pinback wrote:Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I'm sorry for my part in ruining "Game Nite" (TM).
You needn't apologize for anything. You did everything that could have been expected of you to get this thing going, even running to the store in the middle of the storm to get a valid copy of the game. Rather than shame, you should feel
proud of your participation in this exercise.
No, I believe that in this case, the fullest extent of
BLAME for this debacle must be levelled at the head of
one man, and that man's name is:
WORM
That's nice of you to say. Thank you. You are a good friend... I know it is difficult, sometimes, to be my friend.
Here's what happened for the people not involved in Starcraft Game Nite. Which was technically all of us, because of how things worked out.
TIMELINE
8:05PM MST : ICJ gets home and greets Vitriola, who is trying to get the nicest cat in the world adopted out. I know, what's five if you already have four. According to PETA each cat needs three litter boxes, so we would need to go to 15 litter boxes. Also, PETA says you shouldn't adopt a kitten that is younger than 4 years, because it needs to be with mommy otherwise.
8:10PM MST: ICJ takes the advice he got from the Internet and uses it to reseat the bezel on the "Gyruss" game that the Milker delivered yesterday. The first person to play a game on it was gsdgsd!
8:15PM MST: ICJ plays some Gyruss.
8:40PM MST: ICJ installs his copy of Starcraft in SPAWN MODE. Now, I don't want to create this huge thing about warez and video games. I believe that the people who make these things should get compensated. On the other hand, Starcraft allows you to SPAWN copies. So I did a SPAWN install from my disc, using Worm's info.
9:00PM MST: Lots of, "Where are you guys!?!?!" going on in Battle.net. Oh, at this point we realize that there is NO fucking TCP/IP support for Starcraft. Nor, apparently, 800x600 mode for graphics. You know, within the last two weeks I picked Fallout and Starcraft back up and I hate to say it, but the graphics are fucking terrible on both.
9:01PM MST: Pinback and ICJ determine that there is a language filter on Battlenet.
9:04PM MST: Pinback and ICJ are toaded by everyone in Battle.net chat.
9:05PM MST: We learn that ICJ can only join games started by Worm, because his copy "spawned" from Worm's,.
9:06PM MST: ICJ cannot connect to Worm's computer for a game due to latency. Battlenet does not offer any other way for us to play. And ICJ can't join games started by Pinback or Gerrit because of the spawn rule. (Which is fair... but still, come on.)
9:07PM MST: Everyone starts complaining very loudly. Everyone moves over to USA EAST for Battlenet.
9:20 PM MST: We are unable to all connect to a game that Worm makes, and ICJ drives to Wal-mart to get a legitimate, non-spawned, copy of the game.
9:50PM MST: We begin a game on USA EAST.
10:03PM MST: After 13 minutes, the results of our first clicks take hold. Lag, in other words.
10:15PM MST: ICJ realizes that 1) perhaps a game started by Ben would be better and 2) He hates Battlenet with the passion of a thousand suns. Er, heat of a thousand suns. Whatever.
10:16PM MST: ICJ realizes that "WTF" is turned into "WT&^%$" on Battlenet and decides that he will never log into Battlenet again under any circumstances.
10:17PM MST: Gerrit and ICJ wonder if Pinback will ever return to the Internet.
11:15PM MST: We give up for the evening, finally.
[quote="pinback"][quote="Ice Cream Jonsey"]I'm sorry for my part in ruining "Game Nite" (TM).[/quote]
You needn't apologize for anything. You did everything that could have been expected of you to get this thing going, even running to the store in the middle of the storm to get a valid copy of the game. Rather than shame, you should feel [i]proud[/i] of your participation in this exercise.
No, I believe that in this case, the fullest extent of [i][size=150][color=orange]BLAME[/color][/size][/i] for this debacle must be levelled at the head of [b][size=150][color=yellow]one man[/color][/size][/b], and that man's name is:
[i][size=200][color=red][b]WORM[/b][/color][/size][/i][/quote]
That's nice of you to say. Thank you. You are a good friend... I know it is difficult, sometimes, to be my friend.
Here's what happened for the people not involved in Starcraft Game Nite. Which was technically all of us, because of how things worked out.
TIMELINE
8:05PM MST : ICJ gets home and greets Vitriola, who is trying to get the nicest cat in the world adopted out. I know, what's five if you already have four. According to PETA each cat needs three litter boxes, so we would need to go to 15 litter boxes. Also, PETA says you shouldn't adopt a kitten that is younger than 4 years, because it needs to be with mommy otherwise.
8:10PM MST: ICJ takes the advice he got from the Internet and uses it to reseat the bezel on the "Gyruss" game that the Milker delivered yesterday. The first person to play a game on it was gsdgsd!
8:15PM MST: ICJ plays some Gyruss.
8:40PM MST: ICJ installs his copy of Starcraft in SPAWN MODE. Now, I don't want to create this huge thing about warez and video games. I believe that the people who make these things should get compensated. On the other hand, Starcraft allows you to SPAWN copies. So I did a SPAWN install from my disc, using Worm's info.
9:00PM MST: Lots of, "Where are you guys!?!?!" going on in Battle.net. Oh, at this point we realize that there is NO fucking TCP/IP support for Starcraft. Nor, apparently, 800x600 mode for graphics. You know, within the last two weeks I picked Fallout and Starcraft back up and I hate to say it, but the graphics are fucking terrible on both.
9:01PM MST: Pinback and ICJ determine that there is a language filter on Battlenet.
9:04PM MST: Pinback and ICJ are toaded by everyone in Battle.net chat.
9:05PM MST: We learn that ICJ can only join games started by Worm, because his copy "spawned" from Worm's,.
9:06PM MST: ICJ cannot connect to Worm's computer for a game due to latency. Battlenet does not offer any other way for us to play. And ICJ can't join games started by Pinback or Gerrit because of the spawn rule. (Which is fair... but still, come on.)
9:07PM MST: Everyone starts complaining very loudly. Everyone moves over to USA EAST for Battlenet.
9:20 PM MST: We are unable to all connect to a game that Worm makes, and ICJ drives to Wal-mart to get a legitimate, non-spawned, copy of the game.
9:50PM MST: We begin a game on USA EAST.
10:03PM MST: After 13 minutes, the results of our first clicks take hold. Lag, in other words.
10:15PM MST: ICJ realizes that 1) perhaps a game started by Ben would be better and 2) He hates Battlenet with the passion of a thousand suns. Er, heat of a thousand suns. Whatever.
10:16PM MST: ICJ realizes that "WTF" is turned into "WT&^%$" on Battlenet and decides that he will never log into Battlenet again under any circumstances.
10:17PM MST: Gerrit and ICJ wonder if Pinback will ever return to the Internet.
11:15PM MST: We give up for the evening, finally.