planet FAIL

Firefox 4 file picker FAIL

2011-04-05T21:37:00.004+02:00

Random no-text error message. All fine, IF the dialog wasn't still open ;)

Fail of the month: Embarcadingdong RAD Studio XE

2011-04-04T23:19:00.004+02:00

IDE crashing constantly - ✓

C++ Compiler completely and utterly broken beyond repair - ✓

Gazillions of little bugs that make me wanna kill myself - ✓

Autocompletion slow as ever - ✓

Boost support even worse than before - ✓

Completely fuck the IDE by trying to import an icon with PNG compression - ✓

The list goes on...

Oh boy, can't wait for x64 and C++0x "support", that'll probably make my PC implode.

Failbook

2011-03-21T22:54:00.000+01:00

While trying to delete a profile photo.

Education Fail

2011-03-10T03:09:00.003+01:00

No wait, it's a win! :p

Source

You're a bich!

2011-02-10T23:08:00.004+01:00

From Native Instruments Traktor Scratch promotion (see track name on left deck):

Source

Facefook

2011-02-08T18:29:00.001+01:00

Borland (CodeGear/Embarcadero) Development Process

2011-01-04T20:54:00.006+01:00

NSFW

Yeah, that looks professional

2010-12-28T20:59:00.001+01:00

Medal of Honor 2010

2010-12-12T22:20:00.002+01:00

"Welcome to 2010, where FPS games are balanced for dopes with a controller."

Some MoH FAIL videos:

MoH 2010 AI AND HIT DETECTION FAIL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9P8fLWchHc

MoH 2010 EPIC FAIL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhC43Lq9d5k

Medal of Honor Overall FAIL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP1pbybs6lE

A piece of advice: play CoD: BO instead and save your time.

Sheesh...

Underwhelming does not even begin to describe it

2010-11-16T17:00:00.008+01:00

Oh boy, I wonder what this is about...

Wow, The Beatles. They must be some kind of awesome new band. Maybe they'll release all their new songs exclusively on iTun-- OH WAIT.

Who needs sleeping pills when there's Apple?

The Defenders FAIL

2010-11-11T23:41:00.001+01:00

That is... wow... really.

Source: The Defenders, Episode 1x08

IMDb discussion win

2010-11-11T23:38:00.000+01:00

Source: Discussion forum for Brooklyn's Finest

XCode

2010-11-09T03:48:00.002+01:00

ALL. THE. FUCKING. TIME.

Tom's Hardware FFFF

2010-10-28T00:43:00.002+02:00

I won't comment this, i just won't.

Ace of Base Comeback FAIL

2010-10-22T01:27:00.002+02:00

Must feel like time travel to them here in 2010 ;)

Customer support fail

2010-10-20T01:50:00.003+02:00

Qstarz is a company making GPS receivers.

Source

Wheelchair vs. Elevator Door Fail

2010-10-08T14:50:00.004+02:00

Elevator eats suicidal wheelchair man.
Now with sound...

Watch video at YouTube

United States of Fail Collecshun

2010-09-12T17:08:00.003+02:00

Sanity Fail

Politics Fail

San Dimas High School Football still rules, though.

Spelling Fail

Font Fail

Language Proficiency Fail

Car Maintenance Fail

Like, totally

Holy Fail

Twilight Gender Fail

2010-07-29T02:42:00.001+02:00

In Hollywood, casting agents assign your gender.

Source: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3541076992/tt1099212

GameConnect Ad Fail

2010-07-06T14:15:00.002+02:00

GameConnect - Serious Gaming. So serious they get the game titles wrong.

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

2010-06-14T14:18:00.002+02:00

boyish wat

2010-06-06T20:56:00.001+02:00

Source

Oh so pretty

2010-05-22T14:08:00.001+02:00

I am referring to the forms, of course.

Source

Novation V-statsion FAIL

2010-05-22T03:53:00.007+02:00

V-statsion: so powerful, it breaks your fingers.

Congratulations Novation, you're getting better by the minute.

Source: Official Novation newsletter

Sent in by: zend43

STL fail

2010-05-18T15:27:00.003+02:00

Confucius say: not doing take less time than doing!

Source

Goddammit, Microsoft

2010-05-18T11:32:00.001+02:00

Stop imitating Embarcadingdong!

CodeGear: That about sums it up

2010-05-15T15:32:00.005+02:00

But wait, there's more...

ionworx fail

2010-05-13T23:56:00.011+02:00

Ionworx - awesome website, awesome software. Here are some highlights.

