Escapist News Network: Global Warning

[Grahav]

Caught the "Limbo" reference at the beginning. Seems like everyone in the Escapist liked it.
Hell, even Yahtzee liked it.

Question: what is "DRM"? I am not familiar with it.

 

[ritchards]

Two hours of Metroid Other M... is that... Unskippable?

 

[Arcanist]

Question: what is "DRM"? I am not familiar with it.

DRM is an acronym for Digital Rights Managment, and it's software meant to stop gamers from illegally obtaining or altering copyrighted material. The whole UbiSoft debacle where their authentication servers went down and nobody could play their games for an entire weekend? That was DRM in action.

 

[Jer_LRR]

Question: what is "DRM"? I am not familiar with it.

Digital Rights Managements software. It refers to digital locks or copy protection code built into software, movies, music, etc.

 

[Agent Larkin]

I use realplayer......

Anyway great vid guys. The look of disdain on Grahams face was priceless.

 

[Captain Pancake]

Ottowa? That's a nice place. I remember going to the museum of humanity (I think that's what it's called).

 

[lacktheknack]

......

THAT'S NOT CANADIAN PARLIAMENT!!!



Interesting segment guys, although I think I could have told you all that about the pressure problem.

Nope. It's the BC provincial legislature in Victoria, which is all we have.
Can't really fly to Ontario for a brief joke.

Oh man, if you did, that would have been amazing... oh well...

 

[Fayili]

>.>

Use space jump, Matt!

 

[Miral]

Wait, don't low pressure systems cause rain, not high pressure?

Yes. This mistake made me sad. Unless perhaps it was intentional and somehow gaming weather works opposite to normal weather.

Still, a pretty lackluster episode, guys. I guess they can't all be winners.

 

[Something Amyss]

My reaction to Realplayer was the same, honestly. I don't even think I've heard the name in the last five years.

 

[Digikid]

Realplayer? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!! What loser would use that bloated and awful piece of programming.

Also.....FAHRENHEIT???? This is CANADA....use Celsius!!!!!!!!

Good video other than those two "mishaps".

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Hmm...interesting. There are apparently people who use Real Player. Have they not heard of VLC?

 

[Bailey Cowell]

yen falling from the sky?.... goddamn it Nintendo

 

[Vohn_exel]

Hey, I've used realplayer! There was like...something...and I clicked on it. No wait, maybe that was quicktime.

 

[duchaked]

hmmm overly cynical about the voting for Carmine's faith...minus one point for the video at the beginning
but +1 for giving us gamers points for XBLA/PSN and lol to Paul

 

[Rednog]

I'm another person who uses real player, just way too good to download a video from sites, youtube etc...

 

[linkzeldi]

So. . . the lack of creative titles in todays market is due to global warming. Meh makes sense to me.

 

[sooperman]

Very interesting... and slightly depressing. I'll have to get me some PSN credits, mhm. And seriously? Carmine? I'd completely forgotten about him. How about Dom, or someone we care about?

Also, LOL at Jeremy being called Jordan.

 

[spinFX]

Sick burn to Realplayer after the lights dimmed. HATED that program growing up. You had to have it for certain things, like 1 movie in 30. Glad it is dead.

Long live VLC!

 

[Rick1940]

Question: what is "DRM"? I am not familiar with it.

DRM is a topic near and dear to my heart.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.199149-Poll-Dont-Play-Their-Games-Just-Break-Their-DRM

When an engineer takes a product apart to figure out how it works and whether its techniques can be reproduced, that's called back-engineering.

Every national government on this planet that has enough technological expertise to provide consistent electricity has to do back-engineering.

DRM tries to prevent back-engineering in order to defend the profits of some companies.

Of course, those companies are only safe to make their profits because government-controlled cops prevent the filthy peasants from rising up.

So DRM has the life expectancy of a chocolate tea-kettle. It is a historical anomaly. At the moment, the lawyers make noises about it, but 300 years ago, the lawyers were making noises about the legitimacy of the King of France. History marched onward.