Steam Scream

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Nov 212004

I’m _**not**_ fucking impressed.

It’s taken me 2 hours to install Half-life 2. First, you get the install from 5 cds. Then “Steam” launches, and spends half an hour updating itself — thanks to my shitty connection.

Once it’s done that, it spends god knows how fucking long, “decrypting” Half-life 2 game files. Now, literally, 2 hours later (I’ve been online 2 hours and 10 minutes now), I click on “Launch Half-life 2″, and it starts off by telling me that it will launch in about 82 minutes… which has dropped down to about 10 minutes now. The motherfucker is busy updating.

This is the _LAST_ so-called “Steam” game I’m ever gonna buy, so long as I live here.

Valve, you fucking **suck**!!

Nov 212004

So I run out and buy Half-life 2 this afternoon. Get home, all ready to play it, only to discover, to my horror, that it _requires_ an internet connection to install(!). **Fucking** _bastards_. What the _fuck_ for??

Now normally, I wouldn’t be too bothered about this… but I think our telco exchange got nailed by lightning last Thursday, because I haven’t been able to make a digital connection (ISDN) since then. Using an analogue modem has been really flaky as well. It’s the first time in 2 days that I’ve been able to establish a connection, shitty as it is, and the fucking telco has been really slack about fixing the damn problem. I’m pretty damn pissed off.

It really annoys me that a game now _requires_ an internet connection in order to function. This ain’t America folks. We just don’t have the fucking infrastructure for that! — Well we do, but there is _one_ telco here, and it has a monopoly, so it charges the earth for phone calls and especially data connections. Check out [Hellkom][1].

So my question is, why isn’t there an alternate means of activating this game? Why no phone numbers? What the fuck is _wrong_ with you people? You think everywhere is the same as the USA? Kiss my ass. Unfortunately some of us have the misfortune of living in a shithole backwater (Or should I say shitwater backhole?).

[1]: http://www.hellkom.co.za “The Hellkom Website”

Oct 282004

There’s an open piece of ground 2 blocks up from us. On occasion a fairly well known local circus stops there for a few days. Other times there’s the “Massive Shoe Sale” tent. — Don’t ask me.

This time around, for the first time that I’ve ever seen (and I’ve been here almost 5 years now), there’s another kind of circus parked there. They’ve been there since Sunday.

It’s a frikkin’ mobile church.

I wouldn’t normally mind, but as I sit here typing this, I can hear the moron yelling into his microphone. It’s not loud enough for me to hear what he’s saying (thankfully), but it’s loud enough to irritate me…. and it’s been going on the **whole** fucking _week_!

Shit Happens

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Mar 242004

My in-laws had invited us to join them on a (long) weekend away at a resort located about 2 hours out of town over this past weekend. We’ve gone away with them several times (though not to this particular place), and we’ve always enjoyed ourselves, so we agreed to go, despite that this past Saturday was our 5th wedding anniversary.

The place we were at was very nice, though heavily populated by “hairy backs“, as my father-in-law like to refer to them. On the whole, the weekend away was great, because it has been quite a long while since we’ve been away, however I didn’t really enjoy myself:

Shortly before we arrived at the resort, my wife told me that Nana would also be at the resort for the weekend, but we would each be keeping strictly to ourselves. Right right.

Early Saturday morning, guess who pitches up? You got it. Nana. A little while later, his girlfriend pitches up, and they settle. Turns out, they’re camping, while we have a cabin, so we have TV, and they don’t. He basically just came round to watch a rugby game, and have breakfast. A little while after the game, they both leave, but not before making arrangements to join us for supper.

Sunday – same deal, almost exactly, except he arrived at 07h30. This time to watch a grand prix. I don’t know exactly what happened, but somehow I don’t think it ended up being on any channel that we could get. After breakfast, they left (but not before making arrangements to join us for supper).

Monday morning – you guessed it. I’m not sure what the reason was exactly, but we had breakfast together again. Thankfully, we packed up and went home around 10h30.

Don’t get me wrong – He didn’t mooch off us at all. He provided quite a lot of the food that we ate (as far as I know). All in all, he’s not a bad guy, and his girl friend is a really nice person – but I really did not want to spend the weekend with them, especially when they weren’t invited. Damnit.

So that’s why my weekend sucked.

The part of my weekend that DIDN’T suck was getting to spend some time with my wife and kids, away from the house. I love you guys.

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