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Copyright protection

DMUSER — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:24:56 +0000

Do you know what I hate? When I legally purchase a game, which I then install, and try to run. Just to find out that the copy protection that is supposed to “protect” the game from illegal users actually prevents me from loading the game.

At which point I have to download an illegal crack in order to play my legal game, with the legal CD in the drive.

There are a number of class action lawsuits going on against various companies that use copyright protection software that then voids the players abilities to play the game legally. I’m hoping that they’re all successful so that the copy protection racket can finally tumble like a house of cards.

There has to be a better damned solution.

I’d just like to say…

DMUSER — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:36:20 +0000

…that too little sleep, and too much Scott Bakula mix together to form an angst that is unseen even in 16-year old Goth chicks with bloody wrists.

Another One (Bites the Dust)

DMUSER — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:47:56 +0000

Well here we are at another Wednesday, and though Newbs has seemed to be able to update, I have not.

This has to do with two things:

One – My First Aid course. Why the fuck do people have to take a course about “First Aid”. The entire course is invalidated by the fact that every chance they get they tell you “It doesnt’ really matter what you know, or do…just call 911 and try to make the person comfortable. As long as you know some basic CPR, you’re good.”

This makes no fucking sense to me. If I’m going to spend 15 hours of my evenings learning a skill that I could learn in about 10 minutes, I should damn well be getting paid for it.

Two – Krondomatic is in China.

Yes. You heard me. Krondomatic is in China. She decided roughly a week and a half ago that she was going halfway around the world. This has caused me unheard of amounts of stress.

You may laugh. Even scorn me for my concern. And though I know it will be most likely completely uneventful, at least in the horrible plane-crashing “Alive!” kind of uneventful; I challenge any one of you to have your woman go halfway around the planet without you, and not be at least a little worried.

Anyway, enough excuses, I’ll have a game review or something up for next Wednesday unless my house burns down and the world ends.

Why does it have to be so early?

DMUSER — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:47:57 +0000

The goal today was for me to post a game review, and I was on track with this until yesterday. I worked an 18 hour day, then got 3 hours of sleep, and now I’m about to go back to work for a who-knows-how-fucking long day; topped off with a First Aid course from 7-10 tonight.

At least I’m getting paid crazy amounts of money.

Anyway, the review should be up….soonish.

(Newbs we both owe the jar $1 now.)

Commander’s Log — Stardate -316984.1

DMUSER — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 22:50:19 +0000

I have recently been perusing the Star Trek universe. Most specifically Enterprise.

Now having originally seen about half of the first season when it started in back in 2001, and just coming off of Voyager and DS9, I realized it for what it was — Unmitigated Shit. That’s with capitals.

But, since Newbs recently was all aquiver about T’Pol and her sexy ass, and [mostly] because I had nothing else to watch, I started up on Season 1, and have been watching 4-6 episodes a day since then.

It’s still unmitigated shit. But not as bad as it was above. The writing actually gets marginally better near the end of Season 1, and quite a bit better by the middle of Season 2. Hopefully it’ll be good by Season 3, and spectacular by Season 4…just in time for it to be cancelled.

Such is life.

Commander out.