gamingeek said:

All I want is to listen to samples from some specific tracks, instead it starts playing "similar" artists random songs randomly. What's the point in builing a library by adding tracks when you can't listen to those tracks? What's the point of making a playlist you can't listen to? Fucking site.

And it seems to be just streaming youtube content.

try Spotify free mode it's not bad.

gamingeek said:

I'm pretty depressed at the moment, I feel unsupported by my parents regarding my brother. My father wont say a single word on the subject and my mother has resumed normal relations. Dads even dropping late night bombs on me when I see him, asking me to send cards to my sister in law (even when she's the one who stirred up shit between my bro and me and she cut me off from the family emails about the kids) and asking when I'm going to see the nephews even when my brother explicity said I'm not welcome to see them or go to his house.

Considering his behaviour, he should be firmly told off, for what is clearly morally wrong. Instead he’s gotten away with it again, because he has kids and my parents are afraid of being cut off from them. I think he should be isolated, that is the only way he's going to learn once and for all what is and what isn’t acceptable behaviour. I'm not even talking about forever, but even a couple of months or half the year? Not even that? Not even a week for my Dad?

Instead I’m the one who's being isolated, not allowed to see my nephews etc.

He’s still seeing my parents, they are still seeing him. I’m the person who's isolated, even though I’m the victim of his asshole-ishness. He used to treat me in a similar fashion growing up, he’s a nasty selfish, arrogant person and no one was there for me growing up when I had to deal with it. Now my parents finally know what's going on and still they're not there for me. I feel completely unsupported. Anyway, sorry to baggage you with this depressing nonsense but I don’t really have many people I can talk to about this round here.

I would just continue to not talk to him. Your parents can do whatever they want, as can you. When someone mentions YOU reaching out to HIM, tell them simply when he learns how to not be a dickhead I will talk to him, and leave it at that. Talk to your nephews if you can. Either by phone or in person. If your brother has a problem with it, too bad. You're not hurting anyone. Let him be a baby and just ignore it...its all you can do.

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edgecrusher said:

I would just continue to not talk to him. Your parents can do whatever they want, as can you. When someone mentions YOU reaching out to HIM, tell them simply when he learns how to not be a dickhead I will talk to him, and leave it at that. Talk to your nephews if you can. Either by phone or in person. If your brother has a problem with it, too bad. You're not hurting anyone. Let him be a baby and just ignore it...its all you can do.

I guess it's just magnified this week because his third kid was born so everyone is buzzing around him like sycophants. Even though my mother has been on the verge of ending all contact with him on several occasions because of his douchbag-ery, she still sees him because of the grandkids, no matter what. I've listened to her complaints about him for so many years now and in the end she does nothing and still does shit for him. So it was all talk, where for me when I say I'm not going to see him for the rest of my life -unless he can be a normal person- I mean it.

As I said to her, if the end result of all your talk is that nothing changes, then he's not going to get the message and once again he's gotten away with it. Hence why I feel like I have no support. They weren't there when he was being a dickhead growing up and now they know about it, they still wont do anything about it. If they had actually done some parenting to tell him what is right and wrong he never would have grown into someone who thinks it's okay to be a cunt to people with no consequences.

The reason I am so moralistic is because I clearly saw what was wrong every day of my life, from him.

It wouldn't matter so much but I keep getting back chatter from them which reminds me of his very aggravating existence, when I don't really need or want to be reminded of.

Dads pissing me off, he won't say a fucking thing to rock the boat then drops occaional late night bombs when he knows there is no room for conversation. I feel like punching him in the face when he does that.

Yeah sorry to hear that GG. I really don't have any advice to offer but Edge's sounds good. Hope things improve soon and hang in there.

Edge has the best advice.  Move on for your sanity's sake.

Well, well. Would you look at that. Uncharted 4 gets delayed.

Where's your god now?

I think now is a good time to sell my PS4.

The most extraordinary thing happened to me today. Somewhere I read that today was going to be the day when the embargo ended for the Code Name Steam reviews. I was clicking on different sites throughout the morning waiting for the updates, thinking to myself "Nintendo's next big franchise hit is almost here. I can't wait to see how high the scores are that it gets!" I waited. I clicked. I clicked and waited... then I saw the GameSpot review. 4 out of 10. I thought to myself "Yeah. That's typical GS these day" and continued to look for more scores. Some were OK. Some were bad. As I read through them a thought came to mind: "I should really be more upset right now." My opinion seemed to be way out of line with the norm.

I searched way down deep to the bottom of my soul and found...

...nothing.

There wasn't single part of me that cared about the low scores. Normally I would be offended. Normally I would think about cancelling my preorder. I would get bummed that not a lot of other people liked what I did. Nope. Nothing. Nada.

I played the demo. I enjoyed the graphics. I enjoyed the on point sound effects. I loved the deep, tension-building strategy... and this was after being a HUGE doubter of the game when I saw it first announced!

It just so happens it's a smart game, and there's a lot of dumb reviewers out there! Seeing their opinions of the game didn't dampen my anticipation for it in the least! I actually browsed a couple of the bad reviews and the most common complaint was the enemy-turn wait-time.

Really?

It dawned on me that we live in an age where tapping jewels and swiping from left to right are major gameplay components for the average player. You get immediate high scores, you get lots of sparkles, explosions and Las Vegas style chimes, bells and whistles. There's no challenge. It's all about style and flash over substance. There's no depth. It's all instant gratification for the ADD crowd. Of course that audience wouldn't like a game where you couldn't immediately know what your enemy was doing, or even be able to see them. It actually requires a bit of imagination and thought.

I realized I have nothing in common with gamers these days...

...and I really don't care! An Intelligent Systems strategy game comes out this Friday, It's a bit different than Advance Wars or Fire Emblem, but that's OK. They are the best at what they do. Even if I am the only person in the world to love the game, so be it! This is one of the first times where I can honestly say "Reviews don't matter" and finally "get" what that means. A game that I like didn't get the highest scores on the planet. It will probably hurt sales. Maybe there won't be a sequel. Maybe this won't be the start of a new series afterall. In the end, that's OK. I'll still enjoy the HELL out of the game regardless! Even if the modern age of gaming is a lot more stupid than it's ever been **Thanks, Mobile!** there will ALWAYS be games to play. There will always be games that eschew the "norm" and that's where you will find me!

Though I should've listened to reviews when it came to Wii Music.

I haven't gave a shit about reviews since GregK left Gamespot. I enjoy lots of games that "reviewers" scoff at. Fuck 'em.