[:plant:] Spore some sugar on me

oh god this thing is fantastic



Jam it back in, in the dark.

THROW UP THE HORNS, MANG





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Originally Posted by Freelance Wolf

Are you supposed to load the game and THEN drag the image over? I don't see a way of starting it in a window or whatever.

Yeah, you have to open the game first, then alt-tab out and drag the png onto Spore's taskbar button and hold it until Spore regains focus.

You can run it in windowed but admittedly the options menu is not very obvious:



This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

You can! Drop them in the My Documents\My Spore Creations\Creatures folder with all your own creations, and they'll appear in the Sporepedia next time you open Spore.

This only works if the png's filename is consistent with the creature's name, for some reason. Matt's Quaztoid.png worked perfectly but Krel's floppy1sb4.png doesn't work unless you remove the 1sb4.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

EA will try to milk money out of any situation won't they.

You don't know the half of it, actually downloading it from EA directly gets you a bunch of antipiracy software bundled in and as a consequence it doesn't fucking work half the time.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Look, regardless of how onerous or not-onerous the DRM may arguably be, it's still objectively a piece of software designed explicitly to remove usability. What DRM is supposed to do (prevent the game being pirated), it explicitly fails at. The pirates never encounter the DRM. Surely they realize this. The whole thing is an embarassing shell game designed to reassure shareholders that "something is being done" by hassling legitimate users with crap that the thieves never have to deal with.

You can argue all you like that the DRM isn't as bad as all that, gee whiz but from a practical standpoint it has no reason to be there at all. It's just EA leaving shit on our porches. And while a flaming shitsack doesn't really hurt anybody, you'll find that most people don't much care for it and will move to a neighborhood without so much shit in it if they have the option.

Worse, the only reaction from EA will be to bundle their next big-name title with Secret Double Encrypted Ultra DRM, which will TOTALLY stop piracy this time, for sure! Gosh!

(For the sake of the argument I'll just note that I have no intention of buying OR pirating Spore, since all reliable reports seem to indicate that I got 95% of the game when I bought the Creature Creator)

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Are you seriously trotting out the "if you're not a criminal you have nothing to worry about" argument?

Seriously?

Here, look, I'm slapping you.

If only you weren't so slappable. Then you wouldn't have to worry about my policy of constant slaps.

FELIPE NO