Well, if their definition of success is making a profit, then I'm sure that its a complete success. That's the problem. They got their money for it whether someone who purchased is still playing or not. They don't see that the quality of their software is really what determines their fate.

I don't know how old you…

The OS itsself was indeed a UNIX. It was most likely IRIX, Silicon Graphics Inc's version of UNIX actually.

As I recall you can see the /bin, /dev, /opt, and /usr directories (its been a long time. but you can see at least one of them and it kind of gives it away) as well as some deeper directories. If you've ever…

Maybe next time they won't release a game that seems to me to be pretty broken, and is still broken in some ways months after release. I haven't played BF4 but I did play a bit of BF3 and it seems like alot of the issues are pretty severe and should have been fixed before adding features.

I really wonder how some of…

You must be very new to Video Game journalism then. I remember the old school magazines constantly reporting on

Cancer for him and AIDS for her. Or maybe something rare and extremely painful, Leptospirosis and Marburg fit the bill. Neither of them sound like winners but I think this is bullshit (I believe they call it clickbait) regardless.

If God/Demiurge/Whatever weren't a depraved pervert the world wouldn't be any fun.

Foreigners not understanding or speaking the local language but expecting locals to speak theirs is the stupidest complaint I've ever heard. Its like the Brazilians that visit Florida expecting us to know Portuguese, they get fucking ornery when you can't or only know a few words. Its much more fair when the…

I personally visit malware analysis blogs, like Xylitol's for instance, on a daily basis. None of it relates to cheating but its most likely close enough to something like that to warrant attention from Valve that I don't want. But you could always write a script to clean your dns cache every time a new entry is made,…

Oh okay. Didn't read the Vice Article. First picture looks like Fort Benning or Fort Jackson.

Its probably different TTPs and equipment. I know for a fact their doctrine's the same as us, they're NATO. We agree on nearly everything through NATO STANAGs, which cover everything from the magazines we use to basic Order…

No prob. Its just how it is.

Honestly in the Army, and especially in my Branch and Military Occupational Specialty there isn't much use of weapons (thankfully, because we don't get the nice toys that Combat Arms do, we're about as well equipped as an Army Reserve unit. Don't get me wrong, a pissed off unit from any…

Generally NATO and most allied countries (Japan, Australia/NZ, a few others) follow US doctrine, so I'd be willing to bet at least all of NATO does the same thing.

Yeah its in the movie and the novel. But like alot of Clancy's work, its based on reality. They do that at sniper school at Fort Benning during the third week. If you get caught I think five times, you're either recycled (have to start over) or dropped from the school.

Were these from the sniper school? They had to have been, a non-green sniper would never do some of the stuff they're doing here unless they were taking a quick shot and then moving. Snipers are almost always used to defend though, snipers used in offense is pretty rare except with SOF. Designated Marksmen on the…

Jesus. I listen to real punk rock and metal (in fact I'm listening to Pulley's self-titled album at the moment check it out). Fall Out Boy is basically exactly what the Bouncing Souls were warning about in "All of this and Nothing", they're an MTV "punk" band with no actual cred like Green Day had in the early 90's,…

I disagree. The outline for what he envisioned would happen was already done, it was just displayed as walls of text instead of being playable. I'm sure that Squaresoft had/has storyboards and art done for the missing parts as well that weren't included in the game but were intended to be.

I don't personally care who…

Well for Apple devices you might be screwed, though if someone in Iran has an iDevice its probably jailbroken since I strongly doubt Apple will support a device in a country under BXA restrictions. For Android though you can install an APK (which is really just a .zip archive) from an SD card if you allow non-Google…

No they didn't. Mr. Phoenix and Navid Khonsari are two different people. Khonsari also lives in the United States, so of course Iran branded him a spy and a traitor.

Iranians are crafty people who do not hesitate to improvise to solve problems. I'm sure someone will covertly distribute it.

I'm actually really interested in this, history usually doesn't get portrayed as well as it can and should be in games yet, non-fiction as a whole is woefully under represented, and hopefully this one is a step in the right direction. Time will tell though.

The specific Xenogears (not Xenosaga and not Xenoblade, they have some of the same themes but they are different beasts) IP is owned by SE. They can and should do what they wish with it, including finishing the original game and releasing it on PSN or mobile, instead of some half-baked shit like All the Bravest or…