I now realise how much effort these guys go to in getting a comic up for their
readers - kudos to those that do it everyday. Gaming here is nothing less than
slow, as you can imagine. While America enjoys the spoils of
KOTOR, we're forced to sit and gnaw on random objects until it hits out
shores. Sure, we can read the reviews, watch the movies and roll around in
the sand pit pretending to be
Jawas, but it really doesn't come close. So we've got the sleeping bags ready
for the release night. Speaking of which, Half Life 2 better get a global release for
September 31. Valve assured us that this would probably be the case, but I'm still
a little sketical. Tetrinet
is the only thing saving us from the quells of..non gaming..stuffs. Laura is some
kind of GOD at this devil spawn, but it's a nice change to see Mark cry
like a girl as everyone tries to knock him out first round.
Searching about for university courses is easy - making sure I get in is a pain
in the ass. It's handy because most of us here at Seaf want to get into the same or
similar courses, it's just getting the scores at the end of the year that post
the problems. Pah, shouldn't matter anyway.
WCG qualifiers are coming up soon, and
we're going to slap Chris up on the stage for Halo - I'm still trying to remove
XBOX components from my teeth from the last game we played.
A few months ago i finally got ADSL. Yeah, great, until i started having
problems with my connection. Every five minutes I would get disconnected and
have to restart my modem just to reconnect. After a million and one calls and trying out different
configurations (and swapping modems with a next door neighbour) I finally
discovered that it was the modem that was a problem. So, I happly rang up tech
support to tell them i wanted a new modem..they replied by telling me that i could change the settings on the modem to fix the problem.
All i had to do was TELNET into it and change the settings. I did it, only to find that my modem dosent
actually run a telnet server. I told them, only to
get the reply,"I cant help you,but i'll put you onto advanced tech support."
After ages on hold they finally put me throught to them, and by the look of
things the only difference between a advanced teh and a normal one is that they
know how to read and turn a computer on. He finally told me he would have to ring
someone who knows about the modem and call me back. So after a million more phone
calls they worked out that to fix my modem, i was going to have to buy a crappy
cable to conenct it to my computer so I could change the settings.
Anyway, getting the cable never eventuated and i ended up getting a new modem
sent to me instead - with the promise that I would be getting 3 months free internet
for all the trubble i'd had, and that my account would be reset, and i would get the
free time starting the next day. Well as u can guess i was quite happy till the bill
arrived, saying I only had 1 free month. After a lot more calls and complaints and
stuff and finally telling them that we wanted them to look at the tapes of my
conversations to tech support they came back with the reply that the tapes had been
lost in a server crash. and that the guy i had talked to put down in his notes that
I was only to recieve 1 month free. So needless to say I'm pretty pissed off at not getting
2 free months. I guess this is just another way that isps rip us all off.
I wish I could live on Gilligan's Island. Why are they trying to escape?
They have everything made, they get to live in mad-arse huts and eat
coconuts all day. But that inventor guy kept on inventing his inventions
that never worked, he never seemed to learn. If I were him, I'd lay back and
have another sip of coconut while staring at the skipper's hot arse. Oops, did I say that?
