Recent content by captain underpants

Paying a little more for TV shows is a small price to pay for not living in the USA.

It's about time someone had a go at Valve. They might be the besy place to get PC games, but their customer support and returns 'policy' is fucking atrocious.

It really isn't Steam's job. Buyer beware and all that. Shonky developers are going to game the system whatever Valve does. They'll just end up endlessly chasing their own tail. However what they do really, really, seriously need is a decent refund system to allow customers some recourse when...

Test Drive Unlimited 2. Played the hell out of the first one and bought the second on release day. They added things that fans wanted, like weather effects and a day/night cycle, but then completely gimped the physics and force feedback, and removed a lot of the graphics/setup options that were...

So, according to this doofus, because shooters are popular, any new game has to be a shooter in order to be popular. I think he needs a few more lessons in basic logic.

You'd think that if it was such a massive problem, he'd have a few more recent examples, rather than a single one that happened 12 YEARS ago.

So this guy gets told by the highest court in the land that he's wrong, and he comes out of it still thinking he's right, and he's a SENATOR? This man has no place running a popsicle stand, let alone a public office.

I don't have a lot of sympathy when rich fucks like Ballmer start complaining they're not getting enough money. I'm sure he cries into his caviar every night. What arrogance!

By the sounds of it, you're getting off lightly. Get your fucking act together, kid. 'I forgot' doesn't work as an excuse in the real world, and your parents are clearly fed up with hearing it as well. If I had to remind my kid every fucking week to do a simple thing like closing the shower...

You, sir, have a seriously fucked up set of priorities.

Exactly. You have to be self reliant. THAT'S what the OP's parents are trying to teach him. The power company isn't going to nag you or 'put a gun to your head'. They'll just cut the power. Better to learn to remember to do shit like that now than later. You have a strange view of education...

As a parent, I most certainly do NOT see my relationship with my kids as 'ownership'. What I do have is Responsibility, possibly the most important responsibility any person can ever accept - the 100% care and livelihood of another human being. It is a caretaker role. My job is to prepare them...

Then you should thank your parents for giving you yet another opportunity to work on your memory. I guess they'll now just keep raising the price until you figure out the lesson they're trying to teach you here before you move out on you own and won't have Mum and Dad to remind you to do shit...

ROFL. Move out to avoid chores? You realise you're doing ALL your own chores when you move out, don't you? I can guarantee a live-in maid will cost you a bit more than $20. Kids these days...

So let me get this straight. You have a job. You don't pay even a nominal room and board to your parents, and you're bitching because they expect you to do a few chores, and have put a financial incentive on it, presumably because asking nicely didn't persuade your idle behind to do them. Am I...