Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[Blinge]

No offense at all to our local members

Good luck with that. I'd call you a moron and take offense myself if not for the bystander effect.

Need I pull up examples of the amount of insufferable, braindead, circlejerking retards who post game related things on the internet, and are male? They probably outnumber the women still.

[Formless God]

No need. I never said males are not guilty of it.
But there's something especially obnoxious about the "hey guise i'm a femal gamer and i write about videa gaems!!1!" ones.

[Specineff]

People who ride the bus playing music on their cell phones and not wearing headphones, despite loud sound devices being forbidden by a local ordinance.

The lazy-ass drivers who don't tell them to turn their music off, or allow them to get on the bus while playing it.

"Friendly" hipsters who greet and offer a handshake to perfect strangers. While I appreciate the intention, I don't like the idea of shaking the same hand that's been collecting bacterial samples all day from who knows how many people. Keep the struggle to find social acceptance to yourself, you filthy peasant!

[Xyga]

Wholly irrational braindead female hipsters playing vidya gaems on their cellphones and not wearing buses.

[Satan]

Stefan Molyneux

[Satan]

After 2 yrs of meetings with a clinical psychologist I was diagnosed as not having Asperger's, I meet 2 of the 3 criteria - I'm 'adept' at employing and understanding non verbal communication, so I'm definitely not an Aspie. Illogical people drive me fucking mental to the point of insanity, but I had a threat assessment and I'm not a threat lol

[Mischief Maker]

Illogical people drive me fucking mental to the point of insanity, but I had a threat assessment and I'm not a threat lol

There's no such thing as illogical people -only missing variables in your assessment of their logic.

[Mischief Maker]

Firefox Hello.

[Obscura]

Boss double-KOs towards the end of a long action game

(The one that just happened to me was gravity core in Gunhound EX. Sooooo close to the 1CC, yet soooo far...)

[null1024]

Firefox Hello.

Speaking of FF, the new tab page with sponsored results is driving me nuts.
so I've taken to changing the new tab page on my FF installs [I don't know where it is in the settings window, but there's an about:config setting if you search for newtab]

Boss double-KOs towards the end of a long action game

(The one that just happened to me was gravity core in Gunhound EX. Sooooo close to the 1CC, yet soooo far...)

Speaking of that, there's nothing like getting double KO'd in a game with checkpoints.
at that point, I just drop the controller

[Mischief Maker]

Looks like the humble store has started listing steam games under the "DRM-free" filter, which defeats the point entirely. Guess it's back to waiting for games to come in a slow dribble from GOG.

BUH-BUH-BUT STEAM ISN"T REALLY DRM, IT HAS OFFLINE MODE AFTER YOUR INSTALL IS GIVEN ONLINE APPROVAL!

[MOSQUITO FIGHTER]

Getting bitched at for a hour and a half because I got up to get a glass of water when I was thirsty.

[cicada88]

Getting bitched at for a hour and a half because I got up to get a glass of water when I was thirsty.

zen temple?

[emphatic]

When you're in a major hurry to pick something up from the grocery store or post office before a certain time and you get from there from work super fast while nobody is around, only to get completely stuck behind some bell end who's literately dragging their feet because they have nowhere to be or nothing better to do.

[MOSQUITO FIGHTER]

Getting bitched at for a hour and a half because I got up to get a glass of water when I was thirsty.

zen temple?

Nope. Living with my Mom right now. Worst decision I've ever made. She didn't like when I got a glass of water it woke her up that night. Well, I didn't like being thirsty all night either. She expects me to never move or make a sound while she's sleeping. I'll go outside to smoke and she'll say she can hear the vacuum the door creates when it was opened. The she wants me to get in bed early every night but I work nights at my job, so I kind of need to stay up late to do my job. So much bullshit. I'm so sick of it. I've got one boss at work. I don't need or want another one at home.

[BPzeBanshee]

Shitty customers and shitty "leadership team" (management) co-workers that make you have to fight them both to get anything done. Yay, retail life. If I wanted to fight my own co-workers to get stuff done I'd go into politics.

[Xyga]

^ Most businesses are like that, and retail (esp online) is full of frauds and psychos more interested in fighting or wanking than making actual money.
Also cocaine.
I quit (the job, no I don't do coke lol) and am building my own little company now, even the hardships of going full solo will be nothing compared to the idea staying a member of the salary-untermensch crowd for even one more year in my life.
(No kids to feed though, so it was an easy choice)

[Ruldra]

Went to the mall this morning and checked out the arcades. Nowadays I get annoyed every time I visit one, the prices they charge for credits are absurd. R$3.80 for a single credit of pinball is absolutely insane. Unsurprisingly the place was completely deserted.

