I used Windows for my entire life up until this last year, which is when I switched to Mac OS X. This change is due to numerous things, 1. my laptop getting some how raped by viruses I never knew I had or downloaded. 2. Going to a school that is very heavily Mac based. 3. being in a major that practically requires use of Macs (Digital Post Production major, Final Cut, all that mess.)

I've found OS X to generally be better than XP in nearly every way, shape, and form. I can do pretty much every thing I was able to do on my PC, hell I even have my wireless 360 controller hooked up to my Mac. The only thing Macs don't do as well as PCs, is obviously games. But, I'm more of a console gamer than PC so, I don't mind the least bit. And the only PC games that I want this year are coming out for Mac anyways (Spore, Starcraft II) so I'm set.

Like many people who follow Spore in the news know that next week, EA is launching the Spore Creature Creator in two forms, a demo that has 25% of the content of the retail one ($9.95) which includes all the creature parts of the full game. I originally was just going to download the demo, but after watching the following video, I was sold on the full thing.



So today I realized that the release was a week away and I went to the Spore site just to confirm everything. I see that you are able to pre order it so I was just clicking around to see whats up. I decided to look at the system reqs just out of habit and saw something disturbing.



What the!? GAH! Fuck! Damn it, damn it, damn it. THIS IS RACISM I TELL YA! That or I just got owned. Now I figure this is one of two things. It's either I'm fucked in the digital download area or a misprint due to the retail version of the creature creator listing it both Windows and Mac compatible. I emailed EA support in hopes that I could get a response, but I'm not counting on anything.

Worst case scenario is that I have to get the retail one, which... is a pain in the ass. Either way, I'm getting this one way or another. If I can't download it on Mac, I'm low enough on gas, and it's 100 degrees, I'll just download it to my parent's desktop and swallow my pride as if I was going back to an abusive ex because I've found out that despite the emotional torture I suffered through for many years, the only way I will ever be satisfied is through their forceful and dominating personality.

Hmm... graphic metaphor. Meh.