Don't have internet and not will valid - wat do? :(

Unique ! arould the world.

I loev reducing delevery delays!

I can has active?

The typical ionworx user - demented but happy.

And please remember to left them a message via remotely control.

Why, yes...

He looks like he really enjoys penetrating new... market segments.

How Microsoft pictures developers

2010-05-04T16:42:00.003+02:00

VS Syntax Highlighting fail

2010-04-19T22:52:00.002+02:00

Just what I always wanted - non-clickable hyperlinks in my C++ code. And it's not even christmas yet.

Make Create List of Files In Directory Software

2010-04-04T00:44:00.005+02:00

There are few things that make me puke, but Sobolsoft must be one of them:

Check out their (his) website, there's a lot more, like:

Copy Files and Folders To Another Folder Software
Copy Entire CD or DVD To Hard Drive Software
MS Word Save Doc As Dot Software

Total Number of Products: 854

Cost: $19 each. Now go, and buy Peter Sobol's Stop Windows Beeping Software right away.

Many of them written in Visual Basic, too.

Here's a snap of his website:

The banner was made with Make Badly Faded Website Header from Multiple Images Software.

Source

Service Monkeys WIN

2010-03-25T20:08:00.001+01:00

Source

Another languages

2010-02-11T20:27:00.002+01:00

Source

Speshul saevings!

2010-01-31T21:25:00.002+01:00

Stack Overflow

2010-01-23T23:50:00.001+01:00

No rly? ;)

Edirol Typo Fail

2009-12-08T18:58:00.002+01:00

Edirol (aka. Roland) doesn't seem to know what their presets are made for. It's called STEINBUG, dammit! ;)

Source: www.edirol.com
Target: www.steinberg.net

Drivar naem fail

2009-12-03T17:55:00.001+01:00

hey! brother. you're lookin' great! welcome Dough-nut.

This BIOS is quiet ccol!

2009-11-05T16:19:00.001+01:00

At least they have "American" in their name...

California State Assembly better not mess with Arnold

2009-10-29T00:35:00.005+01:00

Official source: http://gov.ca.gov/pdf/press/2009bills/AB1176_Ammiano_Veto_Message.pdf

Picasa 3 Face Recognition Fail

2009-10-12T14:16:00.002+02:00

Works really well. Especially on that electric socket ;)

We dun't need no documentashun

2009-09-20T17:17:00.003+02:00

Strings are so 1998, nobody uses them anymore, dude! You don't need to know about that crap, get with the times!

Thanks for showing me the light, ~~Borland~~ ~~Inprise~~ ~~Borland~~ ~~Codegear~~ Embarcadingdong!

telltale launcher fail

2009-07-12T21:39:00.001+02:00

Looks like the launcher bumped its little head on my firewall :(

Queshtshun Fail

2009-07-12T21:29:00.002+02:00

Source: Return to Mysterious Island 2 (Microids)

Premiere Elements Fail

2009-07-12T18:11:00.003+02:00

MADE IN INDIA!

News Fail

2009-06-26T16:50:00.005+02:00

Not only do they seem to be decidedly lazy in updating their news...

Screenshot taken on 09/06/26 ;)

Source: www.leem.co.kr

Adobe Updater

2009-06-24T20:19:00.000+02:00

TROLLS! THEY'RE ATTACKING!

2009-06-21T04:00:00.002+02:00

Source: YouTube

AKAI MPC

2009-06-10T00:23:00.004+02:00

In case you don't know what an MPC (a Drum Sampler, musical instrument) is please read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Production_Center

Remember, you have to open it up and then put the beat inside:

And if you're not satisfied with it you could try to trade it in:

Gotta love the internetts! All of them!

User Interface FAIL

2009-05-22T13:30:00.000+02:00

Wow ;)

Thank you for verifying, you are now unverified

2009-05-12T00:59:00.003+02:00

PayPal can do.

Obviously a display bug ;)

Amazon: SHOP FAIL

2009-04-21T21:43:00.000+02:00

YouTube button captions

2009-04-15T21:10:00.003+02:00

Thesaurus FAIL

2009-04-13T17:34:00.006+02:00

No, I didn't mean "onus" ffs...

"arise" neither...

Passpack EPIC FAIL

2009-04-12T21:44:00.005+02:00

If you ever wanted to give away all your sensitive passwords to some retarded site and make them available to spying eyes, hacking attempts, and 15-year old interns ... now here's your chance.

