The only reason I know about this is because I have a catchall email that receives all of the failure bouncebacks. The emails look to be randomly formulated with realistic names. So for example, I’ve seen Shannon1AA2637@fantikerz.com and Ariel90BEC5@fantikerz.com bounce back today.

Hopefully the spam will end soon and they’ll use someone else. I sure feel bad since there doesn’t seem to be anything I can do to stop it. SMTP headers are extremely easy to spoof for nefarious purposes. Always be weary when you notice an unusual email from a party trying to get you to do something.

This is me speaking as someone who played the Battlefield 3 alpha and beta trials, in addition to owning all of the previous Call of Duty games on the PC. This may read as a bit of a rant but I’ll try to stick to laying down the facts. I could go on for paragraphs, but let’s keep this brief.

• Price. I was able to get BF3 for $42 USD on Amazon (you can still get it for ~$50 USD), compared to $60 USD for MW3.
• Content. Battlefield will ship with more maps than MW3. Not tiny maps, mind you… MASSIVE, SPRAWLING landscapes.
• Destruction. Dynamic cover is something you come to appreciate, and the Call of Duty series is ignorant of this.
• Redundancy. Modern Warfare 3 is essentially the same game its predecessors have been. Watching gameplay shows a blatant disregard for innovation.
• Armour. Helicopters, jets, tanks, quads, humvees, light armour, and other vehicles add so much more fun to gameplay in Battlefield 3!
• Scale. Battlefield 3 runs up to 64 players while the “other” game is only balanced for 18.
• DLC. I was really irked that Activision continued to charge $15 for map DLC. If you decided to buy Black Ops plus all of its DLC, you would have spent $120. Not a great investment.
• Prestiging. I’ve never prestiged in Call of Duty and never considered it to be worthwhile action. Not only do the costs vastly outweigh the gains, but it’s an obvious attempt at player retention. They try to push you to keep playing (one more prestige, one more prestige, etc.).
• Community. From what I’ve experienced in both games, Battlefield has a much more… “mature” community. Guys that can actually make rational decisions regarding objectives… not to mention intelligent conversation. I’ve never met an unpleasant person in Bad Company 2 — can’t say the same for Modern Warfare 2. That game is saturated with mic-spamming tweens.
• Evolution. Correct me if I’m wrong, but MW3 is still using an older version of the IW engine that dates back a few years? Yeah, Frostbite 2 is leaps ahead.
• Team-play. Even though you can play as a lone wolf in BF3, you’re drastically stifled in your success. However, if you play in a squad and move as a team… you’ll get those “Battlefield moments”, where you become lucid to the fact that you and your friends are moving as one in synchrony. It’s hard to explain, but it definitely kills any monotony and gives you a bit of  a rush. Sounds silly but trust me.

To close, here are just two Battlefield 3 videos you should watch if you’re on the fence. This game is far superior to Modern Warfare 3. If you do happen to get BF3, let me know and we’ll drop in as a squad!

Launch Trailer

Mostly singleplayer stuff.

On the flipside, here’s the Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer trailer. To me, it just looks like they added new maps and a few of new perks/guns.

1. Morten Varano — Dead End Street (Trentemøller remix)

Gets interesting around 0:00.

2. Karuan — Chocolate Distance

Gets interesting around 1:18.

3. Ralph Myerz — Think Twice

Gets interesting around 0:48.

4. Gotan Project — Last Tango In Paris

Gets interesting around 0:00.

5. Dublex Inc. — The Game

Gets interesting around 0:00. Just disregard the picture…

1. Ellie Goulding — Under The Sheets (Jakwob remix)

Gets interesting around 0:27.

2. Jeuce — Kiss (Zeds Dead remix)

Gets interesting around 0:48.

3. Medina — You & I (Deadmau5 remix)

Gets interesting around 1:03.

4. Chase & Status — Time (Memro remix)

Gets interesting around 0:43.

5. Sunlounger — Lost (Aly & Fila remix)

Gets interesting around 2:04.

