Well, to start, that's not even Arabic. It's an Ottoman Turkish tughra, or perhaps as translated best in English, a "royal signature." That particular one is the tughra of Sultan Mahmud II.

I don't doubt that you're well-intentioned, but "copyrights are copyrights." And even if it isn't about the money to Square-Enix, they may have an interest in defending their IP against unofficial adaptations which can have an impact on how official releases are received later on (i.e., too many "knock-offs" might…

I loved that game, and I can also say it was the RPG that introduced me to the world of (now) Square-Enix.

Executives play to a different set of rules in life. I believe it's called "failing upwards."

I'm $ure that'$ on purpo$e...heh.

I could never get a tattoo. I think I'm too fickle, and I would worry that I would hate it in a few months, years or even decades. That being said, the only tattoos I like on people are ones that are high quality like this—and, to be honest, there are so few out there like that. I also have never seen a tattoo with…

Of course, but perhaps you thought it was due to sheer ineptitude on the part of Sony. No, the fact is that all large corporations are structured this way, more or less, which is why their products tend to be about as "mass market bland" as humanly possible.

Large corporations aren't as monolithic as you'd think. They tend to have highly separate divisions that don't communicate well with each other usually because that would require management from one department to cede authority to the other, which they never want to do. I find it quite probable that Sony's film and…

As someone who has finished it, I think you're in the clear.

Frankly, the U.S. government needs to make legal immigration for everyone much simpler and more straightforward. As it stands, the process is overly long and byzantine, to say the least.

It comes with the territory, for better or for worse. The court of public opinion has a long history of being unforgiving as silent film star, Fatty Arbuckle, discovered over 90 years ago.

I have a 100mbps connection in Canada, but when I lived in the U.S., the best I could get for many years was 768kbps DSL. I can guarantee that there are large portions of the U.S. that still grapple with this issue, so they would be crazy to abandon physical discs altogether.

The story fares even worse if you played FFVI beforehand. That was a game that left me very satisfied in the end, and I quite enjoyed the way Kefka was weaved into the storyline all the way through. And the very Renaissance-style final battle of the game is still a breathtaking moment in gaming to me. FFVII just…

By what standard? Between Japan and all the apparent references to Italy (between the medieval architecture and the Latin names), we're talking about two rather fashion conscious cultures. They perhaps see Americans—the "real men" you probably have in mind—as fat oafish slobs.

I believe they're required to support it, as it's part of the playback standards; copy protection, though, is still determined by the disc. Most Blu-Ray releases are statistically region-free, I believe.

Alright, that's a limitation I was unaware of. I have fairly high student loan debt, but I was able to consolidate it at rock-bottom fixed rates back when you could do that, so I do consider myself "lucky amongst the unlucky" (what a title to aspire to!) and even in a bad year, I've never hit the $2,500 cap.

Student loan interest, as paid through the year, is a tax deduction. I think that makes it less attractive to pay it off sooner, and you might as well work on paying off debt that doesn't have a financial advantage like credit cards and car loans.

If you're looking for more details, Google cache is your friend. This was posted on the website for "Precursor Games," which showed up as a top listing in a search, but is now offline. It looks like they're aiming for a PC and Wii U release in Q3 2014, and the story synopsis is definitely in the "Eternal Darkness"…

Wherever it is, it was most certainly considered part of the "Roman Empire" (in quotation marks, because good portions of the empire had basically disintegrated officially, if not in popular memory). So, in other words, it wouldn't have been terribly adventurous of them to choose a "Roman" from scattered parts of the…

I'm quite happy about this if only because standard definition games look quite terrible on my HDTV. I hope they will eventually do this for FFXII too!