Friday, July 25, 2008

Of Company of Heroes

Great game, I'll tell you what's good and not about it.

Pros:

Incredible Graphics
Immersive Gameplay
Deep Strategy
Great Sound
Physics
Individual AI

Cons:

Takes a Big Rig
Repetitive Gameplay
Plenty of Micromanagement

Let's start with the pros, we've all seen WWII games, how many times have we charged ourselves or our troops up to The Shingle ? How many times have we gotten behind that Panther to hit it's rear armour ?

To many to count.

The graphics on it's on is more than enough to drive you into purchasing this game.

Dynamic lighting, shadows and gritty gameplay add to this. You'll see explosions of varying sizes lead varying amounts of flying dirt and debris. The infantry units alone have no less than 500 animation...each.


Immersive Gameplay

Don't ask. You'll be so focused on one point that you may even forget that there is actually a another world called RL behind you. The great sound makes things that much better.


Deep Strategy

You blew up a tank, you for you, there's a tank carcass sitting there, who cares ?

Your enemy infantry charge up, stand behind the tank husk and use it as cover.

Your squad, out in the open with no cover gets shot to pieces.

The environment is fully destructible. Blow a certain window off a building and the enemy infantry garrisoned in that window suddenly become more vulnerable since they just lost much of their cover. Enemies hiding behind that tank carcass got you down ?

Toss a grenade over, either run out of their cover or die.


Great Sound

You will learn to fear the noise a 105mm Howitzer Barrage makes.

The sound of everything nearby is drowned out by that Howitzer fire and you can' stop it, the only thing you can hear is those infantry trapped in the middle of it yelling over the noise.

Don't let me get started on the realistic gunfire sounds.

The voice acting is slightly beyond incredible. You'll hear frantic radio calls, listen closely and your Volksgrenadiers will say something along the lines of "Stop pushing me" Speech changes according to the situation. If they come under fire, they'll go from calmly saying "Ya, ya, one way, then the other" right into "We are under attack by the Yankees !"

Your sniper goes from speaking in a hushed whisper "Sniper displacing" to yelling at the top of the lungs "They've got fucking MGs here !"

There's no holds on language, these guys swear as much as they like.


Physics

Any game worth it's name will have physics, in this case, it's the famed Havok engine.

Driving a tank into a small building will damage them, tank accuracy is based on the terrain it's on.

Run over a tree, you can use that tree as cover for your infantry.

Did your aircraft crash ? Well, it can still benefit you, how ?

Cover, the metal remaining can be used as cover, in this game, you'll either learn to use cover, or dig your own grave.


Individual AI

This is the first game of I've ever played in which your soldiers are smart enough to dive for cover on their own when they come under fire. Tank about to run them over ? Don't worry, they're smart enough to get out of the way...most of the time.

They'll hide behind sandbags whenever possible and retreat on their own accord.


Cons.

Takes a Big Rig

My computer is 4 years old, 512 mb of RAM and an ATI Radeon 9200 series graphics card.

The notorious 9200, one of 2 graphics cards that has a non-game crashing bug running with Company of Heroes. This bug is simple: Most models are invisible, the only ones that aren't are the building in the maps, trees and most terrain.

I need a 9500 or higher. Personally, an Nvidia would be the best.

My graphics card is also incapable of running Battlefield 2142.


Repetitive Gameplay

Unless you download plenty of new maps, the existing ones and campaigns get real boring, real fast.


Plenty of Micromanagement

A similar amount to Dawn of War, in Dawn of War, you decide on a specific number of weapons and soldiers a squad can have. This makes for some big choices.

In Company of Heroes, you click one button and you'll run into a semi-realistic number of weapons being equipped.

In Dawn of War, finding cover was a lot easier, just point and click.

In Company of Heroes with the destructible environment, you end up, positioning every squad in a formation as perfect as possible. More time wasted on getting your men into position.


Overall, great game, beautiful graphics and excellent sound with some fine strategy.

I'd buy it.

Regards, Boombaye1

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Of Rome: Total War and Other Stuff

Don't comment about the post titles.

I've received a startling amount of spam that is not dissimilar to the Nigerian 419 Scam.
That's just the spam inbox. Most of it ended up in the normal inbox.

