Sunday, January 31, 2010

A trip to 919


Via email:

It was such a lovely day out today, I decided to go out and get some fresh air. Take a few photos. I hope you like them! ;) I stopped by Sony, but no one is there on a Sunday. but i left them a nice little note.
yes, yes we do. Very much. BEST. EMAIL. EVER.









ezral ghazali is a mpp

It's official, Ezral Ghazali is one of the MPP High Council. He won the post with no votes (cause of the lack of candidates).

I have so many things to ask from him.


Hopefully this will mark a change for us... Congratulations everybody that wins...


Are We Still Living On Tree Top (And Eat Worms)???

And by we, I mean 'we' (people living in Borneo)... that is a question raised by 'people who apparently does not live in Borneo'. So why don't we gave them the answer in a proper manner so they won't ask it again.

'Yep! That's Borneo'

Question:
Does your people lives (and still) on tree?

Answer:
Nope and never had been, until now there had been no historical evidence stated that we had lived on tree in the past. We might live in caves but cave is cave, it's not tree.
Even nowadays we lived in our own house but not on tree. Pay a visit to Kampung Budaya Sarawak, you won't see any tree top houses there...

"Maybe this picture had confused them, the house is build on a ground but not on tree top"

Question:
How do you get here (Peninsular)? Did you swim?

Alternate Question:
How do you get here? Did you swim? You must be very tired... oh wait you're not cos you guys are jungle man!

Answer:
(This makes me laugh) If we did, we are going to be in the Guinness for being the first one to swim across the South China Sea... The answer is we used aeroplane @ flight. Even jungle man have their limit, right?

Trivia: Flights from North Borneo to Malaya was available since 1956. No reason for us to swim

Question:
What do you eat for lunch? Worms?

Answer:
This can be true but not all true. Some indigenous people did make worm as their delicacy but not every tribes in Borneo though. The worm is a sago worm which is a larvae found in sago tree. Sago is the white transparent thing you eat in your Bubur Lambuk. Although it's a food, we don't get to eat it during lunch. It can be considered as a gourmet food like escargot (snail) to the French.

"It taste better than escargot"

That's 3 of the questions, there are more but I only posted this because these are the most popular questions. My friends told me that she was asked this question when she first came there. Shocking but true.
Now it's our turn to ask question... why do they asked us this? I came up with my own theories.

  • They trying to be funny - Different people have different sense of humor, apparently they thought this was funny, well my first impression when they asked me this was, " These guys are stupid hilarious"
  • They were given false education -  We can't blame them for not knowing because they don't live with us, it's normal for them to ask. But how did they come up with such assumption, maybe they saw it in a documentary and got confused or maybe Alphonso d Albuquerque or Francis Light told them this.
  • They mistaken us for barbarian or vikings or Spartans - They really thought we came to the west by swimming, sounds crazy but maybe they thought us to be a strong race with nothing but physical strength. Maybe they thought Sabahan babies are pushed to the cliff of Mount Kinabalu as a rites of passage (remember 300)
 "Thank God this never happened to us"
  • They've watched Survivor (First Season) - The first season of this hit award-winning reality show was held in Borneo. It showcased Americans living on Borneo and trying to survived as an outcast. Maybe they've watched this show and assumed that Borneo people lived like that
"How to live like a Borneos, out on DVD" 

I hope this post will help ease the tension among us, we should not get upset that easily cos it's ok for people to ask even when they don't mean it. Thanks for joining.
P/S: Supporting 1Malaysia!

GlassWalls; No Doubt in His Mind That You'll Glitch.

So I stumbled across an interesting video this morning. Simply put, it shows GlassWalls hanging out with a small group of people in the Red Bull space...in side of a boulder. There's a lot that comes to mind after watching this, but I'll let the video speak for itself:


Saturday, January 30, 2010

Happy Valentine's Day: Uncooked Greeting Cards


My chosen Valentine's Day greeting card to my BF: "sometimes, i think you fell down from heaven, not just because your face is all crooked but because you're like an angel. a sweet, sweet angel." Love how kooky their card messages are. 

Car Drama, Birthday Muffins and Red Faces

This week in The Bridge @ UNIMAS...

The election day for MPP was held on Thursday apparently there were no candidates that I have to vote for so I skipped it.

The highlight event for the week was Friday because other than lab session it was Jenny's birthday (29 January!). I skipped class because I have to finished my assignments.

There is no way I'm going to missed this function, after I've been excluded in two birthday party because of two reasons I'm a male and I still obey my mother's warning.

Car Drama

Unfortunately the car that we rent for the event was not supposed to be ours to rent. Stress!

