The Rant Thread

[The+Deleted]

****'em...

[The+Deleted]

PS3 on its last legs and GAME wouldn't honour the extended warranty for my 360. Will be kicking off on the phone today at head office.

[Shadowman]

PS3 on its last legs and GAME wouldn't honour the extended warranty for my 360. Will be kicking off on the phone today at head office.

Extended Warrenties for stuff like that are shit, I remember taking one out for my second 360 with Dixons and when it did die they refused to give me a new one instead telling me its MS's problem. Tw@ts.

[Scrubchub]

On the subject of that state of the forum, I'll certainly be trying to make an effort from now on. It does seem a shame that the admins seem to have abandoned it and Mr Marvellous is basically the only mod left. It's also a shame that the magazine staff don't seem to contribute. I remember a few of them, especially Ash and Lukemon contributing most months at least in the feedback threads for the magazine. A quick Goggle search reveals that the magazine has a circulation of about 20,000 a month. If there was a bit more promotion in the magazine, then even with just a few of those readers joining up and becoming regulars it could make a huge difference to the community.

Saying all that though, during my year long absence from the forum, I was a fairly active member of the big Alfa Romeo forum (I went through a phase....) and that was a really busy forum. Great for a lot of reasons, but also of course, the more members you have, the more twats you'll end up speaking too, if you know what I mean.... When I sold my Alfa it wasn't with a particularly heavy heart that I quit the forum, despite meeting a few cool people through it.

[maf-me-quick]

i just eat a kit-kat with no biscuit in. fascinating.

[ToxieDogg]

Aye, it's sad to see what's happened here. I admit I've barely posted here myself since joining (I'm more of a regular fixture over on Retro Gamer) but I've usually had a laugh at the recent posts when I do, now it all just seems doom and gloom and 'The end is nigh' shit.

A forum's only as good as the people who post a lot on it, I suppose.

Late New Year's resolution 2012....I'll try and contribute more here.

[maf-me-quick]

nah, **** it. i was at my back to work programme thing today, and i got kind of a crush on the woman who's running it. she's quite hot. fair bit older than me but hot none the less.

anyway, i like to have a laugh and joke and be a bit risky, y'know? so i can feed her ideas without saying them. because it's a government thing, and a controlled environment, and an official office type feel to the place, y'know? so don't want to go too far. and i'm pretty sure she finds it fun. she's told me i'm her favourite person that goes there. interpret that anyway you like it's still good. she's told me i'm funny and should do stand-up. she even asked if i was single which, fair enough, that's not quite taking her skirt off, but me trying to get a sense of where i stand i could definitely be doing worse.

should probably add it's not just sex jokes all the time, i'm not being a creep. and i laugh and joke with everybody there, not just her. just some stuff is a bit closer to the mark than others.

anyway, usually i'm quite restrained and thoughtful about what i say. outside i can be kind of explicit and just say the first thing that comes to mind and i don't do that there, and usually she's been okay with it and quite receptive in a nice friendly way. i've over done it a couple a times and got the look of "what you said literally wasn't too bad but i know what you meant and you can't be like that here" you know the one. it's a face that looks somewhere between shocked and serious. but most of the time i'm good and on it.

but not today. jeez. i was doing my usual shit and making her laugh and grabbing all of her attention. like you do. not hard. the rest of the gang are female or near 50. and she's laughing and joking back and usual chit-chat. then i see something awesome. the guy on the opposite side of the table from me has a shirt that says on the front "sex instructor, first lesson free" and i went to him "dude, superman, her. show her what your shirt says" and he does and she laughs. but then, *slaps self in head* then she says "i could do with one of them". and i knew i shouldn't of said it, but i said it anyway.

"what the shirt or the lesson?" and foom everyone stares at me; room goes silent; the girl is not happy. that lasted for about a second before i just shrugged my shoulders and went "whoops?" all jokingly and the moment passed but she didn't like that at all. she didn't bat an eye lid at my stuff for the rest of the session even after i'd got the rest of the people back on side. i even went through my whole "do you think yoda claims disability" bit and she turned round very quickly and said "he's a jedi. i don't think he needs it" before i could even get in to any more little jokes.

like, i know he's a jedi, that's why it's funny.

i knew it was a dodgy one as i was saying it, and i thought and said it too quick to think about if i should say it or not. but i dunno what the fuss was over. man, see how she is tomorrow but that might have blown me right out of her good books.

