Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[trap15]

Typical eBay

[neorichieb1971]

How expedia flight costs go up about £300 overnight. If the seats are available why charge more?

Its like ebay in a sense. So if I pay £700 instead of yesterdays £465 do I get to throw the guy out of the plane lol.

[Ed Oscuro]

So if I pay £700 instead of yesterdays £465 do I get to throw the guy out of the plane lol.

I don't understand you. Are you saying that airlines often get you to pay twice? I wouldn't be surprised.

[njiska]

There's little in my life that is more annoying or stressful than the process of removing a sticker from a piece of cardboard, jacket artwork or game manual. Doubly so when it's a shitty EB sticker with an adhesive that seems to form a chemical bond with the strength required to secure concrete to a bridge. And I'm doing this without the aid of a heat gun. Nightmare.

[mesh control]

People who ask why I am reading.

[brokenhalo]

People who ask why I am reading.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvs2g5Nj0NI

[Aguraki]

games for windows live and any online needed connection to play.

[mesh control]

People who ask why I am reading.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvs2g5Nj0NI

Funny enough, Bill Hicks' voice plays in the back of my head after they say it.

[njiska]

So my nice and relatively expensive blu-ray copy of Lawrence of Arabia arrived today. Popped it in my PS3 so I could listen to the Overture and was great with not one, not two, not three, but FOUR anti-piracy cards. I don't have a problem with the standard English and French warning cards that have been around forever, but I really need to addition ones informing me that piracy is not a victimless crime and that it's a major federal offense in the United States. If anything this shit encourages piracy.

[njiska]

Tried playing some Virtua Cop 2 on my Saturn. Turns out my light gun is off by an inch right and an inch down. I hate when that happens.

[SuperGrafx]

Tried playing some Virtua Cop 2 on my Saturn. Turns out my light gun is off by an inch right and an inch down. I hate when that happens.

I hate when that happens on an actual arcade unit.
I usually just walk away whenever these instances occur. No sense wasting time on a defective game.

[njiska]

I wouldn't even mind if it was just a little off, but 1" in two directions on a 36" display that the gun is about 3 feet away from is a really, really bad margin of error.

[mesh control]

I cannot find a picture of Issac Newton in bodybuilder form

[moh]

I cannot find a picture of Issac Newton in bodybuilder form

fuck isaac newton.

max planck is a fuckin pimp.

[neorichieb1971]

Galaxy S3 and Iphone owners who think the most interesting conversation anywhere or anytime is about the phones capabilities and apps. With them waving that shit in your face for 20 mins at a time. I hate these phones now.

I get the impression if these people are not plugged in they can't breathe. Its not a phone its a life support machine.

Personally I'd rather stay out of that game altogether. I thought about an ipad for home. But thats the thing, there is nothing online that can't wait until I get home. The next time some git is reading their phone like a zombie through the road, I'll run them over and shout out the window "how do you like that app you fucking moron".


Please tell me if you have these phones you at least find the appropriate times to use them, and on top of that don't hinder people who have £10 flip phones who don't really give a shit about phone app progress. Its really annoying.

[moh]

Galaxy S3 and Iphone owners who think the most interesting conversation anywhere or anytime is about the phones capabilities and apps. With them waving that shit in your face for 20 mins at a time. I hate these phones now.

I get the impression if these people are not plugged in they can't breathe. Its not a phone its a life support machine.

Personally I'd rather stay out of that game altogether. I thought about an ipad for home. But thats the thing, there is nothing online that can't wait until I get home. The next time some git is reading their phone like a zombie through the road, I'll run them over and shout out the window "how do you like that app you fucking moron".


Please tell me if you have these phones you at least find the appropriate times to use them, and on top of that don't hinder people who have £10 flip phones who don't really give a shit about phone app progress. Its really annoying.

I love every word you just spoke.

[Ed Oscuro]

The next time some git is reading their phone like a zombie through the road, I'll run them over and shout out the window "how do you like that app you fucking moron".

If you make that as a road rage driving game for handsets, it'll displace the zombie road rage driving games no problem.

[mesh control]

I cannot find a picture of Issac Newton in bodybuilder form

fuck isaac newton.

max planck is a fuckin pimp.

WOAH WOAH WOAH

[Ed Oscuro]

Max Planck may be a pimp but the pimps report to Newton. Don't mess with that dude, he will gut you for counterfeiting, needlessly proliferating mere hypotheses, being a bully, or claiming to have independently invented calculus. Aspie with an attitude. (I mean that most reverently and scientifically.)

[moh]

Isaac newton can suck it.

I am failing my vector calculus class BECAUSE HE HAD TO INVENT THAT SHIT >_>


...then again, if he hadn't invented calculus, shmups forum wouldnt even exist D:

[gct]

Galaxy S3 and Iphone owners who think the most interesting conversation anywhere or anytime is about the phones capabilities and apps. With them waving that shit in your face for 20 mins at a time. I hate these phones now.

I get the impression if these people are not plugged in they can't breathe. Its not a phone its a life support machine.

Personally I'd rather stay out of that game altogether. I thought about an ipad for home. But thats the thing, there is nothing online that can't wait until I get home. The next time some git is reading their phone like a zombie through the road, I'll run them over and shout out the window "how do you like that app you fucking moron".


Please tell me if you have these phones you at least find the appropriate times to use them, and on top of that don't hinder people who have £10 flip phones who don't really give a shit about phone app progress. Its really annoying.

I love every word you just spoke.

Here's something you will love. The Phone Stacking Game

[mesh control]

Isaac newton can suck it.

I am failing my vector calculus class BECAUSE HE HAD TO INVENT THAT SHIT >_>


...then again, if he hadn't invented calculus, shmups forum wouldnt even exist D:

Try harder

[mesh control]

Jk

My education begins in January and I have to grind my way through tons of math to catch up.

[moh]

Isaac newton can suck it.

I am failing my vector calculus class BECAUSE HE HAD TO INVENT THAT SHIT >_>


...then again, if he hadn't invented calculus, shmups forum wouldnt even exist D:

Try harder

[mesh control]

I'll be there in a few years! !

[drauch]

Just drop out while you still can!

Just stalk the shmups forum 24/7. I've never been happier.

[moh]

Well, I respect anyone who pursues a post-secondary education.

Let me know if you have any trouble along the way, I'd be more than happy to help.

[Ed Oscuro]

going to Retrogaming Roundtable, let's see some old faces

immediately am greeted by this

then open another thread and somebody suggests recording sound from youtube videos by getting it out of the sound card and then buying a daisy chain of headphone adapters and shit

dear god

next time you think about mouthing off about shmups forum, go open some random retrogaming roundtable thread

[BIL]

That's awesome.

[Ed Oscuro]

I like how the maker (from this thread) is SO FUCKING PROUD of his ugly spaghetti monster of a logic board. I guess that only reinforces my choice of metaphors for dead shaken babies.

I like this Adventurer guy's post - well, his second one:

In a dark grim future people will be forced to sacrifice copies of Final Fantasy III and Super Metroid to get repos of Madden '95.