Aye. Ignore the stuff from Lisa, she's a writer, a good one.

I'm gonna copy and paste all of them in order, if it's a duplicate they shove down my throat tice, you'll only find one copy.



Contract Cash Payment

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GHANA,

BANK OF GHANA
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR,
12/18,ASHANTI AVENUE
ACCRA CENTRAL
GHANA.

Attention:Beneficiary,

This is to notify you that your funds has been programmed for immediate release of your contract sum totalling the sum of US$40.5M(Fourty million five hundred thousand five hundred thousand dollars) into your nominated account but we can not transfer this funds direct to your nominated bank account, because we are having a problem with International Monetary Fund (IMF) so our method of payment is by Diplomatic Courier Service Note; that every arrangement regarding your cash payment through diplomatic services has been made, note that your funds have been package like a consignment.Be inform that the Diplomatic Agency has to move down to your Country in order to deliver the Consignment to your doorstep.


I want you to forward the below infromation immediately, so that as soon as the diplomatic arrive in your country they will call you immediately to notify you.


1) Your full name and address
2) Phone, fax and mobile #.
3) Company's name, position and address.
4) Profession.
5) Working Id/Int'l passport.

You are advised to send the above requested information through my direct
email:frankampong1@yahoo.cn

Yours sincerely,

Dr.Frank Ampong

DIRECTOR FOREIGN PAYMENT DEPARTMENT
BANK OF GHANA (BOA)

Why in Hell would you beg me for my business details ?!



ATTENTION: WINNER

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS:
P O Box 1010 Liverpool, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM

ATTENTION: WINNER

This is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash prize of £500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand (British
Pounds) held on the 13th of July, 2008 in London UK. The selection process was carried out through random
selection in Our computerized email selection system (ess) from a database of over 21,000 e-mail addresses drawn from which you were
selected.

Contact our fiduciary agent for claims with:

Agents Name: Mr.Brown Smith
Email:claimsunit_smith@live.com
Tell: +44 702 403 2734
+44 702 40 32679

REF No: UKNL-L/200-26937
BATCH No: 2005MJL-01
TICKET No: 20511465463-7644

Fill the below:
1. Name: 2. Address 3. Marital Status: 4. Occupation: 5. Age:
6. Sex: 7. Nationality: 8. Country of Residence: 9. Telephone Number:

Congratulation!!
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Is there a particular reason I, a guy living in South Africa won UK lottery without even entering ?



CONFIRM RECEIPT

Contact Dr.Peter Brown for the claim of £450,000:00 GBP pounds which youhave won in MICROSOFT PROMOTION.Provide your Names,Address,Age,Occupation, Tel,Country Send Email:dr.peterbrowndeskfiles@live.com

If I'm gonna get scammed, I need more details than "yay, you won, give us all your personal details"



CONTRACT CASH PAYMENT

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GHANA,
BANK OF GHANA
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR,
12/18,ASHANTI AVENUE
ACCRA CENTRAL
GHANA.

Attention:Beneficiary,

This is to notify you that your funds has been programmed for immediate release of your contract sum totalling the sum of US$40.5M(Fourty million five hundred thousand five hundred thousand dollars) into your nominated account but we can not transfer this funds direct to your nominated bank account, because we are having a problem with International Monetary Fund (IMF) so our method of payment is by Diplomatic Courier Service Note; that every arrangement regarding your cash payment through diplomatic services has been made, note that your funds have been package like a consignment.Be inform that the Diplomatic Agency has to move down to your Country in order to deliver the Consignment to your doorstep.


I want you to forward the below infromation immediately, so that as soon as the diplomatic arrive in your country they will call you immediately to notify you.


1) Your full name and address
2) Phone, fax and mobile #.
3) Company's name, position and address.
4) Profession.
5) Working Id/Int'l passport.

You are advised to send the above requested information through my direct
email:frankampong1@yahoo.cn

Yours sincerely,

Barr.Frank Ampong

DIRECTOR FOREIGN PAYMENT DEPARTMENT
BANK OF GHANA (BOA)

Dude. Shouldn't you have a slightly more official E-Mail ? Why not your business E-Mail ?



YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HAS WON

The Camelot Group, Operators of The National Lottery.
3b Olympic Way, Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool , L30 1RD
REF Nº:UKL/74-A0802742007
BATCH Nº: 2007UKL-01
WINNING Nº:3- 6- 9-12- 40- 43 and 44

WINNING NOTIFICATION
The United Kingdom National Lottery wishes to inform you
that the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery
international program by Great Britain held on the of 10th
of July 2008.Your mail account have been picked as a winner
of a lump sum pay out of Eight hundred and ninty-one
thousand,nine hundred and thirty-four Great Britain pounds
£891,934.00 pounds sterlings)in cash credited to file
REFNO.REF:UKL/74-A0802742007.This is from total prize money
of GBP 4,459,670.00shared among the FIVE(5)international
winners in this category.
You are to contact our claims agent for validation:

Mr Derek Max.
Email:lottsclaims@googlemail.com
Tel: +447031967985


VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM
1.FULL NAMES:________
2.ADDRESS:_______
3.City________
4.State________
5.Postcode_______
6.Country______
7.SEX:_______
8.AGE:________
9.OCCUPATION:_______
10.TELEPHONE NUMBER:__________
11.WINNING NUMBERS:________________
12.REF No:___________
13.BATCH No:___________


Sincerely,
Mrs. Dianne Thompson
Online Coordinator.

I didn't buy any tickets, I'm too young to buy any tickets, I'm not in the UK and I'm not stupid.




CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY.

FROM MR BARAJI AROMA.
BANK OF AFRICA (BOA)
BILL AND EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT,
OFFSHORE OFFICE,OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO.

Dear,

I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise, I got your contact address from the computerized search. My name is Mr Baraji Aroma. I am the Bill and Exchange (assistant) Manager of Bank of Africa Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of eighteen million three hundred thousand United State of American dollars ($18.3MILLION U.S.A DOLLARS) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer Mr Kurt Kuhle from Alexandra Egypt who died along with his family in Siber airline that crashed into sea at Isreal on 4th October 2001.

Since I got information about his death I have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release it unless somebody applies for it as the next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines, but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him in the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it because I don't want the money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed Bill. The banking laws and guidelines here stipulates that if such money remains unclaimed after seven years the money will be transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund.

The request of foreigner in this transaction is necessary because our late customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe can not stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I have agreed that 33% of this money will be for you as foreign partner in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 2% will be set aside for expenses that might occurred during the business and 65% would be for me, after which I shall visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as we arranged you will furnished me with a good receiving account details where the money will be transferred, your private telephone and fax number for easy communication.

Upon receipt of your reply I will send to you by fax or e-mail a text of the application which you shall retype and fax to our foreign remittance manager for easy execution of the transaction.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is 100% hitch-free on both side as all required arrangement has been made for the transfer. Please I would like you to keep this transaction confidential and as a top secret as you may wish to know that I am a Bank official.

Trusting to hear from you immediately.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr Baraji Aroma.

Alright, this one is more almost more complicated. Let's move onto the next. Notice how all of the titles are in capital ? I guess his Caps Lock broke.



DR AZIZAN AHMMED(Good Day My good Friend)

Dr Azizan Ahmmed,
01 Avanue BP Pardou,
Ouagadougou BurkinaFaso.
GREETINGS, PLEASE I WILL LIKE YOU TO CONTACT ME THROUGH MYPRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS: a_ahmmed1958@ahmmed.net or a_ahmmed1958@yahoo.com
Complement of the dayto you and your beloved family. Do not be astonished for receiving thismail. Please, I seek your permission and would want to get myselfintroduce to you. I am Dr Azizan Ahmmed. I work with BANK OF AFRICA (BOA).
I need your co-operation in receiving USD25.8M that hasbeen in a dormant account with my bank for over 6years which belongs toone of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in aplane crash that happened in Kenya, East Africa.
Since his death, we have been expecting his next of Kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release it unless somebody applies for it as next of Kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking and financial policies but unfortunately all the efforts proved abortive.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided as the head of my department to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed bills.

