Angholt

@gpbmike: This is what I get:

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"forums"

Well, at least I learned something during this downtime. Apparently I can use the Kinect voice recognition when I'm not signed in to xbox live. I thought they had finally patched that in for people outside of English speaking countries but as soon as I was able to sign in again it disappeared.

No biggie but the Screened XBMC add-on tells you to go to animevice.com/xbmc when you choose link account. I managed to figure out where I was supposed to go anyway though ;)

I'm trying to use the XBMC addon but it crashes immediately. I have tried it on both my desktop PC and my HTPC, both of which are running Windows 7. As soon as I try to start it I get an error message in XBMC saying: "Script failed"

I turned on the logging and this seems to be the crucial part:

22:00:52 T:2336 M:3188027392 DEBUG: XBPyThread::Process - The source file to load is C:\Users\Jonas\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.video.giantbomb\default.py

22:00:52 T:2336 M:3188027392 DEBUG: XBPyThread::Process - Setting the Python path to C:\Users\Jonas\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.video.giantbomb;C:\Users\Jonas\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.simplejson\lib;C:\Users\Jonas\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.module.beautifulsoup\lib;C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\addons\script.module.pil\lib;C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\addons\script.module.pysqlite\lib;special://xbmc/system/python/DLLs;special://xbmc/system/python/Lib;special://xbmcbin/system/python/python24.zip;special://xbmc/system/python\DLLs;special://xbmc/system/python\lib;special://xbmc/system/python\lib\plat-win;special://xbmc/system/python\lib\lib-tk;C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC

22:00:52 T:2336 M:3188027392 DEBUG: XBPyThread::Process - Entering source directory C:\Users\Jonas\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.video.giantbomb

22:00:52 T:2336 M:3187826688 DEBUG: LoadLibraryExA called with flags:

- LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH

22:00:52 T:2336 M:3187826688 DEBUG: Win32DllLoader::Load(special://xbmc/system/python/DLLs\_socket.pyd)

22:00:52 T:2336 M:3187810304 DEBUG: LoadLibraryExA called with flags:

- LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH

22:00:52 T:2336 M:3187810304 DEBUG: Win32DllLoader::Load(special://xbmc/system/python/DLLs\_ssl.pyd)

22:00:52 T:2336 M:3186823168 NOTICE: Mode: None

22:00:52 T:2336 M:3186823168 NOTICE: URL: None

22:00:52 T:2336 M:3186823168 NOTICE: Name: None

22:00:52 T:2336 M:3186769920 INFO: -->Python script returned the following error<--

22:00:52 T:2336 M:3186769920 ERROR: Error Type: exceptions.IOError

22:00:52 T:2336 M:3186769920 ERROR: Error Contents: invalid mode: w

22:00:52 T:2336 M:3186753536 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:\Users\Jonas\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.video.giantbomb\default.py", line 202, in ?

CATEGORIES()

File "C:\Users\Jonas\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.video.giantbomb\default.py", line 15, in CATEGORIES

d = shelve.open(filename)

File "special://xbmc/system/python/Lib\shelve.py", line 234, in open

return DbfilenameShelf(filename, flag, protocol, writeback, binary)

File "special://xbmc/system/python/Lib\shelve.py", line 215, in __init__

Shelf.__init__(self, anydbm.open(filename, flag), protocol, writeback, binary)

File "special://xbmc/system/python/Lib\anydbm.py", line 83, in open

return mod.open(file, flag, mode)

File "special://xbmc/system/python/Lib\dumbdbm.py", line 233, in open

return _Database(file, mode)

File "special://xbmc/system/python/Lib\dumbdbm.py", line 71, in __init__

f = _open(self._datfile, 'w', self._mode)

IOError: invalid mode: w

22:00:52 T:2336 M:3186753536 INFO: -->End of Python script error report<--

22:00:52 T:2336 M:3186753536 INFO: Python script stopped

22:00:52 T:2336 M:3186753536 DEBUG: Thread 2336 terminating

22:00:52 T:6084 M:3186733056 DEBUG: XFILE::CPluginDirectory::WaitOnScriptResult - plugin exited prematurely - terminating

22:00:52 T:2152 M:3186733056 ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.video.giantbomb/

22:00:52 T:2152 M:3186733056 ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.video.giantbomb/) failed

22:00:52 T:2152 M:3186733056 DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory (addons://sources/video/)

22:00:52 T:2152 M:3186733056 DEBUG: ParentPath = []

22:00:52 T:2152 M:3186659328 WARNING: XFILE::CVideoDatabaseDirectory::GetLabel - Unknown nodetype requested 0

22:00:52 T:4688 M:3186659328 DEBUG: thread start, auto delete: 0

22:00:52 T:4688 M:3187437568 DEBUG: Thread 4688 terminating

22:00:52 T:2152 M:3187453952 DEBUG: python thread 3 destructed

I'm guessing it may have something to do with write privileges?

@patrickklepek:

"He actually proposed a compromise where Mojang AB wouldn't place any words in front of the name -- i.e. Scrolls: The Banana Expansion." I think you mean e.g. not i.e. here.

I am cautiously optimistic for Fallout: New Vegas. I did not really like Fallout 3 but I'm hoping those old Black Isle guys over at Obsidian can write a game that lives up to the legacy of Fallout 1 & 2.