Author Topic: W-H-I-Y-L - boom shake-shake shake the-room. (Read 3654246 times)

Vrets · **Reply #29340 on:** June 10, 2015, 09:15:35 pm

Hey, I'm done with college, now.

Time to work until I die!

Quote from: General Battuta on June 10, 2015, 03:18:55 pm

Try six or seven, then a couple years of postdoc, then (if you're really lucky) an associate professor's job with a chance at tenure after a few years to a couple decades of cockfighting and backstabbing.

Is there an insider's blog or something where I can go to read hateful stories of byzantine academic treachery?

An4ximandros · **Reply #29341 on:** June 11, 2015, 03:31:54 pm

RIP Cristopher Lee

BirdofPrey · **Reply #29342 on:** June 11, 2015, 06:11:01 pm

Well ****

deathfun · **Reply #29343 on:** June 11, 2015, 08:29:35 pm

All those people losing their collective ****s over the fact that GTA V isn't on sale (by itself) on Steam right now are making me want to stab a *****
You can get the game by itself for the respective price, or you could the game and another game for the same price as just the one game

What the **** are you complaining about people? The fact they decided not to put their game on sale? THEY'RE PERMITTED TO DO THAT
I see everyone yelling and complaining at Rockstar because they decided to make the executive decision to give players a technically discounted offer which gets them ingame currency, and Max Payne 3 (or San Andreas)

This same deal, was available in January as a pre-order bonus

I laugh though, because I got GTA V from the Rockstar Warehouse. My discount for doing so was 16.5% because on the Rockstar Warehouse, physical or digital copies sell for 10$ less than their Steam counterpart. You want a sale? You want to pay less for a game? Buy from there. Stop complaining about the lack of a sale on a game you wanted to go on sale

Just because there's a Steam Sale, does not mean a developer needs to put their game on sale. Rockstar could've just left things as is, no bundle deals or anything. People probably would've lost their collective ****s anyways, but more so because hurr durr, no sale

I consider the bundle deals a great way to give back to those who didn't get the preorder chance at having an additional game to add to their collection

Rant over

Colonol Dekker · **Reply #29344 on:** June 12, 2015, 01:22:22 am

Agreed. Steam is not the center of the gaming universe, even if it is the point of origin for some.

X3N0-Life-Form · **Reply #29345 on:** June 12, 2015, 03:40:49 am

Quote from: Colonol Dekker on June 12, 2015, 01:22:22 am

Agreed. Steam is not the center of the gaming universe, even if it is the point of origin for some.

If thought the point of Origin was to not be Steam ?

The E · **Reply #29346 on:** June 12, 2015, 08:10:52 am

Quote from: deathfun on June 11, 2015, 08:29:35 pm

All those people losing their collective ****s over the fact that GTA V isn't on sale (by itself) on Steam right now are making me want to stab a *****
You can get the game by itself for the respective price, or you could the game and another game for the same price as just the one game

What the **** are you complaining about people? The fact they decided not to put their game on sale? THEY'RE PERMITTED TO DO THAT
I see everyone yelling and complaining at Rockstar because they decided to make the executive decision to give players a technically discounted offer which gets them ingame currency, and Max Payne 3 (or San Andreas)

A few things. One, misleading advertising. If I see GTA V advertised with a 25% off sticker, I am going to assume I'll be able to get the base game at a discount, not some bundle.
Two, Bundles are not always refundable under Steam's refund rules. This is admittedly something Steam needs to address, not Rockstar.

Now, I am not going to argue that those bundles aren't good value. I have no way of answering that. The deal they're offering is completely above-board and all that, but it is smelly, if you catch my meaning. See also: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/12/grand-theft-auto-v-steam-summer-sale/

Klaustrophobia · **Reply #29347 on:** June 12, 2015, 02:54:24 pm

Looks like I won in the the OPM hack. (Odds of winning: 1 in 1. Although they won't come right out and say it, EVERYONE'S records were "potentially" compromised. 4 million records, 2.7 million federal employees. The only question should have been how far back the "previous employee" leaked records went.) This notification arrived in my junk email folder flagged as phishing because the government is STILL ****ing this up and sending out the notifications unencrypted and not digitally signed (****ing lunch invitations get that treatment around here). I only know it WASN'T really a phishing attempt because of the email from the admiral telling us OPM ****ed it up and was going to take down the credit monitoring website and stop sending the notifications until they figure out how the hell the internet works.

