TechnocratTechnocrat’s Random Thoughts

So day 3 starts with still no email of a game being shipped. I did get two emails from them though.

First one saying that I have earned more points and I have a bigger discount now on game purchases. Fuck buying a game! If I wanted to buy games I wouldn’t be using your service assholes. Where the hell is my rental!

I get another email which is about to put me to the point of canceling. “Are you our biggest Super Fan?” Are you kidding me! Seriously!!  It’s about a contest they are having “Show us how insane your love for GameFly”. I should make a video flipping them off and telling them that instead of having stupid contents they should be working on improving their service. Like I dunno, their queue system! Or maybe their poor shipping.

I also realized that Monday is a holiday, so if they shipped one today, which is looking unlikely, I would get it by Wed. So a week and a half. I should stop complaining and just cancel my service. Maybe NetFlix will get the idea and start renting games.

Again you stuck gamefly.com!

Gamefily.com still sucks.

So I mailed Conan back on Monday. I got an email Wed saying they received it. But here I am Thursday afternoon with no email saying anything has shipped.

So lets look at my queue:
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames – Coming Soon
Too Human – Low
Battlefield: Bad Company – Low
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare – High
Saints Row – Low
Ninja Gaiden 2 – High
Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Conspiracy – Medium
Hitman: Blood Money – Low
Perfect Dark Zero – Medium
Condemned: Criminal Origins – High
Crackdown – Low
SoulCalibur IV – Low
Skate – High
Fight Night: Round 3 – Medium

Look at how many of them are low! Almost 50% of them. I don’t think I have a crazy queue either. It’s not like its stacked with that many new releases. How long has Saints Row, Crackdown, and Hitman been out? Long enough I would think.

So which game do you think they will ship me? I am going to go with….Condemned: Criminal Origins. Why? Because it has the lowest game rating. But they should be sending me Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. So lets see

Either way at minimum it will take a week for me to get a new game in my hands.

After writing my last blog post about gamefly.com (http://www.techn0crat.com/index.php/2008/07/25/gamefly-review) I was sort of thinking maybe I was too hard on it. So I decided to try it again, make some notes, and be a little more scientific objective about it this time. The results were the same, gamefly still sucks in the same areas that I complained about before.

I turned the my previous game into the local USPS at 8:00am on Monday and setup my game queue with no currently availables at all. Then noted my queue.

So I get an email on Wednesday letting me know Conan was shipping. Again it took two days to get to LA. What are they paying for 3rd class mailing? Seems odd to me that it takes that long but anyways.

Now for my biggest bitch the queue. Conan was a one game that had a high availability level but it was the 3rd game down my list with that level. Plus it was in position 11 of my queue. What the fuck is the point of having a queue when the system ignores it!? I can not really understand stand it skipping low and medium levels I guess. But to skip two other highs!! Why!! This makes no sense and seems stupid as hell. I mean seriously what is the logic behind that? My best guess is they ship you the game they have the most of, which in this case was probably Conan because well the game sucks. But if that’s the case why have positions.

So off rant, I get the game Friday. Again with two days? I guess I am spoiled with Netflix. Really two days isn’t bad I guess.

Then I get an email on Friday saying they have received my previous game. Really!? Where did it go from Wed till then? Maybe it went with all the other games in my queue into some bizarre world where number positions have no purpose and customer service gets get treated like a $5 whore.

GameFly.com get your shit together please! >:XX

A couple of people have pointed out to me that someone has been running their mouth on a clan theme forum site again about me and 2.1.0. I am not going to say their name because really there is no point in talking about them anymore. I could sit here write another big long post proving how wrong and miss informed this person is, how stupid their claims are, post the IMs they used to send to me asking basic PHP questions to point out their amateur skill level, and crush him again. But what’’s the point really?

It’’s like fighting a retard. Sure you will always win, but in the end whats the point you just won against a retard and he is still retarded.

I have better things to do.

I recently made a post on Raven’s site about new CMS from Francisco Burzi ( FB ) called Smeego.
You can read the post here: http://ravenphpscripts.com/postxf15828-0-0.html Follow up at http://ravenphpscripts.com/postp121846.html#121846

For those that don’t know FB killed created PHPNuke. He recently sold it to some people who seem to be doing just as badly with it as he did, but anyways. FB closed the Smeego project after only a few months because of “In these months I received, as usual, lots of critics, attacks, bad comments, etc… it was on this way for about 7 years, and I must say that finally I’m tired of all this. I’ll not tolerate insults and destructive criticism anymore”

Really seriously what did you expect FB? Lets review. You ignored your community. Closed yourself off from anyone that would support you. Didn’t support your product. Improperly used the GPL license. Didn’t patch or repair your code. Left serious security flaws in version after version. Stole from other developers. Never really improved important current features but keep adding unneeded stuff. Let the project become stale. I could keep going but that’s the gist of it.

So after all that you expected a new project, which sounds like an STD you would get from a hooker, which appears to have the same issues all over again, would be well received by a community that for the most part hates you? People would cheer and dance? Give me a break.

He should get some credit for starting the project and bring it to the a certain level. But then should be blamed for killing it and making it the laughing stalk of the CMS and open source community.

What I really feel bad for is those people that drank the Smeego koolaid. They started sites based around the project and hung on him like a king. People like the person that runs axew3.com. You have to feel bad for these people when he took the project offline, or even starting to follow him in the first place with the way he handled Nuke. I guess they have learned a valuable life lesson.

I have spent the last few hours trying to figure out why Google hate me so much. Nuke-evolution.com has fallen from the top search result for nuke-evolution to the 4th page back. Behind sites that aren”t even active any more. What the fuck! We have thousands of link backs. Every fucking site setup with NE has a link back. How the hell are we so low!

phpBB-evolution.com has fallen to the second page of results behind the SVN and other stuff. Why the hell is this happening? I know it’’s new and I could see us behind sites like phpbb.com but seriously!?

I used as many tools as I could find online to analyze the sites. Not one of them pointed out any serious issue. We are still tops on all the other search engines including MSN and Yahoo! So what’’s the deal!? My only guess is that the link advertising at the bottom of the page is the cause. Because only in the last month or two has the NE site fallen like that and that was around the time that I put those links on. So that’’s my only guess. If they hadn”t paid for a year I would pull them off and see what happens.

So I guess word to the wise don”t do what I did. >:XX>:XX