EA penalises its existing customers; nobody cares
To follow up from my last babblings on the scourge of expansion packs and unfair advantages, EA/DICE has really put the cat amongst the pigeons with the re...
whinges
The Power of Boy Scouting & Git Stash
No, I’m not advocating beavering your way to several badges while wearing ill-fitting shorts, a neckerchief fastened with a woggle and risking a criminal rec...
And another thing… BF3 Expansion packs
From the blurb on the Battlefield Blog (emphasis mine):
Since when was it in vogue…
… to make aspects of your game totally totally and utterly unbalanced when new players are in the mix? I realise that people are OCD and like collecting shit...
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560 Ti OC - Avoid
This card, amongst various other factory overclocked GTX 560 Tis are causing problems for lots of people. There are various 560 Ti cards that have the OC pos...
Good support (for once)
… kinda. I recently built a new computer and one of the parts I received was faulty. The heatsink bracket had a missing thread, so it was impossible to screw...
Valve’s response to being hacked
… was very, very disappointing. I’m somewhat befuddled by the extremely low key response to the incident.
British Telecom: SIM codes
tl;dr summary
Stackoverflow is good… but
Stackoverflow is a phenomenally useful resource with a huge community. You can post questions that span the full gamut of programming, from ponderous questio...
Normal service to resume shortly
I’ve had an … interesting few months.
Terms that mildly displease me
Concretion
Steam is testing my patience
Steam is great; Steam is good. What’s not to love about the venerable, all-singing, all-dancing Steam? Well, how about the fact that they shut down their ser...
Clownshoes DRM coming soon
Can you believe this horse shit? Yes, you read correctly. DRM that requires you to be online. At all times. Not at all irritating. Check the calendar, folks ...
Mouse Input in FPS Games
Am I the only PC gamer that is really, really fussy about mouse input? I say this because it feels like every other PC game I play comes with default input s...
Visual Studio 2008 ordering fail
Something I’ve just noticed is that Visual Studio falls far, far short when it comes to solution ordering.