Happy Boredom

Unbeknownst to me, the prestige medals and badges in CoD 4 are based on actual medals awarded in the military.

Good side-by-side Version: What the real life call of duty 4 prestige medals look like.

Or, the lazy man’s way, a crappy alternative version of the video embedded below. The guy that owns the good video does not allow embedding.

Less interesting video comparison I suggest a better video

OK so it’s chump time. I thought I was satisfied with prestige 1 so I stopped playing. Lately I’ve been getting a lot of shit at work because I stink at the game. Anytime we play a round of headquarters the team I’m on will get a big old doughnut. Perhaps a result of not playing it 2 hours every night. Also possibly a function of poor strategy and not respecting the kill/death ratio.

Now that I haven’t played CoD at home in at least a month it feels like time to dust off the PS3 and see if I can handle powering up in Prestige 2 zone. I’m sure I’ll totally stink but it’s time to work on pumping up the kill/death ratio. My typical k/d ratio in a game of headquarters was a pretty miserable 1:2.

The medal above is from a package of CoD 4 medals that downloaded from artistpavel.

The .me domain name went on sale starting today.

Summary:

Beware of GoDaddy, they incorrectly report availability of domain names. Either intentionally or unintentionally, their website will tell you a domain name is available while it is in fact already sold. While buying a few domain names this morning I thought I had gotten my hands on 3 excellent names. After checkout, however, I was surprised to find that GoDaddy could not fulfill my order because the names were sold already. You only know the process failed after you “purchase” the names. After you complete your order GoDaddy will send you a system generated email that says the domain name registration failed because it was already claimed. That means it was never really available in the first place. GoDaddy claims that they will credit you back but I have serious doubts that they will do it in a timely or reasonable manner.

Longer Rant: How does GoDaddy suck? Let me count the ways…

GoDaddy sucks point 1: .me domains must be registered for 2 years minimum. GoDaddy advertises the domains as $20 but you actually have to pay $40.

GoDaddy sucks point 2: The purchasing process is labyrinth of add-ons and marketing opt-outs. I purchased 3 .me domains with a credit card and a coupon code to receive 20% off but had to slog through tons of marketing to (a) purchase the damn names and (b) try to opt-out of all the spam the I’m pretty sure they will send to me anyway, against my wishes.

GoDaddy sucks point 3: After “purchasing” the 3 domains I wanted, I later received a system e-mail telling me that 2 of the domain registrations I wanted failed because the domain names are already taken. What is this bullshit? The service should have checked the domain name availability before they charged my credit card.

GoDaddy sucks point 4: Add insult to injury, not only do I not get the 3 domains that I wanted but I also lose the 20% discount because my purchase dropped below the $75 discount threshold. If I had known that the domains were not available, I would have found domain names that were available in order to get the discount.

Fuck you GoDaddy. As soon as .me domains are available from my regular domain name registrar I’m leaving you faster than Danica Patrick drives. Or something more insulting. Whatever. Fuck you GoDaddy.