In no particular order of annoyance, just off top of my head:

break != brake
who’s != whose
your != you’re
faze != phase
heroin != heroine
vain != vane != vein
summary != summery
strait != straight
rational != rationale
moral != morale
led != lead
site != sight != cite
weigh != weight
weather != wether != whether
reign != rein and dare i say != rain
wear != ware != where
bear != bare != beer……… You’d think they would at least know this one.
expansive != expensive

Don’t get me started on the mistake fixable by spellcheck. Dear god help us from people who doesn’t bother to spellcheck when they spell like a 10 year old stuck in first grade. Sure it is fallacious to use misspellings and grammar mistakes to discredit other’s argument, but it does make them look like an ass.
I don’t have much to say on the implicit meaning of the title, except that truer words have not been said They may be able to spell correctly, whether through education or spellchecking, but it doesn’t make the junk coming out of their keyboard any more intelligible.

PS: my favorite spelling mistake is kniving for conniving. You’d be surprized by how many people can’t spell it correctly

Disclaimer: I make no claim that I could spell better nor smarter than anyone else. I never did won any spelling bees ya know. I do use the Retardese once in awhile, because there are those who cannot understand regular ol’ English. BLAME INTERNET!

Well, time for another game review. This time, it’s The Witcher. Lemme get this out of my system first: the game looks awesome! The landcape is filled with lush vegetation. The art style is “just right.” The water shader effects are pretty cool. Watching the sunset or sunrise is really nice too.

As for the story, it is somewhat interesting. In a way that it makes me want to read the novels written by the author set in the same universe, but not really all that interesting in terms of bringing something new to gaming. Sure it doesn’t present you with the stupid good or evil decisions, but the game still didn’t make me like enough about the sides they make me choose. There are other parts that do make you somewhat care about the characters. Still, I liked the story, eventhough it feels a bit overdone at times. How many dwarf and elf fantasy games can you name? I can name more than 10 off top of my head.

As for the game play. I didn’t like the combat system. Sure it isn’t a Diablo style clickfest, but now they added timing element to chain your attacks together. I still prefer realtime player’s skill systems like in FPS, or just plain old stat based system like in Morrowind. THe game have almost endless choices of armor, as long as you consider 3 enough (2 of which looks the same, and you don’t get the third about 1 hour before the end). How about weapons. Great variety, except your inventory doesn’t hold weapons. Goodjob on the inventory system! It is the worse I’ve seen in awhile. Oh, the weapons usually suck. The best weapons are given to you in quests. So it doesn’t really give you the incentive to explore. Well, not like exploring is really all that interesting since the maps aren’t as interesting to explore like in Oblivion (which pales in comparison to Morrowind of course).

Back to the story element, I think I won’t bother replaying this one. I was eager to finish it, but from what I’ve read else where the decisions you make really doesn’t change the ending of the story. Therefore, it is just minor change of path to the same ending.

So anyways. I liked this game from a storytelling perspective, but the game part still needs some polishing. Well, the obvious question is that do I think it is better than Oblivion. Well to be honest, I don’t really like oblivion (as in plain jane. Very ok with expansions and mods). It was dumb down for console compared to its Morrowind predecessor. Oblivion lacks the depth of Morrowind. So in a way I do like it more than Oblivion, though I do wish I was given more freedom. It feels like a rollercoaster ride in how it wants to shuttle you from chapter to chapter. Of course you’re free to do the quest in any order you like within any chapter, as long as you don’t touch the main quests. Overall, this may not be a game of the year, but the RPGs to follow have a pretty high bar to clear.

