The nominees are in for the Non-Event of the Century complaint thread

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    TroutFace said:
    "People Are Stupid" event of the day:

    I got a nice email from a recruiter, title "Engine Designer Needed". I was all "cool, I've done 2 full game engines n the past, let's look".

    Open the email and it turns out it's for a CAR ENGINE designer! :ahhh: :ahhh:

    My resume clearly says "Game Engine Designer" on all the job entries I have listed. You'd have to be either illiterate or phenomenally stupid to confuse "car engine" with "game engine". :blank: :blank: :blank:

    I pointed out the confusion as politely as I could in my reply, but he's still a bozo. :blank:

    I can see me firing up my first.. and last.. car engine: "KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM" :blank:



    ...yeah, nowhere do I mention on my resume I have a CDL or even a regular driver's licence, yet I keep getting referrals for truck driving jobs :blank:

    some days I wish I was a train driver, seems to be a job where you always know where you are going :lol:

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Rezca said:
    TroutFace said:
    Rezca said:
    Unity 5 "Personal Edition"? o_o

    Yeah, pretty amazing. Valve also announced that Source 2 would be "free for content developers", which I think means so you can create stuff to sell on Steam.

    There's got to be a way to turn this into enough money to live on! :snake:

    Funny how the game engine developers are doing things smarter than the game developers :B

    *Is still very upset with Square Enix over their treatment of Dragon Quest fans outside of Japan*

    international roghts fpr stuff are often a minefield amd impossible to negotiate, no matter how much you want to :(

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    tjohn said:
    Daddy is practically a vegan so trying to see if there are vegan options at Cheesecake factory.

    Also trying to learn about apples at apple.com

    Edit: can vegans eat cheesecake?


    Imagined conversation:
    Do you have any vegan food here at the Cheesecake Factory?
    We have paper plates.

    Hmmmm wonder if he can order the veggie burger without the cheese or a salad or something.


    vegans won't eat dairy. a lot of stuff is cooked with butter.

    maybe you could call the restaurant and ask if anything vegan is available?


    cheesecake factory yummy nomms

    There is a vegan supermarket in the block where we live, is weird coz everything is in plain wrappers :lol:

  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited March 2015

    ps1borg said:
    Rezca said:
    TroutFace said:
    Rezca said:
    Unity 5 "Personal Edition"? o_o

    Yeah, pretty amazing. Valve also announced that Source 2 would be "free for content developers", which I think means so you can create stuff to sell on Steam.

    There's got to be a way to turn this into enough money to live on! :snake:

    Funny how the game engine developers are doing things smarter than the game developers :B

    *Is still very upset with Square Enix over their treatment of Dragon Quest fans outside of Japan*

    international roghts fpr stuff are often a minefield amd impossible to negotiate, no matter how much you want to :(

    Wasn't this bad when Enix was in charge of the series, I can say that much. Everything changed when Squaresoft and Enix merged - in some ways for the better, in others for the worse.

    Enix did a great job promoting and advertising Dragon Quest (At the time Dragon Warrior in the US, due to them not having the rights to use the name Dragon Quest) and it did very well both in the USA and in Japan.
    Squaresoft did a similarly good job doing the same with Final Fantasy.

    They become Square Enix, and they continue promoting both games... For a while. They then shift gears into dumping all their promotions into Final Fanatsy, and doing the least amount possible for Dragon Quest. They then see the game they spent minimal effort in promoting didn't do as hot as the game they just spent tons of effort promoting, and they come to the conclusion "Oh hey, the west hates this franchise! Let's never ever localize it again."

    In Japan however, they still promote it as much as Enix ever did.


    Still, there's one new DQ game coming out internationally soon enough, but I'd really like 'em to translate the Monsters 2 remake they just did. :/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pysAuCyTK4 And that is a really, really, big dragon :lol:
    I remember that guy from the original DragonWarrior Monsters 2 way back on the gameboy color. Back then he was the "Best" dragon-family monster you could get. Orligon... Didn't think he was so large :)

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited March 2015

    need moar powahh!!

    12 minutes into a render, don't even see a bucket starting.


    why i feel a need to render 2000 px, size doesn't matter. ... or does it ...

    cores!! what was that thing in avengers, tesserat? need one of those to power renders

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    Rezca said:
    ps1borg said:
    Rezca said:
    TroutFace said:
    Rezca said:
    Unity 5 "Personal Edition"? o_o

    Yeah, pretty amazing. Valve also announced that Source 2 would be "free for content developers", which I think means so you can create stuff to sell on Steam.

