felixlighter

Ryan won fair and square but I think Vinny shouldn't have agreed to all the stipulations.  The spirit of the original bet seemed to be about the game going in such a different direction that Sam would be stripped of virtually all his advanced tech and even the iconic 3 light night vision goggles would be gone.  The tech behind the new sonar goggles is different but they look identical to his old goggles, so Sam does keep his iconic look, which seemed like the main reason Vinny thought they would be in the game.

I prefer the Dragon Age Redesign version.  I have that mod currently installed.

Other I guess

Are they actually hacking Xbox Live or are they still using social engineering to get access to these accounts?  In the past, there were a lot of reports of people simply convincing Xbox Live support that they lost the password to their account and the support person changing the password with little to no evidence that the person talking on the phone was the owner of the account.  Either way, it's completely unacceptable that getting access to someone's account is so easy.  Also, the guy in the video has to be the scummiest sleaze ball douche bag I've have ever heard.

It's been in a few other games as well.   Here's the Giant Bomb page.

What is your current position in this company?  If your equipment is preventing you from doing your job or killing your productivity, you should be able to request a new PC.  They will be able to recoup the cost quickly enough with your improved productivity.  Damaging your employers property seems like a bad idea.

Was it something you ran into as well?