1. Cruising (Steve Murano club mix) — D&K

2. Morgan Page, Sultan + Ned Shepard, and BT — In the Air

3. Dash Berlin & Cerf/Mitiska/Jaren — Man On The Run

4. W&W — Three O’Clock (Marcus Maison & Will Dragen remix)

5. Alex Gopher — Handguns (Dada Life remix)

1. Dada Life — White Noise / Red Meat

2. M83 — We Own the Sky

3. Natalia Kills — Mirrors (Moto Blanco club mix)

4. Adam Lambert — If I Had You (Jason Nevins extended mix)

5. Rabbit Killer — 1000 Volts (original mix)

1. Beltek — Eclipse (vocal extended mix)

2. John O’Callaghan — Find Yourself

3. Kaskade — Eyes (extended mix)

4. Armand Van Helden — I Want Your Soul (Fake Blood remix)

5. Röyksopp — The Girl And The Robot

1. tyDi — Acting Crazy

2. Adam Lambert — Whataya Want From Me (Jason Nevins Electrotek radio edit)

3. Dead Wasps — Don’t You Know (Keemerah remix)

4. Ercola — Every Word (Wendel Kos radio edit)

5. Netsky — Smile

1. 1Pl0xNot cute.
2. 2I Can Has?Moronic and ruined.
3. 3Wat/WutTry sounding it out. Sounds stupid.
4. 4YWhy is a fucking three letter word.
5. 5LolOverused and means nothing now.
6. 6any1It takes one second to type one.
7. 7kkThe extra k is SUPERFLUOUS.
8. 8n00bIt’s a sad insult.
9. 9pwnNo.
10. 10uYou is another three letter word.

Kate Havnevik — Travel in Time

Midival Punditz - Chandini Chowk

DJ Shadow — Midnight In A Perfect World

DJ Hooligan — Hear You Now (Grand Chillas mix)

BT — Dreaming (Lucid’s 12″ club mix)

Kaskade — 4 AM (Adam K & Soha intro edit)

Morgan Page — Under (Morgan Page remix)

Kirsty Hawkshaw & Tenishia — Falling (original mix)

Zero 7 — Destiny

Groove Armada — At The River

Harley “Ability44″ Dishon seemed like a decent fellow human. He was introduced to me via a mutual friend quite a while ago and was in the market for some web development work. While he didn’t quite have a clear cut goal yet, he was willing to pay, and truthfully that was all that mattered since we could hammer out the details as we went on. Web development is my gig after all. It’s what pays the bills.

I tend to run an informal operation. Minimal contracts, work by the hour, and just that sort of jive. In addition I try to be as fair and personable as possible. Hosting client sites for free, offering access to select source files, etc. The nice guy.

Well, shame on me for assuming people wouldn’t take advantage of that. Let me explain.

The Project

Harley was looking to create [yet another] RuneScape fansite, this one entitled MyRuneLog. “One that would be different,” he explained. It would have such things as voice chats, Jagex-sponsored contests, and a boatload of other crazy things. Some of these things, I responded, were damn near impossible and incredibly impracticable.  So some of the ideas were shelved, but many remained on the to-do list. We had no choice but to oblige.

We went with it though. By “we”, I mean Josh Welham and I. It should be about time to introduce him into the story, I suppose. Josh specializes in back-end code, and was brought in once the project began to creep beyond my scope of expertise. He’s pretty brilliant at PHP, putting most of my stuff to shame. Anyway, he would handle that stuff while I would work on the front-end and design aspects of the MyRuneLog project. We had a pretty good gig going.

A lot of work had to be done. Databases needed to be constructed, core scaffolding laid out, and other fairly intensive stuff. This wasn’t your typical blog or personal website. This would be best described as a mega-site  with large amounts of data being added/moved around constantly by multiple parties. Josh’s brainchild really — he built it pretty much from the group up. It ended up being pretty impressive from a developer’s POV. If you’d like an idea of what I’m talking about, take a look at Zybez, who would have been the competition.

