If God frowns upon people that don’t devote their life to Him, no matter how good they were prior to their death, He might have some self-esteem problems.
If there is a God, a heaven and a hell, let’s hope He’s not the egocentric asshole pictured in the bible. Otherwise, I got a ticket to hell.
Yes,
As much as I love gaming, I’m starting to develop an active hate for game developers. Here I’m not talking about EA, I’m also talking about everyone else.
Games cost money. I don’t have anything against the fact they cost money because I’m still enjoying those twenty bucks I paid for Rainbow Six: Vegas or that Katamari demo whenever my other hand is busy. I’ll leave you the obvious masturbation joke. I will happily pay for games once in a while then play the crap out of them until my hand get sore from button mashing, but I also have a life.
This is something they seem to have forgotten, pumping out every single awesome game they have in stock within 30 days. Now you’ve got Gears of War 2, Call of Duty: World at War, Far Cry 2, Guitar Hero: World Tour, Mirror’s Edge and a couple more releases coming all at the same time and they expect me to buy them all. Back with the having a life thing: having a life costs money. The same money I use to buy video games is also used to buy gas for the car I don’t have, new gadgets once in a while and parts for my homemade rocket launcher. If I spend 70$ (taxes, folks) on every game I want released this month, I probably won’t be able to live through the month (just kidding, I’m still a parasite).
Now let’s say I buy all of these games at once. Is there a sane method to play through all of this game withing the next decade? I’m an achievement whore and I won’t even ditch Kameo before getting at least 75% of the gamer points the games has. I didn’t get to see the last level of at least half of my games too. Not to mention I barely got to use the map editor in Far Cry 2 yet. In fact I didn’t even take the time to make a penis-shaped map (I know you did).
If you want me to buy your awesome video games, you’ll have to stop releasing them all at once. My brain, thumbs and general health can’t stand more than two great releases a month.
Thank you
-Nick
Happiness works the opposite of money: The more you give, the more you have.
-Nick
Dad, I am talking to you right now.
Don’t ask people a question if you accept only one answer. If you didn’t notice, people around you fucking hate it, me included. People have different opinions and they are equally valid as yours. Some choices belong to me and while I appreciate you care about me, I don’t like the way you do. If I want to do something in another way than the one you intended, please don’t throw a hissy fit about it.
It always work this way. You ask me a question and I answer something . You say something else, but I stick to my idea so you feed me bullshit to convince me. I still prefer my way so instead of letting me do it, you just do whatever the hell you want. Why even bother asking me something in the first place?
The worse part is that as soon as this flaw is pointed out, you resort to threatening me with senseless consequences. You don’t even bother why I made a choice in the first place, it’s all about being right and every different opinion is forcefully discarded.
I fucking hate this, everybody else also does and you should work on it.
That was my rant.
I’m waiting for Far Cry 2 for the Xbox 360. The game was developed by Ubisoft Montreal (Montreal is in Canada, BTW) yet the game will be available 4 days earlier for the US folks. In fact, even Europe will get it before us Canucks.
Why can’t I get a game made in Montreal before Europeans? In 4 days a Ubisoft Montreal employee could WALK to my house and hand me and a couple more folks a copy.
You’ll have to work on this, Ubi.
As we were on the way to my mother’s house, we were discussing about school, most notably about the reform. For those who are not aware of it, the Canadian government decided it was time to completely change the education system. The change went a bit like an upgrade from Windows XP to Vista: It took something okay, removed everything that worked well, added some bling and called it an improvement.
Before the reform, if we didn’t do our work we failed our classes and had to redo it the next year. This way people knew that they had to work hard to go forward. Some others simply dropped school. However someone figured out we are losing money when kids fail their classes and drop school. The solution? Give everyone medals to keep them motivated! A good example is with final exams: If they discover to many people fail a question, they will not count it, even for those who got it right. Another one is moderation: When you are too good or too bad, the government will change your grades for something closer to the average. In some classes they can even make you fail your class this way.
This reform was highly contested by teachers and parents alike. Since the very beginning concerned people were protesting against it yet the law passed without even the smallest hint of negotiation. That begs the question: where is the democracy?
See? We're losing cold hard cash guys!
It’s not the only example of the government against its people’s interests. If you own a motorcycle, you also know what I’m talking about. A few years ago, the SAAQ raised the license fees for motorbikes to the point where motorcycle sales were seriously impacted. Since then countless protests were held, sometimes involving over ten thousand bikers and news reporters yet they still cost as much today.
Is that what democracy is like? There are countless more examples where everyone voiced their opinion against a decision that were still put in place. We go down in the streets, we appear in the newspapers and we wind up in the 6 o’clock news yet these guys at the parliement won’t even acknowledge our existence no matter how many sign-carrying folks are walking downtown Montreal.
What are we here for then? Aren’t we supposed to be the ones they represent? Looks like they got this wrong, too. No matter how much we fight, we lose. Someday we’ll get tired of shooting in the dark. Our taxes pay your salary, do your work.
Just my two cents.
Just letting you know… I’m not really into social networking, but their mobile website might make me use it a bit more once I get a data plan.
Nicbou.com has a Facebook group if you mind taking a look. The link is on the right>>>
Two days ago we talked about random stuff at work and eventually someone mentionned sushi. Having never tasted it before I decided the last days of the summer vacations would be perfect to try this. I proposed a workmate to try it with me and we met today at the Sushi Bar, a place where they sell sushi, duh. After going back home to grab my debit card I left on my desk, I finally bought one of the combos.
