The real truth is that the computer that died automatically signed into Telltale, and when it died he forgot the password he used, which was probably some random gobbledygook anyway. Basically, he's locked out by his own incompetence. Kinda funny actually.
He's forgotten his password before and somehow managed to guess it. Hell, we could probably guess it if we thought enough about the sort of things he'd associate with a name like Comrade Pants.
The real truth is that the computer that died automatically signed into Telltale, and when it died he forgot the password he used, which was probably some random gobbledygook anyway. Basically, he's locked out by his own incompetence. Kinda funny actually.
He does know there's a "forgot password" button, right? Hell, if he needs it, I can even tell him which e-mail address is associated with the account.
I had six Gmail accounts to which I'd forgotten all of the passwords. On a couple of them, I'd forgotten the account names too. It took me all of ten minutes to get a handle on all of them again.
I had six Gmail accounts to which I'd forgotten all of the passwords. On a couple of them, I'd forgotten the account names too. It took me all of ten minutes to get a handle on all of them again.
I think we've also established that you're far more organized than Pants will ever be.
I want a small business. I'd sell guns and medical marijuana. Probably booze, too, if I could get the license. I'd call it Comrade Pants' House of Sin and everyone would be happy.
I want a small business. I'd sell guns and medical marijuana. Probably booze, too, if I could get the license. I'd call it Comrade Pants' House of Sin and everyone would be happy.
I love how you're more concerned about getting the booze license than the medical marijuana one. I think the weed would be a harder license to get.
Also, if you call it a House of Sin, people will probably expect blackjack and hookers.
They do give more than a fart, but changes aren't applied in a day. In May, we hardly had any problem with spambots whatsoever. Every other week there would be some bot advertising home loans, and we handled it swiftly. It's a completely different game right now. The problem intensified in late July with a visible focus on weekends. 135 threads on a Saturday, all from the same source (streaming shit), that's a new level of attack.
They do give more than a fart, but changes aren't applied in a day. In May, we hardly had any problem with spambots whatsoever. Every other week there would be some bot advertising home loans, and we handled it swiftly. It's a completely different game right now. The problem intensified in late July with a visible focus on weekends. 135 threads on a Saturday, all from the same source (streaming shit), that's a new level of attack.
No excuse. We've been having major problems with spam for weeks now and they said they were been planning on an update months ago.
If this were my site, I would be concerned about it and I would want it fixed. Do they need to update the whole website in order to make account registration more bot-deterrent or to install better spam detection through the forums' admin control panel? No.
Can they get this problem fixed in less than a week? Yes. Trust me, if they care, they would fix it and fast. It doesn't take a ton of people, just a competent webmaster to whom they say "This is a priority."
Seriously, this doesn't take weeks to fix, and having the attitude that the forum mods have nothing better to do than to ban bots is lame.
EDIT: According to TTG's Staff Page, they have 6 people on their web development team. So why isn't this problem being worked on at all?
I'm not trying to whine and bitch. I'm just saying it makes no logical sense to me.
"We have other projects that we're working on" doesn't compute because... well, it doesn't take 6 people to fix it; and "We need to fix the whole site update first" doesn't compute either because this isn't a game release, it's the web. Updates can be introduced in stages, with the most important updates being released first. Also, the need for tons of QA doesn't fit because improving/replacing CAPTCHA with something more effective, uploading forum add-ons, and possibly requiring e-mail confirmation doesn't take days to test for bugs.
To be perfectly straight with you, what I'm able to surmise from my vantage point is that anything non-pressing (see: that update to the ToS a while back and the recent change in reported post behavior) is being ignored in favor of pouring their resources into the new site. And it's not a site update or anything like that, the entire thing is being rebuilt from scratch. I thought that was made clear some time ago. In a sense, it makes no sense to be making major updates to a site that's about to be scrapped "soon" anyway, except for those of us who have to deal with that site in the meantime.
