Trivial Matters

[arturis]

What's one step down from a pet peeve? Lately I've been noticing this phenomenon in official statements that kinds bugs me, but mostly I just think "who are you trying to fool?". It happens when a time-frame for delivery or response is framed in a deliberately misleading way. Two examples

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[tarq]

48 business days is at a minimum 8 real world days, considering a 40 day week plus an 8 hour additional day also includes the weekend it encompases. That's garbage.

I really want to play a game like Oblivion, but I think I would get lonely and bored. I think I just need to pick Final Fantasy XII back up. Or buck up and finally get Grand Theft Auto 4.

You also may like the new Fallout. I hear good things about it from people who enjoyed Oblivion.

[attickah]

Oblivion's voice/conversation is REALLY broken, in that you can talk to a woman of one race and she'll have 3 responses in a row with 3 different accents....NONE of which match the race she is. (The snake-people should have a lisp, for example.) It's like they had 1 voice actor/actress read a specific set of responses, then used those readings every time anyone in the game says that particular line, and to hell with continuity.

In Fallout 3, they at least bothered to fix that part of the game--the guys who are all from specific groups sound like each other. And while Fallout 3 wasn't quite the sequel I'd been dreaming about since I finished Fallout 2, it was decent and fairly fun so I can't whine too much.

[voxen]

Hey, dollhouse got renewed. That's something.

Do you have a house yet, and a mantle upon which to place your escutcheon of Chorrol?