He's not doing too well if he's only sporting the Kim il-Sung badge. There's a new one which has Kim Jong-il and Kim il-Sung. Cadres are supposed to be wearing that one now.

He'd better be glad his company isn't Publicly held. If I was a shareholder, Id be pissed that the company isn't maximizing its profits and so would the vast majority, he'd be done and gone within a quarter. Its a stupid way of doing business and it doesn't work in the real world. Sentimentality has no place in…

Yeah, X11 isn't a bad choice if you're familiar with it. And from the sounds of it you've got commercial UNIX or non-OSX BSD experience. I just find it an aggravating display server, though it gets the job done. I just figured someone made it a dependency and hadn't really the faintest idea why.

And hell, Id say…

James T. Kirk (both prime and Abramsverse) would be proud.

And I should hope everyone here gets the reference, but in case you're that guy/girl/AI, Here

My only question is why in the fuck would someone want X.org on a Mac in the first place, or what kind of idiot developer would make it a dependency for an OS X application.

I'm not surprised, his teams at Origin and Digital Anvil (before it got borged by Microsoft anyway) worked extremely well with him. I've always hoped that he'd be able to get his hands on the Wing Commander IP, or even to get the IP do a true Sequel to Starlancer, but Star Citizen's looking great.

Do you know who he…

Me too Vanos, the only developers that I liked as a kid that are still around are Bethesda, id, and Valve (half-life was life changing the first time I played it, and I strongly suggest checking out Black Mesa if you haven't already especially since you mentioned Sierra). The rest are gone, and its not just a PC thing…

I love how the logo's basically Origin systems old one, but more stylized. Brings back quite a few fond memories of Mr. Roberts' previous work.

I wasn't around for the C64 era, but I was for the later DOS and 16-bit console era, before the rot started really setting in at EA around the middle part of last decade. Used to be they left their developers alone and their games were great.

No bullshit either, yes it is very hard to believe if you have only known EA…

Origin Systems (the developer) has nothing to do with that abomination other than sharing the same name. That's all EA's doing.

I miss and remember Origin Systems myself. Its a slap in the face that the only thing the kids are going to associate with the name Origin nowadays is going to be how much it sucks. Wing Commander was actually the first game I ever beat, though I lost quite a bit before I ever destroyed the Kilrathi station and won.

An…

I've got mad respect for this guy for even trying to work with his condition if he hasn't had surgery for it yet.

As someone who had Adhesive Capsulitis (frozen shoulder, its symptomatically similar, and what he has can even cause it, he may have both. It hurts like a motherfucker either way. Don't repeatedly screw…

I long for the days of Final Fantasy IV, V, VI and VII. I started off on Final Fantasy IV, when it was called Final Fantasy II, and if anything there was always this basic consistency that you could expect, up until X killed open travel and XIII reinforced that.

Of the "Modern" FF games, only XII was any good in my…

I'm sure they will. And precisely all three voting members of PETA, as well as their braindead celebritard followers, will care. They're so democratic, they're ruled by what amounts to a Soviet Troika.

Yeah, my Dad told me that joke when I first Enlisted. Along with the old ones like No Such Agency, and etc. He was in the Navy during the Cold War working on and with Submarines so he knows the whole secrecy deal pretty well.

And you're absolutely correct. Anyone doing Operations and assigning tasks, or in Collection…

Thats because they're KSAs (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities), for Government jobs which aren't in the Excepted Service you would have to compete on a scored basis, and its actually old. OPM isn't using KSAs anymore. They still make you look good (besides ridiculous shit like traceroute which is probably just going to get…

Par for the course really. On a public resume you're not gonna put down something that's going to get you sent to Leavenworth.

You were stuck with a 486 after 1994? I'm sorry.

But that would take fortitude and maybe a modicum of individuality, two traits that most gamers seem to lack.

And thank god they aren't or we'd still be playing linear games with more melodramatic dross than daytime television here in the US. Japanese gaming's upset that the rest of the world's progressed and no longer has a completely misogynistic view of women, so they bitch about our character designs instead of making a…