@fatfreejellopimp: It's also the name of a CIA mind control program that is now unrefuted public knowledge. Now imagine what is still classified...

@KeyserSöze: In Ontario, Canada, they will seize racers' fancy upgraded cars... and let them watch them being crushed. Funny, and sure to hit them where it hurts.

Terrible indeed - but apparently not too terrible to glorify as being like a real life version of bestselling video games and point out the lack of repercussions they enjoyed.

@Frank: I've always wanted to try it, and never quite wanted to pay for it... I also have Wipeout HD, but I wonder if I can get the Fury add-on...

@merc-ai: *sigh* Yeah... I finally got it after 6-10 tries, but it's just retarded how many little things can blow the whole mission, which takes forever to even get to. Before I ever saw the bike, I failed for abandoning the bike when getting into a car...

@Yukichin: Cool. That's sensible, but I couldn't find anything that was clear on it, so thanks.

@evilweevle: Sorry to say, I've recently heard there is no way to transfer accounts between regions or change the region of an account, so unless they've recently changed, you will need to make a new North American account when you get here.

@MrEvil: I can tell you one worse... I got a Umax flatbed scanner, and it worked ok... In Windows 95/98. Then I got Windows XP, and found there is nowhere to download the drivers. The only option is to buy another CD from them with the correct ones, even though I had everything I'd bought in mint condition.

@Digo: That's awesome compared to what I've dealt with from them. By the time they had 5.1 equipment, when I went to them for tech support, they basically said "try this usenet group" - where no Creative staff were ever seen. It was basically just a pit for angry users to complain and sometimes help each other.

@brass2themax: Yes. When you're working on the front lines like that, you have no authority to do anything - if they offered that standard retention deal, then it was because they were told to do so in advance, because as a customer service rep, it would be extremely hard to break from convention and offer freebies…

@Ursus-Veritas: So do you know that the English one will have a Japanese voice option?

@MattyMattMatt says use UserScript 'Gawker Media Redirect': Hard to say at the start, but it really seems not. Catherine is the young one, and Katherine is the protagonist's girlfriend with long hair and glasses.

@OmegaChosen: For some reason, Japan just seems to love "Donald."

@MathIsHard: That's a good idea. Google ends up owning the data, but it would put it in a database for you to pull out whenever you need it!

@SuicidalEarthworm: Haha... If I had a nickel for every randomly named, unsorted download/temp folder I've made... I'd be a lot better off, and no worse organized!

@MathIsHard: Storage media is cheap. I do hope you keep up to date backups! Working on a help desk, I had to break a lot of hearts telling people their dead flashdrives were unrecoverable. Some even kept the only copy of their university theses on them, if you'd believe it!

That's interesting. I just looked at Shane Bettenhausen's Twitter (Shanewatch) yesterday and saw his tagline "大丈夫だ、問題ない". Is that a line from El Shaddai, or from Shane?

@Slagathorian: Save the trees and kill the children.: Sony is probably big enough to be that important to the national economy. I remember reading about a case in South Korea where the head of Samsung was going to be charged with tax evasion, but was instead pardoned because the national impact would be too great if…

Professor! Did you see that? That man just stole that child's game system! Should we find it and return it to them?

@fuchikoma: Dammit, Gawker. This is an image. Im... age...