The traffic jam was insane plus it's raining, the car brake is not properly working and hey the fuel meter is broken! Perfect recipe for disaster, and our driver had just recovered from a traumatic car incident... Stress !

Birthday Muffins

the birthday is held in Hilton, yep one of Paris Hilton's grandfather's hotel...
we sort of trying to break tradition a bit so we served birthday muffins instead of birthday cakes...

That's the muffins !!! Notice the glass of orange juice far left (above) that thing cost more than my 1 month phone bill....

  I admit that it was a lil bit intimidating eating in Hilton because we don't have this kinda thing in Tenom (FYI Tenom is a district in Sabah). We enjoyed the foods and the ambience there.

Red Faces

I arrived in UNIMAS late because of the traffic jam, faces are all red because we were running... and during the intervals we went around forcing people to get red faces...

Anyway it's a great week...

P/S: I was informed that LKS is going to leave us, everyone was sad...

kids nowadays are sluttier !!!

forgive me for the offensive title but i think people will agree with the headline after they read this post.
when i say kids, i mean those who age 5 years to 12 years old.

i was babysitting during the semester break, i thought the job could be easy cos the kid is an 8 year old girl but i was totally wrong.

my first task is to cook for her, so I'm like I should give her sandwich for breakfast and some fried frozen food with rice for lunch (I'm not a good cook, so that's the only option). so i give her the sandwich which is a simple peanut butter and kaya sandwich and she refused to eat it because she simply hate it. instead of eating what i gave her she gave me a list of what she wants me to prepare for her.

Breakfast:
  • Egg Sandwich with generous amount of mayonnaise, cheddar cheese and ketchup with 1:1:2 ratio respectively.
  • Orange Juice
  • Hot Chocolate Malt (aka MILO)
Lunch:
  • I know you are cooking spaghetti but I hate it so I want something else.
Apparently, I was thinking about cooking spaghetti that day but have to crossed it due to the kid's demand.
  • Western breakfast set for lunch
  • Orange Juice
  • Neapolitan Ice-Cream with chocolate chip (I have to grind some Chipsmore first)
That is what I should give them for their lunch and breakfast or else they won't eat, and you know what happened when kids are hungry... they bite you!
I mean where does these kids learn how to demand like that, Mariah Carey perhaps...

The episode doesn't end there, one day she was wearing this outfit which shows her belly button, so I told her that the clothes were to small for her but she replied that the dress is made that way. For what??? I was shocked to see these little girls wear something worn by Britney Spears circa 2000...

FYI,  designer had started to design slutty clothes for little girl, Don't believe me? Just watch this video



It's called couture !!! Fishnet stockings are safe for children nowadays !!!
So who's to blame then... Teacher? Parents? MILEY CYRUS !!!!!?

"It's art you guys!!!"

Children as little as 5 now wants to have their own reality TV, since when do the old days 'masak-masak' game turned into family drama.

I was watching my nephew and niece playing and they were acting as mother and a child. The child were (played by my nephew) fighting with his mom because his mom were using her photo without her permission... sounds familiar? Yep that's cause they were depicting an episode from the Kardashian's reality show.

What's more, my niece now dancing like a stripper whenever PCD song popped out on MTV...

What will happened to these poor kid when they grow up... anyway they are just kids they know one day being w***** is not worth it unless you're Paris Hilton.

So many things.

Your sweet voice, ♥Calms th thunderstorm in me.I'm sppppeeeechless.It's th 31st now.Another month has past.Last year's 31st,I was at my uncle's house, like 1 week after new year 1st or more.Now near year haven't even come!WALAO..... ):Damn sad HAHA.Went out for shopping tuhday.Ended up nuah-ing till 7pm from 4plus.Sister went tuh meet friends.I went home.Comped all th way.Tht's all.Life's been really bored.Tuition this noon before going out.Bel woke me.Tskkkk.I'm left with 0 cents now.How awesome.LULLLL.Kthxbye.

HVC Hanging with HCM


Taken from the forums, Here is GlassWalls hanging out with buddies Jersquall's personal space. I'd be willing to place a bet that any one of these folks could have a missing item fixed in moments. Have a sexual harasser removed in minutes. I'd also be curious to find out how much of that stuff they got for free.






Wow, it's TECH SUPPORT!


The author of this post, sent in a tech support request to Lockwood asking why they weren't receiving their items. Well check this. Lockwood actually replies to their tech support! According to them:

Unfortunately this feature has been disabled for the moment and there's no eta on when or if this will be back. Although you can gift friends, you or your friends wont receive any items at the moment. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Regards,
Luke Marshall
Not totally the most appealing answer, I'm sure everyone wanted to hear "it'll be done soon!" But they actually took the time to reply to a support request. So in that aspect: KUDOS TO YOU LOCKWOOD.

