Mind of UPSLynx for the week of November 8th

Bobby Miller 15 Nov, 2009 at 2:57pm ET Article published in Tech

Comments

1. 
   15 Nov 2009 ~ 3:53pm Thrax Flawless victory.
2. 
   15 Nov 2009 ~ 4:10pm branmyson Is that a work perk you are wearing? Oh, and I still have not seen a video of you sniping the processor.
3. 
   15 Nov 2009 ~ 4:17pm lordbean

   Thrax wrote:

   Flawless victory.

   
   this
4. 
   15 Nov 2009 ~ 4:58pm Winfrey Awesomely entertaining and informative as usual.
5. 
   15 Nov 2009 ~ 6:13pm jokerz4fun I u and lazy town
6. 
   15 Nov 2009 ~ 6:39pm pigflipper So the drunken TF2 last night didn't delay you too much...
7. 
   15 Nov 2009 ~ 9:37pm Butters It's a piece of cake to bake a GPU,
   If the solder's broken.
   Gotta do the cooking by the book,
   Or else that card is smoking.
   
   This will either make you rich and famous or come back to bite you in the ass in 5 years.
8. 
   15 Nov 2009 ~ 11:10pm GnomeQueen I totally laughed out loud for a good five minutes at the song, Bobby. It came out great.
   
   And you're totally right about the boycott thing. The only way to get through to most companies is to simply not buy the product. They're not really going to care if you buy it and then don't play it- that doesn't really harm them.
9. 
   16 Nov 2009 ~ 7:28am mertesn

   Gnome Queen wrote:

   And you're totally right about the boycott thing. The only way to get through to most companies is to simply not buy the product. They're not really going to care if you buy it and then don't play it- that doesn't really harm them.

   Totally agree here. I'll also add that pirating the boycotted game isn't a good way to get the message through either because 1) You still validate the publisher's opinion that even the boycotters will play the game and 2) It just encourages their desire to add lots of DRM, you know, to "enhance the purchaser's experience".
10. 
    16 Nov 2009 ~ 9:26am Grimnoc This may be my favorite Mind of UPSLynx evar, good job Bobby.
    
    *Also, I request a full release of your number one hit song, "GPU Bake-off."
11. 
    16 Nov 2009 ~ 11:28am jared ding ding ding. Online petitions don't mean shit.
    
    Now if the rest of the interwebs would realize this.
    
    +1 for having guns in the video
12. 
    16 Nov 2009 ~ 12:09pm Grimnoc Additionally, the complete debacle of getting Borderlands to work with Lynx and Canti made me "feel like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species, and opening the dump valves on oil tankers to smother all those French beaches I'll never see."
13. 
    16 Nov 2009 ~ 1:29pm UPSLynx

    jared wrote:

    
    +1 for having guns in the video

    
    Had a feeling you'd enjoy that part.
    
    The full version of my song is protected by the DMCA. You cannot have it. unless, of course, you install the rootkit that allows you to listen to the song once a day, thirty seconds at a time, after filling out a usage survey.
    
    I really don't know why people still flock to online surveys.. Are the masses really that dumb? To sign so many and never achieve progress should send a clear message that the process doesn't work. No matter how behind something I am, I will never sign another petition, it's just a waste of time.
    
    Hilarious that I still have the screencap of my anti-steam peition days. I was on dailup back then, and really hoped that I could help prevent such a service that crippled dial-up users. :rolleyes2
    
    Oh, and Butters, I'm going to hedge my bets on the latter... Lord help me.
14. 
    16 Nov 2009 ~ 1:34pm Snarkasm

    Grimnoc wrote:

    ... "feel like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species, and opening the dump valves on oil tankers to smother all those French beaches I'll never see."

    
    -sigh-
15. 
    16 Nov 2009 ~ 1:45pm Grimnoc Indeed sir, indeed.
16. 
    16 Nov 2009 ~ 2:25pm Cliff_Forster Firearms minus death = win
17. 
    16 Nov 2009 ~ 3:03pm QCH Love the singing... Great episode!!!
18. 
    17 Nov 2009 ~ 9:24am Obsidian Gearbox must just hate you. Me and my friends got online working instantly on day one.
19. 
    17 Nov 2009 ~ 12:09pm UPSLynx

    Obsidian wrote:

    Gearbox must just hate you. Me and my friends got online working instantly on day one.

    
    What's strange about it is that it wasn't an isolated case. All three of us were having the same issues, public and friend servers alike. Canti had played before without fault, but he was joining Myrmidon's game, and he had all sorts of ports forwarded to get it to work.
20. 
    17 Nov 2009 ~ 7:05pm Nemikan I GOT BORDERLANDS
21. 
    17 Nov 2009 ~ 7:10pm BlackHawk I blame Gamespy.
22. 
    17 Nov 2009 ~ 8:12pm ardichoke

    Black Hawk wrote: »

    I blame Gamespy.

    That's always a safe bet. Gamespy does tend to suck the big one.
23. 
    18 Nov 2009 ~ 1:22am UPSLynx Their choice of Gamespy is confusing as it is a failure.
24. 
    18 Nov 2009 ~ 1:26am Thrax
25. 
    18 Nov 2009 ~ 10:03pm ardichoke

    Thrax wrote:

    

    
    This can be made into new smiley now plz?