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I just checked my email and saw this
This means that Hellgate London will arrive some time today. This also means that I have to clean the house, do laundry and be ready to order pizza tonight because I’m sure as hell not going to be doing any of that once the package arrives.
And I swore that I was actually going to start posting content again regularly like I did “back in the day.” I found the perfect thing to kick this off in good form. One of my personal pet peeves is the insane number of commercial, and by commercial I mean full of ads and not much else, and pro blogs. I swear I’ve seen the same “10 ways to make yer blog make money” posts at least 10 times today on stumbled content. Every now and then I get lucky and find stuff like this or this and my heart jumps a little bit because there is still really cool stuff out there hiding in the cracks.
Back to what I was going to write about…
I was reading stuff and saw something about November and lots of words, yeah the whole NaNo thing that I said I was not going to subject myself to yet again, and then I went over here and found a great alternative. 30 days of blog posts, I can do that.
If I can write some odd 17000 words about ninjas, pirates, hot nurses, alien probes, hot wax, apocalyptic events leading to the creation of new races and some other stuff like shopping for shoes, then by the FSM I can probably come up with something to blather about every day for a month.
I understand the necessity of Vista to ask if I am sure that I want to install a piece of software. In this day and age when the security sellers of the world have led us all to believe that even looking at a machine can invite viruses, hackers and assorted other apocalyptic events to occur, it makes perfect sense that I, after logging into my account with a password, have to further say that yes indeed, I do want that piece of software installed. I’m giving you this one. However, somewhere down the line did you not take into consideration that not all software fits conveniently on one disk? Most games, and we all know how you have all the game manufacturers pushing those of us who want the fastest/prettiest/most awsome games in the universe to upgrade to this POS, do not come on one disk. If you’re lucky they have a dvd version, but unfortunately that is not always the case.
Let me introduce you to an idea that involves common sense (which I obviously lack because I installed this bloated hell hole of digital spew on my lovely hardware) Like I said previously, I have to log in to my account, proving that indeed I am the user who is allowed to install this stuff. I put the disk in the machine, click install and sit and wait until I get the “OMG Do You Want???” equivalent on my screen. At this point, I say, “Why yes oh great intuitive digital system that will make my life so much easier and safer, I would like to install this really bitchin app on my hard drive,” and I click yes.
Now here is the bit I’m having a hard time with. I reach the point in the install where the product disk gives me a little message “Please insert disk #2 to continue the install.” That seems really simple doesn’t it. I take disk #2, a continuation of the install that I have already said, “Oh yes great wonderful OS, you are so smart that I no longer have to think for myself, you do it for me.” and I click “Ok I put in disk #2.” Not 10 seconds later I see on my screen “This program is trying to install something do you want to continue?” WTF Bill? Did I not at the beginning of the process say “Yes I want to install the game of awsome pwnage on my pc?” Is it not obvious that disk#2 comes after disk #1? Let’s not even discuss the fact that between the original game install and the expansion pack, I will have to swap a total of 8 disks, and with each consecutive disk I must again and again say “Feck already with the allow this crap, I’ve said yes continue 7 times before now. Do you get the point yet?”
I know I’m a Windows user and therefore there are a group of people out there that think we are less smart than them (which is debatable because I didn’t blow an obscene amount of money on a phone the day it came out so I could be one of the cool kids…don’t you feel special now) and we need this kind of rampant check system, but honestly, can you please see it to create a patch for people with brains who want their machines to do what they want them to, not what some bunch of wankers who think they know what I need my machine to do.
Thank you for your attention, I’m now off to a school meeting to discuss the “Fall Festival” because we aren’t allowed to let our children run around dressed in costumes, consuming more candy than their bodies can process because it’s all about suppressing the memories of our own childhood in a fog of Prozac and political and social correctness.
Now where did I leave my apron?
