Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[null1024]

Armored Core 1 and 2 don't let you change controls when you start the game, instead throwing you into combat first.
[edit] and AC3 does it too, what the fuck
Project Phantasma and Master of Arena don't, thankfully.

who the fuck let that happen [it's clearly a design choice, the game lets you configure a couple other options before starting]
my muscle memory for playing AC is betraying the shit out of me [I keep pressing L1/R1 to turn, but that's strafe by default], I just want to get this stupid intro mission over with

It's less annoying in AC1 than 2, but it's really dumb.


[edit 2]
other annoying things [I've probably mentioned this already]:

double rar'd multi-part rars
extract RAR, get text files and another RAR, extract that RAR, get multipart RAR [at least extracting that one gets you what you're looking for]

like, RAR has solid compression built into the format
why would anyone triple-compress a file
it's not even stored with the no-compression mode, it was triple compressed

I'm so confused.

[edit 3]
oh wow, the innermost rar is corrupted
thanks

[Vurpa]

Walked into the driving school recently (still haven't gotten around to getting a license). Sit myself down and talk to the receptionist. In comes the jolly driving teacher:

-Hey hey! So I hear we're going to go for a little drive today? That'll be fun! Have you brought all the necessary paperwork?
-Yup your receptionist has it all!
-OK good...so will you be turning 16 this year or next?
-Err...I'm 27!

^This is a common occurence (being mistaken by people at that age themselves too) and I'm just as confused/annoyed everytime. But hey who needs a license when you can ride the bus for half the ticket price...

[Specineff]

How HP doesn't allow you to download just the basic driver for a printer. No. You *HAVE* to download all the bloatware-ridden installer, *THEN* you can choose to install just the basic driver after running the thing.

[Lord Satori]

I decided long ago that HP anything is a piece of shit. Switched over to running windows on an iMac via Bootcamp and it's amazing.

[Ed Oscuro]

[edit 3]
oh wow, the innermost rar is corrupted
thanks

I won't presume to guess what it is, but I will say that there are lots of blogs which make their authors click-through revenues by offering fake files. What they contain is a lottery: It might be something related but not exactly what you're looking for, or it could be unusable.

[JBC]

Models, tattoos, piercings... vanity in general.

Chicks with octopi drawn on their thighs so that anyone who bangs them is face-f*cking a mouth vagina & then the comments exalting that person like she's a sacred cow of sexiness.

Yuck, man!

[Satan]

I quite like models, they're an essential part of my masturbation regimen.

[JBC]

I prefer to draw from memory.

& by that I mean to describe my masturbatory habits to a collection of complete strangers

[Blinge]

Models, tattoos, piercings... vanity in general.

As someone tattooed and pierced I wouldn't consider these things to be vanity. Many forum members have tats aswell, even shmup ones shockhorror!
Sometimes I even put thought into what clothes i'm wearing and look in a mirror

[emphatic]

Some people appear to have tattoos just to "look cool", like 19 year old girls with full sleeve tattoos. I mean, did they take a loan to afford it, or did the money come straight from dear old daddy? I have tattoos that mean something to me, and I've worked many hours to afford them.

[Blinge]

One could afford a half decent sleeve after a few months of part time work.. or student loan?

Really, saying your tattoos are legitimate because they mean something to you could be interpreted as self indulgence. At the end of that day it's not that different from getting something because it looks cool. Also it's based off an assumption that those girls had tats without an adequate reason.
Why girls, either..

[emphatic]

Sure, that's likely true. I'm basing my assumptions on young people I've met and actually talked to though. Not only girls, there are lots of guys with tribal tattoos that have literally walked into a parlor asking for something big and cheap to "get girls". I know several tattoo artists, and it's unfortunately very common.

[Blinge]

Y..yeah I see what you mean haha.

Good tats on a girl tho.. :3

[JBC]

This is the image I was referring to. It's abit NSFW, but there's no nudity. I just think it's gross.

http://i1368.photobucket.com/albums/ag1 ... dgwyyy.jpg

I actually have a tattoo myself I got out of curiosity. I guess I felt like it was a rite of passage when I was younger. It's not big & I got it in a place that doesn't show, but I'd still like to have it removed one day.

