Little things that annoy the hell out of you

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I fawkin' hate Tumblr and sites where you just share a bunch of pictures with no context. I mainly hate it because it's just a dilettante repository for flyby "tee-hee, look at this!" with zero identification whatsoever. Occasionally I'll run across something neat through Google and whoever posted it has no information at all on what they posted, maybe just a tag like #horror, #comics, #followme4fuck, etc. Then you reverse google search it and it's just a bunch more shit-eaters sharing the same post! I want to know what this goddamn monster is from so I can journey forth into new discoveries, not some quickie bullshit!
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Wait I thought tumblr removed porn?
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Nah, no porn there as far as I'm aware, just lots of fuckery.
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Hate when my PC starts to update Windows exactly when I least need it :( also hate that modern apps don't use the advantages of biometrics security. To my mind that is insane. Here is a great article on Recfaces about the level of security biometrics provides.
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I hate it whenever Windows does Automatic Maintenance whenever I'm in the middle of doing something. Just now I've had my laptop lock-up while I was downloading something because of it. Just one of the many things that I despise about Windows versions newer than 7.
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Save menus that don't let you copy or delete individual slots.
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I cant stand how sensationalized and strip mined bullet hell is as a term. Everyone just throws it onto any game that has 5 incoming hurt boxes in a radial pattern on screen at once.

Or in some cases it's a derogatory term for segments that do more than a player is willing to endure and learn. I can't really articulate why it bothers me. It just does.
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Oh I agree, the lack of specificity in reviews is maddening.

I blame "Bullet Hell" for being too cool sounding of a term. If "Curtain fire" was the dominant term instead this problem wouldn't exist.
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Unsolicited advice from people who think they're helping but are actually just annoying and patronizing
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This.
This annoys me.
Highly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwdWDgOTYgM
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https://youtu.be/OwdWDgOTYgM?t=14 Bro, no texting while driving.

This doesn't really surprise me anymore. Last time I checked, mobile gaming has gotten bigger than consoles and PC combined, and half the people on the planet own a smartphone. And on top of that, it's gotten even harder to actually buy a console or gaming PC .. or even the parts for one. lol
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Avast trying to push their Avast One (Took a cue from Microsoft prior console, guys?) solution and making the classic antivirus hard to find on their website.

Also, fuck that WipEout for mobile.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik_kk9fyXnw

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Bought a game on Steam I'd seen listed as DRM-free...only to discover after the fact that a version update from 2 or 3 weeks ago had scuttled that (I've heard of devs removing DRM after a game's been out for awhile, but not adding it in after the fact...lucky me). Just for the heck of it I started tooling around with ways of "down-dating" the game so I could make a backup of the older version, which I'd never done before...only to discover, when the final step failed to work, that an update to Steam itself barely a week ago also scuttled that. Not terribly eager to dig any deeper or get into any dicier territory, assuming I could even keep up with my limited technical savvy.
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Stick to GOG if you want guaranteed DRM free. The small number of games on GOG with some sort of online requirement tend to get review bombed to hell, so it's pretty easy to see which ones to avoid.

Or you could just use an open source Steam emulator.
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Sometimes GOG people are fucking insane and have a hair-trigger with the review-bombing campaigns.

