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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jun 18, 2007 10:31:53 GMT -5
They have claimed several times in the past that they have no intentions of revisiting the Diablo franchise (yeah, that's what they said about Starcraft 10 years ago. Give it time and they'll eventually milk it,) Hey now, 8-10 years ago, blizzard said this about SCII Never said they were abandoning it.
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on May 24, 2007 12:35:07 GMT -5
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on May 26, 2007 21:46:13 GMT -5
Ya I wasn't a fan of 12 either. I was kind of thinking at first that it'd be like FFXI except you would automate your party. I like a job system more than a jack of all trades system.
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on May 26, 2007 0:16:35 GMT -5
Can someone tell me what last years profit had to do with the release being delayed of the game?
Are they now making a 3rd version so they can get more money? Well, I guess that would be about the only reason why they would do it.
I think SE started a trend of grave errors where they completely ignor their client base. I'm now for the first time considering boycoting the company as a whole.
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Aug 28, 2007 16:20:54 GMT -5
Every now and then they have a "special" where they let you bring back a character which is older than 3 months of not paid.
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Aug 9, 2007 8:54:49 GMT -5
LOL
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jul 27, 2007 13:02:39 GMT -5
HE hung up on YOU? LOL! I think at that point I would just find a different provider. If I had a contract I would go out and visit them and explained that they said nothing of their continual unsolicited harrassment in the user agreement.
That reminds me of the time that I tried to order a $75 mini safe with electronic input and a key which could unlock it. The purchase was for my company, I called up the seller "Will you accept a faxed Purchase Order on this particular item"... "Sure no problem".
Two days later "Sir you forgot to sign this PO". No problem, I fax in a new one, figure I'll have the item 7-10 days later. The item hadn't come for a few weeks, but I didn't think much of it, and I was very busy so I didn't make it a priority.
Three Weeks after I sent the 2nd PO, they call back, I'm not around, they leave a message, don't leave a number, they call back again, they talk to my assistant "We don't accept PO's under $100." Then my assistant looks on their site for a similar item that is $98. At this point I hear the original message on the machine saying they didn't accept it. So I call them back and at this point I'm irritated "I called you a month ago and the sales rep said this was ok, I have sent you two PO's, I want to buy this item, what do we have to do to do business?"
The sales rep calls me back, "It's been taken care of", doesn't leave a number again. I call them back, get ahold of the guy.
"Hello, the situation has been taken care of, we're sending you an item which qualifies for a PO."
"You have delayed me 3 weeks over a pitly $25? My name is on that purchase order. You made me sign it for the $75 item 3 weeks ago. That $100 item is not on the PO. So what I'm telling you is to cancel that order, I will never approve the change on the PO since you have waited so ridiculously long to inform us of this problem.
Then they proceed to send us bills for the item which we never actually ordered or received. At this point I have a documented case against the company and pull out the original fax and fax confirmation of the order. I have my company refuse their invoice on the basis of failure to provide services. They try a couple of more times to get us to pay for the item, and we told them "hell no" a few more times until they finally gave up.
So if you ever look at buying stuff from CSN supply, don't, lol. And to think, if they had just sent me the item without any hassle, I would have had my company do several thousand dollars of business with them later this year.
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jul 23, 2007 21:22:19 GMT -5
This is similar to the AOL YTMD post a while ago.
So I got a letter in the mail about a week ago, from Time Magazine for a sweepstakes. I called in and signed up for the sweepstakes and have a 1/26,000,000 of winning.
When I signed up, they tried to give me some gifts and sell me some magazines with a "No Risk Trial for 90 Days". I thought I heard $16.99 on the phone for 6 months of subscriptions to 4 magazine titles, I would also be billed $30 some odd dollars every 6 months for a few years, and I could cancel at any time in the billing period. I agreed, and I got a bunch of News Magazines, along with Maxim.
Then 5 days later I saw a $69.99 charge to my card. I called the company up, was very polite and said I would like to cancel and receive a refund. She agreed to cancel subsequent billings.
Me:"1 Minute, Will I also be refunded my $69.99?"
Her:"We ask that you wait until you receive your first set of magazines before you cancel your account. You have a 90 day no-risk trial."
Me:"Well here's the deal, I really am not interested in spending $70 on magazines, so I would just like to be refunded and cancel my account."
Her:Well to lighten the financial burden, I am going to issue you $40 in gas coupons today. Also you are still entitled to your free gifts.
Me:I am really not interested in the gas coupons or the free gifts. Please cancel my account and issue a refund for the amount I have been billed.
Her:"Well we have already taken time to contact the publishers and since we have done with for you, we ask that you wait until you receive your first set of Magazines before canceling the account."
Me: "I am adamant that I do not want this service. Receiving the magazines will not change my mind. So I ask that you cancel my account, and refund the amount I have been billed today."
Her: "One minute Sir, I'll be right back..."
5 min later
Her:"Hello! We ask that you understand that we have already taken time to contact the publishers and that you wait until you receive your magazines before you cancel your account. You have a 90 day risk free trial. After you receive the magazines you can cancel at any time for any reason if you not fully satisfied."
Me:I have received the magazines and am not satisfied so I ask that you cancel my account and issue a refund for the amount I have been billed.
Her:SIr, you just created your account 4 days ago, you could not have yet received your magazines. We ask that you understand that we have already taken time to contact the publishers and that you wait until you receive your magazines before you cancel your account. You have a 90 day risk free trial. You can cancel at any time during your trial.
