Ordering pizza on a Sunday evening

Note to self: NEVER EVER AGAIN ORDER A PIZZA ON A SUNDAY FROM THE LOCAL PIZZA HUT.

I ordered a pizza at 1:16pm (according to the original order form). It still hasn't gotten here yet. It arrived while I was in the middle of typing this post.

On the upside, I did call them at around 20 minutes past the original estimate of 95 minutes (or around 3:10pm), and the manager said I would be getting this order for free.

On the downside, it still hasn't gotten here yet. In 25 minutes, it will have been 2 hours past the original estimate of 95 minutes. I will be calling them again if it's not here by then.

Even though it was late, I still offered to give the driver a 5 dollar tip (in cash, this time, since I wasn't doing the credit card thing this time, since this one was free). My reasoning was that if he's the only driver he's probably being stretched to his limit, so it would be only fair. However, he refused to take it because he "wouldn't feel right about it". His reasoning was that the pizza was an hour and a half late. Well, I mean, it's not his fault that he's the only driver and all, and I felt kind of weird because he didn't take it, but oh well, that's another $5 saved (in addition to the original $25 or so for the pizzas themselves).

Spore DRM

It's a bit sad that Spore is getting savagely raped in complaints over something that has little to do with the actual game itself.

Then again, given the big flap over Mass Effect not too long ago, by doing pretty much the exact same thing all over again with Spore, EA is bringing all this on themselves.

When are devs (or, more appropriately, publishers) going to wise up and finally learn that this kind of crap does jack and shit to stop pirates and does everything to harm consumers of their products, either driving them toward piracy in order to find a means to play the broken game that they bought, or simply driving them away from their future products altogether?

Well, at any rate, it didn't stop me from pre-ordering Spore (my copy should be here by tomorrow, hopefully), and I'm personally not as militantly opposed to all of this as many others seem to be, but I can certainly see why they're so pissed off over this and are refusing to buy the game outright.

As for the comments regarding the gameplay itself, I can't really say anything about that given that I haven't played the game yet. We'll see come tomorrow, but I have a feeling that, at least as far as I'm concerned, it won't be as bad as many are making it seem.