Aol Instant Messenger
<div class="IPBDescription">And the downward spiral of IM programs</div> Is it just me or does this program actually get -worse- with every update? It's a downward spiral, much like the history of mankind.
I'll just go over a history of the changes:
In the begining, there was AIM, and it was good. It allowed you to send messages and establish direct connections which let you post pictures of monkeys humping and breasts in between your chauvinistic jokes about farts and penises.
Then an update came, which made it so that you had to "right click and open" any jpeg that used certain compression techniques. It really lost its effect of a suprise picture of a squirl and a cat going at it when the other person is mid-sentence.
Now, they updated smileys. If you use font larger than the 12-point, you get a big ugly smiley that looks sort of creepy. You have to reduce your font to get the simple, cute smileys.
Then another update came, it introduced a new "AOL Today!" popup every time you logged on. You could remedy this by disabling it, but the sheer fact that they put it in as default really **** me off because I was using about 7 different computers at the time and I had to constantly reset the damned thing. I don't CARE about Justin Timberlake, AOL. It also introduced a new bug for me that would make the program crash every now and then when trying to send a picture.
Now, they just released a new version of AIM that mimics MSNM with the little notices that pop up in the bottom right corner. I don't mind it on MSN at all because it doesn't affect me when playing something in full screen, but AOL cleverly designed it so that it lags the crap out of me playing a game made in 1997 on a high end machine. So now I have to turn the thing off whenever I play any game so I don't get WTHpwned by some guy named #power.x:NEO-ELITE when my framerates drop to 4/sec because "jLoFaN86 has signed on."
Stay tuned for the next update, in which AIM will include a web browser, media player, and will take over your computer.
I'll just go over a history of the changes:
In the begining, there was AIM, and it was good. It allowed you to send messages and establish direct connections which let you post pictures of monkeys humping and breasts in between your chauvinistic jokes about farts and penises.
Then an update came, which made it so that you had to "right click and open" any jpeg that used certain compression techniques. It really lost its effect of a suprise picture of a squirl and a cat going at it when the other person is mid-sentence.
Now, they updated smileys. If you use font larger than the 12-point, you get a big ugly smiley that looks sort of creepy. You have to reduce your font to get the simple, cute smileys.
Then another update came, it introduced a new "AOL Today!" popup every time you logged on. You could remedy this by disabling it, but the sheer fact that they put it in as default really **** me off because I was using about 7 different computers at the time and I had to constantly reset the damned thing. I don't CARE about Justin Timberlake, AOL. It also introduced a new bug for me that would make the program crash every now and then when trying to send a picture.
Now, they just released a new version of AIM that mimics MSNM with the little notices that pop up in the bottom right corner. I don't mind it on MSN at all because it doesn't affect me when playing something in full screen, but AOL cleverly designed it so that it lags the crap out of me playing a game made in 1997 on a high end machine. So now I have to turn the thing off whenever I play any game so I don't get WTHpwned by some guy named #power.x:NEO-ELITE when my framerates drop to 4/sec because "jLoFaN86 has signed on."
Stay tuned for the next update, in which AIM will include a web browser, media player, and will take over your computer.
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