Glitch Warnings

We actually received three of these emails from various users in the last couple of weeks. Since they are all exactly the same, we'll just post one, just to warn Home users that they are cracking down on glitching:
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PlayStation(R)Network

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Sign-in ID: [insert email here]
Reason: Game Glitch
Location: PlayStation(R)Home

This email is a warning that the account associated with the above
email address is participating in activity that violates the
PlayStation(R)Network Terms of Service and User Agreement.

Continued violation of the Terms of Service and User Agreement,
including the Community Code of Conduct may result in future
suspensions and possibly banning of your PlayStation(R)Network
account(s).

Please refer to http://www.us.playstation.com/Support/Useragreements for
the Terms of Service and User Agreement.

The PlayStation(R)Network Community Management Team

----------------------------------------------------------------

This email has been delivered from a send-only address. Please do not
reply to this message. If you have any questions, contact Consumer
Services using the following link.

http://playstation.custhelp.com/app/ask

LEGAL
SCEA is not responsible for technical, hardware or software failures,
any lost or unavailable network connections, failed, incomplete, garbled
or delayed computer transmissions, misspelled email addresses, lost or
deleted email transmissions due to the settings in your email application.
Any of these factors may limit one's ability to successfully participate
in this activity.

"PlayStation", "PLAYSTATION", and the "PS" Family logo are registered
trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (C) 2010 Sony Computer
Entertainment America Inc.

Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc.
919 E. Hillsdale Blvd., Foster City, CA 94404

So the warning's out there. No idea which areas or glitches they are referring to, but these form letters are going out. Now would be a good time for glitchers to make friends with the HCM, because HCM friends are allowed to exploit glitches.

But it gets more interesting. Checking the headers of the emails we noticed this:
Received: from m2l.innovyx.net (m2l.innovyx.net [216.158.188.236])
innovyx? What is this innovyx? So we followed the domain breadcrumbs to http://innovyx.net/. That lead us next to http://www.innovyx.com/. That gave us the following information:

Innovyx is an email service provider that works with agencies and Global 2000 companies to deploy email campaigns and customer communications programs. We help clients create, deliver and analyze their email marketing programs, leveraging the power email technology with best practices in integrated marketing.
There you have it. Home's support is run by an email marketing group. Why are we not surprised?


Friday, January 29, 2010

Update on Earlier Post

An update from earlier. We are very pleased that Mrs_Laporta decided to brag. Because her Twitter page led us to her Myspace page. (Warning, every single image, flash, and javascript from 2004 is on this thing. Took 3 tries to get info from it due to Firefox crashing.) Anywho, it turns out she is too young for the HCV program. Jim777 was removed due to him being 17 at the time. We are calling for the immediate revoke of Mrs_Laporta's status.

the names Maylaya Monuiqe Laporta'. i'll let you call me baby if your lucky;)i am taken by the most amazing guy in the world ---> nathan allen goff. & now that we are back together i intend to be with him forever. so guys who... so plan on trying to "get at me" becasue i'm perfectly happy with my & his relationship ? i am 16. i attend lhs. i'm not straight, nor am i a lesbian. i only have eyes for one person; nathan allen goff. so i guess that makes me "nate-sexual" --> take it as you please. the people who i couldn't like without --> courtney, katie, britt,shafaye, diatra,caitlin, amanda, tia, lucas & of course nathan! :]] i'm who i am today not because of you, but because of me :) people who think they know me are 99.9% of the time wrong. so get to know me before making judgments. i live life to the fullest no matter what the consequences are. i'm an origianal wild child, & most are just realizing it. i'm not the quiet one i once was. i trust people way too fast, & fall in love way too easily. i have made some mistakes in the past (quite a few) but i have learned from them all. i'm nice easygoing & the number one chick that will make your girlfriend jealous ? ..
We apologize over and over and over for that barf-inducing quote. But we figured we'd save you from the visual sodomy that is that myspace page. seriously, if you have at least a gig of ram, check it out. It is an artistic abortion. I'd rather swim in bleach with my eyes open.

Observations aside, reading this myspace for 2 seconds, I feel really insulted that THAT'S who the HCM would pick to represent them. It's like if President Obama said "You know, I can't make it to nuclear talks with north korea. Please send Sloth from The Goonies.
BABY RUUUUTH

Last point: I'd like the HCM to answer the question (LMAO like they ever answer any) Why can this person, who who's writing is barely legible, and obviously not that bright, get access to codes for free items? HCM can't fix the countless complaints from people who are missing items? So many folks get shafted for the things they pay for, and when they attempt to get what they pay for, they are told "all sales are final." But you can create codes to spoil a 16 year old girl. GlassWalls, if you ever read this, I'd like to know what it is that's so special about a 16-year-old girl, that you feel the need to give her gifts.

