Saturday, November 14, 2015

spoiler spoiler spoiler ? The Force Awakens Star Wars Episode VII

This is a post about why I'm not going to go see The Force Awakens (TFA)
Why I'm not planning on seeing it at all.
Perhaps there are some things here you (the reader) may have thought of already.
Maybe you've thought of none of these (yet) but might think of  sometime before, during, or after seeing it.

No, this isn't about the movie content itself.  I don't know what that is, but of course anyone who's seen the past ones, has read any of the books that take place after the originals, or thinks through any of the plot lines or potentials or even any serials or drama already has a pretty good idea.   (Perhaps the trailers tell the bulk of the story as they all seem to do these days.)

If there be spoilers about why somebody who's a fan doesn't want to see TFA, ideas that you've never considered and wouldn't have thought of if you hadn't read this, maybe you should think it's a big spoiler and skip it.


Sunday, November 1, 2015

A tale of two games - how to be customer hostile

This deals with The Microsoft Store website for the United States (EN-US) and so games on it would be ones with the ESRB rating system.   The information here does not universally hold true for other countries, languages or rating systems.

If you were selling things, and part of your system was broken in some small but potentially impactful way, would you want to be told about it?  Know about it?  Fix it?    Or would you not give anyone any easy way to tell you, and then ignore attempts to let you know about it?  

How's your website working, seems like a question somebody would want to be aware of, and repair if at fault.     Even if by and large it all works splendidly for huge volumes of customers and is a sort of technical marvel.    Or not.