Downloaded the costume pack 1 and 2, desperate escape, lost in nightmares and extra figures yesterday. These cost me 1020 points, or £8.67, leaving me with a not so round points balance. Although I have yet to play the campaign episodes, I can safely say that Mercenaries Reunion is absolutely amazing. Barry Sandwich, anyone?
I now understand why the repair service was so quick; they sent me a new console. It’s the same model (premium, B) but with quieter fans and a different optical tray that opens a lot faster and is much, much quieter. It’s nice that they included a free one month XBox Live! membership card, but they messed up with my licence transfers. Re-downloading my stuff, as it says here, did not remedy my situation. I checked the licence transfer process page and all 311 of my licences were still assigned to my old console. Oh joy. It took about five minutes to transfer the licences and re-download the content keys (the web download history page is a godsend). All in all, things could have been much worse.
Just checked my repair status for my XBox 360. I only sent it off last Wednesday, but they’ve skipped phases 2 (received) and 3 (repaired/replaced) on the repair status list; phase 4 means it’s being returned. Damn, they do work fast at Frankfurt. Continue reading ‘XBox 360 repaired, returning soon.’
Quite simply, lol. Yeah, it’s resolved now, but not through any intervention by Sony; we all know a firmware update would probably have made things worse.
+1 XBox fanboy ammunition cache.
I compiled a soundtrack a few days ago; it’s on the usual place. Y’know, that bay full of pirates.
Yes, the game is full of win and perhaps the best crossover game yet, but it’s not going to knock Marvel vs Capcom 2 out yet, too many people have played that game already.
What are you waiting for, go grab that soundtrack!
Yes, Iwata is the boss of Nintendo. Full story.
It’s funny, Nintendo aren’t known for deviating from the same recipe so isn’t his comment a hypocritical representation of the company?
They’ve done it again. Those boys at Cupertino are going to ransack your wallet a second third fourth time with the iPad, a totally new and innovative (read: it’s been done before) perfectly hyped and marketed brick that is going to perform exactly the same functions as the iPod Touch/iPhone, but with a better specification and a larger screen size (that shouldn’t have borders, but I guess they’re there to create an illusion of scale).
Continue reading ‘iPad = oversized iPod Touch/iPhone? Oh yes…’
It seems that many other candidates share my sentiments.
The plot thickens. And it thickens some more. As far as I know, this is the first time there has been such student outrage over an examination, but we have Facebook to thank for that; although my school is probably going to send a piece of their mind in the form of a letter or two to AQA headquarters (don’t quote me on that).
This pretty much sums up the general feeling towards the exam:
The exam was a huge joke. Where the hell were genetics, respiration and photosynthesis?
There was not much content related to the actual specification on the paper yet we did get something that was explicitly stated not to be on the paper (according to the specification), and that was a question on the
Spearman rank correlation. Yes, some old folks out there and university students may claim that we are whining but who cares what they think? After all, this is a new specification, so what do they know? These are our futures AQA is screwing with, I expect at least a free re-sit. Lowering the grade boundaries i.e. normalizing won’t do much if universities know the paper was a dud.
Damn you shrews!
…and it only took me 5 hours.
Prologue
The upgrade was from a ECS HT 2000 (AMD690GM-M2) to a ASUS A8N-SLI.
The ECS was okay, however:
- It had a fairly standard Phoenix BIOS which did the job well, but didn’t have all the ASUS extras (AI N.O.S comes to mind) and the BIOS layout which I missed sorely from my broken-down A8V-E Deluxe.
- The onboard sound was more or less broken, leading to a purchase of a Soundblaster LIVE value.
Continue reading ‘Motherboard upgrade complete…’
Upon joining and dying in a Multiplay.co.uk 2Fort server, I was awarded with about 14 weapons, of which about 5 were unique. I now have all the unlockable weapons (excluding the Gunboats); I now need to focus my attention on getting some hats, either through crafting or (shock!) idling. And no, idling was not responsible for my remarkable weapon unlocks. It may have had something to do with the fact that I used an artificial method of unlocking all achievements. However, when this initially didn’t work I reverted my 100% achievement status back to my legitimate achievement status. The game then awarded me the weapons because it thought it owed them to me. Does it really matter though?
Every 15,430 seconds (4 hours, 17 minutes, and 10 seconds) you have a 3.5714% chance of receiving a hat. (source)
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that I’ve yet to encounter a hat; the Ghastly Gibus (A.K.A Poor Man’s Hat) doesn’t count.
