The Official Rant Thread

[IA]Paul · Post by **[IA]Paul** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:46 pm

^lol, Aardman.

Shadowkhas, I agree with you, most of EA's games mess with alt-tab (command-tab for Mac users) so I either have to ignore who's IM'ing me, or quit whatever I'm doing. Neither of which is preferable. BUT, if you play in windowed mode, alt-tab/command-tab will work. But then (at least for mac) some of the controls on BF1942 will control expose and stuff like that, so I'm like "OMG CRASH, NEED PARACHUTE," I accidently hit F9 instead of 9, so I die.

Annoying.

Munsie · Post by **Munsie** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:37 pm

COD4 is playing fairly decent right now, matchmaking is atleast. The guide is still pretty much dead.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:45 pm

I rather dislike when people capitalize random words in a sentence.

in b4 someone does it in response to this and I have to quote myself from a year ago:

Tural wrote:I find it rather pitiful when a situation like this happens:

Say I'm annoyed at something someone has done. I point this out to my friends. One of them proceeds to do whatever I am annoyed by, not realizing that it's not annoying when someone is trying to do it with the intent to annoy right after you say it. It just bothers me that people think it's really funny, when in reality it just makes them look like a babbling idiot.

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:49 pm

No I don't think so.

bricksarefun · Post by **bricksarefun** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:07 pm

Tural wrote:in b4

That, I keep seeing it all over this site, and it's pissing me off. Rules 1&2 and if you have no idea what I'm talking about you need to lurk moar.
THE GAME

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:16 pm

Apparently you do, seeing as how that is virtually irrelevant to the aforementioned rules.

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:20 pm

bricksarefun wrote:Rules 1&2 and if you have no idea what I'm talking about you need to lurk moar.

Not only do I think rules 1&2 are ridiculous, I fail to see why people actually follow them.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:22 pm

JK-47, that was probably the worst response I could imagine to his post.

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:22 pm

Tural wrote:JK-47, that was probably the worst response I could imagine to his post.

It was technically my rant. He just brought it up.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:23 pm

I'm not referring to the relevance to the thread, I'm referring to the content of your response. Saying such a thing makes you look quite bad.

bricksarefun · Post by **bricksarefun** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:24 pm

Tural wrote:seeing as how that is virtually irrelevant to the aforementioned rules.

While somewhat true, I was making a reference that I assumed most wouldn't get, for the purpose of weeding out people.

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:25 pm

Tural wrote:I'm not referring to the relevance to the thread, I'm referring to the content of your response. Saying such a thing makes you look quite bad.

I don't really mind. I'm not a huge fan of that site anyways (it can be funny, yes.) I really don't understand why people actually follow them.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:27 pm

You addressed your own concern within your post.

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:28 pm

Tural wrote:You addressed your own concern within your post.

Cause I don't want people going "omg rules 1&2!!" at me.

bricksarefun · Post by **bricksarefun** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:29 pm

JK-47 wrote:
Tural wrote:I'm not referring to the relevance to the thread, I'm referring to the content of your response. Saying such a thing makes you look quite bad.
I don't really mind. I'm not a huge fan of that site anyways (it can be funny, yes.) I really don't understand why people actually follow them.

To stop things like what I mentioned from happening, or moreso, stop the flood of newfags.
Also, does anyone know the weight of those little tab things used to open soda cans, I have a few hundred in a ziplock bag and want to get it to weigh around 10 pounds.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:30 pm

No. Your statement that you "aren't a huge fan of that site" (While poorly worded) explains your lack of insight into the current topic.

The point is, the basis of this topic of discussion was false and with misguided intentions, and therefore I win.

What.

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:32 pm

Tural wrote:No. Your statement that you "aren't a huge fan of that site" (While poorly worded) explains your lack of insight into the current topic.

The point is, the basis of this topic of discussion was false and with misguided intentions, and therefore I win.

What.

Heh.
All I know is you cant address 'it', or post anything from 'it'. That's what I've been told, and it make sense with the stuff I've seen on the internet.

Prey · Post by **Prey** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 7:14 pm

shadowkhas wrote:I'm pretty sure that's not as obvious as LIVE going down. They'd need to verify that kind of thing under a lot more conditions than this.

Understandably it would take longer to verify, but if you're saying that it took one of the richest companies in the world, that long to verify there was something wrong with their model.. of their next-gen console, that was to be the one that propelled them past their competitors.. :/

In-fact there you have the reasons why it probably did take so long for them to say something..

Tural wrote:Yes. If you've noticed, any time Live has problems like this, they are usually addressed within hours.

I noticed. I understand this is the longest lasting problem to date.

Tural wrote:The reason for the length before acknowledgment and work on this was due to the holiday time period when it happened.

How can you say that after only just saying..

Tural wrote:yes, Major Nelson's site, specifically his quick Twitter updates on the side, will be the best source for current information.

In which was said..

MN Twitter wrote:
Just because it is the holidays does NOT mean the Operations Team is working hard....

...they are working hard. Very hard.

err...yea. Operations is working hard. That's what I want to say.

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Tural wrote:The Live team is always on top of things, and really can't be fairly categorized with the rest of the company in terms of such.

The comparison is quite fair.. I would say that the Xbox 360 and Live are pretty closely linked.. And being that they were both developed by and under the Microsoft name, I see no reason why I cannot compare in such terms.. Unless, you are trying to say that you actually know the Live team is considerably better at their job then those who designed the internal architecture of the first 360 model?..

bricksarefun · Post by **bricksarefun** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 7:36 pm

Theres a book thread, but no movie thread >_<

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 7:38 pm

bricksarefun wrote:Theres a book thread, but no movie thread >_<

There's too many of those threads tbh.