And you might think that the spam thing is a pressing issue. From our point, it certainly is. As I see it, the reason it's not a pressing issue to them is that the mod team cleans up the mess and does a very good job of it. Granted, we had to get them to give us a new hidden subforum to contain it, just so we would be able to view the boards, but we've made good use of it and kept the mess largely out of the public boards.
If they didn't have such a good mod team, they might have to shift some focus over to preventative measures. But for the time being, they have the option of continually telling us to hold out with what we've got for just a bit longer and that the new site will fix everything.
One of the things that's great about this forum is its randomness. Well, this is the epitome of it: a thread for whatever random thought happens to be passing through your mind.
For example, I've just been struck by the most random craving for Taco Bell nachos.
The media never stops reporting about the election. First they're going to report about all the irregularities and how the weather ruined their fancy shmancy computerized voting machines. Then they're going to talk about how no matter who wins, half the country hates him. Then they'll say gridlock between the President and Congress will continue to ruin everything for the next two years at least, probably four. Then they'll talk about the next election.
OK, but why in all the world are they making that big a fuss of the US election in Germany? I mean, it's not like the Germans could do anything about the US politics anyway. Let alone the presidential election.
After giving it quite a bit of thought, and whittling down of available options, I decided what I want are the following:
- Racing cars, not karts. (LBPkarting is out)
- Racing on pavement, not just off-road. (DiRT is out)
- Racing on highways or streets, not professional tracks.
- Sizeable vehicle selection.
- Vehicle customization and meaningful collection of cars is preferred.
- Open-world racing is preferred.
So... Forza Horizon appeared early on my list... until I realized it's for 360 only, at least at the moment.
I ruled out Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012 reboot by Criterion) early for lack of vehicle customization, meaninglessness of collecting cars, and it's expensive considering such.
I have Gran Turismo 4 for PS2, and from what I hear GT5 isn't really much different. From this, I decided I don't really want a racing game confined only to closed professional tracks. With this in mind, I looked more closely at open-world racing games.
- Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005) -- It's for PS2 but it looks good and is downloadable via PSN for cheap, has a fun story, and includes cops.
- Midnight Club: Los Angeles -- Big game world with lots to do. Developed by Rockstar. I like Rockstar. People complain about hard difficulty and how they think rubber-banding AI is lame, so I wasn't sure.
- Burnout Paradise -- sounds like lots of fun in an open world destroying things, but I kind of wondered if I would rather have cops trying to stop my efforts, which lead to...
- Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit -- not nearly as expensive as the new NFS game, yet still apparently very fun.
hmm... So, a huge open world by Rockstar albeit with hard difficulty (MCLA); a PS2 game with cops and a fun story (NFS:MW'05); an open-world game where blowing stuff up is fun yet no one stops you for it (Burnout); or a point-to-point game with cops which is recommended as really fun (NFS:HP).
After much google searching for user comparisons/preferences between these four games...
I think I may be getting Midnight Club:LA. Also, I found out that the first Rockstar Collection for PS3, which includes Midnight Club:LA, Red Dead Redemption, L.A. Noire and GTA4:Episodes from Liberty City is being released today.
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Yooooooouuuuuu............... you filthy communist!!!
He's forgotten his password before and somehow managed to guess it. Hell, we could probably guess it if we thought enough about the sort of things he'd associate with a name like Comrade Pants.
He does know there's a "forgot password" button, right? Hell, if he needs it, I can even tell him which e-mail address is associated with the account.
Perhaps someone stole the "forgot password" button.
He doesn't know the password to that email.
Seriously, this guy's digital life is a mess.
Nice.
That happens to me a lot.
maybe we should give the bots some so they know where else to go...
For your next account, you should be Comrade Shorts. And then have a picture of Sir Roderick Spode as your avatar.
Shorts are awful if you're a pale cripple like me. I refuse to be associated with them.
Even the Black Shorts?
I had six Gmail accounts to which I'd forgotten all of the passwords. On a couple of them, I'd forgotten the account names too. It took me all of ten minutes to get a handle on all of them again.