    There's got to be a way to turn this into enough money to live on! :snake:

    Funny how the game engine developers are doing things smarter than the game developers :B

    *Is still very upset with Square Enix over their treatment of Dragon Quest fans outside of Japan*

    international roghts fpr stuff are often a minefield amd impossible to negotiate, no matter how much you want to :(

    Wasn't this bad when Enix was in charge of the series, I can say that much. Everything changed when Squaresoft and Enix merged - in some ways for the better, in others for the worse.

    Enix did a great job promoting and advertising Dragon Quest (At the time Dragon Warrior in the US, due to them not having the rights to use the name Dragon Quest) and it did very well both in the USA and in Japan.
    Squaresoft did a similarly good job doing the same with Final Fantasy.

    They become Square Enix, and they continue promoting both games... For a while. They then shift gears into dumping all their promotions into Final Fanatsy, and doing the least amount possible for Dragon Quest. They then see the game they spent minimal effort in promoting didn't do as hot as the game they just spent tons of effort promoting, and they come to the conclusion "Oh hey, the west hates this franchise! Let's never ever localize it again."

    In Japan however, they still promote it as much as Enix ever did.


    Still, there's one new DQ game coming out internationally soon enough, but I'd really like 'em to translate the Monsters 2 remake they just did. :/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pysAuCyTK4 And that is a really, really, big dragon :lol:
    I remember that guy from the original DragonWarrior Monsters 2 way back on the gameboy color. Back then he was the "Best" dragon-family monster you could get. Orligon... Didn't think he was so large :)


    a new DQ? am getting close to the end of DQ Viii.

    i like the turn based games. :)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,256
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    Kyoto Kid said:
    TroutFace said:
    "People Are Stupid" event of the day:

    I got a nice email from a recruiter, title "Engine Designer Needed". I was all "cool, I've done 2 full game engines n the past, let's look".

    Open the email and it turns out it's for a CAR ENGINE designer! :ahhh: :ahhh:

    My resume clearly says "Game Engine Designer" on all the job entries I have listed. You'd have to be either illiterate or phenomenally stupid to confuse "car engine" with "game engine". :blank: :blank: :blank:

    I pointed out the confusion as politely as I could in my reply, but he's still a bozo. :blank:

    I can see me firing up my first.. and last.. car engine: "KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM" :blank:



    ...yeah, nowhere do I mention on my resume I have a CDL or even a regular driver's licence, yet I keep getting referrals for truck driving jobs :blank:

    some days I wish I was a train driver, seems to be a job where you always know where you are going :lol:
    ...love to do that myself, however, here in the States, if you are not born to a railroading family, you are out of luck.

  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited December 1969


    a new DQ? am getting close to the end of DQ Viii.

    i like the turn based games. :)

    DragonQuest Heroes. For the Playstation 4, and from what a friend told me it looks like its styling after Final Fantasy Dissidia. DragonQuest fighting game huh, dunno how that'd play out - but I enjoyed Dissidia so if it plays similar then that'd be pretty cool to see in DQ's style :lol:

    I do love DQ, but I dunno if I'd buy a console just for that one game :)
    Never saw much a reason to get a PS3, but with the Final Mix editions of Kingdom Hearts being released internationally after like, ever... I might have to now. Square Enix announced they'd be releasing Kingdom Hearts 3 on the Xbox One as well as the PS4, so now I don't have any reason to get a PS4 at all :lol: (was going to get one to play KH3, but if it's on the Xbox One, a console I already have, then no need for the PS4!)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    iz snowing. can ya believe it?

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    The Panda ate my bamboo Complaint Thread

    The need more Cores Power Complaint Thread

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    Rezca said:
    Well I'll probably sleep through the End of the Thread (TM) but I hope the next one has more dinosaurs in it :)


    hugglz :) :)


    ...The Godzilla Ate The Bus I Was Waiting For Complaint Thread.

    +1 :snake:

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    TroutFace said:
    "People Are Stupid" event of the day:

    I got a nice email from a recruiter, title "Engine Designer Needed". I was all "cool, I've done 2 full game engines n the past, let's look".

    Open the email and it turns out it's for a CAR ENGINE designer! :ahhh: :ahhh:

    My resume clearly says "Game Engine Designer" on all the job entries I have listed. You'd have to be either illiterate or phenomenally stupid to confuse "car engine" with "game engine". :blank: :blank: :blank:

    I pointed out the confusion as politely as I could in my reply, but he's still a bozo. :blank:

    I can see me firing up my first.. and last.. car engine: "KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM" :blank:



    ...yeah, nowhere do I mention on my resume I have a CDL or even a regular driver's licence, yet I keep getting referrals for truck driving jobs :blank:

    Glad it's not just me. :blank:

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    DanaTA said:
    Kyoto Kid said:
    TroutFace said:
    "People Are Stupid" event of the day:

    I got a nice email from a recruiter, title "Engine Designer Needed". I was all "cool, I've done 2 full game engines n the past, let's look".