The Downturn

Up until March, 2011, nothing seemed askew. Harley was paying his invoices on time and work was continuing as expected. Then he began to lag behind. He cited job/moving problems, which I believe[d], and would have a hard time making payments. To “work with him”, I set up a monthly payment plan: $75/mo (and later bi-montly) and our services would continue as usual. Damn cheap if you ask me — most cable/phone plans are that price. Honestly, any other firm would just drop the client outright at that point. We wanted to work with him though since we knew no one else would be able to carry out “his dream” besides us. And yes, he did say that MyRuneLog was his dream — more than once.

This would have been his final invoice (his total debt was more)

The monthly payment plan worked… for about a month. Then he began lagging even further behind, until it was finally four months later and he was ~$3,000 in the hole. We were done. He continued to cite problems with jobs but it was time to call him out on the utter B.S.

Confrontation

Josh and I spoke to each other and agreed that he was never going to pay at this rate. What we decided to do was offer him a reprieve. A chance to wipe his debts clean.

We offered to take ownership of the site (which we had forged ourselves), taking in 100% of the ad revenue, while he remained on as a full administrator and taking in 75% of other revenue streams. Donations, shirts, and other merch would be his money makers really.

This was a great deal for him. His several thousand dollar debt to us would be gone for good and he would still be able to be a major part of his “dream”. Not to mention the money he would be making from other avenues. And this would be a good deal for us as our hard work would not go unrequited and we would be able to continue working on something that we had an actual, palpable investment in.

It was a good solution. Everyone would walk away happy, we imagined. There was some negotiating that went on as he considered it, but that ended up being pointless. Harley chose to go against us without our knowledge and essentially stab us in the back. No payment, no deal, no respect.

Today

Harley, with his pal “l2rushnub”, believes he can run off with our out-of-date source code and resume work on the site. The source code in question is many months out of date and pretty much worthless considering how much improvement the current revisions have made. But it’s still our source code that he didn’t pay for. Theft.

But good luck to them. I think Harley will get his “dream”, although likely sub-par and with much more backstabbing to go. I just hope “l2rushnub” isn’t being offered payment, because he damn well won’t be getting it.

Harley is a selfish cheat. From the beginning he was always concerned with having his name, Ability44, attached to the site (despite everyone else in his community doing the work, might I add). He wanted people to know that he was the great creator. That he was the wise entrepreneur. That he was the site. In reality he’s a self-absorbed, self-entitled kid that believes he can get everything by cheating his way through life. My interpretation of the human condition has deteriorated because of him. For fuck’s sake, this narcissist has “Ability44” tattooed on himself.

I truly hope his friends and family see what he is and respond as such — don’t let him take advantage of you. We bent over backwards to help him and were stabbed in the back.

He screwed over Josh and I — not to mention several others (for example, Robert, if you knew him).

Why I Wrote This

I’d like for this to serve as a warning. Always have a damn contract. Never go beyond project scope. And for the love of god, never let the project get any further if the client isn’t paying.

Don’t let people take advantage of you, even if you do end up looking like the bad guy as a result. People like this deserve to be shut out. He ended up wasting 9 months of our time.

More specifically, I want this to be a warning for people researching Harley Dishon. When people Google his name (friends, prospective employers), they should be aware of his extreme lack of respect and morals. At the time of writing he lives in Virginia, although I won’t share his specific address publicly. More detailed information is a few keystrokes away, is all I’ll say.

Records

I’m just going to include some text conversations between myself and Harley. Some of our correspondence was via Skype calls, so I don’t have records of those. These are un-edited, although you’ll just have to take my word on that — sorry.

They’re in chronological order and have some interesting tidbits of information.

Chat logs.

