So in an effort to let some steam off I though I’d make a “reply” to one of these stupid comments.

k gave it a3:
Same old story, same old song and Danceeeee my friends, this is Ridiculous! I just wasted 50 dollars on this game, and its basically the same stupid Mass Effect one problems, Over-bloated, unfollowable story that’s plagued with the same problems as the first one, you’re telling me they still can’t figure out the AUDIO levels?! I can’t hear half the lines of speech, My character plods around space like playing an old SNES game, whereas you just keep hoping he’ll move alittle faster, or this crummy repaint of the same garbage Bioware tricked me into buying last time called Mass effect. I don’t understand the Hype at all, have you all been paid for you’re time? This game falls far, FAR, short of anything ground breaking like Fallout, Bioware in my opinion, after Dragon age’s slight disappointment < or major disappointment if you bought the Console version like me > Is slipping down hill in quality. It used to be I’d pick up a bioware title just because they put out great games, but now it’s getting to be they put out buggy, lower quality games they expect to patch and make proper? TRY shipping a properly looked over product, instead of trying to pump out game after game. It seems as though the scores are so high maybe due to the fact those that didnt like the first havent brought into the hype, but I did, and let me tell you I regret it already, The excitement the silly articles and scores people have given this game undermine the product itself, They claim in one major Magazine put out by a giant game retailer, that the mechanics people complained of have been removed, but that really only boil down changing the unlocking and hacking parts of the game, Which are two seconds stupid little mini-games, THE ENGINE RUNS THE SAME! Shepard’s choices for looks are still the same generic space-man, the voice actors still grapple with a lore that’s far too overloaded with nuances for anyone really listening to get bored and left feeling as though it was written for people who just click through this garbage they’re calling dialog, Why do I care, I ask them, You’ve hardly even made me feel like I am this character, it’s more like watching a movie you don’t care about, you’re just waiting for the shooting to start, And Thats just about the same as the first game as well BUT WAIT, we need a clip now! oohhh that makes a ton of sense, we don’t overheat now guns use antiqued bullet clips when last installment I had a Assault rifle firing thousands of odd shaped plasma green b.b’s a second. That was the only complain about the gunplay?! Fallout 3 has a better grasp on RPG gunplay then they do over at Bioware, and Bethesda has alittle ways to go still as well! If you’re thinking like me, that It seems people are making this game out to be one of the greatest of all time, try to start thinking of all the games they’ve been using this STUPID new marketing tactic on us, the communal memory of our glorious public about 5 seconds, We forget they just released the best game of all time two weeks ago, and three weeks before that, and two months prior to that Another Greatest game of all time was Uncharted, OR ANY other big huge media spend fest, if you give these guys a few bucks, They shout Its The Best! yeah right… Avoid Mass Effect 2, it’s horrible

Now let’s pick apart the really stupid bits in this waste of data comment.

I just wasted 50 dollars on this game, and its basically the same stupid Mass Effect one problems, Over-bloated, unfollowable story that’s plagued with the same problems as the first one,

The story really isn’t that complex K, I can understand people not quiet getting what is going on if they didn’t play the first game but you just said you did play the first game. What confuses you K? Do you also get confused reading Dr Seuss books?

I can’t hear half the lines of speech, My character plods around space like playing an old SNES game, whereas you just keep hoping he’ll move alittle faster, or this crummy repaint of the same garbage Bioware tricked me into buying last time called Mass effect.

Your also probably one of the fools who complain they can’t read the text on a SD TV. Don’t blame the game, blame your equipment.

K you can “storm” when you press the A button it will make you run faster for a short period. Maybe you should learn the game controls.

How does someone trick you into buying a game especially when you hated the first one? God that’s like being tricked into jumping off a building for fun when you break your leg the first time only to do it again 2 years later?

It seems as though the scores are so high maybe due to the fact those that didnt like the first havent brought into the hype, but I did, and let me tell you I regret it already,

In what fucking universe does that even make sense in!? Why don’t you go wrap your head in tin foil.

They claim in one major Magazine put out by a giant game retailer, that the mechanics people complained of have been removed, but that really only boil down changing the unlocking and hacking parts of the game, Which are two seconds stupid little mini-games, THE ENGINE RUNS THE SAME!

Those are called game mechanics and yes the stuff people complained about were removed. Such as the Mako and the annoying inventory system! I don’t think anyone really complained about the hacking in the first game!

the voice actors still grapple with a lore that’s far too overloaded with nuances for anyone really listening to get bored and left feeling as though it was written for people who just click through this garbage they’re calling dialog, Why do I care, I ask them, You’ve hardly even made me feel like I am this character, it’s more like watching a movie you don’t care about, you’re just waiting for the shooting to start,

Now we’re getting too the truth! You even hate the awesomely written dialogue of the game, something which Bioware really excels at. Which also happened to by done by great voice actors! But nooooo you just want to shoot shit, so why didn’t you just buy Modern Warfare 2 you mouth-breather

we need a clip now! oohhh that makes a ton of sense, we don’t overheat now guns use antiqued bullet clips when last installment I had a Assault rifle firing thousands of odd shaped plasma green b.b’s a second.

