generalen99

Interesting. If they start selling pre-paid cards, I could finally bother setting up a US account. I have been reluctant do so in the past due to the potential safety-risk with routing through a proxy. With pre-paid cards I wouldn't need to send my credit card info through the proxy.

Or, you know, they could stop the €1=1$ nonsense.

This just reminds me of how much I hate scores, not to mention aggregating. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who actually reads reviews instead of just looking at the number or symbols. I never bother looking the score in reviews, it's no use to me. I don't see how a user-experience can translate into a number or symbol, it doesn't make any sense to me. The only way I can find out if a game is for me is by reading what other users have experienced. Hell, I didn't even realize the game was given 4 stars before I saw the scale-translation on Kotaku earlier today and the uproar in the comment-section.  I do respect that others need a score to make up their minds, but please keep the obsessive behavior to yourself when scores don't match expectations.

Every time a big game comes out some site who rates games using the entire scale (ie not just 7 to 10) rates a game 8 out of 10, 85 out of 100 or 5 out of 6 with a tagline saying "super awesome game, everybody should totally buy it", and  every goddamn time that happens the internet go f*cking mental; "LOL Y U GIEF VIDYA 9.5, IS A 9.7 GAEM U SUX". And the worst part is when people who defend the score claim it's because the reviewer "isn't paid by [insert company] like [insert big site]". It's like people have a hard time understanding the fact that reviews only reflect one guy's opinion on one particular product. Do you attack people on the bus if they say "I didn't really like Avatar that much"? Unless you're a sociopath, you don't. The word "subjectivity" is like a curse word to some people.  

And score inflation? Don't even get me started.
7/10 is terrible, 8/10 is average. What the f*ck happened? Shouldn't 5/10 be average, and 7/10 "pretty good"?
 
The only thing that score means is that Jeff didn't feel that it was 100% perfect and flawless, but it seemed like he thought it was a damn good game despite it not being perfect. The review was through and through positive, Jeff even praised the game in the quick look, and I bet he'll have some good stuff to say in the Bombcast as well.

A Google search for "giant bomb halo" shows 4 results on the first page from different forums with users angry about the review by the way.. I'm glad most you guys here don't stoop to such levels.

Does this only happen on GiantBomb, or does it happen on other sites, like Vimeo, YouTube, Break, GameTrailers et cetera as well? 

Does it happen with both the streaming and progressive option? 

Have you tried updating your Shockwave/Flash Player?

You sure there's no Firefox add-ons installed causing problems? Try starting Firefox in safe mode (just type "safe mode" in the search field in the start menu and select "Firefox(Safe Mode)") and see if that helps.

I was thinking performance issue at first, ie playing videos use all available CPU-resources, but since you're running Win7 64 I assume your PC at least meet the minimum spec, which should be more than enough for simple multitasking. Could still be a driver-issue though, but it's more likely to be a fault in either Firefox or a plugin, with my bet on the last. Just to be sure it's not a performance-issue, open up the processes tab in task manager (ctrl+shift+esc) and check if a process is using an unreasonable amount of resources while playing videos.

Unlikely. Embedding works in PM as well as in the forums...as long as you're not using Firefox.

Edit: yeah, something is clearly wrong here. Embedding video with "video" or "html"-functions does not work in Firefox. 

3.6.8 let me partially embed YouTube-videos with the iframe-code, ie I could see something in the editor, but not in the actual post. 3.6.9 doesn't show anything in neither.

(Now I'm posting in Opera)

I cleared cookies, cache etc and went to auth.whiskeymedia.com and clicked "Login to one of our sites", I clicked Giant Bomb, typed in user-name (generalen) and my password and got to the Giant Bomb frontpage. But now I'm logged into the "double account"!