Monthly Archives: January 2010

Dear Infinity Ward

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Hi,
I’d really like to play a game where there are big wide open places. Then when I’m in the middle of that big wide open place I can get shot by a helicopter, or a plane, or a jet. And when I die I’d like to come back in the middle of that big wide open place so I can die again. If you could make that happen again and again and again that would be damn frustrating. In fact if you could make me fantastically pissed off because I paid for it that would be spectacular. Even better how about having a plane AND a helicopter both shredding me before I can move.

Oh…. you did. It’s called Modern Warfare 2 and while some parts may be good the bits that are bad are stupendously craptacularly bad. In fact they are truly dire.

I will never pay for anything you ever produce again. I’m not saying I won’t play, just that no money will ever go from me to you. Think of it as a Copycat streak.

PS: Make a “You fucking camper” end of game award which removes all points and resets all challenges. That might make up for having people on level 600+ playing people on level 6.

PPS: Aren’t thumper grenades meant to do the exploding thing when they hit things like walls, floors, sandbags, guns – you know, the solid stuff. If you fix that – which shouldn’t have been buggy in the first damn place that would be good.

PPPS: Can discs be burnt for the 360 yet?

Idiots.

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Doing the calorie thing

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When the Automattic bunch hit London I weighed 75kg, down from 100. Then I slowly stopped not eating very much and tried to restart sensibly. That lasted a day or two and I rediscovered just why I like cake so much, and cheesecake and cookies. I do all the shopping. I’d say to myself “Jacqui and the girls will like some doughnuts” knowing for a cast-iron fact that J would have 1 and I’d have the other 4 because the girls won’t eat them. Or I’d buy biscuits I liked and kid myself I’d only eat one. Or cake. No, And cake. I would deny what would happen while in the store and then do the bad eating when I got home. It’s really easy to do. I figured I was doing it soon enough though – that’s the key bit, putting the behaviours in order to see it for what it is not what you are pretending – and worked on getting the state of mind right to diet again. I also knew that as my daughter makes fabulous mince pies that it had to be after christmas. I have put on the odd ounce here and there. Yesterday I thought I’d give it a go and it was a breeze. Hardly are a thing.
You know when you don’t eat you get that weird swaying fainting feeling? I love that, it’s like a high. Well I got it yesterday and even though today I ate the same or less I didn’t get it which is both annoying (because I do like it) and good because it means my head is in the right place. 2 days of easy so I’m set for a good few weeks now.
And how good? Didn’t have a magnum yesterday or today. Lose weight faster without those added back in.

‘Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’ – Kate Moss

Damn right.

Feed reader and exclude by source

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Example:
I subscribe to a tag feed or blog search and the tag/search term is ‘green-rabbits’. I know spammers use this tag which is why I’m following it but then I discover that you also use that tag, and so do a dozen other blogs that I know are good, not spam. So what I want to see is the tag results minus good blogs. I want it to download whatever it finds but then remove what I have determined are the good blogs.
I cannot find such a program and I do not think it exists or does it?

Alternately I have looked at something like Feedwordpress to see if I can exclude by url. I’m sure the spammers will have this all worked out but if there is a script I don’t know what it’s called. I could then use the blog posts as the material I need.

Screw it.

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All these people who have chosen a random night to decide to “do things”. Why? If you couldn’t be arsed to make a change a week ago why do you think you’ll have made and stuck with the change in a week? If you are going to do it, do it. The day shouldn’t matter and if getting drunk was a factor in your decision then you are sad and shallow.

Modern Warfare 2. If I can get Wireshark working I’ll see just how real an article on modifying packets is. Yesterday D and I were playing Team Deathmatch. One guy we were both emptying full clips into and he wasn’t dying. But he and another guy could kill us with one shot. Not a headshot, just one shot. Add into that some ridiculous speeds and it made for a massively frustrating couple of games before we both quit. Dying because I’m having a bad game is one thing, but standing within feet of the player, aim doesn’t waver outside the body and I’ve got Stopping Power Pro and a whole clip I send into him – and he just swings round and takes me out?

Still, as with just about everything..