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Re: It took me literally two clicks to "freely" download their "free" download. by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/08/2013, 4:22pm PDT
Jerry Whorebach wrote:

None of those clicks included my credit card number because I don't have a credit card because I don't have a job because of some life choices I made.

I did not say I didn't have a credit card and apparently you don't read my posts, or don't remember them, or you would have noticed that I've said I have a Visa card from Merrick Bank they started me with a $700 limit, allowed me to set the day of the month my payment is due, and how I've had an account with them for just shy of two years, and got three credit increases, while I used to have a Sears Solutions MasterCard from HSBC, had it with them for five years, and in all that time they never raised my limit one dime above the $300 they originally set, would not allow me to change the date my account was due, and despite the fact promised it was a no-fee card, I had to keep writing them back because every year on the anniversary they kept imposing an annual fee, to point out that my application with them said no fee (and I always ended up getting the fee taken off). I figure, if HSBC won't allow me to change my due date and won't raise my limit, they don't deserve a fee.

And after I'd had Merrick's card for a year, they went to monthly billing for the annual fee (which I agreed to), instead of $72, the fee is $6 a month, so if I decide I want to switch to someone else, it's even less of a hassle since I haven't paid the whole fee all at once, unlike the people I really love, First Premier Bank. Their rates and charges are so obscene I'm thinking I should file a USPS Form 1500 to have them stop sending sexually pandering mail to me. They also offer a card with a $700 credit limit, but the annual fee is something like $140! (I guess they ran out of the low-hanging fruit of people willing to accept a $75 fee for a $300 limit and had to raise it.) If you are so credit unworthy that you have to stand for being anally raped that badly by some goniff like First Premier, and you're willing to take it, you deserve it.

But I digress. In case you're unaware, you do not have to have a job to get a credit card, just an income. Federal law makes it illegal to refuse to offer credit to someone who receives income from a public assistance program - which includes Social Security - if they otherwise qualify; a place offering a credit card has to treat me on the same terms as someone who is employed making the equivalent amount of money.

I just don't like to use my actual credit card with allegedly "free" offers. You never can tell when they change their mind and suddenly in the fine print you missed you get billed for something. Then I have to fight with my bank to get the charge taken off. I don't have any money in Paypal, which is why, if all they were doing was verifying I'm in the U.S., that should have worked. They would still need to bill me and verify at the time of billing, that the card had enough money at that time for the charge. It was a test; they claimed the only purpose was to verify residency, in which case, the card number I gave them should have been enough. Since it wasn't, it sure sounds like they're trying to do something to get money off that card.

I mean, you ever ordered something off one of these commercial ads where you call a phone number and the item is only $10 to $14.95? (The shipping will be about $10; I'm aware of this and I don't have a problem with that. Or if they're sending two of the item they'll charge twice the shipping. If I buy one of these items it's because I figure they ding you on the shipping and I figure the item is worth it anyway.) Have you ever noticed that it's one upsell after another, usually for something on a mothly subscription, they keep asking you over and over if you want to buy something else? And then if you say no, they try to upsell you again by saying that you can cancel whatever they're upselling and keep some bribe and only if you don't call and cancel it after 30 days do you get billed $29 a month? Then if you turn that down they throw something else at you. After you get about six or eight goddamn upsells, it practically makes me want to say, "never mind, I don't even need the item I ordered in the first place, forget the whole thing."

I haven't seen someone so eager to give their credit card information to a website that doesn't want it since that time I tried to hook laudablepuss' mom up with a free copy of Bejeweled.


Stand in line, I outrank you. I've been appointed a "Commander," what are you? Operator of a whorehouse? Or just a customer john? Remember when I said I had to call Merrick Bank because I tried to order the Bundle in a Box which had Dedale? And that they kept claiming that my bank was refusing to accept their transaction, and I had to fight to allow them to take my money?

Have you tried clicking the big red button marked GET IT!, then clicking it again on the following page? I can guarantee you that works in regular, non-autistic web browsers like Firefox.


So I missed that button, and went for the other one that said "download," I simply missed it because I mistook something sooner on the page for the correct link. Does not make me autistic, it simply means I wasn't looking at everything. That just makes me a normal person, it does not mean I have some sort of mental defect.

In fact, let's start here. Like people tell me with mine, quit with the autism joke, or the insane joke, or the Asperger's joke. You and everyone here know full well I am neither insane, nor suffering from Autism, nor do I have Asperger's Syndrome. Autism means no sense of humor at all, not that you don't find my jokes funny. The character played by Dustin Hoffman as the eponymous character in the movie "Rain Man," is the typical example of autism. He has no sense of humor at all; he doesn't make jokes and generally never smiles. (I don't think he smiles at all until the end of the movie when he's happy for once in his life.)

Even Tom Hanks playing the federal agent in "Catch Me If You Can," at least tries to tell a joke. And I think what it is, is that you people have prejudged me to have no sense of humor when all it means is you don't find my jokes funny. And to say someone has Asperger's Syndrome means they don't have varied interests. That's why I kept challenging you people to give an exact objective definition of what Aspergers is, and none of you could, because you don't even know, all you can do is parrot what someone else says because you don't even know what you're saying.

