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When did companies decide they could afford to treat their customer like a criminal?
Recently, the long-awaited spiritual successor Bioshock hit the shelves. I was excited - until I learned what copy protection they’d used.
OK, first, they use SecuROM. Which places a bunch of unknown drivers etc in my Windows, and forces my DVD-rom to read [...]

Hrrm. Did the last two parts today. Got my stone ring. Hooray for me. There were some difficulties along the way - such as me having missed the fact that if the absolute coordinates are both in the negative, one must ass 180 degrees to the resulting polar coordinate. I spent an hour figuring that [...]

Found Frets on Fire a while ago, and loved it. Guitar Hero using a keyboard as a guitar? Incredibly nerdy, and I loved it. My old keyboard, already old and worn, was chucked for a new one which has the functions keys closer togeather (as F1-5 are used extensively in FoF). Logitech Ultra-Flat is a [...]

Discovered Minkata a while back, but didn’t have the time to complete it. In fact, when I returned to the Cavern a few days ago, I were no less than five Ages behind. Er’cana still had its mysteries, Minkata’s desert was unexplored, I had played no games in Jalak Dador, and I had still not [...]

Like many others, apparently, I am now sinking slowly into the blogging swamp. I did not want this. I am deeply sceptical about the importance of blogs. Bloggers tend to be self-absorbed little bastards, believing themselves to be chaning the world, one blog article at a time. Bullshit. Almost noone reads these fucking things. No [...]