Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[Brasseye]

FLESH COLOURED TIGHTS/PANTYHOSE ESPECIALLY THE TOE PART SHUDDER

[BulletMagnet]

Fellow employees who are 5-10 minutes late for work almost every single day, but get on your case for not coming to the door fast enough to let them in.

[rapoon]

these tornado warnings. i'm sick of this shit....

[Ed Oscuro]

these tornado warnings. i'm sick of this shit....

Hah, the weather radio went off twice within minutes with two t-storm warnings...even less interesting.

[trap15]

When people enter their score in a scoreboard, but put something like '1-3' in a game that doesn't loop.

[iconoclast]

The new youtube redesign. I can't feature another person's video on my home page any more.

[Ji-L87]

Whenever publishers think I don't like any color other than brown/orange and that blue skies are totally for kids:



RR6 as an example since I just picked it up.

[trap15]

BEAUTY ISN'T MANLY ENOUGH

BROWN ORANGE RED DUSK GRITTY HNNNNGHGHGHHNHNHNGHN

[BIL]

Christ almighty, that's atrocious. Somehow never saw it over the years. I'm used to cute mascot characters (Kirby, Sparkster, Pikachu, Mario) gettin' ANGREH for Western boxarts, but defacing the iconic RR fantasy island look? What'd fluffy white clouds ever do to anybody?

What's funny is Rage Racer already did dark-toned RR a decade earlier without missing a beat. Jet black, crisp white, deep crimson and embossed gold (which doesn't scan well but looks ca$h moneh in person). A vivid antithesis of the sunnier games. They didn't just take RR Revolution's cover and make the blue sky shit brown.

[Lord Satori]

The new youtube redesign. I can't feature another person's video on my home page any more.

Youtube bluescreened my computer 2 times in a row. Part of it might be internet explorer, but idk.

[Ed Oscuro]

YouTube didn't give you a blue screen error, it just exposed a bug. Your computer needs some halp. Got the latest flash plugin / vidya cards drivers?

[xbl0x180]

Fuckin' roommates. I almost got into a fist fight with one of them, which promptly led me to call the landlord at midnight to tell her my 30-day's notice. Also, the muthafuckin' FRIENDZONE [again...]! FML!

I guess those aren't "little things that annoy the hell" outta me. These are pretty major things that fuck my shit up

[drauch]

Whoa, fight fight? That's pretty rough. Did you not know these people before moving in with them, or did it just turn that sour?

[Edmond Dantes]

People who reply without reading the OP.

Seems to happen a lot lately.

[xbl0x180]

The townhouse is owned by some negligent landlord, which is good if you don't want someone nosy. The problem is that it's separate leases for the rooms, so she's literally been bringing in all kinds trash off the street. This last time, she brought this middle-aged woman. That was okay until this cunt brought in her alcoholic, unemployed boyfriend to shack up with her. They pretty much stay in all day, drinking and smoking in the house, and probably making meth or growing something in there (they ran an electric bill that was $1200 in one month).

It all came to a head two nights ago when the short bastard woke me up, threatening me because I wouldn't move my car out of my parking spot, and started calling me out - IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING NIGHT FOR THE WHOLE BLOCK TO HEAR. I finally came out [with a small/4" knife in my ankle] and told him to make his move or fuck off. I was literally shaking with fear, adrenaline, and rage that I almost vomited later on. Thankfully, he was all bark and no byte, so I went back inside, called the cops... and the fucking landlord

[jonny5]

The townhouse is owned by some negligent landlord, which is good if you don't want someone nosy. The problem is that it's separate leases for the rooms, so she's literally been bringing in all kinds trash off the street. This last time, she brought this middle-aged woman. That was okay until this cunt brought in her alcoholic, unemployed boyfriend to shack up with her. They pretty much stay in all day, drinking and smoking in the house, and probably making meth or growing something in there (they ran an electric bill that was $1200 in one month).

It all came to a head two nights ago when the short bastard woke me up, threatening me because I wouldn't move my car out of my parking spot, and started calling me out - IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING NIGHT FOR THE WHOLE BLOCK TO HEAR. I finally came out [with a small/4" knife in my ankle] and told him to make his move or fuck off. I was literally shaking with fear, adrenaline, and rage that I almost vomited later on. Thankfully, he was all bark and no byte, so I went back inside, called the cops... and the fucking landlord

Don't ever bring a weapon out on something like that, especially a concealed one. If somebody else called the cops and they showed up and found that on you, you would be in more trouble than the other guy. Also, how do you pull an ankle knife in a face to face confrontation without giving the other party a ripe opportunity to knee you or kick you in the face?

Learn how to throw elbows at close range. Most people don't expect them or know how to block them, and you can throw them at face to face range, so you are too close for them to throw an effective punch. Most people don't know how to throw effective strikes that close, so if you do know how, it puts you at a distinct advantage in most altercations.

Over the years elbows have become my default first shot in most confrontations, mainly because I rarely have to throw another one. Plus, if you throw them right, you are almost guaranteed to open them up, and with most people, the fight goes out of them when they are gushing blood out of their face. Catch them in the temple or the side of the jaw, nighty night.

Hand to hand can almost always be played off as self defense, even if the other dude is destroyed, but a weapon is always trouble, especially if you aren't really ready to use it. By bringing a weapon, you cease being the victim.

[Specineff]

That's not a little thing. Sorry you have to deal with that, Xblox.

