Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[BareKnuckleRoo]

Playing a cave shmup on iPhone, only to miss the bomb button when you wanted to bomb. Fuck virtual buttons, why can't they map the buttons to override the volume buttons or something? :/

[ptoing]

I reckon that would be against Apple regulations and standards.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

Apple's a shit company for a variety of reasons, including their insanely locked-down hardware.

Why is port forwarding so difficult for people to figure out? There's literally hundreds of guides you can easily follow online unless you're totally computer illiterate, why can't anyone be bothered to figure it out and rely on others for hosting games?

[mastermx]

The fact that cave shmups on mobile devices have perfect touch controls yet lack any kind of support for bluetooth controllers.

[BitFaced]

The fact that cave shmups on mobile devices have perfect touch controls yet lack any kind of support for bluetooth controllers.

Including Cydia's Blutrol?

Geico's current painting ads are infinitely moronic and obnoxious. In fact, it makes me wonder if Americans ads are more annoying than ours.

[mastermx]

Including Cydia's Blutrol?

I've never tried it. But it seems to me to be unmappable. I'm on a rooted android phone, and I just couldn't figure out a way to get their apps to work with a controller. Sad really, because touch based 1:1 controls make their games way too easy.

[BrianC]

Geico's current painting ads are infinitely moronic and obnoxious. In fact, it makes me wonder if Americans ads are more annoying than ours.

At least their other more recent ads like the one with the M&M are better. It's frustrating how one of the worst car insurance companies has some of the best ads. esurance's newest ads about them taking only 7 minutes are pointless and annoying.

[null1024]

Geico's current painting ads are infinitely moronic and obnoxious. In fact, it makes me wonder if Americans ads are more annoying than ours.

At least their other more recent ads like the one with the M&M are better. It's frustrating how one of the worst car insurance companies has some of the best ads. esurance's newest ads about them taking only 7 minutes are pointless and annoying.

Man, I miss seeing the Erin ads. These "7 minute" ones are super-weak.

[Xyga]

Geico's current painting ads are infinitely moronic and obnoxious. In fact, it makes me wonder if Americans ads are more annoying than ours.

At least their other more recent ads like the one with the M&M are better. It's frustrating how one of the worst car insurance companies has some of the best ads. esurance's newest ads about them taking only 7 minutes are pointless and annoying.

I envy your local tv station commercials, those are almost inexistant in europe so the chances of seeing gold like Chuck Testa are zero.

[BulletMagnet]

At least their other more recent ads like the one with the M&M are better.

Pinocchio is a personal favorite.

It's frustrating how one of the worst car insurance companies has some of the best ads.

How do you think such subpar companies end up doing as well as they do?

[BitFaced]

Geico's current painting ads are infinitely moronic and obnoxious. In fact, it makes me wonder if Americans ads are more annoying than ours.

At least their other more recent ads like the one with the M&M are better.

Oh yeah, I came into that thinking it was just another M&Ms ad, but was pleasantly surprised.

[brentsg]

I was almost asleep and I heard a loud noise, like something fell.

I went downstairs to check it out and my dishwasher was on fire. Wtf! Smoke and flames were coming out of the control panel.

Got it put out by killing the electrical breaker but I'm guessing this is going to be a pain in the ass. I see there are class action suits vs Whirlpool in the US and Canada already.

[Ed Oscuro]

I was almost asleep and I heard a loud noise, like something fell.

I went downstairs to check it out and my dishwasher was on fire. Wtf!

Got it put out by killing the electrical breaker but I'm guessing this is going to be a pain in the ass. I see there are class action suits vs Whirlpool in the US and Canada already.

The dishwasher here (Kitchen Aid brand, but really a Whirlpool) has had all kinds of slowly developing panel light issues, and three of the six screw-mount posts for that panel have broken. Still works like a champ. Luck of the draw I guess. (Need to order a replacement panel sometime and put it in, then I can have fun looking at the stuff in the old panel / keep the parts in reserve.)