Ever have any Doubts?


Remember when the HCV were up in arms because we dumped on them about using their connections to alienate and abuse other users? We insisted that they were part of an inappropriate hierarchy, developed by the Home Team in an effort to do even less work?

Then you will also recall how they stated over and over and over again how they received nothing for their efforts, and had no connections to the moderation staff.

Even the HCV FAQ posted on the Home Main Forum insists that "They are NOT paid for their efforts." Well, luckily, just like other HCV, they're stupid and blog about things. Such is the case of Mrs_Laporta. Directly from her Twitter account:

Ugh! being a Guide can be soo re-freshing.. Like when you get an e-mail from GW sending you redeem codes for apts an outfits ^_^
Well! Where do I sign up? I'm exceptionally good at ignoring user questions and mocking newbies. I have nothing of interest to contribute either. I'm a perfect fit. I'd like my ugly guide shirt and a redeem code for a Vega mask.*

*Home Rule #47: Vega Mask makes ANY outfit instantly cool!

Who is Goivanca Ostiana?



Top Albums and Songs by Giovanca



Question: Why put a music link on your blog? Answer: Because radio sucks. Listen to individuals/groups that should be on radio.

Worst bowling alley trip ever!


In the topic: Worst bowling alley trip ever! A young lady complains about something that's a real burden. THE REPORT FUNCTION BREAKS AND DOESN'T ALLOW SUBMISSION OF REPORTS.

Don't know if this has been pointed out but the report function seems to have been malfunctioning. I'm usually not bothered by the harassment I experience but it annoyed me tonight when guys kept coming up to me, sitting on me, asking me to take off my bra. Not what they were saying, but the fact that I couldn't submit a report. Just had to a rant a tiny bit. Otherwise it was the worst trip cause I couldn't even break 100 on my score lol. I'm terrible at bowling.
Since that feature is broken, I suggest immediately messaging Locust_Star, CydoniaX, and GlassWalls.

Why is US Armed Forces Propaganda on an International Network like Home?

This topic begs the question: Why is US Armed Forces Propaganda on an International Network like Home?

The author makes a bunch of great points I want to preserve before it's locked or deleted:

Because political agendas are not allowed on Home, and a Military force is inherently political. It is a tool used to exert political will, and promoting a countries military is essentially promoting the countries political will, that the military is a tool for.

As such, it is essentially against Sony's own rules to have it as content.

This would be fine if Home was just for the US, but it isn't. It is for North America.

Do you think they would allow promotional material for the German army on Home Europe, or the Chinese Army on Home Asia? I seriously doubt it.

There should be no promotional material for any countries army in Home.

Well put.

A countries government stands for more things than just it's international political agenda. It's own internal laws and values, Social programs so on. There for it is not quite so bad. Although Homes treatment of even this has been quite unfair to the other country that inhabits Home.

But a Military almost entirely exists as a tool for a countries international political agenda, and foreign policy. Therefore, promotion of said countries military is intrinsically linked to the promotion of said countries foreign policy and international political agenda.

This is not appropriate for a place that services an international community, as Home NA does.

Better put!
Again I offer this analogy.

How do you think South Korea would feel if Sony allowed The Chinese Army to have promotional Material on Home Asia? Or, how do you think Poland would feel if Sony allowed the German army to have promotional material on Home Europe?

Home NA officially serves other countries than just the US, and as such must demonstrate more appreciation of how other countries view the content they post. Posting promotional material for a Military force that is presently involved in a conflict that the other country officially does not support only serves to alienate the country that does not support the conflict. Which is why, there should be no such material on Home.

Yet even better!

Actually, officially we are not in Iraq. Any Canadian Soldiers in Iraq are holdovers from UN obligations and are not directly involved in the US conflict. Which is the conflict I am talking about.

In any case this just goes to prove the real problem here that many Canadians on Home feel, and that is the complete ignorance and F--- You attitude of the Home NA team, and many other US Homelings.

Let us do a hypothetical here.

Suppose, that the US was on the same Home as say Iran. And one day promotional material for the Iranian Army appeared on Home. U.S. users would be screaming bloody murder that this is completely inappropriate content, and how no such things should be on Home, and they would be right to do so.

(And anyone who says they wouldn't, remember, you're the country that tried to change the name from French Fries to Freedom Fries Just because France criticized you.)