The Rebuttal

Harley has created a topic on his forum in response to this blog post. You can read it here in case he removes it. Anyway I’ll be going line by line and dissecting each of his points since there’s just so much logical ineptitude to go at it all at once. Plus I’m not really in the mood for writing. Here goes:

In the last few days I have found out that what I have paid for hours of work on is not even coming back to me in full blast… Not many of yall know but I have put out $1.2k so far for this site to be developed, and was being asked for 3,000(USD) more,

No, you paid ~1.3k of a ~3k TOTAL debt (combined between Josh and I). We never asked for 3k more. You only owe[d] ~1.7k.

on a project that I was told would only take 60 hours (Which is reasonable for that amount of work) but turned into 210 hours total…

I’m not sure where you got that 60 hour figure. I know I initially quoted you for ~100 (but let’s not let turn this into he said, he said), which I also added was a rough estimate since you weren’t exactly sure what you were after with the whole project to begin with. In fact it wasn’t a bad guess considering the initial project scope. Your constant requests for additions and lack of foresight was the reason why that number increased. You could have halted the project at any time. In fact, I urged you to multiple times (see it in this screenshot) when I noticed that you were lagging behind in payments. You replied by saying you’d have our payment ready soon, every single time, and asked us to continue working. Being the nice guys we are, we obliged. And it’s not like you had no idea how much work was being done — you had easy access to all of our timesheets (detailing work being done, times, and total invoice amounts) on Freshbooks. Stop trying to shift the blame on us.

I have just recently cut ties with the web developers which I have been paying to work on this site, for 9 months now.

Haha, no. You haven’t been paying for nine months. Your last payment was in early June and it’s now late August. The project officially began in December of 2010. Even in May you were straggling behind in payments. See this screenshot.

And have also been informed that the full site cost for development is around $600 tops. (This has been assessed by 2 web developing companies already) So put simply I was took for a scam.

I’d really like to ask these “developing companies” what exactly they’d be charging $600 for. A Joomla set up with a slightly customized Theme Forest design? I don’t want to list everything, but here are condensed examples of what Josh and I ended up doing for Harley, which truthfully is worth much more than $3k considering how much he would have made from the site over time:

1. Forum skins that were custom-made (IP.B 3.1.x and another for 3.2.x)
2. Unique design and codebase created (with revisions) custom for MyRuneLog
3. Custom-made, RuneScape tailored CMS
4. Kind implementation of your [sometimes awry] ideas
5. Everlasting support and continued development, even after your payment hiatuses
6. Deep forum integration beyond just user basic profiles

As all of you might of noticed In recent days… MyRuneLog has came back online, today an attack from a fake anonymous member was executed (no ones passwords were compromised). We would just like to say we have nothing against government or any sort we are minding our own business and would please advise the hackers to stop. We are a rs fan site and that is all we plan to be.

Well that’s just kind of funny — sorry. Nothing more to add from me.

A very unprofessional post was made by one of the developers you can find that here.

There’s so much wrong with that statement but I’ll just mention two things:

1. This is my personal blog. Not a professional site. I post musings and rants here, not love sonnets or creative writing projects. Chris Coyier has the same approach to his personal site. If something irks me, I’ll share it.
2. We stopped being professional when you stopped taking us seriously. Although not directly related, you are one of the most unprofessional people I’ve ever worked with. Your grammar is terrible and you lack any sort of serious finesse (read the chat logs for a sample). You don’t get to call other people unprofessional.

Thanks for the traffic though!

It goes into his full side of things but mostly slanderous things to me of course.…

Well I’m definitely not going to praise your magnificence, am I? And do you even understand what slander is? I didn’t misrepresent you beyond reasonable interpretation nor make up facts. None of what I said is misleading and is apparent to anyone willing to investigate your character.

Don’t even got a good pic of my Tat.. I mean.. Wtf? lol Here’s a good picture of it though ;p

I apologize about that tattoo — finding an embellishing picture of something so sad wasn’t exactly important to me. I don’t even know why it is to you.

Also on the blog entry he decides to put out personal conversations (Which is invasion of privacy, considering he did not alert me that chats would be publicly shared) between the both of us, mostly they are one sided of course.

Hardly invasion of privacy. If you’re referring to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act — that only applies when messages are in transit. After they’ve been received it’s unrestricted. We don’t have a confidentiality agreement preventing me from posting logs. I didn’t hack into your computer and take the chat logs either. Those were between us and did not need to remain mutually exclusive. I would be okay with you sharing your chat logs between us, as well.

In addition, posting the chat logs is just one of the many forms of proof I have to support my/our claims. You, if I recall correctly, have nothing but your word.

