Life Without the Internet - Again, Still
Aug. 9th, 2005 03:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forsythWell, it's not an outage that kept me offline. It's the spectacular incompetence of Verizon, which I had only heard about before. Yes, I'd love to be able to switch to another company, but there isn't one. There's no competition in DSL, the only ones who can offer it are the local phone companies. They're supposed to let other companies use their lines, but they consistently engaged in illegal manipulative practices to wreck the other companies' connection speed, repair time, setup time, and so on, until they were all driven out of business. Isn't it great when part of our basic infrastructure's owned by amoral profit-hungry companies?
Anyway, other electronics have been pissing me off, like Viewtiful Joe, because for some reason, the programmers were on something and decided that one of the bosses should have an attack that you can't block, is almost impossible to dodge, and deals between one and five levels of health to you. Also, he has like ten times your health to start with. No, see, guys, that's not fun. At all. Spending two hours trying to replay the same boss fight over and over is not enjoyable. At least they don't make me slog through the whole rest of the level again before the fight, so that's one good point.
So many basic functions of my computer rely on the net, it's hard to find things to do. At least on the computer, I doubt it'd hurt me at all to be offline, go outside or something. Or write, or something. Such as this. But right now, I'm just frustrated over the stupid game. And Verizion. And I can't even get online to find hints for the game, either.
(Edit: I did finally beat him, but guys, seriously, attacks you can't see to dodge, can't block, and can deal stupid amounts of damage? No fun.)
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Anyway, other electronics have been pissing me off, like Viewtiful Joe, because for some reason, the programmers were on something and decided that one of the bosses should have an attack that you can't block, is almost impossible to dodge, and deals between one and five levels of health to you. Also, he has like ten times your health to start with. No, see, guys, that's not fun. At all. Spending two hours trying to replay the same boss fight over and over is not enjoyable. At least they don't make me slog through the whole rest of the level again before the fight, so that's one good point.
So many basic functions of my computer rely on the net, it's hard to find things to do. At least on the computer, I doubt it'd hurt me at all to be offline, go outside or something. Or write, or something. Such as this. But right now, I'm just frustrated over the stupid game. And Verizion. And I can't even get online to find hints for the game, either.
(Edit: I did finally beat him, but guys, seriously, attacks you can't see to dodge, can't block, and can deal stupid amounts of damage? No fun.)
Technorati Tags: Mindscribbles, Me, Computers, The Internets, Gaming