WH40K Battlesector linked to a boilerplate disclosure about the telemetry data all Unity engine games collect, including an option to opt-out, and they still went into a spittle-flying frenzy.
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Yeah, I tend to grab stuff from DRM-free storefronts if I have the choice, but lots of noteworthy titles (including the game from my previous post) are Steam-only...of course, some of those are DRM-free, and I definitely like to support devs who put stuff on there without DRM (which is part of why I bought the thing here), but it's enough of a pain finding out which specific games fit the bill (certain developers/publishers are weirdly inconsistent on this front, and almost never announce it one way or the other), let alone attempting to keep track of the ones that change their minds somewhere along the way.
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BulletMagnet wrote:Yeah, I tend to grab stuff from DRM-free storefronts if I have the choice, but lots of noteworthy titles (including the game from my previous post) are Steam-only...of course, some of those are DRM-free, and I definitely like to support devs who put stuff on there without DRM (which is part of why I bought the thing here), but it's enough of a pain finding out which specific games fit the bill (certain developers/publishers are weirdly inconsistent on this front, and almost never announce it one way or the other), let alone attempting to keep track of the ones that change their minds somewhere along the way.
This is not comprehensive, but it's a good start.
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That's actually the list where I had seen said game, but unfortunately didn't think to check if it was still there before pulling the trigger. Lesson learned, I suppose.
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Seeing people casually mocking phpBB forums for being old and then comparing them to completely unrelated instant gratification style chat alternatives as if they were the way of the future. Discord is not a replacement for a web forum. Its search functionality is horrendous (and channels can apparently disable searching for messages from specific users), and the conversations simply aren't laid out in a way that makes it easy to refer to them in the future for information, as they are with per-topic forum threads.
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Discord is just an even more fractured, and privately owned IRC. It's also hell of a lot more convenient than IRC though.
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Pretty much. Its voice chat functionality is handy for gaming with friends too, but otherwise it's still an instant messenger service, so I don't get why it's sometimes talked about as if it were a replacement for forums.
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I've complained about Discord elsewhere, but my whole beef with it is that you often end up with the inconvenience of oldschool IRC warez channels, except somehow for content that is entirely aboveground and can have a real website, a github page, a dedicated forum, a wiki, etc, etc.
Nothing gets me quite as annoyed as having to ping a Discord bot to download something like the bad old days of DCC, or needing to ping a bot to get documentation on something.
There's also a terrible amount of information that remains eternally locked away in chatlogs that really should just get collated into a webpage, and won't, and you'll get told to read the logs.

I can see why IRC got left behind in favor of Discord -- inline images, voice chat, a standardized account system instead of a dozen variations on NickServ/ChanServ, being able to view past messages without just idling in the channel forever/hoping someone kept logs, it's all quite modern and convenient.
However, I absolutely cannot understand why people try to replace things that aren't instant messaging or chatroom based with it. It's fucking baffling.

Speaking of forums, it feels kinda depressing that this is the last phpBB style forum I go to anymore. Everyone else died.
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null1024 wrote:Speaking of forums, it feels kinda depressing that this is the last phpBB style forum I go to anymore. Everyone else died.
I was a bit surprised since you have Rolling Start linked in your quote and I know it's a neat genre specific forum. Hadn't visited it in a while, and now I see it was a neat forum...
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Yeah. I hadn't visited in a while and I haven't updated my signature in a bit. RIP.
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I write and publish (scientific) papers for a living, so I need to deal with publishers and copy-editors a lot.
Copy-editors are of course under pressure to perform better & faster all the time, so the new trend is to create "busy work" for them and the authors alike.
Hey, if they don't work 40(+) hours per week, their jobs may be at risk!

As an author, I usually format papers as per instructions, so I know what I am doing.
Nevertheless, in the last 18 months or so I have spent quite a bit of time to write comments such as "the paper was properly formatted when I sent it; can you just follow the original submission?".
Among other things, if personal details are not properly printed (i.e. my name is miss-spelt, my affiliation is wrong, etc.), my uni will not count the publication as meeting my quota.

It would not be so horrible if copy-editors and publishers wouldn't target week-ends and public holidays to ask me to do this job (with deadlines right after the holidays).
Can't you people just chill and go back to an healthy life-work balance, pleasethankyouverymuch?

...please expect another rant when this Christmas I will have to proof-read something, as always.
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It really irritates me whenever someone on YouTube destroys perfectly good working CRT TVs for any reason. It's bad enough some people are dumb enough to be scalping them now, but destroying them for the sake of views will only make them harder to come by. For example, some YouTuber by the name of shango066 makes "EOL" videos where he destroys old CRT TVs (especially modern "black plastic crap" sets) and it isn't like he only destroys TVs that are junk, I saw videos where he destroyed TVs that were advanced enough to have S-Video and (on a couple occasions) even Component inputs. I know he also makes videos where he restores older sets (particularly from the 1940s-1980s), but no gamer would ever use something like a 1960s TV because those only have RF antenna terminal inputs and they can't be modded for Composite or RGB because they don't either have advanced enough circuitry or are hot chassis. I am so glad I unsubbed from this nutjob.
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KPackratt2k wrote:It's bad enough some people are dumb enough to be scalping them now.
Bruhhhhh. Not everyone is a retro gamer, lol. And even most retro gamers don't want 99% of old ass CRTs. The only thing douchey is if that dude isn't properly recycling that shit.
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On a related note, my old-ass CRT has crapped out, leaving me with the tasks of hauling it to recycling and (if I care enough) finding a replacement.
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Game developers who release patches with file sizes as big as the entire game.
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