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Complaint letter of the year

“Dear Cretins,

I have been an NTL customer since 9th July 2001, when I signed up for your 3-in-one deal for cable TV, cable modem, and telephone. During this three-month period I have encountered inadequacy of service which I had not previously considered possible, as well as ignorance and stupidity of monolithic proportions. Please allow me to provide specific details, so that you can either pursue your professional prerogative, and seek to rectify these difficulties – or more likely (I suspect) so that you can have some entertaining reading material as you while away the working day smoking B&H and drinking vendor-coffee on the bog in your office:

My initial installation was cancelled without warning, resulting in my spending an entire Saturday sitting on my fat arse waiting for your technician to arrive. When he did not arrive, I spent a further 57 minutes listening to your infuriating hold music, and the even more annoying Scottish robot woman telling me to look at your helpful website….HOW?

I alleviated the boredom by playing with my testicles for a few minutes – an activity at which you are no-doubt both familiar and highly adept. The rescheduled installation then took place some two weeks later, although the technician did forget to bring a number of vital tools – such as a drill-bit, and his cerebrum. Two weeks later, my cable modem had still not arrived. After 15 telephone calls over 4 weeks my modem arrived… six weeks after I had requested it, and begun to pay for it.
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Go signs

Stop caring. Stop pretending.

http://gosigns.blogspot.com/
http://gosigns.blogspot.com/
http://gosigns.blogspot.com/

Contra los adverbios terminados en -mente.

“Porque cada vez más, los periodistas escriben con adverbios terminados en mente. Lo que es lo mismo que faltarle el respeto a las reglas básicas de la profesión: escribir claro, corto y útil. La mayoría de los adverbios terminados en mente se puede exterminar sin que se afecte a la frase. Hasta se los podría reemplazar con dos palabras cortas, en vez de una larguísima como suelen ser.

Dejemos los adverbios terminados en mente a los sociólogos, a los abogados, a los psicólogos y a los economistas. Ellos necesitan esa herramienta fundamental para no decir nada o escamotearnos la realidad.”

http://blogicamente.blogspirit.com/
http://blogicamente.blogspirit.com/
http://blogicamente.blogspirit.com/

The truth. All of it. (By Absath)

“Consumerism is absolutely out of fucking control. This notion of ”well, without us you wouldn’t exist, so therefore we get to be whiny obnoxiou pinheads and make demands“. No you fucking don’t. Hell, even us webcomic artists get that attitude from people. It’s batshit insane.

But honestly, stop with the fucking complaining. MMORPG’s are fluid, and if you can’t man up and roll with it, get off the ride. Every single class has been played to level 60 thousands of times over, so it’s obviously possible. Maybe it’s not a problem with the game mechanics, and more a problem with the fucking vidtards behind the keyboard.

It’s a shame, though. As much as I love WoW (and I do), the magic is gone. In fact, the magic has been gone since after that first year in Everquest. I’ve played every single MMO on the market, and some that aren’t, and I’ve never experienced that feeling of awe and wonder again. That feeling of infinite possibilities in a virtual world I could carve a place into.

Perhaps it’s just a one-time thing. Maybe you only get it on your first MMO. If that’s the case, and if you’re just starting World of Warcraft, cling to that magic, that feeling, for as long as you can. It doesn’t last forever.

And don’t let the degenerating intelligence of an alarmingly increasing number of gaming youth take that away from you, or ruin it.

If they haven’t already.”

It’s worth reading the whole article:

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/?t=news&date=2005-09-07
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/?t=news&date=2005-09-07
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/?t=news&date=2005-09-07

Pirates are so cool

I mean, you can’t go wrong with hanging out with guys that go “Arrrrr”
The Bump.

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html

(Link via jotajota)

Oooooooooo

http://www.wymenfan.com/bender/
http://www.wymenfan.com/bender/
http://www.wymenfan.com/bender/

Shitty Blogs

“Shitty Blogs features reviews of blogs that are really boring, stupid, or ugly.” Gotta love them.

http://www.shittyblogs.com/
http://www.shittyblogs.com/
http://www.shittyblogs.com/

The short and long tails of Massively Multiplayer Games.

“But the MMOG genre has no Long Tail. MMOGs just die. They have no Long Tail because they cost bucketloads of money to run. Servers must be hosted in secure facilities and they must be connected to the Internet via costly bandwidth contracts. Staff must be trained to maintain those servers. Customer service people need to answer emails and resolve customer disputes. So instead of just sitting around forever and earning a trickle of revenue for a very long time, MMOGs are the only games products that are truly shut down.”

http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000330056125/
http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000330056125/
http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000330056125/

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