Category Archives: Irate

The Best Buy Rewards Zone Program is a F’n Joke

Written by vanlandw on February 14, 2010 — 4 Comments

I forgot to post about this back in June. Email today sent to me from “The Best Buy Rewards Zone Program”
You may remember receiving notification in June 2009 about changes to the Reward Zone® program. This is just a reminder to explain the changes that will be affecting your point balance.Please take a moment to [...]

Google Buzz – One Step Closer To The Edge

Written by vanlandw on February 11, 2010 — 5 Comments

Recently Google thought it was a good idea to migrate social tools directly to users email with a new feature called Google Buzz.

Go beyond status messages
Share updates, photos, videos, and more.
Start conversations about the things you find interesting.
This is absolutely the LAST feature I would want tied to my personal email. Clearly I’m not a [...]

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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) : Veteran Complete Follow Up

Written by vanlandw on January 14, 2010 — 7 Comments

As noted in my previous post about COD4 I played the game my first time around on the Veteran difficulty setting on the 360. Below is irrefutable proof that I did conquer the game on it’s hardest setting.

On Google Reader I commented to a friend thinking about replaying the game on veteran the following…
…if you [...]

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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)

Written by vanlandw on December 17, 2009 — 12 Comments

Playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare gives me a feeling that I loath having in real life.
Pressure
The game is so grossly overscripted and pressure the player to act along with how the designers want the game to be played.
I’m pressured to continue moving forward. I’m pressured to not play how I want to.
Sadly I believe many people [...]

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Worst People Ever League Week One Winner

Written by vanlandw on September 15, 2009 — 1 Comment

Seriously Stat Tracker is just a dirty DIRTY whore…so is fantasy football as a whole.

According to the world of stat tracker vanlandw is apparently 1-1-0. UGH

I have Defeated Final Fantasy X

Written by vanlandw on September 2, 2009 — 4 Comments

The day of reckoning has FINALLY come. Vanlandw has defeated Final Fantasy X! This has been a long, painful, time consuming expedition but this evening I was finally able to overcome “Braska’s Final Aeon” on my third try after some tweaked buffing and a dinner of tater tots. As I sit back reflecting on past [...]

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PS3 3.00 Firmware is Just as Bad if Not Worse then NXE

Written by vanlandw on September 1, 2009 — 2 Comments

This morning I upgraded my PS3 firmware to the most recent version 3.00. One of the best features of the PS3 was it’s lack of advertising. With the NXE Microsoft decided to bombard you with adverts on every turn on a console that you purchased. With PS3 3.00 sadly Sony decided to go the same [...]