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I'm not going to stand down over my feelings that there are hardly ever Dreamcast posts that win, because it's true. However, this is probably more to do with the fact that there are hardly ever any Dreamcast posts in the first place. I appreciate the fact that jd99's post was superb, and he is a good friend of mine (honest!), I told him about the site and I am delighted that he is posting well, and being rewarded for his hard work and innovativity.
I apologise for the use of asterix, (a strangely compelling French Cartoon that is always shown at Christmas for some reason) and for any foul, abusive and overly sophisticated language that I may or may not have used in the past few days. I had tension in my mind, I was feeling just a tiny bit stressed, I'll explain why.
Not winning: reasons for incredible anger and frustration etc.
I have been lucky enough/skillful enough to win a game many times from this website. Yes, I have won a lot more times than, say Spider II for instance, and I am pleased that it has saved me from paying for them. However, you may or may not believe me when I say that the prize is irrelevant, it's the taking part that helps, but the winning that counts simply because it gives your morale a boost, especially when your life is in turmoil and you have nothing at all going good for you.
Everyone can win, not just PS2 posts/cheats and stories by Grix, with humerous reference to my insanely long posts and reviews, but when you see the names 'er-no', 'Meka-Dragon', 'Grix' and 'pb' and so forth continually appearing on the front page, it can get a little depressing. Yes, I am sure they deserve to win - heck, they're impressive writers as are many, many members on this forum, and I have to give credit where credit is due, but if you can just try to see my slight disappointment as I have always tried to portray myself as a friendly-ish member, I have been posting a lot over the past 6months, and sometimes, just sometimes, the fact that you don't win makes you feel as though you have lost, especially when you feel that you have posted the best thing - and as Tony said, the selectors didn't attempt to read my post or something, because it was too long. Well that's not really all that nice, but there you go.
Word count: Now, at least some good has come out of this for me, as my word count now appears to be at the correct amount, after I shrivlessly complained that there was a system fault, and I now sit in 5th place overall for my word count, which is actually important. I no longer sit sulking, I never did, I merely was enraged with uncomprehensionable and uncontrollable anger and frustration, partly due to my posting an incredibly looooong post, combined with the disgraceful workmanship of the Chinese.
British products 'made in China'. I wouldn't be surprised if the Crown Jewels had the infamous label of unsurpassed cheapness on them.
Everyone has problems, but I have been experiencing a wealth or 'plague' as more appropriate, of brand new products being faulty. Yes it's not important and doesn't even compare with some of the troubles of the world, but it's not exactly fun.
Don't buy a(n) Hitachi C24W511TN-311 24inch wide-screen television with 3DS dolby surround sound. It has colouration problems and mine is going back yet again. Stay well clear of Empire-Direct. Their customer service is appalling and they cannot accept it when products are faulty, even when you provide photographic evidence and video footage of the problem.
Stay well clear of Dell PCs. In my experience, which supposedly was a rare case, the hard-drive failed in 3 weeks, meaning I loast everything. The customer service is slow, unhelpful and quite frankly I could have learned how to make my own computer by the time they actually replaced the drive! This isn't sucking up to SR - but you would be better off with an SR PC, my brother has one, and nothing has ever gone wrong and the prices are good.
York Barbell. The weight lifting people. My exercise bike fell apart the day before the warranty was to expire, so thankfully we were able to replace the broken part. Be careful. Yesterday, my weights and weight bench arrived, only to find that the weight bench, before assembly, had been put together (i.e. the foam seat part) by the visually impared. 'Monkey's would have done a better job'. So, that's got to be replaced.
Philips S-video leads. It says it's 3metres, but in fact it is 6metres, therefore I now have endless coils of wires behind my television. Aesthetically ugly and it doesn't match the product description, so surely I should be able to get a refund? No say Comet, who also made me wait 2 hours for my MP3 player. Comet sucks.
Anything else while I'm at it? Ah yes, pollen. I hate pollen, and I haven't been able to sleep at all for the past three days as I 've been sneezing all night and going blind with itchy eyeness. It's not good, I can't take tablets. Flowers are mean. Stupid flowers.
Compile this with running a dying trading 'not quite a business', sitting GCSE exams unable to even read the questions due to blurry eyes, and you may be able, hopefully, to see why I went a little OTT.