Do not view this as been illegal but an opportunity for us to help enrich our hope in life instead of the bank converting this much money to the security funds.
You should not nurse any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the smooth transfer of this funds and your acceptance is what will crown this effort.
Iagree that 35% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, inrespect to the provision of a foreign account, and 65% would be for me,thereafter I will visit your country for disbursement according to thepercentage indicated.
Please, I want you to visit the website below formore informations about the plane crash and the Deceased DR.GEORGEBRUMLEY AND HISFAMILY.
Meanwhile, If you are willing, capable and honest for this transaction, Kindly indicate your interest by sending a response to my e-mail address with information below,
Your International passport or ID card.......
Your private telephone number................
Your profession..............................
Your age.....................................
Your country..................................
Yours Truely,
Dr Azizan Ahmmed,

Another from the same bank in like 10 E-Mails. Don't you people have more than 1 bank ?! Private Email pfft. His space bar AND his Caps Lock broke.



FROM: Mr. Ken Kube

FROM: Mr. Ken Kube.
Good Day,
Please Read.
My name is Mr Ken Kube, I'm the credit officer in International Credit Bank Ouagadougou Burkina Faso.
I have a business proposal in the tune of $5.5m, (Five Million Five hundred Thousand only) after the successful transfer; we shall share in ratio of 40% for you and 60% for me.
Should you be interested, please contact me through my private email (mr_ken@mail.ru) so we can commence on all arrangements and I Will give you more information on how we would handle this project.
Please treat this business with utmost confidentiality and send me the
Following information:
(1) Full names:
(2) Private phone number:
(3) Current residential address:
(4) Occupation:
(5) Age and Sex:
Kind Regards,
Mr. Ken Kube.
Note: Strictly reply through my private email account if interest is shown.

Another one from that Bank Ouagadougou thing.



Ref- I am not typing the name in !

Ref:UK/9420X2/68
Batch:074/05/ZY369

You have won won £1,000,000.

To claim your prize,Contact Mr Cole Williams with the following informations.

Name,Address,Age,Occupation,Country

Email: mr.cole_williams44@yahoo.co.uk

Mr Cole Williams

How sweet, I won again. I don't care.



Accredited for claims blablabla...

The Camelot Group,
Operators of The National Lottery.
3b Olympic Way, Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool , L30 1RD

WINNING NOTIFICATION

The United Kingdom National Lottery wishes to inform you
that the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery
international program by Great Britain held on the of 11th
July. 2008. Your mail account have been picked as a winner
of a lump sum pay out of Eight hundred and ninty-one
thousand, nine hundred and thirty-four Great Britain pounds
(£891,934.00 pounds sterlings) in cash credited to file
REF NO.REF:UKL/74-A0802742008.

This is from total prize money of GBP £4,459,670.00shared
among the FIVE (5) international winners in this
category.All participants for the online version were
selected randomly from World Wide Web through computer
balloting system drawn from over 100,000 names database,
union associations and corporate bodies that are listed
online.This promotion is this year's United Kingdom National
Lottery Weekly bonus.

The Camelot Group, operators of the United Kingdom National
Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also
Licensed by the The International Association of Gaming
Regulators (IAGR).All winning must be claimed not later than
7 working days from this notification. After this time all
unclaimed funds will be returned to European Union Treasury
as unclaimed. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary
delays and complications please remember to quote your
reference number in all correspondence.Be advice to keep
your winning information confidential until your claims has
been
processed and your money remitted to you.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.To begin your
claim, please contact your Claims Agent:

Prof. Derek Max.
PROCESSING DEPARTMENT
26 Stanhope Road
Kent CT14 6AD London
United Kingdom
Email:cgnl_claimsdept1@live.com
Tel: +447045718420
Tel: +447045747857

He will brief you on steps to be taken for due processing
and remittance of your prize money.Note below your winning
details:Ticket No: 22-1356-4096-988, Serial no:
A069-07,Lucky No:
12-13-21-26-32-39 Bonus-17,File REF No.:
UKL/74-A0802742008,BATCH No.: 2008UKL-01

***IMPORTANT*** FILL OUT THIS WINNERS

KINDLY FILL THE VERIFICATION FORM
FULLNAMES:__________
Sex:________________
ADDRESS:____________
City________________
State_______________
Postcode____________
Country_____________
Tel_________________
Nationality_________
occupation__________

Congratulations again from all our staff.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Dianne Thompson
Online Coordinator,CAMELOT GROUP,
Operator of The National Lottery.

