Stories like this always just astonish me. Surely companies like this would realise by now, that by pulling this kind of stunt, they are essentially slashing their own wrists. Bullying their way into a legitimate discussion about their product by making questionable demands that screencaps be taken down just a) raises suspicion about the quality of their product, b) generates a lot of negative publicity and c) turns the very people that their product is targeted at against them! Striesand effect FTW

It's April 2nd here. Does that mean I get to punch the editors in the balls?

Mines 26, and I'm 41 - do I win? :D

No choice - he should be given a copy of SimCity as his payout.

What was going to be Generals 2 anyway, has been cancelled and re-made into an 'online Command and Conquer experience' 'set in the Generals universe' or some such nonsense. I hope it fails, and hard, I was actually quite looking forward to Generals 2, not some always online crap

Ah the old 'its fully supported and works great!' cry. Having been on the receiving end of that one as well, I sympathise. Thanks

Just curious - what eventually swayed your decision to go the Windows path?

I would have thought that the now-removed robosparrow head's last words would be "I'll be back", as it's one glowing red eye faded out..

Tyrion Lannister, is that you?

Ah memories..I used to have to compile my own kernel, on Slack, to get the driver for my parallel port Zip100 drive to work. When I had a smokin' P90 and 1Gb drive.

I'm going to try that! I put a playing card on with a clothes peg to make motorbike sounds as I rode..but a kickstand! Genius!

Unicorns too? Except the North Korean ones, of course

Well a bigger problem than oxygen, is getting the 18th century orphans with cockney accents there to mine it.

Maybe he's very model of a modern Major-General?

Way too much Oo-mox