[Pious the chosen]

Forget stand up Maf, you should have a talkshow

[RYAN WHITELAW]

Forget stand up Maf, you should have a talkshow

In all seriousness. If you like her. Then ask her out. If she says no then move on. She sounds like she would say yes.

But then again if she is getting all offended by a light hearted comment i know what i would do....

[Bilge Rat]

I've never had to worry about whether women have been interested or not because for me it has always been cut and dried. They're not.

In terms of comedy I wouldn't bother about it too much. On occasion you have to take a risk on a dodgy joke and it doesn't always pay off. Sometimes your audience will be in stitches and you feel awesome and sometimes it falls totally flat and you feel awkward. You just have to go with it. All good comedy is probably going to upset someone, and coming up with a risqué joke that will cause no offence is harder than Gary Glitter in a primary school changing room.

[maf-me-quick]

Forget stand up Maf, you should have a talkshow

probably. i mean i didn't get this?

[blagmasterg]

A little mean spirited corner of my soul resents the time spent reading all of that.

Happily, the rest of me couldn't give a flying duckie....

[Rotek]

So I tried to log into my emails on my iPad last night, only to be told that my details needed to be verified. I assumed it was just because it needed to do that every now and then, or something. I didn't bother entering them because, frankly, I barely use it for emails anyway. But then I tried to get into my actual web-based email last night, to discover that the password had been changed. It took a little while, but I managed to get back in pretty quickly. Whoever had done it had changed the alternate email address to their own so that any changes I made would have to be verified by them, but I removed that address (which was Chinese, by the looks of it) and bumped up the security a bit more to make sure they couldn't access it again.

The whole thing was worrying to me, of course, but since I managed to get control back I didn't mind that much. It's the first time something like that had ever happened, after all.

Until this morning.

I went onto my Xbox, only to be told that 'this account was last accessed from another console'. Yeah, 'oh shit' was the first thing in my mind too. Turns out that the 3000+ Microsoft points I had linked to my account (all, incidentally, as the result of a couple of Christmas and birthday presents so not even my money to begin with) had been stolen. That's over £25. And used on three things that aren't even listed on the European marketplace called 'Gold Premium Pack' or something.

Naturally, I've called Xbox support. The guy on the other end was very helpful, although he said that Microsoft have 'locked' my account for up to 25 days. I don't really know what that means, since I can still get into Live on my console - maybe I just can't redeem codes or download or something. Whatever, I can live with that. He sounded pretty confident that I could get my points back anyway, that's the most important thing. I don't think I'll touch the Xbox with the ethernet cable plugged in for a bit anyway to be on the safe side!

The whole thing's just left me shaken and really fucking angry. I can't for the life of me think what I could've done to let my password slip - I'm always so careful, and I've had the account since 2005 and this is the first time anything like this has ever happened. I'm just thankful I didn't have any cards or my Paypal account linked to it, or I really would be in the shit.

Bastards.

[PlatinumSpectre]

I noticed you have Fifa 12 in your recently played. I have seen LOADS of posts around the internet - especially on the official xbox forums - about the exact same thing that happened to you, and ALWAYS the person has Fifa 12 in their last played. No one's sure exactly how its happening, but it seems to be connected with your EA account - does your EA account have the same password as your email address your Xbox LIVE was linked too?

I've no idea how it works, but most people that this has happened to have reported that the person who got into the account buys loads of microsoft points and then usually buys player packs or something? Apparently they can then be traded onto another account and then the new account, with this player pack or whatever, is then sold on websites like ebay or things.

Hopefully you get the things sorted out mate. Everytime I have read about it on the xbox forums the person has always got the money that was stolen from them returned.

EDIT: Just seen this posted on the Xbox Forums. Perhaps this is what happened to you?

http://www.analoghype.com/video-games/x ... the-truth/

[Rotek]

Yeah, just been looking into that myself - don't even own the game, so that must be what's happened. I'll change the password on my EA account to be safe, but I don't think it's the same as my Live account.

EDIT: On the plus side, I now have 15 gamerscore from FIFA 12 thanks to these bastards, so every cloud