I’m downgrading back to Windows XP Professional for gaming reasons. I’ll post again once I’m through all the garbage and back up and running.

Edit: Well, I’m and running again. While it’s a bitter pill to come back to XP, it’s also nice to come back to something familiar and something that works the way you expect it to. It’s kind of like moving back home with the parents. In any event, my gaming is going well, but I’m still eminently sad that Bioshock refuses to work and that their tech support has no solutions. Alas.

Uwe Boll recently posted a message on the official Postal Movie Web site, lashing out at supposed derisive letters regarding the limited release of the movie Postal. Here’s the message with all its broken English in its entirety, so to speak:

To all of you writing now about me and the fact that POSTAL is not getting screens.

its okay ..its fun kicking a guy nonstop who is on the ground

you are all not getting it that i’m the guy who made it against the big hollywood system and you are all only busy to destroy me and finish me up
and then you YOU WON WHAT ? the attention of the studios, michael bay .. ?????
if you damage me you feel closer to Hollywood ? what is your game plan?

you want only movies like JUMPER , SPEED RACER , WHAT HAPPENDS IN VEGAS …? then keep going and your dreams will be fullfilled. POSTAL makes some very important points ..but you dont wanna see that …. : that Bush used the SEPTEMBER 11 to start a war against a country what had nothing to do with Bin Laden etc…. but this all doesnt matter because you are all busy to THINK that INDIANA JONES or NARNIA are important movies … but in real they are empty shells of an industry what wants to make money and what wants to keep you looking “escape movies” with nothing in it. in between they are putting some CONTROVERSIAL movies to show that they can do also IMPORTANT movies …but also this movies are not really critical….they only supporting the system and not showing the big picture. and POSTAL shows the BIG PICTURE …it nails the absurd situation with all the stupid religions, races and nations we are living in. POSTAL is not accepting bullshit politics. POSTAL has not the opinion that Bush made mistakes - POSTAL has the opinion that it is a scandal that BUSH is not in jail. What happened in America in the last 7 years is the biggest joke since Columbus stepped on that land.

but instead of seeing the courage i had in doing that movie against everybody who tried to stop me - you are sitting on your desks and you are working on stories about me ….and my image as the worst director on earth…and you fullfill what your editor wants from you in regards of uwe boll …or you fullfill what you think makes you a cooler guy in the internet …and you are not getting it that you are only interested in movies like IRON MAN or HULK or KUNG FU PANDA or the MUMMY 3 because the studios spending 60 mio. $ in advertising to make you interested in NON INTERESTING movies. how many times you wanna keep going in movies only because the TRAILER was so cool and the CGI was so great ?

thanks for reading this

Uwe Boll

I still stand by the assessment I made in my earlier post about Uwe Boll: I think all of his outrage is staged. His politics aside, I don’t think even Uwe Boll would agree that his filmography is comprised of “important” films, so who is he to criticize? Moreover, the primary goal of movies is to entertain. We watch movies to “escape.” When Boll made such masterpieces as Alone in the Dark and Bloodrayne, surely there was no greater message there, just movies that entertained by being objects of ridicule.

On another note, I think that movies that are made for entertainment can also be important and teach viewers in their own way. What guy hasn’t learned a bit about romance from a romantic comedy, as faulty as the lessons might be? I’d even heard that mobsters didn’t act like mobsters until after having seen The Godfather.

So, nuts to Uwe Boll.

Postal opens to limited release on May 23, giving Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull a good run for its money.

Just a quick update today.

I’ve added a very large and obnoxious button on the right which will allow you to plug my site for free on Stumbleupon. For those of you who aren’t users, Stumbleupon is a social bookmarking site that allows other users to randomly visit any of your favorite Web sites that you’ve bookmarked through the service. Non-users can still leave reviews of my site by clicking the button to the right.

I could always use more traffic, so if you like what you read here, Stumble Me so that others can enjoy my work as well.

Thanks!

…maybe I spoke too soon.

I’m too lazy to provide all of the links that backup this post, but I during my Web crawling at work today, I jumped on some forums and read a bunch of rumors that an investor stepped in to buy PC Club before it filed Chapter 7. Those posts were then swallowed by follow-up posts full of hand-wringing and uncertainty of sources.

Tonight, unable to sleep, I whimsically clicked on my bookmark for PC Club and lo and behold! The site is back up! Not a lot of parts are in stock and they have a very big ad for new employees (at all locations) in their frontpage array. Guess the old employees who lost their jobs with no notice are screwed.

Lets just hope that whoever replaces them are of the same caliber.

This post’s a little off topic from what I normally write about, but it was so shocking that I think it bears mentioning. My favorite PC store chain, PC Club, just filed for bankruptcy and closed all of its stores yesterday. I didn’t find out until this morning when I tried to visit their Web site. They had a simple splash page that said they had closed all of their stores. If you go to their site now, they don’t even have the splash page up anymore.

While PC Club was mostly a Western US chain, some of you may have bought computer parts from its alias site Club IT. In any event, it’s a real shame the company’s gone. Apparently, none of the regular employees knew this was coming. They just showed up to work one morning and boom their jobs are gone. I’m really bummed because I used to crawl their forums for PC help and I’d like to think I made a few friends on those boards. Now I have no way of ever contacting them. I’ve been following the Digg thread to see if I’d recognize any of the monikers, but I haven’t yet.

More importantly, I liked the PC Club in Riverside, CA because it was a store where the employees knew what the hell they were talking about. They didn’t try to upsell you on garbage you didn’t need. If you had to take your rig in to be worked on, they didn’t just insta-format your hard disk to solve your issues and then blame it on a virus like the Geek Squad does, or so I’ve read. If you’re a PC owner, finding a store you can trust for knowledgeable advice and quality service is like finding a good mechanic: you don’t want to trade up for anything else. I’ve bought parts from e-tailers from all over before. Without fail, there has been something wrong with whatever I bought.

I’ve never had a problem with PC Club, but it was comforting to know that if I ever did, there was a store I could drop the item off at for an exchange or refund, without having to go through some crappy RMA process. With PC Club gone, there’s no alternative.

And that’s the worst situation to be in.