I got lucky however and spotted a 3-monitor Ferrari F355 Challenge cab with a free credit in it. Driving around Suzuka in that game is pretty fun. Too bad a single credit is R$4.00.

Arcades over here all use a credit card system. Swiping a card instead of inserting coins makes people less conscious about how much they're spending. But in any case, the only people who frequent arcades these days are kids who were left there by rich moms while they go shopping.

[Ed Oscuro]

I'm not sure if I should laugh or strangle - only my second copy of Ninja Blade has arrived, "new," and I guess it still qualifies as seal is intact.

The good news is that the seller just slapped a sticky shipping label bag across the front, and put a piece of brown tape along the back as well; beyond that, the box was flappin' in the breeze all the way from Sunny CA. And the guy still charged for shipping!

[null1024]

I got lucky however and spotted a 3-monitor Ferrari F355 Challenge cab with a free credit in it. Driving around Suzuka in that game is pretty fun. Too bad a single credit is R$4.00.

what the fuck
even if that's a driving cab, that shouldn't be that expensive [in US money, according to google, that's $1.41 at the moment]

although, I do remember similar shit being pulled off here around when I last really saw arcades commonly [IIRC, Time Crisis 4 had just come out, and some places had it for $1 or $1.50 a pop -- shit was fucking dumb]

When you're in a major hurry to pick something up from the grocery store or post office before a certain time and you get from there from work super fast while nobody is around, only to get completely stuck behind some bell end who's literately dragging their feet because they have nowhere to be or nothing better to do.

man, fuck this shit
got stuck behind this old lady today who was just barely hitting the speed limit in the fast lane, and there was a truck in the other lane [who was fine, wasn't really doing anything wrong]

you don't sit and clog the left lane old lady

[...]the seller just slapped a sticky shipping label bag across the front, and put a piece of brown tape along the back as well; beyond that, the box was flappin' in the breeze all the way from Sunny CA. And the guy still charged for shipping!

what the actual fuck
Who does this? I'm so confused at why anyone would do this.

[Rob]

Being commanded to ??? by idiot philosopher vandals. Anarchy, man! God, please close the military base and ship all of these kids back to Oklahoma.

[Bananamatic]

stop surviving
start scoring

[Rob]

Needs photoshop.

Surving must be left intact, however.

[JBC]

Gift shops masquerading as book stores.

Waste my time man.

[LordHypnos]

stop surviving
start scoring

Needs photoshop.

Surving must be left intact, however.

It's pretty bad, but here you go!

[Rob]

If only the vandals were so tasteful. ;]

[Ed Oscuro]

Ha ha, looked up some "anti Internet lawyering" about the free Photoshop CS2 release (which I don't think anybody should be getting at this point in time, but it was relevant a few years ago).

Lots of forum mods tried to go to bat for Adobe, like so:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/archive ... 16839.html

Unfortunately Adobe doesn't have a leg to stand on if they tried to bring legal action against somebody for downloading and using that software. I'm guessing the case would go something kind of like the failed prosecution for subverting encryption, when in fact all that had been done was find a password and type it in. If you don't take reasonable steps to secure your property, you really can't whine that it's been taken. Overall it was good for customers that Adobe took down the activation servers, but still shame on them for propagating a terrible legal myth. And shame on the "anti internet lawyers" like the forum mods above who think that people can't read simple legal contracts.

[MOSQUITO FIGHTER]

The DMV/CDL centers here make me want to slice my own fucking throat. Seriously, I've been there four fucking times today, waited in line for six hours all together, and haven't got anything accomplished that I went there to get done. All they want to do is give me the run around. Total bullshit. No one there has a clue about anything. Bunch of pricks.

[Lord Satori]

Awkward eye contact in waiting rooms.

[Mischief Maker]

Last night I see Age of Wonders 3 for $15 on the gog flash sale. I'm not sure if it's good, or it's one of those disappointing 3D sequels (turns out I was thinking of Disciples 3). I read the on-site reviews and they're nothing but flying spittle rage over supposed DRM. I do some more research and find that it's just a login to use their online servers for multiplayer. What's more the let's plays on youtube look really good.

I pop back to gog and the sale is over and now the game is frigging $45!

I swear, nobody writes more useless reviews than the users of gog.