Yet, when the shoe is on the other foot, and it is you that is doing the same inappropriate action, and someone brings it up, you say they are over reacting.

This especially happens when it is Canada pointing it out, because you think, how can Canada possibly have a problem with anything we do. Well we are not just Lap dogs to the U.S. We do have a mind of our own, and we don't always agree with everything that you do.

Now as your neighbors, and friends we overlook a lot of it, like shoving 4th of July Stuff down our throat, with out even acknowledging our existence. But shoving your military down one's throat is a sensitive topic for any country.

And the fact that you can't see that, or expecting us to overlook that, like we do everything else, is stepping over the line. It shows a lack of respect to those friends, and conveys a sense of taking them and their friendship for granted.

People from the U.S. always think we are hating on them. We are not. We are your best friends. You guys are like Fred, and we are like Barney. And for the most part Barney went along with Fred and his larger than life abrasive attitude at times because they were buds. But sometimes, Barney had to tell Fred when he stepped over the line.

As far as a U.S. centric Home that also officially serves Canada. This is stepping over the line, and I am just making that known.

And it bothers me that the Home NA team didn't even stop to consider how this might be interpereted in the other country that they service, again like we don't even exist.

And that sound you hear is the entire forum of military trolls being owned collectively at once.

Update: Censored conversation due to Avara.

London Glitch


Well, it took no time at all for someone to glitch out of the London Pub. Congrats dev team, you fail again.

Destiny.

Your Destiny.It's all your call.Currently fucking disgusted.Eye pain so went for doctor.Dripped eye drop and now I keep tasting it.It went down from my eye, down, nose, down, throat+windpipe de cross road.FUCKING DISGUSTING.I SWALLOW SALIVA = SWALLOW EYE DROP.DAMNBITTERPLEASE TTSigh.I've nothing tuh say.Went school for 2 days for this week.Awesome.Pattern back.I lost my motivatin.Lol.I feel like everyone's leaving.They've their own lifes afterall..Learnt so much during this period of time..And.Been learning maths so fast, I finished all my sec 1 and 2 stuffs.Sec 3 too. Maybe abit faster than school progress.Chiong ah ~Chem soso.Physics FO.Chinese idk.English heckcare.POA FO.SS and Geog pls go die.Tht's all.LOLLLL.This song is awesome.Blast it in ear piece in your ears,Thn pay attention tuh th awesome lyrics.It's th best, tht's all."If you get there before I do Don't give up on me I'll meet you when my chores are through I don't know how long I'll be But I'm not gonna let you down Darling wait and see And between now and then Til I see you again I'll be loving you Love, Me." And I miss everyone.So many of you.I missssssssssss you ~

Thursday, January 28, 2010

nosdrugis Exposes CamronGirl

Written by: Kapow

So I listened to this pod show cast thing recently and towards the end they had nosdrugis (leader or general or whatever of the Homelings) on as a guest. Right before he comes on, the host is talking a little bit bout Home Talk Show (for some reason) which is how they probably got into talking about it and CamronGirl:
Before we sign out uh, there's just one thing I wanna say about CamronGirl in particular and this has to do with much of the speculation. Listen, I'll tell you what i heard...and then I'll tell you what it is, ok. What I heard was; it was Jordanm13...he created this CamronGirl to have fun and then ran with this talk show thing and hit up the Homelings early. CamronGirl had nos...assimilate Jordanm13, her 'son', into the Homelings...Begged nos to do this. "Please please, please, Jordan is a kid who needs straightening out." *laughter* Anyways, nos assimilated Jordan, Jordan became a Homeling, yada yada yada Jordan left the Homelings due to some...irregularities. Uuuhh, truth of the matter is, CamronGirl is not Jordanm13. CamronGirl is an eighty five year-old, geriatric man with a wooden leg and a droopy beard.

I thought that was hilarious. Both parts of what he said. I actually confronted CamronGirl in Home the other day about this and she said she does in fact have two PS3's but denied that she was also Jordanm13.

Click here to listen for yourselves.