"helo u want haev all my passwords? lol"

Featured by NBC, PC Magazine, Chicago Tribune, lifehacker. Now you know what to avoid as well.

But, seriously...

Demo Scene AD FAIL

2009-04-12T21:37:00.000+02:00

WTF, really...

Source: BPTV

Time travel-safe DVD bag

2009-04-07T22:16:00.007+02:00

Proudly invented by Marty McFly while playing guitar in the past - naked.

Bright and early

2009-04-07T22:06:00.003+02:00

"It's an EYE OPENER!"

Probably because it's so bright.

Now Torrents FAIL

2009-04-03T13:00:00.003+02:00

While surfing the web this piece-of-junk site Now Torrents popped up.

Right after I wanted to shoot myself in the face.

Sadly there are so many sickos out there.

Source: Refusing to link to them.

Britney Spears for Candie's Ad - So Life-Like

2009-04-01T19:49:00.005+02:00

Some quotes from The Superficial:

"She looks so fat on tour. It is really amazing what photoshop, lighting, and makeup can do."

"What a joke - she looks like steamed shit in real life."

"How the hell did they hide that cluster of papule on the left chin...."

Source: The Superficial - Because You're Ugly

Necrovision License Fail

2009-03-22T23:37:00.006+01:00

Necrovision is a horrible, horrible 3rd person shooter in a similar setting as the upcoming Wolfenstein game, which is likely to be ruled out by this junk anyway.

Just like quite a few other games this game uses lots of wave sounds created (or at least saved) with an pirated copy of Sound Forge 4.5. Actually this one which is quite well known around the web and was cracked by a guy who goes by the handle of Deepz0ne, part of the former cracking group Radium. His idea was to take his name and use it as default value for the 'Engineer' field which - unless it is disabled or modified - is written to every single saved file as meta data. In case that you ever stumble upon .wav files with an "engineer" called 'Deepz0ne' you can safely assume that it was created with an illegal copy of SoundForge.

The Necrovision PC game itself comes with a big datafile called sounds.pak. Just fire it up in your favourite hex editor and have a look: It contains around 1629 .wav files. and 322 of them are branded 'Deepz0ne' ;-)

Well done 1C Publishing, or whoever is responsible for these 322 samples. Poor Sonic Foundry was bought by the rancid douchebags over at Sony just because of folks like you! Shame on you! Jesus hates you!

Okay, wait, all cynicism aside: You may wonder how many of your favorite games incorporate material created using illegal copies of various tools. And the best part about it: The developer's don't even know they're leaving fingerprints all over the place. It's like jerking off at the forensic's lab.

Target: http://www.necrovision-game.com/

Thank you, Germany

2009-03-21T22:51:00.006+01:00

Thank you. Thank you, for

Uwe Boll - ~~blockbuster~~ b-movie ~~director and producer~~ producing retarded c*beep*su*beep* dumbf*beep* a*beep*r*beep*
Thomas Gottschalk - ~~showmaster~~ cancerous ulcer
Ulli Lommel - ~~world-class~~ ~~director~~ unfortunate lowlife
Udo Kier - ~~award-winning actor~~ Germany's next porn star
Dieter Bohlen - ~~modern talker~~ small rotten animals live in his face folds
Ralf Möller - ~~blockbuster~~ wannabe ~~actor~~ Arnold
Til Schweiger - ~~great~~ awful actor (he could be good, but that's not gonna happen)
Daniel Küblböck - just GTFO

Thank you,
World.

Special Toilet

2009-03-19T19:08:00.001+01:00

I feel honored.

MySpace PERMAFAIL

2009-03-18T20:49:00.009+01:00

I've honestly never seen such a screwed up website like MySpace before. Actually, it must be the worst and - by far - least professional website in the vicinity of Betelgeuse and beyond. I always keep asking myself if it can get any more miserable. Yes, it can.

Have a look at the private messages they're sending out, this one coming from MySpace UK:

Who the hell designs these things? Metally retarded animals?

MySpace, please stop.

Please click here for more information about MySpace

Atomic Fail

2009-03-17T18:13:00.002+01:00

So, apparently this is a screenshot of some control system in the new ~~nucular~~ nuclear power plant in Bushehr, Iran. In case you can't read the error message, it says:

"Your software license has expired.

Please obtain a valid license."

I for one feel very optimistic about this project.

Source

Quake Live Stats Fail

2009-03-16T19:14:00.003+01:00

By now we know the dev's over at quakelive.com seem to have serious problems with basic math, especially related to statistics.