    Open the email and it turns out it's for a CAR ENGINE designer! :ahhh: :ahhh:

    My resume clearly says "Game Engine Designer" on all the job entries I have listed. You'd have to be either illiterate or phenomenally stupid to confuse "car engine" with "game engine". :blank: :blank: :blank:

    I pointed out the confusion as politely as I could in my reply, but he's still a bozo. :blank:

    I can see me firing up my first.. and last.. car engine: "KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM" :blank:



    ...yeah, nowhere do I mention on my resume I have a CDL or even a regular driver's licence, yet I keep getting referrals for truck driving jobs :blank:

    Me, too. One time...only one time...I looked at a job for a delivery driver. Since then, I get loads of job suggestions...some of them driving big rigs. I have no desire for that.

    Dana

    I think the transaction processing went like this:
    User Entry: Game Engine Designer
    Search Engine Response: Your query returned 0 results. Please try with fewer keywords.
    User Entry: Engine Designer
    Search Engine: Your query returned 73,421 results. :shut:

    Car engine designers have things that go KABOOM all the time. The story goes that Lotus got hold of a new Coventry Climax engine to modify for racing. They sent it to Coventry for testing after the mods. It blew itself to smithereens on the Dyno. Coventry swept the pieces into a box and shipped them back to Lotus without comment.

    "The more you drive, the less intelligent you are." -- Repo Man

    :bug: :bug: :bug:

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    TroutFace said:
    Rezca said:
    Unity 5 "Personal Edition"? o_o

    Yeah, pretty amazing. Valve also announced that Source 2 would be "free for content developers", which I think means so you can create stuff to sell on Steam.

    There's got to be a way to turn this into enough money to live on! :snake:

    Tankworld got so big it took over the engine it was developed on :)

    http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/games/bigworld-technology-australias-littleknown-giant-game-studio-and-its-russian-connection-20150122-12uz0o.html

    I have hope! :cheese: I have several ideas for kids games, and a couple of adult ones as well. I have no end of design ideas..

    ..just sparse resources. Thankfully I've worked with some brilliant game designers, and having the burden of writing the engine AND the gameplay code taken off me allows me to focus on THE GAME and not getting pixels to screen.

    Tried the Unity 5 demo project last night.. *just* playable on my lame HD3000 graphics card. :blank: my first game is going to be 2D, that'll play fast anywhere, and be a great exercise while I save up for a laptop with a graphics card less then 4 years old... :blank:

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited March 2015

    lunch! hearty veggie & brown rice salad bowl from starbuckies :)

    yumma yumma. i couldn't pass up the cookie today i'm gonna eat it for being brave coming to work today. :cheese:

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  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009
    edited December 1969

    Thinking of going to Cheesecake factory tomorrow. Daddy is going to be in town and I have not been there in a long time, actually never eaten at that location.

    Right now at the library.

    I'll never get tired of eating at the Cheesecake Factory. It's one of my daughter's fave places too.

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,227
    edited December 1969

    lunch! hearty veggie & brown rice salad bowl from starbuckies :)

    yumma yumma. i couldn't pass up the cookie today i'm gonna eat it for being brave coming to work today. :cheese:

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  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    lunch! hearty veggie & brown rice salad bowl from starbuckies :)

    yumma yumma. i couldn't pass up the cookie today i'm gonna eat it for being brave coming to work today. :cheese:

    Nice lunch! :) And that's a good looking cookie, nom it down! :cheese:

  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009
    edited December 1969

    another 4-8 inches comin' wahhhhh

    and i stayed home today. looks like i'm gonna miss 2 work days this week.

    I saw a weather map last night that showed you at one end of this mess and me at the other. Either we're both unlucky or together we control the universe. I pick the latter. Bright blue sky here, very little ice (could have been much worse, 39F. Redbud trees and wild verbena are blooming.

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    Minor complaints:

    - Need a laptop with a better graphics chip
    - Nearly slipped on the ice on the stars at home today :gulp:
    - Nearly out of ground coffee at work :bug:

    Non-complaints:

    - Warming up niceley, should hit 38F today, 52F tomorrow
    - Bacon cheeseburger for lunch! :cheese:
    - FOUR DAY WEEKEND!
    - Bottle of Apple Crown Royal chilling down at home, for tonight
    - Buying some BEER on the way home, beer and Crown shots all night :vampire:

    Played a bit with Unity 5 last night, everything loads slow but the demo project ran at an acceptable speed on my ancient HD3000 card. I tried one UE4 demo and it.. sat there.. I'm thinking "UE4 isn't that scalable. :long:

    Tonight or tomorrow it's the Corona SDK. :coolsmile:

    Off to blog on my game company site, omg, I'm so important :lol: :lol: :smirk:

  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009
    edited December 1969

    iz snowing. can ya believe it?

