So, I’m not sure how many of my readers use or have used Jacob’s paste bin, but it was the best bin on the net. Due to douchebag skittles who seem to think botting is cool, the site’s down. A real drag, since I used the site a lot to post up random source and snippets for people to use daily. Another site downed due to retardation, so you guessed it, this is a rant post…

So I see a lot of nice useful sites being taken down due to abuse. It’s fucking stupid, and shouldn’t happen, period. Little fucking skittles who watched Hackers one too many times, thinking they’re fucking big shots with other peoples software, or opening command prompt and pinging the fuck out of some server. Real big, douchebags… 90% of them haven’t ever been outside of a Windows enviroment, and if they have, they’re using some pretty GUI based *nix.

You aren’t fucking “hackers”, I don’t give a fuck what anyone has to say. And if you want to defend the little bitches, go ahead – you’re as low as they are. This isn’t the fucking 80′s, tagging sites isn’t cool (not that it ever was, but some had it coming). But attacking sites that offer free services? Seriously? We take our own personal time to offer free services to you, and you just spit in our fucking faces?

How about growing a fucking pair. If you’re going to attack a site, atleast tag it so they can retaliate. You can’t do shit but spam comments and use some third party software to do the work for you? Bunch of nub ass bitches these days, lmao…

I’m done with this post. Jacob, I’m sorry you were forced to shut your service down due to ignorance.

-Nito

Alright, so as most who know me already know, I do a lot of freelance jobs.. I don’t ever go by the rules they post on the freelance sites such as “You may not start a project until your bid has been selected as the winner.”. I find this to be a retarded rule which shouldn’t be there. Who fucking cares if I work on it before I even get the job? Do you think the people buying the code really give a shit – I think not. If anything, they’d be happier since the job will then be done that much quicker.

Anyways, I recently bid on something people may need code for in the future. I’m not sure if I’ll win the bid, but whatever.. I’m posting the code for free here for future use. I don’t use CSS when I don’t have to, mainly because it’s kind of stupid to write it out if it’s not going up as a full page, or when it’s being integrated into a pre-existing site…

Now this has no fancy admin panel, as like I said before – it’s meant to be integrated into an existing website.

index.php

profile.php

enter_code.php

set_code.php

save_code.php

config.php

inc.php

sql.sql

So there’s the files if you wanna run through ‘em, and integrate it into your own site somehow. And remember, open source is free, so don’t fucking turn around and sell the code and scripts we write for profit, douchebags…

-Nito

Alright, so I haven’t updated in a little bit and I thought I’d drop in and post one… We’ve been busy with some web design jobs. Our main project is for a Refurbished Mac store. His site’s pretty much finished, and is based on the Mac interface. It has the top Mac menubar, as well as the bottom toolbar. Transparent boxes to resemble the folder opacity on Leopard.

Also, we’ve been designing websites for later auctions. What this means, is that we’re designing full blown websites to auction off later. I’m not sure where we’ll be auctioning them off, but I’ll post when I do.

Aside from that, there’s not much going on. I’ll update again in awhile.

-Nito

Well, I decided it’s about time I go back to college. I went for a few semesters for software development and it didn’t work out too well.. Of course, I was also going to have to pay an ass load of money to go, not to mention at the time, I thought “Why the fuck should I pay some school all thsi cash to teach me shit I already know, to get a piece of paper?!” – yeah… Well, this time I decided I’ll go for Website Design, since that’s been my main focus lately. And with Uncle Sam paying $12,000 of my way, it’s not so bad.

So I have a couple more things I have to get done before I start.. Pre-register and what-not, orientation and then start the “fast track” program at the end of this month. So, yeah……. Probably not going to have as much time as I’ve had for projects and what-not, but I’ll try and keep everything updated as much as possible. Anyways, I’ll update again at some point.

