A life too short.
Posted on September 8, 2005 at 1:46 pm
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Silly people.
Subject: "big mistake"
Body: "insisting on cookies being turned on to come to your site just means that I won't be visiting it any more."
Funny kiddie. I think it was intentional, and if it keeps idiots like that at bay, then I don't consider it a big mistake at all! LOL! GOOD RIDDENCE! Incidentally the moron didn't supply an email with the message. Bummer. However since the dip won't be coming back here, then I guess it's safe to totally make some fun, now isn't it?
It's things like that that give me a good chuckle during my grueling days work.
Posted on August 28, 2005 at 8:48 pm
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Finally finished playing this game. It wasn't because it was overly difficult, but rather time restraints. The difficulty of the game was perfect, challenging, but not insanely stupid to where you chuck in the blanket because its just downright moronic. No, instead this had excellent balance with espionage, battle, but mostly thoughtful stealthy actions.
The game got off to a shaky start for me, because when I tried to first run it, it failed to do so because it didn't like the Play CD when it so horrendously demanded it be in the drive. Even though its an original CD. After battling the pathetic UbiSoft tech support dipshits, I had to end up relying on the help of hackers to come up with a 'certain trick' that let me run it. Oh well, at least I didn't have to dig out my CD every time I wanted to play the game. I should employ that tactic for every other game that so stupidly asks for the CD.
Anyway, after I got that sorted out, I was pleasantly surprised! Previously I had seriously hated ALL the Rainblow Sux games. They were bloody awful, and this being "another Clancy game" I was skeptical. Why did I buy it though? Well, it came free bundled with some hardware, heh. However after playing it, I would have surely bought it, and will be buying all the sequels (Pandora and Chaos, hopefully they don’t have that stupid cd bug).
I was pretty much blown away with the engine effects, sounds, and overall fun factor. It wasn't one of those where you enter an area and every bad guy knows exactly where you are and start shooting in your direction *cough*CallOfDuty*cough*. Instead you could sneak around, silently kill stuff, and play with all sorts of fun gadgets. When allowed too, I never left a man standing, doing so in the quietest possible manner. The levels where you were not allowed to kill someone, sort of bothered me, but it added to the fun and challenge of the game, varying the levels and making it not the "same ole same ole".
So why the 9?
Hated the interface for goals, notes, and other junk that you would get along the way. It was clumsy, poorly put-together and executed. I'm a bastard when it comes to interface design, and this game flopped on it. Controlling the character was ok though, it was just the 'Palm' device you used for everything else.
I'm hard to please when it comes to total gaming experience, and this one has been put high on my list of great games I will actually replay someday.
Posted on August 16, 2005 at 7:35 pm
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Driving while cell phoning, scourge of todays roads.
Saw something a bit disturbing today. Normally, when I see drivers doing completely stupid things, I also notice they are on the cell phone. Obvious why, driving while on the cell phone is more distracting than driving while drunk (check out the MythBusters episode where they prove that).
However, today, this situation just upset me. Normally I laugh it off in light that idiots have to live with themselves, so long as they keep their shit over there and away from me. I couldn't just laugh this off. I came to a stoplight, and it was about to turn red, so naturally I stopped. Then I watched three other drivers in the other lanes shoot through an obvious red light.
What's upsetting is, across of me, the left turners get to go and low and behold there is a cop. He didn't see the three people who flew through the red light before him, why? He was on the FUCKEN DAMNED CELL PHONE! (sorry for the children readers, I cant contain myself).
Lead by example. Uh huh. ::rolls eyes::
Oh, if you are a righteous asshole who feels you must 'prove my disgust with cell phone drivers is wrong' in the comments. Don't bother, It will promptly make you look like a moron.
Posted on July 27, 2005 at 8:17 pm
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Pop Forward Windows
Am I the only one who gets truly festered when a web browser window I sent to the back pops itself forward when its done loading itself?!?!1!!oneone!11!!!
Amazon.com really drives me nuts in that respect. Their pages load so damned slow, I always open into a new window, and then browse some more in the previous windows. Sometimes opening up five or six products. Only to have them all keep popping themselves forward while I'll trying to read something else.
Quite a few other sites do this too, and everytime it happens, it drives me nuts. I don't like staring at a blank or loading page, so I go to another window to look or read something while I wait. I know when stuff is done loading, via the status symbol. So, I open a bunch of windows up to start loading, and then I step through them reading the content when I get done with the first one. But when they keep popping themselves up out of order, it screws up flow!
Stupid webmasters putting that crap in their code. Its almost enough to drive me to shut off javascript, but guh... then pretty much every website would break and be dysfunctional.
I'm done ranting.
Posted on July 19, 2005 at 2:55 pm
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