Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[BIL]

Special overseas edition port: looks just like the regular edition, but comes in a limited-edition brown paper bag!

[Siren2011]

Artfags who ask for criticism, but only want what they want to hear. This guy just can't take it in. It's embarrassing to know that I belong to the same species as him.

http://codergames.com/news/games/tigsou ... poly-scam/
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=12949.0

NOTE: After reading icy's genealogy, I am surprised that artfags can give constructive (in the extra-moral sense of the word) criticism to other artfags. For a moment there it felt like I wasn't reading TIGsource.

[BIL]

^That Codergames guy is a total lunatic. Maybe part of it is down to a language barrier, but holy shit. I can't believe I actually posted in his thread on this forum, however jokingly.

[Siren2011]

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... s&start=30

I think that every person who makes shmups, the games we all love, deserves a support. If you don't give support to such people the development of quality shmups will cease. What does it take to make a quality game? A lot of time and effort.

This helpless, annoying fagot genuinely believes in equality, and his quote above betrays it. If he were willing to acknowledge that NOT ALL works are good, then that would cause him the dilemma of looking at himself and his own shortcomings as the shitty game developer he is. But doing that would be far too much for his little dishonest, retard brain to handle. "Quality shmups will cease." "Games we all love," as if he gave the slightest fuck about shoot 'em ups outside of his own abortive project. Oh that's rich.

He is undeserving of even the slightest gesture of sympathy, especially after this tripe:

(Directed at udderdude, after reading his awesome article) You obviously hate both, shmups and people who play them. I love shmups and trying to be original as possible. There's no way your "article" will change that.

This is an extremely pretentious defense mechanism employed precisely so he won't have to face the music. If he genuinely cared about making a great game, then he would meet criticism with open arms. This coward merely pretends to value what you're saying to him, effectively wasting the time of everyone involved in his miserable little game. It's so pathetic, it's disgusting. Game design is not a popularity contest, for shit's sake. If that was true, then CAVE, CAPCOM, Platinum Games, and more would have amounted to mediocrity, like all the others.

-lEtZ LerN AbOut suBHumAns!!!-
The subhuman perverts meaning to see the world in an ideal way. Everyone is his friend except the people who lie outside of the circlejerk he belongs to. At the moment one of them is honest with him and thereby treats him as a normal human being (one can be forgiven for thinking that in the beginning), he bends reality to his own warped view to avoid bringing his shortcomings to consciousness. That person then becomes his enemy, and doubtlessly vice versa. In icy's terminology, this is "The Way of the Fagot." haha.

But here's the punchline: I read on some other forum (I think it was TIGsource) that he claimed that his Space Invaders knock-off was, in his own words, "bringing innovative features to the genre."

I don't like it because you don't mention me and my games.

I'm so glad those guys handed his ass to him on a silver platter.

[RGC]

lacklustre

[Blackbird]

When you buy an item on sale, then find that it's on sale for an even cheaper price a week after you bought it >_<.

[RNGmaster]

When you buy an item on sale, then find that it's on sale for an even cheaper price a week after you bought it >_<.

Corollary: When you buy an item, and a vastly-improved version comes out for the same price a week later.

[Aliquantic]

Laptop screens that look incredibly choppy and slow to update, making some games virtually unplayable (like everything from Psikyo due to bullets being too fast) And nothing in MAME helps fix the tearing, though forcing the refresh speed makes it bearable at least... more recent laptops seem to be worse for STGs too, and let's not get into keyboards that can't handle 3 key presses at all!

[xbl0x180]

People trying to match me on blind dates with their ugly friends. Holy s**t, the effect of seeing some of those chicks as they try to introduce me is like hitting a brick wall. It's sort of annoying, sort of funny

[BulletMagnet]

Here's one I've been irked by a lot lately: people who put up little cardboard signs and such around town to advertise some garage sale or other event they're having...and then NEVER TAKE THEM DOWN.

[Specineff]

The annoying trend of using Drowning Pool's "Bodies" on either an anime video, a gameplay demonstration or anything that has ZERO F-ing percent to do with the song in question. Makes me want to strangle a kitten every time that I come across a video like that. (Yes, strangle. Slow, and painful)

The moment I find a tutorial about some video game hardware modification featuring that song (Or "Dreamscape"), I will find the author of such video, and burn him alive, along with his family, regardless of age. Infants may be spared, depending on how fast it takes me to get there. (EDIT: ugh, grammar)

[Zeron]

The annoying thread of using Drowning Pools "Bodies" on either an anime video, a gameplay demonstration or anything that has ZERO F-ing percent to do with the song in question. Makes me want to strangle a kitten every time that I come across a video like that. (Yes, strangle. Slow, and painful)

The moment I find a tutorial about some video game hardware modification featuring that song (Or "Dreamscape"), I will find the author of such video, and burn him alive, along with his family, regardless of age. Infants may be spared, depending on how fast takes me to get there.

