Little Things that Irk You: Episode V

[randombs]

Good thing you posted in the irk thread, then!

I'm in belt-tightening mode, too. Gf is off to Vietnam for the long September bank holiday and I'm staying put(not least because I only get the Monday off, not Mon-Wed). I think she's planning to buzz off to Malaysia in October as well. She needs holidays. Or so she says. I've never needed a holiday like that, but then I was living in London. Japan's like a cage for her so I can't relate. I told her Japan is sort of like a holiday for me and I can hop on a train and visit somewhere I've never seen before quite easily.

[kryss]

Yeah, my other half has been to more countries than I can name and point at on a globe.

[Brad]

Sony.
Went to download God of war on ps3. 8 minutes to PREPARE TO DOWNLOAD IN THE BACKGROUND. Prepare! Left it running all night. 40% complete in 8 hours. Wired connection on a solid 50mbit line. Then I Went to ps+ section on vita store, looking for stealth Inc 2 in the ps+ section; no sign of it but I know it's there because when I was on the ps3 I saw it there for ps3,4 and vita. Oh, and the mgs games don't work on psvita TV. WHY NOT!? It makes no sense.

[Dogg Thang]

It makes no sense.

This should be their tagline.

[randombs]

Yeah, my other half has been to more countries than I can name and point at on a globe.

Tell me about it. Mine, too. 60 cities in 27 countries so far and she's 28.

But I like to think I win because I can speak more languages.

Went to download God of war on ps3. 8 minutes to PREPARE TO DOWNLOAD IN THE BACKGROUND.

360 wiped the floor with them in this respect. I think the 360 downloads are a single XEX file, like an ISO, so no need to install anything.

Installing is the worst. If you background-download anything it won't install automatically(which does make sense). I know it installs stuff if you have automatic updates on but I'd have to wait until 3AM . Also, this is definitely my imagination but I feel that downloads speed up if I look at them and/or pause/resume, unlike my kettle which simply refuses to boil no matter how much I give it evils.

Have you tried the file system cleanup thing? I did it last week and my PS3 does things like preparing downloads quicker than before. It didn't delete anything important. It did blitz my album name settings which I used to organise my games(Action, RPG, etc) but they tell you it'll do that.

[Brad]

Cheers mate I'l give that a go. Yeah PS3 is pretty awful. PS4 is pretty amazing in this respect though; download and install speeds are really good and I find that everything is basically always up-to-date and ready to play. Steam isn't as good in that last respect as I don't leave my PC on but it gets around the issue by totally maxing out my bandwidth.

[randombs]

Be careful - one of the options formats the drive but I think it's obvious which. My 250GB HDD didn't take long to clean up. I think it was about five minutes for one of those and a few seconds for the other.

One thing I've noticed and I'm not sure if this is specifically PS3 - if I download something it'll then update when I play it. I'd have thought they would update the files so whenever you download something you get the latest version automatically, like with Apple's App Store.

[VR46]

The PS4 downloads the game and update files at the same time (but as separate files), then installs all at once.

My irk, just went past a Barbers, lots of pics in the window of blokes with different styles, and one of them is Paul Walker

[Brad]

No vin diesel?

[Decider-VT]

Spending Friday night re-writing my CV.

Yaaaaaay.

[fishbowlhead]

The way a woman turns shopping into an all day event. No! Just no, I'm going home, have fun.

[EvilBoris]

All the little niggles that renewing our new has is revealing. We've made really great progress with some things, but I do something simply like remove a coat rack and it creates a whole new expensive problem to solve

[Decider-VT]

Applied for a job and they wanted me to supply URLs for my LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Google+ accounts, which was never going to happen. I'm increasingly convinced the HR people just want to spy on people and hire who they fancy.

[Colin]

What a load of crap. Well I'm not on any of those, so what does that make me, unemployable? Nonsense.

[speedlolita]

Lol, Google+ eh?