But have you ever wondered how many fingers they actually have on their hands? That's right, 15. Need be, for faster coding.

Hindi Profane Words

2009-03-14T23:25:00.008+01:00

Have you ever wanted to understand people swearing, cursing, cussing and insulting in the Hindi Language?

Here's your chance:

http://www.hindilearner.com/hindi_words_phrases/hindi_bad_words3.php

Wait-wait-wait, what't that doing here? Oh right: WIN!

You got Sift-rolled!

2009-03-13T01:10:00.009+01:00

I remember having a nice video of mine plus my account banned along with some harsh
comments, just because someone else added it to VideoSift pretty quickly after I had put
it on YouTube, thanks to some jerks part of the ~~lovely~~ ~~completely~~ mostly suck-axx
community over there. So that's how the Sift is intended to work? I don't think so.

Well... one word for you: Karma.

If you're one of the many VideoSift suckers: You got Sift-rolled! Now go whine in a corner.

If you're part of the nice half of VideoSift users: Sucks :(

But seriously now: start checking your backups dudes. That's not funny.

Welcome to Japan

2009-03-09T22:33:00.003+01:00

Found at: Good Smile Company

Fair Use

2009-03-09T21:41:00.000+01:00

Developers only: wchar_t EPIC FAIL

2009-03-07T19:02:00.020+01:00

Please skip this, unless you have a clue what wchar_t means.

"For most characters they were only wasting one byte (as opposed
to three bytes in UTF-32), but could still assume most characters
where just 16-bits (as opposed to UTF-8 which escaped anything
not ASCII). Life was good."

"Meanwhile, Unix vendors had decided that wasting one byte was
insufficient, and that wasting three bytes per character was
definitely the way to go."

Article is here: http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/07/28/wchar_t-unsafe-at-any-size/

Maybe it's time to stop smoking pot while setting up new standards

Eighties word processing

2009-03-04T20:59:00.002+01:00

No wonder, them files are ooold...

But no support for Word '76 :(

It's also called multi-lunching

2009-03-04T20:54:00.006+01:00

You can often lunch the program on the beginning of the work.

Why? Because variety frighten!

IMDb staff on their coffee break

2009-03-04T20:46:00.007+01:00

A pretty long coffee break...

I've contacted them several times about this. Still it took them more than a year to fix this broken macro ;-) ... FAIL? FAIL!

Source: www.imdb.com

It's hard to be cool...

2009-03-04T20:20:00.001+01:00

Especially when your name is Nvidia.

The fabric of every developer's dreams

2009-03-04T20:08:00.000+01:00

What a library name...

Source: www.openclit.com ... umm, no, wait ... that's not it ;-)

BCB Peek-A-Boo!

2009-03-02T00:31:00.001+01:00

We all know what happens if you let an infinite number of monkeys write stuff on an infinite number of typewriters... But what if you only use a few monkeys and let them write code instead? Well...

So, what is the best way to determine whether a header file belongs to a source file? Comparing filenames? Too obvious! Using the file explicitly named in the project file? Too reliable! No, let's rely on undocumented and arbitrary naming conventions of the #include guard!

Q&A: F.E.A.R. 2 PC vs. Console

2009-03-01T15:46:00.001+01:00

Worst publicity for software, ever

2009-02-25T14:36:00.000+01:00

I'm still lacking words on this one. It just hurts.

Source: I've taken this screenshot several years ago at the Winamp forums. And believe it or not, it's still there :)

Computer shootdown

2009-02-25T14:21:00.000+01:00

Read the dark gray quoted text first:

Don't try this at home...

Could you be more specific?

2009-02-25T14:16:00.000+01:00

Something's wrong, somewhere.

Source: NewsGrabber (Software discontinued, because an unnamed file contained an invalid path)

Vista's Awesome Disk Cache

2009-02-25T11:32:00.000+01:00

So, it looks like the code monkeys at Microsoft finally realized how to implement an efficient disk cache: Just fill up all the physical memory until everything else gets swapped to disk and the system grinds to a screeching halt.

Please let me know where to send my complimentary crate of ~~poisoned~~ delicious bananas.

Taking your instant noodle business into the 21st century...

2009-02-23T17:57:00.000+01:00

...is hard if you only make two cents per package.

No U! Adobe! Too many choices

2009-02-23T01:15:00.001+01:00

I really prefer third-party PDF reader like the FoxIt PDF Reader or even SumatraPDF to the slow-motion junk called Adobe Reader.

