So.  Imagine this if you will.  You see a man, a lackey.  He realizes that many people that have tried to buy their game in the way that is in fact BEST for the company (no storefront overhead)  can actually not, in fact, play the game.  He brings this up with his boss, who brings it up with his boss and so on.  The CEO has no idea whats going on, and drifts off into dreams of pastry delights.  It then gets passed all the way back down until the person that is now responsible for creating a fix is in fact just a forum moderator that noticed a lot of people typing in CAPS.  So, he downloads the NoCD crack for the game (Created by the group RELOADED), renames the .exe and BAM. 3 hour lunch.  If you dare, continue reading this sordid little tale here.

The last bit is a tad older, and I like to imagine that CEO Yves Guiellmot sits in his office, laughing at his own cruel irony. (Yes, that ironing IS delicious) The country that his little studio started in, that he was born in, cannot actually purchase his games on Steam.  In fact… nobody outside North America can.  Why is that sir?  Oh wait, you haven’t given a valid reason.  Right.  Also, why when you install a game from Ubisoft (pronounced you-bee-soft, not oo-bee-soft, you knuckle draggers) does a little program PowerREGISTER show up in my task manager?  Surely you just want to save me from viruses and other bad things.  And why have you stopped giving review copies to EGM?  Oh right, because your games were crap and for once a publication actually called you on it.  You got mad, picked up your video games and went home.  Classy sir, you just reached the emotional maturity of a 5 year old.

Sorry, that’s not fair.  The kindergarten kids I teach are much more mature than that.

I know, I’m pretty late on the “Hulk” train.  I managed to see it just before the movie went out of theaters, and just had to make a comment on it.  If you don’t remember or haven’t seen it, the first panel is from the movie, after Betty and Bruce run away.  I was wondering what “all electronics means” actually equates to, maybe in one of those massive FBI/CIA/DHS/Whatever rooms with the 50 people sitting behind computers, somebody is watching to make sure Bruce doesn’t start a game of Uno on PSN.  Anyways, the movie was an entertaining one.  An improvement on the giant mutant dogs and electricity monster of Ang Lees… umm… epic?  The love scenes though? Wow… why the heck did she cut his hair wearing a plaid shirt, or untuck his shirt? Honestly it reminded me of Star Wars 2 and 3.  Check out this comic, and you’ll understand what I mean.

Also… who keep giving Liz Tyler work?  She… stinks.  There are no 2 ways about it, she should stay in romantic comedies so I never have to see her try and act again.  She’s the female version of Ben Affleck, and that, my friend, is saying a mouthful.

The evil Rogers has been partially banished! Huzzah! Time to dance and sing.  Next is cable? Unfortunately in my area if you want TV it’s either Bell, Rogers or Bittorrent.  So… Pick your poision! At least in the internet realm, there are resellers that are able to give you a decent deal on services.  I swear, Canada is in a telecom darkage.  Not that I would ever buy an iphone, but if you want to buy one here the service plans are significantly more expensive than anywhere else, and guess who has the exclusive distribution rights? Rogers of course!  Such a great company.

If you’re looking for internet in the GTA, look at TekSavvy.  It’s a really stupid name, but they’re honestly a great company.  Each time I had to setup DSL I had some issues (I love cheap crappy modems) and I talked to the same tech each time I called back.  He actually realized that I knew what an internet was and didn’t treat me like some moron who could only be responded to with a script.  It was great.  These were actual Canadian guys, living only a couple hours away from me, speaking plain English and being helpful!  I was waiting until DSL finally got rolled out in my area, which took a surprisingly long amount of time considering I live in a 40-year old established neighbourhood.  I was excitied to get off of throttling, but then Bell started throttling their partners as well.  Then they released stats showing that they have almost no network congestion at all.  Sigh…

Anyways, I have rekindled my love of smashing cars at ridiculous speeds with questionable physics in the form of Burnout for the Xbox360.  The games really aren’t tough to make, flashy graphics and crazy speed. It’s the closest thing to an F-Zero game this generation of consoles.  Perhaps a new one announced at E3? It would be cool, though not as awesome as MEGAMAN 9!!!  Almost had a heart attack when that popped up, perhaps I’ll test my arting abilities on some fan art, such as they are.

Have you noticed that bulk e-mail is even lazier than normal?  Honestly, recently I’ve gotten emails that just had my address before the @ sign, followed by “you suck!”.   Am I going to be so mad at the insult from “waeoiafew@#!@” that I open up the e-mail and then buy their penny stocks?  Also, who the heck opens up e-mails from people named with random characters.  I’ve looked in one or two of those, and they’re all just random characters themselves.  Now, I know spamming doesn’t really take much effort, but come on! Aren’t you trying to make a profit off this stuff? Can’t you at least say like… “send the money to paypal at uiyawe@019825.com”  What does that say about humanity that even the spammers are too lazy to bother trying to scam.  They’re just doing it to fill up your inbox and tick you off I think.

For those of you wondering, the PC is back up and running and seems to be doing well.  Aside from silly studying, I’ve taken breaks to grab the first two new pyro weapons in TF2.  If you have not yet played it, I really don’t know what to say to you.  You’re a silly person and that’s all there is to it.

Also, go see Wall-e, it’s one of Pixars best films for sure.  To those up here in the Canada, have a great weekend and please, if you’re going to drink Canadian beer to celebrate make it something like Keiths or Moosehead.  Drinking a Blue Light just…. isn’t Canadian.  To those who will celebrate on the 4th… drink your Buds proudly! Just don’t try and make me drink it.  Also to those Bud drinkers, if you do get bought out by the makers of Stella Artois, do yourself a favour and try it out when it shows up in your local Walmart and corner store!

The comic, she is late and a sketch! She is also uploaded and lettered on gimp on an eeepc. It’s not really a graphics machine, let me tell you.  I kind of had a hard drive die on my main box.  Not the “fire” die, but the “get your crap off this drive NOW” kind of die.  Thankfully it’s a seagate with 5-year warranty, it just meant a complete reinstall, because of course the drive with my win install had to go.  I’m still in the process of recovering and reinstalling everything, thankfully I just found illustrator.  So rather than make you fine people wait any longer, you get an amazing pencil+eeepc creation until the box is back up!

Not that I’ve ever tried this, but I’ve been told that there are “angles” at which you look your best when taking a picture.  A software solution to determine where a picture was taken by analyzing it is actually hitting like 16% accuracy withint 200km.  That’s pretty phenominal, and thereby it stands to reason that you could program a script to search through all myspace and facebook (and everything else) pics and determine a particular magic angle at which the uglist person looks like a model.  Go ahead and try it!  Don’t mess it up though, I’m assuming that at the opposite but complimentary angle you look like a hideous mess.  Of course at that angle it would be pointing at your… shall we say bottom end…. I’ll leave that exploration up to you guys.