At first look it didn’t look good, but hey, we were there! Ten bucks later we’re sitting at one of the brilliantly designed table, starring at our food with anxiety. Choosing what to eat in the plate was tough… it all looked so bad…
…and it all tasted bad… like… some stuff I ate felt like solid versions of stuff you’d find under the sink.
That's as much as my body could take
Jordan agreed.
However on our way out we got ourselves some neat drinks that ended up being delicious. I decided to keep the can to remind myself of the traumatizing experience and because it’s pretty neat, too. Oh and I stolen (with the cashier’s permission) some sticks. I might turn them into arrows someday…
Anyway I really enjoyed the experience, as you always gotta try new stuff in life. That’s how you learn new stuff! Today I learned douchebag food is awful.
It's like if a plastic bottle slept with a coke can and sold their offspring... awesome!
I just watched 1408, the horror movie about some haunted hotel room.
Before we rented it, I was just like “Meh, what can happen in a hotel room?” until things got weird.
In the first moments, I almost shit my pants in anticipation of scary stuff but as the movie goes on it gets less scary and much stranger. In the end it reminded me of those cheesy afternoon horror movies on TV with all the haunted house clichés like blood dripping from walls and expanding corridors.
However the movie was great until I realized he was never gonna realize there’s LSD in the booze, which seemed appropriate for most parts. The really last minute horribly saddened me. Wouldn’t the devil or whatever controls this room just leave only his monologues on the tape so everyone thinks he’s making shit up?
Anyway it’s still a good movie and it’s worth a rent (if you have a dollar rent store like we luckily do).
It’s been a month since I burned and installed Ubuntu for the first time. Since then I fell in love with it and don’t plan to stop using it soon. However there are some features that are obviously missing and quite important. Most of them involve file operations, something I found quite crippled on Ubuntu.
On of them that got me quite frustrated is the overwriting/renaming tasks. I have two SD cards for my camera and I had to transfer the pictures from both cards to my Pictures folder. Since pictures have the same name on both cards, I had to rename them prior to moving them. However it’s apparently impossible to rename multiple files at once. I was really deceived and simply rebooted on Vista and did everything from there. Vista now has this neat feature that when you move files with the same name, you are prompted to either overwrite the files, rename the new files or cancel the operation.
The trash sucks too. There is no restore button so you have to copy/paste your way through your problems. Thankfully, you can add a “delete” option to the menu to skip the trash. For some reason, they also decided removable media also had to have the trash system. It’s not such a bad idea, but since the “deleted” files are still on your card (in a Trash??? folder), this hogs all the space on your card, especially when you deal with big files. They should instead ask you if you want to put it to a trash folder on your computer or simply delete it instead.
I also found that the “autorun” for storage cards is quite limited. I’d love to see a menu like on XP/Vista where you can select what to do.
I guess that’s all, from what I noticed. I’m just throwing in my two cents because I doubt I’m the only one being frustrated by these problems. Nonetheless Ubuntu is still excellent and worth a try. I guess you can always use F-Spot to sort your photos too.
Why do people attribute everyone’s character to their religion or color? I’ve seen Jews, Christians, vegetarians, emos, blacks, mexicans, frenchies and homosexuals that I would have punched in the face at any given opportunity. I also met great people from every group mentioned above. When you are nice with people, most of them will be nice and friendly too. The rest are assholes. What has religion, color or language to do with that? Could the humanity move on to more important matters?
Remember when I installed Ubuntu a few weeks ago because Vista fucked up during an update? Well once I restored the system I decided to permanently install Ubuntu along with Vista. Since then I pretty much abandonned Vista except for syncing my Pocket PC and installing applications on it. Do you know why I stopped using Vista? Here’s why!
Booting up Vista is long, very long. In fact, booting Ubuntu from closed to the moment everything is loaded takes under a minute. With Vista, I can enter my password and take a piss and the thing is still loading.
Then you realize Vista is a power whore. You boot Ubuntu and after a few seconds the hard drive is idle and everything is calm. With Vista, even if you don’t touch it for hours, the laptop’s hard drive will still spin endlessly until you power it off.
There’s also the fucking updates. You are asked to install 250mb of important updates everywhere, along with antivirus updates, driver updates and the list goes on. Ubuntu notifies you daily of updates too, except they take a minute to install, won’t require a reset and feature 99% less nights of Googling around to find out the update fucked up everything.
Uninstalling software is much faster on Ubuntu. When I first tried to uninstall something (”something” being the ton of bloatware that came with the laptop), I was wondering how the heck the average person could find the “Programs and functionalities” in the Control Panel. In Ubuntu? Simply click “Add/Remove software” in the applications menu. Also, you don’t have to Google for an hour every week to find a solution to a problem that randomly appeared.
Finally, probably the best thing about Ubuntu is that everything you need to start is there. You have an IM client, Internet browser, organizer and all the rest at hand right after installation.
There is much more stuff that made my switch definitive, notably the fact everything is free, the virus are not a worry, errors are not clueless messages, incredible community support and the infinite customization.
On the other side, Ubuntu has its load of disadvantages, but as long as you are not a programmer or a gamer, few of them really hamper the experience. Ubuntu is so fast… so simple… you never have to worry about anything!
I will stay on Linux.
I just watched the Disaster Movie trailer on youtube. Generaly, when you release a trailer for a movie, it showcases the best scenes the movie has. Did you see the trailer? Until the end? Imagine what the full lenght movie is like. My guess: riots, a rise in suicide rates and Liongates going bankrupt. Just kidding, they’ll make money and do it again.
Just witness the horror…
Unbelievable.
