So yes indeed it is my birthday today, and well over the years growing up as a kid I grew to be a bit bitter, and well frankly have honestly forgotten my birthday a few times. I’ve never had a birthday party in my life, no cake or any of that stuff. None of my birthdays have ever been pure good memories from being called a “Greedy Bastard” for getting a DVD Player I never asked for to my Birthday being fully forgotten by the whole family and much in between.

Well its that time again, looks like another package on its way to me is gone, leaving the count now at 1x MG2 Netbook and 2x 2GB DDR2 800 Ram Dimm’s

I’ve sent off this email and hope they at least investigate this as it’s all too fishy to me personally

“Dear sir/madam,

I am writing to you regarding the postal service we are not getting. This is the second time I have had to write to you on this matter.

Since November of last year we have had items never arrive at our post-box – the latest thing to go missing is leading me to believe that someone within your organization may be stealing items from the post. I shall explain why I believe this is occurring. 

Before I start let me go on record by stating I have nothing against Russians in general but there is something most Russian gamers seems to do that’s rude and disrespectful.

Now as of recent I Been playing a Free MMORPG called Pandora Saga, reasonable game id suppose I am enjoying it enough however there is one major thing that is annoying me in the player base and that’s most of the Russians on it. Why do they feel the need to yell and spam in Russian? It’s an English speaking game and 99% of all non Russian players speak English (Some better than others but doesn’t matter it’s an attempt at English at least.) but the Russians don’t seem to give a shit and carry on anyways… why the disrespect and rudeness of all this? I don’t understand why they do it…even a GM has said only English in “realm” chat. My point is if your Russian and your going to be playing an English game at least attempt to talk English, everyone else (except the odd one here and there) seem to manage it, so can you guys. I wouldn’t go up on a Russian MMO and use English everywhere (Although I wouldn’t ever start on a Russian mmo anyways but still)

Kouen

Yup, here we go again with the fuckers. So as you know about the whole netbook thing that went down and unfortunately had to be dropped due to my friend loosing the receipt, well Posten seemingly have “lost” more of my stuff …yay…

This time it’s a 2GB Dimm of DDR2 ram for my laptop and this is not even the first time they “lost” 

I was on one of the forums I float on and someone posted about a recent release on steam “Dear Ester”.
It’s an indie game where you make of it what you will and you’re more along for the ride of the story rather than extremely directly involved in how it will unfold. A bit like “Dinner Date” another indie game. To which the guy said:

“Dear Esther seems to be the usual 2deep4u indie game. It manages to be atmospheric, but you don't have a say in what happens. Japanese visual novels at least let you choose what to do at some points.

I'd go easy on it due to the "experimental" label, but I'm afraid DE ends up giving developers ideas about making non-games. “

To me I have had the opposite thoughts on it, now fine its not for the likes of Ubisoft or EA but for Indies I feel this is a very valid Sub-Type of game that is coming to fruit. The lines of what makes a video game have been blurred for many years and the concept of a 2deep4u I find is more for the people that cant think being there brains have been dulled by the constant Call of Duty and the like games where it points everything out for you and prevents you wandering off, Many jokes on the internet have been made on this for instance “Call of Dooty” on YouTube.

Where is there a rule in video games that they have to conform to XX and YY before there classed a video game? 

Not too much has gone on the past few days really so I have had not much to type, Lasharus has returned from his holiday in South America which is awesome missed that son of a bitch. Kind of odd really you don’t realise how much you will miss something or someone until there actually gone. Have not had the chance to speak to him yet and he is on at odd times I am assuming due to his body clock adjusting to US time zones and now he has to get his body clock back to GMT+1 hehe.

But in all fairness I am the sort to let someone get settled before anything else I mean at least giving them like 24 hours to put there shit down, catch up with the essentials and get situated, maybe that’s just me but I cant take it when I get pestered by a bunch of people after getting back from somewhere, one or two is fine but more gets on my nerves.

Working some more on the site, and with my spelling and grammar so bad, I decided it would be the smart thing to type up my content into a word processor first spell and grammar check it then post it that should get most of it corrected. If anyone is interested (which I doubt) what word processor I use well on my desktop I have yet to install one come to think of it… but on my laptop I use Microsoft Works 9. I can hear you all already gasping and throwing your drinks at your monitor “WHY WORKS?!?! WHY NOT OFFICE OR OPEN OFFICE?!”

I was reading a Kotaku Article today about some old woman over in China who wants to effectively "kill" the internet. 

