Interviewed

I was actually interviewed for a podcast earlier this week.
As I've mentioned before, I'm a member of a close forum community called Slams, and I was asked to do a short interview for the podcast.
Man, I sound like a whiny bitch on it, and I always have over microphone. Maybe I'm schizophrenic or something and I'm just imagining my sexy masculine voice. You just never know...

Anyway, if you want to check it out: http://runescape.salmoneus.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=42727&st=120&#entry424490

WARNING: You must be able to tolerate the voices of young people to listen to this. The hosts of the podcast are young, and so if you can't tolerate voices as such, then I advise you against listening. But then again, the temporary suffering is worth hearing me, right?



Got Dogma recently. It is a great movie.
Of course, when I say "Got Dogma" I don't mean that I have subscribed to a faith, nor putting a reference to a belief system into a cute catch-phrase. What I mean is that I OBTAINED THROUGH STRICLY LEGAL MEANS the movie, Dogma.
Directed and written by Kevin Smith (genius) who also stars in it, it's another movie in the Jay and Silent Bob saga. It's set before Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and after Chasing Amy, although it doesn't star any of the regular characters (the exception being Jay and Silent Bob). That doesn't mean the familiar faces aren't there. Still got Jason Lee playing double-crossing ex-muse-now-demon Azrael, Chris Rock playing a pissed off 13th Apostle, and Ben Affleck and Matt Damon starring as two Angles who have been cast out of Heaven, but have finally found a way back in (good for them, unfortunately they don't know that if they enter Heaven, they prove God's word infallible thus negating existance).
So rent it and check it out. Good movie.

Out.

Two new mods... thoughts?

There's a forum that I regularly visit, which I will refer to as Slams.
Slams is quite popular, thousands and members, over a hundred thousand posts and a very tight community.
I've earned myself quite a reputation there as a trouble maker actually. It's a long tale, which I won't go through here.Regardless, I still have a lot of friends there, and it's fun to hang around.
Anyway, today I saw in the Announcements forum the announcement of two new moderators.
The new mods that were chosen are friends of mine. Honestly, only one of them is my friend really. The other one's a crybaby and a prick.
I know that taunt sounds lame (crybaby), but it applies, and I'm all for using appropriate language.
I am pleased that my friend moderator was promoted. His posts are thoughtful, meaningful and wise. Moderator material.
The other isn't. The other one posts meaningless posts, and honestly I don't agree with his election as a moderator. I suppose we'll see how he pans out, maybe he'll exceed expectations... won't make me like him anymore.

Ah well. The site administrators claim the forum is run like a democracy, so I suppose if the moderator fails in his duties I could always just rally everyone into getting him demoted (lots of moderator contraversy going on at the forums recently, if a mod is going to be demoted, now the time is).


At the moment I'm sitting at school, in English. Up until this year, I've enjoyed English. I'm enthusiastic about English, and I tend to be quite pedantic about grammar and spelling. However this year it's changed. While I'm still pedantic about such, English lessons have become a bore. We are no longer learning English, but instead doing Film and Book Analysis. Our teacher isn't helping either. Not only is her voice monotonous and tedious to listen to, but she's a real bitch. But I suppose in life we don't get to choose who our mentors and colleagues are to be, it's either like it or lump it. That seems to be the way the world runs now. Little choice, but much acceptance is required.

What a world we live in.


Might post something else tonight if I get something meaningful to say. Right now this post is really just me venting some frustration and killing time until my period is over.
Ugh, business management next... Well, I hope you're enjoying your day more than I am.

Out.

Factions fuck-ups, revisited

I didn't think Arenanet could possibly piss me off more than they did last time.
However, it seems they have achieved that impossible goal. In the form of?

That's right, delayed. Arenanet and NCSoft have actually apologised on their website, acknowledging "We don't really care much about Australia, so we didn't do enough market research to determine that we need to package more Collector's editions".
On the Guild Wars website they proclaimed that they didn't anticipate the popularity of the Collector's edition, so they didn't make enough.

Pure bullshit. Everybody knows it, but only a few dare to say it. There is no place in the gaming industry for Australia. The Australian gaming industry is so small that most studios consider it insignificant. In fact recently, a US game developing firm decided that they'd quash Australian competition. Ratbag games of Adelaide was bought by Midway earlier this year, ending our most successful game-development studio.

Part of the problem is that all the programmers and 3d animators etc are going over to work for the American firms, instead of helping promote home-grown games.


Ah, anyway.
E3 next week. I wish I could go, I'm sure it'd be real fun. Bungie are going to show a two minute movie of Halo 3. And of course the Nintendo Wii (Which Wii love to hate) will be on display, as well as a short presentation on the PS3 (however, it won't be playable). As Alex Albrecht so succinctly put it "We'll get to see it, and they'll be like 'That's kinda sorta what it's gonna look like' and we'll be like 'Yay'". That's the unfortunate truth.


Remember to checkout digg at www.digg.com
You won't regret it.

I'm planning on writing up an article about Open Source alternatives to popular market products, so I'll inform you of when I'm done.