Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[null1024]

Spoiler

there are days when I wonder if atheistgod1999 is a real person or a parody account
neither option bothers me that much though

[emphatic]

Don't write stuff you wouldn't share with your parents. Paste it into Google translate and have it read it back to you.


Posted from my portable device using Tapatalk

[maximo310]

Solution: Reread and edit before submiting a post. Wall of texts that are emotion-ridden never some across well; its sometimes better to be a bit more restrained in your responses so that your message comes out more clearly.
Also, there's too many emojis.

[BIL]

Spoiler

there are days when I wonder if atheistgod1999 is a real person or a parody account
neither option bothers me that much though

Haha, same. Pretty sure he's just a young noob though, and at any rate it's cool he helped out Shoryukev like that. We've had similar misfits come and go without contributing anything of the sort, let alone settling in. disclaimer: I am an inveterate LOLcow watcher and ag99 doesn't really register on the Connor Bible scale.

I like this place too ag99, it's the only forum I participate in. I enjoy collecting and playing Japanese videogames so that's what I mainly post about. Personal stuff is ok in moderation but it's not what the forum or community is about. Here is a useful guideline!

"Listening to people's dreams ... is like flipping through a stack of photographs; if I'm not in any of them and nobody is having sex, I just don't care."

[atheistgod1999]

I'm playing Gradius and plan on beating that as well as getting more shmups so I can stop being an Off-Topic hermit.

[WelshMegalodon]

I recommend looking into CRT_EmuDriver and GroovyMAME. This way, you can reap all the benefits of emulation without sacrificing gameplay. Below is an endorsement by a member of this very forum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG44FlN ... e=youtu.be

EDIT: Further endorsement here.

[Xyga]

There a big-ass woodpeker living in my attic, and it started digging holes in the framework.
I won't poison it since it's a protected species and a beautiful bird too, just placing a metal grid on the vent hole he's using to get in will do, but to reach it an do that I have to cross this spider-wonderland. Shit.

[BIL]

Mini spiders are my favourite perk of living up north Britlandshire. I grew up with godawful sinewy facehuggers the span of my hand. Totally harmless but fffffffuck they gave (and give!) me the god damn willies, those hiding-behind-calendar motherfuckers.

[Xyga]

godawful sinewy facehuggers the span of my hand

I see what you mean, fortunately the ones we have here in this part of southern France seem to have been decreasing in size over the years, today the bigger ones seem to be only of about half that size.
Though I could confirm myself that we have a few brown recluses, they're still rare, but we sure do. Fucking hope I don't have any up there. Brr.
The little scorpions in the bathroom are enough to wake me up in the morning, thanks.
Love my new place, it's kind of tropical.

[emphatic]

Though I could confirm myself that we have a few brown recluses, they're still rare, but we sure do. Fucking hope I don't have any up there. Brr.

Those bastards are the devil.

[null1024]

The Raspberry Pi seems to be really, really bad with sound output.
this is all on a Model 2

over the 3.5mm jack, sound output is extremely noisy, there's a relatively loud hiss in the background that's very noticable, it makes the GBC's obnoxious whine from its headphone jack seem almost reasonable in comparision
over HDMI, it makes my TV display blink when a sound plays/stops in Audacity, and it blinks when MilkyTracker opens or closes
using PulseAudio fixes the flickering [if you configure it to never stop emitting an audio signal] -- except it also introduces over a second of latency for no apparent reason

I spent an hour fiddling with it, and my best solution is to run MilkyTracker in the background, forever.
This keeps the audio hardware on [which seems to be the problem with the flickering -- either the Pi or the TV seems to be changing screen modes based on whether an audio signal is being transmitted or not] and makes Audacity actually usable [when the screen flickered, it'd take almost a second before sound would actually play].

[Xyga]

After the jumbo woodpecker intruder, spiders, scorpions and other species ... ... donkeys !

Someone's keeping a couple in a field close to my property. They're for hikers to rent I believe. Cute.
But that bloody powerful ear-piercing screech they do even in the middle of the night is really something.

Okay they don't do it much, and they're not here all year-long ... I think. They're for hikers to rent actually.

[Lord Satori]

They're for hikers to rent I believe.

They're for hikers to rent actually.

I think they're for hikers to rent.

