Wednesday May 21st 2008

	WAAAGH! 4:25 am-Turk Comments (0) MMO's Permalink (No Ratings Yet) When it rains it pours. I got this in my email yesterday: Prepare to join the WAAAGH! Congratulations, you have been selected to join the Warhammer Online Beta Test. NOTICE: The Warhammer Online Beta Test is currently under a strict Beta Test Agreement. The only permitted disclosures at this time are: 1) The fact that there is a Warhammer Online Beta Test currently underway. 2) The fact that you are a member of the Warhammer Online Beta Test. Please ensure that you have read and understand the terms and conditions of the Beta Agreement before creating your Beta Account. Between this beta and Age of Conan I’ll be pretty busy.
	MMO, Warhammer Online	Views: 872
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Wednesday April 23rd 2008

	Not A Roleplayer 12:01 am-Turk Comments (1) CoH, Screens Permalink (No Ratings Yet) This below is an instant message I got from an old DAoC guildie (take note of the name of said guildie) regarding my activities in City of Heroes. [12:25] Antiroleplay: so i hear you’re a roleplayer!!!1111 [12:25] *** Auto-response sent to Antiroleplay: Playing City of Heroes. My global chat handle is @Turk [12:26] Antiroleplay: it’s true! Next I have a screenshot. Nothing special about it. Unless you zoom in to the full size image and read the text in yellow. I wonder where Anti heard this information? Below is an in game chat log from the guild chat channel that is mandatory you stay in character. [SuperGroup]Sofie La Mystere: No wonder no one eever finds this guy, living in ze sewers for 200 years, I wouldn’t want to find ‘im either. [SuperGroup]Nick Wicked: Oi don’ know what you wuz expectin. It’s the bloody sewers after all, eh? [SuperGroup]Sofie La Mystere: eh? Another english? [SuperGroup]Sofie La Mystere: sounds more…canadian. [SuperGroup]Nick Wicked: Pfft. [SuperGroup]Sofie La Mystere: Your canadian eh? [SuperGroup]Nick Wicked: Oim Nick Wicked, an’ Oim a bleedin Rock star, mate. [SuperGroup]Sofie La Mystere: hm.. [SuperGroup]Nick Wicked: Canada! Oi nevah ‘erd such a thing. [SuperGroup]Sofie La Mystere: ah’ve never ‘eard of you. And here is my in game tell to this “Nick Wicked” person. [Tell]–>Nick Wicked: your such a putz [Tell]Nick Wicked: hahahahahaha So you see I’m not the roleplayer here. I just don’t swing that way. Unlike Nick Wicked.
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Tuesday April 22nd 2008

	Hellgate: Gawain 4:43 am-Turk Comments (0) Games Permalink (No Ratings Yet) Gawain tries retail Hellgate: London. Below is his e-mails to me detailing how it went. From: Gawain To: Turk Date: 04/21/08 6:56 PM Subject: And now a report. 7:00 – Hellgate Installed. 7:10 – Startup. Hellgate Begins autopatching. 7:20 – Patching Complete. ERROR: You must download the patch from the website. 7:45 – Patch Downloaded. Patch Installed. ERROR: Game is already patched with the latest version. 7:46 – Startup. Hellgate Begins autopatching. 7:55 – Game startup complete. Loading. Game is running. ***HURRAY FOR HELLGATE!** 7:55 – Character Creation 7:56 – Character Creation Complete. Chat window still borked. This doesn’t surprise me. I hope he got some screen shots of it. Here is the post from the beta when he first had the chat window problem. From: Gawain To: Turk Date: 04/21/08 7:06 PM Subject: Further Reporting Visit to knowledge base on hellgatelondon.com = useless Visit to forums = useless. sigh. Again not surprised he didn’t find any help in the Hellgate forums. Not one Hellgate Dev responded to Gawain’s forum post when this stuff happened in the beta. From: Gawain To: Turk Date: 04/21/08 7:21 PM Subject: Update 8:21 – Uninstalled. I’m not surprised Gawain lasted as long as he did. If the bugs didn’t get him, the souless Hellgate gameplay would. The game had so much potential. It’s a shame the Hellgate Devs all had their heads stuck up their own asses.
	Crap, Hellgate: London	Views: 972
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Monday December 24th 2007

	X-Mas Eve 6:32 am-Turk Comments (2) Default Permalink (No Ratings Yet) Christmas Eve. The little kid in me is excited. Here is a little snow and controls to change the wind and stop it. After hitting stop the only way to start again is to refresh the page. Change Wind | Stop Snowing Needless to say I’ve been listening to the Bing Crosby Christmas Greatest Hits and I’m in the mood for the holidays. Simple question though. Why is Christmas pronounced Chris Miss? Why is it not pronounced Christ Mass? Anyone got an answer for that?
	Snow, X-Mas Eve	Views: 910
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Friday October 19th 2007

