2010
Halo Reach: Booted for Accidental Betrayal, Banned From Accidentally Betraying
Alright… Bungie has got to do something about this. I have been booted from too many games over stupid accidental betrayals.
If you get one or two betrayals while playing Halo Reach online in a fairly short amount of time (couple hours) the system remembers that you have betrayed your own team and for the rest of the time that you are playing, and if you accidentally betray someone on your team, they will ALWAYS have the option to boot you! This is F!#&%ing retarded!!! Bungie needs to do something about this soon. There are too many jack asses out there that just want to boot people just because they can. The problem is when someone on your teams boots a decent player for an accidental betrayal, your team is now at a great disadvantage and chances are you will now loose the whole game because you are out-manned. I don’t want my team to lose a good player because of one bad grenade throw or rouge rocket.
Can’t bungie recognize if you are shooting your own team deliberately? They can track how many bullets you shoot and where you shot your opponents (i.e. “killed with a headshot”). So, they should be able to recognize if you have a high percentage of your bullets hitting your own team compared to your opponents. If someone is trying to kill their own teammate constantly, they I say, yes, ALWAYS give your teammates the option to boot you. But if you are getting an accidental betrayal once in a while, let it slide, or reset the clock on it more often!
I think a good way to solve this is just put a 2 betrayal cap on all new games. If you betray someone more than once in one game, the second time you do it, give them the option to boot you. At least that way if you start a new game and get one accidental betrayal on a game you are trying to win, you don’t get booted.
Most peole are playing to have fun and win, not to get kicked out of a game for a bad grenade toss. Bungie needs to handle this situation along with many other things for Halo Reach real soon!
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2010
Severe Intestinal Pain After Working Out, from Protein Shakes
For a few years I have been going to the gym and drinking protein shakes before and after work outs. Durring this time I was pretty much only drinking Muscle Milk and Cytogainer. I love these shakes and never had any problems with them. I recently switched the protein powder because I was able to get a different brand for free, so I thought I would give it a try and save a bunch of money. (Protein powder is not cheap!)
I typically just have 1 serving of protein powder before and after I work out mixed with about 12oz. of water. I started getting pretty severe and painful cramps in my lower intestinal area later at night after having a couple servings of the new protein powder and working out in the evenings. Initially I didn’t think that it was the protein powder that was causing these cramps because they wouldn’t start until a few hours after having the shakes, and sometimes they wouldn’t start until late in the night.
It doesn’t seem to hurt my stomach at all, it’s more in the lower intestinal area, and feels like a sharp pain (like a knife) that will be there for about 10 seconds, then fade. This will continues on and off for a couple hours then goes away completely. I am not sure if I might be allergic to this new protein or what? It feels almost like its gas bubbles that are causing the pain, but nothing seems to be able to get past, and I can’t/don’t need to go to the bathroom.
Could it be that there is more Whey in this protein than the last one that I was using and my body doesn’t like it?
If anyone know what causes this or has experienced the same thing, please feel free to post comments below. Thanks!
2010
Wireless Connection on Xbox 360 Slowing Down, Can’t Stream Netflix and Play Games Online
So the story is I have had my Xbox 360 with the wireless adapter, set up with my Linksys wireless G router for a couple years now. The thing has been working great, fast connections, and never any problems. We have been able to stream movies through Netflix, and play Halo online with not connection problems.
About a week ago however, the connection seemed to slow pretty bad. I thought it was the Internet, so I called the cable company and had them reset everything. I ran some speed tests on my computer that was also linked wirelessly through the router. The speed was a little on the low side, but should have still worked fine for everything I was doing online with the Xbox.
When I try to play halo online, I was connected online and it seemed to take a little longer to get a game, but once I got into a game, it was unplayable. My connection would be so bad, either the opponents or I would just be bouncing lagging all over the place the whole game. It makes it impossible to play. A lot of the time it would show my connection at full green bars though which really confuses me.
Then when I try to stream videos through Netflix, the movies title pages would load, but when I select one to play, it just site there and can’t seem to load the movie. This had gone on for about a week.
So I decided to pull out my modem and connect the xbox directly to the it with an Ethernet cable. This fixed the problem. So now the question is, is the xbox wireless adapter going bad, or is my wireless router going bad? It there a way to test? Is it common for one of these to start slowing down like this? Its strange that the connection is still there, it’s jut not very strong.
Any info would be greatly appreciated before I start buying new equipment. Post comments below! Cheers!