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Dear Infinity Ward

Mark — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:34:27 +0000

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.

Everything

Mark — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:09:27 +0000

Crap seen on Facebook:

Allowing My Favourite Easter Egg access will let it access your Profile information, photos, your friends’ info and other content that it requires to work.

So that should really say:

Allowing My Favourite Easter Egg access will let it access all your information.

So why don’t they just say that?

iTunes. Trying again

Mark — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:17:04 +0000

The main directory is 80gig. There are files perfectly tagged through to files with no tags but either way it’s 80gb. Cleared the music from iT and re-added. Then checked for Dupes. I have just one ZZTop CD called Eliminator but again iTunes tells me I have 2. Other examples continue to abound. I known some apparent dupes exist – Finished Symphony by Hybrid I have 3 versions of but iT tells me I have 3 of each version which I absolutely do not. It tells me I have more music than I have.

Go to the Apple forums and look at the iTunes forums – it illustrates just how much of a black box this software is. Unless you bought everything from them probably.

I genuinely have no idea how to make iT behave in such a way that it adds just one version of a track when there is actually just one version of that track. And it seems that the collected “knowledge” in the Apple forums hasn’t a clue either.

What I think I should do is use some Windows programs to better tag and organise the music – because those programs do not exist on a mac – and then not let iTunes play or organise a single track. Just use it to drag tracks to the iTouch.

If iTunes was exactly the same program but was released by Microsoft then people would mock wildly. It really is not that good.