20 Something Gamer

YouTube recently released the closed caption beta for videos. This uses speech recognition to create subtitles for your videos.

My Avatar review video from back in December was been run though the speech recognition and now was subtitles, but the problem is, for the most part they don't fit with what I'm actually saying.

This is the x-ray of an unknown persons hand, interesting I know. Note the two red arrows, these fingers are broken, the cause... playing God of War 3!
So the patients story is that he (or her, but I'll continue using the male term, k?) rolled his knee over his fingers. Now, I've been a gamer for about 16 years now, and I have never been in the position where it's possible for me to roll over my own hand whilst playing. I think someone is just trying to hide some overly embarrassing way that they broke their hand and blame it on something cool.

In Soviet Russia, game beats you!

The dust hasn't even begun to settle on Heavy Rain, yet David Cage has already begun penning his next game.

N4G.com : David Cage: Next Game Coming Sooner Than You Think

(I am SO sorry about the title)

Netgear have joined the list of computer related companies that piss me off to no avail, which really only consists of PC World and Netgear.

Anyway on Sunday my router packed up, no signal, couldn't even connect to it using cables. So after fruitlessly trying to fix it in the usual fashion (pulling the plug, pushing the reset button), I called Netgear support and was met with a plethora of accents, firstly the calm British male who asked me what type of router I was using, followed by the ear-splittingly loud American woman (don't get me wrong, I love american accents, as long as they are below 100 dB) who asked what type of tech support I needed, and finally the strongest Indian accent fathomable, who could only tell me to do what I could read out of the trouble shooting section of the manual. So after 20 min of saying to the guy "Yeah, already done that, still doesn't work" he passed me onto the replacement compartment where they guy hadn't learnt the letter W, "R.O.U...", "No, it's R.O.W...", "OK, so R.O.U.U..." FFS.

Anyway, after that fiasco, I got them to have the new router sent next day delivery, which to give them credit it did arrive next day. I unplugged the old one boxed it up so ship back to them (SHIT... I've still got to do that!) and got the new one all set up, only to find... that the fucking thing wouldn't send out a signal, and would only work wired, not really what I wanted from a WIRELESS router.

So, while rather pissed off, I called Netgear again, and went thought the whole tech support nightmare again, this time responding "It's new out of the box, and I've already done that!" they sent me yet another new one, which I must happily say is sitting in my kitchen, sending out its wi-fi signals of happiness.

All's well that ends well... right?

So at exactly 01:01 this morning, the 8001050f error screen failed to show, which means that everything should be back to normal.

Hopefully it won't make the same mistake in 2011. 2012 should be fine, if not, the world'll end soon anyway so no problem.

So, when I bought Heavy Rain SP, they promised me: A premium theme, The Taxidermist DLC and the Heavy Rain soundtrack.
Which is slightly annoying, cause the first thing I did was to use my code to get the free stuff, but they got me covered there. I just hope to God that I can re-download the other 2 things.

Yesterday (and continuing on to today) PS3s all over the planet where showing up the error code; 8001050f. Unable to sign in and PSN content corrupted, many people have been looking to Sony for an answer, their response, we haven't a clue. Speculation is that the PS3 was coded incorrectly and thinks today is the 29th Feb, thus causing server desynchronization.

Sony say they are working on a solution, and they ask that you leave your consoles alone for today, If you feel that is beyond you, you have to limit your gaming to games that DO NOT have trophies, such as Modern Warfare 1, Assassin's Creed 1 etc.

So if there is an old game that you stopped playing, now is the perfect excuse to go back and finish it.