If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place — Page 88

The latest update to Origin has now fixed it so the system will only work with internet connections that are faster then you can get in my part of the country and every single time a game is started(And I am not talking about multiplayer just single player)it has to check to make sure your copy of the game isn't pirated. Well guess what since all the games I bought are on a computer in a location with a slow internet connection they can't confirm that they are not pirated.  We really need a law in this country that gives us the right to use products that we pay for.  I paid full price for these games and I should be able to play the single player modes on them.  Why in this country do we only punish those who have not committed a crime,why not get rid of all this nonsense and instead throw the pirates in jail.

Make the penalty for stealing a game life in prison without parole,stop punishing those of us who paid and instead throw the book at the people who commit the crimes so no one will ever dare commit the crime again.

I am so angry right now I can't even see straight. When did everything get so turned around so that those of us who obey the law are the ones who get punished?!!!:(

You know what the ironic thing is?  That I would never think of stealing a game but now I have no choice. From now on if I want to play a game I will have to go to a friend's house and download a pirated version off of a torret site.  I would have never done anything like that before but since the version that I would be paying for will no longer work I will have to go with the pirated version.  In other words by punishing me for buying their games they have just made sure that I will never spend another cent on their products and they have lost hundreds if not thousands of dollars in sales because the only way for me to get a working copy is to pirate the games.

Good job EA,you just made the problem worse and turned a loyal customer into someone who hates your guts and will not buy your products any more not because I am too cheap to pay for them but because it I do pay for them they will not work.  Great job,you really took care of this problem.

DrCrowTStarwars said:

[...]In other words by punishing me for buying their games they have just made sure that I will never spend another cent on their products and they have lost hundreds if not thousands of dollars in sales because the only way for me to get a working copy is to pirate the games.[...]

 You spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on games!?

I am talking about over my whole life time of buying games.  Look now adays to get the complete story for a game you have to buy the game it's self which runs between $60-$80 plus any DLC that is needed for the story to make complete sense so that can run you another $60 so in the end you can end up spending around $120-$140 on a single game so over my life time of buying games hundreds to a couple of thousand seems likely as I am only in my 20s right now so I have another five decades or so of buying games in front of me and prices are bound to either stay where they are or go up. 

I am just saying treating your paying customers like crooks is a bad business move. After all if they are going to treat me like i stole the game I may as well steal the game and at least get to play it. Why should I pay that kind of cash for something that will not work.

As I said Origin was working fine before this update. it worked on my internet connection and it checked the game once when i installed it and then again when i installed new DLC. It was a perfect system for someone like me who just wanted to buy the game and play single player mode and now they have screwed that up and all of my games are worth less then stack of AOL discs to me.

DrCrowTStarwars said:

[...]I have another five decades or so of buying games in front of me and prices are bound to either stay where they are or go up. [...]

 You plan to be playing video games in your seventies? LOL--I don't know many seventy year-olds who play video games. Even if they did, they'd probably be playing older games. I doubt you'll buy any games even in your fifties (you might--I can't say, since I don't know you--but probably not).

Ryan McAvoy said:

^ Re anti-piracy promoting piracy ^

My mum wanted to buy me Morrissey's autobiography for Xmas on Kindle from Amazon but despite 1/2 an hour of total bafflement, she discovered that you can't 'gift' a Kindle book. Which is just crazy.

So plan-B, she purchased an Amazon voucher to the value of the E-Book and gave me that. On Xmas day I then spent another 1/2 hour or more trying and trying to purchase the E-book onto my Kindle and eventually gave up. "Please Amazon I'm begging you, all I want is to do is give you my Money!".

Plan C, I spent the voucher on a DVD and downloaded the E-Book illegally. It downloaded in seconds and I could read it immediately. No fuss, what service these criminals give to their customers! However I then found that my Kindle wouldn't accept the book no matter how many times I uploaded it seemingly because It had not gone through Amazon's software?

Skip to 5 months later and my Brother bought me the actual book for my Birthday. Praise physical objects, you never let me down!

 Yeah that is why I love Blurays,real books,and games in cases.  At least I did before all this garbage started.  I had that same problem.  I wanted to gift all of the James Harriot books to my mom but wouldn't you know it you can't gift things on the Kindle and using a gift card is a pain in a half so I am not putting her through that.  It seems like every piece of anti piracy tech out there only forces people to pirate stuff,so good job there.

Oh and as for playing games in my 70s,well you have to remember that games didn't exist when the people who are in their 70s now where kids so they didn't grow up playing them. I have been playing games since I was two(My first system was the Vectrex and then I moved up to an Atair 7800) and count them as a story telling medium along with books and films so I am pretty sure I will still be playing them in my old age.  I don't plan giving up on films just because I get old and the same goes for video games.

