An open letter to Ubi's level designers.

Dear AssBro, As The Kids Are Calling It These Days:

The cameraman should NOT be the most deadly enemy I face.

In particular, during a timed mission where I hit the last stage with HALF my time remaining, I should NOT be forced to redo the same ~40-second easy jump set over and over again until time runs out because even though I know exactly what to do, the cameraman swoops around and suddenly my direction is off. Bonus points: When I compensate, I'm compensating at a 45 degree angle which is further than the camera swoops for the first jump, so I have to compensate BACK AGAIN for the last one.

No love,
Me.

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Hey New Yorkers: I saw a sign that said you get your license suspended for two speeding tickets, under state law. That real? More to the point: Is that "two ever", is that "two before the points fall off", is that "two New York tickets"? What's the deal?

Related: Americans get awesome soft drinks. Nobody imports vanilla cream soda or cherry diet pepsi into Canada. Of course, there's a tradeoff: nobody sells fucking hard disks within ~150km of Ogdensburg on the US side - Kingston or Ottawa, sure, but they're on the wrong side of the border, and beyond that it's fucking UTICA.

Seriously, people. Radio Shack: "No, try Wal-Mart or the computer store on Ford street[1]." Computer store #1, on Ford street: "We don't do parts. Try Wal-Mart." Computer store #2, on Ford street: "We don't keep hard disks in stock, but can order one in 2-3 business days. Try Wal-Mart?". Wal-Mart: "No".

Massena? Nope. Potsdam? Nope. Watertown? Probably, but that's an hour each way. And fuck that.

[1]: NB. EVERYTHING is on Ford street. And not like King Street in K-W, this is actually just one street and it's reasonably straight.