After watching the gameplay video, I contributed. I'd always been somewhat interested in the DS game but never got it, and this looks better than that... hopefully it makes its goal.
NOt that it'll get anywhere, of course. I mean, what choice do you have... but yeah, some of the stuff in the current agreement's really bad (and some of it's illegal, too, particularly in Europe). Basically, you don't actually own anything you "bought" on Steam. If they close your account (or if you close it), you lose all access to all of your games forever, with no recompense or return of your money. You need to log on to their servers to play anything, too, of course. And they do their best to try to convince Europeans that European law, which allows anyone to return a digital purchase for full refund within the first week of purchase, that they can't actually do it (they can).
So yeah, don't expect Steam to be doing anything to follow that European court decision that said that digital software must be able to be sold (you know, as a used game) anytime soon, that's for sure. Maybe if someone sues them?
Overall, it's nice to see some real pushback against Valve, finally. It's been way too long, and they certainly deserve it... but the current trajectory of games changing from things you own, to things you rent from a content provider as long as they feel like allowing you to keep using it, continues unabated. That is a very, very bad thing, to say the least.
And on that note, Woz prefers to own things too. I'm sure "cloud is the best" people will call that outdated, but since when is having everything you own be actually only provisionally borrowed as long as companies want to allow you to keep using it the better way? It's not! http://news.yahoo.com/apple-co-founder-w...22245.html
Seriously, has everyone just abandoned this site, or something? Virtually no posts at all for weeks now... I know TC has been slowly and tragically fading for years, but still... :bummed:
I like watching the olympics, it's always fun... sure, they aren't the kinds of sports I watch the rest of the time, but they're fun to watch once during the olympics for sure.
That said, Phelps and Lochte have both had some issues so far. I wonder if they can recover...
Also, the opening ceremonies were great. I really liked the history-based section, and the Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) skit was fantastic as well.
Trending on twitter today, "Edie Murphy dies in a skying accident". This is the second time Edie Murphy has died according to twitter. Edie himself contacted the media today, very much alive at home, to say he will wait for the official report :)
