Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[Krooze L-Roy]

Getting worse at shmups as I improve and gain confidence. Like, trying to squeeze through small gaps even though there's no benefit in doing so (other than sheer exuberance), and dying horribly as a reslut.

[Lord Satori]

So I'm playing the new Final Fantasy XIII game and am at the part where you have to find the number code in Luxerion. Apparently the last one is in the Warren, which is LOCKED! How the FUCK am I supposed to get in there?!

[Eno]

Getting worse at shmups as I improve and gain confidence. Like, trying to squeeze through small gaps even though there's no benefit in doing so (other than sheer exuberance), and dying horribly as a reslut.

Dejavu so much. Seems like every advance I make in a game is counterbalanced by making the sloppiest overconfidence/distraction mistakes on parts I thought I already dominated.

[Softdrink 117]

My computer monitor just died. So I just went through the fun process of buying a replacement after trying to figure out if the old one was still in repairbale shape. $$$ I did not want to spend right now, but oh well, shit happens I guess.

It't just really surprising how much of an inconvenience that ended up being.

Also, I can't connect to IRC today for reasons I don't even begin to understand, which is really fucking annoying.

[Ed Oscuro]

Silicon, or silicone? Bonus aggravation from not knowing of any situation where it makes a practical difference (i.e., the correct usage is obvious from the context).

[BitFaced]

Silicon, or silicone? Bonus aggravation from not knowing of any situation where it makes a practical difference (i.e., the correct usage is obvious from the context).

Someone's acting awfully aluminium.

[nasty_wolverine]

dying horribly as a reslut.

Reslut: when dying as a slut isn't enough.

[RegalSin]

When people start making threads about non-heterosexual activities, on a forum with people who wants to talk about shooters, fiction, and all things cool.

When people start abusing the word "mid-life" crisis, or the word "old" when they want you to consume things that you usually do not want to. Try to heard you like a blasted sheep into doing rubbish.

SELF PROCLAIMED ---- Civil Rights activist ( neo-Feminist-nazi, Womanists, non-heterosexuals, non-heterosexuals who are supremacists, ) lie, cheat, and steal like in order to cripple society as a whole, not caring about tradition or respecting the nature of society. Creating equality is one thing but when you affect a persons privacy, or right to be left alone, you also declaring war on them.

[PAPER/ARTILLERY]

What are you on about you weapon?

[trap15]

When people start making threads about non-heterosexual activities, on a forum with people who wants to talk about shooters, fiction, and all things cool.

When people start abusing the word "mid-life" crisis, or the word "old" when they want you to consume things that you usually do not want to. Try to heard you like a blasted sheep into doing rubbish.

SELF PROCLAIMED ---- Civil Rights activist ( neo-Feminist-nazi, Womanists, non-heterosexuals, non-heterosexuals who are supremacists, ) lie, cheat, and steal like in order to cripple society as a whole, not caring about tradition or respecting the nature of society. Creating equality is one thing but when you affect a persons privacy, or right to be left alone, you also declaring war on them.

Dude, I hope you're playing up an act. That's fucked.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

My turn.

[Literally everything RegalSin has ever written and will ever write.]

[drauch]

Try to heard you like a blasted sheep into doing rubbish.

Yes.

[TransatlanticFoe]

Using the wrong aspect ratio.

Not just when archive footage in news reports gets stretched to 16:9 despite being 4:3, but when people don't know how to work their TV and watch old TV programmes stretched to 16:9. Urgh.

[trap15]

Ooh, how about this one:

16:9 television. 16:9 source image. Broadcast over 4:3 signal with letterboxing. Stretched to 16:9.

I've seen this in nearly every restaurant I've been to here. It drives me absolutely bonkers.

[BrianC]

Using the wrong aspect ratio.

Not just when archive footage in news reports gets stretched to 16:9 despite being 4:3, but when people don't know how to work their TV and watch old TV programmes stretched to 16:9. Urgh.

It's just as annoying for games too, especially compilations that can't be set up to the correct ratio at all. The Toomanygames convention was disappointing is this regard. Most of the classic systems were on HD TVs and some weren't even set to the correct aspect ratio. At least there was that one booth there that had a NES multigame setup on an SD TV with a nice selection of games, including Tengen Tetris and the infamous Bubble Bobble Part 2.

[TransatlanticFoe]

I've only ever seen that with people who've been stumped by a 4:3 letterbox DVD, rather than anamorphic widescreen (as they are, perhaps understandably, used to). I have a few and praise my TV's zoom function as a result. Seriously, why are there DVDs like that?

Are people not bothered by heads being wider than they are high or something??

Using the wrong aspect ratio.

Not just when archive footage in news reports gets stretched to 16:9 despite being 4:3, but when people don't know how to work their TV and watch old TV programmes stretched to 16:9. Urgh.

It's just as annoying for games too, especially compilations that can't be set up to the correct ratio at all. The Toomanygames convention was disappointing is this regard. Most of the classic systems were on HD TVs and some weren't even set to the correct aspect ratio. At least there was that one booth there that had a NES multigame setup on an SD TV with a nice selection of games, including Tengen Tetris and the infamous Bubble Bobble Part 2.