Did you really play the game at all or are you just stupid? The clips are “thermal clips” that means that the guns do still have unlimited ammo but you need thermal clips to take away the heat generated when you fire your guns. If you didn’t have any thermal clips you would break your gun. This is much faster than waiting for your gun to cool down like in the first game.

fallout 3 has a better grasp on RPG gunplay then they do over at Bioware, and Bethesda has alittle ways to go still as well! If you’re thinking like me, that It seems people are making this game out to be one of the greatest of all time, try to start thinking of all the games they’ve been using this STUPID new marketing tactic on us,

Ugh back to guns again. The gunplay was so much better in this game than the last but you still seem to hate it. Also the gunplay in Fallout 3 is really average when you  didn’t use V.A.T.S., that’s what made Fallout 3 so fun to play.

I don’t remember anywhere where Bioware said this was the greatest game of all time! Their marketing slogan for this game was “Fight of the Fallen”. Now some magazines and people may have claimed this was the greatest game of all time but then that’s really down to personal tastes isn’t it!?

In finishing I’d like state that you sir are a moron of epic proportions. I think you should stick to games where you can tea-bag people online and laugh along with the rest of your primate buddies. Try not to construct any criticism of anything in the future because you fail on so many levels.

This very thing happened to me with Facebook and now its happening again with Twitter.

I totally blame celebrities for this whole mess namely Ashton Kutcher. Celebrities did made twitter more interesting for me once I got past the honeymoon period of “oh cooles I posted on the Twitter!” but now they are alerting news services of all kinds to report on the current buzz which is Twitter.

This isn’t cool, I signed up to Twitter towards the end of last year when it was a lot smaller therefore greatly cooler. I was blogging but found I didn’t want to post every little thought as it would take up too much time. Twitter helped me solve that problem by limiting posts to 140 characters. I had a nice warm feeling posting updates and knowing I was being a rather large net nerd at the same time.

Now that feeling is gone, yanked from me by half arsed tech writers who couldn’t think of another freaking second life related story. Noooo, now the stupid news paper writers are all about the Twitter, “oh Ashton Kutcher just posted something funny!, “Hugh Jackman called the opera house the opera centre” oh noes!

I think my girlfriend Melody feels very much the same way I do about Twitter as she does about the Twilight series. She read the books years ago and had to order them from America to read them, now her favorite series is a fad for stupid sheep like teenage girls, much like Twitter.

Well screw you mainstream media (Find something else to report about!) and screw you Kutcher.*

Fads suck!

*I’m so not being serious.

This smarmy looking tool (pictured above) is Kevin Rose the guy who created digg. I’m going to have a whine today about the website he “created” (paid web developers to make based on copied ideas). But firstly why do I have a problem with Kevin? Well you can read about it here.

So onto why digg bugs me. I generally look at digg during my lunch breaks basicaly because I like to read interesting news articles while nom’ing away and I do enjoy it too some extent. But lately digg has been annoying me lately because of the following. Reasons gained from overuse but which has also given me a deeper insight into the inner workings of the beast.

• Agenda Groups: It seems like a lot of the articles have certain agenda’s behind them such as PS3 fan boys constantly digging up articles about xbox hardware failures.
• One billion friends required to make it too the front page: It seems a small percentage of the site members have control over what makes the front page and what doesn’t. If you’re a new member that posts a genuinely good article etc, don’t expect it to ever make the front page or even get past 10 diggs.
• Same sites linked over and over: Site’s such as cracked.com, college humour etc are dugg up over and over with most of the submission being pretty similar to each other.
• Numerical Lists: Top 10 ways to do this, 15 inspiring images of whatever. I’m sick to death of these lists taking up space on the front page. They’re from the same old sites such as cracked.com and poorly written lists on unimportant subjects e.g. The 15 most over hyped horror movies. They’re also on separate pages, so you have to look at multiple pages to help the owners of the site generate some ad-sense money.
• Anonymous Buries: You can bury any article on digg anonymously and you don’t have to provide any details of why you are burying it. This just leaves things too open to abuse in my books.
• Old Internet Meme’s: You might of seen this image years ago and had a laugh at it, but guess what? It’s back on the digg home page this month and maybe next month. This meme will never die because at least 30 people on digg haven’t seen it and digg it up rapidly.

/end rant mode

Time to go and enjoy my weekend now that I’ve gotten the bile out of my system!

I’ve pretty much reached my final straw with getting the train to work. Over the 8 years that I have been getting the train I’ve had to deal with:

• Canceled services – Once I was 1 hour late to a interview when I should of been an hour early.
• An aging fleet – It was awesome to have been on an older model train with sealed windows and no working air-conditioning on a 40 degree day!
• Filthy Carriages – Graffiti up the wahzoo and rubbish everywhere.
• Raising ticket prices – I thought public transport was supposedly cheaper than driving?
• Rush hour crush – To fix the problem with late running services they just simply cut the number of trains running which lead to this current problem.
• Other Commuters – This was the final straw.

The final straw happend this morning on my way to work. I was half asleep listening to my ipod when another commuter sat down next to me. This was no problem at all until I needed get past the other gentleman jerk next to me. I grabbed my bag from the floor and stood up. Now most people will usally get up and stand in the aisle to let you out or crunch their legs up to give you some room to move out. This guy did nothing at all, he just sat there reading his book. So I said a number of times “excause me” as I needed him to at least move his legs for me to get out without stumbling over him. Still no response, so I crumsly climbed over/past him.

Then the next fun part came, as I tried to exit the train the lovely people inconsiderate people of Auburn nearly bowled me over getting on the train before I had a chance to get off.

So I’m going to make a booking to do my L test next weekend at my local RTA and will be free of cityrail and it’s awful commuters in about…..12 months time….ugh.