Here's what Adobe is thinking about that...

Tagline Fail - Addition

2009-02-18T00:42:00.001+01:00

In addition to my previous post ...

And I thought 3.4/10 on Space Buddies was low.... Disney has now officially hit the point of no return ;)

2.5/10 @ IMDb

Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014775/

Acknowledgement Fail

2009-02-18T00:12:00.000+01:00

Something different this time:

Gotta point out that lame commercial excuse of Visual Basic .net software at www.video-download-capture.com. It's using a version of ffmpeg (ffmpeg.exe, see www.ffmpeg.org) renamed to ApowersoftC.exe ('C' as in converter) without providing any kind of license.txt or even mentioning the respectable ffmpeg project anywhere.

Background: There's much of a chance that ffmpeg - with their crazy code monkeys - or likely ffdshow is also the driving force behind your daily video watching pleasure. And it's not right to just take, then rename it to make it look like part of the product, and build commercial junk around it without saying a word.

At the end of the day this is another epic FAIL.

Linux Users Fail

2009-02-13T02:59:00.000+01:00

"The Manpage Show, Your host: Ben Stein" lol

For those who don't have a clue: Manual pages are documentation pages for certain commands commonly used on Unix operating systems.

So this is how *nix users actually look like? Nah, that's how Ben Stein looks like ;)

This is how *nix users actually look like:

The one on the left... look. Maybe Stein didn't get it too wrong after all :)

More information: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Linux

Mark Gormley Brain Fail

2009-02-09T01:30:00.000+01:00

He apparently ~~does~~ did have a certain talent for songwriting (back in the 70s), but honestly now, this is sheer torment! At first you laugh your ass off, but by the fifth time watching this you might find your brain has already been damaged severely ;)

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87nkJquHnAU

More information: http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Mark_Gormley

The criminal behind the videos: http://www.philthomaskatt.com/

POWER STANCE!

Glad it is more developed

2009-02-09T00:10:00.000+01:00

Tagline Fail

2009-02-06T00:20:00.000+01:00

This is so unfunny is has to be mentioned: "One Small Step For Dog. One Giant Leap For Dogkind."

Disney has really sunk.... poor kids.

3.4/10 @ IMDb ;)

Source: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt1164647/

Envilopment

2009-02-05T18:41:00.001+01:00

Envilopment variables ftw!

Source: FAR Manager "F.Open" plugin

License Fail

2009-02-05T18:34:00.000+01:00

Aww, c'mon. I've just had my daily prayer ;)

Source: www.christondisk.com

Localization Fail

2009-02-05T18:26:00.000+01:00

Occured during the setup of a game called "American McGee's Alice".

When it asks the user to enter the serial number what it really says translates to something like "Please enter your product alignment". Finishing up with a checkbox that translates to "I'd like to American McGee register now!". Sometimes localization should be omitted ;)

Competence Fail

2009-02-05T18:01:00.000+01:00

Found on a German website providing web development services. The title bar would translate to something like "The comptens in web related topics". Glad Macrodedia doesn't have to see this.

Some more horrible German grammar. And I haven't seen this many typos at once in a while, honestly. Just hope these guys never get a job again, ever.

Source: www.jemesoft.de

Epic Setup Fail

2009-02-05T17:55:00.001+01:00

The "Kane & Lynch: Dead Men" game demo's setup massively failing:

Cute?

2009-02-05T17:44:00.000+01:00

Found in a MSI motherboard's user's manual.

Q&A: Borland products

2009-02-05T17:27:00.001+01:00

Ever wondered?

Target: www.borland.com

Humanity Fail

2009-02-05T17:10:00.000+01:00

Found on a disgusting german website going by the translated name of "kids need meat" that offers you to order animal parts online. For $2 the pig's brain is all yours. Or well, the pig's head? Or maybe both? Sure these can be combined somehow for funny games at work?

Disgusting source: www.kinder-brauchen-fleisch.de

Advertisement Fail

2009-02-05T17:00:00.001+01:00

Spotted at USB Geek, this buttplug-reminding capsule-shaped USB thumb drive is supposed to cause dowsiness and should at all costs be kept out of children!

Source: http://www.usbgeek.com/prod_detail.php?prod_id=0650

Comprehension Fail

2009-02-05T16:52:00.001+01:00

"Yes!"
"It means yes?"

Gigabyte Bios Language Fail

2009-02-05T16:48:00.000+01:00

It always recomened to support Both cases with up/down button!

Submitted by mizaru.