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People who bitch and moan about christmas commercialism.
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I just give a few Steam games (mostly wishlist stuff and shmups, of course) as gifts and be on my way. If people want to send me stuff, that's great! If not, oh well. I don't expect people to buy things for me anyway.

I had a hot pot with my friends last night and the time spent dining with them--especially since three of those friends live an hour away and two of those particular friends don't drive and therefore have limited means of transit--is pretty much a gift in and of itself. Quality time with those I care about > material gifts.
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gs68 wrote: I had a hot pot with my friends last night and the time spent dining with them--especially since three of those friends live an hour away and two of those particular friends don't drive and therefore have limited means of transit--is pretty much a gift in and of itself. Quality time with those I care about > material gifts.
Amen to that mate, having a good time with friends is why I insist on birthdays/christmas not to buy me anything but actually hang out with me for a bit.

Besides, my taste for stuff I buy is too expensive for most of my mates. If they want to give me a present so badly just give me money and let me do the shopping.
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Some kid on reddit posted a picture of his scratched LE 3DS, and this was the reply...

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Just remembered I had a dream I found a Darius Burst cabinet in my city. Life is awful.
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I have that dream every night.
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It's too bad you couldn't have had the presence of mind to hold onto that machine and keep it in your grasp until you awoke. That would've made it real.

Then again, you would've woken up crushed under an arcade machine so... well, it might've been worth it.
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Ack, any time I dream of having something I want and then waking up and realizing that I don't have it [especially if I somehow purchased it in the dream, instead of just outright having it throughout the dream] is the worst. It's usually a better PC or something that runs <insert game that doesn't run well on any of my current machines> at full speed. :lol: Or futuristic tech, like a hovercar.


also, not having dreams most days is even more disappointing
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null1024 wrote:Ack, any time I dream of having something I want and then waking up and realizing that I don't have it is the worst
I had a dream that I went on a vacation with all of my friends from back home and here all around the world and had the greatest time of all time, then I woke up and was like :cry:

I had another dream that same night about having something I really wanted as well, but I can't remember what it was anymore. That was a bad night :cry:
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I fucking hate it when I dream about having a good time because I always wake up sad. It's like my brain is rubbing in the fact that I'm nearly a hikkikomori (sp?) in my face.
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WHEN YOUR POWER GOES OUT WHILE YOU'RE ASLEEP AND THEN IT COMES BACK ON AND YOUR SECURITY SYSTEM STARTS SCREAMING AT YOU FOR A FEW SECONDS, LEAVING YOU PARALYZED WITH FEAR IN YOUR BED FOR AN HOUR, THEN YOU GO DRIVE AROUND FOR ANOTHER HOUR TO TRY TO SHAKE IT OFF, THEN YOU COME HOME AND THE POWER KEEPS FLICKING ON AND OFF.

I need to move :evil:
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Annotations, underlining and markers in books. But annotations and translations in special. I know it's pretty common and for a reason, but it just throws me off completely.
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People saying my favorite games are weak. It breaks my heart
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The hiccups. The FUCKING hiccups.

They come out of nowhere, and last seemingly as long as they want, and when they finally end you're afraid of laughing at anything or even of walking because that might start them up again. I wish I could make myself immune to hiccups.
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Whenever I have hiccups I go eat and drink something. By the time I'm finished, they're gone.

Don't know if this works for everyone, but it does for me at least.
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Edmond Dantes wrote:The hiccups. The FUCKING hiccups.

They come out of nowhere, and last seemingly as long as they want, and when they finally end you're afraid of laughing at anything or even of walking because that might start them up again. I wish I could make myself immune to hiccups.
Apply some skin numbing/analgesic cream into your ear and you should get rid of your hiccups right away.
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Leandro wrote:People saying my favorite games are weak. It breaks my heart
Meh, I'm used to my favorite games also being poorly received. I just ignore it.

On another note, car alarms. Do they actually reduce car theft? Maybe it may draw the owner's attention, but bystanders may simply ignore the car alarm whether an actual theft is going on or not.

Also, car alarms are usually activated with remote devices. Dropped the remote somewhere? Pray whoever dropped it isn't a thief, because while stabbing random car keyholes with a found key will very much look suspicious, a thief with a remote can simply press the remote's unlock button while the remote is in their pocket until they notice a car responding to it.

It's for this reason that I just use my physical, non-wireless key to lock and unlock my car. (Okay, so the other reason is I lost the remote.)
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There was a time when car alarms did reduce theft [that is, around when they were first introduced]. As time went on, more people got them, more false alarms went off, and now no one bats an eye since the expected case is that it's a false alarm.
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null1024 wrote:There was a time when car alarms did reduce theft [that is, around when they were first introduced]. As time went on, more people got them, more false alarms went off, and now no one bats an eye since the expected case is that it's a false alarm.
And by extension, idiots who trip the fire alarm doors 'for convenience'.
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Wait, people do that? What the hell?
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By convenience, I mean in the same sense that they're effectively crying wolf just to get past a door with a fire trip alarm when opened, just to go in between floors when making mail deliveries.
Full of shit, yeah?

Edit: And it happens at least once a week close to where I work.
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Waking up on your sleep-in/hangover-lazy morning to the sound of leaves blowing via internal combustion engine. Fucking Hell. I can now empathize with the WWZ Canadian cannibals.
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SNK being used as an acronym for Shingeki no Kyojin / Attack on Titan rather than Shin Nihon Kikaku.

I don't even play SNK fighting games (or FGs at all), yet this is going to bother me to no end. Honestly why not just use AoT since it's far less ambiguous?
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gs68 wrote: I don't even play SNK fighting games (or FGs at all), yet this is going to bother me to no end. Honestly why not just use AoT since it's far less ambiguous?
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gs68 wrote:SNK being used as an acronym for Shingeki no Kyojin / Attack on Titan rather than Shin Nihon Kikaku.

I don't even play SNK fighting games (or FGs at all), yet this is going to bother me to no end. Honestly why not just use AoT since it's far less ambiguous?
I do play SNK fighting games! This shit's annoying.
[and even worse is how my friends play SNK fighters and still abbreviate Attack on Titan as SNK, bastards]
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