Dear Steam, We've already done this update.

Steam is a great tool. It helps you play games on machines that normal give fits about them. Lots of SECUROM games and the like. It offers a huge catalog of games and gives you some very nice features while you're playing those games.

The one feature of Steam that has to go: looking for and downloading the SAME updates every time you start a new game. Updating my drivers? Awesome! Updating Direct X when it is up to date or when downloading the VC redist for the millionth time? Overkill! Stop wasting my gaming time with this crap. I want to PLAY THE FUCKING GAME. If I wanted to download redundant updates over and over I'd do it my god damned self. I want to launch a game when I click on it.

If Steam wants to run a once update or check for new versions, fine. I love being up to date and I like that they will update a lot of things for me. But, please stop fucking with my time and spending 10 minutes downloading, installing or otherwise wasting my time on things I don't need. It's pointless and it happens with EVERY NEW GAME I LAUNCH! AGHHHHH!

Warhammer still sucks.

I played Warhammer Online right at launch. Back then it wasn't really that awesome. It looked awesome and sounded awesome... but the execution sucked. Turns out, this many years later it still sucks.

I have gone back once or twice to look around and really kind of felt good about the game for a few days and quickly lost interest. I even tried to play the Endless Trial with a friend of mine. While there are still some fun aspects, most of the game remains unchanged.

The game still plays terrible and choppy. I've upgraded my PC since the game released, where my PC was above requirements, easily (Intel Core2Duo E4400 2x2.0GHz CPU, 3 gigs of DDR2, EVGA nVidia 8800GT AKIMBO) to a computer that is marginally better, but still greatly surpasses the needs this game has (AMD X2 6000+ 2x3.1GHz CPU, 8 gigs of DDR2, Sapphire AMD 6870). The game still plays like you're walking in sludge. It is just as poorly optimized as ever. There is still a great deal of "rubberbanding" and you still get random floating objects of awkward sideways walking mobs. It's... just weird. WAR game out several years after WoW was released, so I expect it to at least look better... especially if the requirements are going to apparently be so steep. It's not.

The game doesn't look bad and it does have some good qualities. Most of them are covered up by the piles of shit that pretty much make up the rest of the game. I was almost excited to see the game and get a feel for it past level 10 (which is where the Endless Trial cuts you off). I jumped on my Warrior Priest and instantly wasn't having fun. I tried out a couple of my other characters from way back when and once I found where I could respec at it went a lot smoother. I, however, wasn't able to join a single PvP scenario in the 4 or so hours that I was on and trying.

Not only has the playerbase dried up to near non-existence in off-peak hours, but the community is pretty shitty, too. There is a lot of elitism in such a small game. I've not sure what the official numbers are, but they've got to be pedestrian even when compared to what RIFT just did.

WAR really had a chance to be a good game and you can still kind of see that in there, but the devs have managed to bury it even deeper now. This makes me even more sad for the future of the MMO industry. A game with so much potential and it was squandered away. =(

I fucking love LTE.

There ard few thing in this world that really make me excited.  New technology that exceeds expectation is one of those things.

I enjoy mobile technology and mobile phones have really moved forward quickly in the last years.  I had an Incredible and loved it.  I recently upgraded to a Thunderbolt and... Wow.  I couldnt be happier with the switch.  The phone is fast, smooth and is a solid HTC product.  Most importantly, its "4G".

Yes, 4G is bullshit.  Yes, Verizon is goig to start taxing us for usage.  But for right now... Its amazing.  Seriously.  LTE speeds are blazing fast and the areas are growing rapidly.  We are talking about speeds better than basic tier cable providers give you.  Keep in mind this is over the air, not like wifi... But your mobile carrier.  Intense.

In just its infant stages we are doing things i never thought that i would see.  It is really quite amazing.