With all of that being said and out of the way we are under new development by a combined power of l2rushnub and myself and the site should be up within the next couple weeks (yea… 9 months compaired to a couple weeks, hope yall are happy about that!) I mean… In 2 days me and l2rushnub were able to get these new forums with the skin up and running… So we will take much less time on a better outcome.

So let me get this straight…

1. Install IP.B -> 10 minutes
2. Install forum skin and change the logo -> 5 minutes
3. Create crappy splash screen in Photoshop -> 20 minutes
4. Creating an expansive, responsive, integrated, custom CMS for a specific niche website -> two weeks? give or take a few months maybe.
5. ??? -> PROFIT

I don’t even know how setting up the forum took two full days. At that rate it’s going to be a year until you have any sort of palpable website.

Thank you everyone who has read this topic and I hope you understand what is going on.
– Harley

Best of luck to you.

Closing Thoughts

In my conversations with Harley I had to use a lot of analogies to explain things to him since he often did not understand. One of those was saying we’re kind of like a phone company — “you continue to pay us or we’ll terminate your services”. He likes picking apart my analogies, and this particular one (which remember, was made up on the spot) he LOVES to destroy. He explains that a telephone bill is “prorated”, which to him is a magic bullet — effectively making all of my previous statements invalid. Prorated essentially means means adjusted proportionately — which we admittedly do not do. However that’s hardly detrimental - I’m sure he understood what I meant. Picking apart my analogies doesn’t immediately nullify our facts nor make everything here invalid — you screwed us over. Plain and simple.

Also, regarding our hourly payment plan. I overheard another person calling that a “bad business practice”. Not at all if you consider some things specific to this project:

• Harley was very unsure as to what he wanted for the site to begin with (he had no proposal/plan in place at all)
• He wanted to start ASAP
• By charging hourly, we would be able to add things as we went along. If we had a fixed amount (50% up front, 50% after for example), then we would need to re-draw that contract and agree on a new fixed price every time he wanted something else
• No other firms he consulted would take his project for a price he liked

By charging hourly we not only were able to sustain continued development, but also build the site just as Harley wished with minimal issue. I’ve done fixed price work before and honestly it just puts everyone in sub-optimal situation, unless the site is something simple and straightforward like a blog. For something as expansive as MRL though — hourly was the way to go.

About not getting what he paid for. Absolutely false. Josh sent over all of the modules, databases, and core files that he paid for (28 hours worth, to be exact). As for me — he already has everything. He admitted to having the source code from when the site was hosted on the GoDaddy server (see chat logs), which includes more up-to-date source material than what he would receive from me. Those files are roughly dated to June, while I stopped receiving payment in May. Truthfully I had completed most of the work by then anyway (I do front-end and design work, so that stuff came first).

Regarding legal action: we did have a verbal agreement, which is still legally binding (but admittedly not as solid as a contract). All we would need to do is prove that he was going along with our agreement, which would be incredibly easy with our backlog of invoices and other records. I’ll be consulting some professionals in the coming days, but at this time seek no litigation unless provoked. More specific records (invoices for example) are being withheld as a precaution.

I can be a vindictive ass, I know, but we don’t want to ruin this guy’s life. Let’s let sleeping dogs lie now, eh?

This has been something I’ve been passively working on for a long time and it’s great to finally have it ready to show off. Technically this is version 2, but I went though about 5 design comps before I was happy. I wanted to keep it clean and professional basically. The back-end is my own, and while it’s not the next WordPress, it should be much easier for me to do things like update projects.

It’s quite heavy in HTML5 and CSS3 stuff, so I may need to still hammer out some kinks in inferior browsers. You know the ones.

Anyway, check it out and let me know what you think!

Edit: Turns out the site works fabulously in IE7, 8, and 9! I love it when that happens!

