On 19/09/2012 05:08 AM, Darren New wrote:
> On 9/18/2012 2:49, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>> (I didn't like that it took me almost half an hour to find a mirror which
>> would actually let me download the game.)
>
> That's what torrents are for. Quite literally - they were invented to
> make downloading massive patches faster for a large community of users.

It only took, like, a few minutes to actually /download/. What took me 
almost an hour was finding a download link that /works/.

All of them exhibit the same problem. I click the mirror I want. I see a 
30 second countdown, and then a message appears saying "Firefox blocked 
a popup window". So I manually click the redirect link, and end up on 
some file-sharing site. Then I get /another/ 30 second countdown, or 
maybe an advertisement video. And at the end of that, it won't let me 
actually download the file.

It took me an hour to sit through all this crap for each and every 
mirror until I got to one that lets me actually download the file.

> "Now... where did I put that emergency shut-down checklist?"

"I have /two/ PhDs. I cannot stand these menial tasks any longer. 'Stand 
here, push this button, go over there, pull that lever.' I tell you, I'm 
going to call the admin office, find out how many days holiday I've 
accrued in the last 25 years, and take some time off!"

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