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| Sunday, May 20th, 2012 | | 9:34 pm |
Steam sucks. I hate Steam.
I rate Steam 1/10. I give Steam 0 stars out of 5. I do not like Steam. I dislike Steam. Steam is shite. Steam stinks. Steam is crap. There. That ought to have got the attention of anything browsing LJ, looking for opinions. What does "Ready to play" mean to you? If you've bought a game online and you've just finished downloading it and you see "Ready to play" come up, what do you take that to mean? That the game is ready to be played? Hah! Fool! As if! No, it means you need to verify the files. The official way to do this is to restart Steam so that it will automatically verify the files. You don't actually have to restart Steam. In one of about a dozen display modes, you can right-click the game and click "properties," then click "Local Files" and find a "verify local game file cache" button, which sometimes works. Sometimes it does nothing, and sometimes it seems to be working but actually does nothing, but sometimes it works. It's a good job it's there, because restarting Steam isn't as easy as you might think. To restart it, first you have to STOP it. One way to do this begins with ctrl-alt-delete and the Task Manager. If you're lucky, ending the process will allow you to restart Steam. All the other ways to stop Steam are the first half of rebooting your computer. "Windows has almost finished updating your system, which now needs to be restarted," I can stand. At least it's telling you you need to reboot. Steam says: "Ready to play." Then the game crashes to desktop. That or I get kicked because the server's running a different version of a file and Steam can't tell until I get three-quarters of the way through a campaign. That or I get kicked mid-game because Steam suddenly can't verify my identity as a Steam user. I got into a voice chat today and stuff started locking up, so I thought I'd end the voice chat. Yeah, right. You? A client? End a telephone call? You'll end that call when Steam tells you it's over, you piffling client. What do you think you are, a paying customer? I had so much trouble with it before that I removed it all and reinstalled it. When I removed it all, I lost my OS product key. Partway through reinstalling stuff, my computer either rebooted or logged me off and I got the prduct key back. Today I tried to play a game and crashed to desktop, possibly because I was downloading add-on support for it at the time. I tried to play another game and it said it couldn't launch it because it was already launching something else. It was verifying something else, not launching anything. Francis has not yet expressed a low enough opinion of Steam. Come back, sail power. All is forgiven. Edit to add: right now, Firefox is trying to download three videos (of Cheryl Cerri, for the curious) and Steam is not, officially, trying to do anything. Steam's using more bandwidth just sitting there than Firefox is getting for its videos. Edit again to add: L4D2 is suddenly "not installed" again. WTF? Edit again (*sigh*): restarted Steam and it said "Ready to play" so I tried it and it said: "could not load the launcher .dll as the specified module could not be found," so I tried "validate" and it says: "82 files failed to validate and will be reacquired." Seriously. 82. Is something screwing with my hard drive or is Steam fucked up ... or is Steam fucked up and screwing with my hard drive? | | Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 | | 12:01 am |
| | Tuesday, October 11th, 2011 | | 11:32 pm |
Ugh. New OS.
"You must run that as an administrator to do that." "You must run that as an administrator to do that." "You must run that as an administrator to do that." "You must run that as an administrator to do that." "You must run that as an administrator to do that." I am the f_____g administrator. It's my computer! So I'm trying to extract twenty zipped archives. I select them all, right-click and click "extract all ... " and it asks me where. "Where" is Drive:\director\directory\directory\dire ctory ... and each time I scroll down to click one directory, it scrolls back up to put the top of that directory at the bottom of the window so I have to scroll back down to see what's in it and pick the next directory down the tree. Then it says: "You must run that as an administrator to do that." I tell it to just do it, and it does it ..... for one zip file. Not the first of the selected zip files, nor the last. Just one of them. It turns out wrar390 does exactly what it should: I run it as Admin, select all the archives, tell it to extract them, go through the directories in a vastly more sensible way, tell it to put them "there" and watch it do it. Job done. Good job I'm not relying on Microsoft, eh? | | Saturday, October 8th, 2011 | | 12:09 pm |
Flash Player Downgrade
"Essential upgrade" for Flash Player has made my computer really BAD at viewing youtube videos. Processor use hits 100% and stays there and the video locks up, and there's not much I can do about it because I get about a 10s-30s lag on input once it happens, so clicking PAUSE doesn't actually pause it for quite a while and clicking on the time bar doesn't yank it straight back. It kind of sucks. Thanks, Adobe. Thanks for being really sucky there. | | Monday, October 3rd, 2011 | | 8:10 pm |
| | Saturday, September 24th, 2011 | | 10:52 pm |
| | 12:08 pm |
A lawn is a terrible thing to waste.