Note, they sent me another E-Mail for winning another lotto.



File your Claim

Attn: We are please to inform You that you just won the sum of $2,000,000.00 DOLLARS, form our FREELOTTO NATIONAL LOTTERY 2008. Fill the details:Full Name,Country,Tel,Occupation:

So, how many imes do I win a lotto before authorities show up to make sure I'm not cheating ?



URGENT REPLY

Dear friend,

I can't imagine how you will feel receiving a sudden business letter from a remote country in far away Burkina Faso west africa and probably from some one you have not closely related with. But all the same, i believe we do not need to be of blood relatives before we can establish cordial/business relationship. Having said this, i think it is very important at this juncture to introduce myself to you.

I am.Mr Mustapha.Dibia, the director in charge of auditing and accounting section of International bank of africa(IBA) Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso west africa.
It is my pleasure to solicit your assistance in this business proposal. I am contacting you because, i do not want to transact the business with anybody who is known to any staff of this bank or anybody around here to avoid any possible blackmail or leakage at the end of the transaction.

The proposal: During our investigation and auditing in this bank, my department came across a very huge sum of money belonging to a deceased person who died on 25 july 2000,in a plane crash and the fund has been dormant in his account with this bank without any claim of the fund in our custody either from his family or relation before our discovery to this development.the said amount was u.s $12.000.000m (Twelve Million United States Dollars) as it may interest you to know, meanwhile all the whole arrangement to put claim over this fund as the bonafide next of kin to the deceased, get the required approval and transfer this money to a foreign account has been put in place and directives and needed information will be relayed to you as soon as you indicate your interest and willingness to assist us and also benefit your self to this great business opportunity. In fact i could have done this deal alone but because of my position in this country as a civil servant(a banker),we are not allowed to opperate a foreign account and would eventually raise an eye brow on my side during the time of transfer because i work in this bank.

This is the actual reason why it will require a second party or fellow who will forward claims as the next of kin with affidavit of trust of oath to the bank and also present a foreign account where he will need the money to be re-transferred into on his request as it may be after due verification and clarification by the correspondent branch of the bank where the whole money will be remitted from to your own designation bank account.

I will not fail to inform you that this transaction is 100% risk free. On smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 40% of the total sum as gratification, while 5% will be set aside to take care of expenses that may arise during the time of transfer and also telephone bills, while 55% will be for me and my partner. Please, you have been adviced to keep "top secret" as i am still in service and intend to retire from service after we conclude this deal with you.

I will be monitoring the whole situation here in this bank until you confirm the money in your account and ask me to come down to your country for subsequent sharing of the fund according to percentages previously indicated and further investment, either in your country or any country you advice us to invest in.
All other necessary vital information will be sent to you when i hear from you.
I look forward to receive your immediate response . (contact me at mustapha_dibia2000@hotmail.fr

Yours Faithfully,
Mr Mustapha Dibia.

URGENT REPLY

Another broken Caps Lock and another plane crash.



ATTENTION...WINNER

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS:
P O Box 1010 Liverpool, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM

ATTENTION: WINNER

This is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash prize of £500,000 (Five Hundred

Thousand (British
Pounds) held on the 7th of july, 2008 in London UK. The selection process was carried out

through random
selection in Our computerized email selection system (ess) from a database of over 21,000

e-mail addresses drawn from which you were
selected.

Contact our fiduciary agent for claims with:


Agents Name: Mr.David Williams
Email: uk_lottery.paymentoffice1@yahoo.co.uk

REF No: UKNL-L/200-26937
BATCH No: 2005MJL-01
TICKET No: 20511465463-7644

Fill the below:
1. Name:
2. Address
3. Marital Status:
4. Occupation:
5. Age:
6. Sex:
7. Nationality:
8. Country of Residence:
9. Telephone Number:

Congratulation!!
Sincerely,
Mrs.Helen Anderson.

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Need I stress the importance of NO FREAKING CAPS LOCK again ?



URGENT (BANK OF AFRICA) BOA.