    Yep, I believe it. Does it do anything else up there? ;-)

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,227
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    Minor complaints:


    - Nearly slipped on the ice on the stars at home today :gulp:


    Dude, get your feet back on the ground. ;-)

    Feels like I'm walking on the stars,
    Since I met you I'm walking on the stars!
    If I slip and fall, it'll probably leave scars,
    Feels like I'm walking on the stars...

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    tjohn said:
    TroutFace said:
    Minor complaints:


    - Nearly slipped on the ice on the stars at home today :gulp:


    Dude, get your feet back on the ground. ;-)

    Feels like I'm walking on the stars,
    Since I met you I'm walking on the stars!
    If I slip and fall, it'll probably leave scars,
    Feels like I'm walking on the stars...

    :lol: ":lol: :blank: :smirk:

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    AtticAnne said:
    iz snowing. can ya believe it?

    Yep, I believe it. Does it do anything else up there? ;-)


    the plows aren't keeping up. >.<

    but schools are closed, no worries for school buses on the roads.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    tjohn said:
    lunch! hearty veggie & brown rice salad bowl from starbuckies :)

    yumma yumma. i couldn't pass up the cookie today i'm gonna eat it for being brave coming to work today. :cheese:


    grover did it :wasntme: :)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    lunch! hearty veggie & brown rice salad bowl from starbuckies :)

    yumma yumma. i couldn't pass up the cookie today i'm gonna eat it for being brave coming to work today. :cheese:

    Nice lunch! :) And that's a good looking cookie, nom it down! :cheese:


    deelish! :lol:

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    squeee my new flashdrives and dvds are here. 128mb, 64mb, should cover all my runtimes. blade runner -- oh no, it's blade runner the final cut, not the original. ahhhgg
    and the right stuff, haven't seen it before. matted wide screen, doan know what they mean by matted.

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    Fell for Ca$hgrab today -HD creature Morphs for G2F, and the expansion.. both for under $20.. couldn't resist :down:

    Really need to do a pinup over the 4 day weekend... :snake:

    Need to do a hunky male pinup with Kronos as well.. heh heh..

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    squeee my new flashdrives and dvds are here. 128mb, 64mb, should cover all my runtimes. blade runner -- oh no, it's blade runner the final cut, not the original. ahhhgg
    and the right stuff, haven't seen it before. matted wide screen, doan know what they mean by matted.

    My runtimes total to close to 6GB, even after all the extraneous, ancient stuff has been stripped out and anything not supporting album art/pinup creation has been deleted. :blank:

    All the way up to 39F here, omg, where's my bikini? :smirk:

    Help help discovered the UE4 marketplace.. tons of art and geometry assets.. must not create horror game.. omg helppppppppppppppp

    OMG Unity has one too.. this will really help me get started! :cheese:

  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165
    edited March 2015

    I am very sad. kitty today. so I want to ask you what you would do?
    here my complaint. Its a BIG one
    I had received a new credit card on January 25th 2015 because my old one expired on Fed 2 and since it was a new credit account. I was saving it for all the March madness sales here at daz and at renderosity. I was very excited to say the least.

    Anyway, to make a long story short. I used my new credit card 5 times . twice at Daz on Feb 25th totally $23 in purchases and 3 times at renderosity on feb27. giving me a total of $66 in charges on this fresh brand new credit card.. I had never used it anywhere else. EVER! . On Monday morning I got a phone call from Mastercard telling me that they had put a freeze on my card. they said It appears someone "Hacked" either daz or renderosity credit card servers and attained my credit card information and tried to rack up $8000 in charges on it in the UK. .they tested it twice first then went crazy. I had a $10,000 limit on the card.. Luckily i had fraud protection & alert on my service and caught it before the charges went through.

    Anyway now I am very sad. because I have no new credit card, it will be 30 days before they will issue me the new one. I have other credit cards I can use. But not knowing where the hack came from. I do not dare to buy anything in fear of being hacked again. I never use my debit card for online shopping.
    So anyway I called on the phone and reported this hack to both daz and renderosity and both sites told me later in a e-mail they checked their systems and found no issues.
    So now here is my complaint.. how can I trust shopping at these 2 sites when one of them compromised my credit cards. . I can say this because . Daz and renderosity are then only 2 sites I used this brand spanking new credit card on. so something happen on one of these site in order for this hacker to get my credit card information. but both sites say there is no issues with their systems. So now what am I suppose to think? i did not use that card anywhere else.

    I have a ton of stuff i have wish listed on both sites waiting for these march madness sales . But now it looks like the hackers wins. and I am going to loose out on these sales. because until i find out how my card got compromised I am very leery of doing any more shopping at 2 of my favorite 3d sites.

    What would you do if it was you?

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