[Xyga]

Yup, you can laugh at my bad post editing habits!
(I change the structure and forget to delete smth, typical)

[Durandal]

I spent around two hours writing down my opinion on the Shadow Warrior reboot which I recently completed, only for me to accidentally hit the Mouse5 button causing my browser to go back one page. Upon returning forwards, my post wasn't saved, and despite fucking around the browser history there was no way of recovering it. What didn't help is that when I threw my headphones on my keyboard to close my window because of the noisy kids outside, the microphone managed to push some buttons and enter some junk in the message box, reducing my chances to recover the original post completely.
By some freak accident, nearly my entire post was screengrabbed without me realizing and placed in my clipboard, but even THAT has somehow disappeared too.

It was average.

[wgogh]

I'm still watching the original Shadow Warriors aka Kage no Gundam.
Too bad that you lost the text. I was curious about that reboot and your opinion about it

[Ed Oscuro]

Just a random thought to nobody in particular: Yes, the delete function can be nice, but please think again before writing a post, you wouldn't want anybody to write a detailed response only to find out that the thread has been deleted in the meantime.

Just a thought.

[Rob]

Being hated by everyone on the forum to varying degrees (and system11 himself's annoyance is probably in at least the 70th percentile). What makes it worse is that it's totally justified due to my fucking HORRID first, I don't even know, probably year. And I'm still a pretty shitty poster.
...

There, there. As a now casual passerby, the only thing that really bothered me was the possibility that you might be a joke account. As long as you're authentically young and dumb we're cool.

[Mischief Maker]

Sony cannot cut a trailer to save their lives.

I'd bet money the same person who edited the Ghostbusters trailer did this one for No Man's Sky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dOk2uBTYAE

Could you find a less appropriate choice of music for a trailer that emphasizes action-packed combat?

[Lord Satori]

No idea what you're talking about with the music, but yeah those cuts are abominable.

[atheistgod1999]

I don't have any NES games I haven't beaten yet.

[WelshMegalodon]

I don't have any NES games I haven't beaten yet.

How's SDI? I've always wondered how it would control with two pads.

Also, while original carts are indeed awesome, an EverDrive might not be a bad idea.

[BIL]

I don't have any NES games I haven't beaten yet.

Get an Everdrive (or the REAL MFN DEAL) and go for a Metal Storm (Japanese) 2-ALL, you'll sweat blood.

[atheistgod1999]

I don't have any NES games I haven't beaten yet.

Get an Everdrive (or the REAL MFN DEAL) and go for a Metal Storm (Japanese) 2-ALL, you'll sweat blood.

I already have an Everdrive N8, but it doesn't feel legit; after all, the game code could've been modified or something.

[BIL]

Eh, I know exactly what you mean, but in my experience of trying stuff before buying, you're usually okay with [!]-marked ROMs. Stuff that's been messed with aka "trained" tends to be fairly obvious - invincibility, infinite ammo, that sort of crap! Certainly the FC Metal Storm (J) [!] in the latest GoodNES set behaves exactly like the real cart down to stuff only battle-hardened spergs (like ME) would notice!

[trap15]

Everdrive acts just like a real cart unless shit's obviously broke, or you're using a hacked dump. [!] means it's the legit good dump, so that's going to be the same as a real cart in terms of gameplay.

[WelshMegalodon]

But even with [!], the checksum can sometimes be incorrect.

[trap15]

If you've got a corrupt download, you've got a corrupt download, nothin's gonna stop that

[atheistgod1999]

[Might as well re-type the posts because the replies give away the basic idea of what I posted and I screencap my PC activity about every 2 minutes so I have all of my posts]

I've been getting progressively more afraid of dying in a freak accident.

I saw all five Final Destination films last November and thought they were retarded as hell because I thought that there was no way anything like the disasters or the accidents afterward could happen IRL.

Then in March, some car crashed into a pizzeria within walking distance of my house.
Then I heard about Anton Yelchin's death.
And today, I heard that last February a woman also in the Boston area was hit by a flying manhole cover (and they didn't even find the reason it became airborne! )

What's next, someone in my school (after summer break) getting trapped in a tanning bed or crushed by a glass pane or some other crazy shit? What if I die in a freak accident?

Sorry if this is a shitpost but I'm genuinely scared and have no one else to talk to.

[BulletMagnet]

What if I die in a freak accident?

There's nothing anyone can really do to predict or prevent a one-in-a-million situation like that, and they are one in a million, so there's no reason to waste any more of your life worrying about it; just don't purposely do stupid/dangerous stuff (and/or watch a bunch of awful movies ) and get on with getting on.