Well since they're not reverse engineering Windows, its legal. It breaks Microsoft's EULA, but they're not concerned with a debatably extralegal document restricting a user's rights to software they have paid for.

If they were a shared source partner then it would be a different story.

But really, its an interesting…

Oh god yes. You are 100% correct there. And its my major criticism of Linux in general. Its not intuitive or user friendly to anyone but a UNIX user. I find it easy, but I have a background in Commercial UNIX and the BSDs. Its easier than they are, and much more forgiving, but that isnt saying much honestly.

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I agree, but unless Red Hat wants to hire him to work on GNOME, KDE hire him for Plasma, or Canonical put him to work on fixing Unity he'd never really get anywhere with it. Someone this talented could certainly do some good at any of these companies. MS never fully admit they're wrong, so they'd never hire him.

And…

So? Its a UI reskin. People do that all the time.

Its a pretty good UI reskin to an otherwise broken project admittedly
and we were doing this with hex editors (changing "Start" to "Bitch" and the like) when I was in high school so I guess this the age group most predisposed to UI hacking. Its still a hack though. And…

With the exception of the Navy SEALs EA somehow managed to fuck over with Medal of Honor: Warfighter, and some other consultants with real life Armed Forces experience as I know of a famous-ish Delta Operator that Ubisoft have used for instance, I bet dollars to donuts that no game designer aside from anyone that…

They're just too damned young, and like youth of any description think they know of things that they do not. That being said, I hope the new game is somewhat like an updated UT.

Your upfront hardware costs are higher, but the upgrades are modular and software is generally cheaper, especially for foreign software. No fucking around with the import grey market either.

But really, last I checked, an .exe (or .rpm, or .deb) works just fine whether it was compiled in Japan, Europe, the Moon, or…

Rottin' Eddie and Porn are two things that should never be mentioned in the same breath. My god though, Rule 34 means that Rottin' Eddie Porn exists.

Strictly speaking, its probably not legal, especially not with regard to the DMCA since it probably involved what could be alleged as reverse engineering. It also probably violates Nintendo's EULA.

But as with most rights holders, barring the MPAA and RIAA, Nintendo does know their fanbase are very devoted to them and…

They jumped the shark way before that. It was Square EA wot done it.

I say this considering full well that they'd gotten away with releasing a brilliant but unfinished mecha game (Xenogears. I love it, and always will, but the entire second disc is 10 to 20 hours of walls of text with no way to speed them up really,…

You could add ZeniMax online, except it would be a crowd of baboons flinging shit and rocks at you. Using unqualified "testers" anywhere near a real beta, one that has y'know, bugs, is just asking for more gamebryo style non-existant text or looping dialog. And with no console to fix it.

Love Soul Eater, hate the ending. I'll try not to spoil anything but how the fuck does Maka have more courage than Blackstar? I mean his whole reason to exist is to surpass God, in his own words. Thats pretty damned courageous in and of itsself.

That last episode is like a not very well thought out Disney sequel's…

Hell yes, Ive never stopped using the slang. Its kinda funny how from what I've read in the SR4 sourcebooks certain characters posting on Shadowland or whatever they call it now still occasionally use it too, almost as a middle finger to the editors for what I consider a dumb editorial decision. The slang gave the…

Oh yeah they are, Aztec style step pyramids IIRC. One of the sourcebooks from SR 3 had a good depiction of the one in Tenochitlan but yeah they do use them quite often.

I can't remember for the life of me if SCIRE had a flat top, but it would make sense because I believe Renraku had a heliport/VTOL base on the top…

Black Mesa is an amazing game. And since I lost my Half-Life discs during one of my many moves across the country while I was in the Service its the only way I get to relive that point of my life again. I'm with you, I'll buy it the second it comes out.

Yeah I'd be willing to bet you're right on that score there chummer.

I never got into running Europe much, my old team did it a couple of times, mostly some stuff against Humanis as well as some Universal Brotherhood/Insect Spirit cleanup but I've always kept one eye firmly on Saeder-Krupp because, frag, who knows…

Yeah, the only things on the West Side of I-4 that are remotely safe were the Black Box Art Collective on Central and the Health Department on Westmoreland and Central. But yeah, going any further west gets you over into Orange Center, which is a No-Go Zone in every sense of the word.

I saw this on some Discovery Science program about how Japanese technology has evolved through the centuries and these dolls were featured along with some other interesting things like blade metallurgy and earthquake resistant building design. I don't remember the name, but its well worth viewing if someone else here…

Interesting choice of background, given that the expansion isn't in the Seattle metroplex. AFAIK only the SCIRE (or Renraku Arcology) was shaped like a pyramid and Saeder-Krupp doesn't generally imitate competitors.

^this. The lack of Multiplayer is the only downside to the game that I can see.