If you buy just about any product and have an issue with that product, you have a reasonable expectation of being able to take that product back and get a replacement. Example; Buy a TV and it doesn’t work, you return it and get a new one.. Or return it and get your money back. That new shirt not fit quite right? Take it back..
Not with software. With software once purchased you’re stuck with it. There is typically a very strict “no return” policy, and this sucks. It’s to the point now where most stores wont even take back unopened software. Once the transaction is done, its done.
So if you get that software home and it just plain doesn’t work, you’re hosed. You’re just out that money, and you have absolutely zero recourse other than to not purchase that companies software any more. That’s where I’m at with Ubisoft.
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I’m pretty strong supporter of Adobe products or at least I think I must be because I have purchased Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects as well as upgrading each many times. I’m on my 4th or 5th iteration of photoshop at this point and after some quick and dirty math I think Adobe has gotten well over $5000 of my hard earned money over the years. These are all for my own personal use and because as a software engineer I think software piracy is just wrong. Even so that still hurts a tad.
Recently Adobe announced that they would be offering their software at rental subscription prices and I was excited! What a great idea!! But did they do it right? I don’t think so.. but they are so close!
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Ibanez Mandolin
I have always enjoyed wood working and have done a bit of wood turning in my time. And as I have mentioned before (more than once), I have always wanted to play an instrument of some kind.. Recently it occurred to me that there was no reason I couldn’t combine these two activities..
To that end, I decided to try my hand at becoming a hobby luthier (a maker of stringed instruments) and make myself something to play.. I went back and forth considering all the options and decided that for my first instrument I’d like to make a Mandolin. ( Dulcimer was a close second and I’ll likely make one of those in the future, as well as making a Viola if I can manage to do this with any proficiency. )
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Frozen Synapse
I have always been a huge fan of the turn based tactical isometric games such as Jagged Alliance, JA2, Xcom..etc.. For whatever reason that style of meticulous gameplay always appealed to me, but I had always assumed I was alone in my passion because those games never seemed to last very long in favor of first person shooters or real time strategy games..etc..
In fact, the industry as a whole has completely moved away from turn based game play, which I find to be a shame. Well thank god there are awesome independent developers around to fill the void!
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Red Faction: Armageddon
I played Red Faction back in 2001 when it first came out and enjoyed the heck out of it. It was the very first game to come out with the Geo-Mod game engine which allowed for massive destruction of the game models and levels. The game itself was otherwise unremarkable, but the fact that you could destroy everything made it awesome.
I find it funny that one little thing like that can make or break a game entirely, and the massively destructable nature of the Red Faction games entirely “makes” these titles.
Red Faction II was one of those games that came out only a year or so later but it managed to skip my notice and the series sorta fell off my radar.
The other day I picked up the latest in the franchise; Red Faction: Armageddon. And I’m glad to say that it’s up to the original games standards in all ways .. to include the shortcomings..
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Toiletduck's World of Tanks Contour Icons
So I find that I am still playing quite a lot of World of Tanks. Great game! I’m having a lot of fun with it. However, I think the UI needs a bit of work. One of the areas where I think it lacks is with regards to the vehicle icons, which are very uninformative.
So with that, I made my own and offer them for download here:
Toiletducks World of Tanks Contour Icons.zip
Game Version: v.0.6.5
File Size: 1,476 KB
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