[trap15]

I went downstairs to check it out and my dishwasher was on fire. Wtf! Smoke and flames were coming out of the control panel.

Holy fuck

[brentsg]

I went downstairs to check it out and my dishwasher was on fire. Wtf! Smoke and flames were coming out of the control panel.

Holy fuck

Today's drama is around when you sleep shitty bc your dishwasher catches fire in the night.

[mastermx]

Little things that annoy me:

The fact that cave are not making shmups.

Autobomb in shmups

Games that don't reset score on continue

When pop gaming reviewers try and review a shmup

Games for Windows live...

When my dishwasher catches fire (my condolences dude)

[PAPER/ARTILLERY]

When I think I need a shit but have to give up after trying for a couple minutes. Then as soon as I leave the room it's on. Wtf bowels?

[null1024]

When I think I need a shit but have to give up after trying for a couple minutes. Then as soon as I leave the room it's on. Wtf bowels?

this

Well, not exactly this. Replace shit with piss and you're golden.
(any pun completely intentional)

[Specineff]

Doesn't irritate me that much, but I wish random strangers stopped sending me equally random, pointless videos on Youtube. They're not even loaded with spam links. Are they trying to bait me into starting a conversation with them and then show me whatever "dating" website they're peddling?

[NTSC-J]

Are there no Japanese nerdy message boards that are actually legible? Where are the avatars and quote functions and snarky gifs? Why are they all this eyesore 2ch junk?

[Mero]

^^^^^ For some reason Google Translate is refusing to translate 2ch for at the moment, which means I have to suffer the indignity of Logsoku.

*not that I spend more than a couple of minutes on it*

[Ed Oscuro]

When I think I need a shit but have to give up after trying for a couple minutes. Then as soon as I leave the room it's on. Wtf bowels?

careful with that, or your butt is going to look like your avatar

[trap15]

When you start to really love a game designer, then find out he's been dead for over 15 years It's so unfair... Stricken down in his prime I feel really sad about it for some reason. I wish I could find any info on how he died, it'd be nice to know if he went out peacefully Tsutomu Fujisawa, game designer for most of UPL's games.

Maybe this isn't so much "annoy the hell out of" as "makes me sad as fuck" though.

[PAPER/ARTILLERY]

careful with that, or your butt is going to look like your avatar

Haha! Thanks for your concern ed.

[moh]

people who post in the "awesome stuff you got" thread with just a picture and nothing else.. The thread is more about the accompanying comments, and discussion instead of just "I HAVE THIS ITEM NOW" posts .______.

[brentsg]

Tornado sirens an hour or two before sunrise suck.

[null1024]

Doors/stairs in RPGs where if you're holding the direction you entered in, you will go back out/down.

[Eno]

Doors/stairs in RPGs where if you're holding the direction you entered in, you will go back out/down.

When the devs deal with them by making your character stop completely after entering any door/staircase, forcing you to input the direction you want to go again, can be as annoying.
There are so many small and subtle things that can make you waste so much time -- or worse, turn your brain back on -- in jrpgs it's not even funny.

[Ed Oscuro]

Doors/stairs in RPGs where if you're holding the direction you entered in, you will go back out/down.

All stairs should point north, obviously.

I think the related problem in fixed-camera games is more of a problem because lol, you can die. Many of those games (Resident Evil, Onimusha) are pretty good about maintaining your character's world-space vector instead of changing it to screen-relative movement, but if you move the stick a little you can shoot off in an unintentional direction.

Actually, with a screen fade the instant-exit by holding a button down could maybe be beneficial if you wanted to toggle between two screens quickly in an RPG. But beyond that I don't imagine there's really any reason to get a lead thumb when changing areas...

[Ji-L87]

Amazon UK no longer offering free shipping for some European countries.

I really liked their free delivery service. Tracked, arrived within in a week with SMS notice.