Taking Tablets…

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it had been days….weeks perhaps. Time escapes you when you’ve gotten hooked. When you’re away from it, it gnaws at you like a rabid wilder beast or perhaps is more like those people who feel quite happy running each other over in the US when Black Friday comes around every year. A cold sweat decends the brow and all the while, you know it’s waiting. The hunger, the endless hunger…for just one more go on that annoying birds thingy before you finally sleep.

Yes, I finally have a tablet device.

It’s taken a long time to actually relent on this, and join the Ipad crowd in terms of rubbing a finger all over a screen to leave smeer marks and look at various things on the youtubes, as for the longest time, I honestly saw no real reason to own one. I’d always been in the mindset that if you have a computer, then you’re pretty much done in terms of needing things which you can stream endless amounts of filth on.

Blatant advertising found here….but for what?

But having been looking on the market for for something portable to potentially work from and well, watch endless amounts of filth on, I stumbled across an offer for a tablet that no-one would really buy. The Lenovo Yoga 10. Not the new HD version that came out recently which costs about £300 ish, but the one that started it all, which if you were to read up about it afterwards, suffers from a good number of problems. Continue reading →

Watch some dogs of your very own….(Competition Time!)

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UPDATE: Mr Glyn Tebbutt as the only entry, won the game code!

WOOOOOOO and other noises! Code has been sent off in the email post type thing for Glyn. For everyone else, this shows that for future competitions, your chances of winning something which costs 30 quid would be pretty high!

With all the fuss of the recent release of Watch Dogs and the subsequent meh mehing of the gaming media towards it as a result of putting out thousands of trailers about the game, you would be forgiven in thinking it was all a big pile of brown stuff.

Some initial issues did turn up last week, including a rather naughty problem involving Ubisoft’s much maligned client, Uplay, which of course, didn’t let people Uplay the game earlier last week, which occurred across a number of platforms, which was a first. But it seems to have settled down for the time being, which should mean all is well for you to get online and get hacking away at something other than the Pirate Bay.

Rest assured, it has the makings of a very enjoyable time, and sometimes it’s good to share the enjoyment with our fellow human beings….even if we don’t really like them.

So, ahead of some mutterings about Watch Dogs…Win a copy of Watch Dogs on PC! Yes, that computer thingy you watch naughty things on!

So for the chance to win a code to download the full game of Watch Dogs from Uplay, all you have to do is answer this question as a comment below (you’ll need to register with Disqus of course), the funniest version of which will win:

Who let the Dogs Out?

Answers in by 5pm GMT on Friday 6th June 2014 and the winner will be later announced on Twitter and also on this little old site too for everyone to go and laugh at. In a nice way of course.

Terms and Conditions:

Not many of them, but one entry only, any additional ones, I just don’t look at. Code for download forwarded to the winner directly via email or Twitter IM. Contact information will only used for providing Winner with download code. I still have also no other idea about how to write or come up with decent terms and conditions it appears, but then again the last one I attempted was with Assasin’s Creed 3 and that was last year….so morally speaking, I win.

Back to School

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Game over man, game over….

The above image pretty much describes what has been going on in recent weeks, in that I’ve never felt so simple in all my life, and that included the time I learned how to use the toilet properly at the age of 27.

Regretfully, after much had happened in recent times, and with no real sense of purpose aside from wandering the mean streets of London solving crimes with the help of a wise cracking panda named Chaz, I had decided to go back to school in a major way, and begin learning another language. In this case, Spanish.

This stemmed from being convinced that it would open up potential avenues elsewhere and also broaden my horizons, to seek out new life forms etc etc.

At the same time, I had also decided that after 4 years of sleeping, eating and burping, that it was about time I had also looked at taking another exam within the computing industry, to show that I was aware of changes in the Windows operating system which had taken place since 2003. It seems like a good thing to do given that these days, if you don’t keep up with the various trends of Cloudy things, Interfaces which make no sense, and the various renames of things which used to be easier to remember, you are left behind on the IT job scrapheap. Continue reading →

I am Biutiful, no matter what you say.

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It’s been a huge amount of time since we last had a review of anything on here, except for the last review-ish of the year of course. With a picture of a giant chocolate poo, you can be rest assured it was not going to be anything inspiring.

So it’s actually rather odd, that for getting back into the swing of things, we open up 2014’s further narration into the woes of the world, with some drivel about a Spanish language film, which frankly will leave you feeling like a chronically depressed lemming standing right next to a cliff.

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Now I know what you are thinking;

Where the hell did this come from? We’ve recently been seeing the White House explode, Marvel films take over everything and Frankenstein making a comeback in the same vein that vampire thingy with Kate Bake-sale. Which also had Bill Nighy in it come to think of it. Does he have an obligation to be the evil bad guy in cheap supernatural films?

To give a little bit of history, Biutiful was released a few years ago, and remarkably got shiny shiny nominated for various things. I had began to write the review on the website after watching it one evening in Central London but then got distracted with some keys dangling above my head. Given I’d come back to do a bit more writing, I decided to finish what I started.

Also we can only watch the Avengers a few more times before our eyes bleed while we wait for Guardians of the Galaxy, so here we go. PLOT PLEASE!

The main protagonist is Uxbal (Javier Bardem), who lives in a cr*pped out apartment (or cosy up market apartment if going by London real estate standards these days) in Barcelona with two children, and living in bliss away from their mother, who basically can best be described as off her t*ts, through either boozing or being bipolar. He also has a brother Tito hanging around the place too, and frankly, he is an a**hole at best. Continue reading →

Site Issues

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Update on 31st April at 13:32; it seems everything has stabilised….which is very odd as nothing has changed since Tuesday. In any case it means you can carry on enjoying the awful comments and insults as usual. Hooray for technology going wrong where we don’t know what happened!