You know it does seem insane to me I mean here I am trying to give these companies my money and they are refusing to take it,I thought that was their purpose but I guess not.  I just want to should "Shut up and take my Money!!!" when dealing with this anti piracy garbage.

Here are the reasons why I hate late Spring and Summer:

Seperate, they are intolerable. Together, they serve as the fifth circle of Hell.

We don't have much problem with wasps/hornets, but mosquitoes are a real bugger up here.

I like wasps and they only sting if they are provoked or if it's the autumn and they are bored and about to die.

Their stings are mild compared to bees. I was once stung multiple times by wasps in my shirt and while it wasn't pleasant it was nothing like the single bee-sting I got in the back of the neck when one of the sisters got caught in my then fashionable crew-cut.

It was like being stabbed with a red hot needle.

It's the pollen that is doing me in this year. Normally it's not a problem but after all the snow and rain there is just so much of it out there I am breaking out in hives,my rash is acting up to a painful degree,and my nose is running all of the time.  Fall can't come soon enough for me.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Here are the reasons why I hate late Spring and Summer:

Seperate, they are intolerable. Together, they serve as the fifth circle of Hell.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkfVPceai0U

Ryan McAvoy said:

^ Re anti-piracy promoting piracy ^

My mum wanted to buy me Morrissey's autobiography for Xmas on Kindle from Amazon but despite 1/2 an hour of total bafflement, she discovered that you can't 'gift' a Kindle book. Which is just crazy.

So plan-B, she purchased an Amazon voucher to the value of the E-Book and gave me that. On Xmas day I then spent another 1/2 hour or more trying and trying to purchase the E-book onto my Kindle and eventually gave up. "Please Amazon I'm begging you, all I want is to do is give you my Money!".

Plan C, I spent the voucher on a DVD and downloaded the E-Book illegally. It downloaded in seconds and I could read it immediately. No fuss, what service these criminals give to their customers! However I then found that my Kindle wouldn't accept the book no matter how many times I uploaded it seemingly because It had not gone through Amazon's software?

Skip to 5 months later and my Brother bought me the actual book for my Birthday. Praise physical objects, you never let me down!

 it is ridiculous that plan A didn't work.   They need to fix that.

As for plan B, what was so difficult about using a giftcard to purchas an e-book?

As for plan C, I'm afraid I did get illegal e-books, but my father was able to get them on my Kindle and I could read them just fine.

I hate that I never have time to hang out here anymore.

Sluggo!

Dr Scott!

Bingowings said:

I like wasps and they only sting if they are provoked or if it's the autumn and they are bored and about to die.

Maybe they'd be tolerable if there were less of them, but they're everywhere. There isn't a place around the house, around the garage, or in various little spaces scattered across the property where one of their nests can't be found. 

If you can, try and break up the empty nests around the place you want to keep wasp free.

Wasps give off a chemical signal when a colony is coming to it's natural end which is used by queen wasps to avoid reusing a nesting place.

If you spread the remains of nest around they will not come back there.

I had a giant wasp nest in my compost bin and after spreading the comb around the various compost bags around the garden they haven't come back to nest, though the do visit.

For Morrissey fans :

There was a Hornet in my shed this afternoon. Big bugger he was.

I managed to put a plastic plant pot over it with a piece of card to shovel him in and carried it outside. Mr Hornet then started to go mad inside the pot and then decided to climb through the holes in the bottom of the pot. I lobbed the pot like a grenade down the garden, it hit the deck and the Hornet flew off.

Crisis over.

The insects that scares me most are horseflies anything with that many legs and a saddle must give one pause for thought.

So I'm building this bee hotel...

In the morning I went down to the local DIY Store and waited for aeons for the chap to slice off my lengths.

Got them home and they were all warped so while I was using straight lines mother nature in the form of planks wasn't playing this game so there were a few wandering nails that needed correcting.

Then I tried to cut some bamboo poles into 5 inch sections using a junior hack saw and the pins in the blade fell out. Naturally these are bigger than the holes they came out off so wouldn't go back in and after trying to cut bamboo with the handle-less blade for a while I gave up.

It's rather hot and I've been very drained after all that foul language so I decided to burn my hand on the oven by accident just to perk myself up.

I shall wander around tomorrow looking for things I can drill holes in (not in a kinky way).

Once in a while I buy a Cyberman action figure or maybe a Dalek bubblebath.

I have an example of all the available Cyberman types all but the current one (they never made a figure of the variant seen in The Wheel In Space).

I was feeling a bit down after burning myself so I thought I'd look into getting the new look Cyberman to join his plastic pals.

That's when I found out Character Options changed the scale of their figures to 5inch to 3.75 inch.

WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!????

I hate reading these filthy homosexual slurs!  Twice on a single page!  It's intolerable.  Obviously some people here have been reading OSC!

What, hornet?