-Nito

Alright, so I bought Velvet Assassin the other day. Watched the commercial, read the reviews, saw some gameplay – looked good…

So I sit down and start playing.. It starts out with you in some ditch next to a sewer or some shit. I move around a bit to get a feel for the controls (Silent Hill 2 meets Assassins Creed? Not a fun combo.).. Climb up the ladder, and head off to my first objective – kill some drunk guard – easy. Crouch down, sneak up and slice his throat – good to go. On to the next objective.. Over and over and over (And that’s about correct for the enemy part. Three? Whatever…) until I get to the bunker.

So by this time, I pretty much have the whole “crouch’n'kill” shit down, not too hard. So now I’ve come to a fence, I crawl under (they really should have just made it a cut scene..) and have to manually crawl through a 3 foot hole (maybe? It was short as fuck) to the bunker area. I go through the grass into the shed and grab a syringe of morphine and a ‘collectable’ (You have to collect these to level your skills up o.O?!), turn around and see the guard in front of the bunker door and the one on the roof. Shoot up some morphine and run at the guard by the door – slice, dead.

So I open the door and I’m pretty sure this is where the mission ended. I ended up with 800 points (You need 1,000 to level up one ‘star’ which is a skill point) and soldier because I missed some collectables I was supposed to pick up (I’m not even going to go into depth on how much the ranking/point system sucks in this game…). So the new mission starts, and I’m inside the bunker. Same ol’ shit – crouch’n'kill time! Except this time guards are harder to get to? Not really. The beginning guards are always alone, and eventually you get a gun (Silenced, how convenient) which makes taking guards out a fucking joke.

When you finally hit point where you get the “Whistle to draw a guard to you” message, it starts getting semi-interesting. You’ll find yourself in a couple rooms where you get non-roaming guards or short distance roamers. Head shoot the furthest one, shoot up some morphine and drop the second (There’s one room in the bunker where this is almost impossible, since killing someone removes the morphine while you get jumped by 3 guards after killing the first – hide behind the boxes next to the radio and head shot them as they peer around).

I got to the end of the bunker mission and turned the game off, as it was repetitive and boring. Anyone who rates or has rated this game on a number/start scale anything more than a one should not be allowed to review and rate video games. They either got paid to fucking rate it decently, or they’re just complete retards who never played a decent fucking FPS/Strategy. I understand where they were going with the game, and I digged the idea of being more hand to hand than weapon based fighting, but seriously… If you can’t keep your players intrigued through the first couple of missions, your game is a fucking fail.

The good..

• The Concept. Maybe a different development team could have pulled it off.
• Dead Bodies. Dragging is always nice when you’re an assassin, I mean, look at Hitman…

The bad..

• The Graphics. Yeah, I realize the game’s based on WWII, but should the graphics be too? If it weren’t for the semi-decent character model clothing graphics, this would have been lower.
• Whistling? Are you serious? What assassin besides the original fucking James Bond (He’s classified as a spy, but wtf ever. Same difference.) would whistle?
• Menu Screen was cluttered as shit. Hard to navigate through any of it. And maybe I didn’t look hard enough, but where the fuck were the mission objective or even overview (Not the fucking movie…) while in-game?

The fucking hideous inbred child..

• Movement… I can’t remember the last time I had to use both sticks to move a fucking character around.
• Repetitive gameplay.. If you can’t fucking keep your audience captured in the first mission, why would we continue to play?

Alright, I’m done with this review.. I traded this game in for Dead Space and Fallout 3, so I’ll be reviewing those too next. So until then…

-Nito

So, I ordered a Cricket Broadband modem from these guys about a month back. It gets here a about a week later, and I’m happy, because now I have a wireless modem to use when we get the stupid freak power outages around here. So I toss it into one of my USB drives to give it a go, install the software and connect.

Ok, so this is where this becomes a rant, and I go off on this company..

Well, the wireless modem itself is nice, I suppose. Black and green, and it’s got the neon blue bars to indicate wifi strength. So mine stays in the one bar (For the most part), which obviously means I have a shitty ass connection (Now remember, I live in the heart of the city – about a 10 minute walk from downtown). So I open FireFox to see how fast it work. Oh man.. I sat there for about 10 minutes waiting for Google to load. Now, if anyone reg’s Google, they’ll know that all it is is a blank white page with a couple of images and a text box, so wtf?! Yeah, so I disconnect and take it out.