Update at 21:55: Still trying to find what’s changed, now just messing around with the test site and there are differences in performance but also some signs of resource contention.

Sorry campers, but this will not be a quick fix.

Update at 16:05: After faffing around with MySQL backups most of the day, we’re now attempting to get things moved to a different server. If that don’t work….well…..does anyone know how wordpress works? 😀

Morning all, just to advise you will probably have noticed that the site has been very slow recently. To the point, it’s almost like we’re back in 1995 using Compuserve to connect via crappy dial-up modems.

We will be performing maintenance during the course of today to try and resolve these problems, so you may see everything just drop off completely. So no big loss there then!

We’ll probably post when things are either better or we’re scratching our heads as to why this just magically started happening. Technology….keeps us employed when it breaks….

Exercise in futility

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As some of you may remember from the Procrastination Proclamation way back last year, there were a few remarks on the whole matter of exercise. Well that and getting stuck into Plants vs Zombies while pi**sing away a 3 month notice period.

Now settle down for a little story about what has happened since….

The whole issue for me has been akin to having a little goblin in the room of your mind, a constant companion reminding you that you haven’t moved from the sofa all day, and those sores developing on your back from lack of movement, may in fact be a bad thing. You then mumble “meh”, and go back to sleeping while the drone of crap from Netflix continues to stream away.

Last year, I had attempted to care once again about my health buying actually buying a treadmill via the gift of Amazon, via a third party who sold old equipment etc. After one hard worked Saturday afternoon with both the delivery guy and myself attempting to navigate tiny corridors with a giant heavy box, it then took up residence in the bedroom, where after a few runs, the issues with the machine quickly became apparent. Continue reading →

Previously on….

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It’s now April 2014, only 4 months since last anything was written on oohsometimes.com, and once again there have been many things on in the meantime, in some ways, more intense than the year that proceeded everything to this point.

Put it this way, when you have a picture of a poo to summarise the description of an entire year, (even if it was a chocolate poo), you may get a sense that all has not been well.

And you would have been right. It seems that not many people had a huge amount to say which was positive. Perhaps here in the UK, it’s far easier for us to focus on everything that has been bad, instead of all the positives. We focus more on the downsides than some folks from other countries. I bet those folks in Syria and more recently Ukraine, are singing through each day like it’s a disney film, just as Vladamir Putin turns up like that witch from Sleeping Beauty, complete with black cloak, mocking laugh and a nuclear deterrent (that will show Price Charming for sure!)

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Happy End of 2013

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Pretty much summed up a lot of 2013…it’s chocolate.

It’s December 31st 2013 and finally we have reached the end of what seems to be for an awful lot of people, quite a tasking time of it, where a lot of upset has occurred and times have seemed tougher than before.

It’s actually rather odd that at the end of this year particularly, the need to draw a line under what has occurred has never been more urgently awaited. The fresh start which I’ve openly mocked for a number of years (the whole new year, new start thing which thankfully has been drowned in the river by the angry villagers of life) seems that for once, it’s actually true.

Not everything that occurred in 2013 has been bad, and obviously given a sense of perspective a number of our problems will be trivial in comparison to those suffering in war-torn regions of the world, like Syria, Iraq or Liverpool.

But in the first world which a lot of us inhabit, it has been a long road which at times, can wear you down. So the only thing I can possibly suggest as some medicine for this ailment, is ride out the remainder of the year in style, drinking and vomiting to remember to the good and forget the bad. Oh, and have a sleep in the morning.

Take it easy all, and the Lord of Leisure will return with a review of the year that was chocolate very soon…

They came after our porn and we said nothing….

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On the evening where the new Royal pain in the ass is announced to a world who apparently cares (it’s a baby boy in case your Facebook feed hadn’t already exploded with the news), it seems rather odd that today of all days, coinciding with the birth that will keep Sky News waffling about nothing for the next 60 years, that in the news, it’s been announced that from the end of the year, if you’re going to want some entertainment to enjoy yourself with that involves the use of a sock halfway through from the internet, you’re going to have to ask for it. Say what?

Dave Cameron, fresh from saying bugger it to sorting out cigarette packaging, has made it a vital mission, out of nowhere, to ensure that children (or midget drunks) will no longer be destroyed by porn on the internet and that the market for child porn would be drained from the internet. And remarkably, this is one of the worst pieces of news to hit us, but not for the reasons you may think.

You can watch some of the highlights of that speech made from the NSPCC here; http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/video/2013/jul/22/david-cameron-online-child-abuse-video Continue reading →

In the meantime….

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Remember…no Russian…

On this fair and dark evening in London town, it seems that there are few creatures are stirring. Mainly as I’ve been using bug spray to kill cockroaches in the kitchen.

Recently I’ve been out and about enjoying various things such as wandering off to various venues to watch various entertainers, watch silly movies featuring dragons (Yes Man of Steel, admit it, that’s why you never showed that in the trailer….) and generally goof around the place.

Eventually some extra writing shall appear on these fair pages, but in the meantime, go ahead and enjoy this lovely article located at Made 2 Game about how occasionally, we’d like games to be a bit shorter to accommodate our limited free time;

http://www.made2game.com/articles/Columns/Far-Cry-3-Blood-Dragon/26663/Work-Work-Work-Eat-Sleep-Play.-Repeat/

Oh and I have a new hat, which was used for the new welcome video for the OohSometimes Youtube channel which still only has two videos on there at the moment. Not entirely sure what to do with the power of the tubes just yet, and indeed how often I would in fact use said devices, if anyone has any suggestions, feel free to comment!