November 29, 2009
By: Govvy
Category: Internet
I decided to play Star Trek Armada 2 again on my new PC and decided to go visit GameWinners.com forum. In 2001 the site was very popular and there was a lot of activity. Loads of different forums and lots of informative people.
I was looking for the Star Trek folder of the forum, but alas they had deleted it. Even still they had deleted the Star Wars folder.
I was simply told this is down to the popularity if there isn’t enough people interested then they delete them. I have always been against deleting informative posts or information.
For a website to hold it’s populace and popularity you shouldn’t force people out to other sites. Even if this is a the fringe, they can come back to a website if they remember it being good. But the fringe people on the web don’t count for the whole, but they certainly help to drive the content and awareness of a website up.
And just to confirm of which I am theorising here, alexa.com/siteinfo/gamewinners.com
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October 02, 2009
By: Govvy
Category: Spam
Greeting from Mrs. Melinda Cojuangco
Hello Dear,
My name is Mrs. Melinda Cojuangco, I am sorry the way these email came to you but I hope you will understand that it’s out of circumstances that I have contact you.
I am the wife of Late Mr Lucio Cojuangco who was the former Philippines director of mineral resources who was assassinated along side with our son in 2007 in connection with government of Philippines due to greed and jealousy of his wealth.
I am writing you due to what I have suffered here by my late husband’s first wife and her children in connection with the government because the first wife is a relation to the president of Philippines. This is because my late husband willed 70% of his assets to me and my daughter which have been forcefully taken away from me by the first wife and her children with the connections of her sister who is in the presidency.
In one of the envelop I received from my late husband’s lawyer, I saw a deposit certificate and certificate of legalization documents for a security company abroad with a later which explained to me that my late husband deposited a trunk box in a security company which the box contains $23M USD in cash and Black diamond which worth $5M USD.
I am contacting you because I want you to help me in securing the money and help me leave Philippines since the first wife of my late husband through the government now monitor all my movement and also which right now I am leaving in absolute hardship because they stripped me off all my late husband’s assets and left me with nothing. I hope to trust you as you will not sit on this money when you claim it. I am ready to give you 35% of the total money the diamonds for your assistance. If you are willing to help me, I will wait to hear from you so that i will give you more details on how to follow up.
God Bless you as you help.
Mrs. Melinda Cojuangco
If I knew any better I would of thought she was trying to con money out of me! O wait, she is, well then, why is Mr.Richard Wang doing the exact same thing? And for that matter, is the Nigerian Mafia and other pathetic organizations thinking they can still get away with these silly emails. Wake up already criminals, try something new before the Ipolice catch you.
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October 02, 2009
By: Govvy
Category: Pictures, Technology
I have had my mobile for a while now, it is the Nokia 5610 Xpress Music phone which I brought in Thailand. The camera on the device is a 3.2 megapixel A/F camera with flash. Enjoy some of the photo’s I have taken with it.



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August 23, 2009
By: Govvy
Category: Films
I rather enjoyed the film, the acting was good with a good cast. Lines were very well delivered and the trains did not run on time. At times it felt a little slow, other times you felt for the characters, but for some reason they didn’t make you feel claustrophobic down in those tunnels.
At one point of the film the police decided to do a crazy run trying to deliver the money on time. This seemed a stupid scene, but that was about it. And that was it, there was no twists or turns, no loose ends. Just a nice little small package with a typical ending.
2.5 out of 5.
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August 09, 2009
By: Govvy
Category: Films
Well this is a film of non-stop action and a bit too much all at once. I was surprised by the cast members know, a good cast in essence, some of the jokes were good. At times the CGI looked bad and many times I saw copies of other films.
Everything seemed to happen so fast I forgot what I was watching at some point, but going back, there are evil guys and good American guys. With a few French, English here and there.
The next thing I knew was that they took a long time on the streets of Paris in an effort doing their best to destroy the city. Next thing they were all under huge amounts of ice. Scenes seemed to be copied from Star Wars and all hell had broken loose.
Well I am glad that is over now! For me the best scene in the whole film was the first flashback of Snack Eye’s as a child. There we saw a very well choreographed fight scene between two foes who meet later in life. The few flashbacks certainly helped to explain a few things, but there wasn’t enough of them.
It still didn’t seem to explain how planet Earth evolved so quickly or why this is all suppose to happen. And why the hell would anyone build an advance base under the sand in Egypt? That’s been done to death already, the base should of at least been in the US!
I don’t want to be too harsh, but after my head is spinning I am only going to give the film a score of.
2 out of 5.
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July 26, 2009
By: Govvy
Category: Films
I rather enjoyed this film and it was the first film I have seen in 3D from what I remember. Although I found that my eyes strained a little the animation in 3D was amazing.