FROM THE DESK OF MR .AZIZ MOUSTAFA.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
BANK OF AFRICA.
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO.
TOP SECRET
Dear Friend

I am MR. AZIZ MOUSTAFA. the bill and exchange manager at the foreign remittance department of BANK OF AFRICA. I got your contact from the internet ,while seaching for an honest and trust worthy person, who will assist me to implement this transfer.l discovered the sum of Twenty Two Million and five hundred Thousand United States Dollars (USD22.5M) belonging to a deceased customer of this bank.

The fund has been lying in a suspence account without anybody coming to
put claim over the money since the account owner late Mr JOHN KOROVO from JORDAN , who was involved in the December 25th 2003 Benin plane crash.
Here is the air crash website on cn
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html
The said fund is now ready for transfer to a foriegn account whose owner will be portrayed as the beneficiary and next of kin to the deceased customer of the bank. Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidlines and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I therefore soliciting for your assistance to come forward as the next of kin.
I have agreed that 40% of this money will be for you as the beneficiary
in respect of the provision of your Account and services rendered, 55% would be for me while 5% will be for expencses incured during the cause of this transaction If the money is transferred to your Account from BANK OF AFRICA,

I and my family in this transaction will proceed immediately to your
country for our own share of the money. I expect you to keep this
business strictly confidential and secret as you may wish to know that I am Bank official.

Be rest assured that this business is 100% risk free on both side and every arrangement to transfer this money to the Account you are going to provide have been concluded provided we maintain the confidentiality and secreceirity involved.
Contact me on my private phone number( +226-78335853. or email address at() I am looking forward for your prompt response.

Yours faithfully,
Mr. Aziz Moustafa.

Another plane crash, another mail from the bank, another moron trying to get himself arrested.



Final Notification

Contact Mr. Pinkett for the claim of £1,000,000 pounds which youhave won in UK NATIONAL LOTTERY. Provide your Names, Address,Age,Occupation,Tel,Country Send: claimsoffice01@btinternet.com

This isn't the final one. I still get them in my spam box.



VERY URGENT ATTENTION.

FROM THE OFFICE OF MR ALI ZONGO
DIRECTOR AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT,
BANK OF AFRICA.(BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU -BURKINA FASO

SORRY IF THIS MESSAGE DO NOT MEET YOUR PERSONAL ADVANTAGE,
WE APOLOGIES


Compliment,
Pleasure writing to you at this moment of the day, I am
Mr.ALI ZONGO.
the director incharge of auditing and accounting Dept. of Bank of Africa
OUAGADOUGOU -BURKINA FASO.I deem it fit to contact you regarding an inactive/dormant account fund that will benefit both of us at the end, if parties involved will take restrait and maintain absolute secrecy, honesty and integrity. I got your contact in my search for a reputable and reliable person to particularly assist me to claim the fund in question. During auditing, in our bank at the end of last fiscal year, We discovered the sum of Twenty five millions United States dollars (US$25M) in a dormant account belonging to an international businessman who was involved in the December 25th Benin plane crash. while travelling for his bussiness. I kept this information(secret) confidential within my jurisdiction to enable us submit claims and transfer this fund through trustworthy person whom we shall present to our bank as the bonafide next of kin to the ceased. Visit our investigations so far clearly reveals that there is no immediate survivor or even a relation to the deceased and as such, there is no immediate next of kin for further claims of the deceased fund as we have long been expecting someone to come forward with an applications. Further information's /verifications from reliable sources too have confirmed that the deceased customer supposed next of kin were all in the plane with him died with him.this is where the bank come in to do bussiness with who ever is interested.
Plane Crash Web site!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This fund is now ready for transfer into a foreign account, whose owner will be portrayed to our bank as the beneficiary and a next of kin to the deceased customer. The foreign account owner will impost himself appropriately as the next of kin to the deceased and respond positively like a true next of kin who wishes to speed up the release and transfer process of his inherited fund. Kindly be aware too that if the over-due fund if not claimed by the end of next quarter, the National Treasury and Bills of britain will take over the ownership of the fund in line with the National Edict Act of 2000. We do not want this to happen as it will not augur to our best interest, having worked all our lives in the banking sector, that is why I contacted you for us to do the deal together with absolute confidence, so that you will be portrayed as the bonafide beneficiary and an immediate next of kin to the deceased. I will give you further directives, advice and all needed information's required for this transaction as soon as I receive your positive response. Similarly, if you accept to carry out this transaction with us, we have resolved offering to you 30% of the total sum as commission, extra 10% of all proceeds to be generated from subsequent profit-viable. 5% of the total fund will be set aside to re-imburse all expenses incurred in this course of this transaction. This transfer will automatically be affected within 7 working days. Be rest assured that with the underground work i have laid so far, that this transaction carries no risk and no extra burdens on your part, except the above mentioned nominal roles you are required to fulfil and similarly will be required to maintain absolute information secrecy throughout the duration of this transaction, because discussing and exhibiting it with a third party might jeopardise the entire transaction.