Uh, strike "people," you guys still haven't shown you've risen from the level of "cretinous reprobates." Plus you tend to contaminate everyone who comes into contact with your comments with the disease of "cretinistic repropatery". Possibly including me.

Have you actually read the full and complete contents of every website's terms-of-service that you visit, read the entire text of the EULA of every software program you've installed, and did you actually read the entire contract you got when you applied for a credit card? Or did you just, like most people, not bother, click the install button, or sign the thing to get whatever you wanted? My guess is, you didn't check everything carefully. Does that mean you have autism since you didn't read and see everything in the stuff you agreed to?

Anyway, thank you for the link, I was able to download it.

But you really have to stop making these psychological analyses of people when you don't have the objective evidence to back them up, because you both lack data and you're not qualified to make these type of opinions or your opinions clearly are erroneous because you lack the experience or training or ability to make them in the first place. Opinions are not objective fact. They are simply the judgement of someone, hopefully qualified by training and/or experience to make the judgements. Of which, none of you here are qualified by experience, none of you have any training, and none of you can even offer one objective fact to validate the opinions you do have when you're questioned as to what was your reason for your opinion.

My sister was involved in an automobile accident where the guy T-boned her, and he was charged for his bad driving. So, anyway, his lawyer was basically tearing the prosecution witnesses apart until he came to my sister. So she mentioned on an offside, that he was clearly driving drunk. His lawyer questions her, how could she know, is she trained in treatment programs?

She said, "I know because I happen to be an alcoholic, and I've driven drunk, and I know the signs because I've acted the same way he did when I was drunk, when I helped the other people pull him out of his car. The only difference between him and me is I never got caught. I can tell you the exact things he did that made it obvious to me that he was drunk since I've done the same things." He very hurriedly said he had no further questions.

Thing is, the prosecutor, who called her as a witness, had no idea about this about my sister, and her own admission both shocked his attorney (and the prosecutor, both of whom had their mouths open in utter surprise), and got his client, who was on his way to getting away with it, a jury conviction.

She has the experience to make such a judgment. None of you have met me, and nothing I've said gives any claim to having, and the huge and wide breadth of subjects I'm able to talk about, clearly negates, any claim of Aspergers (which is usually fixation on a single subject), or autism (lack of humor at all, not merely one where you think the jokes I tell aren't funny) which also generally includes an inability to understand or focus on many different things.

Anyway, I'm cutting this point short because I have to go on to the sequel to this game, I've only been playing it for ten minutes and I already have some comments.
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F. Pohl's Gateway - 1 by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/06/2013, 3:19am PDT NEW
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        #7 Now that's cute; you break the VR by getting the *barkeep* drunk & by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/06/2013, 9:00am PDT NEW
        Re: F. Pohl's Gateway - 6 by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/06/2013, 12:17pm PDT NEW
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    F. Pohl's Gateway - 8 by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/11/2013, 6:44am PDT NEW
        Get him a hint! NT by Matthew Holland 06/14/2013, 9:21am PDT NEW
    F. Pohl's Gateway - 9 by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/11/2013, 6:49am PDT NEW
    Hey dickhead, I paid you to review this game and the sequel, get to it NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/19/2013, 10:22pm PDT NEW
        I know, and as I said, I'm blocked and I need a hint; I didn't know I had one by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/20/2013, 2:49am PDT NEW
    F. Pohl's Gateway - 10 by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/20/2013, 2:59am PDT NEW
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        Oh shit - 15a - Messed up image on 15 by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/20/2013, 3:46am PDT NEW
    Re: F. Pohl's Gateway - 1 by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/20/2013, 3:53am PDT NEW
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        F. Pohl's Gateway - 18b by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/20/2013, 4:59am PDT NEW
    "Wizard needs food, badl..." I mean, "Tdarcos needs hint, despirately!" by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/26/2013, 4:13pm PDT NEW
        Please start the sequel. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/08/2013, 2:42pm PDT NEW
            Fair enough. Where do I find Gateway II? NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 07/09/2013, 4:15pm PDT NEW
                Download it here. And get started,g od dammit by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/04/2013, 11:30am PDT NEW
                    Re: Download it here. And get started,g od dammit by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/05/2013, 12:52pm PDT NEW
                    Their "free" download requires a credit card by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/05/2013, 1:19pm PDT NEW
                        It took me literally two clicks to "freely" download their "free" download. by Jerry Whorebach 09/05/2013, 2:05pm PDT NEW
                            There you go, Paul NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/05/2013, 2:50pm PDT NEW
                            Re: It took me literally two clicks to "freely" download their "free" download. by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/08/2013, 4:22pm PDT NEW
                                Breathtaking. NT by Fullofkittens 09/08/2013, 4:44pm PDT NEW
                                Betting pool on the "Someone made a fradulent purchase with my card!" novel? NT by The Happiness Engine 09/09/2013, 4:44pm PDT NEW
                                Fascinating by Eurotrash 09/09/2013, 11:15pm PDT NEW
                                    Re: Fascinating by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/13/2013, 9:49am PDT NEW
    Jimmy on Gateway, a fine companion to Tdarcos's work here by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/21/2018, 9:08am PDT NEW
 
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