That Soviet Guy is an obsessed gamer living in a post soviet country, and even though he's cut off from the "real world", he tries not to go crazy by playing a lot of kapitalist video games and drinking a lot of vodka
Seriously, this makes me want to buy a gaming PC. I loved the first Guild Wars because it had better production values than WoW and didn’t charge you monthly.
And after seeing this trailer, I am sold. Buying on day 1 and I probably won’t have a life for a month.. or three.
Who cares to disagree that Guild Wars 2 looks extremely promising? I just hope Blizzards “next MMO” looks just as good.
Do you know what the problem is when you trust most of your online business and personal needs to a single service?
When it goes down, you’re totally screwed.
That’s the case with Google right now.
For most global users, Gmail is totally down at the moment of this posts publish time. It’s been down for half an hour now.
But that’s not the worst part. About 20 minutes ago, the whole Google Analytics code tracking system went down for my post-soviet country.
Do you know what this means?
If some idiot put the tracking code into the header (like I did with most of my sites), then you cannot load the page. At all.
So basically all of the internet users in my country are screwed right now out of internet.
This reminds me of the Skynet scenario from Terminator. It’s all fun and laughter when you think about it, but let’s be rational here.
Most websites on the web use Google codes within their source. Be it AdSense, Analytics or optimization tools.
This means that Google has access and control (in some way) over these resources. For example, they could reverse-engineer the codes that are up right now into javascripts that call out trojans. These trojans could be used for botnet purposes. And let’s say they infect 100 million internet users. That’s 100 million bots.
100 million bots could easily takedown any small country’s ISP, causing a blackout of the internet.
Then, Google can use the same code strings to simply make the sites NOT load (like the issue right now in my country).
I’m so seriously dumping gmail and analytics codes.
And just when you think that “nah, this will never happen to a kapitalist-based kompaniz”. Sergey Brinn was born and raised in the Soviet Union. He and I think alike. Think about that when you go to sleep.
Thing is that I live in a post soviet kountry. Teh problem with it is that it’s in no way supported by PSN.
Thus, I cannot buy anything from the store.
Since I can register an account with a supported country, I need a credit card issued by that country.
while I kud buy a PSN card off ebay you will say — but my country AINT SUPPORTED EVEN THERE!
So teh only way is to either negotiate with ebay sellers to accept third-ass payment methods or create a virtual credit card, which, again, isn’t supported by my country.
My country shall rename unnamed, we’ll just say that it’s post-soviet and near Russia.
And throughout this blog I will entertain you kapitalists with some soviet style gaming!