Recent content by tiscooler

I love how everyone chalks it up to a curse. This is not a curse. This is regression to the mean. When someone is good enough to warrant having their name and picture on the cover of madden, they are likely playing their best and at the top of their career. Since the first measurement of their...

Me and my friends had a debate about this. In theory, society could thrive if we all volunteered to do things for free and money was a non existant entity. However, in practice, I don't think it would work as well. Here's the analogy I used: Think about the school you go to. If all of the...

I didn't mean there was NO loss of sales. The question is, how much is lost per piracy? Full value, because they stole it? No value, because they wouldn't have paid anyways? That is where the question lies. There is definitely some loss of sales, some people would have paid, and something was...

Its kind of a grey area. Both sides will claim it does or does not, and both make legitimate points. Content makers assume that all pirated copies result in a loss of sale, the pirates counter this by saying that even if a person had the money they wouldn't buy the game, so no loss in sale. No...

This creates even more complications. Didn't Rome become a big empire because one of the emperors believed he was inspired by Christianity and its God to conquer, and he succeeded? This messes up the timeline even further, because we don't even know if Rome would havebecome a major power...

I don't see why it matters. I have no interest in buying anything from an internet ad and have no want or need to follow any links advertised. Why should I have to deal with annoyances I wouldn't interact with anyways?

I figured how to combine chess and zombies. It makes chess three to fpur players. You have two zombie sides, pennies and nickels, or whatever you have around in abundance, and you place 2 for both zombie teams on the left and right sides of the board. One team controls each type of zombies, or...