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this. I do like the idea of watching a film that doesn't have to have some kind of gag present. I really do want to see this but I'm afraid I will not be able to afford it.

yes, you made a good point about the servers, but you are also correct in that I am not interested in online play. I think it would be fine for them to sell an online pass for that type of game and then have a reasonable price for a game that is so old. it may be a great game, but it is dated and ought to depreciate. I believe the standard price for an old game is £5. I don't think it need be less than that but it shouldn't be much more. I think we scared everyone away

so I was bothered when Minato was like and was like "LOL seriously?" at naruto coz naruto was pretty BOSS for doing But then I remember that naruto also does So then it was alright and NAruto is like "oh pur-lease.. dad stop being such an embarrassment ;;"

just a bit of sums here to illustrate why..... if the digital copy of Warcraft III effectively cost them a penny to produce, then their profit margin for that digital copy is 99,800% of course there is probably other logistics in effect but I wanna illustrate a point.

About the xboxone, I already made a caveat in my second to last post about the game sharing thing. yeah it's good that you're enthusiastic about games I agree to support the devs. that is important because they will make the great games. unless you're called 'aliens colonial marines'. in this case, then the consumer should have a right to a refund. I think in some ways this is a different cause of piracy. people don't want to risk making an investment in something that may turn out to be awful. Demo's are good and lite versions. I think the app system on smart phones works really well. lots of free software and lite versions. I've bought many apps because it is cheap and I usually know exactly what I'm getting. I refer back to Durendal's post. I agree with you mate that is is very sad that people would jailbreak that just to get the apps for free. They really do cost next to nothing. That game dev tycoon game is very clever. I like that a lot. I am wanting to develop games in the future and I think about it now, how would I feel about people pirating what I made and sold. How would I feel about people reselling what I made and sold. I guess I want to look at it this way. if I made a unique object, then people could resell that. I feel that would be appropriate. But If it was not a unique object, instead it was intellectual property, it is not something physical, it is the whole conceptual 'entity'. I think licensing is something that cannot be resold. because what is being sold, is not the data, it's not the bits and bytes, it's not the textures etc. what is being sold is the 'experience'. like a stage play. like a concert performance. what if a person who went to the concert, could take his experiences out of his head and sell that concert experience to another person... I feel that would be damaging to the artists. because they get paid by people going to watch them. to experience it. so games are a performance in that sense. I think most media is a performance. question then.... is is justifiable to experience this performance without paying for the ticket. I don't personally think so, but then I am a hypocrite because I actually do view the performance without buying the ticket. or Am I? we can look at it a different way. a performance is usually in front of an audience of a certain size. could you increase the size of the audience to infinite number and still charge the same ticket price? that may be seen as greedy. If an artist gets paid by the hour, or per performance, then they are paid a set amount. I think a sound economic rule ought to be that the size of the audience determines the price of the ticket. if the performer is the only costing for an event, and the performer get's paid £1000 for the performance and there are 100 audience members, then the ticket ought to be £10 per head. but if you increase the audience to 1000 people, then the ticket price becomes £1 per head. In this sense, I believe that if a company is pulling in millions of pounds for their product already, then they have already covered their costs and are greedy to expect more. point in case, Warcraft III has already covered it's production costs many times over. I feel it is inappropriate and plain greedy to charge £9.99 for that product.

that's very true. The game Anodyne was placed onto pirate bay by the creator. I saw that he had done that and saw that he also put his game on sale for that week. I paid the sale price rather than take it for nothing. I think the popularity of that game sky-rocketed after that and I think the creator made a lot more money than he would have done otherwise. The most frustrating part of that story however, is how the British courts ordered pirate bay to be blocked by the largest internet service providers. Many people in the UK cannot access the pirate bay, even though it is often used for legitimate means and helps a lot of people to gain much needed exposure.

yeah the thing with microsoft is tricky. the problem there is that they are screwing with the consumer when the issue isn't the people who pay for the game in the first place. Me and my friend can only afford to buy a certain number of games in a year, sometimes he lends me a game and I will buy my own copy because i love it so much. but most of the time we share our games because of the cost involved. microsofts system puts too much restrictions in place. it would have been better if they had merely taken legal recourse with the retailers instead of placing restrictions onto the end user. it's the restrictions to the end user that cause piracy in some cases I think. It is what caused me to pirate a song once instead of buying it. I couldn't be doing with the incredible hassle of DRM due to having actually lost music i bought in the past; digitally blocked. I realise that the restrictions are not so bad... but the fact they exist in the first place suggests to me that the games will no longer be mine. the way I understand it, when I buy a game, I buy a license. that license is then mine. I should have free use of that game for as long as I want, how I want. not subject to microsoft's approval. edit: even on PSN, I can buy a game, I can then go to my friends house, sign in and download the game I bought. my friend can then play that game as much as he likes.