Everyone's entitled to their own opinion about anything & I understand that there are many people who like tattoos, piercings, etc... but I'm one of the few who think they are hella lame. I see them very closely tied to vanity, ego, self-obsession & all that. I must have met all the wrong tattoo people.

[Blinge]

Just sent that to a mate, he claimed it wouldn't put him off... I cannot say the same.

I see them very closely tied to vanity, ego, self-obsession & all that. I must have met all the wrong tattoo people.

Yeah this isn't so much an opinion as general ignorance. There's nothing special or notorious about tats, they're everywhere, you probably meet "tattoo people" all the time without knowing it.

[Lord Satori]

People who use Autism as an insult.

[JBC]

It's ignorant to dismiss a variance of opinion as ignorance instead of understanding that others have varying viewpoints. Don't be so easily offended. I don't have to like tattoos.

[Blinge]

State your opinions and they will be challenged by those who disagree, sir.

I am amused by the fact you own such a brand of vanity, it must really get under your skin.

[JBC]

It is a little thing that annoys the hell out of me.

[Lord Satori]

That was established when you posted it here. You don't need to say so yourself.

[JBC]

Neither did Blinge. Did I ruffle some feathers by not liking tattoos? lol

[emphatic]

I am amused by the fact you own such a brand of vanity, it must really get under your skin.

Well put, highly poetic.

[CStarFlare]

Airlines and/or Orbitz. I had a flight scheduled for Sunday that I can't make so I called Orbitz to reschedule. I see there's a flight for Wednesday for $750, which is about $200 more than I paid for my ticket. With the resceduling fee it should have been about $550 to make the change. EXCEPT airlines impose different (higher) airfare for reschedules, which would bring my out of pocket cost to over $800 (ie: more than just buying a completely new ticket). The rep didn't really see the problem with this.

[dozicusmaximus]

Wet socks.

[Xyga]

The entire press stupidly reporting complaints about Windows 10's new privacy policy and stuff.
For fuck's sake people just read what's on the screen you can deactivate pretty much everything it's not hidden or something.
And regarding the Microsoft-branded bloatware; almost all of it can be uninstalled too.

Stupid excuses for avoiding what seems to be the best Windows since 7.
Start menu is back and snappy, search actually works, it's fast etc. Haven't tried the Xbox cast thing yet, Cortana I don't care, etc stuff.
I'm more curious about compatibility with old games/doujin, it was total shite in 8.1

If one thing is BAD; it's the installation through windows update.
I did it on two new laptops that came with 8.1 installed, and for both the update to 10 took the whole fucking afternoon, and yeah you have to be around to click a few things. Damn.

[mamboFoxtrot]

When the best connection speed you can get on a group in For Fun on Smash 4 is against a taunt party* :/

(*: People standing around, taunting, and otherwise not playing the game. Will 3v1 you if you attack them)

[JBC]

When I hear someone complain about a game's controls I check the options menu. Most of the time it has a key config.

[Ed Oscuro]

Looking through the mouse thread, I'm reminded how much I hate fluff-driven marketing that ends up hurting product performance and reliability.

What's more, when there's no obvious way for consumers to get the facts about objects.

[Skykid]

Sales people who don't take no for an answer until you politely tell them to fuck off.

[BulletMagnet]

Sales people who don't take no for an answer until you politely tell them to fuck off.

This is why I'll never work in sales or any other similar job where you're paid on commission and/or directly competing with others in your department for clients - you're basically required to be the most incorrigibly dogged jerk you can be when dealing with customers, or else you won't keep up with those more willing to irritate/overwhelm people into acquiescence (and/or sabotage/steal the prospects you do have) than you are. It absolutely baffles me how there hasn't been an enormous consumer revolt against these types of setups, because I absolutely refuse to do business with any outfit where the salespeople never run out of "alternative offers" to wave in my face.