A few days go by and the power goes out on our block again and I load it up on my laptop because I had work to do. Again, one to no bar. What a piece of shit… All in all I used the thing 3 times, racking up around 45MB of use (I wrote a little program to convert bytes into megabytes and so on, as the log only shows you in bytes, and who the fuck would want to convert that themselves?!).

Now, I hate their software with a passion. They activate the internet gateway option in your network panel (for those of you who have this, and may have been like how the fuck do I get back on the net I already have?!), which now restricts you from using any other connection method other than Cricket. Yeah, shitty software to go with their shitty service and shitty hardware – who’d of thunk it… So I unistall their software, and then have to go in and deactivate the internet gateway, reset the wireless connection I had prior to purchasing their piece of shit hardware.. It’s just a fucking hassle.

So, the month goes on, and now it’s today. I do my daily bank account check and find that $46 has been deducted to pay Cricket for a service I haven’t used. So, I call them. Now, I pressed 3 in the Cricket Broadband menu, signifying that I required help, but of course – an automated service asking me for the number I no longer have because I removed the shitty ass software from my pc. So after the third time of the service asking me for my number, you’d think MAYBE they’d send you to a help desk? WRONG! “Sorry, maybe you should try again later when you’re ready.” *click* You get disconnected. Oh grand, so now I’m not only pissed that I got charged for something I didn’t use, I got hungup on by a fucking robot…

So I call them back, and this time I press 2, signifying that I want to activate a new modem (of course their call service would be as shitty as the rest of it, right?) and I get a customer rep (about fucking time). So I give them my info and start asking them about a refund and cancellation. Blah blah blah. She says you get billed $1.36 per day no matter what, and that the deduction was a prepay? Where in the fine print was all this?! And when did I sign up for automatic payments? So now I’m going back to my pissed off German roots, and I start going off on her about the legalities of the ordering system and what-not. I continually ask to be refunded and cancelled, she continues to dodge it all. Finally I get pissed off and just start going off on her, and she says “I’m trying to keep this professional, but if you continue I’ll have to…” *click* I hang up on her ass. Yeah, because that’s what I want to fucking hear, right? Just give me the fucking refund and cancellation like I originally asked and there wouldn’t be a fucking problem. Honestly, how fucking hard is that to comprehend? I didn’t click the spanish button, right? We’re both speaking English? Refund and cancel, not hard to understand.

Bah, anyways.. I wouldn’t recommend this company to anyone I know. It’s complete bullshit from start to end. I think the only thing they have that actually works decent, is the payment process, although I don’t remember ever signing up for those automatic payments, nor was there any contract stating that I would be charged that fee per day. In fact, their main selling point is that there’s no contract, and you pay as you go. I actually plan on calling them back in a few minutes again, after I check my bank account just to make sure they’re refunding me. We’ll see how that one goes. =)

I called them back, but it seems my number got blacklisted (Can get customer rep on my girlfriends phone though), and goes straight to automated services no matter which selection I choose. So I google cricket communications and get another number to call, which I do. Guy tells me that Cricket doesn’t refund period, and in order to cancel your account, you just don’t pay? Yeah, because that’s not a credit conflict or anything…

So I end up calling my bank, having to cancel my current card so that I can’t be billed anymore (I don’t have access to the cricket account on the website unless I reinstall their software and get the phone number ***igned to me by connecting, which would then say I used the account in this billing month – nice right…). Anyways, I transfer to the payment dispute dept. of my bank, and we go through all the legalities of this and what-not. So I have to wait until the payment is completed to dispute it. Another three days at the most to file the claim, and hopefully I can get the money back.

This company’s a waste of money and time. How on earth can a multi-billion dollar corporation not do refunds? Maybe it’s due to the fact that they receive thousands of complaints a year about their services and the hardware that they supply.