The Forge · 6th Time’s the Charm!

I just got done having the single worst customer service experience that I can recall having. Thank you so much, Bank of America.

Seriously. A(friggen)men

I am the type of person who would rather deal with shitty service than cancel something, because it’s easier to just not cancel. But BofA has to be the worst service I have ever known in my entire life.

I ended my account after a series of issues I had with them. Not a customer service issue so much, but something I considered shady.

Just after we had our son, we were struggling for money a bit. So from time to time, we would run short on money. And like many, I had a lot of automatic charges go through. Sometimes I would run a few bucks short. Not much, but a few bucks.

But BofA would switch around the order in which my charges were processed in order to maximise the damage the shortcoming would cause. Instead of bouncing 3 bucks, the largest payment would process first, then each following charge would bounce, rather than the one.

This happened a few times, and I blew it off as my bad. But then I started watching this. When I knew it was going to happen, I would screenshot the account I pulled up online.

Always, every single time. It would be pushed through in order to best maximise the damage. So rather than a 30 dollar overdraft charge, I was paying 400 dollars. Yeah, 400. One time, close too 800. This tends to cause a snowball effect that is hard to come out of.

After I noticed that it wasn’t just my bad, and they were really up to no good, I closed my account.

I had to go through about 3 people to cancel. The funny thing was you would think was bounced around in the name of retention. On the contrary, not only was I never asked WHY I was closing my account, but there was NO attempt to keep me as a customer at all. Not even a “sorry to see you go” type thing.

*****Read this if you don’t want to read me ramble above****

Go to Washington Mutual (If available)

Not only were they the nicest people I have ever worked with over the phone, I get all my services for free, and not a single bit of hassle. Ever. I couldn’t be happier to get rid of BofA.

FU Bank of America.

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28 hours later, Warcraft gets its first Level 70 – Joystiq

I guess this is a big deal. But this isn’t much different than initial launch. It took 2 weeks, for their first max level to hit, or something like that. Where EQII took 2 months. I believe.

Whatever. Blah blah blah WoW.  

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School District "Doubles As A Giant Pizza Hut" – Consumerist

Yup yup, and it kicked ass too. I started highschool in 91, the year they started putting this crap in our school. Part of this deal enabled the school to have all new computers and AV systems. So what if we are all fat slobs. I work in video games. Suck it.

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Paypal Introduces SecurID Tokens – Consumerist

 

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Gamasutra.com – Rethinking Carrots: A New Method For Measuring What Players Find Most Rewarding and Motivating About Your Game

 

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Valve Head Man: "The PS3 Is A Total Disaster" – News and Siteseeing

Ouch 

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BBC NEWS | Americas | US woman dies after water contest

“Hold Your Wee for a Wii”

Damn

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GamePolitics.com » Blog Archive » Is Europe the “Third World” of WoW ?

To my experience, I doubt that the staff would even consider a difference between the location of the population on the server. The fact is, Europeans just complain a lot less about the activities of the other players on the server. Hence, less reports, and less bannings.

Interesting article, none the less.  

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The Empire Is The Good Guys, Revisited « Creative Destruction

Found this through my referrers list. (welcome )

I am not sure if it because I am hitting my 30’s, but the more I watch Star Wars, the more I am thinking about how the Empire is actually in the right.

You have to put all EU stories out of your head though, because they paint the Empire in a much darker tone.

This is what got me started. I was almost sure Qui-gon was going to come out as a bad guy in the end. Dooku said they were partners, Qui-gon lied, and manipulated people for his own personal gain. And was pretty hot tempered, and an obvious loose cannon.

However, he ended up being the ultimate “Ties things all together” character. He taught them how to be all glowy-like and how to live forever or whatever.

And when playing Republic Commando which was used as (backup story sorce) the clones hated the Jedi. The Jedi were selfish, demanding and did not care about the death that followed their actions.

Oh, look at me, I have just nerded out wayy to much. Anyway. Creative Destruction

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Broken Toys :: Cyber Rape Porn Murder Death Kill

 

Then I’m handed stuff like this, and I realize: wait a minute, there is a mission for me in life, and it is to show my disturbing lack of empathy to the world. Thanks!

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