[xbl0x180]

Thanks, dudes. I'm not one to ever be in any kind fight as I'm pretty much kept to myself at all times. I haven't been in one since high school! I came out to answer the screaming dude... and move my car 'cause I didn't want to have them mistakenly try to tow it (or do some kind of damage to it). Good point on neighbours calling the cops, though; I woulda been in deeper shit at that point. Well... there you go, I wasn't thinking rationally myself out of fear and anger.


Next up in "the little things that annoy the hell out of you": MOVING!

Damn, if there is one thing collecting/hoarding will teach you is to hate your stuff when you try to pack it and move it! If I move to a smaller place, then all this stuff will literally become a heavy burden - and I thought a rental unit would solve this, but storage units are about 140 bucks a month (1680/year)! I'd have to move into a room and with roommates again. [/little annoying things]

[jonny5]

Or re-assess your spending money to rent ratio and get a place by yourself.

I've learned over the years that peace of mind is priceless.

[drauch]

I'm sick of the fact that H.P. Lovecraft is now a joke. I don't know how many stupid pictures, shirts, board games, etc I've seen lately that mock his image and his works. Bah. Humor is fine, but when humor dominates an image it's infuriating. I guess this is just the internet as a whole and "nerd" culture. Humbug.

[Ed Oscuro]

Going into like fifty billion shops and not being able to find RCA-type couplers (female-to-female) for less than $6. Radio Shack wants $16 for a connected pair - a useful device, gold-plated, but way too expensive; I just got a PS2/PS3 component cable for $13 after tax.

I'm sick of the fact that H.P. Lovecraft is now a joke. I don't know how many stupid pictures, shirts, board games, etc I've seen lately that mock his image and his works. Bah. Humor is fine, but when humor dominates an image it's infuriating. I guess this is just the internet as a whole and "nerd" culture. Humbug.

You know, I'm sick of the fact that everybody just pays attention to Lovecraft, while Edgar Allan Poe's known just for The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart, maybe House of Usher or Pit and the Pendulum, or Masque of the Red Death, if we're lucky. But he had magnificent work in other genres, like his semi-scientific speculative work (which actually had some value) or his detective fiction.

But I guess what really grates is that I can't feel I can start with The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym without reading "Symzonia; Voyage of Discovery" first...

[null1024]

Going into like fifty billion shops and not being able to find RCA-type couplers (female-to-female) for less than $6. Radio Shack wants $16 for a connected pair - a useful device, gold-plated, but way too expensive; I just got a PS2/PS3 component cable for $13 after tax.

I gave up and just decided to get all things like this from Amazon. DealExtreme if I really don't need it, but it would be nice to have.

No reason I should spend $10 on a stupid 3.5mm male-male audio cable.

[Ed Oscuro]

Indeed. Actually, I have to wonder why nobody seems to make RCA female to stereo headphone adapters. If you think you've found one, it's probably just a y-splitter cable (which will just increase the amplitude of the sound and give you just left channel audio). The RCA-to-stereo cable I have has male RCA ends for whatever reason (for plugging into the back of a consumer output device like a VCR or a DVD player, no doubt).

[drauch]

You know, I'm sick of the fact that everybody just pays attention to Lovecraft, while Edgar Allan Poe's known just for The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart, maybe House of Usher or Pit and the Pendulum, or Masque of the Red Death, if we're lucky. But he had magnificent work in other genres, like his semi-scientific speculative work (which actually had some value) or his detective fiction.

But I guess what really grates is that I can't feel I can start with The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym without reading "Symzonia; Voyage of Discovery" first...

Yeah, I definitely hear ya there. There's so much early weird fiction out there that people aren't familiar with. Hell, most people don't even know who Robert E. Howard is.

[Acid King]

People who install LCDs in classic arcade cabs. What's the point of buying a nice Neo Geo cab and gutting it to put in an LCD screen and a PC?

[Skykid]

People who install LCDs in classic arcade cabs. What's the point of buying a nice Neo Geo cab and gutting it to put in an LCD screen and a PC?

There's a place reserved in Lucifer's domain for those people.

[Ed Oscuro]

the fucking google doodle today

"where the PRISM are"

[drauch]

People who install LCDs in classic arcade cabs. What's the point of buying a nice Neo Geo cab and gutting it to put in an LCD screen and a PC?

There's a place reserved in Lucifer's domain for those people.

http://springfield.craigslist.org/vgm/3837203485.html

Local craigslist.

[Ed Oscuro]

http://springfield.craigslist.org/vgm/3837203485.html

Local craigslist.

almost as depressing as almost all of these

But I really want to know more about the arcade game safe. What does it hold? Where is it? What does it look like? Can I store my gimp in it? All I see is an old fridge. (Calling a black fridge "old" makes me feel old and bad, but there you go.) An old fridge can definitely hold at least two and a half gimps, even fat ones, but an arcade safe sounds more entertaining.

oh yeah, check this prime shit, $300 doesn't even start to cover how firm this makes me

$800, man, I didn't know you could stretch the dollar so far these days. I would pay $1 just to smash it up on the asshole's front lawn, though.

add rape for $50

Just kidding that $800 multicade is nothing, check this out. Again, $1 = One Smash

[Lord Satori]

I found out PS4 is going to have an online subscription. You ALMOST had me, sony. You ALMOST had me. I think I'll wait until something interesting is released to get a PS4