Don't get me wrong. Flopping out on the short grass in the sunlight can be very nice. Once, though, it would have been the part of the meadow the sheep have eaten short or the part of the hayfield that had just been scythed short and raked clear. Now, it's a chemical-soaked patch of monoculture that contributes almost nothing to wildlife and costs a fortune in time and fossil fuels to keep short. I think I should replace some of it with something that'll take less maintenance and/or do more good. | | Wednesday, September 21st, 2011 | | 9:35 pm |
Well, there goes summer.
Equinox! Choose, or invent, your own mythological significance or none. The dark half of the year begins now. Well, this week. Probably. Cloud cover could probably move it around a little. We won't know exactly until April, if ever. Around this time of year, anyway. | | Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 | | 4:00 pm |
| | Monday, September 19th, 2011 | | 7:32 pm |
| | Sunday, September 18th, 2011 | | 2:32 pm |
Listen, dick ...
If you have a character limit, post it. If I exceed it, tell me by how much. I don't want to have to go through counting characters after I've typed everything out to figure out which parts to omit to get the length down. I really don't want to type everything out, get told it's not allowed to be over 200 characters, edit it down to under 200 characters and then get told it's not allowed to be over 150 characters. That's f****in' STUPID. | | Tuesday, September 13th, 2011 | | 6:30 pm |
Money well-spent?
$700,000,000 on the memorial? SERIOUSLY? You couldn't think of anything better to do with that? Also: Hey, celeb woman, whatever your name is, rather than spending £1,000,000 sending people out to poke around the rainforest looking for a sodding great crystal to carve into a bath for you, why not have a quick shower instead and sponsor 20,000 acres of that rainforest? Too normal, or something? *headdesk* | | Saturday, September 10th, 2011 | | 5:38 pm |
| | Friday, August 5th, 2011 | | 9:27 pm |
| | Friday, July 22nd, 2011 | | 5:12 pm |
Media coverage
Thursday's Sun devote about a third of page 4 to someone at the UN saying the British media was giving the scandalous phone-hacking by and/or on behalf of News International, which owns the Sun, far too much coverage and the famine in Africa far too little. Normally they mock and deride the UN, but they agreed on that point. Then they devoted a page and a half to chatting to Mr. Sheen's porn-star ex-girlfriend. Then they gave most of a page to the famine in Africa. Then they had a half-page article about a gold motorboat for which someone has paid three billion pounds and did a full two-page spread on the fact that not all of Lady Gaga's outfits are entirely original. ... Yeah. Quite. ... The Star's front page was, of course, entirely taken up by "Jordan and Pete" again. | | Wednesday, July 20th, 2011 | | 5:15 pm |
Muller corner yoghurts: 61p each or 12 for £3. So, er, if I want five it's cheaper to get twelve and leave seven of them in the car park? | | Friday, July 8th, 2011 | | 3:47 pm |
Make it shut up.
The is a Plague-bearer of Nurgle outside my window, and it is shouting: "WassUUUUUUP, guys? Hey y'all! WassUUUUUUP, guys? Hey y'all! WassUUUUUUP, guys? Hey y'all! WassUUUUUUP, guys? Hey y'all! WassUUUUUUP, guys? Hey y'all! WassUUUUUUP, guys? Hey y'all! WassUUUUUUP, guys? Hey y'all! WassUUUUUUP, guys? Hey y'all! WassUUUUUUP, guys? Hey y'all!" Someone please shoot it a lot. | | Saturday, June 11th, 2011 | | 9:01 am |
Happy birthday Hazel
Yes, it's taken livejournal until Thursday to actually let me post this. I'm still going to post it. | | Friday, May 27th, 2011 | | 9:08 pm |
$1,198,565,000,000 is quite a lot of money, isn't it? $1,200,000,000,000 should be coming up around Monday 23:23:46 UTC, based on half-million time. Have a party. | | Thursday, May 26th, 2011 | | 3:19 pm |
Boom da yada
Head da yada Shot da yada Dead da yada Tree da yada Rat da yada Boom da yada. |
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