Followers of our officially licensed Tap-Repeatedly Twitter feed (accept no imitations) may have noticed that things have been a little…quiet recently. If you’ve been staring at yesterdays news for the past couple of months, then please accept our apologies. The truth is that we’ve had a rather large gremlin eating away at our system for a while now. Having despatched a crack team of axe-wielding dwarfs, dark elves and a wizard to dispose of the problem, …
I know you’ve grown tired of the zombification of our planet. I have too, friends. However, being late to the party is not a crime, in fact sometimes it might even be a good thing. Enter: Dead Island. Sometimes you go away for a long weekend and when you come back you find electronically transmitted pieces of mail from your friends; heartwarming it is. Sometimes those pieces of mail show you a teaser/trailer that you …
From all of us here at Tap-Repeatedly to all of you out there in the ether, may a joyous yule season be upon you. If you’re not into yule seasons, may a joyous other kind of season be upon you. Perhaps a joyous winter solstice, or a joyous late December. Bear in mind that egg nogg is not – repeat, not – a faith-based beverage.
Once a year, something horrible happens. A cash-draining monstrosity we at Tap-Repeatedly refer to as the Steam Holiday Sale. $60 games for $0.99. Whole bundles – five and six games – for $4.99. And every year we queue up, faces hidden in shame, to buy games we already own, buy games we never intend to play, buy games we don’t even want. And why? Because! We. Just. Can’t. Stop. Ourselves.
Though at this point Tap – a multi-national organization – has fewer active American writers than it does those from far-flung realms, we’d nonetheless like to take a moment and wish all our readers a very happy Thanksgiving Thursday. For the majority of the world, it is just a normal day. But it’s the day Americans congregate with relatives they largely despise, consume poorly-prepared turkey with a slurry of bread and spices shoved up its …
No shooting, maiming, or blowing things to bits. No beating anything to death with a shoehorn and arms will not be used for bludgeoning. Codemasters is releasing F1-2010 on 22-September for all the major platforms (PS3, XBox 360, PC, Wii, PSP, Mac) which is in itself notable coverage and must have taken forever to get working. While there have been mods for F1 in rFactor, this is the first major purely F1 branded product since …
As you may have gathered by nothing looking or working as once advertised, Tap-Repeatedly is undergoing a metamorphosis. Largely visual, like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, we expect a whole rainbow of problems in the next several weeks. Should you encounter any particularly egregious issues, THEN TOUGH LUCK please email via the link below. Our regular programming will continue during this time. Email the author of this post at admin@tap-repeatedly.com.
Over the next week or so, the gremlins who labor in the lowest depths of the Tap Repeatedly Missile Silo will be performing very routine breakings of the site, followed by standard frantic Skype calls and Staff Forum freakouts. Do not be alarmed by any of these events, which may include sudden visual changes and general peculiarity until all the new machinery has been installed and is working properly. We thank you for your patience!Email …
As some visitors may have noticed, over the past 4-6 days we have been experiencing intermittent timeouts and other bad-kitty behavior, which makes us sad. Please bear with as we work through the problem. If you encounter a timeout or gateway error, just try the site again in a few minutes. Apologies for the inconvenience! A Tap-less existence is a meaningless existence! UPDATE: thanks to one super-heroic MrLipid, we think the problem has been thwarted. …
Tap-Repeatedly will be undergoing some maintenance throughout the weekend. You may encounter odd site behavior – our apologies if you have any problems. Please be patient and pardon our dust.
You do strange things when you’re on pain medication. I am currently dosed with the stuff after suffering one of the most bizarre and excruciating injuries in the history of humankind. In this addled state I experimented with banner tweaks. Lesson of the day: avoid doing design work while taking Vicodin. Anyway, expect a comparatively less hideous banner (but with the same contest pictures – remember, guess them all on the forum and win a …
The forums will be offline for maintenance and software upgrades today. This outage should be brief, but we are attempting to address a fairly major problem on the back end so unexpected surprises and excitement are possible. Stay tuned. UPDATE: forums are back online. Enjoy! UPDATE UPDATE: we are currently looking into a problem with the blog comment system. All will be well presently. UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE: some horrible fanged monster has eaten the comment …
From all of us here at Tap-Repeatedly to all of you out there braving the cold to get stranded at an airport in a vain attempt to visit relatives, we wish you warmth and happy times. As usual, things will be quiet around Tap Central Command until after the egg nog hangovers have disappeared, but we look forward to serving up even more of our acerbic brand of wit in 2010. Best wishes!
Tap’s American readers are doubtless checking the site today out of a sense of duty and responsibility (thank you), in between the brining and basting of turkey for our annual celebration of giving smallpox to the Native Americans Thanksgiving. The big day is tomorrow, and it is on that day that that around 70 homes will catch fire, and many dozens of people will be seriously injured in misguided attempts to deep-fry their turkeys, a …
Because they say it’s good for publicity and stuff, you can now follow Tap-Repeatedly on Twitter! I… think… I set it all up right. And there’s a plugin installed. God, I need to learn some new skills. Personally I think Twitter is idiotic, but hey – more traffic. 🙂