Score: 85% (cowinkidinkily, GS and IGN both gave it this score )

Addendum: Sure there are hookers and stuff in the game, but it isn’t quite as fun as Fable: the Lost Chapter’s Bordello. The mechanics to get laid in this game has more depth than Fable though… You need different gifts and select the right dialog. Compared to just straight gifts in Fable

Edit: Apparently there ARE different endings… I was thinking more along the line of the ending movie. Not the epilog. I guess that is where the “different endings” are. Still not going to replay it for the less than 2 hours of epilog. The different sides seems so minor of a difference to me. The game crashes way too often to put myself through it again… 80+ hours of gameplay it says. Beat the game in less than 20 hours. Where did the rest of the 60 go (I did do all the quests)? I hope they don’t include replay. Otherwise online FPS would have infinite gameplay time /CSwhore

Who writes these fawking game reviews. I just do not understand how Gears of War gotten an average of about 90%… WOW. It is just a rolling piece of turtle shit wrapped up in shiny UT3 powered graphics. Ok, game isn’t THAT bad, but the controls makes it stupider than a pack of dogs licking their privates. It is yet another game dumbed down for the console retards and forced down our collective PC gamers’ throats.

All I want is to reliably being able to enter the run mode. No I don’t want cover now, I want to run. Sometimes the game will throw you a curveball and make you do sideway matrix dodges. Hey, that is nice and all, but how about making it predictable about what you’re gonna do. Don’t use 1 stupid fucking button to make it do all those things. I mean, it isn’t a hard game or anything. I got killed mostly because of the retarded controls. I seriously doubt the Gamespot reviewer played the same game I did. Holy wow, they actually gave it an medal for having tight controls? How much is Microsoft paying you to write that junk? Remove mouth from Gates’ pole please.

Then there are the guns. WTF am I shooting? Pieces of marshmellows of love? I mean, I could spit on those enemies and make them die faster. It doesn’t help when they are about accurate as a 3 year old boy at the public restroom. It just goes every where. They can make people bulge to that size, yet they can’t figure out how to make guns that actually that shoots where you’re pointing. Our alternate universe looks bleak. No wonder it is war torn. Otherwise they would have zero problem taking care of those monsters. Oh I get it. If they actually had an accurate gun, there would be no story. Gotcha!

So in summary, the story is forgettable, combat lame, but hey it looks nice. Ooh, it is another of THOSE games. I can’t believe how hyped this game was. I don’t understand how people who’ve played this game can say it is good. It is average at best (then again, those console tards actually liked Halo series… ). I mean, if you’re 12 years old and get your kicks from hearing someone saying FUCK. Then this is the game for you. Otherwise, ya, go waste your time on some other game.

I’ll be nice since it looks nice: 65%

Dominos With 1500 Hard Drives

Ok, I know it is very unlike me to have a NEW computer and NOT USING it. But ya, I was worrying over this stupid report. Now that is out of the way, the other 2 reports are less likely to give me an headache. I’ll do the presentation on the report in few hours and then I’ll have time to dick around before the next report is due. A whole week in fact That gives me time to tinker around with the new computer and get it running as it should, before I’ll need to get cracking on the other reports

Therefore… (click for bigger pix straight out of my MotoRokr Z6)

Yep, the whole list from here is here. Here is it built:

Slight change of specs: I got a Seasonic BUILT 500W PSU, instead of a Seasonic Branded one. It was same price as a SeasonicS12II 430W. So I got it instead. Yes yes I know, it may be Seasonic built, but the quality may not be there. If it sucks, I could just swap my seasonic from my other computer. Since that one is gonna go back to stock clocks. Therefore, no need for a high quality PSU

I am a bit busy with reports, so benchmarks will have to wait

So almost final specs. GPU pending
E8400
Asus P5KC
Trenscend AxeRam DDR2-800@ 4-4-4-12 @1.8V (should have some good headroom)
Gigabyte Aurora 570S
Asus SATA DVD-Rom 20x (Don’t need another burner. I hardly use it anyways.)
Stickaz! Gotta have stickers.