Me: Does the 90 day risk free trial begin when I create my account, or when I get my magazines?
Her: It begins when you create your account.
Me: Well being that I am within my 90 day free trial period, and I was of the understanding that I could cancel at any time during my free trial period, I am telling you that I want to cancel my free trial period today. So how about you cancel my account today and refund my money?
Her: "One minute Sir, I'll be right back..."
At this point I start loosing my patience. Freaking woman will not let me cancel my "free trial" during my "free trial period" which I was told that I could "cancel at any time". I then prepare what I am going to say when she gets back on the phone.
Prepared Phrase: I want a refund issued today and my account canceled. If you refuse to cancel my account today and do not issue a refund, I am calling my credit card company and informing them that you are not allowing me to cancel during my "free trial period" which I was told that I could "cancel at anytime" and that I want payment reversed since this amount is over $50. They will then give you a call, and you can explain to them why I am not being allowed to cancel during "my free trial period". You are asking me to wait, and I am telling you "no", I want my account cancelled and a refund issued today.
So I am all set to go and then:
Her: Sir you will be issued a refund within 3-5 business days and your account will be cancelled.
Me: Thank you very much and have a nice day.
Her: You too Sir!
I wish I had been tape recording this conversation. It was just too funny. If they ever call me up again, I am going to subscribe just to cancel a few days later with a tape recorder to the phone.
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jul 24, 2007 10:14:54 GMT -5
I am willing to accept the argument that 56% of the audience decided to knowingly give him the wrong answer and is just very very mean.
Yes it is! One person's argument in the comments is that "gravitates" is a very uncommon French word and that "Which of the following gravitates around the Earth": is very confusing and that the French audience had no way of deducing "gravitates". Also I think the common word for gravity is pesanteur.
I'm by no means fluent in french and the question is pretty simple.
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jul 24, 2007 4:30:42 GMT -5
Ahahaahahahaaha. That is so great, I have only studied Latin, but was able to struggle my way through French to understand the context w/o the subtitles.
After all the shots that have been taken at the American education system.......
Actually it's funny, because science isn't big in a lot of countries where you think it would be, such as Japan.
My college roommate and I were both Americans studying physics. He married a Japanese woman. When they first started dating she thought things like
stars are just shiney stones in the sky static electricity can hurt you and kill you in the winter, so only take staticy clothes off in the light and you'll be ok she also thought things like ghosts were real
Her father was a CEO of a pretty big company in Japan and he sent his daughter to the U.S. as an exchange student. She is a really sweet and nice person, but my jaw hit the floor at some of the things she told us.
So yes, when you hear that Americans test lower than the rest of the world....... keep in mind that the tests results are vastly scewed. Americans actually give these tests to everyone, while a lot of other countries only give it to students that specialize in that particular area.
The American education system has plenty of problems, and is widely criticized internationally, but it's hilarious that a lot of the countries that have us "beat" nationally have assloads of citizens publically state such things as "the sun revolves around the earth".
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jun 20, 2007 20:43:09 GMT -5
I like her when she is naked.
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jun 20, 2007 16:33:00 GMT -5
So if you liked the first Fantastic 4, well, you're probably about 7 years old, and aren't really into the concept of things like "plot" yet. If you're thinking of seeing the 2nd one, for no other reason than to go see the Silver Surfer, don't worry, all the cool Silver Surfer scenes were turned into trailers. Watch the 2 Silver Surfer scenes on youtube, and you have your fill. The sequel wasn't quite as plot lacking as the first, but it was still pretty generally bad. At least in the first one, they tried to develop the character's personality. In the second one, all the dialog was so cliche. It seemed like a frickin cartoon. Not quite as bad as Batman and Robin, but still not very interesting. I'm not going to sit here and list all the specific reason why this movie was so bad, but trust me, it didn't much improve from the first one, where for no apparent reason Dr. Doom just decided he had to kill the Fantastic Four. One more note: Hollywood tries to play off people as being super genious's by giving that person the ability to solve any problem/answer any question instantly. The REAL brilliant people in society, aren't like that. They beat their head against the desk first www.bridgeranderson.com/stress.gif [/img] then they take something really complicated, and they break it down into a simple problem. They don't look at coordinates and go "oh well the Silver Surfer is appearing all over the planet and his appearances match an equation, so therefore he will be at x coordinates at this time." A good way to pull off something like that would to be to bring up a globe and see if it forms a shape or a type of curved line and try to do a fit. Edit: With the millions of dollars being poured into that movie, you think it would make sense to hire a good writer, and have a target audience review the script. It would actually give them more profit in the long run. But the crew making those movies obviously isn't doing that
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jul 5, 2007 22:34:43 GMT -5
I personally liked the Island, I'd give it a 6/10 stars. I also wasn't expecting much going into it.
Transformers on the otherhand, this is one of the best movies that I've seen in a long time. I was never a big transformers fan (the cartoon was ok, I just never really got into it). I'm giving this thing a 10 / 10. Well done!
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jun 12, 2007 19:52:39 GMT -5
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jun 12, 2007 19:38:40 GMT -5
Ya, I actually just need space lol, which is why I'm selling now. I bet when that movie comes out, a seperate toy line will come out with it. Then I will buy 1 set of toys for me, 1 set of toys for the kids, and 1 set of toys to keep in the packing. I have discussed this with my gf, and that's the way it's gonna be.
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