Author: Rob

The shame of Acclaim

Tuesday May 7th 2002

Screw them into the ground and all the way to hell.

Ahhh. That feels a little better. Having just bought Headhunter and re-discovering the foul taste left in my mouth by their piss poor port of Crazy Taxi for the PS2, I cannot believe they get away with this sort of shit time and again. Is anyone at Sega even remotely interested in saving this once proud brand?

Ten years ago, seeing the Sega logo on an arcade machine meant it was probably going to be well worth your coinage for a play. Now, seeing Sega on a PS2 title just means it will be another absolutely piss port by the talentless wankers over at Acclaim.

I make no apology for coming across strongly here – I have been stung twice now – three times if you count the rush job that was Burnout. So I’m wondering what Acclaim are all about.

Are they single handedly trying to destroy the name of Sega? Are they just intent on producing shoddy product for a quick buck?

Well, I hope I never find out. To follow the promise I made never, ever to buy another EA F1 game, I will never, ever buy another game written or ported by the talentless gits at Acclaim who have already had far, far too much of my money.

Causing a Hoopla

Monday May 6th 2002

It turns out that the aforementioned Hoopla fiasco has still not been resolved by Verisign. I knew that the domain registration business was a bit of a farce beforehand, but this takes it to new heights.

In an attempt to gain justice, bloggers (I hate that word) the world over are organising a Google bomb, so I thought I’d take part too. Whether justice will be done remains to be seen, but I hope the efforts do bring attention to the incompetance of Verisign, even if it doesn’t rescue Hoopla.com.

A new look at last

Thursday May 2nd 2002

I sort of arrived at a new design the other night. It’s not really what I was going for, but it works for me and it’s kind of growing on me. It’s a strange thing that something quite decent can be arrived at by accident. In this case – I was messing around with pastely, slatey shades of blue to use as a contrast colour in box-outs in something I’m doing at work.

One of the contrast colours I found felt really pleasing to the eye… well, to my eye anyway, so I decided to give it a try with my own site. So here we are!

I’ve decided to drop the style sheet selector for the moment being… two reasons: One – I haven’t re-jigged them yet to work with the new page template. Two – absolutely everyone has them and it’s just a flippin’ gimmick anway.

So – back to the new look, well, I had the mouse-miles reduction that I was on about a while back in mind when I done the layout for this. Having the navigation on the right, near the scroll bar should reduce those arduous mouse miles. Feels kind of nice, practicing what I was preaching for a change! ;o)

Oh – also, and get this – I kept the old index as winter2002index.php, so that I could have an archive of the old design. Wahey!