In order to sign up for the credit monitoring, I have to give up far more info that was ever compromised to a private company, so I'll be passing on that. From what I understand so far (and it's entirely possible they've told us wrong) the identity theft insurance/restoration services are automatic. I think I'll just deal with the small chance of it actually happening to me instead of giving literally EVERYTHING to some company that contracted with the government to sit in yet another server ready to be leaked. In theory they are supposed to fix it for me if it does happen.

Also, there are about to be (already are) lawsuits out the ASS over this. No sense in trying to sort it all out before everything changes again.

deathfun · **Reply #29348 on:** June 12, 2015, 05:13:32 pm

Quote

but it is smelly, if you catch my meaning.

I will admit, the fact that the breakdowns show GTA V standalone as some 80$ is annoying, but I chalked the breakdown up as an error in the way Steam displays the breakdown, not an error on Rockstar's part

Which is the main thing the rockpapershotgun article was pointing out as being scummy.

Overall, I just took a look, read things thoroughly, and came to the conclusion that they're just giving the preorder bonus to those who didn't preorder, and had to do a work around in order to do it. That to me, is being decent to your players. The work around just borked the ways things display, fault on Steam's breakdown for not showing the cash card

But, still, get it 10$ less from their Rockstar Warehouse (and you still get the preorder bonus with a physical copy). No one on Steam seems to acknowledge its existence and it annoys me

Goober5000 · **Reply #29349 on:** June 13, 2015, 12:38:38 am

Quote from: Klaustrophobia on June 12, 2015, 02:54:24 pm

Also, there are about to be (already are) lawsuits out the ASS over this. No sense in trying to sort it all out before everything changes again.

Who is being sued? As I understand it, you can't sue the federal government due to sovereign immunity.

SpardaSon21 · **Reply #29350 on:** June 13, 2015, 01:45:55 am

The federal government itself is immune, but I do not think sovereign immunity extends to its agencies.

Klaustrophobia · **Reply #29351 on:** June 14, 2015, 09:45:18 am

A union group has already filed (or said they were going to, I'm not sure which) over the fact that the compensation (18 months of credit monitoring and insurance) weren't negotiated. I expect more to follow. I'll be very surprised if one doesn't come up about how they delayed notifying us for more than a month after they knew (and even then it came from the news, not from them).

NGTM-1R · **Reply #29352 on:** June 14, 2015, 03:45:52 pm

Quote from: SpardaSon21 on June 13, 2015, 01:45:55 am

The federal government itself is immune, but I do not think sovereign immunity extends to its agencies.

Nor the individual people or contractors responsible for security.

Mongoose · **Reply #29353 on:** June 20, 2015, 02:41:18 pm

Managed to catch Starship Troopers on SyFy earlier. Would you like to know more?

Scourge of Ages · **Reply #29354 on:** June 21, 2015, 06:59:28 pm

I just gave myself a crash-course in solving algebraic equations. It's probably been almost 10 years since I had to mess with any of this, and my brain hurts now.

Give it a try! http://www.algebrahelp.com/worksheets/view/simplifying/foilmethod.quiz

Phantom Hoover · **Reply #29355 on:** June 21, 2015, 07:54:22 pm

solving algebraic equations is all well and good but the real fun is in finding ones you can't solve

Vrets · **Reply #29356 on:** June 21, 2015, 11:28:02 pm

Spent half my weekend teaching myself stuff so I can avoid becoming obsolete and worthless at work.

Oh boy!

NGTM-1R · **Reply #29357 on:** June 22, 2015, 11:34:05 am

I'm having a pretty bad year re: illness. I've gone the previous five or six without having to take more than a day or two off work.

I've been diagnosed with walking pneumonia twice this year.

deathfun · **Reply #29358 on:** June 22, 2015, 02:33:54 pm

As opposed to running pneumonia? What about light jog pneumonia?

Suppose you can't really... walk that one off! Ah ha... ha
I'm a horrible person. Crappy to hear about at any rate

Colonol Dekker · **Reply #29359 on:** June 22, 2015, 04:42:11 pm

Funnily enough, I was struck down with spontaneous aches, cold sweats, vomit, discomfort, inability to focus, back pain, head pain / migraine all this afternoon.

I responded with a five mile dog walk then washed up.

This on Facebook check my fiancée page for verification.

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