Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[BrianC]

Are there any brands of GOOD replacement controllers for the classic consoles that don't have garbage D-Pads and buttons?

I read somewhere that the hyperkin one for the Genesis is decent, but in general, I heard the aftermarket pads aren't great. I did find some back in the day third party controllers like some of the Ascii SNES pads (as far as I know, the SNES one is very similar to the JP FC controller and feels very close to the original pad), SG Pro Pad 6, and that Champ 100 Genesis pad to be pretty good. As strange as it sounds, I actually recommend some of the older third party controllers over most of the after market ones (I have a couple after market SNES pads and they are terrible).

[soprano1]

Ignorant morons who still think my fucking country is a province of Spain. It's fucking 2015, google that shit.
Also morons who then proceed to ask "oh, but you were part of them in the middle ages, right?". No, it wasn't the fucking middle ages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Dynasty
Jesus, i feel the Dutch when some call their country Holland.

[Mischief Maker]

Besides the fact that 99% of Let's Plays are by people who can't even play, why must they always have one of 3 voices:

1. Breathy nasaly lisp

2. Wacky radio voice

3. Nigh-unintelligible Scottish accent.

[mamboFoxtrot]

You forgot the 4th voice: "*KSSHT-VVTSSHGG-FFT!!*"
a.k.a. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE GET A REAL MICROPHONE

[Lord Satori]

I think the worst of them all is the "Let's Listen" trend. Just post the effin soundtrack. You aren't going to get more views/subscriptions because you post it under the guise of a series of some kind.

[mamboFoxtrot]

I'm just glad they don't try to commentate over the music. I mean, try to imagine that for a moment...
*shudder*

[Xyga]

And what about those guys who don't speak, but their videos start with 5 minutes showing you the game boot screens and character stats one-by-one before getting to the subject described in the video's title ?

[Blinge]

Bullet points in microsoft word.

[Pretas]

And what about those guys who don't speak, but their videos start with 5 minutes showing you the game boot screens and character stats one-by-one before getting to the subject described in the video's title ?

Worst of all is people who tack the same obnoxious 3-minute channel intro onto every one of their videos, which is always made of random footage of unrelated games smashed together.

Even James Rolfe is kinda guilty of this.

[drauch]

James Rolfe is guilty of a lot of things...

[S_Fang]

I hate when the videos has crappy audio's balance between multiple sources, like those LP videos with low in-game audio and really high players' audio. I almost became deaf for the loudness trying to hear the game.

The asinine thing to let a customer to choose between a delivery with tracking or not: unless there are really big disparity between the prices or the time of delivery, is the equivalent of purchasing a handwatch with or without hour hand, you do not pull that trick, you bastard.
It happened when I ordered from a japan import site an choosing unregistered airmail, with the results of not knowing if it arrived or not after 30 days compared to the 5-10 of the planned delivery time.
Is also a thing when the same site doesn't recognize the building number on the adress and the postal services (especially the italian ones with their bermuda's triangles called storages) does not advise you even if they should have the invoice with the number on it.
Really, screw them.

I really really loathe those people that mistake certain stypes of interaction for something erotic and let the creation of slash fiction, falsly advertising that thing.
Without being too generic, with comics like Hetalia and their male cast everyone thinks that is a boy's love thing rather than a humorus historical comic about WW2 and is annoying. Another example is, when I want to find some cute fan-art about a group or a couple of characters from a series I like, I always get images with erotic undertones (or tones) in it and is very jarring and annoying, especially if you know the interactions and their nature.
Unless there's something of sexual on purpose between friends or siblings, did they know that "bromance" and "sibling love" means affection and nothing more? Especially the fujoshis, incest fans and their weird fantasies.

I. AM. FED!

[emphatic]

Yeah, I wouldn't upload a video to YouTube with unbalanced audio levels, as it would piss me off and shame on everyone who does it.

[Blinge]

Hm.. I've got some RPG Gameplay and commentary I'll be uploading soon. ^ Now I'm really paranoid about getting the audio balance right.
It's a dialogue heavy game but the way I'm playing; what I'm trying to achieve is quite unrelated to what the NPCs are saying, so I've had to quieten the game audio significantly. It's either that or not be able to hear mine of my friend's commentary, as it'd be a garbled mess of three voices.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

There's a wonderfully simple solution that allows you to add extremely detailed commentary, and without getting in the way at all of the music or sound in the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTn_Z94HL5o

[trap15]

But reading sucks

[BPzeBanshee]

Going on from this:

Without being too generic, with comics like Hetalia and their male cast

Not being able to tell the gender of the characters in the anime I watch. Seriously the last time I bothered to read/watch anything related to Hetalia I thought they were all girls.