Things I hate

• Memory usage is high compared to Steam. As soon as I started Origin, it shot up to over 120,000K (in iTunes/Dreamweaver territory) while Steam remained at a modest 50,000K despite being running for several days already.
• EXTREME lack of customization. You can’t even hide the friends pane on the right — which is absolutely useless since none of my friends would ever in their right minds install Origin. They’re already on Steam, where you can do all you’d like to customize the app via skins and whatnot.
• I can’t upload avatars. I don’t know if this is a technical limitation or just censorship. Not a fan either way.
• Terrible interaction in the store. There are no hover or focus events on things like links and images that NEED to give the user feedback when they do said actions. There’s also no loading indicator, so you need to wait for the page you clicked on to load before you have any sort of indication your click did indeed do something.
• Referring to games as “products”. Yes, they are indeed products, but it kind of makes you wonder if EA believes each game they release is a wonderful masterpiece or just another row in a spreadsheet. I don’t think the word product is even uttered at Valve.
• Mediocre selection. It will never be able to compete with Steam on this front. As far as I can tell, Origin only carries EA titles. None of those lovable indie gems like Audiosurf or DEFCON are to be seen. Origin is inferior to Steam for just this alone.

Things I don’t hate

• The interface is in one window. That’s kind of nice. But then again, there isn’t much to interface with. The store, games panel, and friends list. That’s it. Except they don’t let you hide the friends list. Dammit.
• The default [unchangeable] design is okay, albeit clunky in some places.

I basically see Origin as a bastardization of everything Valve has accomplished with Steam. It looks like they spent a lot of time looking at Steam and Games for Windows Live and just put a lot of effort into wrapping up those experiences in a different package without spending the time to polish out the details or innovate.

Origin doesn’t even need to exist. Steam is fulfilling the market’s needs quite well. All competition will do is make Steam look even better to gamers. Oh, and yes, I am quite aware Steam was just as bad when it was in its infancy, so I’m willing to give Origin another go in the future. But I doubt it will get better in the next year or two though… if it’s still around.

Here are ten songs that WINNERS listen to. Enjoy!

Tiësto & Mark Knight - Beautiful World

When you want to KICK THE WORLD’S ASS.

DJ Fresh - Hypercaine

FREAK OUT and SCARE EVERYONE ELSE AROUND YOU.

Elvis Presley - A Little Less Conversation (JXL Remix)

Get in on SOME ACTION.

Wolfgang Gartner - Illmerica

Don’t like something? DOMINATE IT AND CHANGE IT.

Fatboy Slim - Wonderful Night

Enjoy the world for what it is AND THEN MAKE IT YOURS.

DJ Deekline & Ed Solo - Handz Up (Stanton Warriors Remix)

REPRESENT NO ONE BUT YOURSELF.

Parov Stelar — Catgroove

CLASS it UP and MAKE EVERYONE ELSE KNOW YOU MEAN BUSINESS.

Flanders - Behind (Callea Radio Mix)

LEAVE EVERYONE ELSE that drags you down BEHIND.

The One AM Radio - Everything Falls Apart

HOLD ON and SUCCEED in EVERYTHING YOU START.

Just a fun list. I’ll try and rationalize each purchase just so I don’t buy every game I see in the lust that always seems to ensue from a Steam sale.

Purchased (descending by most recent):

• Frozen Synapse: Soundtrack Edition [2 pack] ($15 — saved $15): I watched this video, and it pretty much sold me. My kind of game!
• Mount and Blade: Warband ($7.50 — saved $22.50): Everyone says this is a must-buy because of the improved graphics and gameplay over the previous installation.
  
