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What happens to the guy who buys something from the fence? I'm not sure.

Oh hey, I can contribute. The short answer is, if the buyer wasn't complicit (i.e. was buying from a legit store, say a pawnshop -- who themselves may not have known the goods were stolen -- and didn't know the goods were stolen) then pretty much nothing. The material they bought may be confiscated for evidential purposes for a time, but generally either the buyer gets to keep the material or the seller/original thief (depending on who's at fault for selling the stolen goods -- the seller may be faultless) has to refund the cost, possibly with some extra on the side.

S'how it works in one of the US states (Florida), anyway. Just recently had a relative of a relative hauled in for selling stuff that wunnit his to pawn shops.

How this applies to p2p distro... blazes if I know. Still, general message seems to be complicity (or at least demonstrable non-complicity or doubtful complicity.) is the bigger issue than the goods in question actually being stolen.

After-action report. Write up of what went down in th'game.

Seems vaguely interesting, though something I'd rather play from a top-down perspective

As an aside, did anyone else wince when it came to that part where the dude was hand-over-handing across that cable? Having to mash button to advance like that is kinda' a turnoff...

Not yet... not yet. We've almost got mass-producable small scale exoskeletons, though.

And they had cybernetic legs done a few years back, if I remember it right. Experimental and expensive as all get out, but...

Yeah, anyway. Point is, advancements in tech will hopefully make it so having one hand is little detriment to using a computer. I understand they were doing something interesting with eye movement some time ago...

My comment on the dragon language thing is more of a question of how the fuck the dragons are supposed to speak some of the sounds. For example, just try making a V sound without using your lips. B, F, M, P, V, and W are all impossible to form without lips. Dovahkiin is impossible to say because of that.

There's at least three answers to that. Two have been given: Non-human physiology and magic.

The third is the fun one: There's no reason whatsoever to assume that the dragon 'V' sound sounds anything at all like the human 'V' sound. There's a number of real-world languages that use (or can use, anyway) the same symbol ("letter") to designate different sounds than the symbol is used to designate in other languages. My own fun idea is that the draconic V is the sound of their upper teeth crunching through the bones of overly curious humans

I could totally see any length conversation between dragons requiring an small orgy of humanoid consumption. Towns are depopulated. This is why dragons randomly attack things, obviously. They're just looking to have some quality conversation with someone.

Also, "dragons" in TES are actually wyverns, with no front legs or claws.

Human tells giant flying lizard with non-standard anatomy that they can't call themselves 'dragon', 'cause 'dragons' have six limbs.

Giant flying, carnivorous, lizard calmly reminds tiny, noisy, edible monkey that these sort of arguments are why they, the dragons, invented ketchup.

Crunchy chatterbox withdraws complaint shortly thereafter, one way or another.

Moral of the story: That which is considerably bigger than you and capable of speech can call themselves anything they bloody well please. Whatchu gon' do about it?

Fair warning, Comodo occasionally screws with games, to the point of making them unplayable. Nothing unsolvable by turning the thing off (except in like two cases I've came across, where comodo had to be entirely uninstalled to get something to function ), but it happens.

Mind, it happens with other anti-virii as well, but some things have problems specifically with comodo -- or did, at least, last time I had it on this computer.

Personally, I just keep process explorer open and an eye on what should and shouldn't be running, and occasionally run something like HijackThis! or whatever free scanner I can be arsed to download. Between that and not being incredibly stupid about opening things found online (and keeping most script-running capabilities turned off on my browser, except when specifically needed), I don't have much trouble with malicious software. Only occasionally have problems, and that's nothing ripping things out of the registry won't fix

So they're dumping levitation. Any news as to if they're bringing back climbing? I've only played Daggerfall a lil'bit, but the climbing was awesome.

At least until you fell through someone's apparently non-existent roof, dropped several floors, and died. That, less awesome.