alan k.

I SHOULD be playing the LONG awaited Diablo4...They blew players and fans getting it for several years after creating Diablo Immortal on mobile with the monetisation in mind...thinking everything would be peachy keen for those of us waiting for a CONSOLE game. Yes, should be playing my expensive $90 AUD + $15 AUD for what turns out rubbish unpolished game play and cosmetics that I can't seem to to see or access + game money that goes nowhere NEAR to purchasing good gear. The graphics are beautiful...though... season monetisation with Diablo4 is appalling, greedy and a slap in the face to those of us who have played this franchise since day one. I can safely say...this online only game is a big pain the frustration butt. My thumbs are sore like RSI sore due to the battles being way more difficult from Diablo iii and the bosses? Forget about it. I died a few times in the many many times I've played Diablo iii and it's seasons but here, due to tech glitches, a game that still feels beta on release, and so much death of my character rather than the often impossible so far bosses...like they're learning AS WE PAY AND PLAY... Diablo4...I die time and time again...there's me always needing to transport back to a town to refill potions and empty a very small accommodation for everything that's dropped along the way. It's one disappointment after another and I'm so fed up with this company...who are so alien to their players that getting in touch communication is impossible...they are reprehensible and I will never buy a single product from them again. Of course, I've paid good money for this big back of crap that makes me feel bad all the time. The drops are rubbish...not much by way of reward for all the frustration...after the season started...it was literally unplayable. I'll be back to polish this review and also add to it but right now, INSTEAD OF PLAYING THE GAME, I'm looking for AS MANY AVENUES OF REVIEW AND COMPLAINT as I possibly can because this game is an utter disaster and disappointment. I do NOT recommend ANYONE purchase this game nor have any loyalty to a money grubbing company that does not in the least seem to care about the millions of disappointed players this time around especially.

I've been on the internet pretty much since its inception. Been publishing poetry since 1983. I've been on numerous poetry sites but Poem Hunter struck me as very strange.

I set up my account and profile, which were free. I uploaded a photo and posted a first poem. After over five hours the poem was still "pending" and because it wasn't visible to anyone I didn't expect a rating til it was. I'm always loathe to permit anything other than reviews. Rating systems can be abused. I saw other poets receiving five stars and I KNOW through vast experience that every poem I post is worthy of posting. Many have been previously published and NOT in cottage of vanity publishing. I recently came back onto the Poem Hunter site and saw my poem still "pending" yet SOMEONE or some folks had already put my rating to 2.33. Now, that's just venomous because my poem hadn't actually been SEEN by anyone. I'd been shafted in ratings simply on how I LOOK or because well, I have no idea why nor do I wish know or participate on a site that allows such behaviour!
Hardly an atmosphere for creativity...hardly a welcome... hardly human. So, I went to try and fix the problem via adjustment of profile so I didn't receive sub human idiotic ratings simply because those giving them are online nut jobs who enjoy knocking people down... but...there is no further facility for me to do the update for rating score. So I deleted my account. Ive won numerous awards in poetry...had many published in several regions of the the world and every State in my Country. I deleted my account and advise anyone not to patronize the site as members, especially novices...such obviously and immediately appalling onsite behaviour would tend to crush the confidence of newbies and up and comers. These sorts of sites have declined since day one. Poem Hunter is good for reference and reading but I would NEVER recommend anyone take up membership on a site that knocks an artist down before he or she has even posted a single piece. The time delay alone in a state of "pending" is disheartening. Add the cruel ratings from artless, sub human dropkicks who haven't even SEEN my works...and I was out of there in an instant.

