This was often the case when I worked at Dell. If the hardware guys in India were past their quota of dollars in parts to send for the day they would hang up on customers. I worked in paid software support, so that wasn't usually something I saw unless I called on behalf of a customer to get something fixed. The last time that happened to me it resulted in me learning how to exchange a laptop myself by request of my superiors.

That said, a huge number of them really were useless. I got told to confim a part number with hardware support before transferring the lady who wanted it to spare parts. The guy on the other end took my description and part number and then came back with the number for a power cable! The Indians on my team hated these guys too, so it seemed to be partially a corporate culture problem (despite that being a Dell-owned facility) in addition to a regular accent/culture problem.

Please elaborate for us non-Americans.

GameTree says their website.

Perhaps you would like DarkXL. It will do for Dark Forces what the various ports did for DooM.

I worked for them for a while. When we looked up the service tag for a gx270 a screen would appear saying something like, "if this machine shows [list of symptoms] DO NOT TROUBLESHOOT. Send a new mainboard immediately!" It was a fairly long screen IIRC, but I can't remember the rest of it. I didn't see it often because I mostly worked on consumer machines. The funny part was all our workstations were gx260/270.

I thought that referred to Jesus being born without sin rather than to Mary being a virgin.

Yeah, I meant to imply the company that made the classic games. It being sold, split, resold, etc. were the basis for the second part of my comment, even though I didn't remember the ultimate fate of the brand. I should have made that clear, but I got lazy. :)

Atari is American. Or at least it was. What exactly it is now I don't know, but it isn't the company that made the stuff we loved in the 70s and 80s.

I do complain about the flicker from PAL/NTSC TV. It can't watch PAL TV at all. It's like staring into a strobe for me. This could be because I only have peripheral vision to work with. LCDs are the best thing that ever happened to me.

They need both. This gets overlooked a lot, but plant cells, at least in plants they showed us in high-school biology, needed oxygen too. In an ecosystem like we have, perhaps they use a lot of the oxygen they create, but they need some to start with. Perhaps it's best to start with even simpler life.

The two movies with Peter Cushing are remakes of first-Doctor serials, specifically "The Daleks" and "The Dalek Invasion of Earth." Including them would be redundant and confusing. The time travel parts don't even change from the originals except for the framing bits at the start and end.

What they did change was the characters and the nature of both the Doctor and the TARDIS. In the case of the movies, the Doctor was a human called Dr Who, an inventor who created a time machine called TARDIS. Susan was a little kid, Barbara was his other granddaughter and she was dating Ian. The second movie only brought back the Doctor and Susan. They just don't fit at all.