Sexual Harassment, Not Just Happening To Females

Written by: Kapow

So I was hanging around, AFK, in the Central Plaza earlier when i looked up and noticed this fool (a person using a female avatar) was harassing one of my friends (a male). Following him around where ever he went, making sexual innuendos towards him and so on.
The harasser (XxVIRUSxUNDEADxX) was using a female avatar with default clothing but we have no proof of what his/her true gender is. My point is that harassment, sexual or not (in this case both), doesn't only happen to females but you rarely hear anyone talking about males getting harassed.
You never hear any stories of how a male was standing around and then all of a sudden someone got down and started giving him a virtual blowjob and how shocked and traumatized he was that that had happened to him. One could make the argument that males are more laid back, and don't take things like that so serious. Which is true in a lot of cases, but not for everyone.
A few days ago I was standing around in the Central Plaza, not looking at my TV, and when i looked back at the screen there was some random person pretending to blow me. But me being me, I laughed and then walked away. I didn't take it seriously or as some sort of personal attack in any way. But that's me. It could have been a guy like Mr_Lochwood (who I know gets pretty pissed when people do that kind of thing to him or anyone else) and they wouldn't have just laughed it off. Or it could have been a 10-14 year-old boy who shouldn't really be seeing that sort of stuff.
I guess what I'm trying to get at is that while harassment, sexual or not, happens a lot to females, they are not the only ones it's happening to and it can affect males just the same. Also



Home Pro-Tip/ Common Sense:
If you're being harassed, sexually or not, report for harassment then move away. If they follow, tell them to stop following then move away. If they keep at it, report for stalking then jump to another space or instance.
And if you feel like you don't have to leave (and of course, you don't have to) then by all means, stay. But I look at it like this, if something bad or wrong was happening to you, wouldn't you want to get away from it? COME ON!

First Missing Item Report


First report of a missing item for 1/28/10 update:

Today I bought the Gem Dress from the Costumes shop in the mall. I didn't buy the whole set, as I just wanted the dress really. It's kind of an 80's style purple dress with green straps I think. I've been able to preview it from the store, however the dress hasn't shown up on my inventory yet. I've tried logging out and back in and whatever else but nothing seems to have worked. And apparently the dress itself is bugged and no one has it in their inventory yet (correct me if I'm wrong). Hopefully this gets fixed soon, as it was a really cute dress and probably my favorite item from the update today.


Second post, same issue:

I purchased the new Gem Dress from Costumes today and it does not show up in my inventory. I checked under Torso and Legs, and it's not there. I hope this get fixed asap.

Home - Screwing Contest Winners!


Back when they had the celebrity look alike contest, they gave the following hoodie as a reward. Sadly, if you didn't win that contest, you missed out.

UNTIL TODAY!

If I remember correctly, this is the male jacket people won if they won the celebrity contest:

So why is it legitimately being put in the mall?
Unless this is some random screwup, the people who won the hoodie should be pretty angry.

Well, are those contest winners angry? Here's what one of them had to say:

I WAS ONE OF THE WINNERS AND NOW MY HOODIE IS WORTHLESS???
To answer him: Yes. Worthless. For other folks, learn a lesson. NEVER PARTICIPATE IN ANY HOME CONTESTS. They'll likely not work, and they will sell your reward later.

Central Plaza Laziness

Written by: Kapow

Has anyone ever noticed that, even though there are gray clouds covering the whole sky in the Central Plaza, there are still shadows everywhere? (Also, if you angle your camera looking up to the sky while a fully UN-loaded avatar is in front of your camera, you can see through the clouds.)






How about the blinding reflect
ion of sun light off the tiles that wrap around the Central Plaza?
Or the fact that it only snows when you stop moving?



And what the fuck is with the big piles of bird shit everywhere?

Yea, i know it's supposed to be piles of snow, but if that's what they're supposed to be, why are they completely flat and have a green tint? And if it is cold enough for snow to stick to the ground throughout the Central Plaza:
  1. Why does the snow disappear 6ft before it hits the ground?
  2. Why is there not even the slightest bit of frost on any of the water?
Now, some might say that it's simply asking to much from the Home developers and some might say it's just plain laziness. Well if they are this lazy, I guess it would be asking a lot of them, huh.

(and I didn't even mention the countless glitches that have been around since the closed beta)

When in Rome... Don't shave your armpits.


According to this post:

Here are pics of the buggy roman toga top with chunks of shoulder/armpit flesh missing. Haven't cropped them, so click on the pics for full size, since they'll be too big for the browser. A couple of the pics have similar poses but with the camera's flash on...that's because the buggy areas do this weird glowing thing in the dark...

Here Comes The Glitch

Unknown to the people who buy them, (Because for the user wearing them, they appear totally normal) The bride outfit is a bridal disaster. As can be seen in the picture here, the dress is a glitchy nightmare. And the hair piece that can be bought appears far above the wearer's head. (You'll look bald, unless people look up and see your hair floating far above you. Both issues that started upon their release. Both issues STILL NOT ADDRESSED BY HOME STAFF. If you have images of the floating Bride hair, please email them to us. We sure as hell aren't going to buy them. All glitchy pieces can still be found in the mall, where they are still being sold (at full price) as glitched up nightmares.

