I have to wipe the Windows games when I reinstall, or I'll keep playing "just one more" game of Spider Solitaire or Minesweeper.

I have those here in KDE but they haven't bothered me, but MASkinG's ex05 (Tetris) is pushing my OCD buttons right now.

Willpower! Ha, I'm going out right now to see an IRL friend. I won't have "just one game" before I go, even though typing this is making me want to

That reminds me, I was literally dumbfounded when MGS4 told me to "shake the controller" during that one boss fight! XD

Let's see... the last game I played seriously was Mega Man 9. I had to beat it quick since I was at home where the PS3 is for just a short visit. If any of you have it, check out my highscores. Last time I checked, I was one of only 18 or so to beat the final level on time attack. I can't wait until I get home for Thanksgiving so I can try to beat it without getting hit!

Yes, but mostly because at that point, the challenge of creation is gone.

So says you. I for one enjoy playing games with cheats on, or on easy difficulty, so I can just enjoy playing it rather than being frustrated by defeat. More on the point, why is messing around with the editor better than messing around with the code? If the latter does not allow you to express yourself creatively, then it's your own fault for making such a bad editor.

I play OpenTTD on single-player with no bots (or severely crippled bots) for fun on occasion. I also found a beat-em-up on SNES that I can actually complete a stage in, so I play that as well. I don't make computer games, since I don't have time. Instead, I am making components for games, like this line drawing algorithm I am working on right now. Looking back, I clearly enjoyed playing games with an editor component more than games without one, so I guess it's mostly programming for me.

At the moment I have only Warhammer Online installed (recently bought).
But I always find myself thinking about digging up my TES games or Neverwinter Nights. This in turn makes me remember all the fun I had with the TES construction set and Aurora tolset.

My time devotion on coding and playing games goes in waves, sort of.
Some periods (weeks, months) I code like crazy, or I don't even open MSVC at all and play WOW on PC or BattleField on xbox.

I guess I don't finish my

Great, another Monday thread....

A comment maybe a couple of years ahead of its time in some jurisdictions: DRM on music? I think I remember that. Yeah — it used to be really big, didn't it?

It's something old timers like me do. I have 18 days, 13 hours, 49 minutes and 29 seconds of music on my computer. Not a single piece of it has been acquired illegally, and I'd imagine that fewer than 10 of the songs were free downloads (though a bunch of others have almost certainly been gifts, consequent to someone else having bought them).

If you want to really do the Web 2.0-style evangelist speak, then now may be a good time to try to link the attitudes of the average modern internet user to the sudden absence of money in the economy.

I think this wins the prize for "most derailed thread in least amount of time".
And piracy is not the root cause of IP problems, it's a symptom of a problem caused by the record companies being slow to exploit a big new technology advance (the Internet). Since the record companies weren't providing service, people turned to things like Napster. After Napster, record companies became paranoid and loaded all their online offerings with annoying DRM, making more people want to pirate music.
XKCD cartoon posted above is relevant.

Yeah, I noticed that too late. Will edit to remove it. Though in all fairness, it came up in a separate thread. (Thread of conversation in this literal forum thread.)

Hey, a comment related to the original thread topic! Call Ripley's!