Jan 28 - Feb 1
This week's smorgasbord of mediocrity is about as uninspiring as Brett Favre's performance in the NFC Championship game. If you're not a football fan, take my word for it. That's damn uninspiring. Unless you just can't get enough of Bomberman games, and that's a set of real number values that does not include my particular integer, then you'd be hard pressed to drum up any excitement about the handful of games to be released in the coming days.
Just as well, I suppose. This will give me all the reason I need to focus on getting my taxes done early this year. That's right, between choosing to play a Bomberman game or choosing to document the various monies owed to a bloated federal government, I choose taxes.
On DVD this week: The Comebacks, Daddy Day Camp and ATHF Vol 5 (if you don't know the acronym, then you don't care). Seriously, doing my taxes is going to be awesome by comparison! More here.
PC:
- AGEOD's American Civil War: 1861-1865 (1/28)
PSP:
- Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice (1/28)
DS
- Bomber Land DS Touch! 2 (1/28)
Wii:
- Bomberman Land (1/28)
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Come on, you've got til mid-April!
Fedaykin98 wrote:
Har!
As I read this, there was a Bomberman advertisement in the left hand column.
Could this spell the end for Sean "Elysium" Sands?
L337 is not a word. BA7F is a word.
H&R Block Tax Cut POWNS TurboTax.
"All that time you waste dating and having sex could be better spent scouring the web for new game developer press releases." - Quintin_Stone
TurboTax 4 lyfe! I'm military and so I can do turbotax for free. I love it. I can do H&R Block for free too but I like TurboTax better. Plus, I've used TurboTax for years so they save my info and make it easy.
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Elysium wrote:
Looks like more Burnout for me!
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LobsterMobster wrote:
Hmmmm, More Aquateen to buy. Awesome.
*Legion* wrote:
Somehow that makes me very happy in a subversive kind of way.
"I think Elysium has the right of it" - Certis
TurboTax becomes a real grind just after opening the box. They need to release a patch and add more variety to the... You know what? I'm done trying to find witty game-related comments about "Family Unit," or "Doing Your Taxes."
Someone think of a new angle, quick!
Rat Boy on Newlywed Ackbar wrote:
I'm going to hire an asian jew to level my toon so he can solo the IRS raid.
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I just got my W-2s today so'll probably be doing taxes tonight.
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Same.
I'm going to have fun doing taxes and playing Assassin's Creed.
Fletcher wrote:
Turbotax retrieves my W-2 online automatically. I don't have to fill out, well, anything anymore.
Doesnt Rez HD come out on XBLA Wednesday? I mean, seriously, tax software.. At worst we could, at this very moment, be devolving into a gutter discussion of the hypothetical best placement of 4 vibrating controllers. But that would be fun!
But noooooo, its gotta be TaxCut. My favorite site, for this week, is the gaming equivalent of a wild eyed and unkept bearded prophet, proclaiming the apocalyptic arrival of the Anti-Gamer. Oh sure, instead of a week of anticipation of gaming goodness and an opportunity to relish in potential gaming impulse buys, or feel some satisfaction in resisting, I am instead reminded of taxes, money, layoffs, mortgage payments etc...
Taxcut. The only feeling worse would be a simultaneous 360 RROD, a PS3 choking on dust, and a wii controller through my TV Screen. It's as if the gnarled and twisted hands of the Anti-Gamer's prophet have reached into my gaming closet and are flicking my fondest gaming moments into the blender of gaming un-fun.
Taxcut...
This is the first GWJ front page article that has driven me to tears and drink...
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You're just another notch in my bedpost, baby.
"I think Elysium has the right of it" - Certis
TurboTax, the only Game of the Week that requires more things be mailed to you than a first-run copy of Rock Band.
Despite the abuse against my fragile gamer psyche, I'll be back for more!
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"I never get the good ending, no matter how many times I replay it"?
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"Sensei Ping is still in his cage. That is all Sensei Ping is saying." - The Middleman
If I've never used Turbotax before will it still do this?
I used H&R Block last year and it was tedious as usual.
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I don't imagine master craftsmen leaping away from completed projects and shouting "Done, motherf*ckers! - 1Dgaf
It asks you for some id number that is in the corner of your W-2 form. If it finds it in some internet database, it fills out the W-2, name of your employer, everything. I am not sure exactly how universal this feature is.
Ever since TurboTax 2005 Deluxe, Intuit Inc. hasn't really really changed anything. It has basically been the same thing. However, it's totally worth it to upgrade from Standard to Deluxe (you have to have the 50 state expansion pack).
As for the automatic online W-2, your company/organization has to be registered online. I'm not sure if this is with Intuit Inc. or the IRS, but if your company is in that database, your W-2 should be retrievable and you can automatically transfer all the info to TurboTax.
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Anyone else see "Killer Clowns from Outer Space" as a kid?
I don't want to be a spoilsport for your TurboTax party, but if you like deep strategies and Civil War, you owe it to yourself to try AGEOD's American Civil War. In Europe it's already out for some time and so it's patched up nicely. Take Command - 2nd Manassas got me hooked on civil war, then I had my mind blown by Sid Meier's Gettysburg and Antietam. And AGEOD's title is right up there with them regarding depth and quality, only it's turn-based. For more info, try Wargamer, for example.
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TAXACT IS TEH BSET IF YOU USE NETHING ELSE U R TEH GHEY THAT IS A FACT!!!!!!!
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(Sound of a large sack of stupid meat slumping to the ground.)
Sorry about that. A fanboy troll got at my keyboard while I was away from my desk.
On the plus side, my score is now up to 27. Three more and I get to level up.
L337 is not a word. BA7F is a word.
I used Turbotax. I'm going back to H&R Block next year. Turbotax cost me like $50 to submit my efile stuff. With H&R Block it's like $10.
Ugh.
XBLive: Thin J
PSN: Thin_J
I don't imagine master craftsmen leaping away from completed projects and shouting "Done, motherf*ckers! - 1Dgaf
This year's H&R Block web filing app is nowhere near as solid as last year's. Its error-catching is almost non-existent. If I hadn't gone in and manually started adding things (mostly because I refused to believe I owed the state a ton of money) I would never have caught some large problems, like its failure to add my wife's state taxes paid on our state return even though it managed it on the federal return.
The capper is where I filled in a bunch of 8s for my son's SSA number because it wasn't available on my first pass through the return and then forgot to update when it was. The federal return bounced, naturally. The software brought up a screen for me to update the number, but then failed to write the updated number over the 8s. So even though it looked fine on the input screen, the underlying data was still messed up. I only found this out after manually printing the return and checking for errors, which is where I saw that the 8s were still there.
What burns me the most is that I can't even get the company to admit its error, or to even permit me to get past the poor undertrained person on the other end of the customer service line who had to bear my wrath. "I need to talk to a supervisor." "There's no supervisor available right now." "Please take down my number so that a supervisor can call me back." "We can't do that."
"All that time you waste dating and having sex could be better spent scouring the web for new game developer press releases." - Quintin_Stone