I've struggled to find narisawa. I found a suburb of tokyo with a reference to narusawa but I don't feel it is the right environment. too urban for what we have seen. there was a place further north but it is very far and the lake is way too big although there were some similarities in other ways, can't recall now. just found another place, can't imagine why it never came up before. it's an actual village named narusawa. north of mt fuji. right locale, not too urban. there are appropriately sized lakes nearby too. but it's quite far from tokyo. can't imagine mizuki travelling to look at her parents house... unless their parents moved to the capital? https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=%E3%81%AA%E3%82%8A%E3%81%95%E3%82%8F&ie=UTF8&ll=35.480802,138.699303&spn=0.064441,0.138531&client=firefox-a&nfpr=1&hq=%E3%81%AA%E3%82%8A%E3%81%95%E3%82%8F&radius=15000&t=h&z=13 Anyway Odin, you should check out Lycanthrope Bata's deviant art page. He takes photos of most of the places he visits and He has photographed some locales from guyver. He took some photos around yokohama and he did look around for odagiri villa at some point. he told me he might even be visiting takeshiro village and mount minakami this summer. http://lycanthrope-bata.deviantart.com I think that would be pretty neat.

Mehy, thanks for that, I'll have a look at that later. If I can afford it today, I'll buy it. Odin, great video. I agree with most of what he says. I love Steam. I have a fair few games on Steam and love the system. I am a bit dismayed that my PC can't always run those games, but it is cheaper than consoles and more convenient. I also agree with the principle of making sure the shops don't make all the profit from the used games. I've actually been thinking that for a while. why the publishers don't simply demand a cut from the sale of the pre-owned game since the game license is their intellectual property. but yeah.. the piracy thing... I guess in some ways, used game sales is a form of piracy except the gamestop and etc, are actually making money from sales of the publishers product. edit: ooh blizzard, keen sense of style! Warcraft III was £9.99 EIGHT YEARS AGO and I would have gotten a box, disc and book with it then. No way am I paying that price, that's just unreasonable. Especially since I only wanted to play it out of curiosity and don't know if I would like it that much. That's why Steam is so good.

I was just thinking about this and I would like to talk about it. Piracy is a very common thing these days. that is copyright piracy. of course the history of copyright piracy is rooted in organisations trying to monopolise free information. in the past, the power was with the church and the monks who copied the writings from one book to another. with the advent of the printing press, the power could be taken away and disseminated. so copyright law was created. not to protect the little guy, but to protect large organisations. Things are changing of course. Now with the internet, it is becoming easy and cost free to copy information. If I create a copy of any piece of information, it does not take anything away from the original. If I create a copy of any piece of information, it does not take anything away from the original. It is possible to reproduce it an infinite number of times. no cost. no work. It is possible to reproduce it an infinite number of times. no cost. no work. It is possible to reproduce it an infinite number of times. no cost. no work. It is possible to reproduce it an infinite number of times. no cost. no work. It is possible to reproduce it an infinite number of times. no cost. no work. but 4 is enough to make my point. In our culture, the current mentality is that a person owns something, they can reproduce it infinite times and sell each copy. but what are they selling? they are actually selling *nothing*? well not quite. they are selling a portion of the original work. when they copy it, they divide the value of the investment that has gone into the work. So the investment can be a combination of things, time spent, materials used, marketing costs etc. Many people who create media are making a gamble. they do not know if they will recoup the costs. But then again, any artist doing their work does not know if they will recoup their costs. Many artists do their work not expecting any return on it because they are unproven or simply because they enjoy creating their work. Lots of people creating media do it gratis. So, anyway, lots of people 'pirate'. Pretty much everyone does actually. it's not seen as taboo in our society. One of the most common justifications is that they wouldn't have paid for it anyway. That may be true in lots of cases. in some cases it's not. In some cases it's a matter of, if I can get it for free, why pay for it? In those cases, it's a matter of convenience. It's a frightfully wicked thing to say, but I don't mind paying for something if it is easy to do so and gets me what I want when I want it. I do mind paying for something when it is made inaccessible or if I have to jump through hoops to get it. If Naruto was difficult to find, but Tokyopop or somebody released it every week without fail for a small fee, I would pay that fee. But quite simply, the easiest way to get naruto each week is to go to whatever site is hosting the scanlation. Today I decided I want to play warcraft 3. unfortunately, it seems I cannot buy it from a shop near me and I cannot buy it from Steam. That sucks. they could have made a sale from me today but they lost out on that.

Book 31 will be a fresh order so when we get there, you can choose a different order method if you like.

Thanks for clarifying I understand what you are saying now, a way to ensure we aren't just giving them to somebody who then sells them for pure profit. the current way we have set up, if a person does 'forfeit' their book, it will be used to support Guyver Advocacy. I should clarify on that. currently we have set up the medium and high cost scheme. The low cost scheme is undesirable. I do have a friend in Japan who is willing to accept books, but the main problem with that is that some people will choose that problem with no intention of ever owning the book. In this screwy moral area, I believe The Guyver Advocacy project in general are not satisfied with that. The reason is that it displays a sense of a person 'paying for scanlations' and that is not what we want at all. We need to be clear that we wish people to buy the book itself in order for us to freely share our work. we allow the pledge system (medium cost) to work in the way that it is working, so that we can ensure an alternative that is in line with our goals. either create a Guyver sale, or increase the visibility of Guyver in the west. My feeling is, if we leave the books to recirculate into Japan, we undermine the marketing efforts of Kadokawa. Guyver is actively marketed and sold in Japan but it is not in the west. I understand that the cost is still quite high. This is not something I am happy about, but until we get a higher rate of orders, we cannot order in bulk. Currently we have 28 pre-orders. There is no bulk ordering company that would entertain a discount with such an order.

I do think the war works really well. after watching and reading all this, we do really feel like it is a great ninja war. it is not some short skirmish, it is a war for sure. of course I would like for the war to be over and to have some more variety story telling, but it is necessary I would imagine.

I think we need to be clear on something here though. 'profit' is not the issue here. If Guyver Advocacy wanted to make a profit for selling Guyver books, we could. The issue is cost to the consumer. People want it cheaper. We make it as cheap as we can by waiving any intentional profit. We may end up making a small profit due to the amount of leeway we provided or I might actually make a financial loss. I really don't think it is fair for anyone to talk about us making sure it's non profit, when there is a chance I will make a personal loss.

That would damage the Japanese Guyver market.

this time of year makes me sad. I want to get excited about a new series but past instalments have been utter let downs. (understatement) that said, I really love the drawings that have been shown. those look like some beautiful designs. this leads me to believe that they are utterly wrong. I'll wait with baited breath for the real designs that look like hoover attachments.

heh heh, well I forgot to put across my main thought, the main thing I thought when i first read your post. It's down to scientists and scientific thinking to come up with scientific breakthroughs and steps forward in technology. but philosophy... it is not something that can be achieved in the same way. principles of philosophy and culture arise in everyday people and take seed in communities and create new communities. it's not something we can readily see in specific news journals. any of us knows that one person can spout out his own philosophical principles, it doesn't change what you or I do. it's not like a scientific theory that can be proven and tested. It's something that has to be experienced.

I also say that we are developing in philosophical terms. look around you. all over the world there are various initiatives that are appearing. the philosophy of a free economy that appears in star trek is also finding its way into our society on many fronts. online, there are many artists giving away their work for free. I am involved with a community project aiming to provide a free space for people to go and take part in activities. There are free café's cropping up all over the place and there are 'shops' where there is no barter system, only gifts. we who want such things, we cannot expect them to appear out of thin air, we need to put in a little energy in order to bring these things into our life. i mean, it takes energy to open your eyes for a start. then you need to look in the paper or walk around your town or city. you will find people doing stuff like this.

I would agree on the terms that they sort of joined with him a bit too readily. not that I don't think it was necessary to allow him to join the battle and cooperate with him... but there was a lack of visible emotion. or visible resistance to his presence. I personally felt that event was lacklustre when it could have had more impact. I admit i'm a bit hazy about Sasuke's specific crimes so I'd have to re-read to remind myself. I may well feel the same way as you vguyver.

interesting thought.... religion now, is not what it once was. it used to be a way to control what the people thought, through forced worship. now the practices of the religion is to prey on be there for those who are needy and vulnerable and indoctrinate that person by promising them a life purpose. it seems to me that behind the people of the religion is an underlying 'intent', to self replicate. the religion wants to survive, as a form of rudimentary life form. hmmm... is this what they call meme theory?

Come to think of it now, it's different. Naruto has 3 thick black stripes on his face after the basic version. He can step it up a notch. that comes from the trust he has developed. it sort of does make sense that the person who performed that seal in hte first place could control that chakra.

spoiler for chapter 631 -

that's gonna be completely replaced. I can't imagine that any of the elements in that shot will remain apart from the background of course. the grey rig we can see is mainly for the actors' benefit. it's to help them react appropriately and to help their imagination. What it does show us though, is the size the rhino will be. that's pretty huge!

to avoid cognitive dissonance. They have this sign in the front of their mind "I am a christian" and that sign is an identifier of their life purpose. Anything that is a challenge to that sign, is something to be shot down because that sign is so large, it is something akin to gender identity or career etc. except they can hold on to it tighter because it is something that can never be taken away. the way the bible is written, it is open to a lot of interpretation. christianity and other religions have adapted themselves in such a way that they are unclear and vague and so that they cannot be debunked completely depending on context. people can argue it because it is designed to be a perfect life crutch for those who have lost something else that was very important to them. Christianity and other religions provide something for a person who has lost everything. they provide family, purpose, reason, structure, among many other things. great video. I learned a lot.

I'm no loyalist either, but I would say I am certainly swayed by company tactics. when xbox 360 started putting ads on their dashboard, I lost the desire to switch it on and in subsequent months, I sold it and now I have a ps3. for me, Games are surely what it's about, but if a system is set up in a way that offends me, I can't relax to play the game. I want to play tales of vesperia but I don't want to buy a 360 to play it.