobody does either ways; legally bought or pirated copies. What most people hate, i gather, is supplemental verifications (through hidden processes) by code taking up useless space on their PC... i KNOW that also. But, worst if there isn't anything to protect YOUR paid software (not malware, need i insist) from being stolen from YOU (and not by Pirates or from the publisher itself) - what <span style="text-decoration: unde

Reply to Canadas next election in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

And to make it even clearer (since i was interrupted by an important task). 250 years ago yesterday, in Québec city the British military defeated the French colonists on "Les Plaines d'Abraham" and soon after took over Canada as a result. Two things were planned to commemorate this event. 1) Reconstitution of the battle field itself with "theatrical" characters, cannons, rifles and the whole strategic plans of Wolfe & Montcalm without forgetting the native t

Reply to Canadas next election in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

It's not that we need another election, it's that NOTHING stopped the Conservatives from escaping opposition parties last fall by emptying the House of Commons. Like cowards, they knew very well a minority couldn't manage to run a country through recession and other much more important issues... and choose to mock out the democratic process and shut down politics altogether by silencing the Liberals, the Bloc, the NDP and THE population rights to have them <span style="text-d

Reply to Health care reform: The motives behind the opposing parties in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Like the numerous coops and mutuals the country already has.[/quote] Yep, make it even more complex than it already is and scratch the United ideals while you're at it. Competition is the trick of the loop; quality ratings multiplied by the amount of differently managed & provided solutions. No coherent norms, chaotic policies, variable assets, high & low ball figures of investment, evaluation of local needs, etc. Sure, make it sooooo impossible to reach that in

Reply to EA Comes to Impulse! in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]...In such cases, region locking only contributes to widespread piracy. If publishers do that to themselves, for whatever reasons they might have, how valid is it to put every "pirate" in that same anti-social bag that you're claiming?[/quote] I'd be locked in a regional "controversy" -- i still wouldn't try getting a FREE game through Piracy for a very simple reason; Whovever coded & compiled that **now FREE game to me** didn't receive any of <span style="text-deco

Reply to help with custom ship styles in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

There are plenty of shipstyles Mods & files in the library... all you need to do is download the stuff, examine what THEY did and simply copy the method(s) used. I'd recommend AFRonin's work or even MrKorx's Asa of Iggdrasil. For a starter.

Reply to EA Comes to Impulse! in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Any pirate who wants to copy the game and distribute it is going to do so, and they'll also end up with a nice clean version not containing any DRM. The paying customers on the other hand have to put up with the restrictions and inconveniences of DRM.[/quote] Ya know, i'm really tired of hearing that kind of false logic... if you don't pay for a game your are a thief, but if you're paying as a customer they (as in distributor, publisher and/or developper, etc) have every rights

Reply to EA Comes to Impulse! in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Tons of titles & publishers were already announced a few months ago... pay very close attention to Impulse swooping the distribution market(s), also. EA somehow needed Ready To Play & Goo if only to refurbish their "current reputation" of availability without obstruction (yep, DRM principles... **AND SOOOOO WHAT** ), anyway. Superbly strange but w

Reply to Work on your PR, Stardock ! in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]PR is a scam in its own right...[/quote] Unless you plunge millions into an ad campaign on Network Television(s) while crossing fingers people still enjoy being constantly interrupted on Prime Time tightly scheduled propaganda gimmicks. Tick 6:00PM, tick 6:10, 6:20, 6:30, 6:40, 6:45, 6:52 --- plouck another loop at the critical tuning in of the hours. Hypnotic, content. The joke's on potential consumers. For example, this Labor Day monday there was Star-Trek rem

Reply to Wish you were here! in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]And Zyxpsilon, can I have my Karma?[/quote] err-- i gave yours already. But, i suspect you're logging onto this forum from the SD (overly complex, IMHO) labyrinth of extra sites which do not list "cross-referenced" karma points given HERE anywhere else but here . After all, this off-topic section of a GC2 game is still used & consulted by <span style="text-decoration: u

Reply to Help Me in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Read this thread... anymore questions, just ask!

Reply to NVidia 8600GS + ATI-Wonder 200 in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Exactly what i was thinking at first when i opened it up... that should "teach" me never to trust a stock product off the store shelves. Shoulda seen my face when i realized the darn 300W figure was printed on that casing. Any good solid reliable 24 pins 450+PSU sells for about 75$ in some places and i'm sure extended warranty from ACER would cover that silly lack of properly matched components for their own Mobo. Trick

Reply to Wish you were here! in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Not yet... somebody has to find the exact answer(s) to earn the next hunt. It may take awhile, but any supplemental hints (-6GMT, country, etc) from you may speed up the posting of solutions by anyone interested or smart enough to simply work at it. That karma point is THAT precious.

Reply to 21 Reasons Why the World Hates America in Politics GalCiv2 Forums

#27; Currently overstocking THE Nukes like plenty of other countries which everyone in their right minds MUST hate for threatening the future of anybody on planet Earth. Genocide is and has been punishable by Law and any militaristic regimes should be disarmed by Pacifists, with subliminal & intelligent force or otherwise by any other means necessary. [quote]This thread has so much retardation in it I wouldn

Reply to The Life Settlement Fund: Trading life and death on Wall Street in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

In 96, i had to buy back a life insurance that i had contracted for in 75 (lose a job, find another, lose it too, find another, lose in an everlasting loop of COSTS of working, duly inflated by renting a place to bunk & refined oil for a car... gotta show up in the mornings and return home to sleep). Net return cash was a whopping 1750$; calculate all you want -- 21Yx12Mx14$=3528. I shoulda died, cuz 10,000$ worth of coverage was reasonably good in these times. Now, in an

Reply to NVidia 8600GS + ATI-Wonder 200 in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

I'll swoop over at NewEgg just to glimpse at what i coulda got a year ago when i had the money. In the meantime, Staples will get a phone call later this week to discuss repairs (already paid for, i might add). As for a portable, i have a different opinion; desktops are supposed to be a LOT more useful and reliable while working 24/day without ANY battery interruptions when necessary. Thanks anyway, people.

Reply to NVidia 8600GS + ATI-Wonder 200 in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Neither of these cards will snap into the current PCI e slot if the tower itself has *only* a 300W-PS... which is why i want to find a new NVidia 8600GS for that specific Mobo since the other one worked perfectly fine for at least a full year and got fried as soon as i snapped the above ATI-Wonder-200 junk in a PCI slot. These Radeons might be good or even much better than what i had, i <span style="text-decoration: unde

Reply to OTF Political, Religious, and Inflammatory Threads in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

OTF Political, Religious, and Inflammatory Threads AFAIC, this forum is still for GC2 game owners. If i wanna get on Win_Customize, Joe_User, SosE, Elemental (or any OTHER forums supplied by SD)... i'll simply logon to these and type away. You want a sense of community, troll around -- you may find some intelligent users if you're lucky. But don't come here, insulting me personnally or using smart remarks - cuz, you'll