Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[njiska]

Deleting PMs all the time in my inbox because it keeps filling up

Create some folders and move the ones you need. More room for yu.

This was definitely less of a problem for me before the great spamming of 2012.

[Ed Oscuro]

I wish the PM export feature actually gave me a usable format for archival purposes. Last I tried, it didn't. Pretty sure I've lost details of some interesting PCB purchases and the like as a result.

[Ghegs]

Did you try exporting them as XML? That gives out a pretty clear and easy-to-read file.

[Aliquantic]

Deleting PMs all the time in my inbox because it keeps filling up

Create some folders and move the ones you need. More room for yu.

Oh oh, very interesting, thanks!

[null1024]

CD images that are ECM'd inside a .7z, inside another .7z. Or any overly excessive compression really.
Doublezipping is somewhat fine [it's effectively making your archive "solid", more prone to corruption, but smaller], triple compressing, not so much.

Usenet style archives [split 50MB piece RARs] on not-Usenet sites are also annoying as hell.

[trap15]

Some of the posters on this forum.

[moh]

Some of the posters on every forum.

fixed to be honest, i really like this forum compared to some other gaming forums. I dont understand why people are always bashing it.

and here is something reallllly small that drives me crazy. people who spell cord (electronic cables) like the musical "chord". i have no idea why, but seeing that makes me want to decapitate some babies.

[jonny5]

Some of the posters on this forum.

Agreed! The influx of children on this forum over the last year or so has definitely taken it's toll.

I blame Cave and those damn 360 ports.

[trap15]

I dont understand why people are always bashing it.

Read the last 2 or 3 pages of the STGT12 Planning Thread.

[Ex-Cyber]

CD images that are ECM'd inside a .7z, inside another .7z. Or any overly excessive compression really.
Doublezipping is somewhat fine [it's effectively making your archive "solid", more prone to corruption, but smaller], triple compressing, not so much.

Agreed on the general point, but ECM is a bad example; it's specifically designed to be used with another compressor.

[xbl0x180]

Damn bittorrent keeps giving a "disk overloaded 100%" problem and the stupid thing stops downloading stuff! I have to delete and re-download. UGH!

[moh]

I dont understand why people are always bashing it.

Read the last 2 or 3 pages of the STGT12 Planning Thread.

ah...

im not part of STGT so i wasn't really keeping up with that.

oh well, its a forum, people will always argue

[Mero]

Sweating my arse off in hot weather like this

[jonny5]

How hot is it there? We hit 45celcius with the humidex the other day! Temperate climate my ass!

[O. Van Bruce]

How hot is it there? We hit 45celcius with the humidex the other day! Temperate climate my ass!

continental climate America.

Anyway... I may be moving to Winnipeg so I should prepare myself to suffer with the climate...

[moh]

How hot is it there? We hit 45celcius with the humidex the other day! Temperate climate my ass!

I work in a warehouse with no AC. I'm fucking melting.

[emphatic]

[O. Van Bruce]

Yeah, keep that smile for now... Let's wait till winter and I'LL be the one with glasses. 10 C* in January baby.

[Mero]

How hot is it there? We hit 45celcius with the humidex the other day! Temperate climate my ass!

Nowhere near as hot as that thankfully, but in this country once it gets much above the low 20's it becomes stifling and uncomfortable. I believe it was the high 20's yesterday, with more of the same tody.

I think if it hit 45c over here I would keel over and die

[drauch]

How hot is it there? We hit 45celcius with the humidex the other day! Temperate climate my ass!

I work in a warehouse with no AC. I'm fucking melting.

Amen to that. It's been fucking 90-95 for weeks now. Being a hairy bloke with a beard doesn't help.

[Ed Oscuro]

Some of the posters on this forum.

Love you too.

[njiska]

The general mistrust of people on this forum.

[Ed Oscuro]

The general mistrust of people on this forum.

Amen.

Well, that, and the attitude seen in some corners that their time isn't worth being helpful and respectful to others, but who still are thoughtless enough with their own time to waste it telling other people to, for example, commit suicide. Call me old-fashioned but that doesn't seem good, or even consistent (although the bitching about Shmups Forum's perceived lack of quality has been getting pretty predictably constant from those same general quarters, too).

[jonny5]

How hot is it there? We hit 45celcius with the humidex the other day! Temperate climate my ass!

I work in a warehouse with no AC. I'm fucking melting.

Amen to that. It's been fucking 90-95 for weeks now. Being a hairy bloke with a beard doesn't help.

I hear that. I had to shave my beard off a couple weeks ago because it was getting too hot on my ride to and from work.

[undamned]

How hot is it there? We hit 45celcius with the humidex the other day! Temperate climate my ass!

I work in a warehouse with no AC. I'm fucking melting.

Do you ever just reach that point of the status quo being misery? I think of it like when it's raining and you try and avoid getting wet, but once you reach that point of being soaked it just doesn't matter anymore. That's like... every summer in Phoenix I think the cooler days this week are 106F.
-ud

[Ruldra]

Recently my phone was receiving 2 ads a day via push notifications, which are really annoying. With every ad there's a message saying: "opt out at website xxx".

So I head to website xxx and it tells you: "to stop receiving ads, install the app below" To make things worse, the app is not licensed by android market, meaning it's not safe. The website conveniently teaches you how to disable the app protection option on your phone to install it.

And at the bottom of the page, it says: "in case you do not want to install the app, go to website yyy and inform your phone's serial number".

Fuck you. That's downright criminal.

Googling a bit, I found that one of the apps I installed recently was responsible for those push notification ads. I uninstalled it and the problem went away.

I feel sorry for gullible, non-tech savvy people who will surely fall for those scams.

[Ed Oscuro]

Surprisingly, I made it through a lot of the hot days without AC on (hooray for basements, heh). Right now we've had a few relatively cool days. Right now it's 72 degrees outside. It'll be hot later, and I still think we're officially in a drought, though.

Googling a bit, I found that one of the apps I installed recently was responsible for those push notification ads. I uninstalled it and the problem went away.

I feel sorry for gullible, non-tech savvy people who will surely fall for those scams.

Does Google or anybody have the right to pull apps from the Android Marketplace? Not that this would be the ideal solution (lol Apple) but it would have somebody in charge to enforce a TOS. I guess that's what the platform is meant to avoid, huh?

[Ruldra]

Does Google or anybody have the right to pull apps from the Android Marketplace? Not that this would be the ideal solution (lol Apple) but it would have somebody in charge to enforce a TOS. I guess that's what the platform is meant to avoid, huh?

Not sure. I suppose I could try reporting it, but I don't really think anything will be done about it. It's a free app with this spam thing hidden inside.

EDIT: Apparently this form of ad is perfectly legal and some people are making good money from it, so yeah, all you can do is stay away from apps that have leadbolt hidden in it.

[Op Intensify]

I'd be pissed off about this if I worked there.

An independent game store that consistently forgets to turn the BEMANI arcade cabs off of free play after "Freebie Sunday"'s over.

[moh]

something thats been bothering me lately is people who are unwilling to understand that accidents happen. I mean, it seems like everybody is always a "fucking idiot" when they cut you off while driving, but can you stop to think that maybe they didn't see you? yes, its still their fault, but this is not an uncommon mistake.. this is just a single example, but the idea is there. people make mistakes, and they make a lot of them.

I feel that the average person needs to be just a tad more considerate.