I'm the lead engine developer. I honestly didn't do it for any kind of political agenda or to make any kind of statement. I did it because the Sega Dreamcast was my favorite console growing up, and I literally taught myself how to code C and C++ just to develop games for it. It launched my engineering and game…

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

It depends on where you live in the US. I pay $69 (41 GBP) a month for a pretty good connection...

In the larger towns and cities, maybe. I live in London and have a nice, reliable 50mb/s fibre optic connection, but where I lived before I could only get ADSL because there simply was no fibre optic - and every ADSL connection I've ever had has been terrible, thanks to our Victorian-era copper wiring that simply…

For a real world reference point - where this technology (DWDM) is used out in the real world right now (Service provider networks e.g. AT&T, Verizon, BT) the capacity is 8.8 terabits, and it costs hundreds of millions of dollars to achieve that capacity. Point to point.

This tech will never be your internet…

The original isn't Aeris or Aerith, it's エアリス, which transliterates directly to "Earisu," but which could be a transliteration of Aeris or Aerith, because there isn't a "th" sound in Japanese (and "-su" is typically used instead).

Pretty sure that was the pulverized remains of past sandbag crash test dummies.

MAJOR PROPS FOR SWBF2. Loved this game.

Ungrateful little shits.

First World problems, yo.

Oh, well, no problem then. Nukes for everyone!