PS: P5KC is equipped with Realtek sound, not the usual ADI chip… Ah well

I know the Desktop Penryn variant is called Yorksfield in quadcore setup, and Wolfdale in dualcore. Stop telling me about it. I am writing for the lowest common denominator. Which is YOU

insist on talking to me when I have my full sized sealed headphones on. They keep talking and talking before I have a chance to remove my headphone, as if I could hear them because they can’t hear the music I am listening to. When I have music blasting in a sealed headphone that reduces outside noise by around 10dB*, is it any surprise that I can’t hear a single word they say while my headphone is on? Then they act like I am fawking deaf when I asked them what they said?

Proper procedure:
1. Tap me on the shoulder
2. wait for me to take off the phones
3. Talk.

Not talk before I know that you’re even there, while I have my headphones on

*For those of you who skipped math in grade school, dB is based on 10 based logarithmic scale. So -10db is 1/10th of the power of the sound, which is about 1/2 of perceived “loudness” (-3dB is 1/2 the power: 10^(-3/10)= ~.5). With music blasting, you ain’t going to hear something half as loud as a normal conversation.

Same thing with my computer speakers. They think the music is not that loud because they are standing outside of the optimal range of the speakers. Note that most computer speakers are near field. They are designed to sound the best at <5ft range, and outside of this sweetspot the sound isn’t that great, metaphorically and literally.

My computer speakers. The best sounding (affordable) 2.0 computer speakers. They spank Monsoons, Creative Gigaworks, Klipsch ProMedia etc.

They look small here, but they are a towering 12″ tall. I’ll write a review for them when I feel like it.

PS, I am taking donations for the Beyerdynamics DT990. I can’t get it out of my mind since I heard it at the store. Need Money NOW

2 weeks ago I went ahead and nuked some of my old database tables for my old blog, which i keep around for posterity’s sake, thinking that I didn’t need it. Au contraire! I didn’t know it needed the settings table. Ah well. Luckily, I am s.m.r.t. enough to keep a database backup around, so I SQLed the table back. BAM! my old blogpopped back to life. Shame on me for noticing this today

Edit: Wow, I just went through some of the code for the old blog. OMFG, I can’t believe I let slip some such crappy code.
Though, I’ll give meself some credit for the look. Eventhough it is rendered in quirks mode, it is looking as I originally intended when I first made it 4 years ago, on today’s latest browsers. HAR!

C2D E8400, AxeRam DDR2-800×2G,Asus P5KC,Seasonic S12II 500W (or 430 ), 500G HDx3, 8800GTS + other misc items.
Thinking about a Gigabyte Aurora case or a LianLi V1000, depending on the mood i am in when I go get it. Same for the CPU cooler, just whatever fits the mood

3.6GHz with 9×400fsb sounds pretty good. Though, I am not quite sure what to do with all that processing power.

Yes, I’ve survived yet another year. Go me

The requisite new year resolution thing.
1: Ok. Again, waste less money on computar junk…
Though, like last year, I am not planning on sticking with this very long as I am eying this new Penryn setup, which is due in couple of weeks. I am having a hard time picking between a 2.66 Quad or a 3.0 Dual. Hmmmmm. I am thinking to go with a dual core, since most applications don’t benefit from the 2 extra cores. Plus, clocking the dual @ close to 4GHZ will be fun. Clocking the quad this high will need some serious cooling and power. No thanks. I don’t feel like spending 200 bucks or so on just a powersupply Plus, I can always get a fast quad when there is a price drop

2: Get started on project car #2. Current project #1 is a bit costly so it is semi in hiatus Hopefully this one won’t cost that much, none of my past projects seemed to rack up the zeros so quickly So that rules out another /////AMG or a my favorite ///M. Thinking about yet another SR20DET powered junk. May be 13B. Whooooooooooosh power baby.

3: FAWKING graduate. Uh. School. Fucking. Sucks.

4: Various self improvement stuff

PS: Current CPU temperature: 29C as read by CoreTemp.

I’ve gained a little more insight on the router thing. When I first noticed that the router was leaking, it had 2-3000 active sessions according to the router. Checking again at around 1000 active sessions, it had no leaks. HMMMMM I’ll do more digging. May be I’ll chain couple of these port scan sites together and do it all at once.