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Post by Fleck on Aug 11, 2014 17:35:32 GMT -8
RIP Robin Williams.
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Post by Bob on Aug 11, 2014 17:37:29 GMT -8
*pours a drink for the homey*
I was really surprised to hear it. My wife saw it online and we immediately searched to see if it was a hoax. Too bad that it isn't. RIP. He was one of those rare comedians that was loved by children and adults--he could do both types of humor very well.
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Post by countlieberkuhn on Aug 11, 2014 21:55:53 GMT -8
A lot of great celebrities that I loved throughout childhood have died recently, and although all are sad, this one I find particularly upsetting. Apparently he took his own life, so let's hope he found the peace he was looking for.
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Post by Fleck on Sept 13, 2014 1:13:53 GMT -8
I dunno about you guys in the rest of the world, but here in Wisconsin, Fall just happened... hard. Literally, I drove to work Wednesday and had my air conditioning on, and on the way home I had the heater on. Wednesday I was comfortable in boxer shorts and a t-shirt, today I am wearing pants, a hoodie, and I have my space heater on. We went from about 85 degrees to about 50 or so during the course of Wednesday afternoon/evening. WERES UR GLABBAL WARMINHG NOW, SCIEMNTISTSS? ?
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Post by countlieberkuhn on Sept 13, 2014 6:02:56 GMT -8
CONSPIRACY1111! IT MUST BE TRUE AS IT HAS PIRACY IN IT!
It's similar in England, but inverted. It's really goddamn cold in the morning, warm coats all round. By the late afternoon it's like the summer we never had, and going home from work is an exercise in endurance as I'm too lazy to carry my coat, so I wear it instead. Obama, y u no do sumthin aboot it?
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Post by Bob on Sept 21, 2014 16:05:53 GMT -8
Here in California, it's still hot. Always hot. GLOBAL WARMING MUST BE A MYTH BECAUSE THINGS ARE NORMAL IN MY EXACT LOCATION!
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Post by agent0042 on Sept 28, 2014 19:04:15 GMT -8
Sounds like some of kind of major revolution could be brewing in Hong Kong. Still very early days, but they're having massive protests and people there from the Occupy movement. Of course, the Empire is trying to crack down, but I'm rooting for the rebels.
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Post by Fleck on Oct 9, 2014 16:05:46 GMT -8
^%!#&^@%#&^!%&^# GOOGLE!
This isn't really News of the World, but it IS News of the Fleck, which is just as good.
So, earlier this year, my debit card expired. No big deal. My bank sent me a new card with new security details and whatnot and I carried on my wayward son, assuming that there would be peace when I was done.
BUT THERE WAS NO PEACE!
A few days/weeks later, I got an email from google saying that my debit card expired and that I needed to enter in a new payment method if I wanted to keep my domain name at dark-sarcasm.com. Okay, fine. I went to google admin and it went straight to a page asking me to choose my account. I chose my account, and then it asked me to re-enter my password. I did, and found myself back at the "choose your account" page.
So I did.
And it asked me to re-enter my password.
So I did.
And I was back at the "choose your account" page.
And round and round I went. Eventually I figured that I must be using the wrong password, but when I deliberately fudged the numbers, it would immediately spit an error message at me, telling me that the password was wrong. So it wasn't the password. I clicked the "help signing in" button and followed a bunch of useless steps, like clearing my browser cache and logging out of other accounts. Eventually, the help list petered out with a limp, "err... maybe you need to set Google as an accepted site?" and then gave up.
So I was stuck. Annoyed, I left it alone, figuring that maybe Google was working through some issues at home and needed some time to sort out its life. I came back a while later when they sent me another "OMG bad credit card" email. I tried logging in again and same story. This time, I reset my password and double checked to make sure I was using the right account. Still nothing. Frustrated, I gave up again.
I'm now coming up on the deadline for "if you don't give us the money, we take-a you website" sort of situation so I put a concerted effort to actually solve this problem.
For those who haven't experienced it, Google's admin/blogger/whatever site is a confusing mess of links and pages and stupid icons everywhere. Everything redirects to the stupid "maybe you should try clearing your cache!" page. After literally a half an hour of sorting through this crap, exchanging a dozen emails with robots, and logging into like, 50 goddamn accounts, I managed to get to an ACTUAL help page that had a form that you could fill out to ask Google staff a question.
I filled out the form and the submit button grayed itself out and refused to be clicked. I tried refreshing, re-entering the information, deleting stuff. Still nothing. But thankfully, there was a phone number I could call to get customer service. I figured, "goddamnit, I'm gonna fix this damn thing."
I called customer service and found out that I have to update to a special paid service in order to access the customer support line. Even if I wanted to, I can't upgrade unless I can access my admin account, WHICH I STILL BLOODY CAN'T! So... fuck you too, Google.
So more clicking around brought me to a help forum and hey, whaddya know, like the first ten topics are all about "can't access Google admin page, WHYYYYYYY" followed by a chorus of crickets from the google support staff. Well, I mean, one of the admins seems to care, but most of her advice is "click this link that you've already clicked a thousand times."
But through dicking around with these links, I managed to access my "wallet" and change the debit card information. Whether or not this will fix the problem, I'm not sure, since I never went in through the admin page, so maybe Google won't accept it.
Anyway, the saga continues. I found out that there's a second way to access the accounts by, instead of using your own email, you use an email that Google issued you when you signed up. I tried using that account and I seemed to be able to get in, but the page auto-refreshes every second and spits out a "this page cannot be loaded at this time" message. I discovered that if I click the "stop" button right after the page loads but before it refreshes, I can kind of access my admin account, but a lot of the links are messed up and nothing seems to be working right and I STILL can't double-check to make sure that my credit information was changed.
And that's the situation so far. I mean, seriously, Google. This is apocalyptic levels of horseshit. Just let me give you my goddamn ten dollars so I can keep my website. I'll fucking mail it to you if I have to. TAKE MY MONEY, YOU BASTARDS!
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Post by Bob on Oct 13, 2014 8:47:18 GMT -8
That's my big problem with Google. They always want you to use all their stuff. I'm sure there's a reason, but I don't CHECK my gmail. I don't even really remember my gmail username, let alone password. It always sucks a lot to fight so much to pay for something. That's a process that should be really friggin streamlined. At LEAST it should be easy to PAY you!
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Post by Fleck on Apr 28, 2015 23:11:32 GMT -8
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Post by Bob on Apr 29, 2015 6:11:31 GMT -8
Yeah, a student told me about this. PT was the first time in a while that a good, creepy game was made. Not sure if the full game would've been good, but I think they were on the right track with good directors and randomized spookies. RIP SH.
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Post by wyvernxk7 on Apr 29, 2015 20:24:14 GMT -8
And Kojima leaving Konami!? What the what!?
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Post by Bob on Apr 29, 2015 21:52:47 GMT -8
Yeah, this might be the end of Konami. Like...it really really might be.
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Post by Bob on May 12, 2015 19:05:37 GMT -8
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Post by Fleck on May 17, 2015 0:46:57 GMT -8
Jimmy Fallon's been pushing too many pencils-pencils-pencils-pencils.
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