Also, since I've probably just stepped on their toes and know what's coming, social justice warriors with flamethrowers of 'compassion'.

[Specineff]

Afroamericans who are racist as hell.

[Pretas]

Afroamericans who are racist as hell.

If you ever plan on voicing this annoyance elsewhere, you should be prepared to eloquently respond to the canned "racism is prejudice plus privilege and black people are oppressed, so blacks can't be racist" response.

[Ed Oscuro]

There's a wonderfully simple solution that allows you to add extremely detailed commentary, and without getting in the way at all of the music or sound in the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTn_Z94HL5o

My (rather slight) beef with this is that most people seem to just clutter it up with useless crap, like "next video here" or "other video I talked about there." It also is a minor annoyance to think that some good videos, which were later bugfixed with updated annotations, might be propagated later without the annotations (off the top of my head, EEVBlog's Dave does this frequently with his own videos). It is a shame that there isn't a universal standard for annotations, like there is in *.srt files for subtitles.

I also think that YouTube used to have a button to toggle annotations right on the video player UI, and now you have to click into the (poorly designed) settings menu to get at it. Maybe for the best if it prevents people from shotgun destroying carefully designed annotations, but then again we are back to the problem of people abusing that system to throw junk all over the screen.

Overall it's a great solution, just not adequately developed.

social justice warriors with flamethrowers of 'compassion'.

Ha ha, very eloquently put.

[Blinge]

There's a wonderfully simple solution that allows you to add extremely detailed commentary, and without getting in the way at all of the music or sound in the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTn_Z94HL5o

I appreciate the suggestion roo, but there's two of us providing commentary. I don't think two separate annotation tracks would work, especially as the game's dialogue is subtitled too.

[BPzeBanshee]

Ha ha, very eloquently put.

Unfortunately I can't take credit for it - I pinched it from Cards Against Humanity. It really does put the hammer on the nail though: once the sjws come in on ANY remotely controversial topic nobody wants to touch the subject lest they get burnt. Flamethrowers of 'compassion' and liquid flaming shit grenades of 'equality'.

[Lord Satori]

Me, myself, and I.

[cicada88]

Afroamericans who are racist as hell.

Honestly, unless you are black yourself, this qualification is a bit suspect in and of itself.

[S_Fang]

Not being able to tell the gender of the characters in the anime I watch. Seriously the last time I bothered to read/watch anything related to Hetalia I thought they were all girls.

I got the same issue when I watched Magi, like is really difficult to tell which is which in both sex and apparence, creating a lot of confusions.

And yes, Youtube's subtitles are anything but great, especially if you want to do some cool stuff with programs like AegisSub. For a period I make italians' subtitles for a bunch of Retsupurae's videos and I had to upload the video with the subs in order to make the thing works.
I'm glad that one of them (Diabetus, I think) let the okay on this initiative.

[emphatic]

^^Why, can't African American individuals truly believe that all Chinese born men have small penises?

[mamboFoxtrot]

Re: YT annotations. They also have the additional problem that you can only see them when watching on a PC. Mobile, Smart TV, game console, etc YT apps won't display them.


Also, I don't know how, but I've managed to get to a point where I can reliably guess the gender of most anime characters -- even the bishies. What bugs me is that there's all these girly men, but never a manly girl! It's like, once a girl grows taller than 5'2 she's immediately a D cup or larger, and masculine facial features are out of the question as not even 90% of the guy characters have those any more.

[KAI]

MAME History

Radirgy (c) 2005 MileStone.
A cartoon style shoot'em up.

Radirgy Noa (c) 2009 MileStone.
A cartoon style shoot'em up.

Illvelo (c) 2008 MileStone.
A cartoon style shoot'em up.

[null1024]

Not being able to tell the gender of the characters in the anime I watch.

Man, I used to pride myself on being able to tell the difference.
but nowadays, I'm missing as much as I'm hitting

[Blinge]

My gf and I have disagreed about this:



Guy or girl?

[trap15]

Definitely a guy.