I will give you directives and all needed information as soon as I receive your positive response. Kindly understand that we could not carry out this fund-transfer on our own, based on the simple facts that we are civil servants and presently bank staffs and this office excludes us from operating foreign accounts, moreover conducting such magnanimous transaction from the same place where we belong to/coming from will raise eyebrows on our side and the truth is that this fund belongs to a foreigner, and as such demands same as next of kin.I am looking forward to receiving your interesting response on this project as this will greatly enrich the both of us at the end. please you are required to reply this message as a matter of necessity.
(
ali_zongo1@yahoo.fr
)


Best regards,
MR ALI ZONGO.
(Account Audithor B.O.A)

This Director has worse spelling and grammar than a dead oyster !




If you want something to laugh at, check this news article.

100 Billion Dollar Note


Regards, Boombaye1

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Of Gerenic Stuff Involving Video Games

Doom. People who don't play have heard of it.

I play the Doom Boardgame and Doom 3.

Doom 3 has many advantages, half of all first person shooters through 2007 used it's engine.

Disadvantages include closet jumping. Things jump out of the closet at you even when you just checked it. These are all scripted, you pick up Ammo Crate A in Room B and Zombie jumps out of closet in Room A that you just checked.

It's like they want you to waste ammunition just after you receive it.

Doom: The Boardgame, not for the faint of heart. It runs on simple concept: Get the hell out of the Mars Base. It's challenging but a good team of Marine players working together can beat the snot out of any Invader (Bad guy) player. This boardgame is tactical and team based.

The box is pretty heavy with a snarling Hell Knight. Pretty.
Components include a ton of miniatures, unpainted and very detailed for something that's only 30mm tall.
A fully illustrated rulebook with plenty of examples and a very nice scenario book that contains 5 missions that form a campaign.

Why did I say it's not for the faint hearted ?

Bloodstains strewn across the board make a start, everything is directly modeled after what you see in Doom 3 and the 'flavour text' is very dark. The word dim is used far to often.

Anyway, onto something else.

A while ago, I bought Total War: Collectors Edition that included all 3 Total War games except Medieval 2: Total War, an artwork book, a manual the size of a phone directory and some bonus postcards.

I ran into an error with Rome: Total War and uninstalled it. When I tried to reinstall, it kept giving me a file transfer error and I Googled.

Followed some instructions, cleaned out my DVD with lukewarm water, and now, it's installed and I want to play !

More stuff, coming soon, the Roman Empire needs a stalwart and dedicated leader and I'm their guy.

Regards, Boombaye1

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Of Stuff

I'm ranked in all the skills !





Saturday, July 5, 2008

Of 'The Stuff'.

Sorry, ran outta ideas for the post title.



Catchy.

Runescape HD was a great update, even F2P got a li'l touch-up. (I should know)

I find that I may be playing it a lot more just to explore the new place. Greatest thing part of the free version of the updates is the bowstring. You now see bowstring and your character drawing it back for that shot. Expect to see me training range, no matter how boring, a lot more.

I just found little bug and ran into one on Marlaine's blog.

I should compress these images. It's been 2 minutes since I hit that 'Upload' button !

Sooo, first up, when typing a comment on Marlaine's latest post, I misspelled 'Americans' and after some error thing, this remained:


And a bug from the HD update was found by me. Looks like a suit of armour from the Warrior's Guild broke out and decided to go on a 'Roach Rampage'.