I think we've also established that you're far more organized than Pants will ever be.
I love how you're more concerned about getting the booze license than the medical marijuana one. I think the weed would be a harder license to get.
Also, if you call it a House of Sin, people will probably expect blackjack and hookers.
One would think that they should care. I really don't understand why they couldn't give 3 farts about this.
If this were my site, I would be concerned about it and I would want it fixed. Do they need to update the whole website in order to make account registration more bot-deterrent or to install better spam detection through the forums' admin control panel? No.
Can they get this problem fixed in less than a week? Yes. Trust me, if they care, they would fix it and fast. It doesn't take a ton of people, just a competent webmaster to whom they say "This is a priority."
Seriously, this doesn't take weeks to fix, and having the attitude that the forum mods have nothing better to do than to ban bots is lame.
EDIT: According to TTG's Staff Page, they have 6 people on their web development team. So why isn't this problem being worked on at all?
"We have other projects that we're working on" doesn't compute because... well, it doesn't take 6 people to fix it; and "We need to fix the whole site update first" doesn't compute either because this isn't a game release, it's the web. Updates can be introduced in stages, with the most important updates being released first. Also, the need for tons of QA doesn't fit because improving/replacing CAPTCHA with something more effective, uploading forum add-ons, and possibly requiring e-mail confirmation doesn't take days to test for bugs.
And you might think that the spam thing is a pressing issue. From our point, it certainly is. As I see it, the reason it's not a pressing issue to them is that the mod team cleans up the mess and does a very good job of it. Granted, we had to get them to give us a new hidden subforum to contain it, just so we would be able to view the boards, but we've made good use of it and kept the mess largely out of the public boards.
If they didn't have such a good mod team, they might have to shift some focus over to preventative measures. But for the time being, they have the option of continually telling us to hold out with what we've got for just a bit longer and that the new site will fix everything.
And then what happened?
After giving it quite a bit of thought, and whittling down of available options, I decided what I want are the following:
- Racing cars, not karts. (LBPkarting is out)
- Racing on pavement, not just off-road. (DiRT is out)
- Racing on highways or streets, not professional tracks.
- Sizeable vehicle selection.
- Vehicle customization and meaningful collection of cars is preferred.
- Open-world racing is preferred.
So... Forza Horizon appeared early on my list... until I realized it's for 360 only, at least at the moment.
I ruled out Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012 reboot by Criterion) early for lack of vehicle customization, meaninglessness of collecting cars, and it's expensive considering such.
I have Gran Turismo 4 for PS2, and from what I hear GT5 isn't really much different. From this, I decided I don't really want a racing game confined only to closed professional tracks. With this in mind, I looked more closely at open-world racing games.
- Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005) -- It's for PS2 but it looks good and is downloadable via PSN for cheap, has a fun story, and includes cops.
- Midnight Club: Los Angeles -- Big game world with lots to do. Developed by Rockstar. I like Rockstar. People complain about hard difficulty and how they think rubber-banding AI is lame, so I wasn't sure.
- Burnout Paradise -- sounds like lots of fun in an open world destroying things, but I kind of wondered if I would rather have cops trying to stop my efforts, which lead to...
- Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit -- not nearly as expensive as the new NFS game, yet still apparently very fun.
hmm... So, a huge open world by Rockstar albeit with hard difficulty (MCLA); a PS2 game with cops and a fun story (NFS:MW'05); an open-world game where blowing stuff up is fun yet no one stops you for it (Burnout); or a point-to-point game with cops which is recommended as really fun (NFS:HP).
After much google searching for user comparisons/preferences between these four games...
I think I may be getting Midnight Club:LA. Also, I found out that the first Rockstar Collection for PS3, which includes Midnight Club:LA, Red Dead Redemption, L.A. Noire and GTA4:Episodes from Liberty City is being released today.
Manos is perfect how it is!
Aside from the occasional lightning effects or glowing visor, what would Lord Zedd even need CGI for? He's perfect as he is.