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Legacy copy protection better than the new stuff.
Is anyone surprised that the copy protection announced for Mass Effect and Spore is being reconsidered? In short, publishers Bioware and EA, respectively, initially decided to include a copy protection mechanism that would cause the aforementioned games to “phone home” every ten days to ensure that the game played was legitimately purchased. The ten-day authentication [...]
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Redoable’s commenting problem.
We swear we fixed this problem in the past, but apparently we ran into a problem in which we couldn’t leave multiple comments in a given session at mendax.org. The fix we found pretty quickly, but it’s further evidence that Redoable theme is not getting the support it fully needs, and why we desperately need [...]
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Bringing back the bones.
Some time back, we stopped paying attention to Bones Wiley’s web site, because he was outta town and knew he wouldn’t be updating it anytime soon. As it happens, his web site broke during that time, and only a few days ago did we manage to pick the old database and put Wiley’s old content [...]
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Still no new theme?
Apparently, our earlier coverage of Chyrp didn’t push anyone to build any extravagant or even irregular Chyrp themes, and we still haven’t updated our broken theme for WordPress yet either. Yes, we expected to move onto something better by now, but we’ve been holding out for someone talented to bring the Redoable theme up to [...]
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Why guilds are bad.
Regarding World of Warcraft (WoW), would-be Chief Social Engineer Tobold recently exclaimed:
Now maybe Blizzard *wants* PvP to be the most popular activity in WoW. Having a strong PvP in WoW diminishes the competitive advantage of upcoming MMORPGs, which are mostly PvP-centric. And the earlier PvP weakness of WoW clashed somewhat with the lore [...]
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