My favorite character with this franchise has always been the squirrel and he didn’t disappoint. His jokes were the best, he fell in love with a sex red squirrel. The next has to be Simon Pegg’s weasel known as Buck who was a swash-buckling pirate character. However the main weasel Sid i never really found funny, a pathetic character full of pathetic jokes.
So Sid finds three T-Rex eggs and manages to go off on the journey making new friends and managing to get his old friends almost eaten. Nevertheless it was one happy ending.
3.5 out of 5
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July 23, 2009
By: Govvy
Category: Internet
I don’t know how many other people have tried to enter the McCoy’s comp and failed. But for me I have tried with Google Chrome, Firefox and IE. Well my cookies are enabled on all those browsers. I just seem to have the most success with IE.
Still it does take a long time to enter, considering when the barcode is exactly the same on the back on the packet for the specific flavour! I don’t know if there is success for different flavours or not. But it does save you having to buy a pack every day, I guess this means I can enter the comp every day with out buying.
That is definitely a floor in the promotion on the packets, at least it saves me getting fat!
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July 01, 2009
By: Govvy
Category: Personal
It all started yesterday in the heat, first the electronic fault light came on in the car. The car started up and as soon as I applied the pedal it cut out. I was hoping it would go but after a few tries I finally got the thing going.
The next I knew the engine warning light had come on, driving all the way home from work hoping nothing would happen. Well nothing did happen, the car felt mainly okay, mind you it did feel a struggle in the higher speeds, 60 to 70 miles an hour.
So I thought I would wait till morning to try again, the engine warning light came on, so I decided to take the car to the garage, but on the way it went out.
So I get to the garage and leave it there waiting to find out what is wrong with my car and how much it would cost. When I finally get the phone call back…, a micro-fracture! Apparently there is this micro-fracture in the wiring that could either cut out in one week of six months. This problem can be fixed in three hours of work and cost well over £700.
Instead of having some unknown garage perform the op, I thought the Renault garage would do it better, I’ve had botch jobs done before and lost a lot of money, so now I paying that lot more hoping it won’t be botched up!
Costs are high these days, but at least I got a job to cover the costs, even with so much money or so little, it is always frustrating to me no matter how much costs are.
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June 21, 2009
By: Govvy
Category: Films
It is important how a film starts and Transformers started very badly in my opinion. The story was explained in a very dumbed down fashion, war rages on ect. You get a little gist of what goes on and then you get metal mashing fun. Along with some clever jokes, very bad satire and some very bad acting. You are given a movie that is full to the hilt of an unreal teacher followed by dogs at it, to the love interest which looks… so very wrong.
Locations are also very poorly constructed together, as the team goes from America to Egypt to Jordan. But it so happens that Petra is exactly adjacent to the Red Sea, which it is not. Then somehow Petra which is hundreds of miles away from the Nile is only a few miles…
Next there is a scene where you clearly see Karnak Temple which is down the Nile in Luxor, in the same place as the Pyramids. So the locations are all randomized into a miss-match show which is about to be destroyed.
So along with an exceptional well made, unexplained Egyptian set which doesn’t really match it’s history. Is a weapon inside a Pyramid and unless you have watched the Discovery Channel then you will know how ludicrous that is.
At some point Michael Bay had lost the plot and all that is left is metal mashing and it was surprising to see these monsters performing moves which I know to be sequences from Jujitsu. It’s a shame that they couldn’t come up with something original.
The Egyptian thing has been done to death to hell and back! Transformers through time, well I am pretty sure there would have been more evidence than offered. A long and stupid film with plenty of jokes and entertainment. Exceptional CGI effects helped somewhat but it doesn’t save the fact that Michael Bay followed up a good film with a B movie.
2.5 out of 5
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April 13, 2009
By: Govvy
Category: Films
If you are a fan of the Dragonball TV cartoons then that is more than enough to entice you to go watch the film. For those that don’t know about the cartoon franchise, well, you might want to stay away.
The film is basicly a very flat storyline of what goes on in the cartoons. Lord Piccolo who is played by James Marsters is a rather boring character who has no dimension. He seems very angry with life and as the bad guy it seems as if he wasn’t directed at all. James Marsters is a good actor and he looked the part, but I would have to blame the director James Wong for failing to get the part right.
The lead character and hero Goku played by Justin Chatwin seems very lame and lacking. I don’t think I laughed once during the whole movie and for a character that is suppose to be full of life and laughs was very disappointing. In fact I would have to say this part is just bad casting.
The rest of the cast was okay and the storyline was simplified and destroyed in one. The animation mixed in with the filming didn’t blend too well and at times it didn’t look right on screen.
One of the worse things to do in a martial arts film is not too use it. This is the biggest problem with the whole film and one that stands out above all else. There seemed a lack of it along with style, grace and skill.
In the end I was disappointed with the whole film and thought their effort on the dragon was terrible. The dragon Shen Long turned up looking small and shiny, nothing like what I wanted to see.
1 out of 5.
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