What about Linkin Park I think someone made this just to piss off a bunch of people

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gmFNkk6oo

[Specineff]

The comments on that video say it all.

[ChainsawGuitarSP]

I have to put up with a LOT of shitty music when my sister's around so Linkin Park is merely camp to me now.

[greg]

Hey, don't be so hard on Linkin Park. Thousands of angry 14 year old kids can't be wrong, can they?

[Aliquantic]

Having very little mental focus when I play STGs, which leads to hilarious happenings like dying on stage one TWICE (in games where I can get through most of the loop), or plain and simple failing to even SPOT bullets when there's nothing else going on in the screen.... it's so easy to get distracted and think about other things during "easy" stages, and then proceed to die like a moron... it hurts when you actually are a much better player than in the past but perform worse due to wasting all of your resources.

Someone should make martial arts for STG players, to teach proper discipline, stick handling techniques, mental focus and spirit

[Skykid]

NOTE: After reading icy's genealogy

Baffled by you sir.

Although some of your input here comes across as rather coarse, I do like you and the fact that you stick to your guns, seem generally intelligent, and are willing review opposing opinions and re-evaluate your own.

What I don't understand is how, considering the above, you hold Icycalm's inane waffling in such high regard. His videogame artfaggery is the worst kind: biased, egomaniacal and often completely incorrect. On top of that it's generally poorly executed (3,000 word review anyone?) and suffers from a myriad of language errors he's happy to ban people from his forums for making.

Not saying this has a negative impact on yourself, but considering how many 'little things that annoy the hell out of you', I'm surprised he's not one of them.

[Jon]

and are willing review opposing opinions and re-evaluate your own.

[Siren2011]

I do like you and the fact that you stick to your guns, , and are willing review opposing opinions and re-evaluate your own.

Why thank you, Skykid. The feeling is mutual.

But you want to know the truth?

This:

seem generally intelligent

was not always the case. In fact, I was incredibly stupid in '07, and I took offense to every little fucking thing icy had to say. It was only after I overcame myself and saw the brutal truthfulness in his reviews in a "holy shit, he's actually right" moment that would change my way of thinking forever.

In other words, I am 80% smarter because of that man. And since I don't know nearly as much as he does --and my stances, while occasionally extremely brash, are never as elitist--, my mind is less powerful.

Both of those shortcomings make me dumber than a handful of philosophers (including him), which isn't so bad at all because I'm smarter than many kids my age, and have much more sophisticated taste than them. I can't tell you how many 20 something year olds I've come across in college who are incapable of engaging in intellectual discourse, as if genuine knowledge has been replaced with inane pop-culture references and current sensations, passed off as "knowledge" and "cultured spirit."

On the other hand, I am just as baffled by you, sir, for this:

you hold Icycalm's inane waffling in such high regard.

1. waffling adj. or verb - indecisive; unable to make up one's mind; playing the safe middle ground due to one's own lack of conviction or sense of morality.

His ideas are the antithesis of safe. Indeed, they are so radical that they alienate him from most of his audience.

I remember in an article he wrote (can't remember which) in which he stated that a piece of writing that does not challenge the reader is worthless, because those who have the initiative will see to it that they understand as much of the article as possible. And over a long period of time, entire sentences, previously vague and seemingly worthless to the reader, start to make perfect sense. Insight is then acquired. Understanding videogames is a similar process, but if I need to explain why, then you haven't been playing enough of them.

often completely incorrect.

In a PM, you are free to send me some examples of errors in his writing. If I see that for some reason you are right in your reasoning, then I will be the first person to tell you. But until then, this is a meaningless statement with no evidence to back it up.

suffers from a myriad of language errors he's happy to ban people from his forums for making.

I am also dumbfounded by this. I guess it's because he holds people who are subordinate to him at high standards if they want to keep the privilege of posting there. Though, he has openly admitted to making grammatical errors when people point them out to him, and fixed them accordingly.

I have indeed been banned from Insomnia for not understanding the first thing about supporting critical claims with reasoning. The instant I was banned, I was humiliated, and didn't bother to finish my essay for English Composition. Just stayed in my room and slept. But you know what? It fueled a fire under my but to do everything in my power to improve my analytical skills. He did me a huge favor, because if I had'd received a rude awakening, my reviews would still be insufferable.

