I wanted some benchmarking software for my windows PC. I think it's running a little sluggishly. Tweakfiles I remembered was a place online that had such software. So i typed www.tweakfiles.com into the address bar. A redirect took me to Gamespot. Gamespot doesn't have what I want. I'm not sure Gamespot would make anyone looking for Tweakfiles satisfied. So why would they set up such a redirect? To waste peoples time? To force people to go to a different site in the hope they will be interested in what is there? Because they have the domain and can't think of what else to do with it? Because they are unthinking cretins? Possibly a combination of all of the above. Gamespot is a Cnet site. Like many larger sites online it is automated and there is no interest in user feedback so i have no recourse to complain to them directly about this annoyance, or more rather be sarcastic and or abusive to them as i'm in a foul mood today already. Online no-one cares. The web is full of blogs of whiny teenagers and support groups for people who haven't realised that no-one cares. Online is like a large city. If you fall people will walk over you rather than pick you up and given half a chance people will steal the shoes from your feet and the fillings from your teeth. The distance that the experience of the internet gives people from other people means they don't have to care. And of course if people have the opportunity to sacrifice responsibility for personal gain they almost always will. And it's easier online.

Written by PRAEst76 on Sunday, October 19, 2003