Video Game Review: The Sopranos - Road to Respect

I just finished The Sopranos - Road to Respect in a record 2 days. I played a total of 2 evenings and even wasted some time playing poker with the boys. I figured between the adult content (rated M for Mature), nudity, and constant F-word, this game would bring about an adult challenge but man was I wrong. It's just an immature poke at gaming so 16-year-old boys can point at private parts and laugh, say the foul lines, and think it's funny, and horrify their parents.

Going in to the last level or so I had over $70,000.00 but I was looking to buy some weapons or something. Instead, you could buy video clips of the TV series that get unlocked. I never bought any video clips and in the end when you beat the game the video clips unlock automatically. I still haven't a clue as to why I spent the time to earn money in the game.

There really is no skill involved with this game. It's mostly the mashing of buttons and there's no real puzzles to solve. I was really let down in the end when Joey becomes a made man. For a minute, I was excited because I thought I could finally spend the money I earned and go on to fight better bad guys, get bigger weapons, and solve some harder puzzles.

The Way I See It - The Sopranos - Road to Respect, is really just the Road to Retarded. If you want a better game, try The Godfather.

Spammers During the Holidays and Any Other Day

Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year's Day, Easter, Father's Day, Mother's Day, Halloween, and even today on Columbus Day. The spammers never stop and even on the weekends the phishing schemes and spam e-mails pick up. We can all do our part to stop this nonsense so here's some things you can do.

Don't respond to the e-mail. Don't even opt-out of the e-mail. Don't click on anything in the e-mail. This lets the other party know that they have reached a valid e-mail address. Ignore it for a few days and it may just go away and the e-mails may stop.

If you're lucky, you can read the full header in the e-mail and trace the i.p. address back to the spammer.

Get the i.p. address from the header in the e-mail and do a WHOIS search (found on the internet) and find out what network the spammer is using.

FORWARD (don't REPLY) the e-mail in question to the abuse@ e-mail address provided in the WHOIS registry. That e-mail address is the network admin people who run the network that the spammer is using.

In most cases if the spammer is really abusing the service with spam, the network admin will stop them for you. If you kill off the spammers network connection and the ability to send e-mails, then the spam e-mails will stop for not only you but EVERYONE they send junk to.

I did a few today and forwarded them to abuse@ and for the moment, the spam has stopped.

I really wasn't interested in refinancing a home, enlarging my manhood, or verifying my financial institution today. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood.