Actually a few have been physically hurt because of Uwe Boll making movies. He invited any journalist that have to complain with his movies to box him on a ring. He "forgot" to mention that he had a boxing career before going to the movie business. In the end, those journalists deserved in some way it, as, if they did their homework, they would have check his background and knew about it.
It isn't legend, it's fact. He used German film grants and tax law to write off a lot of movies as losses and walk away with lots of money for it. SeanBaby (http://www.seanbaby.com/) offered to take him up on it because of that and Uwe Boll talked a lot of shit until he found out Sean is not only a nerd site writer/columnist, but also an MMA fighter. Uwe declined that fight. (https://www.wired.com/2006/10/seanbaby-vs-uwe/) The man is an utter putz.
Getting really, really drunk after the movie helps reduce how much you remember of it. Or you can see who the director is and just avoid it on general principles.
Now I'm thinking about the literal worst movie ever. I watched Ultraviolet with a friend and, after the movie ended, we looked at each other for a bit. I asked him if we had fallen asleep at any point during the movie. He wasn't sure. It was such a disjointed, incoherent mess that we literally thought we had lost consciousness at some point during our viewing. Which is really sad, because the writer/director guy has made some pretty good movies. EDIT: Just read his IMdB trivia and, apparently, Screen Gems recut the movie before release and he put as much distance between himself and it as he could.
I handle all things electronic for my company, if it plugs in, they call me when it is not working. Which is its own WTF. Anyways, my boss asked me to move a network printer to an office literally across the hall. I say, no problem. Simple procedure. We have a contract with the printer company, maintenance, repairs, printer supplies, that kind of thing. My boss tells me to check with them about the move. Sure, why not. They tell me that the move is covered by their contract, I shouldn't move it myself, and they will call me back to schedule a time. Sure, whatever. Two days later, I get a call. The move is not covered by our contract, it will cost us $450 to move the printer. I say 'no thanks, I got this.' The sales person protests, "But if the printer is damaged during the move, your company will be liable!" I reply that I can live with that. 10 minutes later the printer is across the hall and printing again.
ahaha Relatable. In my company, we move every few weeks (well, *they* move, I like my desk enough to not move to another one), you knw, agile scrum shit whatever... Each time, we are only allowed to put our stuff in a box (keyboard, mouse, pens etc.) - a dedicated contractor company will move the box to the next location. $300/person for each fucking move! Last time, we only moved across the corridor; I mean it's like 5m away...
As noted. Not actually a "scam" in that it was actually a fully legal thing he could do. It was part of the system to encourage film investment (in case the film didn't make bank, that investment could be written off against tax - because without such a system, nobody would invest in "smaller" films). Boll also was one of the primary investors for his films, though, so he was better served by a film bombing than actually turning a profit due to those laws. That loophole did get ended a few years back, pretty much ending his run. Fortunately for the movie going public, anyway. So more a case of "unsporting" than "outright cheating".
Aww, man - I remember that as it was happening! I saw the fight he had with Lowtax from Something Awful - Lowtax really had absolutely no idea what he was getting himself into. It was a stupid challenge to accept, but it seems Lowtax genuinely thought it was all going to be a light-hearted joke, right up until the first punch landed.
There has been a noted increase in traffic incidents this past couple of weeks. Theory is that people round here aren't used to this heat and it's driving them mad - could also be because they're drinking too much of everything except water. Just yesterday I watched a guy pull a dangerous U-turn in heavy traffic - he was lucky he didn't get smashed to bits. He did this immediately in front of a roundabout.
Having recently spent a weekend in Jamaica, hot weather and people hydrating themselves mainly with Red Stripe does indeed seem to affect driving quite a lot.
This one made me chuckle. I handle all things computer for my company, Network, Printer, Cameras, Wifi, Phone, etc etc. I get the occasional solicitation call or mail from some company that wants to sell me tech services. I got a letter from an IT support company. It starts out "Is Your Computer Support Guy Treating You Like A 'Bad Date'?" And then goes on to talk about how most IT guys are terrible at their job, (you know, me and my job) and how this company will do it better. And then goes on to advise me to kick my IT guy (also me) to the curb. Way to know your audience!
Word around the office is he is on his way out, he blows off meetings with the plant president and apparently makes it a habit to tattle on people for minor crap, including his boss. They did get back to me about plugging those holes, but they want me to do it for free off the clock because they're third party and want to avoid a conflict (lmao) I told my boss and he laughed too. He sent them an email saying I'm not authorized to do that unless they pay me a consultant fee.
This is a WTF on myself. Working on a system I don't normally do much with. I didn't fully understand what I was doing, but I had some step by step instruction from the internet. Apply my updates, and uhoh! it stops working! Well crap. Try to revert to an earlier state, and now not only does the system not work, I can't even log in anymore! Major panic time. Dug deep on my google-fu, dived into some powershell commands and managed to get things to revert to a usable state. Note to self, 'make sure you really know what your doing before you start poking around critical systems.'