This weeks update grade

C-

Until such time as the bug reports start flooding in, (I'll guess about 5pm) This update is pretty good. A lot of quantity, and a bit of quality. No update on the many broken or missing items. London Pub has made it to the USA. We'll see how interesting that is soon enough. Our curiosity is if accounts under 21 are allowed to enter.

COMPLICIT – How Greed and Collusion made the Credit Crisis Unstoppable by Mark Gilbert.





The following Book Review has been sponsored by FSB Associates


The rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods have failed. There must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing.

~ President Franklin D. Roosevelt


For every crisis there is a critique. The crisis that led to our current economic situation is no exception. We have been informed of what happened but we’re still shaking our heads. Anyone that works in Banking/Mortgage/Wall Street has been made out to be the scapegoat (whether right or wrong). So if we know who the culprits are, why isn’t anyone in jail? To me that means we really don’t know what happened. But if more books like Complicit are written we just might. Mark Gilbert, bureau chief for Bloomberg News in London, has written a very detailed book on the crisis. With so many books out there, sometimes it’s hard to separate them. What makes this book different is Gilbert’s approach to the subject matter. Because he is based in the United Kingdom, he provides the view “from across the pond.” Because we live in America, sometimes we are short-sighted to the world around us. This economic crisis didn’t just make ripples in the Midwest but the Far East. Factors in China have more influence on the U.S. economy than we can imagine. Gilbert provided a behind the scenes look at this “Global Economic Crisis.” I liked his detailed approach in explaining financial terms and processes. I always feel that’s important because most people don’t know about financial instruments (as proven by these floods of bad mortgages in America). As for the title of the book, it matches the content perfectly. If you felt that this crisis could have been prevented, you’re correct. If you felt that people were motivated by greed, you’re correct. If you didn’t believe in bank regulation before reading this book, afterward you will be a staunch supporter of it. I especially recommend this book for students with majors that involve international subjects. Overall it was a good read.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Rainbow Plant


According to This post:

Also, this hanging plant (from the Waterfall Terrace items?) is missing it's texture. It displays the standard fluorescent rainbow "image not found" graphic
But that's not all, the plant doesn't hang. Repeat: the hanging plant advertized as a hanging plant does not hang.
Doesn't hang either.. waste of 99 cents.

Girl for a Day


According to this topic:

My Avatar is a male, and the few times I go on it stays that way. Now this is not a bashing post. When the festive tree event was going on there was an event were I had to dress like a girl to get a free item. Wth? It took 5 minutes or more to get that item and it was the worst experience in my life if you know what I mean. In that 5 minutes I had so many dang friend request, male avatars fallowing me around trying to talk to me. I had one ask if I wanted to go to their apartment. So my point of this post is if your straight I see no reason to ever want to walk around home as a female. So I am not buying any of that "well I just like to look at the female avatar." You can go to your apartment and do that. The way Is see those guys trying to pick female avatars up is not funny it's gross and annoying. If you ever watch to catch a predator I bet those are who are doing it. Maybe those default clowns who act up, Sony should make their avatars a permanent female and if they are straight they will never log on again.
I won't mention the user who made this awesome avatar above by name, but ULTRA-UBER-KUDOS him for it!

PS Home Update, 1/28

Written by: Kapow

Here's a quick summary of what's to come in tomorrow's update:

  • VEEMEE's London Pub personal space ($5.99)
  • Another Assassins Creed II costume, Ezio's Alternate costume from the upcoming AC II DLC (note: you don't have to have the game or DLC to buy this costume in Home)
  • Big Daddy costume from BioShock 2 (note: available only to those who pre-order from Amazon.com)
  • Zombieland Contest (see link below for details)
  • Gargoyle furniture bundle (Buyer Beware!)
  • Fantasy and Victorian clothing bundles


For more details on this weeks update, click here.

Load Times & You.

Written by: Kapow

Ever wondered what your allotted cache size actually does? Sure it decreases load times, but maybe not in all the areas you would expect.
Check out StephieRawks' thread, "The Truth About Load Times, Storage and Your Cache Size", over at the forums for more info.

Another Ripoff Design

Via Email:

Hey, Home Watch!