As you can imagine it struck a blow to my mind that a Commie 82 year old woman who does not even have the internet can want to police it from what I can gather. Maybe like make a global "Great Firewall of China" as us free speaking foreigners are killing the internet.

Can I go out on a limb here and say fuck you old lady? Sure the Chinese government can police their people all they like and while I don’t agree with it in the least its there right, but them try to govern my internet? Get. The. Fuck. Outta. Here. 

I Doubt that other countries would let it stand and us "foreigners" would never let it stand too. United as one we have taken out SOPA and PIPA and have set our sights on taking out ACTA as well. I Doubt that old woman has made many international friends this day, but I'd suppose at her age it doesn’t really matter as well she is to put it tactfully in the Autumn years of her life or as British slang goes "She is gonna kick the bucket soon"

All in all mind you if I had to pick between Commie China Internet or SOPA / PIPA id go with Soap and Pip every time. Sure I'd be constantly under the watchful eye of Big Brother but at least id would be able to Google Porn or things that might not be in the opinion of my government.

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So I thought I'd share my story of woe and rage against Posten in Norway, It all started a few weeks ago where my good friend in Portugal offered me a free Netbook (Magalhaes MG2) to which I was like "Fuck yea!" after some talks we worked out the what we thought most efficient and cheapest way to get the Netbook from him to me. How wrong we were...

So 2 weeks ago my friend sent off the MG2 in a box with a tracking number, given his family's political position it was sent with a "free pass" through the R.D.C. Embassy to speed things up, and it was sent off without a hitch, great we thought but that was where things went into a downward spiral.

A few days later my friend’s uncle who is an ambassador gets a phone call from

Jesus Christ... Just read some Article on Kotaku.com (Link Below) about some Female gamer who to cut a long story short got pissed off because her male coach referred to her as "This Girl" and it’s blown into some epic woman's liberty movement bullshit... God I wish some Women would get over themselves, That's like a man screaming your sexist if a Woman refers to them as "This Guy"… what is it with people there's always going to be a invisible line as long as people act like this, some women looking for sexism everywhere Just like some people in the black community looking for racism everywhere... and both making mountains out of it if it does occur (and sometimes when it doesn't) "When I play on Xbox and open my mouth I get spammed with messages"... and that doesn't happen when you go to a club for instance? I Know 1st hand that's what happened me and my girlfriend went to a club once and my girlfriend got asked out and for a one night stand at least 20 times in a 2 hour period. People you need to calm the hell down…

http://goo.gl/EyTUa

Indeed! Another round of work on the HP G60 of mine today!

Today was another CPU Upgrade, As many would know this HP originally shipped with a 1.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 QL-60, Which I didn't think had enough Omph! (?)

The QL-66 I moved up too (2.2GHz version of the same line of CPU) Was good and I really felt the difference in speed, the extra 300MHz the new one provided me went well.... However there was a price to pay... Heat and Power consumption. With some Modding to the casing, good thermal paste and a little volt modding the laptop was manageable but as all geeks are, I Yearned for more

So I Went and researched some more and as I've mentioned before there is 2 motherboards for HP G60's Intel Based ones and AMD Based ones. I Wasn't about to blow a ton of cash to get an Intel Core 2 Duo HP G60 so I continued to look around and found out about AMD Turion X2 Ultra's.

• Faster DDR2 Ram Controller
• 3 Power States (In the case of the CPU I wanted 550MHz, 1.1GHz and 2.2GHz)
• A Deeper Sleep state
• Twice the Level 2 CPU Cache
• Better Voltage Controlling 

It was rather clear that was my next move and indeed I Decided to go for it! but at the same time I lined up some other things to do.

• The cooler has been lapped (Smoothed to a near mirror like surface to assist heat transfer)
• The Copper Pipe has been Buffed to remove any and all containments from manufacturing (Tsh HP...)
• Buffed the Copper Shim I put in place of the GPU Thermal pad from a previous mod
• General Cleaning and other such bits

A New lot of Thermal paste was an obvious too (Arctic Silver 5) now while the Thermal paste will need to cure in (200 Hours) to reach its full potential there has been a nice 8c drop from all of this and a performance boost to boot! Looks like switching from Camp Athlon 64 X2 to Camp Turion X2 Ultra paid off and this is without the Thermal Paste Settling on the CPU and GPU.

Pictures of a before and after will come a little later after I complete a burn in test on my G60
Also I'm still beyond HP Specs even in the Turion AMD's beating the closest I could find in Turion's the G60-445DX