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[Büge]

Gamestop removing OnLive codes from copies of Deus Ex HR.

Vandalizing your own fucking merchandise. Really?

Oh boy! We're gonna get to see the Streisand Effect in... effect.

[Brentai]

Yeah I think this I the most I've heard from OnLive since 2008.  If there's anything that will make them relevant again, "GameStop equates our service to console piracy" is going to be EXACTLY it.

[Mongrel]

IF (and that's a big if) they're telling the truth about not being notified, I guess I can kind of understand the attitude that says "Our supplier is giving away free coupons for our competitors, in product they shipped to us for sale, and conveniently didn't bother to ask us. Fuck them!".

Not saying I approve, just that I understand that point of view.

[TA]

They are lying about not being notified, as it was a GameStop-exclusive promotion.

[TA]

And now they're pulling it from the shelves entirely.

[Friday]

Next will be the smoke bombs and the dive out the nearest window

[Burrito Al Pastor]

I'm considering going down to my local GameStop and offering them $20, cash, for one of those codes. I mean, GameStop employees are neither the most well-paid nor the most gruntled employees on the planet...

[Bal]

I'm just waiting for the CEO of GameStop to be found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound sitting in front of a letter with no return address reading only "They've found the tapes".

[Thad]

I'm considering going down to my local GameStop and offering them $20, cash, for one of those codes.

Check the Dumpsters.

[Defenestration]

http://wimp.com/manbuys/

Man spends months doing research, finds obscure Texas law, fills out paperwork, gets 300,000 dollar house for the cost of the filing fees at the county courthouse.

Neighbors complain, but they go fuck themselves. He's not a squatter, he put work into it. It's not because he cheated, it's because of a stupid legal loophole in a stupid state.

[Ziiro]

I looked up the law in my own state after seeing on the consumerist because the area I'm in seems particullarly prone to that specific problem. It is not happening for two reasons however: A) I'm not sure it functions the same way and B) I'm pretty sure none of the houses were completely lost - some mortgage company somewhere owns each one.

Also, when the company/government comes back in to inevitably shit on this guy on day 1094 of 1095 I'm going to feel sad.

[Classic]

http://wimp.com/manbuys/

Man spends months doing research, finds obscure Texas law, fills out paperwork, gets 300,000 dollar house for the cost of the filing fees at the county courthouse.

Neighbors complain, but they go fuck themselves. He's not a squatter, he put work into it. It's not because he cheated, it's because of a stupid legal loophole in a stupid state.

Plus, he's willing to go the distance. 3 years without running water or power? That's pretty rough even in a $300K 'hood.

That said, the neighbors are pissed because he's going to skim about $50K off of the property values. Good news, the police weren't douchebags! There's a win.

[Mongrel]

It's knee-jerk, but I can't help but think of this when that woman bitches:

The Temptations " Run , Charlie , Run "

[Mongrel]

Ghaddafi's Secret Crush

Honestly guys, I'm pretty sure this one isn't a plant, because what three-named beltway CIA boy could possibly make this one up.

[TA]

That guy has the craziest hobbies.  If it weren't for all the human rights abuses and whatnot, I'd be a fan of him just for out-crazying Kim Jong Il.

[Bal]

I don't know. I mean, legally, the President of North Korea is his dead father.

Also all the rest of this stuff:

Christopher Hitchens - North Korea

[Mongrel]

That guy has the craziest hobbies.  If it weren't for all the human rights abuses and whatnot, I'd be a fan of him just for out-crazying Kim Jong Il.

Had the craziest hobbies, you mean.


_{Sure he's not dead (yet?), but he's not going to be hanging out at the pool room anytime soon.}

[Büge]

I wonder what's going to happen to those ladies now that their employer is pretty much a goner?

[Mongrel]

I don't know but they haven't turned up yet. Either way, that's not so good.

[Pacobird]

Adverse Possession isn't really obscure; most Property courses in law school give it a full class session and most states have such statutes.  You might actually start seeing a lot of this in Hella Housing Bust areas like Las Vegas, provided the banks let you get away with it.

This happened exactly like it was supposed to.  AP exists because people abandon real property all the time and it's just sitting there being unproductive if nobody's using it, so getting that property productive again is waaaay preferable to vindicating rights the holder of those rights is clearly showing no interest in vindicating.  Nobody could sell it, the house was abandoned, and even if an AP on a 300k house tanks property values the drop is nowhere near what it would be if it were still empty a few years from now.  I wonder what the problem is!  Let's check the video!

Oh, hey!  He's black!