	Hellgate: London 9:12 pm-Turk Comments (4) Games Permalink (No Ratings Yet) Hellgate: London just went gold. Me and Gawain had been playing the beta. The nda has been lifted now that it’s gone gold. First let’s take a look at one of my favorite bugs from the beta. The goddamn portals. Jesus they were everywhere. They did eventually fix this one. But there are so many more. Here is a movie of the portals. Keep in mind this is footage from a beta build. Also keep in mind supposedly the beta build players played was not the up to date build the developers had. Why one would have people test an old build of the game still baffles me. [drain file 50 show] And on top of retarded bugs like the above the performance is shit on my pc at times. You can find more screens shots from this old beta here. And then some newer old beta shots can be found here. The best bug yet though has to be one Gawain has been suffering since we started playing this game. His chat window is fucking broken, patch after patch and new builds came and gone nothing ever fixing his problem. He couldn’t even get one dev to reply about the problem. If you have beta access you can see his forum post right here. The game is a train wreck if you want to play over the net with a friend. The single player is supposedey in better shape. I don’t know myself because I saw that the just released demo has adware built in. And on top of everything else wrong with this game they finally announced what you get if you pay the ten bucks a month (cut and pasted from VE3D): Elite Mode – Tougher mobs, tougher all round Hardcore Mode – Perma-death mode for your character Themed events and items – First begins on day of release, Halloween Guild Creation – What it says on the tin! Achievements – Slay 6,000 zombies, get a pat on the back, and maybe a bonus item too Extra Character Slots – 24 for you, 3 for non-subscribers Larger Stash – Twice the space as non-subscribers Name Color – Get a colored name, wooo! Forum Icon – Makes you stand out on the official forums when bitching about the in-game ads And that is it. What a great deal. Pass on the game and pass on the cheap ass shit you get for ten bucks a month. I’ll look at this one again in a years time. Just to see if it lasted and is finally playable.
	Crap, Hellgate: London	Views: 1,671
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Wednesday October 10th 2007

	Hotel Insider 12:39 am-Turk Comments (0) Bad Hotel Permalink (No Ratings Yet) In response to the post Hotel Watch Day 7 I was able to get someone from inside the worst hotel ever to comment on just what happened. The flooding took out the water boilers in the basement. the executive wing is open because it has a separate boiler. And yes the paper does not say all the problems, you know how the owners are at this place… I know the owners believe me. I asked a few questions. So what is morale like in the hotel for the regular employees? What is the situation with the latest gm leaving? This is the answer I got back: I would say 70% of the employees quit. thats managers too. theres no GM, no F&B, no director of operations, and of course no one knows anything thats happening for the future or has a specific time when they will get the hotel working again. but I’m sure they will find someway to try and get around not having to do things properly to get the hotel going. This of course paints a very grim picture of what things are like inside the worst hotel ever. Which is great news. If possible I will try to get more info from this Hotel Insider.
	Hotel History, Hotel Watch	Views: 1,150
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Saturday September 1st 2007

	Crooked Little Vein 2:55 pm-Turk Comments (0) Books Permalink (No Ratings Yet) A little known fact on this site, is that I like to read books without pictures. Comic book author Warren Ellis has written a book without pictures. It’s called Crooked Little Vein. Here is an excerpt taken from the Amazon.com Chapter One PDF: “I have a stressful job. This is how I like to relax. I like to go to a small hotel and take heroin. Just lay on the bed and feel my bowels slowly unclench.” He leaned back and sighed with relish, as if he were sinking into a warm bath. “I like to lay on the bed, naked, with my guts oozing onto the sheets, nodding out and watching the Fashion Channel. All those skeletal smacked-out girls. The faces of angels and the bodies of Ethiopians. I find that sexy, son. It’s not like I have an easy job, and I feel I should be cut some slack in this area. Heroin angels, strutting around for me. With Enya playing. They play a lot of Enya on the Fashion Channel. Great regiments of heroin angels lined up in endless long dressing rooms elegantly banging smack between their delicate toes to the soundtrack of British TV shows about Celtic people. You should try it. It’s a poetic thing, you know?” His eyes closed, a beatific grin spreading across his weathered face like an old wound opening. “In that moment, son, I am as beautiful as they, and you are to ignore the rabbit droppings steaming on my bed: interior chocolates placed on the pillow by the solicitous maids of my bowel. Sometimes I get up and dance, scattering the gifts of my intestines across the Edwardian carpet, ignoring the shrieking of the housekeepers and the priests they call in. `Phone the White House,’ I sing to them. `I control the nuclear bombs.’ All of which is to say: I am a functioning heroin addict and also the most powerful man in the world, and you should pay attention now.” Go and buy a copy now. If you need reassurance here is the quote off the back of the book from Kinky Friedman: Warren Ellis writes like a bipolar Raymond Chandler. Crooked Little Vein injects at least two welcome elements into the tired, clogged mystery field: a little death and a little life. It’s also funny enough to make you shit standing.
	Crooked Little Vein, Warren Ellis	Views: 1,475
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