I wish I could post there again, but that is probably impossible. Oh well!

What's wrong, Jon? You know people can't read your mind. You're going to have to do a lot better than a stupid little emoticon to express how you feel. Unless, of course, you have Asperger's syndrome (It wouldn't surprise me).

[Skykid]

and are willing review opposing opinions and re-evaluate your own.

Diebuster.

often completely incorrect.

In a PM, you are free to send me some examples of errors in his writing. If I see that for some reason you are right in your reasoning, then I will be the first person to tell you. But until then, this is a meaningless statement with no evidence to back it up.

"It's impossible for console games to ever be as good as arcade games."

[Siren2011]

I can't confirm it as neither right or wrong.

But I will say that it's theoretically possible to review a shitload of 2D arcade games belonging to a certain genre (let's say, fighting), and a shitload of 2D console games belonging to the fighting genre (including ports), and evaluate them against one another. The hardware with better overall 2D fighting game quality will win, and you could probably find the answers why they are superior to the other from a specification standpoint.

Then you could move onto a different genre and draw more conclusions from evaluating arcade/console games (like lightgun games). Right off the bat I can tell you that, on a decent monitor, any one of the Time Crisis games looks better in the arcade than it does in its corresponding console port (ESPECIALLY CRISIS ZONE... Good god, can you say "vomit"?).

After you evaluated all of the genres, you would know which machine has the best quality overall.

But I've never done any such evaluation, so I can't say. If he has, then I sure as fuck don't know about it.

EDIT: Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure he said "On average, the quality of arcade games is better than console games."

The starting point of this essay then -- and make of it what you will -- is the observation that games released in the arcades are of a much higher quality, on average, than games released for the home console market.

http://insomnia.ac/commentary/arcade_culture/

Funny, because I'm reading this right now when you posted your reply.

[Skykid]

I can't confirm it as neither right or wrong.

Neither can he. It's an overarching statement presented as 'fact' (failing any impartiality) and is total baloney.

http://insomnia.ac/commentary/arcade_culture/

Funny, because I'm reading this right now when you posted your reply.

Just for you I dug out my original response to this article when it was posted on AO in February:

"Lol, quoting Baudrillard as a preface to an article on arcade games, stating arcade games are of a higher quality to console games as though it's fact, overusing the first person to the nth degree, swearing needlessly and throwing all objectionability out the window in favour of impressing a de-facto opinion; and all this in an 'essay' that lacks form, balance, editing, structure and any particular point amongst a mish-mash of self-important waffle.

Other than that it's not bad."

[Siren2011]

He does openly state that he doesn't have relevant statistics to back up his claim.

But then he makes a very good point. When was the last time you walked into an arcade and came into contact with "shovelware" games? Now, when was the last time you walked into a Game Stop and saw the whole fucking joint just shamelessly littered with shovelware titles and worthless DS/Wii/etc. cash ins, soulless and drab to play, all of them?

Ninja Gaiden looks more aesthetically appealing than Gundam Vs. Gundam Next. The world of Shenmue is on a greater scope of realism than any arcade game I have played.

But the point he was driving home was, because of the constant onslaught of lousy games being released for consoles, the number of bad console games is large, and only getting larger. On the other hand, he has observed that there are fewer shit arcade games than those of exceptional quality. Therefore,

...games released in the arcades are of a much higher quality, on average, than games released for the home console market.

Lol, quoting Baudrillard as a preface to an article on arcade games...

The thing about Baudrillard's writing is, it is inevitably bound to come across as bullshit to basically everyone, and only a few people will eventually come to understand the concepts behind his, admittedly contrived and infuriating choices of words. Gerry Coulter wouldn't have wasted his time translating something from French to English that made absolutely no sense to begin with. To think he did it just for shits and giggles is going into the realm of conspiracy theories.