Wait, a convention did that? Woah. That's the sort of thing I expect from the average person who finds a SNES in their attic and vaguely remembers how to work it.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

The worst is ports of older games that don't have proper aspect ratio settings. I've played a few different 360 ports that have messed this up. The Gunstar Heroes port has no "lock aspect ratio" or "zoom %" options, so you can't see what percentage you've zoomed in the screen, and you have to adjust the horizontal and vertical stretch separately, you can't increment them both by the same amount except via guesswork (it also removed the ability to use continues in co-op by taking half the other player's health, which ruined it for introducing it to newer players because I'd always be alive and having to suicide so they can rejoin, fucking stupid).

[BrianC]

The worst is ports of older games that don't have proper aspect ratio settings. I've played a few different 360 ports that have messed this up. The Gunstar Heroes port has no "lock aspect ratio" or "zoom %" options, so you can't see what percentage you've zoomed in the screen, and you have to adjust the horizontal and vertical stretch separately, you can't increment them both by the same amount except via guesswork (it also removed the ability to use continues in co-op by taking half the other player's health, which ruined it for introducing it to newer players because I'd always be alive and having to suicide so they can rejoin, fucking stupid).

I heard it has bad input lag, as well. I like the Wii VC one, though it lacks online. Now that I have the cart, I hardly use the VC one. I might use it when someone comes over for convenience, but I rather play it on the HDG Genesis.

Wait, a convention did that? Woah. That's the sort of thing I expect from the average person who finds a SNES in their attic and vaguely remembers how to work it.

Toomanygames is the name of the convention. It's in Oaks, PA. It's not bad, but it hasn't been well organized. It also had a bunch of arcade games together with half on free play and half not. Another problem is that the games area had mostly common games (NES set up with Dr. Mario or SMB2 US, for example). There was a Dreamcast set up there with a badly scratched THPS2 that kept freezing.

[emphatic]

Re: Aspect ratio in games, Guwange for 360 pre patch + Deathsmiles2 comes to mind. Playing a 4:3 game displayed with borders inside a 16:9 window that is displayed on a 4:3 screen letterboxed. ugh.

[Captain]

You are a small group of people (or anything), the enemy waits for a weakness and picks you off one by one strategically, only you remain, and then they just gangrape you due to their superior numbers.

The general concept of this situation occurring in vidyo games can annoy you to smithereens, be it any game.

[gs68]

Gradius Collection's aspect ratio and size options bug me.

Gradius I: Original resolution / pillarboxed / stretched
Gradius II: Original / pillarbox / stretch
Gradius III: Original / pillarbox / stretch
Gradius Gaiden: Original / stretch. No pillarbox option. So much for playing my favorite game in the series.
Gradius IV: Pillarbox / stretch

Radiant Silvergun on XBLA is also pretty dumb, as not only do non-widescreen users get punished with a very small screen (good luck playing on a CRT), but, to my knowledge, there hasn't even been a patch for it. I don't care about the extra bloom or other minor visual issues, I just want to play the game at a reasonable window size.

[BitFaced]

What about forcing games from the PS2/NGC era (earlier through emulation) into widescreen with patches and Swiss? They sometimes give off crazy artefacts.

[cj iwakura]

Speaking of Youtube, I feel dirty now.

Thanks to their "recommended for you" thing, I found out that Nostalgia Critic had done a review of... Sailor Moon. Oh fucking God. My first instinct was "don't watch it, don't even give it the time of day, because you know Nostalgia Critic is an annoying, ignorant hack." But I just had to know, and I watched it.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go wipe the filfth off... then prepare a response video, because I can't let this travesty stand.

Yeah, that was how I felt. I wouldn't bother with a response video, though. It's obvious to anyone that he had no clue what he was talking about.


I hate uploading videos from The Silver Case OST and finding related videos to fricking Minecraft and Flappy Birds. Like I give a crap.

[BitFaced]

Finding a GACHA toy machine with cooler toys in the display area that aren't being sold, like with Animal Crossing and Crash toys.

[trap15]

UEFI

[KAI]

The local fighting games community. Too retarded to be real.

[PAPER/ARTILLERY]

The local fighting games community. Too retarded to be real.

Go on, I need to know what's so retarded.

[Ed Oscuro]

Faucet handle stems that aren't marked...yes, I will be putting the famous Super Lube to use again, if only I can find out what stem to use (hope to find a ceramic valve cartridge replacement, probably will have to settle with another plastic direct replacement). Can't forget to look at the seat and spring too.

[null1024]

Sidewalks in disrepair. Happily moving along, enjoying the fine weather, and then ran over a rather large gap that I didn't notice [about the size and depth of my hand]. Got launched forward and said goodbye to my front teeth!

luckily, we live in the future where you can get that shit fixed easily -- have a dental appointment tomorrow
But it's still annoying. I look like I lost a fight.

[Formless God]

The fighting games community. Too retarded to be real.