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by
Joe - jgand@pcfootball.net
12-21-06
Nobody
likes a cheater…
…and
no matter how much we may like looking at Johnny Depp, Orlando
Bloom and Keira Knightley run around screen sailing the
Caribbean, we do not like pirates. Especially when it comes to
cd-keys that allow someone to buy pirated software and play it
on their system.
Now
I’ll get to the year-end column in just a minute but there
is something that needs to be said and I need the entire
community to read this…
Recently
we have had a couple of idiots register for the forums and try
to use our forums to advertise sites where cd-keys could be
bought for certain games. We here at PC Football decided a
long time ago that we did not want to have anything to do with
cd-keys because it was taking money away from the gaming
companies that continued to put out the games that we love to
play. When that happens, the prices go up, games become more
expensive, and some companies decide not to put out games for
the PC anymore.
I
decided to deal with these guys in the best way that I know
how – their posts were deleted and they were banned from the
site.
Like
I said already in the forums:
for
those of you who question what right I have to take this
action - I believe you are missing the point. We want to keep
things on the up-and-up here at PCF when it comes to
supporting the business practices of software gaming
companies. Having something like that on this site that allows
gamers to get pirated copies of software and use a cd-key to
get the game to run and/or install is not very supportive. In
fact it is downright theft. Now you might think that it might
not effect a big-time company like EA - but what about the
little guys like Grey Dog or
Winter
Valley
? How do you think it might effect them and their bottom line?
Personally
if someone wants to find a cd-key for a game that they have
then it is up to them and their conscience. But I don’t want
any of this visiting our house and making us look like a bunch
of crooks. We already look like a bunch of un-washed,
un-employed, un-educated deviants to everyone who wants to
politicize the playing of video games to begin with. We really
don’t need to be giving them any more ammunition to use
against us.
Engaging
in acts of piracy like this is just another mark against us.
So
is going to a site and buying a hack or bot that you can use
to bypass anti-cheating software for the most popular online
shooters like Battlefield,
Counter-Strike or Quake
4.
At
least this is what Chuck Osborn has discovered in the latest
issue of PC Gamer Magazine. In his latest column entitled Killing Box he
reveals that there are sites out there that you can go to in
order to get these cheats that will allow you to get past
those precautions on various online servers, and cheat your
way to a top ranking. This has caused some major problems
within the gaming community where good players have been
accused of cheating, innocent people have been banned from
servers, and gamers have simply quit playing the games on the
PC altogether and switched to consoles because they were tired
of having to deal with the cheats.
This
is not only bad news for the online community but bad for PC
gaming as a whole. “If one of them is doing it, then maybe
they are all doing it.” It just makes us look like a bunch
of morons who can’t get anything in life without taking some
kind of shortcut. Cheaters are just as bad as the quitters who
will pause or quit a game when they are losing in the hope
that it will preserve their high ranking.
I
don’t like either one of these guys, the cheaters or the
pirates. I just hope that someday soon this will all be
resolved for the benefit of all gamers out there and that we
come out of this stronger as a community.
So
for all you cheaters and pirates out there, do the rest of us
a favor – take your sorry asses someplace else. We don’t
want or need your kind around here.
Having
said that, it is time for the 2006 edition of…
The Good, the Bad, and
the Downright Idiotic
Good
– Madden NFL ’07 comes out
Bad
– Again with the QB Vision?
Good
– Improved blocking in the running game
Bad
– Anybody have the hang of it yet?
Good
– New and improved scouting system
Bad
– Oh enough with the Superstar Mode already!!!
Good
– Everybody seems to like it
Bad
– OK, I need to find room on my hard drive to install it, so
should I uninstall FIFA 2004, Madden 2004 and NCAA ’99?
We
miss you – NCAA Football ’07 for the PC
This
makes up for it – Grey Dog Software’s Bowl Bound College
Football. The 1.51 version is the best update of the lot.
Even
Better – All of the mods that have been made that enable you
to play the actual 1-A, 1-AA, Div II and Div III schools
without having to do all of the research and internet searches
for graphics yourself.
Lots
of fun – My Long Beach St. 49ers, in their 5th
year in my dynasty, got to 4th in the BCS!
Are
you kidding me? – I get to 4th in the BCS and all
I get is the MPC Computers Bowl?!? DAMN YOU TCU AND
UTAH
!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good
– I was finally able to restore the access of BigBaldBen,
Jstrapp, Concussion and Phenom. So if you guys are open to it
you can come back any time you want.
Bad
– Having to deal with idiots who want to use the forums to
advertise a cd-key site. Look, I don’t want that crap on my
boards! If you keep doing it then I will keep “slipping in
the shower” and hitting the ban button “by mistake!!!”
