There's a reason that people call Microsoft Support and Licensing the Empire of Sadness. For something coming out of the Empire of Sadness, that's pretty funny.

I know I am. I hope EA sells the IP to someone who actually cares about the franchise. I doubt they will, but I do hope so.

This is kind of my area of expertise. I'm in Emergency Management.

The NFIP (National Flood Insurance Program) is run by FEMA's Mitigation Division even though its a response and recovery activity, but they generally won't bail you out if you weren't insured unless Individual Assistance is granted in a Federal…

The Author's most likely British. They call it the Incy Wincy Spider, and instead of the term "laid off" the Author uses "made redundant", which is a UK term for the same thing, involuntarily losing your job because the company can't afford to pay you or is moving in a different direction.

I read The Register, a UK…

We were screwed as soon as Dragon Quarter was vomited out. Alot of people liked that game. I was not one of them (I would have liked it if it had been an original IP, it just wasn't a BoF game to me), and I've been a fan of the series since Squaresoft published the first game in the US back in '93.

Looks like a flat iron. Or an electric hair trimmer.

I started on Ace Combat 2, which provides a good deal of the Setting for Ace Combat 4. That being said 4 was my favorite. I never got to play 5. Assault Horizon was god awful though it looked nice, so if this is a return to how the game used to be, then I can't wait to play it.

Infrastructurewise, Amazon could definitely handle gaming financial transactions and DRM key generation and revocation functions. You should really check out what runs on AWS, Amazon's cloud and Infrastructure-as-a-Service Provider. Netflix is one of the big customers. We're talking about hundreds of millions of…

Considering that Google is an Ad company first and foremost, you're surprised that ads are loading instantly, why exactly? And keep in mind that on the Internet unless its something from a non-profit, if its free, you're probably a product to someone in some way, unless you take steps to prevent that. I suggest using…

Raid on Bungeling Bay is actually alot of fun, and since you mentioned it you probably played it on the NES or C64, if you realize what's going on, as in you gotta nail the zones and supply boats, and there's never quite enough time to do everything. Hard game, if only for the reason that it adapts to how you're…

2 really was hard as nails. I remember that even my Dad had trouble with it, I managed to beat it on an emulator a couple of years ago because I can't find my Genesis RF switch, my dog and/or cat chewed through it when I was a kid, but it was HARD. Kids nowadays would give up, even the Dark Souls superiority complex…

You're correct. And that's the only reason that Google has made any mention of the issue at all, as much of a pittance as it has been.

But realistically, even if the all of the gaming related content producers leave YouTube en masse, it barely affects them. They can afford to throw them away and the only people it…

That's because Google's too big to care. If they wont do something as simple as fix the broken application permissions and updating system in Android, as well as the OS' reliance on carriers to push updates, they probably don't give a fuck about some pissy YouTubers who are costing them money. They really don't give a…

I had a well written reply regarding how Google's not a trustworthy company because they don't ever answer user complaints, but it got screwed up, probably by me. But anyway, never trust anyone who refuses to acknowledge something as simple as where their datacenters are and categorically refuses to speak to users…

You just managed to make me feel very, very old.

Phantasy Star IV was the only one of the series that I ever really got into, I still remember Alys' measurements even, well the 36 and 20 she punches the Motavian selling them before he gets to her hips.

More than likely that's what I'll do, I'm sure I could repair it myself, electric motors that spin spindles are pretty easy to replace (I've repaired several DVD drives and a Bluray player) but its a chore. You have to be very careful with a soldering gun among other considerations, and since game consoles aren't…

I figured it would be like that, which sucks because programming D&D rules, even into an MMO, isn't very difficult. Same with endgame grindfests, I am gonna check it out but I know full well that its a Cryptic game.

So what the hell, I may as well try it since I wasn't cool enough to be an Elder Scrolls Online beta…

The only one of these systems I got at launch was the Dreamcast. Its also the last console I was really into. After it died out the magic kind of went away, I did buy a PS2 and I own a PS3 but I've never really quite had the same emotional investment in a console.

I do recall that Sega really went insane and did…

Cryptic's been at this game for a long time, so it should be pretty good. I hope.

Even if it isn't at release, at least Neverwinter players wont wind up dealing with an eight month content drought like Star Trek Online did while Atari had Cryptic on the sales block. And I hope their community doesn't wind up being as…

Wish I could afford either but as it stands, even my PS3 is in a pawn shop. I just got a new job and haven't started yet so money's too tight. I don't think I'm gonna be able to afford Christmas presents in general, it sucks but life does that sometimes.