Be Excellent To Each Other

Driving through the hills to Huddersfield, via Holmfirth, was beautiful today.

Surely it would be more embarrassing if she was writing them on your wall for all your friends to see?

Happy X-man everyone. I was away, and I'm sure I was missed (right? Am I right, folks?). Stuff.

Damn, I'm out of practice...

One supposes, yes.

This guy is the most arrogant asshole ever, a mesmerizing read.

Wow, what an astounding twat.

That's pretty spectacular.

In other news, I have made a massive IKEA Expedt bookshelf. Huzzah!

Visit Geekosystem for a picture of the controller in question, and also this gem in the comments:



It's true. Aside from the fact that one of the first results is on Gamersfront entitled 'A study on how to destroy your reputation' (together with an apology not unlike that of the fired Chrysler PR guy who also claimed it was 'a mistake'), that virtually all results for Ocean Marketing and half of those for their Avenger product are now about the flamewar rather than the actual controller, the thing has already become a meme.



More images and also a Twatter conversation on KnowYourMeme include IGN withdrawing the support (which they claim they never offered in the first place) and the Ocean guy responds by calling them douchebags.

Could it be there really is such a thing as bad publicity?

EDIT: Oh shit! Turns out it's nothing new either!

And the closing bracket, it looks like. What does the power switch do?

And, more importantly, what does Buffy look like on it?

Hurrah!

I was born in Huddersfield!

Hurrah!

I grew up in Holmfirth!

Hurrah!

I was drinking in Huddersfield this evening!

Yes, 'tis lovely scenery.

I'm laying in bed and dead tired after getting home from Christmas. Christmas is another place of food and warm rooms and noise. My eyes ate sore with lack of a good night's sleep for some time now, but I feel reluctant to go to sleep because I've been dreaming a lot these past few nights and it's bothersome, so I don't feel relaxed. :/

hahahahaha. Builder "couldn't make it today, daughter's gone to hospital" and the roofer "doesn't have his car". He's gone to fetch the roofer, whhc confuses me, as surely a roofer needs a ladder to look at the roof, but maybe he's got a jetpack?

Fantastic! It'll give me something to read this week.

I sent the second link I found (of the guy going insane earlier in the year) to Penny Arcade but the owner of the site had already noticed the huge spike in traffic so I bet he's done it himself too.

So, the man the landlord brought around said "the leak in the roof has caused the water to soak through the Walls, into the wardrobe and caused the mould." Which is very good news, under the circumstances as of the roof was fixed in October this would not have happened. I'm in a very good mood now. Thank you agent of the landlord.

If I were starting up a budget perfumery, I cannot help but feel that "cheap smells" is a name I'd avoid like the plague.

It makes it sound like they're trying to cover me in deers arse.

It's on the bottom edge and it sticks out slightly. So if you rest the bottom edge on stuff (as one commonly does), you turn the damn thing off by accident. Happened to me three times in ten minutes.

I assume you didn't read a single review of this thing before saying "yes. Buy one for me." then?

I've no idea how to sideload either video content or a video playback app; and in any event I don't have a laptop with me to do so with (I travel with just an iPad these days).

I got a chocolate reindeer from Thorntons and I asked child A to put the box in the bin, he said: "You might need it, if you don't finish it so you have somewhere to keep it for later".... It's like he doesn't even know me.

Duh.

I saw a shop called Marx Estate Agents today, I swear to God.

Harpo is a silent partner in that business.

Why do communists drink herbal tea?

The plot thickens!

Though "Ocean Marketting/Stratagy" has been dismissed, the grovelling owner and inventor of the Avenger itself has been spotted posting fake, glowing reviews of his product on Amazon and nasty 1 star ones of his competitors, despite exhortations that Internet vigilantes should stop doing the same to him.

The new Avenger PR guy, allegedly in-house, seems to be an illiterate high school DJ. Just as well, since he also doesn't seem to exist either.

I can't open spoilers on my iPhone. Haylp.

Take your gloves off?

I did, actually. I recall that it has no volume buttons, and they did mention something about the power button, but I don't think it was that.

NM.

To be honest, it's so fucking cheap it's not even registering in the "new tech I've bought" part of my brain.

I'd quite like one, many moths from now. Due it being cheap, and appearing to do stuff I want.

Hang on a minute, can you not just turn it the other way up?

That is a fascinating car crash of a marketing disaster.

Seriously, don't fuck around too much with geeks. They're good at trashing people on the internet.

Although the "Welcome to the internet, bitch. That’s how I roll." line at the end of Dave's (justified) shouty email made me not care who came out of this DRAMAH on top, Gabe's "I will personally burn everything I’ve made to the fucking ground if I think I can catch them in the flames." line was a bit of an eye-opener.

I'd agree, but I think that was the best he could come up with to try and out-douche the supremely angering 'put on your big boy hat' comment, which is possibly the most cunt-ridden piece of smug antagonism I've read online since the fuckhead on Eurogamer who'd call people stuff like 'Sparky' while (not unlike Paul 'Stratagy' here) flip-flopping into "I'm the victim here, you're having a go at me" having successfully baited his target with an outrageously ignorant comment moments before.

And breathe!

(the comments sections relating to this thing are hilarious, if you're going around reading sites about it. One commenter uses the term 'dutch bag')

Note that he wasn't specifically talking about Ocean Marketing there -- he was talking about bullies in general.

Sounds like he's using my phone... wonder what my phone would correct it to.

Spicy bag*

*when being less careful, this ended up as "EPIC vag"**

** My phone seems to go off on one if I start a sentence with epic, and I'm quite sure it didn't learn it from me because it's far too impolite. Weird.

And talking of naughty things my phone has done, trying to find out the day of the Superbowl it autocorrected me into searching for cock date.

Fortunately, the results are generally benign. Aside from the Superbowl dick slapping porn

I'm back in work today for one day... One day which will be the slowest day of Christmas for me.

Ill. Meant to be going away for New Year party fun times, but I'm going to have a re-run of last year.

Same here, The Vision.

But! I'm planning on where to go at lunch to spend my £15 Christmas money so it's distracting me from being here. So far it's between Hobbycraft for a model or maybe some acrylic paints or Action Records for some records.

That sounds like a fun way to spend the morning.. but what about the afternoon?

I'm thinking about where to spend my lunch. Either in my car or downstairs in the freezing, abandoned canteen... Except it won't be the car because I've got a grotty pool car while mine is being fixed.

Annoyed! There's so much more stuff I could be doing today.. I've only just started Saints Row 3 and I want to play more of it!

Well... I'll be ok if I get a model kit.

Well YOU'LL be alright then.. but what about me? Selfish..

I'm going to update my gaming spend in the gaming spend thread, if I can find it.

Whittling?

I'm still off. Until next tuesday. You mugs

The thing is, there's no point in me being here! I plan on doing nothing apart from throw some old paperwork away and reading the forum.

Sounds productive to me!

I'm in a car heading to a Jewish wedding in Glasgow.

Mazel tav!

Enjoy!

That does sound like the set-up for the worst sitcom pilot ever though. He's a strict orthodox Jew! She's a fun-loving bonnie Scottish lass! Expect fun, laughter and heart-warming stories when you meet "The McGoldbergs!"

Have a lovely new year, people. I'm off on hoibobs.

"Oy vey! They've deep fried my Kippah!"

Nice!