So what can I say now?
My word count has gone up, thanks to the now bug free system, I hope. I'm not leaving, as I shall follow in the footsteps of nameless Grix and stay here where I'm going to try and liven up the Dreamcast forum.
Sorry about any inconvenience caused.
Do not take anything I said previously personally, I am still in a horendous mood, and I can only ask that you accept my long apology and explanation.
The Game: has lots of friends.
Goatboy: Likes Monkeys
Jd99: the next notable
Tony: cares about his customers
Us: a successful R&D depo.
Fair enough.
Dan2K1
I apologise for the use of asterix, (a strangely compelling French Cartoon that is always shown at Christmas for some reason) and for any foul, abusive and overly sophisticated language that I may or may not have used in the past few days. I had tension in my mind, I was feeling just a tiny bit stressed, I'll explain why.
Not winning: reasons for incredible anger and frustration etc.
I have been lucky enough/skillful enough to win a game many times from this website. Yes, I have won a lot more times than, say Spider II for instance, and I am pleased that it has saved me from paying for them. However, you may or may not believe me when I say that the prize is irrelevant, it's the taking part that helps, but the winning that counts simply because it gives your morale a boost, especially when your life is in turmoil and you have nothing at all going good for you.
Everyone can win, not just PS2 posts/cheats and stories by Grix, with humerous reference to my insanely long posts and reviews, but when you see the names 'er-no', 'Meka-Dragon', 'Grix' and 'pb' and so forth continually appearing on the front page, it can get a little depressing. Yes, I am sure they deserve to win - heck, they're impressive writers as are many, many members on this forum, and I have to give credit where credit is due, but if you can just try to see my slight disappointment as I have always tried to portray myself as a friendly-ish member, I have been posting a lot over the past 6months, and sometimes, just sometimes, the fact that you don't win makes you feel as though you have lost, especially when you feel that you have posted the best thing - and as Tony said, the selectors didn't attempt to read my post or something, because it was too long. Well that's not really all that nice, but there you go.
Word count: Now, at least some good has come out of this for me, as my word count now appears to be at the correct amount, after I shrivlessly complained that there was a system fault, and I now sit in 5th place overall for my word count, which is actually important. I no longer sit sulking, I never did, I merely was enraged with uncomprehensionable and uncontrollable anger and frustration, partly due to my posting an incredibly looooong post, combined with the disgraceful workmanship of the Chinese.
British products 'made in China'. I wouldn't be surprised if the Crown Jewels had the infamous label of unsurpassed cheapness on them.
Everyone has problems, but I have been experiencing a wealth or 'plague' as more appropriate, of brand new products being faulty. Yes it's not important and doesn't even compare with some of the troubles of the world, but it's not exactly fun.
Don't buy a(n) Hitachi C24W511TN-311 24inch wide-screen television with 3DS dolby surround sound. It has colouration problems and mine is going back yet again. Stay well clear of Empire-Direct. Their customer service is appalling and they cannot accept it when products are faulty, even when you provide photographic evidence and video footage of the problem.
Stay well clear of Dell PCs. In my experience, which supposedly was a rare case, the hard-drive failed in 3 weeks, meaning I loast everything. The customer service is slow, unhelpful and quite frankly I could have learned how to make my own computer by the time they actually replaced the drive! This isn't sucking up to SR - but you would be better off with an SR PC, my brother has one, and nothing has ever gone wrong and the prices are good.
York Barbell. The weight lifting people. My exercise bike fell apart the day before the warranty was to expire, so thankfully we were able to replace the broken part. Be careful. Yesterday, my weights and weight bench arrived, only to find that the weight bench, before assembly, had been put together (i.e. the foam seat part) by the visually impared. 'Monkey's would have done a better job'. So, that's got to be replaced.
Philips S-video leads. It says it's 3metres, but in fact it is 6metres, therefore I now have endless coils of wires behind my television. Aesthetically ugly and it doesn't match the product description, so surely I should be able to get a refund? No say Comet, who also made me wait 2 hours for my MP3 player. Comet sucks.