Good
– Ending a long streak of not being able to sell someone a
Rainbow back in August
Bad
– It’s the only Rainbow I’ve sold all year. So I’ve
made a grand total of $300.00 this year!!! HOW DO YA LIKE DEM
APPLES UNCLE SAM?!?!? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
Silver
Lining – I may have found a new gig. It seems a lot easier
to market this product, and people can’t tell me that they
don’t need something like this because everyone does! Anyone
ever hear of MasterGuard Smoke and Fire Alarms? Me neither
until a few months ago, but I don’t have to try to get into
someone’s house, I just have to get them to come to a free
meal!!!! Then, they invite me into their place, I do a
walk-through inspection, and they buy a fire alarm system from
me!!!!! How cool is that?!?!?
Good
– New Orleans Saints becomes the “Team
America
’s rooting for” Makes me want to go out and buy a Reggie
Bush Jersey.
Bad
– Da Bears might keep them from a Super Bowl.
Good
–
Michigan
v OSU
Bad
– Trouble at
Miami
. Fights, shootings, if Coker didn’t get fired I think he
should have quit to escape the madhouse.
Good
– …and the Heisman goes to - Troy Smith, Quarterback,
Ohio
State
Bad
–
Boise
State
’s Ian Johnson only 8th in the Heisman
balloting?!?
Good
–
Boise
State
striking one for the little guys by crashing the BCS party.
Idiotic
– All of the “experts” who are predicting
Oklahoma
will blow out the Broncos in the Fiesta Bowl.
Look,
BSU is a lot better than people are giving them credit for.
And let me remind you of something –
Utah
35,
Pittsburgh
7.
Good
– Barbaro in the
Kentucky
Derby
Bad
– Barbaro breaking a leg in The Preakness Stakes
Great
– Barbaro is doing well and should be released to go home
soon. He may never race again, but he will now get a chance to
make his mark in the stud barn.
Good
–
Italy
in the World Cup
Bad
–
USA
in the World Cup
Idiotic
– Zinedine Zidane. Headbutt. ‘nuff said.
Good
– The Steelers get one for the thumb
Thank
you – Jerome Bettis
Idiotic
– I know a lot of people might disagree on this, but for Ben
Rothlisberger to not protect the most valuable dome in
Pittsburgh by not wearing a helmet while on a motorcycle has
to be the dumbest move of the year. Top it off with the fact
that he didn’t have a license gets him the “Bonehead of
the Year” award.
Great
– The Winter Olympics
Bad
– Bode Miller
Idiotic
– Lindsey Jacobellis hot-dogging as she was about to cross
the finish line and then falling causing her to lose the Gold
Medal.
Good
– Floyd Landis’ run in the Tour de France
Bad
– His positive drug test after the race
Suspicious
– A French newspaper breaks the story that Landis’ “B”
sample may have been tampered with by the lab
Better
than Kornakova – Maria Sharapova
Scorched
Earth – Duke Lacrosse
A
real tragedy – Another school shooting…IN AMISH
COUNTRY?!?!?!?!?
Good
– Doctor Who, Desperate Housewives, Medium, House, Bones,
Mythbusters, Law & Order, L & O: Special Victims Unit,
L & O: Criminal Intent,
Boston
Legal, Stargate SG-!, Stargate: Atlantis, Studio 60 on the
Sunset Strip, The Sheild, Monk, The Dead Zone, The 4400,
Psyche
Bad
– Reality TV STILL WON’T DIE!!!!!!!!
Shocker
– Shane killing Lem with a grenade on The
Sheild
Good
– Democracy is alive and well in
America
as the Democrats take back the House and the Senate
Bad
– All the sore loser Republicans who think that the country
will go down the tubes with the Democrats in charge
Idiotic
– Rep. Mark Foley and Rev. Haggart giving Conservatism and
the “family values” party a bad name.
It’s
about time – Rumsfeld resigns
Idiotic
– The notion that W should now be impeached. I have come to
the conclusion that W is the lesser of two evils. Besides, do
you know what we would be stuck with if he were impeached?!?
I
have two words for you – PRESIDENT CHENEY!!!!!!
In
Memorium – Peter Boyle (“Everybody Loves Raymond”
“Young Frankenstein”), Bo Schembechler, Lamar Hunt (Owner,
Kansas City Chiefs), Steve Irwin, Don Knotts, Kirby Puckett,
Red Auerbach, Curt Gowdy, Aaron Spelling, Corey Lidle,
Well
that's all that I have for this year...thank God.
On
behalf of my wife Molly and myself I would like to wish you
all...
a
very Merry Christmas!
And
like I said last year, if you prefer a “Politically
Correct” version…
May
you all have a Merry, Safe, Jolly and…
Happy
ChristmaHanuKwanzukka!!!
Until
next year…
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