Australian Salvation Op Shops are a money making corporate stragegising greedy insipid organisation that over charges with one store manager on the payroll and the rest of the stores and depots labour work tirelessly as volunteers primarily coming from lower socio economic or poverty line demographics.
Ive volunteered for various church organisations over the years. And been homeless in the past on occasion and while the Salvation Army DO service the community the poor staff at the counter (and as a general observed rule) only the first few of the improverish are given numbers with the rest being turned away.
It's no secret that the Australian Liberal Government are cutting funding everywhere and of all the charitable organisations the Salvation Army are hardly in a position to adequately rationalise the new hard line paradigm when it comes to servicing their community which fundamentally one of their primary reasons for existence. Volunteers at the coal face apologise and the shop staff volunteers always most courteous and generous of heart and spirit... but it is illogical that cost cutting measures affect the lower ranked paid workers and the needy who for whatever reason are turned away hungry. They are given lists of equally stretched organisations scattered all over the place no transport and a realistic outcome of a waste of time and energy a hungry family cannot afford to waste. Impractical... Saint Vincent De Paul are a charity one can ring and in two days they have two kind nonjudgemental workers coming to ones home to chat and give vouchers to accomodate immediate needs and referrals for all else is practical and not simple lipservice according to whatever the latest word is from paid management upstairs.
I occasionally scrap for metal and hard rubbish people throw on their curbs. It gets me by and its an honest life. I give much to smaller churches and organisations because when the Salvos cant sell items or they dont look saleable they are thrown in large bins outside for garbage collection.
I once and for two years worked as a truckies offsider with the Salvos. Collection larger donations from homes and deceased estates. All good condition working order white goods were immediately bound for the tip. We once spent a whole day removing a hoarders penchant for collecting books to fill the truck
Afterwards we drove to the dump and threw them away as though a corporation with highly paid executives could not afford to pallet them all up then fly them to countries in need of education... it does not serve their bottom line.
The local shop must have caught wind of people finding use for items and books so they have taken to smashing all crockery cups plates etc ripping covers from all books including atlases dictionaries all manner or beautiful books. To me. This is greed. It is cruel. It is insulting and offensive. Some poor still watch vhs videos on antiquated recorders. Many many videos are thrown away. Now... they just throw out the covers and dispose of perfectly workable videos in a manner where no one benefits if the salvos dont earn. Ive seen goods come off the trucks and valuables sorted by paid management. Antiques and high end items... and by the time it all filters to the shop its pretty much a charity shop with charity items and a few items of actual value. All charity shops are generally very cheap. Salvstion Army stores are very expensive for the poor.
I could continue with substantial validation of my observations but take it or leave it when i recommend that... on moral grounds i encourage readers to shop and donate
Elsewhere... there are people and families
In real need in the community. The Salvation Army DO assist but their principles border on a moral destitution to which no rational humanitarian mind could ever compromise or sit by and allow it to continue unheard and out of sight.

Mocospace is a pit of evil... stalkers... clones. Child molesters racists homophobes haters are as accepted in forums writing hate comments, creating armies of fake profiles to harrass and campaign enmasse of one but legion to have legitimate, sane community members deleted without warning... profiles take time to develop and
To suddenly attempt to log on only to discover
The there's no user by that name... is quite the
Shock especially for those who do not save their
Posts and blogs and pics to other sites or write
Down on paper as in times when writing on paper
With pens was in vogue... the site's majority of
Sociopaths and miscreants and Christian
Fundamentalists who infest all forums with
Judgements, dire prophecies and Biblical dogma control the forums... except the
Chat rooms where sexual deviance is rife with obvious overtones of danger and probable recurrences of rape and murder as seen on news and FBI warnings which are still simple to verify on google by typing in the word "mocospace" the site
Parasites want what others have or their often
Shocking actions validated or at least accepted... in
Lieu of acceptance they tend to take what they want anyway... mocospace has absolutely no shame with
Money as their apparent only goal and ho hum to the rapes and deaths and disillusion that can only
Come from exposure to so many twisted beings in
One place at the same time... these human
Destitutes project their mental illnesses regularly
Onto others with obvious clinical symptomology
Reflecting socio/psychopathy, non medicated paranoid schitzophrenia just to name a few and
With absolutely no fear of legal or site
Recrimination. Complaints are regularly ignored.
Im a published poet. Clones have stolen my published and copyright poetry and images which
Remain on site despite many complaints.
Eventually I intend to sue moco for their criminal
Accomodations. Defamation is rife. Offshore sites seem to think such crimes will be forever able to accomodate criminal defamation but they are wrong. International law will catch them as responsible as those criminals they allow to stay. Curb crawling sexual deviants luxuriate in a lawless free for all... i advice women and children to steer
Clear of a site that caters ONLY to that which
MAKES PROFIT. Meanwhile clients will continue to
Risk the muder and rapes that have originated on
Mocospace.