Sov's Crazy Ramblings

Today, I got my first notice for paying one of my servers… 5 minutes later… it is cut off, disconnecting about 100 people from Teamspeak, severing their voice communication, losing them lots of money in ships…

I called my server company, where the indian guy who answered claimed there was “nothing he could do” and “the system automated is sir”. Helpful…

Meanwhile I was trying to pay for the server, which i hoped would sort it out and make it go back on… I don’t use credit cards much… but I don’t think that made much of a difference here. I have 1 credit card, 1 debit card, and my parents have 2 of each… After trying ALL of the cards, I raged…

Every single fucking card has a new “security” system on it. that you could previously avoid and bypass. “VINI, Verified by Visa, Security Bollocks”. “Please enter your mothers cat’s aunt’s middle name before she was ressurected as zombie mutant jesus” Actually if it had asked me that I would probably have had more luck.

My spanish cards, the ones with the “vini” system… just don’t work, there is no sense to the system whatsoever, it appears that to use your credit card, you have to… Login to the website.. Login again when you get to the vini section as it forgets who you are while you click 1 link. Then you add your credit card, fill in all the info about you that the bank already has and some more, then you have to.. get this.. you have to fill in the site you want to buy from, the username and password you use on that site and then it might work…? I have no idea honestly as I thought, “fuck that” and didn’t bother to do it.

The UK cards were different, they required the Verified by Visa thing.. Something that actually doesnt make much sense either but isn’t quite as fucking stupid as the spanish one.. You have to put in your details as normal… Cept it asks for your post code.. and as we dont live in the UK it doesn’t like our one… So after a phone call to the company we found out we’re meant to use THE BANKs post code… Stupid huh… the only way of finding that out is  calling them…

Eventually I managed to get the visa thing working and the server paid for… though it was down for about an hour, majorly inconviniencing 100 or so people… all due to badly designed automation and retarded banking systems…

Good job to all companies and services involved, you’re setting a shining example for the required level of retardation in this world.. Good show!

As I previously promised here is my personal opinions on the recently released S.T.A…. What the hell, stalker.

Stalker Clear sky is a prequel to the first title, STALKER: Shadows of Chernobyl. Both games take place in a strange future ukraine where instead of killing everything, the destroyed reactor at chernobyl instead spews out strange waves that change the fabric of time and space and twist it everywhichway. This makes for some interesting gameplay, with the player constantly having to dodge dangerous anomalies and work out how to use the zone to his or her advantage.

You can’t actually change the sex of your character as that is an integral part of the story, another strange thing that perhaps should be noted is that not once does there appear a female character in the game. I seriously hope in this post apocalyptic world there are indeed females, otherwise I would like to reconsider walking through that odd looking white marsh a few miles back. o.O

STALKER Clear Sky, however, has some rather sad features that its predeccessor did not. Yes it has some beautiful graphics and I was in fact so amazed by the graphics that I took a good five minutes upon starting up the game to look at some of its beauty. It features some of the best HDR, lighting, shadows, mapping etc.. that I have ever seen in a game. Okay its not perfect but very little is. Added to that the performance level of it was good even at highest settings, so they got my hardware actually working.

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Yes, I’m sure you have seen this before, but oh well, I thought about it today when I heard the original so I decided to watch it again. So here it is.

Also anyone notice that even though I wrote about O BA MA a while back he is still the top subject in my google ads? even though it was only mentioned once? God america really blows up the whole election thing.

Where the hell is everyone? Seriously. I mean I was up all day and all night… well I got up at 6… o.O anyway… lol

Where the hell is everybody? no one all day and it has just been quiet after quiet. Well Jeff came in for a bit but left reasonably shortly after, plus reds came and ruined my mining joy, so I then played WoW and watched the simpsons mindlessly until just a few minutes ago. I got 1 level or less in WoW and I feel it was a bit of a slow waste of my life in doing so.

Anyway I’m glad my life is a terribly wreck like it is now. Also tomorrow im sorting out my surround sound system which I have had incorrectly setup for 6+ months.

Woah, thats what my life has come down to? looking forward to mundane normal activities that would bore any normal person into insanity. Maybe I myself am insane, thats something to think about while I try and go to sleep while not being at all tired.

I’m sure however that I will wake up and find that it is somewhere in the afternoon and I have wasted another good 8-10 hours of my life in an unconscious state.

Also thinking back to today there was something pretty major that I was going to rant about and it pissed me off something terrible… But I just can’t recall it now.

So, Thanks again for reading and now to go and make it look like I have a semi-normal sleeping pattern!

p.s. For some reason I can hear a sound like it is raining outside, and it smells like rain, but I can’t see shit on my street as the government is obviously trying to save power or increase rape statistics by turning off the street lights after sundown, actually come to think of it I havnt seen on even on all week.