Anything else while I'm at it? Ah yes, pollen. I hate pollen, and I haven't been able to sleep at all for the past three days as I 've been sneezing all night and going blind with itchy eyeness. It's not good, I can't take tablets. Flowers are mean. Stupid flowers.
Compile this with running a dying trading 'not quite a business', sitting GCSE exams unable to even read the questions due to blurry eyes, and you may be able, hopefully, to see why I went a little OTT.
So what can I say now?
My word count has gone up, thanks to the now bug free system, I hope. I'm not leaving, as I shall follow in the footsteps of nameless Grix and stay here where I'm going to try and liven up the Dreamcast forum.
Sorry about any inconvenience caused.
Do not take anything I said previously personally, I am still in a horendous mood, and I can only ask that you accept my long apology and explanation.
The Game: has lots of friends.
Goatboy: Likes Monkeys
Jd99: the next notable
Tony: cares about his customers
Us: a successful R&D depo.
Fair enough.
Dan2K1
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Tony wrote:
> Now Dan - if you could just stop duplicating your posts in both of
> the FOG Forums.
Thanks.
Yeah no wonder his word count is so high! ;)
> Now Dan - if you could just stop duplicating your posts in both of
> the FOG Forums.
Thanks.
Yeah no wonder his word count is so high! ;)
Now Dan - if you could just stop duplicating your posts in both of the FOG Forums.
Thanks.
Thanks.
The Game wrote:
> The Scottish know about as much about football as Yugi Naka does
> about Sainsbury's Fire-safety Rules!
The Scot are crap at
> football anyway...
England: Two wars and one world
> cup
Scotland: Haggis, Bagpipes, and Henrik Larson
Game
We might be crap at football I can except that...
One thing that you will never experience in your whole petty life of supporting life is being a loyal, true Scottish fan.
We are the best fans, we enjoy ourselves, we win awards, we make friends with other cultures, and we are loyal even though we get gupped ...
Also we have won got to more World Cups than you...
Last game of Millenium we won :D
England 0 v 1 Scotland
> The Scottish know about as much about football as Yugi Naka does
> about Sainsbury's Fire-safety Rules!
The Scot are crap at
> football anyway...
England: Two wars and one world
> cup
Scotland: Haggis, Bagpipes, and Henrik Larson
Game
We might be crap at football I can except that...
One thing that you will never experience in your whole petty life of supporting life is being a loyal, true Scottish fan.
We are the best fans, we enjoy ourselves, we win awards, we make friends with other cultures, and we are loyal even though we get gupped ...
Also we have won got to more World Cups than you...
Last game of Millenium we won :D
England 0 v 1 Scotland
LOL!
The Scottish know about as much about football as Yugi Naka does about Sainsbury's Fire-safety Rules!
The Scot are crap at football anyway...
England: Two wars and one world cup
Scotland: Haggis, Bagpipes, and Henrik Larson
Game
The Scot are crap at football anyway...
England: Two wars and one world cup
Scotland: Haggis, Bagpipes, and Henrik Larson
Game
Did ya chaeck in the SEGA forum!
Bonus wrote:
> Don't you just hate it when the English make up History.
Like
> when they claimed they ONLY outnumbered the scots 3-1 at Bannockburn
> when it was more like 6-1!!!
Game sufferes from the same
> dissolution, years of evolution and still they can't get it
> right!!
Game had a go at Bonus, but fell off his Horse. The
> Scots were then beaten because they were rolling about the floor
> laughing!!!!
Game: The Real Humpty Dumpty!!
Sorry Dan,
> got to let me reply to that!!
here Here Bonus!
Also Scotland is the REAL home of football!
> Don't you just hate it when the English make up History.
Like
> when they claimed they ONLY outnumbered the scots 3-1 at Bannockburn
> when it was more like 6-1!!!
Game sufferes from the same
> dissolution, years of evolution and still they can't get it
> right!!
Game had a go at Bonus, but fell off his Horse. The
> Scots were then beaten because they were rolling about the floor
> laughing!!!!
Game: The Real Humpty Dumpty!!
Sorry Dan,
> got to let me reply to that!!
here Here Bonus!
Also Scotland is the REAL home of football!
Dan2K1 wrote:
> >Keep the peace<
oh the irony! :)
> >Keep the peace<
oh the irony! :)
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