• Dragon Age: Origins — Ultimate Edition ($10 — saved $20): I loved Mass Effect and these Bioware guys pretty much have morality based RPG pegged.
• Arma II: Combined Operations ($22.50 — saved $22.50): A simulator approach to the FPS genre. I think it’ll be interesting.
• The Polynomial ($3.40 — saved $6.60): Interesting concept for a music game, a genre that I love. Plus it’s SteamPlay so I can throw it on the Mac! Yay!
• Assassin’s Creed II — Deluxe Edition ($6.80 — saved $13.20): I’ll be playing this after I finish the first Assassin’s Creed.
• Bioshock 2 ($5 — saved $15): Again, I’ll be playing this after I finish the first installment.
• Team Fortress Classic ($1.20 — saved $3.80): This completes my collection of Valve-made games! Yay!
• All of the Magicka DLC ($6 — saved about $19): I’ve only played the game with friends once or twice, but they were fun times regardless. Sure I’ll throw the indie devs a few bucks. Why not!
• The Final Hours of Portal 2 ($1.30 — saved $0.70): An amazingly in-depth look into Valve. I highly recommend it if you liked Portal 2 and enjoy good journalism.
• Medal of Honor ($10.20 — saved $19.80): I was mostly interested in the Battlefield 3 beta key, but the singleplayer campaign looks like it would be fun as well!
• Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West ($1.50 — saved $8.50): Not a huge fan on wild west games/movies. I suppose I purchased this one just because it was so damn cheap. Steam wins again.
• BIT.TRIP.RUNNER ($2.50 — saved $7.50): Already have BIT.TRIP.BEAT, so I thought I’d get the sister game.
• Test Drive Unlimited 2 ($10 — saved $10): Looks like everything I’ve always wanted from a GTA/Gran Turismo crossover game. I haven’t really been satisfied by any racing games thus far so this should be a treat.

Bonus free DLC (descending by most recent):

• Portal 2 goggles
• Team Fortress 2 shades

This lady has some serious talent. As said by @Cutter631, her voice couples so well with dubstep it’s unbelievable. Behold some of the best Ellie Goulding remixes I could find on Soundcloud. Make sure you’re using decent speakers!

1. Ellie Goulding — Under The Sheets (Chiddy Bang Remix) by Mr Sauce

2. Ellie Goulding Lights (Bassnectar Remix) by Bassnectar

3. Ellie Goulding — Under The Sheets (KIDS AT THE BAR Remix) by Kids At The Bar

4. Ellie Goulding — Lights (The SoniXx Dubstep Remix) by The SoniXx

5. Ellie Goulding — Lights (Shook Remix) by Shook (Official)

6. Ellie Goulding — Lights (Dave Edwards Remix) Radio Edit by Dave Edwards

7. Ellie Goulding — Lights (Deletah Remix) by Deletah

• Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Lost interest in the campaign but have had a blast in multiplayer. — 4/5
• Minecraft: Insanely fun. Anyone who has yet to buy it is seriously missing out. I play other games and always end up on Minecraft by the end of the evening. — 6/5
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2: Fun campaign, but the multiplayer (the main reason for buying) is more or less broken on the PC. — 1/5
• Dawn of Discovery: Very entertaining game and more complex than it lets on at first, leaving you constantly revising your strategies. — 5/5
• Fallout: New Vegas: Somewhat lost interest halfway through. Very fun action, but long travel times and a harsh landscape make me loathe progressing into the game any further. Did not experience any serious bugs. — 3/5
• Call of Duty: Black Ops: Really came through in places that MW2 lacked, namely PC support. Fun campaign but lost interest in multiplayer quickly. — 3/5
• Just Cause 2: Stupid fun gameplay, but the missions are repetitive, so I mainly spent time exploring the incredible island. — 4/5
• Killing Floor: Really fun with a group of dependable friends, otherwise it’s a frustrating blood bath. — 4/5
• Left 4 Dead 2: I was expecting so much more, but even with the weekly mutations, the re-playability just isn’t there for me. — 2/5
• Poker Night at the Inventory: Enjoyable dialog while playing classic Texas Hold Em. Only $5. — 4/5
• Borderlands: The art style never really did it for me, and the gameplay felt more like a grind than an adventure. — 2/5
• Civilization V: Was really hyped up for this to come out, and became bored with it within a month. Really should have some other people to play with otherwise this game isn’t as enjoyable. — 3/5
• Tropico 3: More fun than you’d expect. Being an island dictator has never been so fun! — 4/5
• Team Fortress 2: It’s TF2, stupid. — 5/5
• Supreme Commander 2: Only got it because it was on sale. Never made it past the tutorial. — n/a

My Steam profile.

The blurry photos! They do it no justice!