I was really happy to see that you posted pictures showing Home's blatant rip off of the entire outfit worn by Julia Roberts in 'Pretty Woman'. But I wanted to share another blatant rip off with you, from the exact same update!
I've included a picture showing the original and Home's copy. This time, it was the Paris Modern Outfit. It's not quite as direct as the Pretty Woman gown, but it's still pretty freaking close!
The original is a Chanel blazer worn by Anne Hathaway in 'The Devil Wears Prada'. I can't claim credit for first recognizing this - I was told about it by [name removed], but I don't know where [name removed] heard about it for sure. So I wish I could give credit where credit's due, but alas, I have no clue! All I can claim credit for is taking the picture of the outfit on my avatar and comparing it to the original.
So anyway, as you can see, it's pretty dang close to the Chanel blazer. The only differences I notice are the original is double-breasted, while the Home version is single. But that could merely be a matter of how wide the avatars are and that double-breasted jackets don't tend to fit the avatar's body as well. And the shape of the pocket is slightly different. But you know what? It's still the same jacket. Same cut, same color, same trim, same crest, all in the same spots. They even included the same chemise blouse beneath the jacket that Anne Hathaway wore in the movie. The skirt's obviously different, but they even included the thigh-high black boots.
Don't these people realize that it's a crime to make - and SELL - such blatant rip offs? I'm sure Chanel would love to know that Sony's making money off a copy of their design.

What makes this all the more insulting, is that the Home community has been showing far more originality and style than these ridiculous people who have to copy from movies in order to come up with anything halfway decent! Come on, Sony, is that really the best you can do? Hire people who sit around and watch movies to get their ideas? Please, that's pathetic. If it's a tribute, that's one thing, but this is just a freaking knock off!

I also wanted to note, you might want to add to your Pretty Woman post that the red gown in question was designed by the movie's costume designer, Marilyn Vance. I've just done some extensive research on it to make certain, and yup, that design's hers. Also, it's worth noting that neither 'Pretty Woman' nor 'The Devil Wears Prada' are products of Sony Pictures. Although with the case of the Chanel jacket, that wouldn't matter even if it was Sony's film, since movies can feature clothing from other designers, but that doesn't mean the studios own the original designs. Case in point, all the old classic Paramount films starring Audrey Hepburn. Audrey Hepburn had a thing for Givenchy and regularly wore custom-made Givenchy gowns. They may have appeared in Paramounts' films, but the gowns still belong to Givenchy. (Yeah, I'm a fashionista, what can I say?)
So yeah, I'm betting Chanel would just love to know cheap digital knock offs of their couture clothing are being sold by Sony in Home. I might just have to send them a letter...

Thanks!

- HeatherShow

P.s. Feel free to post my name. I'm not afraid of Sony anymore. Do what they will, it'll only make things worse for them if they continue to bully around their customers. Especially this customer. I've had it.
Awesome, thanks for the heads up!

Girl Talk, the next phase of Hip Hop???




Gregg Gillis a.k.a. Girl Talk specializes in artist mashups and digital sampling. Read Here!!!

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

greg oden pictures




Searching For Greg Oden Pictures or Greg Oden Twitter related Photos are on fire. Everybody wants to see them.

The Former no.1 pick Greg Oden return in some news after having a knee injuryhe is unable to play for this season. Some rumors or may be true news are spreading everywhere that  some half body or full unclothes pictures of Greg Oden posted twitter or anywhere.

The Huffington Post and other websites report that on 25th January 2010, some n***d pictures of Greg Oden surfaced on the twitter account which made the netizens go crazy to have a look. The pictures were certainly of Greg Oden’s and there was no doubt about that.

It was an embarrassing moment for the American basketball player and he apologized to all his fans and his organization.

Oden says the pictures, taken with his cell phone and sent to a former girlfriend, were taken about 11/2 years ago.Oden also told reporters that he was embarrassed by the photos.

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Sorry.

I guess it was all a misunderstanding, ya ?I hope you'll return tuh th happy girl I know.Be back th one I knew..Okay?Love you, babe.You know who you are.I hope, it'll all be th same....--School's been really bored.Now it turned meaningless.No mood for schools at all.I'm really afraid tuh get expelled.But still...Haha.Okay I feel helpless.Byebye.

New Blogs!

As a couple of secondary projects, we have created a set of sister blogs:

The Glitch-Snitch Blog & PSN Home - Unwanted Friends Blog, both devoted to exposing & publicly naming people breaking various home rules.

Tasha Layton American Idol Audition



We've got our second pastor of the day: Tasha Layton, who's a personal assistant by day and a minister at night. Her audition  has Kara nodding her head. The judges are generally impressed.

This was Tasha’s first audition for the American Idol talent hunting reality show but she aced it beautifully when she soulfully sang “Baby, Baby, Bay” by Josh Stone and “The Scientist” by Coldplay.

"I think people may like you," Simon says.

After all, Tasha Layton has made it through the preliminary audition and there is no reason that we can see that would prevent her from going through to the finals and to ultimately win the American Idol 2010 award.

Tasha Layton is an attractive 26 year old girl from South Carolina.

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