Teehee.

Listen to the words of that song up there. It's Beethoven propoganda.

Regards, Boombaye1

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Of Gaming, RuneScape HD and Spammers

I'm off RuneScape, as we all know, so what games do I play in the 6 hours each day I have ?



Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic

Unpatched, this game is boderline unplayable with the sheer number of bugs, patched like my version and I'll be able to use all the details and shadows on high on my 4 year-old rig.

During the course of this game, you'll have/have been/be.

Shot - Unavoidable.
Cut - Not all swords in the Star Wars universe are 'laser'.
Cut by a lightsabre - May be avoided. If you have plenty of stun and ways to hold the guy in place. These guys can actually throw lightsabres so that might get in your way.
Seen a plot twist - Unavoidable. Big plot twist too.
Bought a droid - Unavoidable.
Been captured - Unavoidable.
Leveled up - Unavoidable.
Used an Escape Pod - Unavoidable.
Manned a pair of gun turrets - Unavoidable.
Spoken to someone - Don't ask.
Joined a guild of assassins so secret that I, a Star Wars fan didn't even know existed - Avoidable. If you try to join, you'll get some really nice gear.
Driven a Swoop Bike - Unavoidable. It's safer than Pod Racing. Or at least that's what the sinister looking Hutt said. That one guy did mention scraping corpses off the track...must be trying to get me to back out.

That's not half of it. There's also joining the Sith, killing stuff, diving, almost being eaten by sharks, going to court at least twice, become a Jedi killed, the galaxy's toughest bounty hunter, killed the galaxy's toughest Sith's apprentice, killed the galaxy's toughest Sith, raiding some ancient, really powerful Sith lord's tomb, been on a spacewalk, lost money, gained money, gotten involved with the Star Wars equivalent of a biker gang, watched a planet get wiped out, used an elevator and tried to ward off a giant shark.


Star Wars Empire at War

We all know what this one's about.

During the course of this game, you'll have/have been/be.

Killed something - Duh.
Conquered a planet - Double Duh.
Run over a target with your vehicle - Avoidable. Still fun.
Killed something in space - Saw that one coming, didn't ya ?

Meh, short list.


Star Wars Republic Commando

First Person Shooter version of Star Wars that doesn't involve any Jedi. Lots of action, too much work for your integrated windshield wiper on your visor cleaning off the blood and assorted detritus after a close kill.

During the course of this game, you'll have/have been/be.

Shot - It's a First Person SHOOTER !
Cut - This is where your integrated mini laser windshield wiper on your helmet visor comes in.
Shot something - Allow me to reiterate: It's a First Person SHOOTER !
Cut something with that little knife thing in your glove - Avoidable Less work for your integrated mini laser windshield wiper on your helmet visor.
Seen a guy get killed - Let's just hope that guy wasn't an important part of your team.
Gotten vile green bug juice all over your visor - Geonosians = Bugs + the melee weapons they use = plenty of giggles over the yellow/green splat on your visor.
Killed a short, stumpy, biped lizard with a shotgun - Don't ask.
Killed a short, stumpy, biped lizard with twin knives - Repeat what I said above.
Killed a slightly taller, stumpy, biped lizard with a submachinegun - Refer to what is said above.
Killed a really big, armoured, biped lizard with a chaingun - It's starting to sound like Doom 3 here.

Teehee.

The Beta verson of Runescape HD is out ! It's for members only ! It's a blatant advertising gimmick ! I feel a strong urge to start paying again even with the increasing prices !

Love them but it looks like I'll have to subside on the screenshots on other blogs. Ya hear that Tim and Marlaine ?! More screenshots !

Spam Wars Episode 5: kaneenlynch Strike Back !

That runt changed his IP. Talk of spammers is circulating like wildfire across the internet. Spammers cost people millions, on average, it appears that 10 BILLION+ that's right, with a 'B' E-Mails sent are spam each day.

I don't get what drives them ? A sadistic nature ? Stupidity ?

The majority are adverts. For some reason, most of the spam mail I get comes from one address.

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Does this address mean anything to anyone here ?

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What ever you do, don't click those links !

And Kitt, how do I do a regional ban like the one you did on Kansas ?

Regards, Boombaye1