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I'm now convinced life has it in for me, as The Geekest Link is now down for another full day. This time with the wonderful error message:
That's a pretty final - and desperately unprofessional - message - the last thing you want when you're trying to set up a new company and you take one step forward and two back due to an endless litany of problems. The first month of trading has now had three days where people couldn't buy things (three days I know about) and now this. That's a lot of down time and it just looks bad.
So, it got me thinking: surely it's not this difficult for everyone? I think fate singles out certain people and says: I'm going to f*ck with your life, and it does, until it gets bored (or you die - whichever comes first).
And now I'm sat, waiting for some kind of response on my website, knowing my first month's revenue is critical to my business plan and knowing people not only can't buy things from the website I spent six long months working on, but they can't even see it!
This takes me right back to Bottled Imp when things were just as dire....
It's back to Burger King for me, I think.
Yes, The Geekest Link has copies in stock of the sold out Space Hulk 3rd Edition action-packed boardgame.
Get yours before they vanish into the Chaos Ether.
This is an easy game. It's X Factor time again and so, here's the X Factor Drinking Game.
Take a drink whenever:
Finish your drink whenever:
A ten minute game should have you utterly trollied.
Enjoy
I have to post something. Have to get it off my chest.
I'm sick of vampires. Well, let's be clear: I'm sick of this current generation of vampires. I'm sick of vampires walking around in daylight. I'm sick of them being tortured quasi monsters with fabulous hair and sprayed on pale skins. I'm sick of vampires being fluffy critters with fangs. And with them being cute or lovable. I'm sick of vampires glowing in daylight, and I'm truly truly sick of them being in love with humans. I'm sick of vampire cop dramas and I'm really really sick of the endless eternal angst of the emo vampire.
It's hackeney and unoriginal and deadly dreary. It was cute in Buffy and there are a handful of movies in the '80s where it was bearable, but that was the '80s. Those days are long gone - yet the trite human/vampire love tryst continues, and it looks like there's no stopping it.
This new teen vamp fascination has taken vampires about as far from monsters as it's possible to be. Now we've got Spike and the Twilight gang, and even the odd vampire in True Blood...
But with the Vampire Diaries, it's just one bite too far. This is trash television, it's Dawson's Creek mixed with Twilight - watered down versions of both that tries (but not very hard) to be adult and succeeding only in being utterly pointless.
I'll write a full review later, but right now, I need to go watch some real vampire action. Something where the vampires are monsters and the humans are prey.
My Torchwood: Defending the Earth book will shortly be finished to go off to the publisher for editing and commentary. I don't know when it will be in stores (presumably early 2010) but the whole Doctor Who: Role Playing Game looks and feels amazing and I can't wait to get my hands on a copy, which is in shops December 2009.
More news on my book and the DW: RPG when I have it.
The Geekest Link is now selling all those lovely points cards for the DS / Wii and XBOX Live.
It's the cheapest place to buy XBOX Live 3 and 12 months, and for 2100 and 4200 XBOX Live Points. You can also get Nintendo Points there, too.
http://www.thegeekestlink.com/store/index.php?act=viewCat&catId=61
Excitement!
