Really? When you hear "chrome", you don't think of hot rods from the 50s or 60s? It's the first thing that pops in my head, and is pretty fuckin' cool.

Lemme re-write his comment: "One could (if it were me, would) say the same for OS X." That is to say, "If only OS X would fix their flat tires and get back in the race." :)

Except for the fact that this sort of competition between browsers brings us closer and closer to a day when web developers will be able just use CSS exactly the way that it should work, without having to spend hours and hours of time making sacrifices and hacks to fix these problems.

When 95% of it almost works, then why is the last 5% even in the spec if no browsers are going to support it?

Well the movie, Dead Space: Downfall doesn't even have the enjoyment of any gameplay. The animation is interesting (1990's hand drawn cartoon style, sort of like Aeon Flux, with some CG sets and ships), but the plot is predictable, since it's a prequal, and you already know that everyone on the ship dies because that's how the game starts.

It does have Bruce Boxleitner, which is why we watched it in the first place, but should have turned it off after he died 20 minutes in.

Lots of blood, guts, and gore, and some weird religion element that they don't bother explaining. Maybe if I made it through the game I'd learn what that was all about.

But you'll be praying the main character dies the whole time, because she's annoying as hell. Yeah, it's one of those movies.

Interesting article! The porno business must be booming if they can afford Will Smith to star in Handcock! And the original director too!

Aha! So that's what's happened to film quality in the past decade or two...

"Fag"? Seriously? What century is this? I never have mod points when I need them...

I appreciate the advice you're giving me, but I don't think your anecdote fits in this case. In fact, I agree that if you have to go through three boxes of a game to get a complete set of game discs then there is a big problem, and the store would do something.

But seeing as we're reading about how trivial the workaround for this "problem" is right in TFA, and yet the OP really thinks that on principle he would and should be allowed to wreck a stores entire inventory on a new product, then you can see where the situations differ.

I treat the vast majority of customers with smiles, friendly banter, politeness, and get a few anonymous props in the suggestion box every couple of months. But some customers, like the OP, think they deserve an entitlement above what would even remotely make sense because "They are the customer" and I'm just some punk-ass kid who has no authority to tell them they'd just be wasting everyones time with their silly notions. After we called EA to see why his serial code was short, we'd find out that they will give him a new serial number over the phone and the situation would be over. The OP just assumes that the hard way is the best way because he has to make a statement.

Like I said, he needs to chill the fuck out, accept a minor publishing error made on the behalf of human beings chugging along in the corporate machine, and pick his battles.

Hahahaha.... are you serious? EA says "just call this free number, and we'll give you a CD key", and you think that somebody at the store will let you stand there and tear open every package of a brand new, in-demand video game they have in stock because you are incapable of picking your battles? Do you think the 19 year old minimum wage-earning retail employee (a.k.a "me") gives a shit about a problem that the manufacturer has supplied a perfectly reasonable solution for (hint: I don't).

Everyone else who wants to buy this game doesn't want to hear that some self-important "always-right"-customer tore open all the boxes so he might not have to, worse case scenerio, try 36 digits in a textbox until an OK button-control turns active on an install dialogue.

The game is defective, return it. But fuck this "customer is always right" mentality -- thats only true when the store faces a loss of revenue by not agreeing with you. I don't think anyone you complain to is going to sympathize when you say "This and this store wouldn't let me tear open video game boxes until I found the one I wanted! Hurr!"

Pick your battles. Honestly people. Everyone would be so much happier.