In short, no I do not understand fully what he was implying in that quote, but it sounds like he was subtly regarding the vast majority of people on planet earth who are whipped by the belt of society. While they are busy working (or in Baudrillard's terminology, "voluntary servitude") and getting paycheck after paycheck (mere pieces of paper, hence "symbolic exchange; "I will help the system run in exchange for material wealth, at the cost of wasting precious hours of my life"), they are blissfully unaware of valuable knowledge, A.K.A. play. Alex chose that quote because videogames are a great form of play, and the worst ones (the most politically correct ones; Wii Sports et. all) are favored over the great ones by a massive amount of people. In both cases, it is an issue of morality VS. slave morality. And I'm sure you could draw a comparison between the moral crusades of the herd on aspects of daily life, and the moral crusades of inferior designers (Miyamoto, Suda 51, Jason Rohrer etc.) on the aspects of virtual ones. So that quote (I'm fairly sure) is relevant, even if it's not immediately apparent from a casual read.

throwing all objectionability out the window

If he wrote the article "objectively," it would have sucked ass. A well injected opinion from someone who has spent years of his life exposed to arcades would be the best thing for the job. Personally, I stop reading articles if the writer is too timid to just spit it out and say what he wants to say, without fear of a negative response from his audience. Do you think such an article would pass the absurd "quality test" at Kotaku? Hell no! They're too busy spouting amateurish bullshit to keep everyone happy. Above all, they need a fuckload of hits. If they stopped for a minute and decided to write a well informed piece, then readers would immediately feel stupid and alienated (the masses hate to broaden their horizons and, well, you know, learn something new every now and then.), traffic would slow down, and the writer would get the boot. This is the kind of sick world we live in. lol.

de-facto opinion

Technically, everything you or I just said in this conversation was said in a "de-facto" manner. We both think of ourselves in the right. But the only one winning any argument is the one who stuck the closest to logic and reason.

[sikraiken]

These threads annoy me along with the people that keep them going.

[Siren2011]

Moderators who suck the fun out of everything.

[Siren2011]

Ever get the feeling that some stranger (bank teller, host/hostess, anyone really) gives you an attitude just because you resemble in appearance someone who did them wrong in the past, so they're channeling their hatred and resentment for that person through you? It is my wild fantasy to humiliate one of these people in front of their managers one day, reducing them to tears and costing them their jobs. So unprofessional, this zenith of immaturity...

I know this is true because whenever they cease working with another customer and get ready to serve you, their smile turns into a disgusted snarl. I HAVE NEVER MET YOU IN MY LIFE! WHY ARE YOU AN ASS? >:O

[Aliquantic]

DrTrouserPlank.

[NTSC-J]

Stepped in dog shit today




inside a grocery store.

FML

[neorichieb1971]

I must be shit at gaming. Our petrol prices are so high now I can hardly stop the pump on the £. (IE £70.02 instead of £70.00)

[Siren2011]

This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, but I'm really pissed off today.

http://www.actionbutton.net/?p=623

The buzz surrounding Sin and Punishment 2 was so subaudible that it managed to completely slip under our radar and be released at a time when we literally had no idea it was even more than a quarter developed, much less near-complete with a release date announced, much less actually released. There it was, on a shelf, next to Bayonetta, in the New Games section, on October 29th, 2009. We confess: we were at the store to buy Bayonetta. We did buy it, and we hate it. Fuck that game. Fuck Weekly Famitsu for giving it a perfect score. Fuck Japan for letting this shit happen, and for ignoring Sin and Punishment 2. The game opens with a title card in English: “In a world of light and darkness, where perception is reality”. What the fuck does that mean? “Where perception is reality”? Did anyone actually apply any brainpower, there?

After reading that paragraph, I felt like someone had swiftly punched me in the stomach. How can anyone claiming to love videogames be so incredibly off base in his judgement and reasoning skills? Bayonetta sucks because of the silly semi-Engrish tagline? Dear lord...

I have strong contempt for Rogers (though I find him very funny on occasion), because he reminds me so much of gamers my age who haven't the slightest clue what true passion is. If they had passion for their hobby, they would be made fun of until the cows came home by their stupid, boring, generic friends. "You liek geams with lolis! LOL" they say. Which is why they are too cowardly to use their instincts. Instead they just submit to Call of Duty 4 and nod their heads vigorously when their drunk fratboy friend yells "THZ IS THA BEST GEAM IN THE HIZTORY OF EVAAAR! WOOT WOOT WOOT!" Oh, well. Sucks to be them.

Moving on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCwEfZOA ... ture=feedf

First and foremost, the guy sounds like a fucking robot with a monotone voice. It is clear after watching a couple of these videos that the man voicing the review has probably never played the game in question at all. He simply reads the script that Inecom gives him, from a journalist who DID play the game. Furthermore, I find it a little amusing how half of the review is nothing more than a silly montage in the vein of Benny Hill, entertaining the stupid viewers and disgusting the intelligent ones.

He barely touches upon the augmentations, abilities, complexities, nor does he even bother to compare the game to the original. I learned more about the game from the video footage than from a word of his dreadfully dull, shallow, subhuman ramblings.